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!

If anyone is moaning or fussing it’s a ‘meep’ when our son was a newborn he made the noise of a bird when he wanted milk like ‘meep’
Indigestion is ‘chip feeling’
Farts are ‘donalds’
Every Christmas when the crackers come out my dad goes ‘I pulled a cracker in 89!’ (The year he married my mum —groan— aww)
Any drink is a ‘gink’ cause that’s how the toddler pronounces it
Loads more but can’t think off the top of my head! Love this thread

Sears poncho to describe anything a bit lame, useless or fake.

As in Brad is a real Sears poncho, did you see how he lost that walleye!

I thought it was dh's for years, until he finally admitted he stole it from zappa.

We have a tendency to, if anyone is acting weird, say "Is he all right?", with the Is being very high-pitched and emphatic.

We're all so weird... but we love it!

With my parents we have lots.

The correct answer to "how are you?" is always "abused and neglected."

When my parents were annoying me (and even now) I'd say "I'm calling Childline! I know the number." and then sing the number. My children now do this.

The words meringue and quiche are pronounced as seen.

Work is always called the place of evil and torture.

And anytime we here the word Stevenage we have to sing it as Stevieweevieweevanage. I cannot remember how that came about.

With dh if one of us is having a rant about something the other will say "and Christmas is cancelled" in a particular voice. That's after I threw a massive tantrum over something minor and cancelled Christmas one year. An alternative to this is "and I want a divorce" after another of my strops. (My dh is a very patient man.)

Tablets are called tumble taps (thanks Mr. Tumble!)

Whenever one of us picks up a knife the other will shout "put the knife down!". I was once having a moan to dh and picked up a knife to put it away. Dh decided I was going to stab him and shouted at me to put the knife down.

There are many more...

I hurt like a hurty thing is common in our house

Love this thread.

@JonnaSilvie two more grown adults misnaming groceries here too. If we need to stock up on something it's "many" or indeed "manylots". DH often adds "kisses for puss" onto the list when I'm not looking (I'm puss). Though these days he spells it pooos. Granola is granonononola (sing to same tune as lola). Eggs are eggses. Bananas are often banananananananas, after the Pratchettism of "he knew how to start spelling banana but didn't know how to stop".

Socks are sockalops. We refer to medicating or tableting the dog. Letting her out into the garden is releasing the hound.

When leaving the house as a family, DH will often say "let's get this bullshit on wheels on the road" - can't remember what it's a quote from or if he made it up.

We have many and most are DH's making - one of his more endearing qualities!

Upstairs is always called “the up-top room” at our place, and when something’s in a mess or someone’s confused, it (or they) are “in a bit of a sqwuddle”.

We live in a flat. Going to our bedroom at the front of the house is going "upstairs". I got it from DH, who got it from MIL.

On the very rare occasion we mention champagne we have to say champagne hwah hah hah a la posh. Also if we have peas we have to specify mushy or gaaaarden after my Dad was asked his preference in a pub with pretensions. We also randomly will shout out Bing Bang and everyone else has to answer Wallah Wallah Bing Bang except for one who will then sing Bing Bang Wallah Wallah Bang Bang. Usually in the car so no one else can witness the sheer stupidity

& we all duck when we drive under a bridge but only if someone shouts Duck. If no one shouts duck whoever is driving has to do a head count

We have to breathe in when we drive down narrow lanes.

I look forward to the day when entire generations will shout 'He's making a mockery of you, Derry! ' and NOT KNOW WHY

These are great! When we explain we have lots of jobs to do we include at the end “and our pets heads are falling off”

Also when someone asks we’re are the keys it’s responded with “not the cheeeeeeese, the keys”

We have many more, we all need to be tested!

We always say very seriously in an American accent 'I don't negotiate with terror' when someone is being a bit foot stampy.
And we always say 'back home' as we pull up outside and 'come on car' in an encouraging way when driving up a hill (left over from when we had a rubbish old car that struggled-the new car doesn't need geeing up but we like to do it anyway)

Cheese and Onion crisps are CheesyWeezyOnionBunion

Cheesy Wotsits are Wheezy Chotsits.

OH cheesy wotsits are cheesy dibbles here.

If someon says “I’m thristy” someone else always pipes up “I’m friday, pleased to meet you”.

I love all of these!