Standing there like a tin of milk

[PinzaC55]

Any other mackem sayings you have used to people in other parts of the country and they crack up when they hear them ?

 

[muggboots]

Getting wrong. It's apparently bizarre to southerners.

 

[PhilSAFC]

Getting wrong. It's apparently bizarre to southerners.

Wtf

 

[muggboots]

Wtf

Strite.
It makes no sense in English.

 

[tunstall birdman]

Lasses say that I stand there like a tin of lovely cream.

 

[EDGE]

Me Ma used to say "Gan to Sheels".

Never heard anyone else say it like.

 

[Idlewild Mackem]

Lasses say that I stand there like a tin of lovely cream.

Thick up top and old.

 

[Frijj]

Lasses say that I stand there like a tin of lovely cream.

You’re carnation f***ing milk, man

 

[dangermows]

Getting wrong. It's apparently bizarre to southerners.

Well despite using it myself it's f***ing stupid when you think about it

 

[PhilSAFC]

Lasses say that I stand there like a tin of lovely cream.

Stiff as a board?

 

[muggboots]

Well despite using it myself it's f***ing stupid when you think about it

I know. I'd never given it a moments thought until it was pointed out.

 

[PinzaC55]

When I worked in Yorkshire a few years ago I said to our supervisor "I could really use some Ket right now" and her eyes popped out of her head "I didn't know you did drugs".

Lasses say that I stand there like a tin of lovely cream.

Or something like cream.

 

[The Butcher]

Getting wrong. It's apparently bizarre to southerners.

“Getting a row” in jockland, even worse

 

[tunstall birdman]

Stiff as a board?

Only 'Stiff' and lasses never get bored.

Thick up top and old.

 

[PinzaC55]

Getting wrong. It's apparently bizarre to southerners.

Probably getting your rag out would be too.

 

[Deleted User 2893]

Treat (as in pronounced treet) rather than treated.

 

[Nipple Salad]

Getting wrong. It's apparently bizarre to southerners.

Too right Lauren. I remember a lass from London creasing up when I said it to her, completely ruined the mood.

I buttoned up my pants and walked out the cleaning cupboard in a right huff.

 

[Churchlanelad]

Bullets - Sweets
Sandshoes - Insert appropriate term
Man - Applied to either sex
Skinch - Truce word in games
Spelk - Splinter of wood in flesh

 

[PinzaC55]

I was told my bedroom looked like a Tagareen Shop when I was a kid but I still don't know what a Tagareen is

 

[Nipple Salad]

I was told my bedroom looked like a Tagareen Shop when I was a kid but I still don't know what a Tagareen is

World Wide Words: Tagarene