Often say “I’ll phone the papers” in our house when someone says they’re going to the toilet / putting a wash on or some other mundane activity
EDIT realise this isn’t exactly what you mean sorry!!
Often say “I’ll phone the papers” in our house when someone says they’re going to the toilet / putting a wash on or some other mundane activity
EDIT realise this isn’t exactly what you mean sorry!!
Any time one of us wants to watch something on the telly and the other leaves the room it’s ‘enjoy your stories’, even if it’s sports or whatever. Not sure why
spithag - pronounced something like spivvvvvvagg - wiry person
bravvag - bottom warming
skeet - news
they’re not really my household centric as they’re manx words (spelt wrong by me) but no one really says any of them anymore
We call the TV remote the Doofer
slammer or jammer - for a good tune. Think it came from some late night music video countdown a few years back
Whatever you want. It came up in a thread at the weekend when were talking about sofa duvets/blankets. Someone (Keith I think) said they call that a holiday duvet, and someone else mentioned that they call theirs the muck rug.
Every time my fiance is going somewhere without me, I’ll say “say hello to everyone from me”.
Most often this is the gym.
It started as that phrase, but has now evolved into a series of friendships and relationships that I have with fictional people at her gym.
“Did Anouk get her tooth veneer done in the end? Don’t know why she bothered, her teeth looked fine” etc etc
So so so many.
We’ll say DEAR MUM when something is “nothing to write home about”
I’ll ask for “skin on skin” when I want him to give me a lil foot tickle/rub (non sexual)
Chickle = relaxing time
Pull the plug = gonna do something
I also call my shows my stories sometimes. I think i got it from it’s always sunny when Dee is having her baby and wants to watch her stories
My partner and I call noodles “noods” because it sounds like “nudes” and therefore is funny
We also call broccoli florets “brocs” and use the plural “asparageese” for asparagus. We are very annoying.
Someone on here calls it ‘the gun’ and I still find it highly amusing.
I love this and will be stealing it
in my family an unfashionable colourful or aran jumper is known as a Cake Jumper
(i quite like jumpers like this now)
used the term latty fizzle in family whatsapp group today, twice
no one commented on it
On the whatsapp
Calling anyone that complains about anything a mard or mards
Giving out chufty badges
Bin - if anything is shite
“This, I like”
Relatively new one:
Few of us were at Tate modern and had noticed a kid (about 10) who was clearly shockingly bored with being there. He eventually ended up right next to us, looked up at the painting we were stood by which was as a modernist painting with big boobs and a bum and abruptly said THIS I like.
Burst out laughing and he ran to his mum (feel a touch guilty about that) and now ‘this i like’ gets used constantly
‘pixellating morons’ - playing video games
Wor Lass’s whole family have a decent line in spoonerisms so a lot of our household names are due to them mis-pronouncing/ -words like ‘self of steam’ (self-esteem) and
This has automatically reminded me of ‘putting them on a pedal stool’
Family (unclear origin, probably just my da being a weirdo):
Thems / thems lil boys - the gerbils
Thems friends - seagulls
A bit of the old soixante-neuf - the number 69
Belly bounce - aggressively and repeatedly smack your belly on someone to ward them off
Friendship group:
Found dead / found alive - if something happens that a specified person won’t like, they are ‘found dead’. Vice versa ‘found alive’. For example if Keith announced that Labour were committing to move Parliament to Barnsley, someone might say “Keith’s moving Parliament to Barnsley, Pervo found alive”. This is from the Drag Race subreddit
Correct horse - if someone says something that is true you might respond with ‘correct horse’. Reference to a YouTube video of a horse playing a saxophone while the word CORRECT shows up multiple times
could be here all night with friendship nonsense tbh