Sad day...son laughs at father...

partyguinness · 15-06-2018 01:45PM #1

Moved to England 10 years ago. Wife English and we have 2 year old and 6 year old.

So this morning while filling out the World Cup chart with yesterday's game result:

Son (6): "Are there any games today?"

Me: "Yes there are three games today."

Son: "MOMMY..Daddy said it wrong. He said tree games today and not three."

Just needed to share that.

Dr. Kenneth Noisewater · 15-06-2018 01:47PM

partyguinness wrote: »

Moved to England 10 years ago. Wife English and we have 2 year old and 6 year old.

So this morning while filling out the World Cup chart with yesterday's game result:

Son (6): "Are there any games today?"

Me: "Yes there are three games today."

Son: "MOMMY..Daddy said it wrong. He said tree games today and not three."

Just needed to share that.

Slag him off for calling his mam "Mommy" and call him a yank.

Ipso · 15-06-2018 01:48PM

You also let your nation down.

Franz Von Peppercorn · 15-06-2018 01:48PM

partyguinness wrote: »

Moved to England 10 years ago. Wife English and we have 2 year old and 6 year old.

So this morning while filling out the World Cup chart with yesterday's game result:

Son (6): "Are there any games today?"

Me: "Yes there are three games today."

Son: "MOMMY..Daddy said it wrong. He said tree games today and not three."

Just needed to share that.

An English boss of mine once said I was an articulate man with a pleasant accent but (and I quote) “ what’s with this “tree” instead of three bollocks”.

I blamed imperialism.

Are Am Eye · 15-06-2018 01:49PM

When your son was calling his mommy he capitalised her entire name.
Let his ears ring with your laughter. English bastard.

B0jangles · 15-06-2018 01:49PM

Just tell him that you're gonna get your Da to beat his Da up - problem solved.

Captain Red Beard · 15-06-2018 01:50PM

So you'll be moving back to Ireland?

emo72 · 15-06-2018 01:50PM

I didn't know there was a different way to pronounce tree and three?

Wabbit Ears · 15-06-2018 01:52PM

Daddy should have thought him all the cool stuff from his childhood was like a full Nelson or a figure of four leg lock.

Graces7 · 15-06-2018 01:52PM

reminds me of hearing a reading announced in church... "Tessalonians tree"

Samuel T. Cogley · 15-06-2018 01:54PM

Scare the ****e out of him by telling him you're going to put him in a hot press.

tuisginideach · 15-06-2018 01:55PM

Bilingual child of French mother/Irish father - speaking to French mother: 'that's my mout, not my mouth.'

verycool · 15-06-2018 01:55PM

Nip that sh*t in the bud with a few slaps. Sort him out.

Three should suffice.

Grayson · 15-06-2018 01:56PM

It starts young. I've always found that english people love to mimic us saying three. Never met an american who does that though.

Dakota Dan · 15-06-2018 01:56PM

Looks like daddy had to scrape the arse of the barrel for a tread ðŸ˜€

Grayson · 15-06-2018 01:57PM

verycool wrote: »

Nip that sh*t in the bud with a few slaps. Sort him out.

Three should suffice.

And use a tree for the slaps. just to drive home the irony

kneemos · 15-06-2018 02:00PM

Thurty tree and a turd will blow his mind.

May Contain Small Parts · 15-06-2018 02:01PM

There's a certain irony in English people complaining when others drop the letter H.

arctictree · 15-06-2018 02:02PM

Was in an English supermarket years ago and there were a few of our cultural brethren up to no good. Women behind me in the queue raises her eyes to heaven and complains about those 'bloody irish'.

15-06-2018 02:02PM

This came out a lot danker than I planned and wanted but well I spent 5 minutes on it so here you go OP

CPTM · 15-06-2018 02:04PM

emo72 wrote: »

I didn't know there was a different way to pronounce tree and three?

Most only use one of the two ways to pronounce 'three'.

Purple Mountain · 15-06-2018 02:04PM

Tell him as a punishment he'll have to have cold baths because you are going to turn off the immersion for a week.

B0jangles · 15-06-2018 02:05PM

Tell him that if you and your wife have another kid, that kid would be your turd.

VinLieger · 15-06-2018 02:05PM

Sit him down to watch highlights of iceland v england from 2016 on repeat

May Contain Small Parts · 15-06-2018 02:07PM

Purple Mountain wrote: »

Tell him as a punishment he'll have to have cold baths because you are going to turn off the immersion for a week.

Son: What's immerson?
Father: it's that thing we don't have because we have mains gas and a combi-boiler.

lawred2 · 15-06-2018 02:08PM

surely the simplest solution is to just pronounce your words correctly you massive bogger

Eggs For Dinner · 15-06-2018 02:08PM

It's somefink about nuffink OP.

15-06-2018 02:15PM

Will he play for Ingland or Irland? Tomato, tomato, potato, potato, tree, three, so to speek. Go on loivelahn and talk to Joe.

opti76 · 15-06-2018 02:16PM

tell him you've been ****ing his mother for years and she loves it ..

15-06-2018 02:20PM

partyguinness · 15-06-2018 02:25PM

I always explain it to English people with a story that we struggle with 'th' because in Gaelic there is no 'th' pronunciation and that has carried over to our English. Not sure where I got that from but I'm sticking with it....

I have been known to exaggerate that English is my second language so laughing at my 'th' is like laughing at Asian speaking which is something you would never do so why are you doing it to me? (racist bastard)

It also makes me look clever by dropping in that I speak several languages so laugh at me all you want but remember:

1. I sat my Leaving Cert in Irish (inc French) so I am infinitely more clever than you
2. I'm your boss and your pay review is coming up.

Sad day...son laughs at father...

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