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Crazy shit my parents say - 20/12/2012 8:48:29 PM

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I am SURE there has been a thread like this before but I cannot for the life of me find it.

Anyway, lately my mum has come out with some gems.

My mum has always thought my sister is gay, mostly cos she's always been a tomboy. My sister is straight, but that's by the by.

Mum: Well, I think with her it'll be a civil ceremony, if you know what I mean.
Me: Mum, me & Mr JV had a civil ceremony...
Mum: You know, one of those same-sex thingies....
Me: You mean a civil partnership?!
Mum: Yeah, it's just, she seems to prefer the company of women.
Me: What do you mean?
Mum: You know, all her close friends are female.
Me: All my close friends are female and I'm married....

Curiously, my mum didn't mention the fact my sister plays football, and half her teammates are gay.....

Bless.

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RE: Crazy shit my parents say - 20/12/2012 9:57:36 PM

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RE: Crazy shit my parents say - 21/12/2012 11:58:52 PM

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RE: Crazy shit my parents say - 22/12/2012 12:57:58 AM

benny the jet

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Daniella Westbrook came on tv

My dad "that's her that took a drug that made her nose fall off. Why would you take a drug that makes your nose fall off?"

Then he said that i must be on drugs too to find that funny

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RE: Crazy shit my parents say - 23/12/2012 8:43:24 AM

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My ex mother in law:

Her: "It's more important for a girl to learn how to cook than it is for her to learn how to read."

Me: "and how do you expect her to read the recipe book?"

Her: "..."

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RE: Crazy shit my parents say - 23/12/2012 10:03:09 AM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: Funkyrae

My ex mother in law:

Her: "It's more important for a girl to learn how to cook than it is for her to learn how to read."

Me: "and how do you expect her to read the recipe book?"

Her: "..."

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RE: Crazy shit my parents say - 23/12/2012 1:26:45 PM

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My mam thinks Mo Farrah is the spitting image of Marlon out of Emmerdale.

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RE: Crazy shit my parents say - 23/12/2012 1:41:57 PM

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I went to see Alien: the director's cut when it was released a few years ago and told my dad about it.

Him: "Did you ever go and see the original when that was out?"

Me: "Um...no. It came out the year before I was born. Do you actually know how old I am?"

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RE: Crazy shit my parents say - 25/12/2012 2:37:03 AM

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quote:

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My mam thinks Mo Farrah is the spitting image of Marlon out of Emmerdale.

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RE: Crazy shit my parents say - 30/12/2012 2:26:20 PM

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Me + my husband recently came back from our honeymoon in Thailand, and I was talking to my mum about how we'd been thinking a lot about the 2004 tsunami since we'd been to some of the areas that were affected.

Mum: Yes, they made that film about it.
Me: (thinking they've only just finished making The Impossible, how can my mum possibly know this?) Oh?
Mum: Yes, there was an asteroid and it sparked a tidal wave, everyone just stood there watching it come towards them.
Me: No Mum, that was Deep Impact, it was made looooong before the tsunami in the Indian Ocean and as you say it was about an asteroid.....

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RE: Crazy shit my parents say - 1/1/2013 8:21:01 PM

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Apart from my dad refering to that little known film 'The Hangover Games' recently, it's mainly my in-laws that come out with the most clangers, as they're that wee bit more old fashioned/out of touch with the modern world/daft

. Not constant with it but they do come out with some that make me chuckle, if only because they're a bit random!

"Is she from Iceland?" - Father in law having just seen the pop star Pink on TV. I think he was confusing her with Bjork which is fair enough, but it was still that last thing (if anything) that I expected him to say when Pink came on the TV.

"I've noticed that womens faces change when they're pregnant" - Father in law again, during a conversation about having babies, in the early weeks of my wife's pregnancy. Declined to elaborate when invited to by my mother in law, as he was clearly implying that he thought they got fatter in the face, but decided he wanted to stop digging...

Father in law: "There's this song I keep hearing on the radio by a band called The Killers and there's a line where he says 'are we human or ....something' - it's been bugging me for ages, do you know what he says?
Me: Yeah, it's 'are we human of are we dancers'.
Father in law: "I thought it sounded like that but thought it seemed odd."
Me: Yeah, he got it from a quote from a writer called Hunter S Thompson where he expressed unhappiness that America was rasing a generation of 'dancers'.
Mother in Law: "HUH! And what's wrong with being a dancer???"

Being a trained dancer in her youth, the old dear was bit incensed by all this!

I could have explained to her that he didn't mean this literally, that it wasn't literally a slur against those who could do a flawless tango and liked to partake in the odd foxtrot, but it would have been wasted on her really!

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RE: Crazy shit my parents say - 1/1/2013 10:31:47 PM

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Although I love my Mum, it's obvious that we have very diffrent views. I;m a guy who likes rock music, has grown his hair long on several occasions (also, some dodgy facial hair) and is generally into the more 'interesting' side of life, if you know what I mean. She, on the other hand, told me when I was in my mid-teens that she hoped I would turn out to be an accountant or a bank manager. We have almost nothing in common.

Which is fine, but on several occasions, she has told me that, and i quote, 'I think I picked up the wrong baby at the hospital...?'...

Is it just me or is that horrible? My biological father fucked off when I was about six months old so my Mum is the only biological parent I have left, but still...

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RE: Crazy shit my parents say - 3/1/2013 11:07:36 AM

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when i left to go to University, years ago, I broke up with my girlfriend that summer.

Previous to the split a few weeks before my Dad had walked in on us inflagrente when we thought they were both out.

when i told my Mum we had broken up she was like

"oh thats a shame love, she was nice, but its probably for the best"
and my Dad says
"Yeah it is a shame she had great tits"
my mum
"what dear?"
my Dad
"nothing" and gives me a wink

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RE: Crazy shit my parents say - 3/1/2013 1:47:11 PM

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I met my stepmum in a shop the other day and was telling her about the puppy I'm getting:

Me: We're getting a dog
Her: A dog? What about the cat?
Me: What about the cat?
Her: You can't get a puppy when you've got a cat
Me: You did
Her: Aye, but that was years ago

I think I could smell wine on her breath.

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RE: Crazy shit my parents say - 5/1/2013 6:44:05 PM

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My brother gave my folks a wad of money as a Christmas present to go towards a holiday/break for them this year. Was speaking to mum tonight about about where they might go.

Mum: I fancy going back to Bruges. Or maybe Prague, but your father says no.
Me: Prague isn't that great anyway, but I'd use the money to go somewhere you haven't been before. Dad's keen on Vienna.
Mum: Oh yeah, I'd fancy that too!
Me: It's lovely - I never got the chance to see all of it, and have always fancied going back. There's lots of beautiful buildings and amazing gardens...
Mum: Oh and I've always wanted to go on a gondola!
Me:

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RE: Crazy shit my parents say - 7/1/2013 10:56:32 PM

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My Mum bless her could generate her own thread.
She is a very enthusiastic maker of table decorations made out of Lace, she once created this large circular decoration with a hole in the middle, a ring if you will.
It was during a family get together attended by me and my brothers families that she announced after dinner "who'd like to see my new ring piece".
I immediately spat the beer I was quoffing across the table and my brother turned an alarming shade of purple as he choked on his dessert. We didn't stop laughing for a good half hour and we kept dissolving into giggles as we both unsuccessfully tried to explain what a ring piece was to my poor mum.

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RE: Crazy shit my parents say - 8/1/2013 12:38:01 PM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: JV

Me + my husband recently came back from our honeymoon in Thailand, and I was talking to my mum about how we'd been thinking a lot about the 2004 tsunami since we'd been to some of the areas that were affected.

Mum: Yes, they made that film about it.
Me: (thinking they've only just finished making The Impossible, how can my mum possibly know this?) Oh?
Mum: Yes, there was an asteroid and it sparked a tidal wave, everyone just stood there watching it come towards them.
Me: No Mum, that was Deep Impact, it was made looooong before the tsunami in the Indian Ocean and as you say it was about an asteroid.....

I feel really really bad for laughing so loudly at that.

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RE: Crazy shit my parents say - 9/1/2013 7:32:41 PM

benny the jet

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I once phoned my mum to speak to my brother. She said
"he's out, he's gone to see black men in suits"

Assuming she meant Men In Black

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RE: Crazy shit my parents say - 12/1/2013 5:57:28 PM

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Mum: These pans have a lifetime guarantee, so when im dead, you can have them
Kumar: Oh, um, thanks mum......

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RE: Crazy shit my parents say - 12/1/2013 11:35:02 PM

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Mum: These pans have a lifetime guarantee, so when im dead, you can have them
Kumar: Oh, um, thanks mum......

Ha my gran says that to me almost everytime I see her as she has some pot that she's had since the Fifties! Mind you she did show me a brandy glass with a swastika on it the other day that my late grandfather 'obtained' during the war - that felt weird holding something like that in my hands...

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RE: Crazy shit my parents say - 12/1/2013 11:59:29 PM

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In her final years my nan did that too. "Here, this is your grandfather's old watch, can you look after it for me? You'll get it soon enough anyway..."

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