My first pint cost me 1/10.1/2d - that's supposed to be "one and tenpence ha'penny". The thing is, when £sd went out, it stopped having inflation: £1 in 1972(?) would be, maybe, £5-£10 today (or even more, God help us!). So paying half-a-crown (2/6d - 12.1/2p) for a pint could be the equivalent of, er ... £2.44 today. That still sounds expensive to me!

"It's dark over Bill's mother's", as I know it: I don't know who Bill was, but if I was his mum, I'd move somewhere where the weather was better!
"Well, I'll goo [sic] t'aer 'ouse/to the foot of aer stairs/t Cannock Chaerse [Chase]/etc.": I've heard Ken Dodd use it, so it's not just Black Country. No idea where it comes from ...

"Dirty/mucky/noisy Arab" (short "A") are still common round my way. I wonder what they did to qualify for that? How about animal metaphors: mucky pup, daft bat, dirty cat/dog, donkey's years (on 'is yead!). Maybe we could invent some new ones!

I was thinking about derogatory ephithets (that's "rude names" to you and me!) for foreigners while the Xenophobia thread was going, and I find I don't know any offensive terms used about us Brits/English by the the rest of the world. "Limey", "pom" ... there must be a few more I've forgotten, but none of them are insulting per se - unless I'm even more innocent than I think I am? Any offers? I shan't take offence!

Steve