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I still talk about 'taping' things off TV on Sky+.

Not terminology I know but you just don't see this anymore. ...mam always tubbed us in the kitchen sink .

We still call going to the cinema "going to the pictures"

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Stone me Canning Town to Bethnal Green middle class ....i,ll have some of that :toast:

 

LOL, here you go, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea_(meal)

 

"Tea (also known as high tea or meat tea) is one name for the evening meal. It is associated with the working class and is typically eaten between 5 pm and 7 pm. In the North of England, North and South Wales, the English Midlands, Scotland and in rural and working class areas of Ireland, people traditionally call their midday meal dinner and their evening meal tea (served around 6 pm), whereas the upper social classes would call the midday meal lunch or luncheon and the evening meal (served after 7 pm) dinner (if formal) or supper (often eaten later in the evening). This differentiation in usage is one of the classic social markers of British English (see U and non-U English)."

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Northerners don't have lunch gnash,

We have breakfast dinner and tea.

And midlanders don't like being called northerners! LOL.

 

But yeah, it's a class thing. Traditional working class have dinner and tea. Traditional middle class have lunch and dinner.

 

Same in Norfolk...at school we had Dinner ladys not lunch ladys

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Aye I have breakfast, dinner and tea but my missus who's a foreigner from England doesn't have dinner she as lunch.....lunch does sound like a southern softie word though. :)

my snobby sister in law with her double barrel name always says"we are having Sunday lunch if you would like to join us-lol-for fucksake she's common as f**k! The wife and myself laugh like f**k at her-she's born and bred in the f****n rhondda mun.;).atb dc
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Aye I have breakfast, dinner and tea but my missus who's a foreigner from England doesn't have dinner she as lunch.....lunch does sound like a southern softie word though. :)

my snobby sister in law with her double barrel name always says"we are having Sunday lunch if you would like to join us-lol-for fucksake she's common as f**k! The wife and myself laugh like f**k at her-she's born and bred in the f****n rhondda mun.;).atb dc
Sounds like my younger sister, she thinks her shit don't stink lol.
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How does it work if you have a sandwich at 12 o clock and a roast dinner at 6 o clock then.

 

Have you had a sandwich for your dinner and a roast for your tea ? ............do yous ask the ol woman to send you off to work with a nice sausage sandwich for your packed dinner ? :blink:

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How does it work if you have a sandwich at 12 o clock and a roast dinner at 6 o clock then.

 

Have you had a sandwich for your dinner and a roast for your tea ? ............do yous ask the ol woman to send you off to work with a nice sausage sandwich for your packed dinner ? :blink:

You could have weetabix at 6 in the evening and it would still be tea gnash :)
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..if you watch anymore TV, your eyes will go square and you'll grow little buttons down the side of your face..

 

Yep, the days of having to walk to the TV to change between the 4 channels available. Only we could choose from just 2, as Mum didn't like ITV or channel 4, so she superglued the buttons for those stations so they wouldn't move. Shame she didn't realise that we just re-tuned stations 8 and 9 to ITV and channel 4...

 

and what about not driving on Dartmoor after dusk, for fear of being got by the Hairy Hand ? Devon teenagers today have no respect for the Hairy Hand.

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How does it work if you have a sandwich at 12 o clock and a roast dinner at 6 o clock then.

 

Have you had a sandwich for your dinner and a roast for your tea ? ............do yous ask the ol woman to send you off to work with a nice sausage sandwich for your packed dinner ? :blink:

That would be a butty for dinner and

Roast for tea.?

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