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The cute --weird-- rituals/jokes you do with your DP...

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YouBetterWerk · 07/04/2015 12:10

Here are just a few of the personal little in jokes and rituals we have, but the more I think about it the less I think other couples have them!

  1. Puffins. Obsessed with them. Don't know where it came from, but we have notepads, cards, nicknames, all surrounding these bloody Puffins.
  2. 'Sunday Morning Face' - The blank excited stare, pushed right up against my face every Sunday morning.
  3. 'Bobble Hat Song' - Every time we see someone with a bobble hat on, we sing a song. I would post the lyrics but it is copyright.
  4. 'Stair Necessities' - Here we have a song we sing to the tune of 'Bare Necessities' every time I go up the stairs to bed. He will also change the lyrics to reflect what we've done that day, giving it that lovely personal touch.

This is just a small example, there are dozens more. We are both grown adults.

I asked my hairdresser about hers the other day and she looked at me like I was crazy and said 'Sometimes I guess we say goodbye in a funny way'

Please reassure me it's not just us!

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RattieofCatan · 07/04/2015 16:03

Oh, there are also many jokes about our rats in inappropriate places or being visible, because we're so mature Grin

Especially if DP has his nightgown on over PJs and one of the rats has climbed inside, he likes to whip it open and ask how I like his rat Grin

TellingTheBees · 07/04/2015 16:00

We have a spleen thing. I don't know why but sometimes we say "I spleen you" or "spleeeeen" in a funny voice. I have a big spleen cuddly toy now Grin

We have stupid made up songs and dances. We sing "I am the music man..." Song but instead of an instrument we pick up a dog or cat and play them like a guitar meow meow meow.

DP is over a foot taller than me and I give him kitchen piggy backs with a song while he fears for his life.

TormundsMember · 07/04/2015 15:59

No, you are not the only one, I'm not going to go into great details because it's really embarassing but...
me and dh have our own language which includes made up swears and insults.
DS1 made up "silly bump" to describe someone doing something stupid or naughty so when the children misbehave I threaten to sing "bump the elephant" but replace elephant with their name. It works!

RattieofCatan · 07/04/2015 15:58

At night we'll lay in bed to sleep and just before I put earplugs in he says goodnight and I'll reply "Night, don't let the bed rats bite." and "nip" his belly with my hand Blush It started as a joke and it's become tradition now Grin

On the rare occasion that he has a lay-in, I take one of the [pet] rats in to wake him up when I think he's had a long enough lay-in.

If I pull my eyebrows up and top lip up to reveal my teeth DP breaks down into hysterical laughing, so I often do it when he's on the phone to his mother or on skype when gaming and put my face right next to his.

We occasionally start insulting each other for no reason, but it has to be creative insults. Thanks to Mumsnet I generally win Grin

We'll text each other something that makes no sense by using the predictive word function, so if you write a letter and see what word appears, then just keep clicking the next word that appears.

If the answer to something is "yes" then it's said "Yeeezz?"
This stems from a game we play where when we're on a car journey we have to attempt to make words from the three letters at the end of a reg plate.

When we're heading to bed for fun, as soon as one of us is naked the other says "Oh, did you trip and all of your clothes fell off?" Every bloody time. I really don't know how that happens Blush Usually it's DP saying it to me as somehow I'm always undressed first Hmm

We also talk from the rats POV. They all have different ways of speaking.

I love 23-19 Grin

Creepy Toby is brilliant, cackling at that!

susurration · 07/04/2015 15:53

oh lots of things, too many to list really.

Some of them:
Bed privileges, first person to bed gets the choice of space.
'loves' where you touch the other person with the tips of your fingers. Don't even need to say the word. Poke more and more insistently until the other person responds with the same gesture.
We also play a miming game called 'what am i?' which can be literally anything. Armadillo, Stick, Fish, tree. This morning Husband mimed being a fire.

overthehillabit · 07/04/2015 15:49

*has to be sung

overthehillabit · 07/04/2015 15:48

Every theme tune has sung.

Wee is called 'piggly wiggly' as in 'I'm going for a piggly wiggly'.

We're always pretending to be asleep to each other, then the conversation has to go like this;
Me pretending to be asleep
DH whispers: Are you asleep
Me whispers: Yes
DH whispers: Are you awake
Me whispers: No

When one of us is on the phone, the other one pretends to die or get injured on the floor in horrendous ways. Yesterday when I was on the phone to BT DH shoved his balls in the vacuum cleaner (not on or plugged in) and pretended it sucked them off by tucking all the junk between his legs.

There are lots more but they're so normal to us now that I can't really think of any...

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YouBetterWerk · 07/04/2015 15:39

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stardusty5 · 07/04/2015 15:17

We like to pretend argue about things such as how disgusting the cup of tea he made me is, or how smelly I am, or how we are ruining the ambience of the room by just breathing the shared air.

The dog has an attention seeking voice of a four year old with a lisp and likes telling us that he is a good boy.

We pull angry faces to "think hate at" each other or nice faces to "think love at" each other

WestEast · 07/04/2015 15:16

Oh god, we play mini golf competitively. It's not a joke, it's serious. We even have a cup, it's plastic and is the WestEast and DP Cup 2015. It's currently 5-4 to me.

DonkeysJanet · 07/04/2015 15:14

We have lots of ongoing competitions - who gets the last squeeze of toothpaste out of the tube, who spots an EasyBus first (i called one when we were passing a bus stop, after a run, with headphones still in - it came out a bit loud).

We sing lots of songs, sometimes we make up our own tunes (not very well) mainly, we sing along to songs and TV themes. Our songs can get a bit sweary.

We play, "Whoops there go my jammies" in the morning and often discuss how successful it would be as a stage show and how it could be staged (old fashioned British farce, but lots of different genres appear).

I feel at home here. DH says it's a sign of intelligence to make up games and songs, obviously, I called him a stupid poo head.

WestEast · 07/04/2015 15:13

We regularly change into a very bad Russian accent and have pretty bog standard conversations.
I got the key , I got the secret.
We hide from each other, jump out, making the other shit themselves. My favourite it to hide behind the bathroom door whilst DP is brushing his teeth (electric toothbrush blocks out noise of footsteps) and wait in the dark for him.
We chest bump our achievements. Delicious dinner? That deserves a chest bump.

Unescorted · 07/04/2015 15:02

1st of the month happens here too, with hits with sticks for being so quick and slap on the eye for being so sly. The end of the month is a bloodbath if I lose the 1st of the month....

Me: Bluebells - look bluebells. No looooooook BLUEbells.
Him: No they are daffodils.
Me: are you sure....?
Him: yes bluebells are well blue

He tickles my knees when it is not appropriate - funerals, weddings, parents evenings.

Food has odd names - compost & worms, fried lice, deep fried spiders, fried skin, slug slime, moo juice

Cocolepew · 07/04/2015 14:58

If we make each other jump or didnt realise one of us had walked in the room we say" oh you should have worn squeaky shoes! " in a posh lady's voice. It was a line in some old film DH watched once.

Rosieliveson · 07/04/2015 14:57

These are fun Grin
We have loads too. One being that if one of us is nude, the other sings the Benny Hill theme and has to chase the naked person to smack their bottom.
We are strange Smile

FuckingLiability · 07/04/2015 14:37

I am properly laughing at this thread.

Most of ours are too outing but one of our favourites is to talk very earnestly in front of other people about the zombie apocalypse and how we would defend ourselves. We also have an ongoing joke about chickens.

HappyHippyChick · 07/04/2015 14:31

This thread is awesome!

MrsHathaway · 07/04/2015 14:30

If you've nearly finished, or are enquiring if the other has nearly finished, the correct terminology is "my knees hurt" and "how are your knees?" respectively. This is a reference to The Office Series Two.

fackinell · 07/04/2015 14:26

These are hilarious.
We love to stick a finger (through clothes) into the other's butt. Particularly in public places like on the escalator at tube stations or when the pokee's hands are full.

We also love to shout in supermarkets things like 'Darling, do you need another tube of anusol?' Or 'I noticed your were out of vagiclean, dear, shall I pick some up?'

We say 'mmmm' in a mock delighted voice of the other is eating something crunchy. This has been shortened from the original of, 'mmmmm that sounds delicious!!'

We make up elaborate stories about the cats, have numerous 'Me, myself and Irene,' quotes and any accent the other tries to do is always Argentinian.

firefly78 · 07/04/2015 14:21

ours are mostly from alan patridge.

BeeRayKay · 07/04/2015 14:21

Whenever see we see an ambulance/policecar/fire engine we always sing "Calling da police WHOOP WHOOP WHOOP" (from a goldie looking chain song? yes i am ashamed)

We "wowl" each other. Involves pulling your eyelid and bottom eyelid apart and looking like an owl (no idea why)

they're the two we do most often.

EmberElftree · 07/04/2015 14:02

We do the got the key got the secret one too ChrisQuean

mouse26 · 07/04/2015 13:57

Whenever he gets back from the gym, he makes me feel whichever part of his body is pumped - sweaty mits (man tits in our house) [hmmm] So as payback, whenever I get back from a run I shout 'sweaty boob towel' and rub my sweaty boobs in his face Blush

I also repeatedly call him 'Dave Darling!' with in American accent like the money supermarket advert.

Whenever one of us leaves for work we do a chest bump and the one still at home has to press themselves up to the back door window, the one outside then proceeds to mime twisting nipples or something else ridiculously silly.

If he disagrees with something I've said then he says 'you know nothing' and I add on 'Jon Snow'

Glad we're not the only weird ones Grin

MoJangled · 07/04/2015 13:49

Every evening: the cat is DH's 'girlfriend' and I'm jealous. Can't watch TV unless the cat has taken possession and I've had a strop. We've even delayed starting watching films until she's woken up and hobbled over to his bit of the sofa.

We also have the mortal pinch punch attacks, which have gone below the belt now that DH has trained DS (4) to be his stealth advance troop and get me under the guise of a good morning cuddle.

If either of us does something, and the other thanks them, we say: 'I might as well, I've done everything else ' in a massive attack of martyrdom

ThinkIveBeenHacked · 07/04/2015 13:41

We like to bellow "Morrrrrrdoooooooo" in a scottish accent from Brave every time we hear someone talk on the telly in a broad scottish accent

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