Words your parents use..

[HurricaneHazza]

that just aren't appropriate to use anymore.

Calling an ottoman a "****" and transistor radio a "tr@nny".

Just a few I can think of atm..

Do your parents use anything that you shake your head at? Or is it just me?

Edit: Well there you go, Tr@nny is in the world filter!

 

[Gough]

My old mum still uses Zimbabwean slang. A mandarin is narchi, medicine is mooty, if he likes something it's mushy, and if you piss him off there'll be big ndabas.

 

[Smoooothy]

i hear disappointed a lot..

 

[Mofra]

My dad constantly refers to a bundle of sticks and twigs by their correct term which is no longer acceptable in modern society.

 

[HurricaneHazza]

My dad constantly refers to a bundle of sticks and twigs by their correct term which is no longer acceptable in modern society.

haha yes.. stuff like this.. it is a unit of measurement before it become derogatory..

 

[DroopStDanny]

that just aren't appropriate to use anymore.

Used in their proper context there is nothing inappropriate about them at all.

 

[iluvparis]

Used in their proper context there is nothing inappropriate about them at all.

Agree - now get out the back son and findr a ****** for us to start the fire with

 

[Gough]

 

[Scotland]

I'm pretty sure my dear old Nan used to use the n-word to describe our Indigenous brothers and sisters. Somehow she managed to pick up her racism from 1920s America despite growing up in 1920s Australia.

 

[Dazb86]

The old cheese still calls cigarettes ****.

 

[Perth gal]

Bugger off

Carrying on like a pork chop

 

[raskolnikov]

My mum worked as a nurse in an indigenous community. The local word for angry was mirrumbumba. Growing up, whenever mum said she was getting mirrumbumba we knew we better pull our heads in. She uses it on the grandkids these days

 

[perthblue]

My folks use the Serbo-Croatian translation of 'kike' when referencing the Jews,

 

[ioppolo]

Chogies, however it's spelled. Apparently something the Asians or Chinese got called in the 80s.

 

[Scotland]

Yeah I've heard 'chogy' also. Never from anyone under the age of about 50 and never outside Australia. Young people just use established racial terms like 'chink' or 'gook'.

My old man doesn't really use many words that have gone out of fashion or been bant but he does refer to businesses/utilities that don't exist any more like SECWA, R&I and Challenge Bank. 'Just going to pop into R&I'. Yep, righto - hasn't been called that since 1994 but OK. He does say tr@nny for transistor radio but that's hardly offensive in my book.

I wonder how you'd go today asking a young smoker 'can I bum a ***, mate?'. That has definitely gone out of vogue.

 

[Plugger35]

I wonder how you'd go today asking a young smoker 'can I bum a ***, mate?'. That has definitely gone out of vogue.

Not sure if that expression has gone out of style yet but you definitely get some shocked looks if you say that to Americans.

 

[Scotland]

My dad, for example, he's not as cosmopolitan or as educated as me and it can be embarrassing you know. He doesn't understand all the new trendy words - like he'll say "****s" instead of "gays", "birds" instead of "women", "darkies" instead of "coloureds".

 

[Keys]

My dad constantly refers to a bundle of sticks and twigs by their correct term which is no longer acceptable in modern society.

Had to look this up

I've never heard that word in anything other than it's derogatory sense

 

[Keys]

Chogies, however it's spelled. Apparently something the Asians or Chinese got called in the 80s.

Haven't heard that one for a long long time

Sputs was another term that was used in high school back then

 

[ioppolo]

Anal when describing someone's traits doesn't really get used anymore.

 

[blueboy25]

My dad, for example, he's not as cosmopolitan or as educated as me and it can be embarrassing you know. He doesn't understand all the new trendy words - like he'll say "****s" instead of "gays", "birds" instead of "women", "darkies" instead of "coloureds".

haha...nice Gareth

 

[Scotland]

My old man refers to automatics as '****ter cars'. My uncle refers to homosexuals as 'shirt lifters' or 'woolly woofters'.

'Bird' and 'shiela' are fading as terms for girls, as is 'chicky babe'.

 

[SugarShane]

My dad, for example, he's not as cosmopolitan or as educated as me and it can be embarrassing you know. He doesn't understand all the new trendy words - like he'll say "****s" instead of "gays", "birds" instead of "women", "darkies" instead of "coloureds".

There's a bloke at work in his young 20's who calls girls birds. Floored me the first time I heard it from someone younger than 40.

 

[Gough]

I still call women birds, gay men ****s, and cigarettes ****.

 

[Perth gal]

There's a bloke at work in his young 20's who calls girls birds. Floored me the first time I heard it from someone younger than 40.

Xtreme?