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To wonder how my dd got to 14 thinking this was the real phrase?

942 replies

WellVersedInEtiquette · 03/10/2019 16:23

We've all be ill on and off since they went back to school.
One morning Dd was telling me that she had a 'bummed up nose' I asked her to repeat it and she said the same.
I tried to clarify what she was saying and told her it was actually 'bunged up nose'. She laughed and thought I was joking!
She's decided she's going to carry on saying it the way she does Grin
Please tell me it's not just us. Confused

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Lovemydaughterx · 03/10/2019 18:46

Heels remain still gleaming too!

MrsLinManuelMiranda · 03/10/2019 18:46

Never mind "Jewels remain still gleaming" , I thought it was '3 LINES on a shirt!'

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WellVersedInEtiquette · 03/10/2019 18:45

Thanks everyone you've had me in stitches waiting in the corridor whilst my daughters are in dance class. Don't look at all insane Blush

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Lovemydaughterx · 03/10/2019 18:44

Trickle treating!

Lozz22 · 03/10/2019 18:44

3 lions on a shirt... I've just had to google the lyrics cos I too have always sang jewels remain still gleaming 😂

Brainfogmcfogface · 03/10/2019 18:42

I’ve just discovered it’s NOT Dark Vader
Thanks AryaStarkWolf
Blush

Minxmumma · 03/10/2019 18:42

My eldest dd23 refers to pins and needles in her leg as having a wanky leg, not wonky leg.....Hmm

Needless to say it causes endless giggles

Vegisgood · 03/10/2019 18:42

I call the runway - runaway! 😂 it was only until last year I got corrected

I still call inset day insect day 😂 🐛

I thought the words to I wanna was

Oh oh oh oh banana not oh oh oh oh i wanna 🤦🏻‍♀️ I also still sing it as banana! 🤣
However I have now just discovered it doesn’t say I wanna it says oh oh oh no no
😨 ( crazy in love by Beyoncé)!

CigarsofthePharoahs · 03/10/2019 18:40

When I started senior school I thought the gas flame we used in chemistry was a bunce and burner.
I also thought Row Row Row Your Boat was "life is butter dream".
I also thought Jingle Bells had the line "Wan hore soap and sleigh." I had no idea what it was supposed to mean.

windandme · 03/10/2019 18:39

  • @Marshmallow91* "I used to think the company "artimage shanks" was "artimage sharks" when I was about 6...i never put my hands near the plughole in case I got bit grin" I hate to tell you but it is actually Armitage Shanks. 

I'm dying! Grin

windandme · 03/10/2019 18:38

I've thought it was knights in white satin and jewels remain still gleaming until this thread.

Now I'm really upset. 🤯Gin

Yogobo · 03/10/2019 18:38

Where I’m from, miffed means slightly annoyed/offended.

It means the same thing where we're from too but it was a long time before dp believed me

Farfarfaraway · 03/10/2019 18:37

I used to call butterfly’s flutterbys. Is till think it’s nicer

MatildaTheCat · 03/10/2019 18:37

When she was little, DN tore open all her advent calendar doors in one go. When asked (rhetorically) what will we do with it now? She replied, ’send it to the Jungle Seal.

It took a while to work out she was actually thinking of a jumble sale. Grin

Lovemydaughterx · 03/10/2019 18:37

I used to think Waitrose was Waltrose, on the lorries about 10 years ago the website was printed in capitals on the lorries and I thought the capital i was an L 🙈

Idontwanttotalk · 03/10/2019 18:36

@Marshmallow91
"I used to think the company "artimage shanks" was "artimage sharks" when I was about 6...i never put my hands near the plughole in case I got bit grin"
I hate to tell you but it is actually Armitage Shanks. GrinGrinGrin

katseyes7 · 03/10/2019 18:36

My mother would always prounounce 'gateau' as 'gattox'.

lippi · 03/10/2019 18:35

My 20 yr old hated having to wear sun scream on holidays. We all refer to suncream as sun scream now.
My 5 year old was killed trying to get me to understand that muggldyhigs was referee of the whole of Ireland, it took me about 3 days to realise she was trying to tell me that Michael D Higgins is the President of Ireland. I think he will be forever remembered in this house as Muggldy :)

Poochnewbie · 03/10/2019 18:35

My little girl (8) asked if she could have Freddy salt on her food. I was really confused. After some questioning we worked out she thought ready salted crisps were Freddy Salted crisps and therefore salt was Freddy salt 🤣

VictoriaBun · 03/10/2019 18:35

My dh will say things like " The road service is icy" or Put it on the work service " He cannot say surface .

Jetstream · 03/10/2019 18:35

Ignore double and four is above.

Ellatreetop · 03/10/2019 18:34

My dad says chimley instead of chimney, my 5 year old thought that potato began with 'b' until last week!

CareBear50 · 03/10/2019 18:34

My great ordered mange tout in a lovely local restaurant. She pronounced it "mangie towt" !

We still laugh about it!!

CaptainPovey · 03/10/2019 18:33

Anybody click on the pork link above multiple times and then piss themselves laughing?

just me then

Dljlr · 03/10/2019 18:33

I never understood why there was a song called Knights in White Satin until embarrassingly recently.

I had to Google this as I couldn't understand why or how this is wrong Blush It had never occurred to me to question the wisdom of armour made from satin!