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-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!
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!