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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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member · 27/04/2016 16:36

I used to do loads of these; think I got tired of the withering looks from my children/dh and have cut down! Loving "it's a bit Princess Margaret" (shame I haven't had a bath since 2004).

Road signs/place names are great - I always change Nottingham to a blocked up "return to Dottingham" in the Tunes advert stylee.

AllMyBestFriendsAreMetalheads · 27/04/2016 16:43

YY to Python quoting, "don't call me Shirley" and many Friends quotes.

I have to sing the tune of the Authur Brown song whenever someone says the word 'fire'.

Unbelievable Jeff.

ThePortlyPinUp · 27/04/2016 16:46

Whenever I complete something I mutter "that'll do pig" from babe. I have had to restrain myself from saying it when I'm on placement as a student nurse.

stopfaffing · 27/04/2016 17:00

Giggling like made here reading these mascara has run wild.

Mine is a family one. Mum had a late baby when we siblings were 11. It meant that we all read to him when he was a baby/toddler. His favourite book (can't remember the name) was about a bear who lost something and searched all over the house for it. The whole book consisted of...

He looked in the cupboard...but it wasn't there.
He looked under the stairs...but it wasn't there.
He looked in the basket...but it wasn't there.
He looked blah blah blah (you get the picture)
He couldn't find it ANYWHERE.

Anyway, even now many years later if any one of us says (in relation to looking for something) "I looked in the cupboard" we all chorus "but it wasn't there" then narrate the rest of the blooming story ending in a flourish "he couldn't find it ANYWHERE".

Phew Grin.

glasgowlass · 27/04/2016 17:01

Whenever someone mentions cheesecake, in my head but sometimes it loud, I need to say "cheesecake. Cheese in a cake." In my head I sound like Brian Potter from Phoenix Nights but in reality I just sound very glaswegian doing a shite accent attempt.

Also. Garlic bread. "GARLIC BREAD. It's the future."

AskingForAPal · 27/04/2016 17:04

"I have had to restrain myself from saying it when I'm on placement as a student nurse."

That was so funny my colleague just asked very sharply WHAT ARE YOU LAUGHING AT?

to which I didn't respond "your face"

5tardusty · 27/04/2016 17:13

Whenever we buy bananas DH has to say

But ah don't even like banaaa noes.

Think its something off Bo Selecta

MsRinky · 27/04/2016 17:35

I mutter "that'll do pig" from babe a lot too. To which DH automatically responds "come by". Also still giggling about the KLF singing upthread, we get our gas and electric from EDF, who are also gonna ROCK YA!

MarvinKMooney · 27/04/2016 17:37

When DH and I are in a rush to get somewhere, we always sing the Sir Digby Chicken-Caesar theme tune.

Actually, I even do it when running for the bus. On my own. Blush

ZingDramaQueenOfSheeba · 27/04/2016 17:42

Lots of theme tunes here - must do 5 claps of Friends, "Whooooooo are you?" of CSI , The salad song of Frasier etc.., always try to sing TBBT too and we have the subtitles on for this.

Going back to bathroom habits, when I really need a wee but about to have a shower I wait until the water is hot then I step in the shower, let it flow and actually punch the air and channeling my inner William Wallace I shout "FREEDOM"!
Then I switch to "I feel good nanananananana I knew that I would!"

Grin
MsInterpret · 27/04/2016 17:49

If DH makes a statement about something. I often find myself saying, 'But how do you knoooooooow she's a witch?' A la Monty Python.

A: She looks like one.

PuppyMonkey · 27/04/2016 17:54

Whenever someone says in a conversation "all of a sudden.."

I have to say "a ruddy great puddin' came flying through the air bum bum."

PamelaPatriciaYouCanCallMePam · 27/04/2016 18:04

My husband and I pull out all our best cheese jokes down the cheese aisle at the supermarket. Every time. 'What cheese can you hide a small horse with? Marscapone.' 'Frankly my leer I don't give Edam.' Etc etc. The list is endless....

PamelaPatriciaYouCanCallMePam · 27/04/2016 18:05

And can anyone actually say the name Craig David without singing it Bo Selecta style??

AthelstaneTheUnready · 27/04/2016 18:09

I have to count a lot of things in my job. Very often I channel Count Duckula from the muppets, with "I luuuurve to count. Hah. Hah. Hah."

Turns out no-one knew what I was on about. They thought I meant it. Trannsylvanian accent and all.

froomeonthebroom · 27/04/2016 18:10

When I need someone to move, I always say 'exsqueeze me, a baking powder' a la Wayne's World. Although it should be said when asking someone to repeat what they said. So i do it wrong, basically. Grin

thestylethatdecadesforgot · 27/04/2016 18:16

Will add more when I remember them but whenever I shave my legs I always sing 'I'm your Venus, I'm your fly trap'... GrinBlush

Wheresthattomoibabber · 27/04/2016 18:36

I've just realised I do another one. I swap words and spoonerise things all the time. Someone just posted a thread that said "my soup smells of arse" so I had to post "my arse smells of soup"

SpaceDinosaur · 27/04/2016 18:38

I regularly scurry around the house singing
I typically find it after about 3 lines but ALWAYS have to finish the whole mock opera!!! Grin DH is usually mildly appalled

Itslikeyoureadmymind · 27/04/2016 19:06

I also do the "that'll do pig" from Babe.

We are all either very strange or VERY normal Grin

tethersend · 27/04/2016 19:08

My dad is from the North East; every anyone makes reference to a meringue, I am compelled to shout "Nah, yer reet".

originalmavis · 27/04/2016 19:09

I don't get it...

HoneyDragon · 27/04/2016 19:16

Me wrong

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KittyKrap · 27/04/2016 19:29

My and DH do the Les Dawson KNICKERS KNACKERS KNOCKERS when hanging up underwear, with a dirty big gutting face.

And any old gentleman on the tv, sitting in a chair is always Veeeeery vrrrrrrey drunk.

thestylethatdecadesforgot · 27/04/2016 19:39

We also do arms in the air like you just don't care when getting kids dressed. And when doing a nappy bum in the air like you just don't care, my not yet two yr old now says it when I put her nappy on!

So funny so many people do the same things!