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

@Katy123g isn't Impractical Jokers just the funniest show.
Ive never laughed more in my whole life at their antics!🤣

Occasionally I will use a word and belatedly realise it's a Scottish dialect one, eg 'shoogle', that I have learned from my mother and nobody in England has ever heard it.

I am 61 btw and my mother has been dead several years.

@ifIwerenotanandroid I actually love this and can just imagine how she said it 😂😂. I love when there's things like that in the family - it's such a comforting hilarious thing to share inside jokes like that.

Great thread OP

We also communicate through the medium of IT Crowd / Friends / Cabin Pressure quotes (including 'leg disabled' and 'look normal').

If somebody is clearly wrong about something, the obvious way to correct them is to say in an exasperated tone of voice, "No, it's I LOVE willies!".

If you have personally fucked up a crucial part of something, but did get at least 5% of it correct, then you make your feelings known by saying, "Yes, but I was the one who thought of putting the otters in the fridge!"

Based on my experience, I would not recommend using either of these in public or with anybody outwith your very niche in-joke bubble, because They Will Not Get It and you will get some very odd looks.

Whenever we have a takeaway, we like to tell one another that this magnificent feast represents the last of the petty cash.

Also, if somebody's getting in your face or being particularly irksome when you're trying to do something, you must always say, "Back off, man, I'm a scientist."

I agree! Mum reflexes are there for life.

What I sometimes find tricky is that my humour overlap with DS is different to my humour overlap with DH and I have to remember which one I'm talking to when making my witty asides.

Also we have a habit of keeping things going for long enough that they morph away from their origins - nicknames are particularly bad for this. DH once called me 'bucket' in his mother's hearing and we were both incapable of explaining how that had developed. I know the origin was a Harry Enfield sketch but couldn't tell you how it got to bucket.

Growing up, my dad always pronounced Antelope to rhyme with Penelope and vice-versa*. I think it's a naval thing. I still have to think really hard before saying either of these words.

• I'm not sure I've explained this well - Antellopy and Pennyloap.

At a team meeting we were discussing recommended reads and I said (in a very old man voice) 'Have you got a copy of Fly Fishing by J.R. Hartley?'
There was absolute tumbleweed amongst everyone else there as they're all under 40 and pretty much clueless what Yellow Pages even are. I'm cringing just writing this.

I said 'you're welcome' to someone in a management meeting by saying 'willy cum' instead. Thanks OH for that stupid saying drilled in my head

Massive Spaced fans here. Anyone who is also a fan of the show will get these references.

Whenever we are talking about anyone apologising or if we have to do it ourselves, we always say "it had better be something bloody spectacular".

Whenever anybody talks about any sort of deal or agreement it's mandatory to say "you know about the deal!"

If we're discussing a problem and don't see an easy solution, one of us always says "what am I meant to do? I can't just pluck another Winter skincare do's and don'ts out of the air"

If anybody asks "where will we go/meet?" The ONLY answer is "you know where!"

You have to be a fan of the show😬

😂😂😂 Saddo that I am, I would’ve found that hilarious!!

My most memorable was "Garlic bread. It's the future. I've tasted it" in finest Phoenix Nights fashion. I'm northern, but was among a roomful of colleagues definitely all hailing from south of the Watford Gap.
Cue tumbleweed.... and the realisation of a non-career-enhancing moment.