Terms of endearment? [smile]

calls me not be

My DG sometimes calls be a 'whingeing old tart' He is joking - I think

Welease Woderwick!

I don't believe I'm the thread police, or that I've had a sense of humour by pass.

Oh dear paddyann you wouldn't want to be in my house when some friends visit. He's a brummi and she speaks in what I call Pit talk, she's from Doncaster, and just for our benefit and a good laugh they both ramp it up.
But I have to say he does a good impression of my sarf London accent.

Miss Adventure
How can we forget the cheese makers.
And how can you write " Throw him roughly to the floor, centurion" without a smile on your face.
Soooo many, we could go on and on.

each to their own,we can be quite sarcastic but dont resort to name calling,certainly not offensive names .I wouldn't want my kids or GC to accept it as normal to name call folk for reasons that include looks or accents etc .Mind you we dont do overly lovey names either ,sets my teeth on edge when I hear grown up use baby names for each other

Yes - and 'never in public' is the usual golden rule. I sometimes worry that I will forget that as I age and make some awful social blunders. I can hear my children saying 'You already have,' and making alzheimers jokes as I write ...

I like anything which defies today's overdone Political Correctness. When my family call me rude names I take it as a term of endearment. If they were very polite I would know they are annoyed with me. And I give as good as I get.
We just have to be selective though, don't we. I can call my son a plonker or whatever, but would never say it to Mrs.Ponsonby down the road. (much as I might like to!)

The original context is everything, but I won't bore you with the details of why we refer to clothes sizing as "fat bastard". We would only ever say it on our own or with the friends we were with when it was originally said. So you can guess our amusement at the line in The Full Monty "anti wrinkle cream they've got. But anti fat bastard they haven't"

DH gave me some information this morning which turned out to be false - he did say that it could be wrong and I would call him a Welsh plonker.
I just called him Rodney. Very polite under the circumstances.

Yes, my DC have awful names for each other but I won't share them as no-one else would use them and I could be 'outed'

Great film Petra

'You are a very naughty boy!' is wheeled out quite a lot in our house.

DH is also my 'Kitchen bitch' - he does most of the cooking, but this can make him a bit uppity sometimes!

'Plonker' and 'Old cow!' (said with an exaggerated Alf Garnett accent) were my dad's favourites and my mum called him 'Meldrew' when she was feeling particularly annoyed and subversive .

Petra
Blessed are the cheesemakers.

I sometimes call DH 'scrawny shanks'. My son also calls him 'the plastic Welshman’ because he has been away from Wales so long he has lost all his accent!

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

Baggs

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

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.

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

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'.

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.

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.

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.

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

Merlotgran
Don't hold your breath