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!

This is great - keeping me amused while I wait for dinner to cook!

We've got so many odd words for things but they're quite hard to remember as we use them so naturally, until we use them in front of someone and realise they're not normal, eg chiggy-biggies for cheese & biscuits.

And then we can have whole conversations in quotes from Life of Brian and The Holy Grail.... "We'eelll, at first", "Speak up", "King of the who?"

JonnaSilvie DH and I also call Milk ‘Milsh’ 😂😂👀

We have LOADS.
If something is broken it’s ‘boff’ because that’s how DNiece used to say broken when she was a preschooler.
We call each other (and DD) ‘Bob’ or ‘Jeff’
If we’re talking about someone and was can’t think of their name we say ‘and you know...Ermmm...what’s his name Bob Jackson’.
We say ‘I don’t know Jeff’ after Chris Kamara’s famous gaff on sky sports (YouTube it, it’s hilarious)
Things we can’t remember are called ‘doobanies’ or ‘gubbins’
Loads from Alan Partridge (cash back! Spice world!), Friends (I’m a Tiny little woman! I’m not < insert activity we’re doing you are!), Scrubs (Sing Guy love to each other even though we are a male/female couple).
‘Bye felicia’ is often used
Lately we’ve started saying ‘oh hi mark’ ala Tommy Wiseau from The Room.

The list is endless. We often say to each other after crying laughing at whatever daft thing we’ve said ‘at least we found each other’.

Anything not a brand name is 'schmeng'.

The largest chip on DS's plate is known as the 'love chip' and we all take a bite each at the end (see also 'pal potato' and 'affection fry').

Alcohol is called 'meeeeeeelk' with air quotes.

We sing along to the 20th Century Fox theme tune saying 'bingeldy beep'

If anything's in the microwave DS & I join hands and walk round in circles singing The Magic Roundabout theme (from the 70s).

A few more. Star Wars ,marvel and spaced always quoted and we often break into Tenacious D songs.

A recent one, whenever I get home I always take my bra off ASAP. Lately I’ve started flinging it off and stand there like Michael Jackson in earth song going ‘ahahhahhhhhahhhahahhahahhhh’. DH thinks it’s hilarious.

I've thought of another one which started years ago when DC were little and used to always be nudging and shoving each other when id asked them to stand or sit still.

From this was born 'stop jostling, Jocelyn Brown'. Which is now said to anyone who is fidgeting/ nudging you.

My poor kids.

I read an article recently in which it was said Neil Gaiman invented the word absotively in a recent book. I beg to differ because 30 odd years ago the established response in our family to 'are you sure?' was to say absotively posolutely.

So there Neil!

"Horse shit and tram tickets"

Lakie if you ever write your memoirs, please call it this ^^, for us.

The remote control is called 'goat control'... It started with DS saying ote-control when he was a toddler, I've no idea when or how it changed to goat.

OH regularly calls me snot face- from drop dead Fred.

DS (8) has started calling everyone Jeff... 'Cheers Jeff.' Something to do with a football commentator I think??

We use friends quotes all the time too.

Yes I do “cheers Jeff” with my youngest (he started it). Then I turned into a Jeff and Geoff style dialogue. No idea who Jeff is but maybe it is football related. Oh, and I can’t say football with my children, I have to say foozball.
If my children say they don’t like food I cooked I start wailing like a spoilt teenager “I hate it, you ruined everything, you ruined my life, this is the worst day ever ...”

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."

People regularly look at me when I forget where I am do a big 'SUCH FUN!' with gallop hands.

Moist plinth is unfortunatley now going to stick...

When DH and I are watching football and out team is not playing the best we shout Give it to Gordon Give it to Gordon from the film Jimmy Grimble.

Me and dh quote films all the time when the moment comes, seems to always be Forrest Gump and the green mile (thick accents) occasionally mrs doubtfire (it was a run by fruiting!) when youngest Ds was being potty trained and had an accident we'd call him Percy wetmore with the song, eldest ds just thought we were weird

Ooh we do ‘I don’t know, Geoff’.

Hang on and I’ll find the clip.

If we’re watching a film etc that shows an out of date laptop/mobile phone etc we point at the telly and shout “dated by technology”.

All four of us, DH both DD's and myself sing everything to the A Team theme tune.

Anything that we are doing from making coffee to the kids getting their school stuff ready, we sing a description to what were doing to the A Team theme tune.

I've no idea how this started or when and the kids have never even watched A Team

When DP removes spiders for me he always sings the Mission Impossible theme tune which cracks me up!

My nana always called M&S ‘Marks Expensive’ and so now we can’t seem to call it anything else!

If one of us tells a long boring anecdote, DH and I say ‘well, it’s the story that has everything, a tale as old as time’ etc.

‘We say ‘This is a lovely place’ from Black Books when discussing the mess that needs tidying.

DD says living lounge instead of living room so we always say that now.

We have many - If one of the DCs asks what's for dinner, they will be told either "turds and onions" or "bread and touch it".

If you are silly enough to comment that a food is hot, the whole family will shout back "you wouldn't want it if it were cold"

Any of the dcs whinges - "you sound like a dying duck in a windstorm"

and one from my DMiL that DH uses all the time... "fart in a mitt, looking for the thumb hole"

My late father was famous for responding to any statement that started with "if I had..." or "if it was..." with "and if your aunt had balls, she'd be your uncle". I still catch myself saying that, need to be careful.

Oh, and DS just reminded me of a couple more.

His favourite thing to add to cooked beef is a steak seasoning from a restaurant called the Barbarian Steakhouse. However, he once misheard me ask him to pass it, and since then, it has always been Barbarian Snake Poisoning.

And nothing in our house is expensive - it is "a big money!"

The fastest way to get one child to groan and another to cackle evilly is to make one say (or think of) "the game". As soon as you say it or think of it, you lose "the game". We do our best to outdo each other with creative ways to make someone lose "the game"

When going anywhere with DD:

"We've got Mini Teddy, Elephant Teddy, Blanket, the kitchen sink" we don't literally take the kitchen sink but we say as we have to take her elephant and blanket plus changing bag and everything else for a day trip so we're taking everything including the kitchen sink

Plenty of Vic n Bob:
"Ya wouldn't let it lie .. ya could've let it lie, but ya didn't let it lie ..."
Lots more - usually in a Geordie accent, so prob all Vic n bob originally, but now lost in the mists of time...

Good post!! Every time we go under an bridge on the motorway the kids shout "duck" and I say "quack quack" it was something my mum did with us. Being on a motor way then was unusal tho, now we travel on them often it gets a bit dull!!

As DD gets older and the range of old films and TV series she has seen increases, DH and I are apparently starting to make a bit more sense