Christmas Gift's, What did you get ? ?

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28-12-23, 00:22
SLUDGE FACTORY

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Originally Posted by blue matt

Cod season was always Pebbles, right at the end of my time fishing, I had a mobile phone ( Nokia 3210 ) and would phone for a pizza delivery ( felt like billy big balls then )

other times exactly your lists, though thats where most from Barry / vale will fish , porthkerry aswell , Jacksons bay ( on the breakwater and Nells point ) Frairs point, Bendricks ( which was my least fav and you lost alot in them rocks )

The rocky places are where the big girls come out to play

But you lose your tackle

Oh matron
28-12-23, 00:24
Rock_Flock_of_Five

Re: Christmas Gift's, What did you get ? ?

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Originally Posted by splott parker

They’re daps!

The de-facto dress code, for us kids growing up in the 60s, was a pair of daps and 'Strangler-X' jeans (also known as 'Bobby Washables') finished off with a 'snake belt'! :hehe:
28-12-23, 00:31
Rock_Flock_of_Five

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Originally Posted by SLUDGE FACTORY

The rocky places are where the big girls come out to play

But you lose your tackle

Oh matron

To answer your earlier question - yes, I used to fish the south Wales coast in my early teens.
It was largely a frustrating experience of getting snagged a lot, losing tackle because no one showed me how to tie a knot properly.
I had no idea about tides, correct setups, bait etc. It was no wonder I seldom caught anything.
Nevertheless, for an urban kid like me it was just great to be next to a beach.
28-12-23, 07:18
splott parker

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Originally Posted by Rock_Flock_of_Five

You are right about the different definitions. However, when I was a kid growing up in the 60s, there was only daps available (black or white and elasticated or lace-up). Trainers came on the scene in the mid to late 70s.

Trainers are just a different type of dap, but they’re still daps. Flares are still trousers, anoraks are still coats, boxers are still underpants, trainers are still daps. Daps is a Cardiff traditional word, much like mitching (used in Ireland as well), afters for pudding or dessert, cobs for hard bread buns, baps for soft bread buns (I think buns is what some other places call them), gullies for the cut through between houses etc etc. It’d be a crime to let our colloquialisms go, it’s part of the identities of different parts of the country, local dialects and sayings should be used and preserved, they’re part of who we are and where we’re from.
28-12-23, 07:21
splott parker

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Originally Posted by blue matt

your right, every other forum im on had a christmas gift thread, at least it picked up though

Things like ‘your’ instead of ‘you’re’ creeping in as well, ironic in a way that you’re picking up another word, daps:xmashehe:
28-12-23, 10:36
xsnaggle

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There are youngsters in my local who still know what daps are. If you say "New daps?" they don't bat an eyelid, just answer.
28-12-23, 10:38
Robin Friday's Ghost

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Originally Posted by xsnaggle

There are youngsters in my local who still know what daps are. If you say "New daps?" they don't bat an eyelid, just answer.

They're known as daps up the valleys too, probably unsurprisingly. But also in Bristol which I was surprised at. There's a lot of crossover between south Wales and Bristol language wise. Cheers drive is another one.
28-12-23, 10:59
Rock_Flock_of_Five

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Originally Posted by splott parker

Trainers are just a different type of dap, but they’re still daps. Flares are still trousers, anoraks are still coats, boxers are still underpants, trainers are still daps. Daps is a Cardiff traditional word, much like mitching (used in Ireland as well), afters for pudding or dessert, cobs for hard bread buns, baps for soft bread buns (I think buns is what some other places call them), gullies for the cut through between houses etc etc. It’d be a crime to let our colloquialisms go, it’s part of the identities of different parts of the country, local dialects and sayings should be used and preserved, they’re part of who we are and where we’re from.

Nope, I'm not 'aving that!

In the 80s when football fashions took off, no one would ever say.. "I like your daps" to someone who happened to be wearing a pair of Diadora Borg Elite or Adidas Forest Hills, for example. Such footwear was referred to as 'trainers' only.
:xmaswave:
28-12-23, 11:00
Taunton Blue Genie

Re: Christmas Gift's, What did you get ? ?

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Originally Posted by splott parker

Trainers are just a different type of dap, but they’re still daps. Flares are still trousers, anoraks are still coats, boxers are still underpants, trainers are still daps. Daps is a Cardiff traditional word, much like mitching (used in Ireland as well), afters for pudding or dessert, cobs for hard bread buns, baps for soft bread buns (I think buns is what some other places call them), gullies for the cut through between houses etc etc. It’d be a crime to let our colloquialisms go, it’s part of the identities of different parts of the country, local dialects and sayings should be used and preserved, they’re part of who we are and where we’re from.

The word 'daps' is used widely on this side of the Bristol Channel too. In fact, the first recorded use of it in print seems to have been in 'The Western Daily Press', a publication covering Somerset, Gloucester and Wiltshire.
28-12-23, 11:57
splott parker

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Originally Posted by Rock_Flock_of_Five

Nope, I'm not 'aving that!

In the 80s when football fashions took off, no one would ever say.. "I like your daps" to someone who happened to be wearing a pair of Diadora Borg Elite or Adidas Forest Hills, for example. Such footwear was referred to as 'trainers' only.
:xmaswave:

No-one?? I’ve always referred to them as daps as do others. As mentioned earlier, trainers are people with the magic sponge such as Lew Clayton, that squeaky fecker down west was referred to as magic daps, not magic trainers (that was Lew Clayton again):xmasthumbup::xmashehe:
28-12-23, 12:47
uncle bob

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Vip tickets to meet and greet, with the cast of Still game up in a theatre in Glasgow next October.
Funny stories from the cast about the show etc.
28-12-23, 23:05
J R Hartley

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Those Travis Scott Nike Dunks are awful. Anyone over the age of 25 wearing Dunks need to have a word with themselves never mind paying hundred of pounds for special edition ones after a rapper.
28-12-23, 23:33
SLUDGE FACTORY

Re: Christmas Gift's, What did you get ? ?

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Originally Posted by Rock_Flock_of_Five

To answer your earlier question - yes, I used to fish the south Wales coast in my early teens.
It was largely a frustrating experience of getting snagged a lot, losing tackle because no one showed me how to tie a knot properly.
I had no idea about tides, correct setups, bait etc. It was no wonder I seldom caught anything.
Nevertheless, for an urban kid like me it was just great to be next to a beach.

It's far more fun than shopping
28-12-23, 23:56
blue matt

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Originally Posted by J R Hartley

Those Travis Scott Nike Dunks are awful. Anyone over the age of 25 wearing Dunks need to have a word with themselves never mind paying hundred of pounds for special edition ones after a rapper.

each to their own I guess, I love the TS CJ's, I have a wedding to go to in the summer, I have a Cream suit and them CJ's will go great with them, as I said, wouldn't have ever justified the cost of them

not sure shoes have a max age, I also own high 1's, in both UNC and Lucky Greens
29-12-23, 00:00
blue matt

Re: Christmas Gift's, What did you get ? ?

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Originally Posted by Rock_Flock_of_Five

You are right about the different definitions. However, when I was a kid growing up in the 60s, there was only daps available (black or white and elasticated or lace-up). Trainers came on the scene in the mid to late 70s.

yea, always been Trainers to me, thought the Nikes are sneakers now, the American influence, but my Adidas, Vans and Converse are trainers, doesnt make sense really
29-12-23, 00:10
J R Hartley

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Originally Posted by blue matt

each to their own I guess, I love the TS CJ's, I have a wedding to go to in the summer, I have a Cream suit and them CJ's will go great with them, as I said, wouldn't have ever justified the cost of them

not sure shoes have a max age, I also own high 1's, in both UNC and Lucky Greens

How old are you Matt?
29-12-23, 00:18
blue matt

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Originally Posted by J R Hartley

How old are you Matt?

53, ive always been into both Adidas and Vans, only recently got into Nike's, it was more of a laugh with my oldest daughter who got into them in Uni, but I suffer a little from " hyper fixation " so down the Nike rabbit hole I went, could have worse issues I guess
29-12-23, 01:00
SLUDGE FACTORY

Re: Christmas Gift's, What did you get ? ?

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Originally Posted by blue matt

each to their own I guess, I love the TS CJ's, I have a wedding to go to in the summer, I have a Cream suit and them CJ's will go great with them, as I said, wouldn't have ever justified the cost of them

not sure shoes have a max age, I also own high 1's, in both UNC and Lucky Greens

You are going to a wedding in a cream suit and a pair of daps ?

Jesus Christ
29-12-23, 08:03
Taunton Blue Genie

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Originally Posted by SLUDGE FACTORY

You are going to a wedding in a cream suit and a pair of daps ?

Jesus Christ

He's the bride.
29-12-23, 08:44
splott parker

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Originally Posted by Taunton Blue Genie

He's the bride.

He needs to steer clear of the Strongbow, an FT in a cream suit could be very embarrassing. The saying ‘diarrhoea with daps on’ would never be so apt:xmashehe:
29-12-23, 10:10
bobh

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Black trainers/plimsolls = daps
White trainers/plimsolls = posh daps.
29-12-23, 12:26
Jordi Culé

Re: Christmas Gift's, What did you get ? ?

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Originally Posted by SLUDGE FACTORY

You are going to a wedding in a cream suit and a pair of daps ?

Jesus Christ

I got married wearing a pair of daps. I'd rather garrotte my own cock than wear a cream suit mind.
29-12-23, 12:32
Jordi Culé

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Originally Posted by Tuerto

You killed it for me when you mentioned Nike. They are the devils spawn.

Nike Internationalist the only pair of their daps which are not.

That said, one of the most amusing sights in football is seeing a gaggle of middle aged whoppers all sporting Adidas Originals posing for a pic on social media.

I'm such a miserable cuunt.
29-12-23, 12:40
xsnaggle

Re: Christmas Gift's, What did you get ? ?

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Originally Posted by Rock_Flock_of_Five

You are right about the different definitions. However, when I was a kid growing up in the 60s, there was only daps available (black or white and elasticated or lace-up). Trainers came on the scene in the mid to late 70s.

Not only daps in the 60s. What about baseball boots, which have made a comeback in recent years?
29-12-23, 13:27
Rock_Flock_of_Five

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Originally Posted by xsnaggle

Not only daps in the 60s. What about baseball boots, which have made a comeback in recent years?

I had a pair. We used to call them 'bumpers'.
29-12-23, 13:58
SLUDGE FACTORY

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Originally Posted by Jordi Culé

I got married wearing a pair of daps. I'd rather garrotte my own cock than wear a cream suit mind.

Boss Hogg
29-12-23, 13:58
SLUDGE FACTORY

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Anyone else want to talk about fishing rods ?
29-12-23, 14:12
Der Kaiser

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Originally Posted by SLUDGE FACTORY

You are going to a wedding in a cream suit and a pair of daps ?

Jesus Christ

At least he's not short of confidence :xmashehe::xmashehe::xmashehe::xmashehe::xmashehe: :xmashehe:
29-12-23, 14:13
Der Kaiser

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Also, absolutely nobody under the age of 40 call trainers 'daps'.

'Daps' sound like a tatty piece of shite that wouldn't last more than 4 wears.
29-12-23, 14:18
Tuerto

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Originally Posted by Der Kaiser

At least he's not short of confidence :xmashehe::xmashehe::xmashehe::xmashehe::xmashehe: :xmashehe:

Awareness
29-12-23, 14:25
splott parker

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Originally Posted by Der Kaiser

Also, absolutely nobody under the age of 40 call trainers 'daps'.

'Daps' sound like a tatty piece of shite that wouldn't last more than 4 wears.

Under the age of 40??? You’re on the wrong messageboard:xmashehe:
29-12-23, 14:26
SLUDGE FACTORY

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https://www.veals.co.uk/product/soni...-5-7oz-as0006/

Suck on that
29-12-23, 15:02
Der Kaiser

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Originally Posted by splott parker

Under the age of 40??? You’re on the wrong messageboard:xmashehe:

I do seem to fall into the endangered species category on this board of not only under 40s, but under 30s :xmashehe:
29-12-23, 15:06
SLUDGE FACTORY

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Whilst grown men spending hundreds of pounds on trainers they never wear because they don't want to get them dirty is fair enough they definitely need psychiatric input

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