Parents say the oddest things.

Raksha

This_Year wrote: »

Going shopping with my mother was "going tats"
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OHs Grandad always used to say going tats to his dog meaning going for a walk. He was Surrey born and bred

thehappybutterfly

shellsuit wrote: »

Was it "Are you OK for coffee?" but said fast so it sounded like fukoffee?

Almost. It's "You for coffee?"

It's funny the things you just say without thinking where they came from. One of our favourite films is the original Total Recall and when it comes to the annual summer holiday and you're telling people how long you're off for, we now can't say anything else but "two weeks" in the style of Arnie in the disguise of a fat lady.

You'd have to have seen it to get it! People just look at us like we're mad.

Scrapaholic

When I was little and asked for something , a toy or whatever, my mam would say "when the ship sails up Bottle Bank " . It was years before I realised that Bottle Bank was a road leading up from the river Tyne and a ship would never sail up it . The Hilton hotel stands in that area now and all the old buildings have gone . She used to say "you never said , !!!!! can you lick ? " when I had ice cream, chocolate etc and didn't share . I've never heard anyone say those sayings but her . Lots of the others are familiar and I use some myself and hear DD using them too . I like it !

Saturnalia

If I wanted to follow the latest craze and my parents said no I'd reply with "but all my friends are doing it" and they'd say "if all your friends jumped off a cliff, would you do it?"

Which made no sense at all to me because jumping off a cliff would kill me, whatever it was I wanted to do was harmless.

happy_to_be_here

All joints on the table will be carved was one of my grandads favourites if we had our elbows on the table. I've found myself saying it to my dh and also at work but get blank looks lol.

Feeling as welcome as a fart in a spacesuit is one of my mum's specials

One which I know I use that my mum used to say is if I've a week off I'll say I have a small cow off (a wee calf...) always makes me smile

Richard53

Saturnalia wrote: »

If I wanted to follow the latest craze and my parents said no I'd reply with "but all my friends are doing it" and they'd say "if all your friends jumped off a cliff, would you do it?"

Parental logic:

-If all your friends jumped off a cliff, would you do it?

Next day:

-Why do you want to do that? None of your friends are doing it.

I never worked that one out.

Richard53

meames wrote: »

My friends mum used to call everything FredCarneys circus, so if we were being noisy playing it would be'like Fred carneys circus in here" ,if the tassels on the rug weren't straight it would be" have Fred carneys circus been here?".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Karno

Heard this a lot in Leeds. The comedy troupe were actually called Fred Karno's Army, but most people said 'Circus'. No idea why.

Chaos_Monkey

If we ever asked what was for tea, invariably it would be ''dog snot and fart pie''. And I've found myself saying it to DH when he's asked me for the millionth time that day, although the first time I said it he was totally baffled as he'd never heard it before.

Others off the top of my head:

Mardy bum/mard ar5e = grumpy?
Got a face on = sulking
barmpot/crackpot = daft

My mum used to say us 'Go on, you do it. I've got a bone in my leg' when she wanted us to fetch something for her/turn the light on etc. It was ages until we cottoned on!

We also had the 'Blackpool Illuminations' as kids, and I'm pretty sure I've used it recently...

caroline78

Can't really remember any Grandparent sayings apart from my Granda always saying, "I'd rather keep your picture" when he had to fed us..lol

My Mum and Dad have been heard to say

More lights on here than in Blackpool
Yum Yum, Pigs B um, Cabbage and Potatoes when asked what was for dinner
A blind man on a galloping horse could have seen that when helping us find something
Are your ears painted on when we didn't hear them
The jobs a goodun after finishing something
Yer womans a fishwife (talking about "common" women that would yell in the street)
You might be a pain but your not a windy (if we stood in front of them)

I find myself saying quite a lot of them now too....xx

caroline78

Do you think I came up the Lagan in a bubble was another one when she thought we were pulling the wool over her eyes

and

When the Orange men march in the snow, meaning if it snows in July we could get whatever we wanted...lol