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!

DM, DSis and I have a little thing if one of us is leaving someone must say "mind how you go" and the reply is "spooky wooky".
No idea how it came about and remember saying it to my nana who passed away when I was 7, so it's been going a fair few yrs!

(German) DH and I use a few made up, half-English/half- German words. For example, slippers are 'pushies' from the German 'pushen'. I often have to check myself when about to say certain words to other people as I suddenly remember that they're not actually real words!

genehunts helicopters are hubschraubers in our house. It's because the first sentence a friend of mine learnt in German was "Ich bin ein hubschrauber."

Any conversation about eggs with my DH turns into a performance of the Two Ronnies' Swedish sketch. F V N E X? S, V F X (etc).

Oh yeah. Am sure all families have their 'in' jokes. Problem is when you're not with family but a familyism spills out. For example, when DS was a toddler, for some unknown reason he'd get excited by the egg section in Asda. 'EGGS! EGGS!' He would holler. Anyhoo this has stuck in our memories so when someone at home says the word 'eggs' one of us will shout it. Only sometimes I forget myself and do it out in the real world, and then get funny looks followed by people backing away slowly 😀

Ooh err. Eggs is a popular theme

Lots! We use a lot of the kids mispronounced words regular. ‘Homicks’ - orange, ‘sandman’ - snowman, ‘seatpops’ - seatbelts. Ketchup is always dip dip.

We always laugh whenever anyone gets a savaloy from the chip shop and ask if they want it peeling. This is because of a dippy moment from me when we first got together and I’d never had one before

Insults in our house are often terms of endearment.

Squash (orange squash etc) is squish in our house

Dh and I always fist bump when something goes well but then we have to pull our hand away (up towards our ear), splay the fingers and say "boom cannon" in a specific voice.

If one of us has a moan about something that isn't really important, the other will say "nice story grandma/grandpa"

With my mum and sisters, any time someone says something daft it's an -eldest sisters name- statement

Loads of odd things.
Many quotes to each other from Star Wars or Marvel films.
Mostly though things like “run away” followed by “Sir Robin bravely turned and fled!” - monty python
The Cat gets sung to quite a lot - it’s called Chairmans Meow- can’t remeber the kids tune that we sing it’s name to over and over again.
Quite often if someone has something we all turn into Gollem and rasp Precious at them.
That’s all I can think of off the top of my head.

Oh yes and any cake has the quote “could do with more marzipan” said after eating as it was something great grandad said and no one else in the family apart from him and is eat marzipan.

On Sunday and Wednesday nights I shout " U Can't touch this" and the kids will respond " OooOOooooO, OooOOooo, Ooooo, STOP! it's LIKE hammer time . ( then in a weird voice) But with more water" . This is the signal for shower. I then hear them taking turns in the shower, dancing/ copying the MC hammer dance moves. They are 10, 13 and 18. And yes, I also do it.

My DH has a massive bank of music knowledge in his head and it drives the kids crazy when we are watching a movie and a word will trigger a memory and suddenly he bursts into song. But we always stop, listen for a few seconds and award points for how tennuous the connection is. So if somebodyon tv says " It's over the bridge" he may sing Like a bridge over troubled water" and get 1 point but if he sings "under the bridge" by the chilli peppers he will get 2 points. The winner is obviously "cry me a river" as bridges often go over rivers. The rules are fluid and can be changed at any time.

OH used to have a bit of an issue with stupid people and would openly tell them they were wankers. This is not conducive to normal life so I told him to fix it. Now its become normal for use all, even the kids to start singing "Im just a regular Joe, with a regular Job. I am an average, white, suburbanite slob." ( I'm an Asshole, by Dennis Leary). We do this every time we are being told of fuck-wittery, or as a signal that we need saving from a terrible conversation with a nobber. Or because somebody does something exceptionally stupid. Humming it works, as does texting. It also saves us from road rage and if we get cut up,etc all car passengers must sing the song in full to ensure the anger passes.

Lots and lots more.

fanny Your shower dance has just made me squirt apple juice through my nose for laughing. I'm trying to think of some more...

Sometimes when we put the kettle on, we'll announce that we've put the kettle on and someone else will respond, "Yes I KNOW you've put the kettle on!"

I have also been known to, if relevant, say "PLUNNNNGE", "PLUSH", "CRACK (ooh, cheeky)" etc etc in the manner of Miranda Hart. Also, if the words "moist" or "plinth" come up in a sentence, I will imitate Miranda Hart and say "The queen of all words: moist. The king of all words: plinth. Imagine a moist plinth."

We’ve also got some from my late grandma and from my mum: “Eeh! Well it sickens me!” - whilst watching people open presents or consuming luxury foods. Also “I wish I’d stayed in Whitley Bay” - used when something has gone wrong at a tense moment, it dates from the moment my mum, who was always on the verge of a nervous breakdown by Christmas, dropped the Christmas pudding on the way to the table. This helpful exclamation from grandma broke the stricken silence.
From my mum, we respond to the most minor correction or critical observation with a martyred “I’M sorry, I do try” also if someone is overreacting to something we’ll say “these bacon steaks have shrunk” in memory of an innocent comment by my dad that precipitated an epic meltdown from my mother.

When crossing the road I call out "Come on, Christopher Cross". My DS is not called Christopher and nor is anyone else in the family.

Another bottom and young ones fan as well as blackadder and jasper carrot. JC line is used between dad and I when someone speeds off in front of us, one of us says 'he won't get there any faster...' the other 'yes he bloody will. And and my parents and I comment on items in shops by telling each other oo ROB ( rip off bastards ) and anything remotely rude is met with said the art mistress to the gardener which came from my very rude grandad who I miss so much

fanny my kids also quote bits of Dennis Leary although they have never seen him due to his sweary nature. If anyone mentions otters they start reciting the sketch where he compares otters and cows. Also dh likes to sing 'life's gonna suck when you grow up' to them a lot.

Dh and I quote Spaced at each other a lot. Eg
Are you ready?
I was born ready.
Yes, but are you ready now?
Er... Yes.

If anyone does anything clumsy, someone will say 'Sick move, bro'.

We will sing the title of a TV programme along with the theme tune (easy for Dr Who, v difficult for most others).

If the dds have some trivial whinge, dh or I will suggest they 'take it to the ombudsman'.

Calling people "Sospot' as a term of endearment. Calling my sister sibbers. Randomly bursting out "wouldn'tchoo simpleh DAAAAAAAAH without Mahler?" cf Educating Rita. Loaaads of silly rhymes, nicknames etc for the baby. I love these things, they feel like home. So glad everyone does this stuff too!

Once my brother was trying to watch the football on tv when we were kids so I stood next to the screen just stomping my foot up and down for a good 10 mins until he totally lost his shit and I shouted back in a ridiculously Brummie accent “What bab? This is my foot tapping place” and now everyone says it whenever they’re trying to annoy each other.

In church about 20 years ago my little cousin farted and it stank, we all laughed and she shouted “Can the bishop smell it?” Now we say it whenever someone breaks wind.

If anyone drops peas whilst eating them we shout dramatically “Did you just pea on the table/ floor/ chair...” followed by “The dirty bastard”

Oh yes, Bottom!
If anyone is doing a crossword the answer is always "Fzzzzbxx"
Used toilet rolls are "Play telescopes"
And "Fick erf, you sad, pathtik winker" is a good catch all term of abuse.

Also ( from the Young Ones) if anyone says "What's new?" someone has to say "Microchip technology?"

Lady in our house if DS gets to wild or hyper we shout “You need to calm down Vyvyan” and we can all quote Rik Mayall’s poem - my brother once handed in a copy of it on his GCSE English class and his teacher gave him a B 😂

Also from Drop Dead Fred if someone hasn’t put their underwear on yet we act out the scene where Fred looks up the lady’s skirt.
And if someone is about to sneeze we say “NO! Gladioli!”

If we've been singing or humming a song and hear someone else singing or humming that same song, you have to shout "thanks for playing".
My sister and I use the word dog in most sentences instead of the right word. For example I opened the door to her yesterday and was greeted with a "Happy New Dog".

If we see someone dressed far too young or skimpily, my sister, mother abs I will bleat in each other’s presence. Very quitejly.

Our familyisms are based on mispronounces words that the kids frequently used or continue to use.

Aygs -eggs
Braid - bread
Fjor - fuel
We still use these in our everyday language

My dad sometimes used to answer the phone “Battersea Dogs’ Home, duty dog speaking,”

And whenever anyone burps, it is blamed on one of our first cats, Clyde. He died years ago, but apparently still suffers dreadfully from wind, poor thing! Strangely, he never burped whilst alive.

If one of the dogs does something they shouldn’t, the excuse is always “A big dog did it and ran away!”