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Funny sayings/things in your household

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Soubriquet · 08/09/2023 10:27

If someone asks for the time, and it’s 9.50/21.50 it’s customary to say “it’s cowboy time” cos it’s..ten to ten

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TodaysTheShay · 09/09/2023 19:48

If we are having spag bol for tea, when I shout who wants garlic bread? Someone ALWAYS shouts back.....Garlic? .....bread? .....ITS THE FUTURE!!! Like a sketch from Peter Kaye. Never gets tiresome.

housethatbuiltme · 09/09/2023 20:04

If someone says the phrase 'from the get go' we have to all say Gecko.

Vitriolinsanity · 09/09/2023 20:05

When Dsis and I were 11 and 13 we went on the ride, at night, at Blackpool pleasure beach where you do a roller coaster track on a carousel horse.

For the entire hideous ride there was music playing "fun, fun, fun YES, it's fun, fun,fun".

This has been recalled for every awful event for 40 years. Including the drive to the Crem for DF's funeral.

CurlsandCurves · 09/09/2023 20:07

Person 1: ‘I’m looking for the Xxxx’

Person 2: ‘Is it on the trolley? Can you post at it? Is it a sweeeeet?’ Like the Victoria Wood sketch.

There’s a new one from TikTok which is a person getting off the bus saying goodbye to the driver. Which they do in increasingly loud noises, screeching at the end. So now when anyone leaves the house we have ‘Bye. BYE. Bye driver. BYE DRIVER! BYEEE DRIVERRRR!!!

Daleksatemyshed · 09/09/2023 20:17

There's a story by ,MR James where someone's cursed by someone passing them a paper while speaking certain words, in our house anything gets passes over with the same words "May I give you this, I think it shoild be yours". For the record, neithrr of us seems to be possessed yet

HoraceTheLlama · 09/09/2023 20:19

Cazzovuoi · 08/09/2023 14:51

If some says “in an hour” we say “in an haaaaaaaaaaaa” like Lady Campanula Tottington in The Curse of the Ware Rabbit.

I did see someone on here has her name as their username and I said “In an haaaaaaaaaaaa” to my phone 😂

We we do this too 😬

RyanGoslingsTan · 09/09/2023 21:01

Firsttimecaller · 09/09/2023 17:53

Ah! The overture to William Tell. Was it the theme to the Robin Hood from the early 1960s?

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I don't think so. From what I can see the theme tune was by Edwin Astley

Purplecatshopaholic · 09/09/2023 21:29

If one of us wants ice in a drink, we say ice? Ice? And the other one says Baby (Vanilla Ice song…) - I appreciate it sounds bonkers written down, but it never gets old in our house! We also burst into a muppets song at regular intervals (one with no actual words… so can’t really explain that one, lol.) Oh and we have our nightly chant to highlight to the dogs it’s time to go out, along the lines of doggies, doggies, doggies… out, out, out.

Kwasi · 09/09/2023 21:50

TodaysTheShay · 09/09/2023 19:48

If we are having spag bol for tea, when I shout who wants garlic bread? Someone ALWAYS shouts back.....Garlic? .....bread? .....ITS THE FUTURE!!! Like a sketch from Peter Kaye. Never gets tiresome.

Whenever anyone says garlic bread, I say: ‘not in my lifetime’.

Kwasi · 09/09/2023 21:53

When someone says let me ask you a question, I reply with: What time is love?

SidekickSylvia · 09/09/2023 22:00

My mum has 3 sisters, they're all about 70 and if any of them are carrying a tray they say 'Two soups?'.

ItSoundsLikeADrag · 09/09/2023 22:08

@SidekickSylvia Brilliant 😂

illiterato · 09/09/2023 22:16

Don’t know how it started but if ever I’m with my mum and sister and we’re having a drink we always toast - “ here’s to us and how wonderful we are”.

EdnaMole · 09/09/2023 22:20

Heading out on a trip and need one last trip to make sure the bladder is empty?
”IT’S THE FINAL WEE WEE” (doo do doo do, doodle oo do do) in the style of The Final Countdown by Europe..

ilovepixie · 09/09/2023 22:21

If we take a wrong turn and have to go back the same way again we say there's Big Ben again 😂😂

Andanotherone01 · 09/09/2023 22:27

Ours are mostly from comedy shows:

  • If we’re buying something extravagant or going somewhere it’s “You deserved that holiday” from Shirley Ghostman
  • If someone gets angry; “It’s all kicking off Pru” from Armstrong and Miller.
  • We also say “it’s all the drama, Mick. I just love it” from Gavin and Stacey.
Rolypolyup · 09/09/2023 22:28

If anyone says 'how many?' It always end up with 'how many are there?' 36! (From Harry potter)

We do the I've got the key one...

My Husband and youngest like to shorten things wrongly because they know it irritates me... McDonald's (Moockeys) Starbucks (buckys) there are more annoying examples!!

Andanotherone01 · 09/09/2023 22:31

ilovepixie · 09/09/2023 22:21

If we take a wrong turn and have to go back the same way again we say there's Big Ben again 😂😂

“Parliament!”
This is niche but I know exactly what you are referring to 🤣

TodaysTheShay · 09/09/2023 22:35

Oh and don't forget Mange Tout Rodney! When it's peas for tea which is particularly funny as the 11 year old who says it has never ever seen only fools and horses.

bumhug · 09/09/2023 22:44

My mum when referring to a quick bath would say "come on, in and out quick like a bunny!"

It wasn't until I was older and realised what this meant and she admitted that she hadn't ever thought about it and it was just something that her mum had said to her! GrinConfused

NotHooray · 09/09/2023 22:45

ilovepixie · 09/09/2023 22:21

If we take a wrong turn and have to go back the same way again we say there's Big Ben again 😂😂

Hey look kids, Big Ben...Houses of Parliament Grin

SisSuffragette · 09/09/2023 22:49

What's the time?
Half past nine, hang your knickers on the line!

sueelleker · 09/09/2023 22:50

Daleksatemyshed · 09/09/2023 20:17

There's a story by ,MR James where someone's cursed by someone passing them a paper while speaking certain words, in our house anything gets passes over with the same words "May I give you this, I think it shoild be yours". For the record, neithrr of us seems to be possessed yet

"Night of the Demon"?

SisSuffragette · 09/09/2023 22:53

But can someone explain the ten to ten thing please 🙁

IWillBeWaxingAnOwl · 09/09/2023 22:59

@AffIt we do "pitcher-skew" too!

@Rolypolyup DH and I try to call Tim Hortons something different every time we mention it: TimTam Ho Ho's, Torton Hims etc etc

We quote comedy shows endlessly - the Beads/Bees sketch from Arrested Development plus "I don't know what I expected". We also say "J'accuse!" With a dramatic flourish, which I think originated from How I Met Your Mother?