Terms of endearment? [smile]

I accept some find that kind of humour amusing and I know I may sound a tad prissy but I don't appreciate that kind of 'bleak humour' . I suspect it's something to do with growing up in the North West where that kind of stuff is fairly common. Like the old joke when uncle Jimmy sits the child on the dresser and tells the boy to jump, nooo uncle Jimmy, tha'll drop me. No lad, I'll catch thee. Of course, the lad hits the floor and lies weeping - let that be a lesson to thee lad (says uncle Jim) trust no-one.
Ok it's made me smile again. My husband is a greying ginger, his children refer to him as a silver fox. Much nicer

We do Imperfect27
But it's not something I would share on GN. Too many thread police and those who've had a sense of humour bypass

Iam64 I find it hard to make a link between our 'bleak humour' and the lad being left to fall on the floor - that wasn't funny to my mind at all. Maybe tone and expression are everything and something gets lost in print ... we really are NOT a bad lot down here in the south .

Ha ha petra - yes, I think I may rue this one ... We are a loving and close family, great inlaws, blah, blah, blah and DH hasn't got a sexist one in his body.

But I did sew the button on ...

We don't, but I can appreciate the humour Imperfect and would be inclinded to do the same.
Although D and I do sometimes refer to H as the grumpy old git which he just pulls a mock sad face too.

'bone' even ...

Oh dear - now worrying I may have offended people - OBVIOUSLY NOT MY INTENTION, but I do apologise if this is the case. I do think we live in a ridiculously p.c. world at times, but also aware we have different levels of sensitivities so if 'thread police' (guessing that means
GNHQ???) feel this is out of order, I expect they will delete as needs be...

In our family we love 'playing' with language and are simply laughing at ourselves. Maybe naïve of me to think this would be readily understood.

Just wonder, if I were a politician, if I would need to resign now? .

Phew nina!

Iam64
I'm afraid you've missed the joke completely. Where in imperfects post did she even hint that a child being hurt was remotely funny.
Your post reminds me of the scene in 'The Good Life' where Margo starts crying because she can't understand what everyone is laughing at: the reason being, she didn't have a sense of humour

Terms of endearment!! I'm thinking each to their own!! I often refer to my dd as lovely girl, dgds as the lovely bad girls, as for sense of humour, I have fallen off a sofa and knocked myself out laughing so that particular gene is not missing, how we all refer to our nearest and dearest is what makes each of our families unique

My grumpy old git lacks a sense of humour and takes it all to heart, the miserable old fart.

Imperfect27
GNHQ aren't the thread police
If this thread progresses you will see who the 'thread police' are.
If you want to keep watching, put a tin hat on

It seems we are not alone! I have been told I have an evil sense of humour, much of which DH takes the brunt of. Let's just say, if I called him dearest, sugarpie etc he would think I had lost the plot. He keeps up very well but perhaps not as inventively as me. (Saying that, I do have to remember to watch my gob when out and about. My social gaffs are many!)

At last......A thread which might liven things up a bit!

My family have a very 'robust' sense of humour too. Nothing is sacred.
My ex partner found it hard to take at times, but I told him it was because we loved him we felt able to insult him at every turn, like we do each other.

Merlotgran
Don't hold your breath

missadventure, yup! "Nothing is sacred". Nothing!

Aha petra, thanks for the heads up.

'Nothing sacred' - yup.

Incidentally - DH lived 'up North' for 20 years if his life and was always referred to as 'Southern - ' . Now that he is safely back in Kent he is often called 'Northern - '. Now there's another form of racism - or tribalism maybe ...

Other favourite family insults include playing with the idea of gender neutral at the moment - it seems such a hot topic- so everything we buy for DGS is commented upon in that light with a smile.

Baggs
I feel that there are only about 4? people on GN .... you being one of them, that I could share my 'dark' humour with on line.
I am thinking right now of my dear friend who died last year. We would be in hysterics sometimes when discussing her chemotherapy, but I could never put that on here.

Oh yes we have a very particular sense of humour heavily influenced by Monty Python. He is Fat Bum to me or Big Boy and sometimes Pig depending on the occasion (he is tall and slim) and he calls me Goat and I am frequently entreated to 'shut my great heaving gob'- makes me roar with laughter- I bet that's upset the PC wing of Gransnet.

We used to constantly poke fun at my mum, who had a terrible bad back. It made her hunched over, so whilst she was still walking, her name was 'Mrs Overall' after the Julie Walters character on 'Acorn Antiques'.

I completely understand where you are coming from Imperfect often make reference to my DH's 'baldy old head' or his growing inability to hear as 'deaf head' or 'cloth ears' - he knows that this is all said with love......
He has thin legs which the whole family refers to as 'dad's chicken legs'
'sew bitch' just made me laugh

So GN police would wince at the thought of my children telling each other 'Your mumma!' jokes in front of me in a pub then. Jokes very firmly on me -we all cried with laughter.

Baggs

I sometimes think the darker the situations we face the more naughty we become ...

teetime
We are all huge 'life of Brian' fans, always quoting from the film.
Miss Adventure
That made me laugh out loud. We are definitely on the same wave length
Imperfect27
No no no. There are many who wouldn't get the 'mumma' jokes. And definitely not in a pub