The more explanation needed the better
I remember in NYC I was like 2nd grade or 3rd grade and I remember coming up with this very obscure phrase with my Cantonese classmates
“Flower Bridge”
Flower = 花 faa; Bridge = 橋 kiu; faakiu --> sounds like “fuuckyou”; we said it because curse words weren’t allowed in school (obviously) and us being silly kids just laugh at it so fucking much lmao, fun times
Also I fucking hate some teachers that would give “assigned seats” ffs. I wanna choose sit with “my people”, not a bunch of gwailous that I could barely communicate with.
also tagging @NorthWestWind@lemmy.world for the lolz
We would’ve probably have had so much fun if you were there with us lol. (it was 2010s for context)
My mom and I saw this film together when I was a kid, it starred Sean Connery… “Five Days One Summer” (1982). The french dub. At one point they’re climbing (the entire film is set in the Alps iirc) and the woman asks the man “what do we do with the picks?” and the man responds “we leave 'em” and this moment has such an uncanny vibe because the decision is rather inconsequential but both lines are acted with considerable pathos. So whenever my mom or I need to express that we’re not taking something with us -whatever it is- we go “we leave 'em” in the most theatrical tone. That’s as private as jokes go, nobody even notices
My husband sometimes refers to me as his ex girlfriend, and one time while out shopping I saw a shirt that said “best ex girlfriend”. I was so tempted to buy it but after some discussion, we decided it would only be funny to us and everyone else would just think I was a raging bitch.
“Pumpkin-ing” - To turn into a pumpkin, as a reference to Cinderella’s carriage turning back into a pumpkin at midnight. Pretty much used in place of sleepy/eepy. Dozing off on the couch? “Oof. I’m turning into a pumpkin.”
Because lord knows I’m not the princess of the story, lol. Maybe one of the mice at best.
We use that too. Good shorthand.
“38 degrees”
I was doing some work on a fence with my dad, and we needed to mitre a piece to fit a particular angle. When he said he thought it looked around 30 or 40 degrees, I responded with all the confidence in the world that it was exactly 38 degrees. He cut the piece and it fit perfectly. Now, whenever we’re discussing something and he doubts me, I reply with “38 degrees!”
My mom and I still say “I’m just a baaaarre frooogg” when we don’t want to do something. It’s from Frog in Winter, which is a book she used to read to me when I was a baby.
On the other end of the spectrum, my friends group sends each other pictures of sexy nuns when something bad happens. (“Thots and prayers”)
It doesn’t matter when this gets done. -> Time is irrelevant. -> Time is an elephant.
∴ I generally don’t know what day/time it is. -> I’m living with the elephant.
I thought the conclusion was gong to be that you’ve lost track of your elephant.
Me and my high school friends have a WhatsApp group where we spam the phrase “141” and its variants at matching times. For example:
- 141 at 1:41 am
- 1141 at 11:41 am
- 141 at 1:41 pm
- 1411 at 2:11 pm
- 1441 at 2:41 pm
When I was form 2 (grade 8), my math teacher searched for porn on the classroom projector while we were having a test. The search term was “sex 141” or something. The news spread to the entire school within the day and he got fired.
As a remembrance of this incident we post all the 141s we see.
Holy shit, risky move. But what did that mean ? “sex 141” ?
It’s obviously advanced sex, you’d know that if you had taken sex 101
In my Philadelphia middle school, we had this substitute teacher once, and like everyone just disrespects substitute teachers, and so this teacher walked out of the classroom with the school issued laptop open and unlocked, with it projecting to the smartboard, so these 鬼佬 kids were like “yo what if we opened up pornhub on it LMFAO”, so some kid was in the hallway watching to see if he came back, and then in the classroom it was a loud commotion of kids urging one another to do the thing. Some kid did eventually did do it and then the whole class just bursts into laughter… wtf lmfao.
The substitute teacher came back and didn’t really react much, I think he just closed the tab. (It was like a really old dude, looks like retirement age tbh.)
Like Philly schools can be so “ghetto”, classrooms go wild if there’s no adult in the room, sometimes even with an adult in the room.
I fucking hate my parents’s decision of moving us to Philly, I loved NYC much better… Philly schools cause me so much anxiety… but rent was expensive in NYC and it was impossible to afford a house there so… 🤷♂️
Saying something as a joke but actually its not a joke, if you know how to interpret it, but that everyone thinks its a joke is a joke for me.
The way i discovered that i like this humor is we once build a Minecraft room and the dimensions where of to form a perfect square.
We where tired so we agreed to just pretend its officially square for all purposes and thats it. But i already knew i was not going to keep it this way. I logged back on at night and fixed the entire wall making the room definitely a square.
This is years ago and as far as i know they still don’t know. Even got into an argument with someone who wanted to design a new floor pattern but he wanted to avoid patterns that would make it obvious that there is no real center. Got almost mad when i repeated he could do the original design because as the local sign declares, the room is square for all practical and theoretical purposes.
“The outdoor life is full of hardship”
(said by me or a friend of mine every time we are on a multi-day bicycling/camping trip, when we’re sitting around the fire on our foldable armchairs, sipping beer and frying beef tenderloin on his cast-iron pan)I answer the phone with “yoghurt”.
Usually to a select few who know the joke.
It started with me answering with “Yo yo yoghurt?”.
Which is part of a line from 1993’s Fear of a Black Hat(Spinal Tap, but for rap music), “Yo yo yoghurt, gonna be real smooth”.
my grandmother always used to say “everything is going to be alright and the sausage has two”.
That’s not a very good translation Brudibacke.
…of what?
Allt har en ende men korven har två.
Von “Alles hat ein Ende, nur die Wurst hat zwei.”.
Brudiwursti.
yeah that’s not what i’m translating, or the language i’m translating from.
Uhuh. It’s the wurst translation.
specifically the thing she used to say was “allting ordnar sig och korven den har två”. which is… you know, not exactly right either but it’s not german.
Has two what?
Ends. ‘Alles hat ein Ende nur die Wurst hat zwei’. A popular German phrase.
correct, but we’re not german.
Neither am I but my friend circle uses this, having heard it, not because it is German but because it is inherently silly, and we are silly. I would expect that the same may apply here.
My brother and I have a lot of citations taken from absurdist shows or movies that have taken a special meaning for us.
“Have you been getting the signals?” is from 12 ounce mouse and is a mystical call for reconnection to the matrix of the world, for example.
“Il est déjà 9h, là” is from La Classe Américaine and means “is it already 9 AM?”. We use it when we’re late and don’t give much of a shit.
“It’s one of the Mearas” is a line from Lord of the Ring and means “wow shit that’s beautifull” to us.
These all tend to shift widely over time and new ones are added regurlarly to challenge are capacity to interpret context and relate to our common cultural baseline.
I see 12oz mouse and I upvote. Coincidentally my husband and I say “Now I’m a fireman” to each other quite often.
My favorite is “60 of what you think is a reputation for one, is your downfall”
So many quotes
“My head. My brain. My beer…”
I have catch phrases I use constantly
For instance I like to say “that’s offensive… to someone… somewhere… probably”
Or. “That’s what she said, wait no he? No they!”
Something going back twenty years between a friend and I relating to something dumb I said while I was high.
“I never wipe my ass because I only eat cake.”
