The cute --weird-- rituals/jokes you do with your DP...

[YouBetterWerk]

Here are just a few of the personal little in jokes and rituals we have, but the more I think about it the less I think other couples have them!

1. Puffins. Obsessed with them. Don't know where it came from, but we have notepads, cards, nicknames, all surrounding these bloody Puffins.
2. 'Sunday Morning Face' - The blank excited stare, pushed right up against my face every Sunday morning.
3. 'Bobble Hat Song' - Every time we see someone with a bobble hat on, we sing a song. I would post the lyrics but it is copyright.
4. 'Stair Necessities' - Here we have a song we sing to the tune of 'Bare Necessities' every time I go up the stairs to bed. He will also change the lyrics to reflect what we've done that day, giving it that lovely personal touch.

This is just a small example, there are dozens more. We are both grown adults.

I asked my hairdresser about hers the other day and she looked at me like I was crazy and said 'Sometimes I guess we say goodbye in a funny way'

Please reassure me it's not just us!

*has to be sung

oh lots of things, too many to list really.

Some of them:
Bed privileges, first person to bed gets the choice of space.
'loves' where you touch the other person with the tips of your fingers. Don't even need to say the word. Poke more and more insistently until the other person responds with the same gesture.
We also play a miming game called 'what am i?' which can be literally anything. Armadillo, Stick, Fish, tree. This morning Husband mimed being a fire.

At night we'll lay in bed to sleep and just before I put earplugs in he says goodnight and I'll reply "Night, don't let the bed rats bite." and "nip" his belly with my hand It started as a joke and it's become tradition now

On the rare occasion that he has a lay-in, I take one of the [pet] rats in to wake him up when I think he's had a long enough lay-in.

If I pull my eyebrows up and top lip up to reveal my teeth DP breaks down into hysterical laughing, so I often do it when he's on the phone to his mother or on skype when gaming and put my face right next to his.

We occasionally start insulting each other for no reason, but it has to be creative insults. Thanks to Mumsnet I generally win

We'll text each other something that makes no sense by using the predictive word function, so if you write a letter and see what word appears, then just keep clicking the next word that appears.

If the answer to something is "yes" then it's said "Yeeezz?"
This stems from a game we play where when we're on a car journey we have to attempt to make words from the three letters at the end of a reg plate.

When we're heading to bed for fun, as soon as one of us is naked the other says "Oh, did you trip and all of your clothes fell off?" Every bloody time. I really don't know how that happens Usually it's DP saying it to me as somehow I'm always undressed first

We also talk from the rats POV. They all have different ways of speaking.

I love 23-19

Creepy Toby is brilliant, cackling at that!

No, you are not the only one, I'm not going to go into great details because it's really embarassing but...
me and dh have our own language which includes made up swears and insults.
DS1 made up "silly bump" to describe someone doing something stupid or naughty so when the children misbehave I threaten to sing "bump the elephant" but replace elephant with their name. It works!

We have a spleen thing. I don't know why but sometimes we say "I spleen you" or "spleeeeen" in a funny voice. I have a big spleen cuddly toy now

We have stupid made up songs and dances. We sing "I am the music man..." Song but instead of an instrument we pick up a dog or cat and play them like a guitar meow meow meow.

DP is over a foot taller than me and I give him kitchen piggy backs with a song while he fears for his life.

Oh, there are also many jokes about our rats in inappropriate places or being visible, because we're so mature

Especially if DP has his nightgown on over PJs and one of the rats has climbed inside, he likes to whip it open and ask how I like his rat

We have many, pinch punch, 'your Mum doesn't know where the library is' and 'come and eat children'

My Mum mentioned (in passing as part of another story) how she pretends to be a bear when my Dad puts her bedtime drink next to her in the dark.

Our cards (birthday, Valentine's etc) are always signed with 'love you with all my heart, even the bits I'm not using'
Can't remember why now but it still makes me smile.

We talk in dodgy Aussie accents and refer to each other as Neville and Nevillia in the style of Eric Bana in the film Chopper.

We have Sunday Morning club when we have time for a leisurely breakfast and a slow start to the day.
We talk through the dog and also through a very old stuffed bunny that belonged to DS2

I feel better about us now

Love this thread! Ours are awful.

All nouns now have "pops" on the end since we inexplicably started taking the word "pops" onto the end of our baby DS's name... Hoping we'll both 'grow out' of that one soon as it's quite cringey and embarrassing. Milkypops. iPadpops. Dinnerpops... Ridiculous!

We cheers eachother properly every time we drink anything. We often cheers food too... e.g. 'clinking' ice lollies together and saying cheers before eating.

We look at eachother with an exaggerated sad face and say "meeeeeeeep" in a sorrowful way if one of us mildly offends the other.

We always force the other one to sniff the baby's bum when it's already obvious there's a poo in the nappy... pretty sure a lot of parents do that one though...?

Ginslinger
I feel much more normal now, particularly with the 'talking through the animals' thing. We too have stuffed animals that have their own back stories and relationships we don't even have kids

Mamushka
That pops thing is brilliant and awkward and terrible all at the same time.

Er, yes. We have had them for years and I will mention the less embarrassing ones here. We change the beginning of words like 'kisses and cuddles' to 'risses and ruddles' - I have no idea why and it looks so odd written down.
WE have loads of ridiculous phrases that we use - some from TV that we picked up and some that we've made up ourselves.
We are all 'goats' in this house - ie , 'where are the goats' ie, the children. We call the cat's paws 'goat paws'. I could go on but the men in white coats could be coming any moment...
I can't believe couples don't have these 'in jokes', we've been together nearly 22 years and had some almost from day 1!!!

Supermarkets
'HELLKITTY DO YOU NEED FANNY PADS???'
'No thanks but your pile cream is on offer.'

If the cat is between us in bed then it's DPs furry force field to stop any of my saucy nonsense.

'How about now?' Within a couple of seconds of saying 'no'.

Any 'yoof' with low slung jeans has the, 'looking like a fool wit your pants on the ground', song sung at them.

Anyone dressed ridiculously has 'Look at those bad boys'.

The shed turns into the shed from The Fast Show. Peas with a meal are 'cheesy peas, now in strawberry flavour'.

We do our happy dance when we're happy. I do Legs 'n' Co, he does Shakey and together we do The Brotherhood of Man.

Everything is a misheard song lyric.

No one else understand us

Oh this has made me feel so much better, a lot of what we do I can't say because we do it in front of other people and it would out me.

But we sing songs to each other changing the words to fit what we're doing.

The dogs talk and have their own accents and attitudes, girl dog is a bit stuck up, boy dog has a lisp.

oh dear lord.

Martin from Homes Under the Hammer and his two coats. we love him and like to imagine his OK Magazine-style life except he lives in a tiny hovel.

in the middle of foreplay whoever says 'do you like that?' in Alan Partridge's voice they are the winner.

he calls me by my last name in the style of a 70s bent copper. I call him 'handsome' in a Cockney accent.

we shout inappropriate things in shops. it's pure brinkmanship...

I love us but suspect we are deeply annoying...

oh. I meant 'is the winner'. durr.

Oh this makes me sad, I can't think of anything that me & DP do like this!
I'm hoping there are some and they've just become normal to me...off to rack my brain to think of something

We sing "Who wants a lovely cup of teaaaaa?" to the tune of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?, to which the answer is "Iiiiii dooooo!".

We call each other and any other close family/friends Dave.

When DH is getting dressed he puts his pants fast on so that his penis makes a 'thwap' sound, purely for my amusement.

For some reason we slightly change the titles of the programmes we watch on telly. For example house of cards = house of face. And game of thrones = thrones of death.

We like to talk to eachother in song... A LOT.

We 'Boop' each other (finger inserted in clothed bum crack, usually whilst in a shop, and shout 'Boop')

'Chink' glasses, forks, sandwiches, crisps.

If he looks at my boobs when I get dressed, I call him a boob looker. See also any number of things like spoon licker, bladder pusher, bum touched etc.

I'd one says they need a wee the other had to try to press their bladder.

Variations of pin the tail on the donkey / put some sellotape on the fridge from Bottom.

Endless songs. Whole conversations in the form of songs.

Ummm,we have loads but some are too embarrassing to post

We have a supermarket song, we have our own language in squeaks-3 in a particular tune for 'I love you' etc, we chase each other up and down the stairs in a certain way, we play yellow car spotting, we have our own dances for certain times, we have Sunday morning brunch together, there are many more. I can't add more detail as they would sound insane!

these are great.

When we are out, dp and I refer to each other as beth and denis. (to strangers) when they ask how we met or what we do, we have to make something up, denis takes the first part of the story and beth takes the second.

we also have a weird beth and denis hug which requires both of us leaning to our left with arms outstretched and wrapping ourselves around each other.

beth and denis rock

We talk through the medium of soft toys.

We do a Simon's Cat impression when the other is eating/drinking and not offered it. (sort of point to own mouth and say miaou)

Alcohol is offending "Can I offend you" "what sort of offence would you like" "I'm not offended enough" and then "my glass is broken" ie empty.

Randomly call out "spunktrumpet" "wanker" etc for no reason.

Hide in the understairs cupboard and jump out shouting "rawr" when the other one walks by

If one of us makes a comment that sounds like a song lyric we work it to death bringing the rest of the song into the conversation but never mentioning the actual song title.