NDRU said:

Really? All dads are like that?

I didn't know my grandparents but my dad used to say.



"You sorry sack of shit!"
"What the hell, over?" (like a airplane pilot or some shit)
"give them what they need--not what they want."


My mom used to say:

"You tink you sooooo smaht, doan you?"
"I nevuh act like U when I was U age."
"SHUT UP"--her favorite thing to say to me when I was suffering from a cold and couldn't stop coughing.




oh the shit goes on and on.

This isn't about my grandparents, but whatever.

I was once doing my best to direct two old actresses in their mid eighties on a short film shoot a few years ago, and I was sooooo sick. I'd had a simple cold but it had gotten completely out of control since I'd kept working anyway, and this particular day I had lost my voice entirely (I couldn't even utter a single sound and had to scribble the directions on a notepad) and what was even worse, I could barely breathe because my throat was so swollen and full of phlegm.

At one point I was literally down on my knees gasping for air, clutching my chest. Then one of the actresses made a dramatic entrance and declared: "If Sven Wollter (a well known Swedish actor) had a cold like that, he'd just fill a syringe with antibiotics and stick it right in his neck! He's a real man, you know?". Then she sneered at me and went back to the set. That's when I realized the nature of the film business.

heartbeatocean said:

Oh no, I hope not, but I do think the gruff dad is a common story.

Seems to be less common now though. Most guys I grew up with are more careful about what they say to their kids, and they don't have them so young.

I think some guys of my dad's generation got married & had kids & carried a briefcase without ever considering whether or not they wanted to.

Not that it excuses him from being an ass!

On of my friend's dads used to say:

"Your intensity's for shit!"

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"Sorry isn't good enough," usually after guilting me into apologizing for something. I fucking hated that shit.

"Put that damn book down and do ____"

Imago said:

Your mom is Russian? What accent am I reading.

CinisterCee said:

She was a mix. Very good looking in her day.

Sweat bearded Jesus, mother, mary, joseph! (when angry this substituted for God Damit!)
The guys a cheapskate, his ass is puckered up tighter than a snare drum!
And my dad used to do this thing when he was happy he would go "Popcorn, badadat!' I never figured out till I was 18 that it came from a James Brown Song!

Imago said:

prb said:

and all this time i had thought my grandma just made it up.

my dad used to say

wish in one hand & shit in the other and see what gets full first!

I used to hate it, but must admit i say it to my own son

OMG im turning into my parents!!!!!

RIP dad 19/12/47- 30/03/06

my parents would say things like "is she breathing through her arse?" when someone talked non-stop in german, so nobody would understand them

ZombieKitten said:

my grandma substituted words in czech for certain body parts... (like saying "pupek" instead of bellybutton).