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Sitting there like a bag of nutty slack...

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MissAdventure Sun 22-Sept-24 11:33:41

grin

Just heard this for the first time, and it's really tickled me.

That's all. Just wanted to say it.

Ilovedogs22 Sun 22-Sept-24 11:39:10

It sounds like something the fabulous Ken Dodd would say. I have to say that I loved him, such a clever, erudite & kind gentle man. smile

Crossstitchfan Sun 22-Sept-24 11:41:00

Love it!
My mum used to tell me off for ‘sitting there like lamb and salad’!!
Where she got that from, we never knew!

MissAdventure Sun 22-Sept-24 11:41:06

I'm watching Carry On Screaming, and it was said there.

How I missed it before, I don't know, considering how many times I've seen the film.

MissAdventure Sun 22-Sept-24 11:44:49

Lamb and salad...
I've never heard that.

I wonder where it originated?

Clawdy Sun 22-Sept-24 11:51:17

I remember "sitting there like Piffy on a rock bun"!

ExDancer Sun 22-Sept-24 11:51:32

That takes me back to childhood and the days of coal fires. We'd buy a bag of nutty slack (basically a bag of broken coal nuts the size of gravel and dust) to put on the fire to keep it burning gently for a few hours when you didn't want a blaze. It would sit in the coal shed ready to use when needed, doing nothing, just 'sitting' there waiting. smile

MissAdventure Sun 22-Sept-24 12:00:28

Is that what nutty slack was?

I'm embarrassed to say I thought it must be some kind of sweetie. blush

Babs03 Sun 22-Sept-24 12:05:27

Crossstitchfan

Love it!
My mum used to tell me off for ‘sitting there like lamb and salad’!!
Where she got that from, we never knew!

Yep I remember that one, I think is pithy on a rock bun referring to the pith/peel used.
But is pronounced piffy.
My old mum and aunts would also say ‘sat there like a sack of spuds’.
Also I remember my mum ordering nutty slack coal when we had real fires.

Babs03 Sun 22-Sept-24 12:06:20

Sorry was replying to Clawdy and reference to piffy on a rock bun 🫣

Freya5 Sun 22-Sept-24 13:03:26

ExDancer

That takes me back to childhood and the days of coal fires. We'd buy a bag of nutty slack (basically a bag of broken coal nuts the size of gravel and dust) to put on the fire to keep it burning gently for a few hours when you didn't want a blaze. It would sit in the coal shed ready to use when needed, doing nothing, just 'sitting' there waiting. smile

Yes I remember that too.

Usedtobeblonde Sun 22-Sept-24 13:09:38

My parents used nutty slack to “ bank up” the coal fire every night and then in the morning it would still be smouldering when it would be riddled, a few pieces of firewood, ( sold in wire wrapped bundles) added and then the coal.
A good fire burning well in minutes.
Happy memories.

Kate1949 Sun 22-Sept-24 13:19:13

Someone I know says 'Don't just sit there like a tit in a trance'.

Baggs Sun 22-Sept-24 14:40:53

My last primary school teacher (who was also the HT) used to say: sitting there like cheese at fourpence.

Crossstitchfan Sun 22-Sept-24 14:53:48

Kate1949

Someone I know says 'Don't just sit there like a tit in a trance'.

Now THAT really is good!

Kate1949 Sun 22-Sept-24 15:26:47

I'm sure he means the bird Crossstitchfan. grin

Mazgg Sun 22-Sept-24 15:33:30

Sitting there like Venus on a rock bun was what was said in our house. If I pulled my belt in tight round my waist my Mum would say I looked light a sack of potatoes tied in the middle.

biglouis Sun 22-Sept-24 16:19:55

Here are some Liverpool ones from my childhood:-

God bless you and your one eyelash (stuck up)

Same to you with knobs on

I could eat a child's bottom through a cane chair

I could eat a scabby donky

Standing there like one of Lewis's (the department store)

Their eyes were everywhere (nosy)

MissAdventure Sun 22-Sept-24 16:23:48

One eye and a whelk (pronounced 'whilk')

JaneJudge Sun 22-Sept-24 16:27:36

s/he is like a fart in colander

BigBopper Sun 22-Sept-24 16:41:30

My dad used to say that. It was what cheap coal used to be called in the old days. It caused a lot of health problems and fog.

welbeck Sun 22-Sept-24 16:47:10

MissAdventure

Is that what nutty slack was?

I'm embarrassed to say I thought it must be some kind of sweetie. blush

have you never made a coal fire ?
now i really do feel old.
i thought everyone grown up must have done.

MissAdventure Sun 22-Sept-24 17:20:54

No, I was only a small child when we had a coal fire.

The ex, up in the wilds of Scotland had a coal fire, but he dealt with it.

Babs03 Sun 22-Sept-24 17:29:19

He/she is neither use nor ornament.

MissAdventure Sun 22-Sept-24 17:50:11

Like a fart in a colander.