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!

We buy each other Lego, and build it together. We don't really play with it, though; just look at it. He got me a Lego bride and groom for our first anniversary cake!

We have a little blackboard which we use to write lovey messages to each other. It took a long time to find coloured chalk!

We blindfold each other a lot. I was kept in the dark for a good while before he proposed to me. I always confiscate his sight while he hunts for Easter eggs, and while I make his birthday cake. We have a rule that the penalty for being a back-seat driver is to have your eyes covered.

Wrapping the presents is a big thing at Christmas - I like to be blindfolded and in the room while he wraps my presents, telling him I expect to be in the dark for a long time, so I hope he's got me lots of stuff. He takes photos of me holding them before they are wrapped. I get irritable if I find he wrapped a present for me without me there! (When he did that once, I thanked him for the present by putting him in time out for half an hour - blindfolded of course. )

After having sex, I often tell him off and smack his bottom for being so filthy!

DH and I talk about ourselves in third person in a Geordie accent in the style of the Big Brother voice over man "day 32 and DH is making tea".

DH makes a little stuffed penguin talk and gives him the voice of a gangster rapper who says highly inappropriate things, especially if I am getting changed.

When we are out shopping we talk in Saarf Lundon accents and call each other 'babe' a lot "ere babe do we need pasta, babe?" "Yeah, babe pasta babe." Then we will create a pretend argument which usually ends with "frack off then babe" in a Danny Dyer type way.

We like to combine 2 words into 1, so if you're using your phone whilst on the toilet you are probably having a poo Google so a poogle.

If we say a woman with big boobs we will alert the other to look by exclaiming "Jesus!"

Many more ridiculous things that make us laugh.

Whoever opens the curtains and lets in the light must do so by singing "Arsene Wenger, he's a wanker" in the style of the intro to the lion kings circle of life.

We sneak in movie lines into boring family conversations with relatives.

DH works with a guy called Adrian. His name MUST be said in Rocky style Aaaadrrrriiiiiaaaaaaaaan.

Love these, please keep them coming.

When DP opens curtains, he often throws them open with "Good morning city!" as in the Lego Movie. It always makes me smile.

dp told me that if we are ever out with friends or just out and about but we are not within earshot of each other, if I ever look at him and he runs his fingers over his eyebrows then that means he is telling me he loves me.

he tries to get me to pull his finger before each fart. I never do. he loves the challenge of trying to make me do it

dp has told the dc that he can communicate with the dog. so if we ever suspect them of lying then dp consults the dog...often they fess up before the dog confirms the truth

We sing 'floppy weiners' to the tune of Game of Thrones, 'floppy weiners floppy weiners floppy weiners, nice and soft, not erreeectttt' (south park)

all credit to YouBetterWerk for an ace thread

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Every time we watch the weather report we see who can be the most obnoxious in a grumbly old man voice. Eg 'tomorrow promises to be a lovely warm day' - 'stick your sunny day up your shitty arse you cheerful wanker'

It's quite cathartic as both of us are normally very mild mannered

We once saw a dinosaur documentary (DH is obsessed) which was showing some T-Rexes. The presenter announced "he must court her with food, or she will attack" and DH burst out laughing. Ever since then I am a T-Rex. I do love food. I can be a bit violent. It's a fair cop.
He often announces that he's coming home from work or wherever "bringing food. Just in case."

We quote an awful lot of stuff at each other.

This is largely inspired by my best friend, who started it, but whenever we high five we then snap our fingers and then we fist bump with a boom afterwards. Obviously.

I cannot stop laughing at this thread.

DH and I also do the Danny Dyer 'fackin cant' thing as well as telling each other to fuck off, no you fuck off, no you fuck off. We also do a thing where whoever has cooked dinner gets the cutlery out and passes it over, saying, 'here's your cuntlery' and the other one replies 'fork off'.

If we hear that MC Hammer song in public, we have to turn to each other and say 'STOP! Hammer time!'

DH and I went to New York a few years ago, ever since, whenever it is on a film, TV, we started saying "I've been there".

This has now progressed to us saying "Been there" at any mention of any place we have ever been remotely near.

We also do a lot of Bottom quoting, Peter Cook and Dudley Moore and Vic & Bob.

My DH also does this thing where he will say something mildly insulting, to me or about someone else, then he will do a cartoon shocked face and say "I can't beleive you said that!" It makes me chuckle every time.

Finally, my DH does a spot on impression of my Mother yelling at my Dad. I can't quote it in case it outs me but it is especially funny as my Dad's name has comedic value!!

Gralik - my DH often quotes Mr Creosote. What do you want for tea DH? Everything with eggs on top!

I just remembered another one. Whenever we hear or see anything to do with HP, we have to say Harry Paaaaaaattttaaaarrrr in a long drawn out American acent.

DD (16) and I are starting to develop some too now so our house is one long round of weird in jokes!

Gutted that we're not the only family using 23-19! I really thought we were so original and funny.

Other than that it's mainly Father Ted references....

Dp and I have a lot of jokes that are really not PC.

However, if I don't believe something he's telling me I will ask if he's 'Michael j fixing me' because in the first week we were together he was trying to convince me that Michael j fox was dead and had been for some time.

Also we love dog-spotting - whenever one of us spot a dog we will point it out to the other. If there are two dogs it's double dog and if it's three it 'three dog bow wow' in reference to one of the grand theft auto games. Well also point out other animals to each other but dogs are the most frequent.

His pet name for me is bear, apparently because I'm grumpy in the morning. Despite being together four years, ive still not got a pet name for him

We have loads and they would mostly look very silly/weird written down but I'll have a go.

Obviously pet names for each other but ours are chicken related. When he calls I answer the phone with 'Buddy the Elf, what's your favourite colour?' When we are being silly we say the word 'silly' in a silly voice and we say that we like the silly.

See, I told you it was all nonsense. There's loads more too

All of the above happened in a phone call when dh was driving handsfree and it wasn't until he got home that he told me his boss was in the car with him

Oh, we also do
'What you talking about?'
'Football. What you talking about?
'Shopping'

It was from a film which I can't even remember now. Even the kids have started saying it. We also do that handshake where you tickle your fingers on the other's palm (at the same time) and make a 'trilling' noise.

dp has told the dc that he can communicate with the dog. so if we ever suspect them of lying then dp consults the dog...often they fess up before the dog confirms the truth

My boyfriend really wants a dog but is too busy for one, so I pretend to be the dog. I make loud sniffing noises in his ear and try to push him off the warm spot on the sofa.

*when dh was driving handsfree

He was on the handsfree phone I mean, not driving with his arms in the air

Faire Pretty sure that shopping/football thing from Trainspotting.

Another in-joke, but it's a bit rude. We both crease up whenever the girls watch Frozen because the "I want you to take me up the North mountain" bit sounds like she's demanding he does the thing you can only talk about on MN on Friday nights.

Jack I went to a singalong Frozen screening because my (adult!) SIL wanted to for her bday and at that line our whole row of grown-ups did a stereo-sound snigger

Goady Thank you very much, I must confess to feeling very much relieved that it is not just us.
You bunch of fucking weirdos

MadAsgardian We do the New York thing too! Everytime it's on TV, photo, film, we'll say it.

He also has this habit of saying certain vegetables by their official name.
It's not spring onions, it's scallions. They're not peppers, they're capsicum

I pretend to be a dog for him too! We are renting and can't have one so I stick my tongue out a tiny bit and snuffle all over his face so it feels like a wet nose. I am a chocolate Labrador and I am called Choc ice.

Heyhey You're lucky your examples were hilarious because your SIL sounds like a right weirdo

It's so nice to know that there are equally odd people out there

We do Mr Creosote 'fuck off I'm full' and 'wafer thin mint?'

A lot of Father Ted.

An awful lot of film quoting, when he's waffling on I'll say 'Be quiet now sir, there's a good gentleman' (Zulu), or if something missing / empty we do '...and no cello..' from The Ladykillers.

Cold hands up the back, duvet popper races, imaginary prizes for the best burps / farts, pinch punch battles.

If we're planning the day, it always has to include a trip to the executions..'if I want any of my little friends executed that is'.

We play Banana Car, and have to punch one another when spotted.

A lot of exaggerated accents. Talking to each other in Clanger-ese. Or Pingu-ese. Occasionally pirate.

When asked what's for dinner, he gets told 'a smacked arse, a poke in the eye, or a bunch of fives...' he usually chooses smacked arse.

If there's a cat on a lap, it's fully acknowledged that the sat on person is fully incapacitated, even if it's 'black cat, not our cat'.

At bedtime, we don't turn off the light, we turn on the dark.

Much making up of songs, changing song lyrics, spontaneous singing based on a single word uttered.

And probably loads of other things that are just so normal to us now that they don't seem odd...

turning on the dark is a good one

I just looked at dp and said "you may pleasure me?" he offered me his hand to shake and said "deal"