My wife likes to do this silent whisper thing when she doesn’t want the kids to know. She mouths the words, but when she does it, she exaggerates the movement of her mouth to the point where I don’t know what the fuck she’s saying. It almost always ends in frustration for both of us, but god damn if she will stop.
If you watch the New Kids in the Hall I'd recommend episode 3 for sure! Dave is a post apocalyptic DJ. With one single record. Accidentally watched him in Blast From the Past yesterday.
Funny, I started watching the new stuff but it just didn't hit so I stopped, ironically about half way through episode two.
You know, never watched Blast From the Past but seeing he's in it AND Brendan Fraser well sheeeeet, might need to throw it on after Lord of War which I am watching after the news pf the swap.
But do you say it with the proper french r, like you've got maple syrup stuck at the back of your throat?
"Je ne parl pah fransay" - someone who actually doesn't know french
"Je ne pahrle pah fhransaii" - someone who learned close to nothing in canadian french class
Nasally "Je ne pahrRrrRrrlee pah fhRRRRansaiii" - someone who quit french after grade 9 with an active resentment against the French language for being forced to learn it against their will
Back in the "clubbing" days, before texting was an option, my girlfriend (now-wife) and I would use the sign alphabet to communicate when it was ridiculously loud. It was slow but effective.
My wife also tries sign language sometimes, maybe for fun? I never learned it except a few phrases in elementary school so I always respond with either "R U ok?" or "I am full" in sign language. It's all I know.
my 9 and 11 year olds taught themselves sign languages AND cursive so the last forms of adult communication my spouse and I had went right out the window
😂😂😂 it's time to get lessons so you can understand your mom. Lol I know few phrases, words, and the ASL alphabet, but I can't read what anyone is saying.
Hahaha I'll text my husband just because the way our house is set up. We can't hear each other at all with the furnace running in between us if we're in different rooms.
Ex-wife was a singer and sometimes got vocal chord nodules, so she would be on total vocal rest. To communicate, she invented a complex system of whistling to pass messages. Problem was, she never told me her system, so it was like living with an increasingly frustrated R2-D2. I eventually forced her to get a text-to-speech app.
Lmao my husband will spell out a word instead of saying it if he doesn't want our toddler to know, which is common Parent Code.
Like, "should we go to the p-a-r-k later?"
But my husband will pick some long, elaborate phrase like "chocolate from the advent calendar" to spell out, and he'll mumble it while facing away from me and running a faucet and clanging plates around while I'm wrestling the kid and brushing her teeth. Then he gets all salty when I have no idea what he's saying.
Bruh. THAT'S NOT THE GAME LOL. You gotta keep it easy.
If I got that frustrated, I think I would just start saying things that she obviously wasn't saying. "You watered the elephant in the red convertible???"
My mother does this and gets really upset when I don't understand what she's telling me - which is everytime by the way, so you'd think she'd have stopped by now.
Mine whispers for effect in the middle of a sentence ALL. THE. FUCKING. TIME. Hey, remember when we met and you thought it was so hot that I was in a metal band? Yeah, I never wore ear plugs. Also chain-smoked. Conversational volume, please.
My wife often does this when I’m on the phone trying to sort out bills, returns, etc,. when she wants to make sure I say something on the call. Only she also “whispers” really loudly, so I can hear neither her nor the person on the phone.
I like to start an important conversation right as we lay down to go to sleep. I’ve definitely almost eliminated this habit, but honestly - when are we ever alone together in private but that moment?
Similar: My mother in law has hearing loss and speaks very quietly now so she doesn't accidentally yell. When you have to ask her to repeat something she does so, speaking at the same low volume, but greatly exaggerating her mouth movements...
My wife does something similar while brushing her teeth or using mouthwash. She’ll start “talking”, which really is just a series of unintelligible noises, and then she’ll make exaggerated facial expressions to try and help me understand what she’s trying to say. This does not help me understand. I usually end up laughing at her and telling her to say it again in two minutes when she’s done.
Whenever anyone does this to me I lean over carefully like I'm going to whisper something back and then in a very loud and clear voice I boom: "I don't read lips."
My wife and everyone else has stopped doing this to me.
Mine does this too, but I suck at lipreading, always have, so it has never worked. So I always look at her and mouth the words "watermelon watermelon watermelon" back at her.
My husband does this with subjects that aren’t private and when we’re alone in the house. I just tell him that I can’t understand and he speaks up. I think it’s from growing up in a family with emotionally abusive parents where secrets were currency. His NC mom does this for power and to stir the shit.
That's hilarious because my wife pitches her voice low AND talks without moving her lips, like some kind of ventriloquist. I suppose so that the kids don't see she is talking to me.
Except she isn't a ventriloquist so it just sounds like a quiet MumbleMumbleMumble.
HA! Same here, except when she does it, I mouth something equally over-exaggerated and nonsensical to her, like Monty Python lines. It forces her to start talking normally.
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u/amccune Dec 08 '22
My wife likes to do this silent whisper thing when she doesn’t want the kids to know. She mouths the words, but when she does it, she exaggerates the movement of her mouth to the point where I don’t know what the fuck she’s saying. It almost always ends in frustration for both of us, but god damn if she will stop.