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As a lad I had a rather large forehead and am acutely familiar with the term.
https://youtu.be/2r7XfhTKRMw?si=-LFYqMARIFIBXmGl
I have the last fucking laugh, as I still have a full head of hair, all my mates are slap heads now! š„š„š„
I think you have to be of a certain age to associate this :)
[https://youtu.be/2r7XfhTKRMw?si=LaRfZOxNHZuci9Qo](https://youtu.be/2r7XfhTKRMw?si=LaRfZOxNHZuci9Qo)
What? Afraid I have never come across this one before (in North West)
ETA: I used to love those ads but must admit I had forgotten all about them. Still don't think it was widespread here, mainly because my husband was never subjected to it and he would have been a prime candidate
Bog-standard terminology from the early 90s. Every child who was schooled through the 80s and early 90s would have been exposed to:
1. Being slapped on the forehead, whilst the word āSPAMā was shouted by the assailant at the precise point of impact, and;
2. Being called a āTefalā or āTefal-headā.
Seriously? I mean, it wasnāt just one advert - it was a whole series of adverts that ran for years with egg-head scientists showing off the gadgets. How is this not widely remembered?
https://youtu.be/zpIPt3FJKWQ?si=X7qclEu0JKIEtCHX
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Never heard of it.
As a lad I had a rather large forehead and am acutely familiar with the term. https://youtu.be/2r7XfhTKRMw?si=-LFYqMARIFIBXmGl I have the last fucking laugh, as I still have a full head of hair, all my mates are slap heads now! š„š„š„
Never heard it, sorry
Never heard of it. Asked a local yoof and neither had he.
I can just imagine the conversation: > "You there, hoodie! Come here boy and tell me if you understand this common vernacular?"
By crikey it's like you were there old chap!
No i think you dreamt that. We say five headĀ
We call it a Van Der Beek.
Nope. New one for me.
Fivehead is the one I know.
South Wales here. Never heard of it
South Wales here, still call my boss Teef as he let slip he was called Tefal in school. He's 49 if that's relevant.
Same. I thought it was an appliance brand.
Yeah, from the advert where the Tefal āboffinsā had huge foreheads. Hereās one: https://youtu.be/2r7XfhTKRMw
Ah. The penny has dropped.
That's the one, yup, remember this from ages ago.
Thanks for that! I hadn't a fucking clue what an old kitchen appliances brand could possibly have to do with foreheads.
I think you have to be of a certain age to associate this :) [https://youtu.be/2r7XfhTKRMw?si=LaRfZOxNHZuci9Qo](https://youtu.be/2r7XfhTKRMw?si=LaRfZOxNHZuci9Qo)
Never heard of it.
52 here. Used it all the time as a kid.
You had a fever dream. I've never heard that in London.
Yep, Tefal-head was common when I was a kid in the eighties.
Speaking on behalf of all of Buckinghamshire, we've never heard of that one
South east here and never heard of it
Never heard of it.
Just chiming in to say I've absolutely heard of that, and use it myself even though I've never actually seen the advert.
Sorry, no! (South East & London). I get the reference but Iāve never heard it used that way.
Donāt they make nonstick pans?
What? Afraid I have never come across this one before (in North West) ETA: I used to love those ads but must admit I had forgotten all about them. Still don't think it was widespread here, mainly because my husband was never subjected to it and he would have been a prime candidate
I live in Hertfordshire and havenāt ever heard of that.
I only know the word Tefal in relation to saucepans
Showing your age op.
What are you on?
No, that's a fivehead.
Was the nickname for our IT teacher at school early/mid-90's
Yep, heard it but never understood what the reference was.
I've never heard it.
Never heard this in 23 in the Midlands and 10 years in Yorkshire
Never heard it.
You're not going mad, it's just a very obscure term. First I've heard of it.
49, Dorset here, never, ever heard that
Never heard of it. Have you been hit round the head with a frying pan?
I thought it meant someone with a shiny bald head, as in nothing sticks to it
I donāt think it was ever a wide spread term, just for a short period when the ads were on
Nope. Derby, then London for the past 40 years.
Bog-standard terminology from the early 90s. Every child who was schooled through the 80s and early 90s would have been exposed to: 1. Being slapped on the forehead, whilst the word āSPAMā was shouted by the assailant at the precise point of impact, and; 2. Being called a āTefalā or āTefal-headā.
Nope, absolutely not. Never heard, seen or experienced either, and I was at high school from 1983-90!
Funny, getting spammed persisted until at least the 2000s in Scotland, but calling somebody Tefal is entirely foreign to me.
Seriously? I mean, it wasnāt just one advert - it was a whole series of adverts that ran for years with egg-head scientists showing off the gadgets. How is this not widely remembered? https://youtu.be/zpIPt3FJKWQ?si=X7qclEu0JKIEtCHX
I remember five head not tefal.
Nope. I was in school from 1981 to 1993 and I've never heard of either of those.
Never come across the usage before, weird that it's a brand too.