to ask for your familyisms?

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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!

Oh god, loads. Lots from Bottom, particularly ’breeeeeaaad’ and ‘another Brussel sprout!’

Whenever I say I’ve bought a bargain or saved some money, DH has to say ‘oh good, we can take the magnet off the gas metre now’

We mispronunciate all sorts of words. We must sound like idiots to other people.

Oh and if one of us does something wrong or daft, the other one says ‘yow TWAT’ which is from a Vic and Bob thing.

We also quote a lot of Peep Show. Especially "Chance would be a fine thing. A fine thing indeed."
If we're eating something, and DD takes an interest we'll say "Much too good for children"
We play rock, paper, scissors when making decisions like who's going to make the tea, who's turning the light off, who's putting the DVD on...

@BikeRunSki that really made me laugh 😂 can you remember how it started?

I am loving this thread for brightening up my commute to work today! Me and DH often sing the Jurassic Park theme tune to each other and do numerous other things only we would understand!

@ReverseGiraffe ‘Equals Peaquals’ gets said a lot in our house!

Dd sings a song at school that starts 'oh a milkshake' so anytime anyone utters an oh in our house someone will finish the sentence off.
Dh and I have had a running thing for years involving Florence and the machine songs.
Random quotes from obscure movies to each other too.

"By my pretty floral bonnet. I will end you". - whenever someone eats the last thing or does something very slightly annoying. Obviously from Firefly. 'Also. I can kill you with my brain'. Same but more when you realise you've lost an argument.
Others. If giving car directions "stay on target" (Star Wars) is used for going straight ahead.
"He's dead Jim" whenever something is broken. "It's a trap!" Also star wars Whenever a phone message inviting us to something is played on the answerphone.
"As you wish" (princess bride) whenever someone asks for a tea / coffee when you've asked what they want. There are too many.

This thread has made me miss my mum! I have no-one to share the following with now:

On being asked where something is: "Up in Annie's room, behind the clock"

On being asked what she was doing: "Writing my memoirs" (sometimes "fucking memoirs" - she was very sweary)

When pa repeated himself: "He used to go there every day on his way to work, you know" (reference to a comment he made during a street scene in an early 70s Anadin advert)

On being asked what was for dinner: "Horse shit and tram tickets"

If you were hunched up because of cold: "Look at you, sitting there like a frozen turd"

"A bit of Savlon and a plaster" would sort out any injury, if my dad either didn't hear her or was ignoring her, she'd ask "Would you like a million pounds and a night out with Gina Lollobrigida?" to get his attention and anyone being patronising or giving an overlong and tedious explanation would get the response "Thank you, Brian", an allusion to an eccentric uncle.

If anyone leaves any belongings by accident during a visit we leave a voicemail or a text and pic of the item explaining we are holding said item for ransom and include negotiation details on how it can be released.

Just this Christmas I left my mum a voicemail (in an evil maffia voice) demanding her giant bag of snowballs in exchange for the release of Donny Osmond's Calendar. He is yet to be reclaimed.

We also have a family blanket. Four generations of Rats have been ill under that blanket. We’re thinking of washing it......

Also all household locations are referred to in grandiose terms. The back spare room with a bird picture is the “owl suite with a view of the grounds”, going down the garden is “surveying the estate”, the garage is the “hangar”, etc. I think new visitors are quite surprised to arrive at a 3 bed semi!

These make me smile.

Lots of silly ones in our house.

Ds mispronounced cuddle as ducky last year and it's stuck. So if anyone wants a cuddle they ask for a ducky.

All whippets/lurchers/greyhounds are MaggieDogs as our dog is a whippet. A grey is a Big MaggieDog. A lurcher is a Tatty MaggieDog.

And after a drunken bbq 2 years ago when my lovely ndn was in the middle of getting sacked and decided not to go into work I agreed with her decision and said 'what they gonna do, sack you?' anyone struggling to make a decision about anything is asked the same question. Coukd be something as daft as do you want tea or coffee.

I call my DC's awful nicknames as terms of endearment i.e. poo face, stinker, uglet lol I have no idea why I swear but they think it's hilarious (my mother, however, does not 🙊). We also have a sick family blanket (over 30 years old and still going strong!)

'Well that's spoiled the whole holiday' when there is any disappointment. Think as small as the milk has run out or as big as a lost job. Comes from my massive tantrum on holiday over something very minor many moons ago, it was shouted at one of the DC by me and was completely over the top for the crime committed!

Love it. Lots here too, most originating from various small children: "But I wanny go y the Big W" is the ultimate expression of yearning in our household.

My family have a fair few, I think even ones that we don’t think about being ‘family quirks’ because they’re so normal to us now.

One that comes to mind though is when someone does something mildly annoying/bad but not enough to actually get proper annoyed over, we tell that person that they’re no longer “my fellow DJ”.
I started it years ago and it’s just stuck with us all, even my 3yo DS has started saying it now

My little sisters are so used to it but had no clue where it came from until the 15yo watched Kevin and Perry Go Large about a yr ago, and she couldn’t believe it when she heard it

Which one @34weeksAndCounting ?

ghostys we have the fisherman chip shop.

We get some odd looks when out shopping, especially Aldi or Lidl where they have computerised voice announcements. "Store assistant required at till 5" is quickly followed by one of us piping up "Doctor required in inflator room".

We often speak in quotes, especially Friends ones. And also use "you are no longer my fellow DJ!"

Anachronistic ours is "we can eat!" from a rather hair raising Saturday when DM hadn't made enough money in the shop and we had to raid my money box for supper. I like your DH's better though!

Anyone who buys milk has to put it in the fridge whilst saying "I have milk from a cow. You need to boil it"

Greek holiday in 1992. The apartment owner was very proud of herself for getting non uht

We deliberately give wrong answers to obvious questions, particularly if they're competition questions in children's magazines. The children get hilariously wound up by it. We kept the "What's this Minecraft creature? Ocelot or Ghast?" question going for months!

DS1 was quite exasperated. "How can it be an ocelot? Look! It shoots fireballs!"
"Ooooohhhh! Of course! My mistake! It's an ocelot with a flamethrower"

Lately we've been asking him what the electric rat in Pokémon is called, then when he says "Pikachu!" saying "Bless you!", offering tissues and saying "Now you've finished sneezing, what's it's name?"

Any minor mishap in the house has to be followed by someone shouting 'and now the day is ruined' followed by someone else shouting 'the day is not ruined' all in fake toddler voice.
When DS was young he used to get upset at the smallest things, cry tell us his day was ruined (if he had dropped a sweet on the floor or accidentally changed tv channel for eg) and when i started to copy with my own little mistakes he would look surprised and say the day isn't ruined in a 'silly mummy' type of way.

My number one favourite at home..."Does the Pope shit in the woods?"

Bad to the Bone is also known as the Mum's song to DH and DD and they play it on Spotify when I comment on the messy kitchen after they've been making pancakes or something else together. In all fairness they alway clean up afterwards.

Kitchen roll is called "raj" in our house, going back to Regina kitchen roll we shortened to reg and it just became "raj", quite amusing when someone's round and one of the kids needs some and they shout "where's the raj"