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Calling somebody Granddad/Granny/brother/sis/cousin when they aren't related at all?

  • 20-03-2018 5:03pm
    #1
    Sinister Kid
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,503 ✭✭✭


    My sister rang me a few days ago, she said "Granddad died"
    I was shocked, I asked when it happened, then gave out that my dad never bothered to ring & tell me.
    Then she says, "No, not our granddad. Granddad, as in Sue's granddad"

    I get that she is good friends with this girl but granddad isn't her granddad!


    Why do some people do this!?
    I just don't get it, Everyone has to be a cousin or an auntie or a granny!!


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  • #2
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 26,052 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Sinister Kid wrote: »
    My sister rang me a few days ago, she said "Granddad died"
    I was shocked, I asked when it happened, then gave out that my dad never bothered to ring & tell me.
    Then she says, "No, not our granddad. Granddad, as in Sue's granddad"

    I get that she is good friends with this girl but granddad isn't her granddad!


    Why do some people do this!?
    I just don't get it, Everyone has to be a cousin or an auntie or a granny!!

    In India, everyone your parents age or thereabouts is an Auntie or Uncle, and any relative or close friends child around your own age, no matter how obscure the connection, is a cousin.


  • #3
    elfy4eva
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,204 ✭✭✭elfy4eva


    Your sister is a dope.


  • #4
    Sinister Kid
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,503 ✭✭✭Sinister Kid


    elfy4eva wrote: »
    Your sister is a dope.

    Agreed :D


  • #5
    pocketpolly
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9 ✭pocketpolly


    It bugs me too, whenever I say half brother or sister I'm tutted at and told "they're sisters and brothers". No they're not, what's wrong with being technically correct?


  • #6
    Hector Bellend
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,667 ✭✭✭Hector Bellend


    Orwight bruv.


    Faaaack off you cockney caant


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  • #7
    pleas advice
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,492 ✭✭✭pleas advice


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YIUlAZHN1E


  • #8
    Cee-Jay-Cee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,235 ✭✭✭✭Cee-Jay-Cee


    Your sister sounds really ‘special’ She should be cherished and not ridiculed on public forums.

    I don’t know anyone stupid dumb that refers to other people’s relatives by their related name (granny, grandad, cousin, uncle etc)


  • #9
    cantdecide
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,465 ✭✭✭✭cantdecide


    My friends name their dog 'grampa'. I think it's an adorable name.


  • #10
    eviltwin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,495 ✭✭✭✭eviltwin


    I call my mother in law Ma :o


  • #11
    Ronin247
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,256 ✭✭✭Ronin247


    A friend calls his wife "mammy" in conversation such as ..... " what do you suggest mammy ?".

    She is you wife and that sh1t is just weird .


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  • #12
    mloc123
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,454 ✭✭✭mloc123


    Ronin247 wrote: »
    A friend calls his wife "mammy" in conversation such as ..... " what do you suggest mammy ?".

    She is you wife and that sh1t is just weird .

    I assume they have young children?


  • #13
    Squall Leonhart
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,794 ✭✭✭Squall Leonhart


    Ronin247 wrote:
    A friend calls his wife "mammy" in conversation such as ..... " what do you suggest mammy ?".


    Have heard similar from older men in the pub referring to their wife, pulling a twenty from their sock, "mammy doesn't know about this!"

    Sad carry on really.


  • #14
    wakka12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,786 ✭✭✭wakka12


    Never met anyone who did that.

    Your sister doesnt sound the sharpest...


  • #15
    Lorelli!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,360 ✭✭✭Lorelli!


    One of my childhood friends was brought up with his mother, her siblings and his grandparents in their house. His uncle was close in age to him so often people assumed they were brothers and his granny was his mother. Whenever someone would ask him, he would explain it by saying "she's me nana-ma" which was quite sweet.


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