Do they get it?

[old man emu]

Do the Millenials get the meaning of some of our good old sayings, or is it Hash Tag Huh!?

 

In these times of keyboard communication, would they understand what "Blotting your copy book" means?

 

Can you add any other sayings whose meanings are lost in this digital age?

 

 

[red750]

Whacko the diddle-o.

 

 

[facthunter]

Know your onions. Tell you snakes are lizards and get you bit.. Stone the crows mate.. Stiffen the Jewy Lizards. Flat out like a lizard drinking. The ant's pants'. Bird brained. Cop that, young Harry.  It's a dry argument.  A real Pearler.. Kindred Soul. Blind as a bat..  Daggy.. billy can. Schooner, Pint, Middy.. Dud bash.. Old as the hills..  Shoot through.   Nev . .

 

 

[old man emu]

It's a joke, Joyce.

 

 

[willedoo]

I guess they'd need an interpreter to watch The Adventures of Barry McKenzie.

 

The Millennials probably have their own relevant nicknames, but do they have any like Lofty or Stringbean or Pothole (always in the road).

 

 

[old man emu]

Mad as a two-bob watch.

 

For the Sydneysiders - Getting off at Redfern

 

Wide open like the entrance to Luna Park.

 

Come in, Spinner

 

Further behind than Walla Walla

 

 

[willedoo]

For the Sydneysiders - Getting off at Redfern

 

and this one - go like a Bondi Tram. Not being a Sydneyite, I wonder how that one came about.

 

The old Brisbane one 'Full as a Cribb Island Bus' was explained to me once.

 

 

[old man emu]

It's "Shoot through like a Bondi tram"

 

Before trams were removed in the early 1960's, one of the routes was from the Sydney CBD to Bondi Beach. I suppose that during the summer, the Tramways would run minimum stop services from Central Railway to Bondi. With no stops, the trams could get up some speed compared to the multi-stop trams. Therefore, they would "shoot through" the intermediary suburbs.

 

Another one-

 

Flat as a shit carter's hat.

 

 

[Yenn]

Send er down Hughie. Pigs arse he did.

 

 

[old man emu]

Useless as a flyscreen door on a submarine

 

 

[facthunter]

 Or an ashtray on a drag bike. Nev

 

 

[nomadpete]

As much use as cupholders on a hang glider

 

At least I got a connection with recreational flying!

 

 

[onetrack]

Useless as a hip pocket on a singlet.

 

Useless as dead dingo's donger.

 

Useless a tits on bull.

 

Useless as a nun's cXXt.

 

Shovelling sXXt uphill.

 

Couldn't drive a greasy stick up a dog's aXXe.

 

All over the place, like a mad womans sXXt.

 

Fit as a Mallee Bull, and twice as dangerous! (greeting, when someone asks how you are).

 

Full as the last bus.

 

Going like sXXt off a shiny shovel (moving fast).

 

 

[nomadpete]

I think I've been Trumped.

 

 

[old man emu]

Could pull a ton up Druitt Street (In Sydney - a steep street going from the wharves at Darling Harbour to The Town Hall - sign of a good draught horse)

 

Further behind than Walla Walla

 

 

[octave]

Do the Millenials get the meaning of some of our good old sayings, or is it Hash Tag Huh!?

 

I think some of these sayings not only mean little to millennials but little to me (1962)   Some I have heard but only form older folk (older than me that is)

 

 

[willedoo]

Octave, you might need to be a minimum of five or six years older. I've got a brother born in '61 and he wouldn't be familiar with too many of them.

 

Ironically, his son was a millennial and loved the old sayings and regularly used them. Did his bit for preserving them for future generations.

 

 

[octave]

Octave, you might need to be a minimum of five or six years older. I've got a brother born in '61 and he wouldn't be familiar with too many of them.

 

Ironically, his son was a millennial and loved the old sayings and regularly used them. Did his bit for preserving them for future generations.

 

Probably geographical also. My parents are from Yorkshire so there are old Yorkshire sayings that I know that would probably meaningless to Australians

 

 

[Marty_d]

Probably geographical also. My parents are from Yorkshire so there are old Yorkshire sayings that I know that would probably meaningless to Australians

 

Eee, trooble at' Mill...

 

Hey, have you heard about the way Yorkshire people are injecting Ecstasy into their mouths?

 

They call it "E by gum"...

 

 

[octave]

Eee, trooble at' Mill...

 

Hey, have you heard about the way Yorkshire people are injecting Ecstasy into their mouths?

 

They call it "E by gum"...

 

Yorkshire born Yorkshire bred, strong int arm week int head

 

 

[willedoo]

So I wonder if the Millennials are wondering if we get the meaning of some of their good new sayings.

 

 

[old man emu]

So I wonder if the Millennials are wondering if we get the meaning of some of their good new sayings.

 

I'll text one of them and ask.

 

 

[pmccarthy]

OK Boomer

 

 

[old man emu]

I got a reply: #

 

 

[David2ayo]

Arlo Guthrie wrote a song (probably many songs, actually) called "The Motorcycle Song". He refers to writing this song while going over a cliff on his motorbicycle, "put a new ink cartridge in my pen". I noticed that one version changed that phrase - nobody knew what he was on about!