#85

i voted doreen as i assume thats what youve called her since you were 8 but then i call my gf’s mam and my mate’s mams ‘mam’ so what do i know

#86

I call my partner’s grandparents Ma and Bapa like she does. Bapa calls me Frank…

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#87

ive not but i think she’d be into it, as long as it wasnt too spicy. she says she doesnt like spicy food, but me and gf took her and my grandad on a double date when whitworth art gallery reopened a couple of years ago and we went for a curry in rusholme afterwards and she was well into it so she might be lying

#88

classic bapa

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#90

FrankpocalypseNO.

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#91

yeah johns mum has always been johns mum. ive only started doing it in the last couple of years with my mates folks, ive known them for nearly 20 years tho (holy shit 20 years!) and never really used their name so i think its fine

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#92

here’s a picture of me and my gran pouting for the camera on her birthday a few years ago. i got her the massive badge that says 21, she suggested we should pout for the camera. she doesn’t drink, she decided she didn’t like it when she got pissed one time and called my grandad at the fire station where he worked to sing hymns down the phone to him and his crew

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#93

You’ve got ‘Meema’ (?) but no ‘Granny’!

#94

Granny was an oversight. Meema (Meemaw?) is (I think) one of the weird American ones innit

#95

fairy nuff.

#96

mick mcmanus’ son/Guildford petrol station/70s

#97

Abuela (Abuelita when I was a kid)

#98

My Gran was fiercely competitive and would always cheat at Monopoly. If we somehow started winning she would denounce us as cheats and make a scene until it really didn’t seem worthwhile to continue, or she’d just flip the board or something and end the whole thing by ‘storming’ off. She was in her late eighties/early nineties and we were mostly prepubescent!

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#99

My Nana was rather austere, a huge Tory and VERY racist. One of the hilarious ironies in her life was that she ended up marrying a European immigrant.

When I was a teenager I had a black girlfriend for a few months. Ahead of me bringing her to a family event, my Mum pre-warned my Nana about this expecting her to go nuts. Her response was “oh well, that’s very fashionable these days isn’t it?”
:neutral_face:

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#100

My Granny was very very warm and lovely but was a bear of very little brain.

I have a very clear memory of being about 8 and being really into sci-fi and reading about space exploration and stuff. She told me that she didn’t approve of space travel.

This baffled me and I asked why not.

“Because if you travel too far into space you’d get to heaven and no-one is supposed to go to heaven before they’re dead so you’d upset God.”

Ok Granny.

She was ace though. Probably had more hugs from her in a year than from either of my parents in my lifetime. GBOG.

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#101

My Arg grandma is pretty mean and not at all gran-like. She tells us all we’re fat and says I dress really badly (true tbf).

I visited her a few years back and the airline lost my bag so I’d been wearing the same clothes for nearly a week and hadn’t been able to do some stuff I’d planned as it required walking boots and my waterproof coat. I got a bit emotional about it and her maid gave me a hug, she told my grandma to give me a cuddle but the idea of showing anyone affection was so alien to her that she just stood there and said “why?” :grinning:

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#102

My English grandma was the loveliest thing to walk this planet though

#103

Surely the ultimate aim of dogging in the woods?

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#104

here she is with me and my sis at the beach.

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last year, it was.

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#105

Tried to post about my Nans but started tearing up. Might try again later.