You can pick your friends, and you can pick your nose, but never pick your friend’s nose
Very true, that
“You’re so handsome”
I bet you think this song is about you…
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Not my “parents”, but my Grandpa. When he wasn’t feeling well, he would say, “Feels like I’ve been shot at and missed, shit at and hit.”
I want this embroidered and framed on my living room wall.
I’m now inspired to make a cross stitch of this accordingly.
My wife always gives me shit for saying “six of one, half a dozen of the other.”
That’s pretty common in my area. Tell your wife she needs to get out more!
You can mix it up by saying “six of one, baker’s dozen of the other” and see if she catches on.
Very common saying with lots of links (merriam-webster, dictionary, wiktionary, grammarist)
Is your wife from somewhere very isolated or exotic? Or does she simply want you to add more variety to your discourse? Toh-may-toh/Toh-mah-toh
She’s got it in her head this is an old person expression. To be honest I can’t remember hearing other people use it much in recent years, but maybe I just don’t notice.
Mum had a few:
“Home, James”
“Lead on, McDuff”
“You’re lucky I love you”
“You’re big enough and ugly enough to take care of yourself”
I say “Lead on McDuff” all the time
Dad: “I’m so T-A-R-D tired, I could F-A-R-T faint.”
Älä välitä, ei se villekään välittänyt, vaikka sen väliaikaiset välihousut jäi väliaikaisen välitystoimiston väliaikaisen välioven väliin.
Rough translation: Don’t worry about it - Ville didn’t worry either when his temporary long johns got caught in the temporary side door of the temporary temp agency.
I love this! What is the language? Danish, Swedish, or am I totally off base?
It’s Finnish
My mom’s exasperated “shit a fiddle!” when fed up with something / something broke. When I was younger, she didn’t really say curse words around me except for this.
I’ve never heard any one else ever say this. Not in Appalachia, or anywhere. She probably made it up herself. But in the 80s she also dated a Korean War fighter pilot/POW (crashed, survived, & captured, unsure of release details). And he could have had a creative catalog of swears that she borrowed from.
“Destructions” instead of “Instructions”
Yep my dad totally did this one.
“Life sucks and then you die.”
Thanks dad.
“Silliness leads to tears” typically said after energetic goofiness has led to an ‘owie’.
Bonus: Grandparents were fond of “Children should be seen and not heard.”
My dad referred to all fast food as KenTacoHut. Trucks as Pick-em-up-trucks. I know it’s a thing, but I don’t really hear anyone saying “a month of Sundays” to mean “a long time” since he passed.
Onward and sideways.
"What’s the bullshit?’ = How are you?
My mum always said “If Saint John’s bells ring, you’ll be stuck like this” whenever we were making faces or picking our noses, so we’d be afraid of doing it (didn’t work much). I guess it’s a regional thing, since my mum regularly uses words/sayings from her birthplace, but this one i never heard even at her place, and cannot find it on internet.
I found this disproportionately funny because I used to live near a St John’s that had bells that would ring multiple times per day
For us it was “if the wind changes, you’ll be stuck like that”
I read a french childrens book about this, so it’s definitely more withspread.
Edit: could have been Swedish, it was a long time ago (the kid gets stuck as the wind changed and the bell rang, finally unstuck at the end of the book, does another face and gets re-stuck IIRC).
Oh could be just a variation on a tale then. The wind version definitely exists in english apparently, i can’t find it in french.
I know this one too from The Netherlands. But here it was just “when the bell tolls”
