funny things you've heard old people say (1 Viewer)

[Froog]

has this been done already?

me: those seasgulls are very big...
old guy: they'd schteal a child

me saying anything at all:
old guys reply: ah you'd have that in schmall towns (nowhere near a small town)

 

[Lili Marlene]

My Grandfather is always saying the latest teenage slang, he's hep to the jive

 

[egg_]

One oul lad speaking into another's ear as I walked past in Drogheda:

"THE BRITS!"

 

[Jill Hives]

After walking out of the film Synecdoche, New York. Older woman: "That was disgraceful and right in the middle of a recession!" It still makes me laugh when I think about it.

 

[ratmonkey]

Old wan looking at the monkeys in Fota:

"They look very real."

 

[orange pekoe]

My 92 year old great aunt's favourite phrase for someone that crossed her - "i'd scrawb warts on her".

 

[evil bandit]

I work in a college where you can do a course to work as a Special Needs Assistant and some auld wan rang in and said "Special Needs Assistant, that's working with kids who are simple isn't it"

 

[Froog]

random old guy stopped me on the street in dublin and said in a real posh accent, "the problem with the polish is, there's too many of them" and then toddled on humming to himself.

 

[Lili Marlene]

random old guy stopped me on the street in dublin and said in a real posh accent, "the problem with the polish is, there's too many of them" and then toddled on humming to himself.

it's a well known fact that 100% of foreigners are different to us

 

[daydream_nation]

my nana is an absolute goldmine for this shit.
grand prix = grand pricks
retarded = detarded
thought the millennium bug was going to fly in through the window.
she also has a habit of using the word cunt a lot. she's still lovely though

 

[ratmonkey]

she also has a habit of using the word cunt a lot.

What else can you say when there's so many cunts about?

Also popular with the old people is the expression "fuck me pink".

 

[Goodbye]

Or, "Shtop de lights"

I believe its something to do with an old rte game show...

 

[Theseus Mock]

STOP THE LIGHTS!

Yeah, it's a Mike Murphy reference (think the show was called Stop the Lights aswell?), my da says it all the time.

 

[therealjohnny]

It was Bunny Carr on Quicksilver I think

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Is this Bunny?

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

"he was a great man, no doubt about it. he had a vision but it didnt work out" - my granddad talking about hitler
"you dont mean to say she's a nigger?" - his sister when i pointed out boris beckers wife on tv

 

[Jerry Twig]

Apparently Stop the Lights made no sense at all as gameshow concept.
It was the original Numberwang

 

[snakybus]

It was Bunny Carr on Quicksilver I think



Is this Bunny?

Coinín Ó Gluaisteáin

 

[Thebeard]

Scutterin' Jaysus

 

[shower another shower]

My step-da to my son:
"Here, H, do you want a couple of pills?"

 

[Scientician 0.8]

That clip is amazing. There is a huge audience there and also £300 in them days must have got you a daycent holiday. Now it would barely get you a seaweed wrap at a spa.