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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?

237 replies

ChypreNovice · 03/05/2023 18:44

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

IT Crowd Look Normal

Scene from The IT Crowd. Episode 4 from Season 2. The guys of the IT department trying to look "normal".

https://youtu.be/wleBEbPfP_I

OP posts:
Holihobbies · 03/05/2023 21:36

WordtoYoMumma · 03/05/2023 21:30

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.

History today ! That's you that is 😂 what a brilliant piece of comedy !

ChickenSoupAndLokshen · 03/05/2023 21:39

I had a video meeting with the board. I cracked a Crocodile Dundee joke in a bad Aussie accent. "Call that a knife!" Only one of them got it. He sniggered through most of the meeting. He and I are simpatico. The others are idiots. Obviously.

Soubriquet · 03/05/2023 21:39

Yep!! I can say “oh my god Shoes” to a certain friend, and both of us crack up laughing

wildlifeintegration · 03/05/2023 21:40

UWhatNow · 03/05/2023 19:16

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…🤦🏻‍♀️

this made laugh out loud for good minute. This is something I'd do, and I'd follow up with a bit of the office too, and then if no-one laughed I'd carry on like the real David Brent. I know I would because I have. and it was horrific but we can't all be comedy geniuses. I am, they were not

Ginsmything · 03/05/2023 21:41

My DH informed his GP that he regularly exercised on a cross dresser.

Meifly · 03/05/2023 21:43

DuranNotSpandeau · 03/05/2023 18:54

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.🤣

Haha I had a similar excruciating trained by toddler moment when I enthusiastically pointed out a lorry to one of my colleagues 😅

Pollydolly13 · 03/05/2023 21:45

I would of laughed you sound hilarious! 😂 Maybe they are all boring!

wildlifeintegration · 03/05/2023 21:46

FiftyNotNifty · 03/05/2023 20:45

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.

I say this but I don't even know where it's from. I also use the pig one from babe and only found out today it was from babe, I thought it was chief wiggum from the simpsons

Svalberg · 03/05/2023 21:48

h0rsewithn0name · 03/05/2023 20:54

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.

Similarly we always criticise gravy by saying that at least our mother's gravy moved

wildlifeintegration · 03/05/2023 21:51

glassespet · 03/05/2023 21:09

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.

I'm sorry but diggers usually feature attractive men who can operate heavy machinery swoon. A treat for the kids amd the mums.
See also: Fire engines. splat

Duckswaddle · 03/05/2023 21:56

Any conversation I have ever is filled with peep show quotes. It’s got something for all situations!

glassespet · 03/05/2023 22:01

Good point @wildlifeintegration
I have still encountered younger persons who had no interest in either the digger or their drivers (who sadly are more usually not Diet Coke advert worthy)

Mossstitch · 03/05/2023 22:04

Eggsley · 03/05/2023 19:34

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 😳

I did exactly the same with a 50yr old colleague.........my kids were all in their 20s & 30s at the time! I still cringe with embarrassment at my waffle trying to explain myself but was just automatic😳

SBAM · 03/05/2023 22:16

DH and I do the ‘trapped, like a moth in the bath’ one, and the bit about seeing last nights game from the IT Crowd. And probably a few more IT crowd ones I can’t think of right now. Also ‘that’ll do pig’, and ‘For safety. And buoyancy’ occasionally completed with the breast grab motion (from Zoolander 2). If anyone says they don’t like something we say ‘I don’t want to be a pie, I don’t like gravy’ (chicken run).

I had a hypnobirthing book when expecting DC1, and it had all these affirmations in like ‘you’re a strong woman and you can do this’ and we ended up mixing them up with the ‘good morning, you’re doing great, I believe in you, nice butt’ motivational poster. So now any time we say something encouraging to one another the other responds with ‘nice butt’.

So I think you’re totally normal.

Beamur · 03/05/2023 22:18

You have all made me laugh.
As a family we do this too! IT crowd, Father Ted, Mighty Boosh, Blackadder. We recycle other people's funnier phrases and find each other hilarious. DD and I went steps further during lockdown and developed a silly way of talking - have to remember not to do it in front of other people 😂😂

MerryMarigold · 03/05/2023 22:20

WordtoYoMumma · 03/05/2023 21:30

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.

Oh wow, that made me laugh literally out loud (as opposed to Lol). I loved the Mary Whitehouse Experience. Me and my sis would do the "That's your boyfriend, mum, you etc that is" ALL time!

greyhairnomore · 03/05/2023 22:26

@wildlifeintegration it's from a sitcom called Sorry from the ?80s.
Ronnie Corbett started as a 40 odd year old still at home his mother used to say it.
Probably hideously dated and not funny now.

Bobshhh · 03/05/2023 22:27

I have to really stop myself if someone asks if they look ok from saying ‘that’s exactly how you look’

it’s from 30 rock and my husband and I say it to each other most mornings when we get dressed.

hooveringknob · 03/05/2023 22:28

My ex ordered a "kitty cat McFlurry" at Mcdonalds because we always said kitty cat instead of cat

Shinyandnew1 · 03/05/2023 22:30

WordtoYoMumma · 03/05/2023 21:30

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.

DH and I say those as well!!

Other much repeated ones include

They’re dead, Dave-everyone’s dead, Dave (Red Dwarf).

I look like a pencil (Fleabag)

Don’t be a twat, Stace (G+S)

and many many quotes from Blackadder!

Malloryhitops · 03/05/2023 22:35

DEAD 💀
This is class 😂😂😂

musicinspring1 · 03/05/2023 22:38

There are many quotes from League of Gentleman that are obviously entrenched jn my head and pop out at times when I then realise not everyone else has the same great taste... obvious ones are 'this is a local shop for local people ' and the classic 'you're my wife now Dave'which can raise eyebrows ...

evtheria · 03/05/2023 22:40

OP, I couldn't even get past your first post because I thought you meant you were in a hoist, but like... one of those really high ones, in a body harness up high outdoors or something, and 'Trust' made me think of the woodland trust, so I just automatically thought of tree surgeons etc, hence you in a hoist. And then striking mannequin poses. In mid air, while a group of people in suits and high vis looked up at you.

QuirkyBuffy · 03/05/2023 22:41

Another Red Dwarf fan here.
In my family we say
fish
todays fish is trout a La crème
fish
todays fish is trout a La crème
fish
todays fish is trout a La crème
fish
todays fish is trout a La crème

and we say
This is mine
this is mine
all of this is mine.

we say it in Cat’s accent.
it doesn’t sound funny now and when said outside of the home, we get strange looks