Finnbot to UKCasualEnglish • 1 year agowhats your family's wee inside jokes or names for things that other folk (or better - your kids) find weird and annoying?message-square28arrow-up131arrow-down12file-text
arrow-up129arrow-down1message-squarewhats your family's wee inside jokes or names for things that other folk (or better - your kids) find weird and annoying?Finnbot to UKCasualEnglish • 1 year agomessage-square28file-text
We’ve got a bunch and the ones that annoy the weans, like calling Jalapeños Jalpaneros in public, are our favourites.
minus-squarexuxebikolinkfedilink5•edit-21 year agoThis is hilarious. Movies are called ‘fillum’ in India as well. It’s practically a word in Hindi.
minus-squareTheEmpireStrikesDaklinkfedilink1•1 year agoGujarati too. All my rellies who grew up in India say fillum. After dating an Irishman for more years than I care to remember, it’s funny how much Indians and Irish have in common (we keep the plastic on everything too).
minus-squarexuxebikolinkfedilink1•1 year agoInterestingly, in southern India (below Maharashtra & MP) they’re called ‘fillim’ . “the plastic on everything” is too real. Do they also store away plastic bags in one plastic bag and stuff that bag behind some door?
minus-squareTheEmpireStrikesDaklinkfedilink1•1 year agoYeah, we have a bag of bags lol In fact I have some old bags under my mattress! I don’t really use them anymore since I moved to reusables. One thing I don’t think the Irish do is keep a suitcase of fabric under the bed/on top of a wardrobe. There was a good sketch about it on Goodness Gracious Me, the “Bharrat Homes” one. Too true!
This is hilarious. Movies are called ‘fillum’ in India as well. It’s practically a word in Hindi.
Gujarati too. All my rellies who grew up in India say fillum. After dating an Irishman for more years than I care to remember, it’s funny how much Indians and Irish have in common (we keep the plastic on everything too).
Interestingly, in southern India (below Maharashtra & MP) they’re called ‘fillim’ .
“the plastic on everything” is too real. Do they also store away plastic bags in one plastic bag and stuff that bag behind some door?
Yeah, we have a bag of bags lol In fact I have some old bags under my mattress! I don’t really use them anymore since I moved to reusables.
One thing I don’t think the Irish do is keep a suitcase of fabric under the bed/on top of a wardrobe.
There was a good sketch about it on Goodness Gracious Me, the “Bharrat Homes” one. Too true!