My "oldness" story is when I happen to realize the year someone was born and notice the sweater I'm wearing is older than they are. To be fair, I have several hooded sweatshirts with the year as part of a logo and these have lasted because I am sentimental about the event. It does make me chuckle a bit inside when I think of how old most items in my wardrobe are.
I have a couple of M&S nighties that my mother bought for me when we downsized in 1975.
When you can't find the trolleys you've worn all your life at the shop because the fashion has moved on and everyone's wearing undercrackers you don't like.
When you can't find the trolleys you've worn all your life at the shop because the fashion has moved on and everyone's wearing undercrackers you don't like.
Help! Can someone enlighten me as to what “undercrackers” are, or what kind of “trolly” can be worn?
When you can't find the trolleys you've worn all your life at the shop because the fashion has moved on and everyone's wearing undercrackers you don't like.
Help! Can someone enlighten me as to what “undercrackers” are, or what kind of “trolly” can be worn?
When you can't find the trolleys you've worn all your life at the shop because the fashion has moved on and everyone's wearing undercrackers you don't like.
Help! Can someone enlighten me as to what “undercrackers” are, or what kind of “trolly” can be worn?
When you can't find the trolleys you've worn all your life at the shop because the fashion has moved on and everyone's wearing undercrackers you don't like.
Help! Can someone enlighten me as to what “undercrackers” are, or what kind of “trolly” can be worn?
Both are UK slang terms for underpants.
Which parts of the UK?
Well, not Scotland (smirks).
I'm familiar with both as a Southerner, so may be South terms?
When you can't find the trolleys you've worn all your life at the shop because the fashion has moved on and everyone's wearing undercrackers you don't like.
Help! Can someone enlighten me as to what “undercrackers” are, or what kind of “trolly” can be worn?
Both are UK slang terms for underpants.
Just as well you said. I thought trolleys were roller skates.
When you can't find the trolleys you've worn all your life at the shop because the fashion has moved on and everyone's wearing undercrackers you don't like.
Help! Can someone enlighten me as to what “undercrackers” are, or what kind of “trolly” can be worn?
Both are UK slang terms for underpants.
Which parts of the UK?
Well, not Scotland (smirks).
I'm familiar with both as a Southerner, so may be South terms?
Not the west country, where I grew up, nor Lincolnshire or N Wales, where my mum's parents hailed from, or Lancashire where Mrs Feet is from. Could be Yorkshire (though my sister and her family have lived there and I've never heard it used). My guess is west midlands, or NE England.
Probably Yorkshire - I spent my later formative years in Leeds. Would Grundies have been any more understood?
Down here not sure if only by, ahem, the older generations (have not heard it for a while) as Reg Grundy was a tv producer. Rhyming slang for undies. Where does your term come from?
A dusty memory stirs: I think I may have heard 'trolleys' once, though not recognised it as such, in an advert. Google suggests it was for Boddingtons c1990, and the relevant line was:
are your trolleys on't right way round
The actor voicing it, and presumably therefore the line, was Mancunian.
I never heard it living in rural W Yorks, so I wonder if it is specifically an urban phenomenon.
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I have a couple of M&S nighties that my mother bought for me when we downsized in 1975.
I'm thinner now than I was then!
I am proud to boast that my high school earrings still fit.
Both are UK slang terms for underpants.
Which parts of the UK?
Well, not Scotland (smirks).
I'm familiar with both as a Southerner, so may be South terms?
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Just as well you said. I thought trolleys were roller skates.
Not the west country, where I grew up, nor Lincolnshire or N Wales, where my mum's parents hailed from, or Lancashire where Mrs Feet is from. Could be Yorkshire (though my sister and her family have lived there and I've never heard it used). My guess is west midlands, or NE England.
Down here not sure if only by, ahem, the older generations (have not heard it for a while) as Reg Grundy was a tv producer. Rhyming slang for undies. Where does your term come from?
I am Midlands origin, parents from further North and now am in the South East, And none of them use Trolleys.
Maybe you are off yours?
The actor voicing it, and presumably therefore the line, was Mancunian.
I never heard it living in rural W Yorks, so I wonder if it is specifically an urban phenomenon.