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Moving Furniture - AIBU to think everyone says this?

65 replies

RabbitintheHeadLamps · 26/08/2025 16:53

I was moving a small wardrobe earlier and it got me thinking - does any British person ever move a piece of furniture with someone else and not say “To me, to you”.

The Chuckle Brothers are truly ingrained in British culture.

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Silverbirchleaf · 26/08/2025 19:01

KelsCommemorativeSausage · 26/08/2025 18:18

@TheOtherAgentJohnson yes! I do!

I also say Just the one, Mrs Wembley; and nobody knows what I'm on about but I can't stop saying it after so many years.

Me too!

Silverbirchleaf · 26/08/2025 19:02

Also, ‘ It’s hot, hot, hot’ after ‘Big Cook, Little cook’.

MagpiePi · 26/08/2025 19:12

RuthandPen · 26/08/2025 17:00

I'm a foreigner, and have come across this all the time in British novels without understanding it. I knew it was a Chuckle Brothers phrase because I googled it, but I don't actually understand what it means? They are handling furniture, but why are they saying 'To me, to you'?

As far as I remember, they didn’t actually co-ordinate their efforts with the ‘to me, to yous’, they just kind of bumbled about in a useless way while saying it.

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr · 26/08/2025 19:15

KelsCommemorativeSausage · 26/08/2025 18:18

@TheOtherAgentJohnson yes! I do!

I also say Just the one, Mrs Wembley; and nobody knows what I'm on about but I can't stop saying it after so many years.

I say this too! It's from On the Up, right?

KelsCommemorativeSausage · 26/08/2025 19:15

@Silverbirchleaf excellent! I have finally found a kindred spiritGrin

KelsCommemorativeSausage · 26/08/2025 19:16

@Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr yes it is!

I'm quite excited now. I feel seenGrin

Thispupsgottofly · 26/08/2025 19:53

This is so weird that you've posted this today - I was just reading a Bob the Builder book to my daughter and in that they where moving a plank of wood and saying "to you, to me" and it got me thinking about how it's so ingrained and the massive cultural influence of The Chuckle Brothers!
Edited spelling mistake (although engrained is not technically wrong)

Goatblu · 26/08/2025 20:15

Yes. Every time. Also use Pivot 😁

ArtesianWater · 26/08/2025 20:19

Yes. I particularly enjoy doing this with my old dad. He always appreciates it.

rubrikscube · 26/08/2025 20:23

I’m of an age where we are more likely to do the “Er dad, do you know the piano’s on my foot?”, “You hum it son, I’ll play it” routine

rubrikscube · 26/08/2025 20:24

Also “4 candles/ fork ‘andles” features a lot!

KeepDancing1 · 26/08/2025 21:05

TheOtherAgentJohnson · 26/08/2025 17:31

Much more obscure, but does anyone else when they're washing a duvet always think, "we don't do duvets!"?

Yes! And in a dry-cleaners the other day, with a stack of boxed duvets waiting to be picked up, I found myself thinking, ‘they do do duvets’!

Teamonkey123 · 26/08/2025 21:46

@freezation yes!!! Me too!! 😂😂😂

AngelsWithSilverWings · 26/08/2025 22:15

We don't do duvets is big in our house. We were both big Trevor and Simon fans.

PIVOT! For moving furniture.

And if DH and I have a nice treat that we don't want to share with the kids we tell them it's too orangey for crows.

RabbitintheHeadLamps · 27/08/2025 00:02

Thanks all for your responses.

This also got me thinking about the “wahay” when a member of bar staff drops a glass
in the pub. Extra points if someone comments “sack the juggler”.

I was in a pub recently when a glass was dropped and no-one did it and I felt a bit sad. Then I realised I hadn’t done it and that it was incumbent on us all to keep these things going.

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purpleme12 · 27/08/2025 00:27

I loved the Chuckle Brothers

And best thing was that when my child was younger I showed her the DVDs and she laughed her head off at them!

Timeless

I so would have taken her to see them if they'd still been performing

OrangeFluff · 27/08/2025 00:30

Using “ah go on” when offering a cup of tea.

petergriffinsdeadfrog · 27/08/2025 00:33

”To me to you” and “PIVOT”. Makes things so much more light hearted and bloody funny Grin

purpleme12 · 27/08/2025 00:56

Thank you I have not seen this before

Will try remember to watch this again tomorrow when I can hear it better

Love Chuckle Brothers
Can't believe he died ☹️

OliveWah · 27/08/2025 02:29

Yep, I'm pretty sure it's the law!

If anyone so much as mentions the moon in our house, they are met with a rousing chorus of "Full moon, 'alf moon, total eclipse"!

birdling · 27/08/2025 07:17

Listen very carefully...

KelsCommemorativeSausage · 27/08/2025 07:38

I'm also incapable of seeing a picture of an armadillo without saying Smooth on the inside, crunchy on the outside.

crumpet · 27/08/2025 07:41

SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 26/08/2025 17:37

Both ‘to me - to you’ and ‘pivot’ get honourable mentions on the Cultural references the young uns don’t get thread, @RabbitintheHeadLamps.

I alway used to think “One each end and steady as she goes - tried to lift it, couldn’t even shift it” when moving furniture. .

I will now have this earworm for the rest of the day! (And so, we, had a cup of tea…)

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