to ask for your familyisms?

[yawning801]

I'm wondering if it's just my family that does silly things that nobody else does!

For example, one person will turn off the car radio and say "Shut up.". One of the other passengers will pause for a second and then add "Silly person."

Is it just my family that is weird? Please MN, help me out here!

After the time Ddad tried to explain the detailed workings of his circular saw to Dsis and I anytime he starts to tell a story one of us will shout 'Mummmmmm, dad's TALKING again' in the manner of a teenager

When DH and I stay with friends and family or in a hotel we always say to each other 'not to be too la-di-da, but is there a room with fewer snakes available' because of our passion for Peep Show.

My Dnephew aged 6 once told us a hilarious story about the adventures of his monkey cuddly toy who had a headache because he 'swam all the way across the sea and bumped his head on New York'. So if anyone has a headache now we have to say it's because we bumped our head on New York.

I expect there's loads more that I can't think of right now

my mum, sister and I whenever talking about the future always end up saying 'and when I get my bus pass...'

it follows a long road trip from Merseyside to Surrey with my nan who repeated the phrase over and over telling us all what she would do 'when she got her bus pass' it became a family joke

also we all refer to the bowling alley as the alley bowly as DD2 could never get it right (ditto 'the fishy' rather than 'the chippy')

makes me sad typing that - I do miss my Nanny Edith :(

We put ransom things on our heads and say "nice hat, Bab". When someone goes o bed, we sing "don't go to bed with a carrot on your head!". My little girl sang it to a random man in Aldi once when she was about 2. It's from Ben and Holly.

We never say conscience but con science...no idea how it started 🤷🏻‍♀️

We often communicate using Alan Partridge lines. Classic intercourse!

Us too 'back of the net'

'9 on 10'

I rarely call my children by their real names. I go for names like bob, Ronald, Margery, Alphonso, Michael, actually, whatever spring to mind to be honest.

We do this with our youngest DS. We mainly call him girls names and only ever in the morning when he comes downstairs (no idea why!).

When DD is making hotdogs we'll ask her 'what are you making?' And when she replies 'hotdogs' we burst out singing 'jumping frogs, Albuquerque!'

My family all say 'oh what a silly boy' whenever anyone does something a bit stupid, whether they are male or female. For some reason it makes me laugh everytime

Haha yes, whenever my son explains to me what they did in football that day, my one and only question (which I use lots) is, “but did you use jumpers for goalposts?” Of course, he has no idea why it’s funny but it amuses me and that’s the main thing!

Oh...tons.
DF, DSis and I just quote films/comedy sketches at each other. Not high falootin ones though. Our favourites are The Detectives (jasper Carrot) and Without a Clue (Michael Caine and Ben Kingsley)
DH has been indoctrinated and now uses some of the quotes himself even thoughbhe hasn't seen the scenes we're quoting...he's great

I tell the radio to shut up when I switch it off.

Sausages are called sawsaws, and fried eggs are Friday eggs.

Dh has invented some silly songs with dds, they make no sense, but still sing them.

The Detectives! I'd forgotten about The Detectives!

"You've got a chip on your shoulder!"

whenever someone says the word petrol, the correct response is 'cheese' in funny witchy voice

DS1 and I quote Peep Show at each other constantly. So if we hear some one say 'that's the final straw" we respond with delicious Cumberland final straw dripping in onion gravy.

We've done the no turkey one about 20 times over Xmas.

I call DS2 monkeypuzzle sometimes. I don't know where that came from. Other than that his name begins with M.

Bf and I quote Alan Partridge often.

When any of us say little pause we put our hands up like paws

Oh god, we do cheese/ petrol! ours is always said as Cheese...Petril...hate self.

Bloody Mitchell and Webb

My brother and i always sneer and say "fewer" if anyone in the vicinity says the word "less" - even if the latter is correct.

Eg:
"Could I have a bit less custard please?"
"FEWER"

Dc1 16 and I communicate mainly through Spongebob quotes. Sadly dh, dc 2 and 3 haven't taken to Spongebob, so usually have no idea what we're on about.

Oh, loads. All that springs to mind at the moment though is that whenever we have the occasion to use the word "Turps", the other person has to say "Video turps, or cassette turps?"

And whenever we see an evidence board in a detective drama, or even just a post-it note in real life, there's a race to say "What am I missing; what am I not seeing?"

am i the only one that wants to know if BirthdayBeast and danceswithotters are related.

We have a rug called Kevin. Guests don't understand it when I tell the children to sit on Kevin to put their shoes on. We don't know any real Kevins. Just the rug.

Oh we've got loads.
Debenhams is referred to as Dobbos,
House of Fraser is 'My Palace'
M&S is Sparkles

Edna Mole from the Incredibles quote "Never look back, darling. It distracts from the now..." when someone is wanging on about something and you want to move the conversation on.

Anytime anyone is having a coffee it's:
"Costa Coffee, having a coffee, good times."
If you need to see the GP then you are seeing a "Doctor of Medicality"

When using any "current" lingo: "I'm perfectly sure that's correct, I triple checked it on Urban Dictionary."

We watch a lot of Phoneshop in our house!

We often ask each other if we want a 'wine or a cuppa de tea'...a throwback to when we viewed our house at 10am on a Sunday morning and the lovely old Italian lady offered us those exact things. Cuppa de tea is the usual... we are teetotal haha

Ah mispronounced foods - “salmon” is “shhhalmon”, Bloefeld style.

Any word/name that ends in “ette” or “Etta” must be pronounced in a very flamboyant Spanish accent, with optional hand waving. This was inspired by Chickaletta from Paw Patrol.

Any minor pain or injury will clearly require that body part to be cut off. DS didn’t quite grasp the jovial nature of this when he was 3 and I had DD. On my first morning Home post traumatic birth resulting in crash cs and 5 days in hospital, he cane in with his toy saw to make my sore tummy better.

We call the glove box in the car the "love box" due to my brother mis-hearing it when he was little.

If someone does/says anything silly, someone will say "everyone stare at [person's name] and sigh", then there's a pause, and everyone turns to the look at the person and sighs exhasperately at the same time.

If someone uses a superlative (usually the worst loser, but sometimes other things) someone else has to say "their might be worse losers in Russia or something", which is something one of my brothers said when he was about four.

A recent one is "why was the car on fire?" which comes out randomly because whenever we visit DMs home town, as we're driving up the high street, she always points out the same places: "that's where we got my cat from... that's where my friend so and so lived... that's where I had my piano lessons" and it always ends with "and that's where the car was one fire." She gets annoyed if we ask her why the car was on fire, so we always do.