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

Yep. In a massively cringe making compulsory D&I training session at work, being forced to role play with a senior colleague.
" This is just research. I'm Louis Theroux"
Not a flicker....

This thread resonates with me so much! Like the Babe reference, make sure your audience have seen Shrek before referring to yourself as a donkey on the edge otherwise you look a tad deranged.

We also once watched a celeb master chef and the pairs challenge was for one team to make pancakes and the other, piccalilli. One of the contestants from Union J said “that’s not fair, it’s shrove Tuesday every year but it’s not like the day after is Piccalilli Wednesday” and now that’s forever what the day after shrove Tuesday is known as to us (and only us)

@ChevyCamaro I ALWAYS think ‘I’m Louis Theroux’ when I’m in an awkward or weird situation 😂

Teenage us loved Harry Potter, my sister and I would always use hippogriff in place of hypocrite.

I have subsequently received very odd looks or condescending explanations when I've inadvertently told someone in the real world not to be "such a hippogriff"

I realised today that all my quotes are ancient and that just makes you look weirder. I was telling a student off in a light hearted manner for swearing and said "language Timothy"...tumbleweed.

All the time, but maybe not quite so, errr performative? 😂

Whenever one of us calls the other to get picked up, the caller will tell the callee "you need to come and fetch me, I've accidentally run to windsor" - peep show quote

My dad didn't get it 😂

I did the Jimmy Carr accents montage recently when someone said one of the starter words and from the weird reaction I am surprised the men in white coats didn't arrive to take me away shortly afterwards 😭

Weirdly, mine and DHs is also an IT Crowd reference. 'It's not for you, Jen'. We say it to each other a lot. The time I accidentally said it to my sister she looked at me like I was crazy and said 'eh, you do remember that my name isn't Jen, don't you?' 🤣🤣

Tony Hancock fans here. Someone just has to say "oh look it's raining" and we both reply with "so that's what's making the roads wet". Every. Single. Time.

I was having breakfast at a conference with colleagues once and asked someone to pass the jamaman which was what my toddler called marmalade because he couldn’t pronounce it.

Oh god so often! I used the phrase ‘I’m trapped like a moth in a bath’ at work the other week and everyone looked at me like .

I once said ‘It’s life Jim but not as we know it’ to a youngish colleague and he looked very offended and retorted ‘My names Callum actually’ 🤦🏼‍♀️

We have a few family jokes based on things the DC came out with when they were little, including a discussion with then 4 y/o DS about where various kinds of meat come from.

So at a work barbecue I said, 'I'll have a couple of sausages please,' and without thinking, followed up with, 'they're made out of the pig's arms, of course. Everyone knows that!'

@FiftyNotNifty my son would’ve got your language Timothy he says that a lot to us, my boyfriend comes out with all sorts to the kids so can be quite funny when they Google where they are from. My youngest adopted that one though ☺️ You’d have got a giggle from him at least

SO much. I'm a teacher. I've done this in front of whole classes. Featuring:
"I'm a donkey on the edge"
"That'll do pig"
"A Haaaandbaaaaag?"

SO many things. They all think I'm mad anyway. Adds to my appeal, and my behaviour management strategy of CONSTANT VIGILANCE.

Oh @ColonelRhubarbBikini , I feel like you are my soul sister

When driving a brand new colleague to lunch I pointed out a big yellow tractor (my child’s favourite at the time)

I have fairly frequently, when my children were small, asked another adult excitedly if they had 'seen that digger!' Or similar banal everyday thing that only small children are excited by. I felt great shame when they were younger adults who didn't have their own kids and therefore thought I was an imbecile.

Last year I helped a colleague along with two of her neighbours manoeuvre a sofa up the stairs to her 3rd floor flat. Of course we couldn't get the bugger round the corners and I shouted PIVOT! PIVOT! Nobody got it and obviously just thought I was rude and annoying.

Oh my God...All. The. Time!!
These have really made me chuckle. I would have laughed if I'd been there guys, a lot!
I've done these especially That'll do pig, also random words that link to memories and then you remember/realise its someone else stood with you and the person who would laugh is not the one there.
I sometimes try to explain the IT crowd reference or man from Modern Family too or Hot Fuzz.
I think trying to explain it is probably worse, they can look soooo confused 😕 😅

I've done lots of similar things yes. Mostly we communicate in Friends quotes in our house and it's that popular that most people will get the reference if I slip up and say outside the family.

But there's this quote from Bad Boys (Will Smith and Martin Lawrence) that DH and I always say to each other. It's a film we absolutely loved when we were first dating (centuries ago) and unfortunately for me, I've said it a few times in front of acquaintances and even at parent's evening once.

It's from the scene where the prostitute is murdered and the big bad says, "I like when a woman takes pride in her appearance", and his co-robber says, "Yeah, I hate it when a bitch lets herself slide". So DH and I ALWAYS say this to each other when we're complaining about how we look or we're feeling rough. It didn't go down too well when I said it at parent's evening and then laughed. 🤐

OMG I would have been in stitches! 😂Everything can be explained in Friends quotes in our house.

Very niche one. Me and DH will always say 'enuts' rather than enough, after Ed Millibands 'am I tough enuts' interview. I have said it several times outside the house, and usually have to style it out as unsuccessfully as Ed tried to.

For Babe fans.... Having a bad day or something goes wrong I recite the line where Babe is at the farm and in a really teary voice says "I want my mom" so we say it in exactly the same voice.

To non Babe fans we must just sound like whiny idiots 🤣

Oh DH and I quote TV things all the time then I say them to other people who don't get it.

Another IT crowd reference, I used the phrase "leg disabled" in a high pitched terrible Irish voice around people who clearly didn't get the reference and now think I am some kind of awful ableist bigot I expect.

I also replied "that's your mum that is" to a colleague who started a sentence with "see the lady over there...?" and she looked at me like I was a right weirdo. I don't think I even realised I was saying it.

I'm so horribly awkward.

When I (or others) are pushing a door and it instead should be pulled I always mutter ‘school for the gifted’ which is a Far Side card from the 90s. My DH and old uni friends get the joke but…..😐