Funny sayings/things in your household

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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

22.22 every evening we all take turns to shout 4 little ducks, we've started other friends and family doing it now, no idea where or when it started lol

We always do the gooseberry and cinnamon yogurt sketch from Catherine Tate if we are having yogurts. I say ‘take care out there among the English’ when DH goes out (the movie Witness with Harrison Ford ) we live in England but on the Welsh borders! But we most often just sing a line from a song that matches what we are talking about, in true Miranda style.

Bloody love this!!

This. Then you have to say 'sophistication!!! I've bin to Leeds!'

Tesco is called Big Testicles in our house in honour of DD3 who asked one day if we were going to Asdas or big testicles when she was about 2.

Numerous Gavin and Stacey quotes, film quotes and lines from songs too.

Another family thing is the dog is never called by her actual name, she has a range of nicknames including Jane which sounds nothing like her dog name so she actually answers to Jane now 🤣

Always without fail -
Me : I’m putting the kettle on
DH: Hope it fits!

This thread is great.

We have to pronounce 'I'm going to the bank' as Benk!!! In the style of Emily Blunt in Mary Poppins.

We can't take any cosmetic ads seriously after the film zoolander so we just adapt 'wetness is the essence of moisture' to whatever bollocks is being advertised.

Car adverts we all marvel at it driving around corners.

We can't take ads for anything whatsoever seriously. Zoolander is everything.

Whenever someone in my family does something shocking but predictable, my husband will be able to guess what they did based on the little information I give him. Without fail I will respond with "and how do you know that Rodney?" to which he replies "must be clairvoyant Del". It's usually my cousin being a tight bastard.

Also, since my son was tiny and he would come home from being out with someone, me and DH would be sitting upright under a blanket on the sofa ... DS will say "oh hello sofa ghost, have you seen Mum/Dad?". He's almost 11 and it's still going strong 😂

Astridastro I’m just hysterical at Big Testickles 😂……on bed reading this thread laughing so much did a little fart woke OH up briefly and the dog jumped off the bed in disgust …. absolutely priceless 😆

Whenever someone says "good idea" the obligatory response is "of course it's a good idea!" A la the God scene from monty python and the Holy grail.

We also do the ten to ten thing (well I do and everyone rolls their eyes)

Finally, I have taught my 5yr old to sing "and let me know, before I get the wrong idea" whenever we're at a pelican crossing and I ask her to push the button. Cos my BFF at uni and I used to sing it to each other every time there was a button to be pushed. Makes me smile.

when we want to be particularly sappy my wife and I will randomly say ‘I looove you’ to each other like Tim curry in home alone New York - it’s my wife’s favourite film.

whenever we have garlic bread or garlic bread is mentioned dw will, without fail, do her best Peter Kay voice.

going up the stairs usually requires us to say ‘up and down these stairs like a bloody yo-yo’ to the extent that our dd now says it but without the bloody in it because she’s adamant we don’t say that word 😂

if a door has been left open it’s ‘were you born in a barn’

if we take our wedding rings off and forget to put them back on and the other one finds it we pretend to hoard it and call it ‘my precious’ in our best creepy impression of Gollum

If we've bought new clothes or are deciding on an outfit we sometimes do a 'nanny goat parade' which is essentially trying on a few outfits and showing the other person. I don't even know where it came from but my mum said it to me and we use it in our home now!

So many!!

Restickle your chestickle

Tip to top, bip to bop and everything in between

Toothypegs etc

Toothypegs here too.

Sometimes DD will say "Papa" and DH answers Nicole.

We recently moved to a bungalow and when we moved DS asked where he should put something and I said under the stairs. I meant the cupboard in the hallway so it will be forever known as under the stairs

I thought of more.....dp and I say 'it's not the Judea people's front, it's the people's front of judea if we are talking about vague politics.

In response to a good idea 'it's a plan so cunning you could put a tail on it and call it a weasel'

Tony Robinson and Roman Atkinson will die one day and I'll cry my eyes out.

We also refer to real places by names in Shameless. An estate locally we call 'the chatsworth' any scruffy pub is called the jockey.

🤣🤣🤣 pmsl at the Tesco's thing. Kids are brilliant for a funny saying

If someone drops something we say ‘if you don’t want it, through it on the floor’

Before we go out for an evening, DH will look at me & say “oh Jackie, you look nice” in a Jim from Friday Night Dinner voice.
If anyone turns down the offer of food in our house, the response is “ah, go on, go on, go on” (This can continue for some time. 😬

I'll shout "Put wood in t'hole!" if someone leaves a door open.
Leaving the house, especially on a school run, is prefaced by a Reservoir Dogs growl, "Let's go to woirk"

And obviously, if someone else says what you say at exactly the same time, you both have to immediately shut up, link little fingers and make a silent wish before talking again.

@Needhelp101 we link fingers and say “jinx”

My DDs shout “jinx! You owe me a soda” - which of course I now have to say.

If we're having wraps for tea and the DC ask what we're having we'll answer 'wraps' accompanied by a bad rap.
If me and DP are looking for each other in the house, shops etc we'll do the Marco/Polo thing.

I'll say to my husband, "put the kettle on", he'll say "it won't fit me"
He'll see a magpie and say "morning, Mr magpie"

Aw we do some already mentioned - “would YOU like a gooseberry and cinnamon yoghurt?” And what’s the time half past nine etc

got the key-ey ? GOT the KEY - a la Friends

and any time a moody child says “leave me alone” everyone in the vicinity must immediately respond by singing portishead/Natalie imbruglia “leave me alone, leave me alone - JUST LEAVE ME ALONE”

we have hundreds of these.

forgot one of my favourites. When the satnav says “in 100m turn left” everyone shouts “no YOU turn left”