How You Feel

JODIE: OK then, so shall we start off with a couple of the words then that we’ve got written down on our spider diagrams. We’ll start off with a couple of the easy ones really and then we can how we get on shall we, we’ll see how we get into the flow of everything.

Right if we start off with you. What would you put down for unwell?

STEPHEN: Sick

JODIE: Yeah. Was that the first word that springs into mind? What about everybody else?

PETER: Sick

KAREN: Sick

LYNNIE: Sick

JODIE: Ok then, that’s great. That crosses off the first one. A bit of a giggle. What about unattractive. What did you put down for unattractive?

KAREN: Ugly

LYNNIE: Unfortunate looking

JODIE: Laughs. OK, no fair enough. Why? Why would you say that? Do you not like the word ugly?

LYNNIE: No, cos I just feel sorry for ugly people sort of thing, they’re unfortunate looking!

JODIE: What about yourself?

PETER: Ugly.

JODIE: Yeah?

PETER: Ugly.

STEPHEN: Dog.

JODIE: Really?

STEPHEN: Dog.

JODIE: Now, now for me, that has, whether or not it’s right, would it be a male perspective?

STEPHEN: No, both

JODIE: You’d say it for both?

STEPHEN: Yeah I’d say it for both. But I wouldn’t say a male is attractive or unattractive, if you know what I mean. Cos other people, girls, think that males are attractive or unattractive and I’d just say dog, he’s a dog, she’s a dog, he’s a dog. So dog.

JODIE: Fair enough

PETER: He’s a sly.

JODIE: Sly? What do you mean by sly?

PETER: Nasty.

KAREN: He means cruel.

LYNNIE: Minch.

STEPHEN: Arlarse.

JODIE: Pardon?

STEPHEN: Arlarse.

JODIE: You’re saying some funny words. ‘Arlass’. Now what’s ‘arlass’? I’ve never heard of that before.

STEPHEN: Snide. Cruel, yeah. Arlarse.

LYNNIE: Shady, shady. On top, sly. So “bang on” our Chamonix says.

STEPHEN: Bang on, yes.

LYNNIE: You’re “bang on” which means you’re out of order

PETER: You’re a “nugger”.

JODIE: You’re a…?

PETER: A nugger.

JODIE: And would you say that with your friends?

PETER: Yeah. Say if they snogged off on you, ‘You’re sly, you little snog off!’.

JODIE: What about like obviously if someone was um, let’s have a look, if someone was lacking money, what would you say that they were?

PETER: A stig, a tramp.

JODIE: A stig or a tramp. What about yourself?

STEPHEN: Skint, broke, a dolite.

JODIE: A what?

STEPHEN: A dolite.

JODIE: Where’s that from?

STEPHEN: That’s someone who is on the dole. Like gets dole and doesn’t work. Just like a dolite.

JODIE: What about yourself Lynnie?

LYNNIE: Skint. Skint.

JODIE: You know if you’re pleased? What would you say if you were pleased about something?

STEPHEN: Made up. Happy. Over the moon.

LYNNIE: Chuffed.

KAREN: I’d say, “made up”.. Happy.

JODIE: What about if you’re annoyed?

KAREN: Fuming.

JODIE: What would you say if you were annoyed?

PETER: (Laughs)

JODIE: Go on, say it.

LYNNIE: Go on Pete, say it.

PETER: Pissed off.

JODIE: What about yourself?

STEPHEN: Pissed off.

JODIE: When was the last time both of you were annoyed about something?

[Child interrupts]

STEPHEN: Er, just the other day when the bank had me off for money, so I was fuming then. I was on fire. I was really pee’d off then.

JODIE: When was the last time you were annoyed?

PETER: When I got grounded.

WOMAN: He was too.

JODIE: For a genuine reason though.

PETER: What?

JODIE: For a genuine reason though.

PETER: Yeah

JODIE: Yeah. We’ll move on from that shall we? Yeah go on then! What about, what would you say if you were cold or hot?

PETER: Freezing and boiling.

KAREN: Freezing and boiling.

STEPHEN: Boiling.

JODIE: Yeah? What about if someone is left- handed? What would you say for someone who’s left-handed?

STEPHEN: Left-handed.

KAREN: Left-handed.

LYNNIE: Left-handed.

JODIE: What are you?

PETER: Left-handed.

JODIE: Exactly. All right then, let’s move on. What do you think about um, have we done attractive? Have we said attractive? What did we say for attractive?

KAREN: Fit.

STEPHEN: Sexy, fit, gorgeous. Can’t think of any more.

LYNNIE: Fine.

STEPHEN: Fine,

LYNNIE: Pretty.

PETER: Pretty

JODIE: What if you saw someone across the street that you really liked the look of?. What would you say to your mates?

STEPHEN: She’s fit her. Or… I’m not going to say the other thing.

LYNNIE: Babe.

STEPHEN: Yeah, she’s lovely. Um…

JODIE: Would you really say, “She’s lovely”?.

MAN: No I wouldn’t. I’d say, ah, she’s fit her. I wouldn’t half Uhmmm! A bit of xxxxx Can’t think of nothing else. She’s fit, she’d get it.

JODIE: Fair enough! What about a friend? What would you…? How would you describe a friend? What would you call a friend?

STEPHEN: Me mate. Me mate.

JODIE: Lynnie, if you were phoning a mate, what would you say?

LYNNIE: Me mate, definitely.

KAREN: I’d say me mate.

PETER: Me mate?

JODIE: And a group of friends?

PETER: Me mates. Me crew.

LYNNIE: Compadres.

JODIE: Fair enough, that’s what you’d say.

KAREN: Me crew.

STEPHEN: Boys, me boys, yeah.

KAREN: Or me homies – now we’re back to homies. Posse.

JODIE: What would you say for the word ‘insane’?. Is there a different word that you would use for insane? Does that mean something a bit different than going mad?

PETER: Just going mad. Up the wall. Crazy.

JODIE: What about you? Does insane mean something different? Have you got a different word for it?

STEPHEN: Going off her head. Going off your head. Yeah, just going mad. Nuts. Crazy. That’s all I can think of.

JODIE: Karen, what about yourself?

KAREN: Throwing a mental.

JODIE: Fair enough.

LYNNIE: Going mad.

JODIE: And just one last question. Let’s just check that we’ve definitely gone through these words. So, we’ve done rich. Have we said moody? What would you feel if you said moody?

STEPHEN: Moody. That’s all I’d say. Moody.

LYNNIE: Stressed. Stressed. PMT. Yeah. Narky.

KAREN: Stressed out. Narky. Cheesed off. Not in the mood.

JODIE: Fair enough. OK what would you say then for a word for something that you’ve forgotten, so it’s either someone you see walking down the street towards you and you’ve completely forgotten their name or there is something that you want, you know, like for Pete to pick up and you’ve completely forgotten the word for it. “Pick that xxxxx” or “who xxxxx is coming down the road?”

KAREN: Thingummyjig

LYNNIE: Thingummybob

LYNNIE: What’s its name

STEPHEN: What’s its name.

JODIE: Do you normally use that? Do you normally forget things?

STEPHEN: Yeah. If you see someone walking down and “There’s whatshisname over there. Oh whatshisname?” That’s it.