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When I get in the bath and it's a bit hot I always

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HoneyDragon · 26/04/2016 19:17

Sing the end bit of International Playboys. Can't help myself, it just comes out.

Go on then people. Out irrational odd habit that one....

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SmallLegsOrSmallEggs · 26/04/2016 21:42

I make horse (raspberry) noises if I am drunk going upstairs.

I sigh when I walk through doors if there is a temperature differential.

Also do Flash Ahh (also Macromedia user)

"Send Ajax out to scour the universe" if we are cleaning.

If I say "I am tired/bored/starving" dp will say "I'm {name}. Pleased to meet you".

He. Is. 46. Ffs.

I sing "upturned plug" (Billy Joel) if I see a plug about to get stood on (it's an Adam and Joe popoppriation)

And if someone asks "did it rain" or "did you have fun" or virtually any did question I reply "nod alllll the time" in the tome in the voice of the little boy from the Turkey Drummers advert (from the 80sBlush)

SquinkiesRule · 26/04/2016 21:48

I work in a hospital and tend to sing usually in my head theres a song for just about everything. Patient names especially, I find myself singing "Come of Eileen" Lots of names rhyme with Joleen, so that one gets used often.
Dh does the Don't call me shirley, and Dd and I sing We built the pyramids and the Bang part.

froubylou · 26/04/2016 21:52

If anyone asks 'where's my keys?' We all burst into 'where's my keys, where's my phone, where's my keys, where's my phone? Have you ever been in that situation where you lost your keys and your mobile phone'.

Annoys the fuck out of me.

We also have a whippet and whenever anyone asks 'is it a whippet?' Dp has to reply 'whippet, nah mate I bought it'.

Also annoys the fuck out of me lol.

Izzabellasasperella · 26/04/2016 21:54

If someone says "Thunder and lightning" I have to sing "very very frightening"

MrsBimbles · 26/04/2016 21:58

I went on holiday with my DH (then DP) to Bergerac in France, and every time he said Bergerac I started singing the Bergerac theme tune. It's a miracle he stuck around to become my DH tbh.

elephantoverthehill · 26/04/2016 22:08

When I was in Newcastle for the first time I could not stop 'The Fog on the Tyne' going through my head. I may have even hummed a bit Blush

OrangeFluff · 26/04/2016 22:47

Im a chef, and whenever I'm making or serving mashed potato I sing "mash, ah haaaa, it saves everyone of us!"

PetShopGirl · 26/04/2016 22:52

Whenever I tell DS1 to 'put your trousers on' I always have to add 'have a cup of tea and think about leaving the house'. He looks at me like Confused

HoneyDragon · 26/04/2016 22:55

Ha ha in our old house on bin days I'd announce "I have been rudely awaken by the bin man" no matter what I was doing.

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RedOnHerHedd · 26/04/2016 23:01

When watching Lady and the Tramp, on the song "He's a Tramp" I wait for DH to sing the "bum-ba-bum ruff" bit. I love that bit, I wait for it every time.

KanyesVest · 26/04/2016 23:14

I've just realised that when someone says "Wednesday" to me, I always think of the line from Don't Put Your Daughter on the Stage Mrs Worthington, "Wed-niz-day the twenty-third", and sing it in my head, on repeat, for about an hour. It's there now.

UptownFunk00 · 26/04/2016 23:16

If someone says something that is part of a lyric I'll always finish it.

At first I was afraid I'll start up with... I was petrified and then I get looked at strange. I just do it with people I know though, !95 strangers.

UptownFunk00 · 26/04/2016 23:19

ikiboo my Dad does the Shirley thing, too.

UptownFunk00 · 26/04/2016 23:21

Wing me too! Or never a frown, with Gordon Brown quite the opposite

UptownFunk00 · 26/04/2016 23:22

Oh and whenever I heard In The Air Tonight I have to do a big drum bash in the air.

elephantoverthehill · 26/04/2016 23:23

I put the lead line into a lesson on Monday, it was only as I uttered it I realised what I had said;
'Today is gonna be the day'
A number of 15 year olds replied quite correctly.

Girlwhowearsglasses · 26/04/2016 23:29

Re: 'Flash! ah-ahh'
Sometimes I also have 'Flash! I love you, but we only have 24 hours to save the Earth!' In my head too

EBearhug · 26/04/2016 23:36

Whenever Tomasz is doing BBC weather, I have to say, "Boom Schafernaker!"

And I know I'm not the only one.

EBearhug · 26/04/2016 23:37

And we only have 14 hours to save the Earth!

SingingSands · 26/04/2016 23:40

If we're talking about food and somebody mentions cheeseburger, it sets me off to say "cheeseburger! cheeseburger! cheeseburger!" From a (very old) Saturday Night Live sketch.

Friendlystories · 26/04/2016 23:50

I still sing the sultans of ping every time I misplace my knitwear

I thought I was the only one Hugo! Always want to ask for 2 pints of raza at the bar as well Grin

HoneyDragon · 26/04/2016 23:57

.Oh and whenever I heard In The Air Tonight I have to do a big drum bash in the air

Add Simon & Garfunkrls The Boxer to that. I know I'm with normal folk when people air drum the crash.

Oh and I get my drum sticks out for Iggy Pop Passenger to, but I think doing that's compulsory.

(Everyone carries invisible drumsticks don't they?)

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Itslikeyoureadmymind · 27/04/2016 00:01

If I (or anyone else in earshot) says "you're terrible" I immediately say "Muriel". It was one of the things that bonded me and DP.

He also says the Shirley thing.

I also hum "tikka chance, tikka chance, tikka tikka chance chance" when I see chicken tikka.

Also do the claps to the friends theme music.

SmallLegsOrSmallEggs · 27/04/2016 00:12

Wonder how many posters on this thread also get earworms....

chickedychick · 27/04/2016 00:25

When someone says, "It's nice to see you" I have to say, "To see you nice!"

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