I wondered if anyone had ever flitted? I flitted twice during the sixties.

Are you a moth Sam? Impressive keyboard skills if you are! :D

K x

Originally posted by Sam Miguel
I wondered if anyone had ever flitted? I flitted twice during the sixties.

I once had the urge to during the winter of discontent but in the end i couldn't go through with it.

And by-the-way it has been illegal to flitter in Turkey since 1982.

I don't know whether people still flit these days. It was popular at one time.

Flitter?! What's that mean?

Originally posted by miniminch
I once had the urge to during the winter of discontent but in the end i couldn't go through with it.

And by-the-way it has been illegal to flitter in Turkey since 1982.

I thought flittering in a turkey was a sexual offence :confused:

Originally posted by owdlad
I thought flittering in a turkey was a sexual offence :confused:

it is on the mainland but has been strangely tollerated between consenting swans.

It is a thing of the past and some say it started at the same time as the rise of the disco dancing movement in america in the late sixties/early seventies

Originally posted by Sam Miguel


Flitter?! What's that mean?

I've never felt flitter than I do now since I got those Chinese exercise videos!:D

I don't mean flitter. A flitter is someone who flits - flit being the verb and flitter being the noun.

"We're thinking of flitting, me and Iris, like."

"But you've only just flitted. Honestly, Horace - you're a right pair of flitters you two!"

I hope this illustrates the point better.

It's just that people own their own houses these days, so flitting isn't as common.

did i miss something here, dont loads of people flit and move home. :heyhey: :heyhey: :heyhey:

Yes, well at least someone understands me.

I've "flirted" many times. Not sure about "flitted".
I also did a "runner" once. Same thing??

Not flirted, flitted! The only connection here would be a flirting flitter, but that's hardly likely in an overstocked pantecnican.

flirting flitter???????? totally done my head in sam miguel, wheres me tablets.:loopy: :loopy:

mmmmmmm, banana fritters.......

You flit houses in a furniture van, not in a pantechnicon, dems only for posh folks who move house. Flittin is for us normal folks.:P

Although I and mine use the term a bit more liberally these days, doesn't a genuine flit involve non-payment and secrecy?

And here is my contribution to useless knowledge. "Flit" or "Flytten" is a Scandinavian word for moving house. The word was given to us when the Vikings ruled this part of the world. People Down South don't know what it means - because the Vikings didn't get down there.

Originally posted by MrHelicopter
And here is my contribution to useless knowledge. "Flit" or "Flytten" is a Scandinavian word for moving house. The word was given to us when the Vikings ruled this part of the world. People Down South don't know what it means - because the Vikings didn't get down there.

Prices were that high dahn sarf even then?

Note to any future Yorkshire Regional Government: raise house prices and keep the Scandanavians out (sorry Phan, no offence)

:D I like it, not even the vikings with all their pirated treasure could afford to move to London.

Does it matter how far you move as to whether it's flitting or not. I have a feeling that it should be abroad to be considered a real flit.

Of course I also thought that it meant jumping from a taxi and running the hell away without paying. But that's just the way my mind works.

The word flit used to be very well known during the days when most people in the UK rented property rather than owned it. The term was usually juxtaposed with that of 'midnight', hence the term 'midnight flit', which meant fleeing a property during the night in order to avoid paying rent.

Originally posted by LordChaverly
The word flit used to be very well known during the days when most people in the UK rented property rather than owned it. The term was usually juxtaposed with that of 'midnight', hence the term 'midnight flit', which meant fleeing a property during the night in order to avoid paying rent.

I also remember the line from a song containing the words moonlight flits but I don't think it had the same connotation.

For a midnight flit you would want as little moonlight as possible.

We used to 'flit' quite a lot. I also know some people who did a 'moonlight flit' they were the one's that were there one day - gone by the next morning.

But I think Moonlighting is also a term for working 'out of hours' of one's normal job.

We tend to 'up sticks' these days rather than 'flit'.

Just to confuse the situation even further (is it possible) there used to be a fly killer called flit :P

Yep, I used to flit when I was little but now I'm all grown up I tend to move.
Everyone understood flitting once upon a time but those words are lost on most people these days.
I'm planning on moving soon :)

A fly and a flea in a flue.
"Let us flee" said the fly.
"Let us fly" said the flea.
So they flew through a flaw in the flue!

Originally posted by cgksheff
A fly and a flea in a flue.
"Let us flee" said the fly.
"Let us fly" said the flea.
So they flew through a flaw in the flue!

LOL, yes, but did they FLIT?

Originally posted by Sam Miguel
I wondered if anyone had ever flitted? I flitted twice during the sixties.

I have flitted many times over the years Sam, myself and other peoples, I can assure you, plus anyone else who is surfing it is not a pleasant experience. The stress, the sheer physical effort and the organisation that goes into it is overwhelming, not to mention the expence, a friend of mine flitted a few months ago, just around the corner, a couple of streets and they charged nearly four hundred pounds, a rip off in anyones language.:loopy: :clap: :hihi: :gag: :headbang:

Originally posted by cgksheff
Although I and mine use the term a bit more liberally these days, doesn't a genuine flit involve non-payment and secrecy?

Thats a moonlight flit ie done under the cover of darkness.

Flitting was so popular in the sixties.

Oh, to flit.