Do you have a random kind of niche joke that you share only with you partner/best friend and then one day it is accidentally triggered into action with other people and you end up looking like a massively weird twat?

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Oh god.
please PLEASE can like 300 posters come and say that they’ve done this and it’s completely fine and no one even noticed or will even remember and I don’t have to immediately resign and change my name and move to New Zealand to start a new life with a new family.

I am a senior serious person and today I agreed to be filmed for the Trust’s website using a hoist and there was a big group of my colleagues watching and then after filming started someone said “look normal” and oh god I then proceeded to make a series of incredibly weird poses with my body WITH A HOIST.

I completely lost control, and all because of that sketch. Occasionally my husband or I will say “look normal” to the other and then we do some sort of weird awkward weird pose. That’s the background but little did I know he’d been training my like some sort of hypnotic spy auto-reflex response shit.

shit

And today it was NOT my husband who said it and people were watching and it was being filmed and oh god.

Oh god

The look on their faces.

shit

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Ahahahahahahaaaa!

No, sorry, I don’t have a similar tale to tell but yours has made me laugh a lot, so thank you!

Though I’m surprised none of your colleagues got the reference, or even just found it funny anyway without understanding the reference. I haven’t seen the IT crowd but I would have laughed anyway because I understand and like the joke. 👏🏻

Did no one laugh?
I have definitely used cute family words for things at work, the price you pay for working somewhere forever and getting too comfortable.

Sorry that wasn’t helpful 😂

😂
You contorted yourself WHILE IN A HOIST!?

We are a family of IT Crowd obsessives and often say the lines - not always too an appreciative crowd 😂

Thank Christ I wasn’t in the hoist, I was using the hoist with a fake patient and obviously what you do when demonstrating attaching the loops is perform a demi-plié whilst simultaneously doing something odd with one of your arms.

But then I couldn’t stop and continued with several more poses.

No one laughed. They just looked on with horror and pity.

Not really the same but on lunchtime walks I have a) tried to hold a colleague's hand when we were going to cross a road and b) (slightly more mortifying) once got to a crossing and hesitated, asking if the colleague with me wanted to press the button.🤣

Not as bad as you...
A few years ago family member really mispronounced a wine while ordering at a bar. Since then, its the family name for wine...

I then ordered it using the mispronounced name in a posh restaurant.

Thanks for a cry laughing episode, and made me regret I retired from the NHS in December, I would love to see that film in MAST training. 😂

We say - entre nous - in approbation, That'll do, Pig. Please don't say this to anyone you are not 150 million percent sure is a Babe the Pig fan.

😬😬😬😬😬

Oh OP that's brilliant!

Not on the same scale but I told the chair of governors (a rather formidable bloke) at work today that I was having pasta-roni for tea...

Pasta-roni is what my preschooler calls macaroni cheese for those not familiar with small people dialect.

I say that too, i just hope people have seen Babe.

Oh shit I do this too, I naively assume everyone has seen Babe...

I once tried to be humorous and did a silly ‘Inbetweeners’ film quote in front of around 100 senior professional people to tumbleweed and slow blinks. And then for no apparent reason followed it up with a little eye roll and funny David-Brent-on-helium voice ‘oh no one got the Inbetweeners quote then? Just me?’

Inbetweeners! I’m in my bloody 50s for goodness sake…God I still gave nightmares about it…🤦🏻‍♀️

@UWhatNow and did you have to create a completely new life for yourself far, far away?

If only! I still do this shit all the time. It’s a case of live and don’t learn…

Oh my god, I own a cafe and people can see through the serving hatch from the front, I've been caught doing stupid things all the time! Today was dancing to Mambo No 5 in front of the oven, which also looks like a full length mirror, whilst waiting for the final 27 seconds on a cake😳😂😂

Every time I ask my class a question and there’s no answer, I automatically say:

‘Anyone?

Anyone?

Anyone?’

I know the chances of any teen having seen Ferris Bueller is slim, but I can’t help myself!

Not quite the same but I had given one of my team members a lift to the supermarket one lunchtime. We were travelling back to the office and I had to brake suddenly so I put my arm across her to stop her flying forward, like I would have done if a child was sitting in the front seat. She is TWENTY FIVE...she nearly pissed herself laughing at me and said she'd be letting her mum know that I'll keep her safe in the car 😳

😂😂😂 not exactly, but I often ponder about how much of our day to day expressions we use are peep show quotes (we were addicted to the show when we first started dating) been together 15 years and we still laugh at ‘gunny’ if you know you know. We also share quite a weird and dark sense of humour between the two of us that we probably wouldn’t air out, or at work etc

Dead 😂😂😂

Also, on the peep show theme, at least once a day we say to eachother ‘can I have a bit of insert item as appropriate and the other replies ‘its mine, and I want it all’ and most christmasses the phrase ‘now that’s not very Christmassy is it?’ Comes out

This is mothers instinct and I think it's lovely ☺️

I always start talking about “consultio consultium” - a peep show reference no one ever gets.

Also from the same scene - the wifi printer.

Also all the inappropriate ones from Peep Show.