 |
|
14 November 2005, 20:04
|
#21
|
|
Member
Country: UK - England
Town: helston
Boat name: pressman
Make: Carson 900
Length: 9m +
Engine: twin 370 yanmar
Join Date: Jul 2005
Posts: 373
|
Where i was brought up in Cornwall a mush was an ex convict or someone who had done time
__________________
|
|
|
|
14 November 2005, 20:09
|
#22
|
|
exspyrd trayd membir
Country: Ireland
Town: inn wiliks hed
Make: Redbay 6.5
Length: 6m +
Engine: Twin Etec 90hp
Join Date: Aug 2003
Posts: 962
|
Quote:
|
Originally Posted by codprawn
and also call people "me old mukka" - to be honest most of them are also the dregs of society!!!
|
orl rite mee owld mukker.
gArf
s.p wot de fuk iz a dregg
__________________
luk arfter numbir wan, downt stepp inn numbir too
|
|
|
|
|
14 November 2005, 20:19
|
#23
|
|
Member
Country: Other
Length: no boat
Join Date: Aug 2005
Posts: 623
|
Quote:
|
Originally Posted by codprawn
70% of the people in Swansea would NEVER use the term - it is considered very "common".
|
Well la li bleedin' la my old mucker. Having been fahnd in Sfamtn 'n drugged up in Sarf Landan seems like I've been a mush all me life. But 'aven't done time yet although I've got enormous potential so the rozzers rahnd 'ere fink anyway.
__________________
|
|
|
|
|
14 November 2005, 22:31
|
#24
|
|
Member
Country: UK - England
Town: Portsmouth
Boat name: Cracking Day
Make: Tohatsu
Length: 6m +
Engine: Optimax 150
Join Date: Aug 2003
Posts: 265
|
You know why Germany and Japan made good stuff after the war? We rebuilt their factories whilst ours carried on, knackered from making war stuff!
Billions was pumped into German by the US after the war.
|
|
|
|
|
14 November 2005, 22:46
|
#25
|
|
Member
Country: UK - England
Town: Mighty Penryn
Boat name: Little Joe.
Make: Avon Searider
Length: 4m +
Engine: Honda BF50
Join Date: Aug 2005
Posts: 8,875
|
Mush is Romany, it's a friendly term for a man as is gerrie. A Wrackly is a women, a juvval is an old women. I could on. 
__________________
|
|
|
|
|
14 November 2005, 22:49
|
#26
|
|
Member
Country: UK - England
Town: Devon
Boat name: White Ice
Make: Ranieri
Length: 5m +
Engine: Suzuki 115hp
Join Date: Jul 2002
Posts: 5,015
|
|
|
|
|
|
14 November 2005, 22:58
|
#27
|
|
Member
Country: Other
Length: no boat
Join Date: Aug 2005
Posts: 623
|
Quote:
|
Originally Posted by Mollulnan
Mush is Romany, it's a friendly term for a man as is gerrie. A Wrackly is a women, a juvval is an old women. I could on. |
Please do....Wrackly a woman! Great stuff, let's 'ave some more my 'andsome...
__________________
|
|
|
|
|
14 November 2005, 23:02
|
#28
|
|
Member
Country: UK - Wales
Town: swansea
Boat name: Too Blue
Make: BLANK
Length: 8m +
Engine: Suzuki DT225
Join Date: Mar 2004
Posts: 12,791
|
Quote:
|
Originally Posted by Mollulnan
Mush is Romany, it's a friendly term for a man as is gerrie. A Wrackly is a women, a juvval is an old women. I could on. |
Should have guessed you were a gippo.......
__________________
|
|
|
|
|
14 November 2005, 23:04
|
#29
|
|
Administrator
Country: UK - England
Town: Brighton
Length: 3m +
Join Date: May 2000
Posts: 7,109
|
Quote:
|
Originally Posted by hard1
I shall have to call you a Mush. Now a Mush is also sort of a compliment as it signifies a native of Southampton.
|
Surely the word you're thinking of is SCUMMER, not mush! 
John
__________________
|
|
|
|
|
14 November 2005, 23:11
|
#30
|
|
Member
Country: UK - England
Town: Mighty Penryn
Boat name: Little Joe.
Make: Avon Searider
Length: 4m +
Engine: Honda BF50
Join Date: Aug 2005
Posts: 8,875
|
Quote:
|
Originally Posted by codprawn
Should have guessed you were a gippo.......
|
I was waiting for that. I'm no pikey. I had a surfacing company for many years and had some Cornish settled Gypsies that worked for me. A great bunch on the whole. Hard working, loyal and a bloody good laugh. It was rare that a gorgie (non-gypsy) was allowed to pick up their lingo. If they were in Gypsy company I had to pretend not to understand. It's well handy when it comes to getting rid of peg sellers and fortune tellers.
__________________
|
|
|
|
|
15 November 2005, 12:40
|
#31
|
|
Member
Country: UK - England
Town: Reading, Hants
Boat name: Juicy
Make: Sealine F43
Length: 10m +
Engine: 2 x 370hp
MMSI: TBC
Join Date: Sep 2005
Posts: 2,884
|
scum or scummer
An interesting story came the posse's way a few weeks back about the true origin of the term scummer or scum. Apparently, just before the first world war, a dispute broke out between a local fishing company and it's employees. We don't know the name of the company, but we do know that it had two branches, one in Portsmouth and the other in S***hampton. The dispute, over wages, escalated and eventually the union called a strike, which was solid among both the Portsmouth company union men and the S***hampton company union men. Nothing was resolved, and after some weeks the S***hampton company men broke the strike and went back to work, thus ensuring the collapse of the dispute without any gain for the employee's of either company. Not suprisingly, the Portsmouth company were incensed at the actions of thier fellow workers, and apparently one wag noticed that the first letters of the S***hampton Company Union Men spelt SCUM. Hence the name Scum or Scummer as a term of abuse for anyone from S***hampton was first coined. Taken form the hard copy of the April/May 1996 issue of Frattonise
Just doing my google bit here!
__________________
|
|
|
|
|
15 November 2005, 12:45
|
#32
|
|
Member
Country: Other
Length: no boat
Join Date: Aug 2005
Posts: 623
|
Sooo, having been born within the ambit of S***hampton (why the asterisks? it's catching) I'm genuine born 22 carat scum then?
Cool or what? 
__________________
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posting Rules
|
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts
HTML code is Off
|
|
|
|
Recent Discussions |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
