Silly Stuff You Do

[Greenbank]

Every time I pass a cemetery in a vehicle (could be a bus, car, taxi, whatever) I say to my companions "Oh look, it's the dead centre of <placename>."

[Jaded]

Not silly at all: I refer to the tube lines by their colour. “Which line are we getting?” “The green one”.

All our pets, and many others, get given names. Dan the Lab is Daniel the Spaniel. Next door's cat has acquired a “Mr” because he deserves it. A nice but dim terrier called Hamish is actually Hamhead.

[L CC]

We follow the pronunciation offered by a long-ago google navigation for certain towns in Cheshire.

McLessfield
K'nutsfud
Con-glee-ton

Carradice is pronounced in Italian.

And like many families / couples have only about 3 jokes. Especially on the bike.

"How do you feel about filtering?" is way more laughter-generating than it should be.

[Efrogwr]

Carradice is pronounced in Italian.

I'm glad that I am not the only one.

[LittleWheelsandBig]

Isn't that the default?

[Pingu]

Underpass --> underpants.

[ian]

Kings Cross - St Pancras became Kings Cross - Spankrel
Hammersmith and City line became Hamblespliff and Pretty

St Pancras is always St Pancreas, Patron Saint of Internal Organs in my house. The tube line is the Hammysniff and Whiffy. The Circle line is always the Squarecle Line.

[Wobbly John]

Carradice is pronounced in Italian.

I'm glad that I am not the only one.

Didn’t Gunner (from an old forum) pronouce Giant (the brand of his bike) Gee-an-tay?

[Peat]

On my rare trips to That There London™, when I brandish my rarely used Oyster Card (that i foolishly charged with £40 a decade ago), I always start humming the intro to '(Don't Fear) The Reaper'.

Blue Oyster Card.

[Tim Hall]

Carradice is pronounced in Italian.

I'm glad that I am not the only one.

See also "lettuce".

[L CC]

Carradice is pronounced in Italian.

I'm glad that I am not the only one.

Didn’t Gunner (from an old forum) pronouce Giant (the brand of his bike) Gee-an-tay?

I cannot confirm or deny that in this house it's pronounced as if they were based just outside Reims. Géant. Thanks to Papa fboab actually believing this was the case.

[PeteB99]

Probably everyone does this but when crossing the border into Scotland I always hum a few bars of Scotland the Brave. For some reason I don't feel inspired to hum Rule Britannia coming back the other way.

[trekker12]

It's not a dishwasher, it's a wish-dosher

[Kim]

Not silly at all: I refer to the tube lines by their colour. “Which line are we getting?” “The green one”.

Not silly thing I do: Try not to waste too much brain capacity remembering what colours arbitrary things are supposed to be, when they have perfectly good more obvious means of identification.

"Which line are we getting?"
"The green one."
"Which one is that?"
"The District line."
"Why didn't you just say so?"

Trichromats are weird.

[T42]

Probably everyone does this but when crossing the border into Scotland I always hum a few bars of Scotland the Brave. For some reason I don't feel inspired to hum Rule Britannia coming back the other way.

Maybe because when you go to Scotland you're leaving England, but when you return to England you're not leaving Britain.

[Torslanda]

It's not a dishwasher, it's a wish-dosher

For devotees of Dr Spooner ...

Re: Italian pronunciation, Morecambe is forever known as ' Morri-CAM-Bay'.

The Sixties called. Can they have their comedy back?

[hellymedic]

Not silly at all: I refer to the tube lines by their colour. “Which line are we getting?” “The green one”.

Not silly thing I do: Try not to waste too much brain capacity remembering what colours arbitrary things are supposed to be, when they have perfectly good more obvious means of identification.

"Which line are we getting?"
"The green one."
"Which one is that?"
"The District line."
"Why didn't you just say so?"

Trichromats are weird.

Just shows we have different ways of remembering things. My basic knowledge of the UndergrounD pre-dates the Jubilee and Hammersmith & City Lines so these 'newcomers' are a bit 'foreign'. I think I mostly think colour...

[Woofage]

I sometimes replace the suffix "-y" (or "-ie") on words with "-ance" to make it more polite sounding.

[andytheflyer]

It's not a dishwasher, it's a wish-dosher

Ours is a dish-masher

[ElyDave]

Fublic pootfath
BM-deubble, no idea where that came from, but it has stuck since childhood

[hellymedic]

I sometimes replace the suffix "-y" (or "-ie") on words with "-ance" to make it more polite sounding.

Stinkance?

[Woofage]

I sometimes replace the suffix "-y" (or "-ie") on words with "-ance" to make it more polite sounding.

Stinkance?

That kind of thing, yes.

It stems from the name Terry/Terrance

[Greenbank]

Various words from other languages (Spanish and French mainly but some German) get substituted pretty much all of the time.

Water -> Agua, e.g. "I'm getting the train to Agualoo."

Indeed, my 8yo told me that her teacher had asked her where she'd bought her pencil case and she'd instinctively answered "Aguastones".

[T42]

When driving through france from Calais, no matter what the time of day or night or the somnambulance state of my passengers, when we pass the first sign to Aarques, I squawk like a parrot, loudly. (at least, a parrot that squawks "Ark")

Mulling this over on a country road today, I emitted first an experimental "Aarques" then a loud "AWK!!!"  I then noticed that I had reached a popular local lake, and some people on the path round it were looking at me as if I'd slipped a cog.

[Peat]

I do the same (internally) sometimes when i see 'AUK' written. The further into a ride, the more likely.