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!

happytobe my aunt and uncle called their dog and cat Puppy and Kitten up until they died of old age!

Winosaurus I am so doing the condiments thing next time I go to a restaurant

I remembered another one! Every time we take my DGF (in his late eighties) to a restaurant we forbid him from ordering steak. That's because he once sent back four consecutive steaks because they were too chewy, too well-done or too cold (twice). He's given up on steak now!

We say, “it’s got to be done, Bob,” if either of us had to do a boring or gruesome task.

We do a dance to the Homebase advert music and if only one of us is there we have to do the dance anyway and text the other one ‘Homebase dance’

DM squints with one eye through the door window and shouts NO MORE BEGGARS when I go round to her house.

Since the Irish bat video my whole group of friends yells YOU’RE DOING GREAT in a comedy Irish accent if anyone else is trying to carry too many drinks or whatever

If we drive past a particular exit near our house which says (place name) not suitable for heavy vehicles we snap, ‘I’ve TOLD YOU BEFORE, DH/W, it’s NOT SUITABLE.’

Another sign near us says ‘indicate Now for SNAX’ so we bark SNAX at each other which scares the crap out of anyone travelling with us

My sister and I went to an international school and grew up surrounded by people with seemingly very unusual names. We’d always try and outdo each other with unusual names in our class. 35 years later we are still playing, and will randomly text each other names of people we’ve come across. You have to have spoken to them for them to count. DSis lives abroad, so has a bit of an advantage, but I am currently winning since we got an Anakin at work.

We used to go walking a lot in the Lakes/Dales, where therevare lots of little farmhouse tea rooms. Whenever someone in my family visits another person, we knock on the door and ask “Do you do teas”. On the aporoach, you have to ask your travelling companions “Do you think they do teas?”.

Oh dear BikeRunSki, poor Anakin. I vetoed DD's middle name being Amidala.

We have 'crickets' in our house instead of potato croquettes - no idea where this came from.

If someone wants butter on something the response is 'butter or butter butter?' Butter means flora and butter butter is lurpak.

When in the car someone shouts 'duck' whenever going under a bridge, everyone must then duck. Hilarious when we played it on the train once.

'excuse me' is always followed by 'why, what have you done?' no matter where you are. We get some odd looks in public.

Pretty sure the soundtrack to the house is 'watch the juice!' because cups are frequently knocked over.

BikeRunSki I could win your game... I know a Kal-El.

Yep - I have met Superman

Oh no Sisyphus. This will completely out me, but I have a cousin called Adric (from Dr Who). That's why I vetoed Amidala. DC in the year above DD have confirmed that she would have had the piss taken out of her if people had found out.

Love love love this thread

A few in our house...though as with others I suspect I no longer notice them all

...Morrisons is Morridogs
...ordinary beer is ‘sorry only got cooking lager’
... every single morning of school holidays DD and I stage an argument where she refuses to put her uniform on and I go postal
...if we don’t have an ingredient for a recipe we bemoan the lack of ham and eggs
...if we are reminiscing about something and someone can’t remember it’s always ‘course you remember ...you were wearing your yellow jumper’ I feel like that one must come from something but am blowed if I can remember

Morrisons is Morridogs

It’s “Morribobs” in our house or “Hannah’s Dad’s” because DD knows the heir’s daughter (basically she’s ecentuagoing to inherit the whole thing - she’s about 18).

I just realised we also have “Hollibobs” instead of “holidays” and “claribot” instead of “clarinet”

A recent one is "The Weenies" for "The Sweeney".

Lol at Hannah’s dads :)

I can't believe I forgot this... in my family growing up rather than now - if there is ever a long pause over the dinner table, this must be broken by someone fixing a stare on someone else and saying "I bet your underpants are warm".

There is a reason, but I feel explaining it would kill the whole thing dead.

I often like to annoy DH by using tenses incorrectly, common one is when hesitating at a junction I say 'Could've went then!'.

We pretend we haven't heard each other and see how many times the other person will repeat themselves.

I often email DH throughout the day about DS, and we refer to him as she.

We call each other the same 'pet names', so we're both Douche, Tuppence/Tups.

So many, I hope DS grows up to be as odd as us!

So so many....if anyone says “guess what” the other person says “cold beans aren’t hot”. If someone’s burps we say “piggies in the corner”. Loads of tv references such as flora is always “vodka margarine” and anything remotely naughty is replied with “that’s what he/she said”. We all shout “shut up fridge” if the light starts flashing (because we haven’t put the food away fast enough)

When any of my family are in the car together and the window scooshers are scooshed (because that's what they are called).. we shout CARROTS! It began yeeeears ago when someone said the washer smelt like carrots. So whoever is last to say it is a big carrot.. obviously.

We also have this song we sing whenever someone makes a good joke or says/does something savvy, it goes like this. 'We want [insert name] as a leader, cause he's/she's big and strong and tough tough tough'. We clap on the toughs.

Buttered toast is scrub scrub toast, and coca cola is totie tola

Loving this. My grandad (now long gone) had several - if you asked him what was in his bag or what he was looking for the answer was always 'Dolls' eyes and railway bridges'. My brother and I had a wierd routine of squeaks and grunts that we will occasionally repeat (SIL is slightly bemused by it). My mum will still sometimes talk about being 'cuppa-teed' (which is to be dumped by someone who has had a better offer).

Also you do know that this is a Thing, don't you?

Buttered toast is scrub scrub toast, and coca cola is totie tola

Those are so cute!! Much nicer than our “strangled egg” (scrambled egg)...

The response in our family either by text or at home to ‘where are ya’? Has got to be ‘I’m in the entry’ as per the YouTube video of the scousers, google it....
Also milk in our house is ‘malk’ as per an episode of the Simpson’s. Also it is essential that we can all do the ‘running man’

When were driving along in the car on the motorway if we see blue traffic cones we all shout out BANANAAAAAA(minion style)if we go through a tunnel we all shout out echo,echo,echo.

Our youngest DD is asd and can get scared on the motorways and those 2 things make her laugh and help her relax.

People that don't know us well would be forgiven for thinking I have more than one name,my DC calls me Margaret and Rose(jam and Jerusalem)thanks to my DH and Dory(thanks to my DS16)because I have a terrible memory and I can do a really good impersonation of Dory speaking whale.

Anyone that knows us really well knows that anytime they come to our house they could find me being a judge on the x factor,the voice or teaching my DH and DD the Fox trot ect that or doing impersonations for the DC(I should never have let them know that I could mimic lots of characters really well)all for my DC,
I should mention,I don't randomly sit there on my own marking the Dogs out of 10

Love this thread

..if we are reminiscing about something and someone can’t remember it’s always ‘course you remember ...you were wearing your yellow jumper’ I feel like that one must come from something but am blowed if I can remember

I know, I know! It's Dougal from Father Ted. We do the same. (Sure it's blue jumper though)
Somebody can't remember something."You know, that day you went parachuting?And you fell and broke your leg?"
Shakes head
"You were wearing your blue jumper?"
"Ah, Sister Aassumpta! Hello!"

Thanks Dreamy!