to feel that your mum

[ditavonteesed]

is in fact the best one liner, pout down and generally funny joke in the world, only closely followed by that's what he/she said?

Or am I a child?

A few years ago the trend of 'your mum' replies changed to 'your nan' where I worked.

Older kids adapted "go suck your mum" to "go eat your nan". Minging but effective. This was overheard by a child in my class who I caught saying "go eat your nan with a knife and fork!" He had no idea of what the original insult was referring to and added on the cutlery! Officially my favourite retort I've ever heard/been told.

For those who need lighthearted in thread titles, of course everything was dealt with professionally and he never knew how much it made us all laugh.

*"Yer mum on toast"

Because she spreads easily*

That is not in the least bit funny(not that any of the others were either ). I agree with the poster who said it was slut-shaming.

I post quite a bit on FWR, but am frequently out of line with the concensus that the odds are stacked against women because of the patriarchy (sorry a but of a simplification) but I find many of these "funny" examples shocking and disgraceful. If that makes me a humourless feminist, then for the first time on here I'm happy to be called that.

None of these "hilarious"examples would be used about "your Dad".

Although the Mary Whitehouse Experience looks misogynistic now, there were as many "that's your dad/brother/grandad/best mate" jokes as there were naming the mother, girlfriend, gran, etc.

In any case "So's your face" is obviously a better insult because (1) it's colour-, sex-, religion- and disability-independent and (2) it rarely makes sense. Absurdity rules.

In a way mwe was making fun of it in that the two professors were trying to outdo each other

Constantly referencing 'your mother' in those kind of squabbles gets dull quickly

DP and I do this all the time, it's like a competition!

Only last night, we were watching a sealife documentary...

Me: "You see that fish?"
DP: "Yeah"
Me: "That's your Mum, that is"

*ditavonteesed" Thanks for the History Today link. I loved that and Rob Newman was very attractive. Does anyone remember him as Jarvis?

To be fair, we say 'aye yer da' as often as 'yer maw'.

We also have adopted old colleague of mine's favourite insult: 'aye, but youse are all cousins.'

So it's fun for all the equal opportunities family round ours

Your mum Thats brought back loads of old memories. Love it!!

Cheers Medea nails it for me.

I can't resist a bit of "I am aware of him" in meetings at work. Mr R and I also amuse ourselves at home by turning any random phrase into an insult while watching telly by simply adding YOU.

You Victorian baker. You tropical archipelago. You baroque church.

Has anyone else heard "Don't be shy, your mother wasn't!"

Titsalinabumsquash snap, me too, to everything.

Just echoing the room. Yup. It is the best comeback x

Ah I knew it would only be a matter of time before this was accused of being anti-feminist or mysogenistic. So with that I'm off the tread. Really, get a grip! I can only assume those saying this stuff never go to comedy clubs or watch much comedy elsewhere. :(

Thanks OP for a great thread and a great laugh along the way. And esp Ditavonteesed for a cracking link that brought back memories. X

Surely, puerile 'your mum' insults only work if you have a ridiculously heightened reverence for womanhood - or the right kind of womanhood?

I'm sure that men who get really worked up about this are quite capable of shaming the 'wrong' kind of woman.

Do you remember when Eric Cantona drop-kicked a football fan for allegedly saying something about his mum and Zinedine Zidane got sent off in a World Cup match for head butting a player who apparently said things about his sister?

I was completely bemused. Why on earth did they get worked up about that? Eric's mum has definitely had sex and I guess Zinedine's sister has too. So why did they need macho men to show off and defend their honour for doing something normal?

It's only a small step to men thinking the honour of their female relations is so important, that it becomes something that's not a joke at all.

So I sometimes smile at the sillier 'your mum' jokes. And either ignore the rest of them or pull someone up without resorting to violence.

Can't believe "your mum" is still going strong as the ultimate adolescent put-down! First heard it from my 12-year-old DS (now 23) way back then; it was one of those things that's funny and makes you laugh in spite of yourself, goodness knows why.... There were also a whole load of one-line jokes along the lines of "your mum's so fat/poor/old... etc" around that time, which were also pretty funny... Will post if I (or he) can remember any

TiredButFineODFOJ there was a hip hop record called "Yuh Momma" by an American band called The Smurfs released in 1984, in which they rapped some of those, "Your mother's so..." jokes and the chorus was just "Yuh Momma".

That's how I knew what this thread was about!

I'm a feminist. I'm also VERY FUNNY. I thought I'd put that out there as a first salvo.

Your Mum is a shorthand, I think, for people of my generation. I remember as a shy thirteen year old having the first real confrontation of my life when one of my friends made a comment about my mother. I found my voice and told that girl that she could say shit about me but my mums name in her mouth made me want to punch it. (Freudian?). When I was a teenager it was a definite badge of honour to defend your mother, come what may.

Your Mum is a childish insult, along the same lines as "my dad is bigger than your dad" and as such I find it funny in my later years. I've often said to my own children (teenagers) Your Mum! Which is me - so you know, it's just a joke.

I find no misogyny in it - in my personal life. Socially, I understand that we don't have a Deadbeat Dad joke in the same way, although I think this is changing.

In conclusion. I'm drunk.

We do your dad too. They tend to escalate of an evening, these comments getting a bit competitive and generally ends up with someone just saying the most obscene sentence we can think of.

This thread is funny.

I love your mam and yo mama is jokes. My favourite is 'yo mama is so fat her patronus is a cake'. A double one there for yo mama and Harry Potter fans

I'm 35 BTW.

I had to stop saying 'your dad' when DH's father passed away.

Never done your mum jokes but we did the newman and baddiel that's you that is. Still do "that's what she/he said jokes..."

YANBU, apart from in my house the kids substitute my step mum when talking to me, because she's a bitch and my mum's dead. We aso do a great line in "I can't, my dad's dead" or " give me a drink my dad's dead" from the boys, (he's been dead 10 years and the irreverance helps), and I compete with "My mum's deader than your dad!", (she's been dedad for 35 years). Scares the shit out of new guests :D .

We use the "I would but my mum died" card between me and my sisters when we don't want to do stuff... A typical conversation between us,

"Tits can you run this rubbish down the tip for me?"
"I would but my mum died..."
"She was my mum too!"
"Yeah but I said it first "
"FairPlay..."

I'm 47 and find 'your mum' funny.

Bit depressing this idea that if you're over 40 you've no idea what the hell's going on in the 'modern world'