Odd or Amusing Things your Grandparents Said / Did

[Buster Bakdorzin]

My grandmother sent back a postcard to the family of multi coloured socks hanging on a washing line, whilst on holiday in Amsterdam. She'd picked up the card the red light district. They werent socks either. Bless.

[illmonkey]

Has she also visited any Cafes for brownies recently?

[sleep envy]

illmonkey said:

Have you visited any Cafes for brownies recently?

EFA

[Buster Bakdorzin]

illmonkey said:

Has she also visited any Cafes for brownies recently?

[NDA]

My Grandmother insisted on pronouncing my motorcycle name as 'Kassa-whacky.'

[Flog123]

When my car radio got stolen, my grandad told me to 'go and nick someone else's radio'

[okgo]

Mine were all horrendous racists.

Everytime I went there he would recall the bomb on Japan, and was genuinely dissappointed they didn't use more on the place.

Amazing, how generations change..

[m4tthew]

Buster Bakdorzin said:

My grandmother sent back a postcard to the family of multi coloured socks hanging on a washing line, whilst on holiday in Amsterdam. She'd picked up the card the red light district. They werent socks either. Bless.

[MrsRotty]

After we redecorated, my aging MiL commented on our nice dildo rail.

[Justayellowbadge]

illmonkey said:

Has she also visited any Cafes for brownies recently?

You're not allowed to call them that now. Besides, they are in the windows, not the cafes.

And a lot of them are white these days.

[Heskey]

My grandma has a habbit of cursing with 'bloody nora' (How northern! )

When my eldest bro was a little tot in a pram, he picked up on it and would go around just saying "Bloody Nora, Grandma! Bloody Nora!" to which she'd be at it "SSSSH! Don't let your mother hear you saying that!"

[Gylen]

I was once giving a no-longer with us great aunt a lift from Oban to Troon and she started telling me about her time living in Canada. Very innocuous 'getting to know a relative' type stuff and it was actually quite interesting. Just as I had started thinking 'she's alright, you know, I shouldn't have moaned about giving her a lift...'

she pipes up with

'yeah, but it's gone downhill now though. Far too many Chinese - I wouldn't go back'

There's something really confusing about a quiet, elderly, well-to-do lady coming out with stuff like that which amuses me.

[Rod Rammage]

My grandad once called "quiche" "pineapple".

I deduced that he must have thought "quiche" was, for some reason, called "peach", and then got confused with "pineapple", as that is also a fruit beginning with "P".

He was losing his marbles, I think.

[Silverbullet767]

Massive racists, and very homophobic.

Words I couldn't repeat on here!

It was all better in my day, no effin <blanks> and <blanks> mincing around. blah blah blah.

[gopher]

My father and his MiL (my Grandmother) were watching the moon landing in 1969

MiL: How long have they been in that spaceship now Al?

Dad: About 3 days now mam

MiL: 3 days in that tiny little space ship

Dad: aye

MiL: and now they're going to land on the moon?

Dad: aye

MiL: They'll be glad of some fresh air.

Edited by gopher on Wednesday 30th July 10:33

[Silverbullet767]

gopher said:

My father and his MiL (my Grandmother) were watching the moon landings

MiL: How long have they been in that spaceship now Al?

Dad: About 3 days now mam

MiL: 3 days in that tiny little space ship

Dad: aye

MiL: and now they're going to land on the moon?

Dad: aye

MiL: They'll be glad of some fresh air.

Classic!

[eightseventhree]

My wifes grand parents are as sweet as they come not a bad word for anyone.

While out shopping with them for some house hold things a while ago were looking for something. There were 3 assistants with us and the shop was quite busy.

Her grandma was trying to describe the item she was looking for. Without an ounce of prejudiced (or thought) she says.

"Yes! thats the one, and what a lovely shade of Ni**er brown!"

I could have died! as lots of people turned round.

[Plotloss]

Great Grandmother, when the newsreader used to say 'Goodnight' she would reply.

[gopher]

Plotloss said:

Great Grandmother, when the newsreader used to say 'Goodnight' she would reply.

Grandfather stood for the national anthem when BBC closed down each night, which I think is quite,erm, well, "nice"

[NWTony]

Continuing in the same pattern, my grandma thinks 'immigrants' should go back where they come from, when pressed where this might be it turns out its "blackieland". She also thinks there is a place called Yugoslovakia.