Silly stuff your parents said

Fremen

The generation gap can be kind of funny sometimes. My mum recently saw Blur on TV and asked "Which one is Blur?"

What have your parents done that shows how out of touch they are?

pikachucheeks

Nothing! :mad:

They're more advanced than I am! (Although that's arguably not difficult)

I tried to use the GPS application on my dad's iPhone, as he wanted directions somewhere and he was driving. I couldn't work it. He ended up pulling the car over and telling me "It won't work because your fingers are too fat!"

Red_Marauder

I broke my arm recently and had to do a stint in the country living with my old man. Brought my laptop for company (ok porn) and asked him why the broadband wasn't working? His response - 'I cancelled it, well everyone has laptops these days, don't they?' Argh.

The first thing my mum said when she found out my sister was unexpectedly pregnant at 24 was 'well at least the seasons over' (she competes in a sport, that was more insensitive than daft!)

Run_to_da_hills

My granny came up with the silliest, "what the dickens" , "you will get square eyes watching too much TV",

citizen_p

going to school one morning....."get up and wash your hair and comb your face"

allandanyways

"Sure there's not that much porn on the internet, that's why they still have dirty magazines!"

:rolleyes:

CatFromHue

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

"you will get square eyes watching too much TV",

my mam said the same to me.
i for reason started to stare at jam jars to make them round again!!!
in hindsight i was a surprisingly health conscious 5 year old

00112984

"Do that again and I'll plaster your head onto the far-over wall for you"

"Don't *poke* you *poke* dare *poke* agree *poke* with *poke* me *poke* in *poke* that *poke* tone *poke* of *poke* voice *poke* again *poke*"

-Mammy 00112984

Novella

"Are you going to work today?"

Pighead

Pighead's Dad once argued with him about the length of time it takes to get to Jamaica on a plane from London. He's convinced it's an hours flight and he pooh poohs Pigheads arguments because "you've never lived in London or had a Jamaican friend" Hard to argue with that logic.

bleg

About the Ring of Kerry:

"It's a very twisty, windy, bumpy, up-and-down road"

Got a laugh out of all of us!

poms

My mam has a few cats, and when telling me how misbehaved they were one day, she said the following:

"Them cats are just gone to the dogs"

To this day we still laugh about it

The Big Red Button

My dad got his first phone when I was about fifteen, and as I didn't have one then I used his all the time. He put twenty euro credit in it one time, and I used it up within a week. So, you know how back in the day when you bought credit it came on a card and you'd to scratch it to get the number? My mother started freaking out thinkin there was something wrong with the credit, and told me to open up the phone and take out the card to check it :rolleyes:

SV

pikachucheeks wrote: »

Nothing! :mad:

They're more advanced than I am! (Although that's arguably not difficult)

I tried to use the GPS application on my dad's iPhone, as he wanted directions somewhere and he was driving. I couldn't work it. He ended up pulling the car over and telling me "It won't work because your fingers are too fat!"

Did you not get yourself a dialling wand?

dazberry

I was at a wedding, and some guy asked me if I wanted to do a line - which I naturally declined. I was telling my mother and she looked shocked - "he asked you out!"

D.

pq0n1ct4ve8zf5

My dad is very intelligent but quite inarticulate, plus he has a Donegal accent, he once left a voicemail on the home phone enquiring about dinner

"are we having the tikki chickii..the chicken tikken...chicken little...*sigh* tikken chicken...ah **** it *hangs up*"

karlog

'Boys will be boys, you cant change that' my dad says to our neighbour, after my brother smashed their window playing golf out the back garden.

445279.ie

My mother told me that if I opened my bellybutton my bum would fall off :eek:

(still have tested her theory)

Poor Uncle Tom

Pighead wrote: »

Pighead's Dad once argued with him about the length of time it takes to get to Jamaica on a plane from London. He's convinced it's an hours flight and he pooh poohs Pigheads arguments because "you've never lived in London or had a Jamaican friend" Hard to argue with that logic.

Mmmmmmmm.........
Jamaican Barbequed Pork Products.......

keefg

Dad said....."Don't tell your mum our secret or you'll go to prison"

My Aunt watched the info channel on chorus, thinking it was RTE 1 for an hour waiting for the news to come on.

stovelid

In an attempt to appear with-it, my auld lad once referred to Marijuana as Marra-Jo-Anna to me.

Was never sure if he was taking this piss or not.

Fago!

Hailey Attractive Therapy wrote: »

My dad is very intelligent but quite inarticulate, plus he has a Donegal accent, he once left a voicemail on the home phone enquiring about dinner

"are we having the tikki chickii..the chicken tikken...chicken little...*sigh* tikken chicken...ah **** it *hangs up*"

I can't tell you hard I laughed at that.

Thanks.

Edgedinblue

Hailey Attractive Therapy wrote: »

My dad is very intelligent but quite inarticulate, plus he has a Donegal accent, he once left a voicemail on the home phone enquiring about dinner

"are we having the tikki chickii..the chicken tikken...chicken little...*sigh* tikken chicken...ah **** it *hangs up*"

445279.ie wrote: »

My mother told me that if I opened my bellybutton my bum would fall off :eek:

(still have tested her theory)

Both of those have me laughing for the last 5 mins! ill never call chicken tikka that again, tikki chickii FTW

christina_x

my mum doesnt say silly things, but shes just funny
She was telling my sister not to pier jum and my sister responded "but, theres danger in everything you do, i cant kiss a boy because it could lead to something more, i could get run over, i could get alcohol posioning.." ect
My mother sighed and said "Only a mother of two teenage girls could understand why mothers of other species sometimes eat they're young" before walking out the door defeated, leaving me and my sister cracking up:P

pinkheels88

I think parents (especially those who grew up in rural towns) are still adjusting to the cultural diversity of modern day Ireland... :rolleyes:

Driving through a local large town my mom comes out and says "There's a lot of them coloured people around here".

Can't take her anywhere.

A-Trak

Hailey Attractive Therapy wrote: »

My dad is very intelligent but quite inarticulate, plus he has a Donegal accent, he once left a voicemail on the home phone enquiring about dinner

"are we having the tikki chickii..the chicken tikken...chicken little...*sigh* tikken chicken...ah **** it *hangs up*"

Honest to god, that's the hardest I've laughed at anything in a while!
I'm still chortling swaying whilst typing this.

Bravo.

Otis Driftwood

I do.




Pair of bollixs.

Shyster

"Go play on the white lines on the road"

I was a vurry annoying child :P

netwhizkid

When my father got his mobile first sometime back in 1996 or 1997, I rang him and he answered and as I spoke first I said "Hello Dad" He replys how did you know it was me?

Jackie Healy Rae was interviewed one time by an RTÉ Journalist around the time he got elected and they were questioning him about his famous cap and was asked "Jackie, do you take off your cap when you itch your head", to which he replied, Well Miriam, do you pull down your pants to scratch your arse! The interview never aired unfortunately.

kinetic

Fago_25 wrote: »

I can't tell you hard I laughed at that.

Thanks.

same

xochillixo

wasnt what my parents said bt a teacher... not sure if im in the right forum but it kind of relates....

teacher:girls whats a legend???
students:like a cool person (or along those lines)
teacher: oh... i thought it was a metaphor for a person you could lean on...

sexmag

You were an accident....gets me every time:D

Jako8

It's not so much what my mother says, it's what she doesn't say. While she's talking sometimes she trails off into a muttter without realising or skips information and her story becomies impossible to understand.

"I was talking to Jimmy and...[mutter]...DUBLIN"

It takes a about 2 or 3 attempts the get all the info sometimes.

RHunce

pinkheels88 wrote: »

I think parents (especially those who grew up in rural towns) are still adjusting to the cultural diversity of modern day Ireland... :rolleyes:

Driving through a local large town my mom comes out and says "There's a lot of them coloured people around here".

Can't take her anywhere.

LOL. I was taking my granda to a physio one day and there is this guy I go to who's Indian. First question I got was is he even qualified LOL.

So the next day I'm going in the drive of the physios place, but there is a tyre yard next door LOL. So we proceeded to drive on in and it couldn't have been better timing. This coloured guy walks out in overalls, black as the ace of spades and my granda turns and looks at me. . . "ahhhh (in a shocked tone) that's not him is it, I want to go back"

You can't write this s#it LOL. . . Awwww old people :rolleyes:

ride-the-spiral

"Did you write that song yourself?"
"Yeah, i did."
"From the internet?"

mobius42

pinkheels88 wrote: »

I think parents (especially those who grew up in rural towns) are still adjusting to the cultural diversity of modern day Ireland... :rolleyes:

I know! My parents still talk about Protestants in hushed tones.

When we first got a DVD player a few years ago my mother rang me on my mobile while I was in France to say "how do I rewind the DVD before I return it to xtra vision?".

Oh and yesterday she was looking at clothes on a website on my laptop asked me how to enlarge the images and I told her to click on the images. And she tapped the screen with her hand. It's a bloody macbook! Not a swanky touchscreen thing. And she sees me on it all the time!

Oh and about 4 or 5 years ago out the desktop computer broke and she brought it to the shop to be fixed...she brought the monitor.

LadyJ

Took my 86 year old aunt out boozing last Friday. We were in a late bar nearby but it was packed and the music was ridiculously loud. She was loving it though. Anyway, after a while, she turns around and asks "Is this what they call a....gay.....bar?"

Hilariously enough, about 5 seconds later, they started playing YMCA.

flanum

christina_x wrote: »

She was telling my sister not to pier jum :P

???

pq0n1ct4ve8zf5

flanum wrote: »

???

I'm guessing she meant pier jump. It's where you jump off a pier.

TriceMarie

Don't get drunk


Ye didn't stay in the same bed did ye?


Be good!


She likes girls too.She's bisexual...is that what it is??


He better not be touching you!:mad:

:rolleyes:

Simi

My granny is quite insane due to various medical conditions and thus comes out with some absolute crackers from time to time.

Once (recently) while in London on holiday, surrounded by people, she noticed a bus driver was black, turned to my grand dad & said "Oh look Pat! They let the WOGs drive the buses now!"

Another time I was sitting watching tv with her & the coke ad with the ringing bottle came on. At the end she turns & says "Those half-casts are very pretty, aren't they Simon!" Had me in stiches for about 5mins.

Piste

My dad and I were shopping for bikes and he really wanted me to get this particular one but I was unsure as it looked quite butch, so he said "it's ok, it's a bisexual bike!"



Eh, think you mean unisex, dad....

DamoDLK

DAMO!!! STOP THAT you'll go blind.....!

mental07

pikachucheeks wrote: »

Nothing! :mad:

They're more advanced than I am! (Although that's arguably not difficult)

I tried to use the GPS application on my dad's iPhone, as he wanted directions somewhere and he was driving. I couldn't work it. He ended up pulling the car over and telling me "It won't work because your fingers are too fat!"

To obtain a special dialling wand, please mash the keypad with your palm now.

pipeliner

there was a competition on in the afternoon show. How many players are in a soccer team. 11, 7 or 24?

My mother comes in to my room to confirm her answer. I go 11 of course.

She goes "oh no i said 24"

00112984

My dad considers himself to be very wise but he's actually quite inarticulated but really does has a heart of gold.

I'm the youngest of six and, each time one of us turned 18, Dad would take us aside and say-

"I have one word of advice for you. Don't drink, don't smoke and don't do the other thing".

Acacia

My dad refers to stereos as 'ghettoblasters'. *cringe*

Also, when he first ''got the hang of this internet yoke" instead of typing a search word into Google, he'd type the actual question as a web address, say, "www.howdoyoufixawashingmachine?.com"

My mam just can't text. She's afraid the phone will blow up if she presses the wrong key. The look of horror on her face when it says ''message not sent'' or ''error'' is priceless. Oh yeah, she also refers to going out/clubbing as ''disco-ing''. "Are ye goin' disco-ing?" Funny cuz she has a bogger accent, as well.

WeeBushy

At a rugby match my mum asked my dad where the goalkeeper was (further evidence that women should never be brought to rugby matches).

We went for a walk last easter and at the top of the mountain she said: Wow, you can see 365 degrees from up here!

She also recently asked me if I were going to picnic electric.

My mum is a bit of a tulip, god love her.

Wazdakka

"Don't look at me in that tone of voice"