Sitting there like a bag of nutty slack...

Waiting at a bus stop, aged about fifteen, I stood back (as trained by my Mother) to allow people to get off. A huge lady waiting behind me, with a strong Irish accent, announced 'Do yer want this bus? Yer standin' there like one o' clock half struck'. I found this so funny that I roared with laughter - and it makes me smile even now,

I remember my Grandad backing up the fire for overnight with nutty slack. Kind of walnut size pieces of coal kept in a separate container. My Granny referred to them as chirilles.

I've lived with coal fires and had forgotten about slack!

LovesBach

Waiting at a bus stop, aged about fifteen, I stood back (as trained by my Mother) to allow people to get off. A huge lady waiting behind me, with a strong Irish accent, announced 'Do yer want this bus? Yer standin' there like one o' clock half struck'. I found this so funny that I roared with laughter - and it makes me smile even now,

I've not heard that for years!
My mum used to say it.

My nana used to say they had ‘got a face like a bag of spanners’ about people she didn’t like - I never quite got if it meant they were ugly, or miserable (or maybe both).

Sitting there like patience on a monument. No idea where that one came from.

MissAdventure

Is that what nutty slack was?

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

Mum called it a bag of slack.
Delivered by Mr Pitt the coalman, (Honestly!)

Sometimes I think I look like a sack of potatoes ☹

If I was daydreaming around my mum used to say I was hanging about like patience on a monument ... no idea where that came from.

And I too remember nutty slack, we only had a coal fire (with a coal cupboard off the kitchen) - no other heating in the house other than a paraffin heater in the depths of winter.

Like a lost fart in a thunderstorm.

gulligranny

If I was daydreaming around my mum used to say I was hanging about like patience on a monument ... no idea where that came from.

And I too remember nutty slack, we only had a coal fire (with a coal cupboard off the kitchen) - no other heating in the house other than a paraffin heater in the depths of winter.

It's Shakespearean gulligranny

From Twelfth Night, Viola says of herself:

She sat like patience on a monument,
Smiling at grief. Was not this love indeed?

Looking like a Tod on a Shovel was said frequently when I was young. I think it referred to something that looked small or odd!

‘Don’t just stand there gawping, you’ll catch flies.’
Was an oft repeated phrase my old mum would level at us if we didn’t get a move on.

If I sat idle my mother used to say I was sat there like one o' clock half struck, haven't heard for about 60+ years.

Got a face like a smacked arse- for someone who didn't look very happy.

MissAdventure

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.

Oh I love that film. Odd Bod and Odd bod junior! Frying tonight…

Why are you taking a month of Sunday's to do that job? ..................... My Mother s way of saying I was too slow.

Mad as a cut snake
Running around like a blue arsed fly
Kangaroos loose in the top paddock
- weird person
A chop short on the barbecue-bit thick
If you had another brain it’d be lonely

Nutty slack ... I remember that saying, thought it was a Liverpool saying.

My parents always called coal nutty slack.
I like as much use as a chocolate teapot.
Billy Connolly always made me laugh when he says someone was as much use as a fart in a spacesuit.

My parents where from Smethwick but we moved to the black country when I was 6 and they called coal nutty slack there as well.

Gosh! "Nutty slack" - that brings back childhood memories. I remember deliveries of that, now that you mention it.

As good as a one legged man in an arse kicking contest.

I was born with squints in both eyes ,
apparently I had one eye on the pot and t'other up the chimney.

I looked like a sack of S**t tied in the middle.

A man lived near us had one leg shorter than the other, had one leg and a flapper.

My mum had quite a spiteful nature, especially where I was concerned, I dont know where half her saying came from.

One eye looking at you, the other one looking for you.

Thats the one MissA🤣🤣🤣

Oh that brought back memories. My mam used to say that. Along with don’t sit there looking like one o’clock half struck! Hahaha!!!!!!