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

the song Forget Me Nots had been forever ruined by Phoenix Nights. “Come and get your black bin bags, they’re on offer till December”.

I'm crying!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Absolutely the sort of thing I would have done!

No. If you’ve watched ‘The Pink Windmill’ you’ll know

In our family if someone does something well we always say in a congratulatory way "You did it beautifully Tubbs" as in The League of Gentlemen.
There has been more than one occasion when I have proclaimed this loudly to be met with blank stares

'Yes, have some' when coffee's mentioned in Ghostbusters.. we use it for everything! ;-)

If DH or I are cleaning something manky that has been overlooked, the other will say "Dirty....Everything's very...dirty. The state of the bathroom is....shameful" in a creepy voice.
Doesn't go down quite so well at work.

Also, when DD has lost her favourite teddy- a godawful looking thing with huge freaky eyes that we both wish she would lose permanently- she is not very amused when one of us says "We didn't burn him".

My husband and I often say, '... for an hour' in the style of Steve Coogan in The Day Today when he says he's 'closing the bureau de change.. for an hour'.

I suspect most of the 'conversation' in our house consists of quotes from tv shows and movies, but I hardly notice now.

'A'iness ha to 'appen?
(Dog of Wisdom 2) ;-)

My dh loves cats. I quite like them but not as much as he does. He began to refer himself as 'mummy' whenever he spoke to the cat as a joke and I'd just roll my eyes.
'Mummy loves Tiddles*, mummy feed Tiddles dreamies' etc.
This stuck.
One day, Tiddles had to be taken to the vet so off we trudge with dh driving while Tiddles was in the cat cage on my lap not enjoying the experience while dh tried to soothe her by telling her that 'Mummy would get there as fast as he could'.

So eventually we're at the vets and Tiddles is clinging to dh totally unwilling to be handed over to the vet and he says,

'Don't worry Tiddles mummy won't let nasty vet person harm you'.

                                  *Not cat's real name

"My husband and I often say, '... for an hour' in the style of Steve Coogan in The Day Today when he says he's 'closing the bureau de change.. for an hour'."

I can't walk past one of those establishments without forcefully announcing "This is a high class bureau de change!"

DH and I quote Father Ted at eachother all the time.

I was at a village fair type thing and was introduced to the local dignitary who'd just opened the event with a great deal of pomp. 'I hope there's a Tunnel of Goats' I joshed as I shook his hand. He looked at me like I was completely mad and dropped my hand like a stone.

Love the casual reference to the Tunnel of Goats

Head anyone seen this? https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HbDnxzrbxn4&pp=ygUGZWxldmVu

well. We were in a car park in Scotland. The pay meter didn’t have card payments, only exact change or you could call a number. The Scottish guy was trying to. Clearly annoyed because the automated response couldn’t understand him. I laughed at him and shouted ‘eleven!’

He went into his car. Clearly utterly disgusted. 😳

I’m English.

Yes!!

People always look at me like I'm a massive twat to be fair though they're probably right. 😂

This weekend I woke up just before Tesco might deliver if they were early, so I grabbed what I thought was a black Tshirt but turned out to be a tight-fitting vest top (which I don't normally wear). I put it on anyway, brushed my hair & pulled it into a low ponytail which hung down my back. I shook my long fringe out of my eyes as I looked in the mirror & saw... Sarah Connor's fat nan.

I told DH & he got the MN reference.😂

(For anyone who doesn't, it's from the Classics thread about fashion realities compared to aspirations.)

Just been out to the garden centre with DH & he said, as he parked the car, "I shall put it... here," to which I replied, "You may do as you wish, Mr Goatbag," & I realised how weird that would sound to other people. I've been saying it for years, since seeing it in Viz.😂It's just a part of normal conversation to me now.

Who was it who said she & her husband had to say, whenever one of them lit a candle, "The beacons are lit," & the other had to reply, "Gondor calls for aid"? Have I got that quite right? Wonderful!

Dh narrated our lives Pegga pig style constantly at point. Even did it once when kids weren't there, like "mummy pig likes drinking coffee" when i ordered in a cafe. Bet you read this in the voice-over 😁

We have both used described something as being "cromulent" when talking to someone pretentious. (Simpsons ref)

With my old college gang if someone makes a mean comment about someone it's "you're tirrible, name" (muriels wedding ref)

And this one is just me.. but if I'm driving in traffic at a bus stop I really want to shout "bus wankers".

You made me laugh out loud! Dh always says the "nice" ref re music we think is pretentious. And if we ever hear "moonlight shadow" he does this stupid walk. His friend drifts into the vair drunk character if he realises his story is a bit long winded. OMG must watch Fast show again... also if we hear some stupid made up new word used by the media we say its cupboardy (little Britain)

We do some of these, as well as "Snake! Snake!" with the hand movements if one appears on TV/in a film. (from the drunk old boy, I think)

Anyone who didn't get the reference is a LOSER and should be shunned.

One which nobody else will get, but we do it a lot...

I had a call from a posh chocolate company trying to get me to order some more. The lady on the phone was virry Sarth Efrican. I was resisting because, I told her, I couldn't stop myself eating the chocolates once the box arrived. She laughed & said everyone's like that. I said the box only lasted me two days. She was horrified & said, "Thet is farst, Mrs Android!".

That phrase, in that accent, has become a family legend.

Might be a bit specific but whenever someone says 'what does that mean?' we will just start repeating it over and over like the bloke who Q was pranking in the shop in Impractical Jokers.

That is hilarious 😂