To wonder what are the most [shock] family habits you've ever encountered?

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Mine are: an ex years ago was one boy with two sisters and one night we got talking about what they called their genitalia when they were growing up. I was flabbergasted when he said "Oh, I had a 'cock' and my sisters had 'minges'"

However that was not as bad as the family BBQ (same family) where we were all sitting around a table having a lovely lunch; me, ex-bf, his parents, sisters, sisters' boyfriends and then ex-MIL casually mentioned that she hadn't woken up till 9am that morning.
"That's not true," says ex-FIL promptly, "I heard you having a shit at 5." did not cover it.

Fred West voice is really weird

because we watched a programme about him and the actor playing him did an enormous Gloucester accent and now it's an in-joke*. perfect for freaking the other out at inopportune moments.

we're weird. clearly.

*disclaimer: i understand that nothing involving Fred West was actually remotely funny.

ExWife - I think I watched the same programme! Is it the one with Emily Watson?

Got to confess that I did love the actor's voice when he was talking to the police about "Moy Rowzeee" and telling the Detective Constable that she was "Thee mowst bewdifull wumman in Glarster when yurr angree, Hazel".

My disclaimer - the West murders are not funny. The actors playing the Wests are.

Appropriate Adult, Fred West played by the brilliant Dominic West (no relation)

Talking as the cats - yup.
Howling at the offer of wine - yup.
Singing and dancing certain jokes in the supermarket - yup.

It's true. My family, and I, are the wierd ones...

We've been playing out the same conversations and jokes for years. We even have a little routine we go through when someone burps...

We whine for wine.
And any time someone says "good luck" we react like we are Gordon Jackson/dickie Attenborough in The Great Escape.

There are more. But it all seems normal to me...

Ooh, I remembered another one - DH loves Russell Howard and he keeps featuring a clip of Boris Johnson saying "very nice". DH immediately fell in love with this and does a very accurate impression of it at hilarious moments - including after sex a couple of times. It's become one of those things which is ours xD

We saw a short video animation years ago (prob on YouTube) of a cross between lord of the rings of the rings and Harry potter

With bob geldof (voice sound alike) playing gandalf and Harry potter playing the hobbit

The one line we remember and repeat randomly and regularly is....

Put the fecking ring in the fecking fire said in a high pitched crazy fake Irish accent!

So wel be sitting there or cooking etc then for no reason one of us May just start screeching put the fecking ring in the fecking fire then go back to what we were doing like it never happened

My dad is from a very large family. Most of his siblings are boys. Even after they'd all got married and left home all of "the boys" including my dad would call by at my Grandparents house every day on the way home from work, sit around the table and be served chip butties by my Nana on door stop bread(she actually used to make a huge bowl full of chips for them everyday), followed by a huge slice of cake. They would then go home to their wives who'd prepared a meal that would inevitably end up in the bin because they were no longer hungry. If one of "the boys" ever went straight home for whatever reason, my Nana would phone their homes and ask why they hadn't called for "some tea" on the way home!

This went on for years and my Nana, who was actually a lovely woman, didn't seem to realise that she was undermining her daughters in law and didn't seem to want to cut their apron strings either. Very bizarre behaviour, my mum used to go apeshit about it.

one ex of mine could only see me during the week after work, the weekends were for him to spend with his parents and baby brother. He once told me proudly how when he was living with his ex-girlfriend, upon finding out his brother had the flu he dropped everything and raced home to be with him and spent the night sitting at the foot of his bed should his brother wake and need something.

I used to go to a different ex's parents sometimes for Sunday lunch. The men used to retire to the sitting room and us women folk would tidy up and natter in the kitchen. I thought how old fashioned it was, until I had to walk past the sitting room to leave and the stench from the men farting in there was unbearable. The women just shrugged it off but it was absolutely vile.

Another ex's parents would lay out knives and forks to eat spaghetti with which I thought was a bit odd.

My mother is the type to go to the bathroom and leave the door open, eat in her bra if eating spaghetti and fart and burp atrociously, thankfully none but the latter two were done in front of company

I also got a separate bedroom when DP and I used to visit his dad, early on in our relationship. We were in our late 20s and lived together but actually as there was no double bed in the house at all, it was better than trying to share. The weird thing was if I sneaked into DP's room to say goodnight it felt really seedy and wrong!

I was also a bit miffed that DP got the bigger spare bedroom while I got the ridiculously tiny one.

The Disgraces have a family custom of shouting "builder's bum!" and chucking small change into the crack when someone bends over.

I like this thred. It's making my family seem a little more normal.

I'm sad that I missed the now infamous photo, but I'm happy that some of you are making my strange family seem a bit more normal.

Jem my DH also shouts "verra nice!" all the time, but like Borat.

I've had conversations with dm's cat before.
Me and dh often sing songs about stuff
My dad calls everything the 'thingybob' most of the time we know which thingybob he's talking about.

Has anyone mentioned shaving there mother yet?
No, just me then

Me and my husband sing the wonderpets song to each other all the time. Whenever we are doing anything together, one of us will sing "what's going to work?" and the other sings back "teeeeeeeeeam work"

and when one of us needs the loo, we'll sing "I need a weewee, this is serious" and the other sings back "we have to help him/her"

our kids are now 14 and 15 so we've been doing this for quite some time.

Until I read this thread, it seemed perfectly normal.

Now I'm not so sure.

I also talk the kitten. She has a lisp and she loves daddy to play stringy with her.

I had a bf whose family had peanuts with every meal. Roast beef, spag bol, salad, fish pie, you name it, all liberally sprinkled with salted peanuts.

All our animals (seven) have their own voices and accents

It only seems weird when I think about it.

My dh does that, Roasted Only with toast

I used to work with a woman who confessed her family had a tradition of pulling each other's underwear down when they were going up the stairs or carrying a tray, especially when they had visitors. They thought it was absolutely hilarious but the thought of it made me want to cry. It just sounded like a form of abuse to me.

DP and I sing to our food, to the tune of cheesey (usually 80's) hits.

I know we're odd though.

my dads a weird one he will randomly start moon walking on busy roads leading me to walk off. the once i punched him on the arm messing around and he pretended to collapse in pain on a busy road again. i refuse to go anywhere with him now

oh and my mom likes to play tricks on my dad she once put cat food in his sandwiches he phoned her from work going mad she blamed me lol