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?

[ChypreNovice]

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

@Chatillon Hadn't heard that one.

At work carrying a bench from one side of the garden with a colleague.

I smiled and said "To me, to you!" Chuckle bros style, and got met with a confused look

Once while at my friend's house at a party she asked me to answer the front door because I was nearest . In our house we'd say "It's the pigs!" like Neil from the Young Ones as we made our way down the hall.

Totally forgot how close I was to her front door (had consumed a lot of alcohol) and opened her door saying the phrase, only to come face to face with a couple of police officers.

I’m always patronisingly explaining the difference between small and far away to people.

Live audience

Bloody hell, I've been doing the "ignore me doing this" for so long I'd forgotten it was even a quote, let alone where from?!

Peep Show and Partridge forms about 75% of me and DH's talkings. Classic chat.

Oh god and "skip to the end" is regularly used. Often with kids' tantrums.

If anyone tells me they're veggie I have to try not to ask about wafer-thin ham or say "such a shame for you" a la Nana from Royle Family.

@ChypreNovice trs! I can always hear him if anyone says that word or their name! 🤣 see also ‘I’ll go, I’ll go, I’ll go!’

I can’t remember what trs meant, except maybe it was yes!

also in our family if anyone says ‘what do you want to do, then?’ The answer MUST be ‘I don’t know, what do you want to do???’ This is because, back in the day, my dad took me to see The Jungle Book (the proper one) and laughed himself silly all the way home after the vulture scene. Again, no one else seems to get it.

also dad’s fault: if anyone asks ‘are you alright?’ I have to say ‘just down one side’.

Oh god - this is bringing back memories of the time I was on a nightshift with a particularly serious boss who was ranting on about something very inconsequential and I responded and kept responding with "am I bovvered?" "does my face look bovvered? She was completely unamused and I seemed unable to stop. She had never seen Catherine Tate and thought I was being genuinely stroppy.

Now I'm very fond of the "he's tricky like that, Jesus" and "no child left behind" from The Hunt for The Wilderpeople." No one in my immediate team at work finds them at all funny...

We use, "Cheques will not be honoured," as a shorthand for, 'That person/company's a con artist'. It's from Krusty the Clown, of the Simpsons.

We do a lot of Cabin Pressure.

'We could go to Bristol, I believe. People do.' Everytime we go on the M4.

"No one can predict the movements of the supreme commander"
"Only Father Christmas cares about what you want"
"There's Camembert? We never get camembert"
"Oh I used to know that one..."

I do a lot of Fast Show, Mary Whitehouse Experience, Blackwater. Not entirely sure the rest of the household get it.

Every now and again DP slips the word 'cromulent' into conversation which makes me giggle. I get the joke though so it's become an injoke injoke.

Since being forced to watch Encanto 500 times I randomly sing the bit where Mirabel goes
I am fine, I am totally fine.... I'm not fiiiiiiine
In an OTT dramatic voice.
My childless colleagues do not get this reference. Luckily we're all mad.

I was once in a meeting and there was a knock on the door. I was the closest so I got up, walked over, and randomly starting singing 'there's somebody at the door' coordinating my arms.

If you've watched IT crowd, you'll know.

I also can't listen to that Prince song without singing along to it Julia Roberts style in the bath on Pretty Woman.

Allo Allo and Dads Army get used here

Listen very carefully I will say zis only once.

Don't tell him Pike

etc

And 'bus wankers' from the Inbetweeners

Why does no-one but me get the old Morecambe and Wise quip:
"Is it cold out?"
"I don't know, I haven't got mine out."
Barely ever raises a titter but I still do it. Can't help myself.

“Let’s get down to business” must be followed by 🎶 “to defeat…the Huns” 🎶

We do this far too much...
So much so that our 14YO had no idea that "embiggen" and "cromulent" aren't real words.

If you can fight your way through our family language made up mostly of Monty Python, (help help I'm being supressed), It-Crowd, Black Adder, HHTG (Thank you for making a simple door very happy), Rocky Horror show and Red Dwarf quotes you can join the clan. (Or look at us like we've offered you a lightly toasted bun with a dead weasel in it).

I do this, too! Never had a student get it 🤣

Thank you, @ChypreNovice
I've giggled my way through this thread & was going to post all our family's, but they are all here!
I suppose there's PAAAAAAAARTY from Shameless, & sometimes we burst into 'my lovely horse', or 'I think I see my dad..' but all the best ones are taken!

When watching sport or similar, if one of us mixes up two black players, (or any players to be honest) we will accuse them of being a massive racist in furious tones. When this or similar happens at work it's important not to make the same accusation 🤣 complaints get made....
Also don't punch the colleague in your passenger seat when you see a yellow car while driving. They don't always take it in the same spirit that your 8 year old does

I and my whole family, including my mum are veggie. We say “wafer thin ham” to each other still regularly!