Funny old sayings that give away (y)our age

I remember that word, gaga, but I haven't heard since in Yorkshire either. N British dialect, I suspect.

Plimsolls, anyone? And the Banda machine in an enclosed space - how hazardous was that?

Does anyone remember a strange word we used for sticking plasters i.e spetch? Or was it just a local word in my Yorkshire village? Not heard it used since I was a child!

feetle, in our house, if we had a telly, the answer to that would be 'dust'.

@MiceElf "Liberty bodice, knicker elastic, darning socks, and the dreaded belt, pins and pads."

Oh! Soap and water...l wash your mouth out...

I still say 'It's five-and-twenty past...', frock (of course), no doubt if I had to refer to a lady's 'suit' it would be as a 'costume', wireless (natch),
gramophone (sometimes) .

HOWEVER

It annoys me when someone asks, re the TV, "What's on the other side?"
Of the hundreds of channels I have, which is "the other"?

ogm, oh yes! DH wore daps in S Wales.

I do that too, sometimes, enterprisegran

This morning I asked my 4 year old grandson if he had 'pulled the chain' after going to the toilet. I actually stopped in my tracks and wondered why on earth I was asking that instead of saying 'flush the toilet'.

wheniwasyourage yes that I was thinking of I had a red one.

Swimsuit, but when DD2 was little she used to say swimming suit, which we all liked, and sometimes I say that too. I don't say bathing costume because it always reminds me of the pink (don't like pink) ruched one I had at the age of about 6. Record, yes, video (meaning DVD), wireless, pictures, and I refuse to call continental quilts(when were they last called that!) duvets, referring to quilts and quilt covers. Oh dear, I am a grumpy old woman after all.

Anno Banda machines and something called an Epidiascope (Sp?).. takes me back to teacher-training days and school placements!
Bags .... N.Wales pumps, S.Wales daps! These days 'Converse'. Trendy name allows them to charge the best part of £50 for what are really only colourful pumps!!!!

bathers & tackies (NE ?) were what I wore on the beach as a kid!

In Yorkshire we wore sandshoes. In Lancashire we wore pumps. In Scotland we wear gym shoes.

Or the ubiquitous trainers.

swimmin' togs

Swim suit,I always get giggled at for that,maybe it's them notme...no hold on not swim suit...bathing costume she says slapping her forehead...duh

Swumsuit! but i think it is only in shop/ sales that it ever seems to matter! As long as we communicate the actual words we use are less important!

What's wrong with 'swimming costume'? What's the new word?

In school I remember using an imperial typewriter,and having to put an onion skin layer in between pages to get duplicates.. I think ...and having to chage the ribbons on a typewriter ugh!!

Me nanad and roll ons,and telex,

It doesn't seem so long ago that I made frequent use of Banda machines in duplicating work for my students!

Who remembers Banda machines?

'Going to the pictures' LOL or even better 'bioscope'.

Liberty bodice, knicker elastic, darning socks, and the dreaded belt, pins and pads.

Frock.clothes horse,record player,eiderdown,swimming costume.....help and I am only 59 ....they all think it's hilarious ...

bags I also love all the old words and happily use them. I tend to tell the younger ones at work 'google it'