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What is a quote from a British TV show you always say and why?

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mindobscura11@reddit

If someone refuses a cup of tea, I say,' Go on, go on, go on there, father.'
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showmethemandy@reddit

THATS AN IRISH SHOW 😭
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ActGrouchy5018@reddit

Whenever I describe someone at work having a dense “dougal” moment, I’ll suffix it with “these cows are very small, these cows are far away”
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mindobscura11@reddit

That's brilliant 😂
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Born_Illustrator2023@reddit (OP)

DDINK DRINK DRINK FECK ARSE GIRLS
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cowplum@reddit

And what would you say to a nice cup of tea Father? *FECK OFF CUP!!!*
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Born_Illustrator2023@reddit (OP)

He loves his cup of tea FECK OFF here we go FECK OFF!!! (Throws cup at wall and it smashes)
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mindobscura11@reddit

Yes!!
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Ok-Credit-8251@reddit

Might as well, you've eaten all the biscuits!
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ryansocks@reddit

feck off cup
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RPG_Rob@reddit

Hairy Japanese bastards!
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PresidentPopcorn@reddit

"Wrong way down a one way street."
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Ok_Blackberry1799@reddit

She’s the serpent , who guards the gates of hell!!
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ratemychicken@reddit

'Hokey cokey, pig in pokey' - Pauline (League of Gentlemen')
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Meeple_person@reddit

I can I can't (Tubbs)
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carryoutsalt@reddit

You almost hurt me on the shoulder - Black Books
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ithepinkflamingo@reddit

‘It’s only half the calories so I can have twice as much!’
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Tuesdaynext14@reddit

Not TV, radio. I’m a fan of dropping bits in from Fags, Mags & Bags, hence “five alive!” Humange Being, It is the humour etc (etc)
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Kiytan@reddit

More when I was doing tech support, but from the thick of it: "oh great, I'm flypaper for dickheads today" (technically from in the loop but eh) "it'll be difficult difficult lemon difficult" The one me and my partner use quite a lot, and I wish more people were aware of, as it's a useful term: "they're having [Gilbert fun](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3Ihw4mCmOM)" from being human. Basically as a shorthand for doing something you've enjoyed doing but seems objectively kind of boring. e.g "I spent last night working out the episode order to watch Dr. who chronologically" or "I was curious so looked something up, went down a rabbit hole and ended up spending 3 hours reading about the Haber-Bosch process"
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morris_man@reddit

Today I shall mostly be quoting the Fast Show
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swamp_fever@reddit

And how is Sir today?
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Forsaken_Primary6139@reddit

I’ll get me coat
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stinkyswife@reddit

Well, I wouldn't know about that, surrr
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CriticismTop@reddit

After which you emptied the bins and discovered a cure for cancer Which was nice
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tjb_87@reddit

Nice
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PropellerHead15@reddit

Great
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Aben_Zin@reddit

Isn’t The Fast Show brilliant??
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RPG_Rob@reddit

Quoting the Fast Show is very much like making love to a beautiful woman
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TheToolman04@reddit

Which was nice!
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RPG_Rob@reddit

But I'm afraid I was very, very, drunk
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rFAXbc@reddit

Scorchio!
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tjb_87@reddit

Do you like Tina Turner, Ted?
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MoonRoover@reddit

oh bugger
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TimeCharacter3137@reddit

People, what a bunch of bastards.
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TrixieLaBouche@reddit

Language Timothy! I wasn't even born when that was on tv.......
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TomasNavarro@reddit

Garlic, and bread?!
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feralhog3050@reddit

He won't sell much ice cream going at that speed
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Cautious-Start-1043@reddit

There’s been a murder… (from Taggart, no reason why I say this).
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tjb_87@reddit

You’re my wife now!
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cowplum@reddit

I said this to my (Peruvian) wife after we got married, then had to explain it. I think she questioned her life decisions in that moment.
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zoltan_g@reddit

Is that Dave?
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karlvontyr@reddit

This is a local shop for local people, we'll have no trouble here!
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Drewski811@reddit

"Good news" & "Oh no! Anyway"
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cowplum@reddit

On that bombshell The best something something, *in the world*!
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RelativeStranger@reddit

? Is that not dr nick riviera?
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Drewski811@reddit

He might say that too (though, to my mind his most memorable catchphrase is "Hi everybody"), but these are TopGear
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tlc0330@reddit

Every time I see a Dacia Sandero I can help but blurt out to my husband: “Good news!”
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RelativeStranger@reddit

Of course the second one is Top Gear. Dr nick says anyway when horrendous things happen
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booglechops@reddit

Crusty jugglers
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Darrowby_385@reddit

'They're so dense, light bends round them'. 'I sometimes wonder how they made their way out of their mother's womb'. 'Two hundred years ago, they wouldn't have let him milk a cow'. All from The Thick Of It. 'Shit On It'. Friday Night Dinner. Obvs.
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stoufferthecat@reddit

My son says, "Lovely bit of squirrel" to probably 50% of the dinners we make!
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ariadnevirginia@reddit

Crimble crumble
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filbert94@reddit

You can adapt that one. Crumpet pumpet
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non-hyphenated_@reddit

Crikey, it's the rozzers
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CriticismTop@reddit

Oh cock, I forgot I say that all the time.
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flyingshrimp21@reddit

Excuse me Sir, my moustache would like to have a word with you
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Abject-Lengthiness42@reddit

>shit on it I enjoy this one I like "A HANDBAG?!" From Green Wing
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SarkyMs@reddit

I think the handbag from green wing is from a film of "the importance of being Ernest"
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Abject-Lengthiness42@reddit

Important it is done in the mad Scottish woman's voice though 👌🏻
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Puzzled-Mycologist61@reddit

Lovely bit of squirrel Who’s Rachel?
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Conscious-Resist-662@reddit

I know writers who use subtext and they are all cowards. To see who I can introduce this masterpiece too when reminiscing about TV. Garth Meremghi. Blaaaaaack Blaaaaaack, they make me eat nails, my eyes, my eyes are pies and all Jonny black painter from fast show. Random with alot of people weirdly. All of fast show. There's only one thing for it I hate pot noodles...... To myself when pot noodles are on sale knowing they expensive and shit. lister after Kryton tells him there is only pot noodles and dog food left. Smoke me a kipper......with some people I love when they pull something nice or unexpected off we don't too each other. For example ah we want to have fun bit cannot afford to have fun and if we can help each other to have fun possibly we say this because it's like usually used when you pull a concert ticket or cinema ticket out of no where or some money for a few beers for us all. A catch all for when someone needs a pick me up and an unexpected last min hero arrives. I've borrowed some money for the beers so we can go watch a match and have fun, not only can I afford those tickets I have em right here. Used when your closest are in need of some joy. Never disrespected unless your talking about the show. It's also not a guarantee always so your like smoke me a kipper we have it sorted or smoke me a kipper I'm off to sort or try and sort. This one's big because it's contextual. Smoke me a kipper with confidence and purpose means we going all out get it done but isn't done yet and we may get it done or may crash on a fireball of nothing. Done with imaginary pipe smoking is it's done. Smoke me a kipper with kippers I will not do
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met22land@reddit

Thieves, murderers…psychopaths. From Blake’s 7. Used when referring to co-worker or asked to describe myself.
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S0upscone@reddit

Hello IT have you tried turning it off and on again
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365BlobbyGirl@reddit

Thanks ants. Thants
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Curious-Term9483@reddit

Ggggg Granville, fetch your cloth!
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Jills89@reddit

Yeah, I know.
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EntertainmentBroad17@reddit

“They’re all dead, Dave” “Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition” “Don’t mention the war” “Tuggendaashall!” “Don’t tell him, Pike”
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Scarymonster6666@reddit

Full of vitamins, full of minerals, full of marrowbone jelly
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RelativeStranger@reddit

To your first one, the quote i use that I'd forgotten about is A masterful plan with but two flaws (we dont have anything to power the forcefield and we dont have a forcefield)
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EntertainmentBroad17@reddit

Lasers.
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RelativeStranger@reddit

You're right. Theres a second one that i know exists but I haven't seen in years where I think its shields and the line is A brilliant plan with just two drawbacks. 1. We dont have any shields. And 2. We dont have any shields. Now I realise thisbis the same drawback but I thought it such a big drawback it was worth mentioning twice. I need to rewatch red dwarf tbh
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BrainiacQuantum@reddit

Stupid boy.
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Embarrassed_Park2212@reddit

If I don't know and you don't know and you don't know and I don't know, do you know? (Has to be said with the Scottish accent, I don't remember which kids TV program it comes from)  15, there's 15 puppies (101 Dalmatians)  66 per cent (otter in lady and the tramp)  Madam Medusa's Pawn Shop Boutique. ( Always want to answer the phone with this as is done in the rescuers).
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FloydEGag@reddit

‘Dead air is a crime’ from Alan Partridge, whenever there’s actual dead air or one of us (me/husband) falls silent during a conversation
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BrainiacQuantum@reddit

What you talking bout Willis?
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Head_Hacker@reddit

Not a particularly British show
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BrainiacQuantum@reddit

Good point. I missed that bit somehow.
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JagoHazzard@reddit

Skip to the end…
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lucwhy@reddit

I'm bored of this. I'm going for a twix
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History_86@reddit

Computer says no
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arthursultan@reddit

You wouldn’t let it lie.
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el_weirdo@reddit

I would've let it lie.
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squeakypeaks@reddit

Which was nice We're not at home to Mr Cockup
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PigHillJimster@reddit

>"Come on you guys, the mice aren't wanting to hang about in this dimension all day." I say it whenever I am trying to get my wife and daughter to hurry up and get ready because we have to leave the house for one of their clubs or something.
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silentarcher00@reddit

Not a series (although I quote many of them often) but "just the one \*insert thing here\* actually" gets used a lot from Hot Fuzz
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imposterindisguis3@reddit

My husband and one of my offspring too now, use "yarp" a *lot*.
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micromidgetmonkey@reddit

The money's not great but the work is hard.
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Ryuain@reddit

Constantly muttering 'jam jam jam'
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Robmeu@reddit

Fork ‘andles
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jambo_1983@reddit

[Your cock up, my arse!](https://youtu.be/Jzoz2FgAOxE?si=pyqKPOEbzhSFu5uc)
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hammockinggirl@reddit

“There’s somebody at the door, there’s somebody at the door”
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SarkyMs@reddit

You have to sing it.
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SarkyMs@reddit

Good moaning.
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ZePanic@reddit

What type of sand-whiches do you do?
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OutrageousRhubarb853@reddit

You’re weclome
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TrainingWestern2633@reddit

Did nooo get an agenda
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SprayInternational58@reddit

Don't tell him, Pike!
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Obvious-Water569@reddit

99%+ of mine come from Peep Show, Friday Night Dinner or Black Books. But whores will have their trinkets.
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Born_Illustrator2023@reddit (OP)

Bow ties are cool
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AbleFlamingo732@reddit

One day, Rodney, we’ll be millionaires
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goochjs@reddit

Whenever a random name is required, I inevitably choose “Bernard” in honour of Queenie’s nurse.
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insapiens@reddit

Just the one Mrs Wembley
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Chazarotti_55@reddit

Cushty. Only fools and horses !
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bowen7477@reddit

This time next time we'll be millionaires.
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MattDubh@reddit

These ones are small. Those ones are *far away*.
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MattDubh@reddit

Open up man. Its the pigs!
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darkestDreaming67@reddit

"How are you feeling today, tickity-boo or not so pucker?" I'm internally disappointed if they don't reply, "Not so pucker, I'm afraid" despite it being a quote from a mostly forgotten '80s comedy by Ben Elton, starring many of the "Comic Strip presents..." regulars. The above is an interaction between Stephen Fry and Ade Edmondson. [Happy Families](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_Families_(1985_TV_series))
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doihavetousethis@reddit

You know, doing [insert action] is very much like making love to a beautiful woman.
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chmath80@reddit

Oh dear, how sad, never mind.
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MoonRoover@reddit

What else is electrical in here? Not the exhaust manifold It must be damp You blithering idiot top gear is burned into my brain
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pinkdaisylemon@reddit

Loads from Only fools and horses! It really was the gift that kept on giving. Best show ever.
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mcintg@reddit

Fortune vomits on my eiderdown once more.
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ScottyW88@reddit

What a sad little life, Jane!
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Abject-Lengthiness42@reddit

https://preview.redd.it/z0lj8t0sawff1.jpeg?width=839&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=07c39f155b7c237c376fd521b44809a5d2e9f9cc
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Abject-Lengthiness42@reddit

Any saying from the thick of it. And 👇🏼👇🏼 https://preview.redd.it/muc4ui5kawff1.jpeg?width=961&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=243b14d2c4dedd900763b0e50056583d686421c4
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disasterlesbian1701@reddit

Just the one Mrs Wembley?
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Different-Employ9651@reddit

Everybody is dead, Dave. - Whenever I am forced to explain something ridiculously easy to grasp. Kinda stops me going mad. Not sure if anyone around me gets the reference, although I have a customer who sometimes wears a "smoke me a kipper" t-shirt, so maybe he does.
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undoneyet@reddit

Creepy paper.
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ariadnevirginia@reddit

Morning campers! And "Olympic sized swimming pool"
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BiltongThief@reddit

“Oooh Friends”
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ariadnevirginia@reddit

Bus wankers!
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Necessary-Trash-8828@reddit

“You always have to get the last word in don’t you” “No”
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Fragrant-Prize-966@reddit

‘It’s just a joke - like on Top Gear.’
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availablelighter@reddit

Let’s have a look at what you could’ve won
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InsolventAttendant22@reddit

To me, to you
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SpaceWomble64@reddit

I used this the other day. 🙂
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Figgzyvan@reddit

‘Sod this. Anyone fancy a pint?’
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Soggy_Detective_4737@reddit

There's nobody here but us chickens
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Educational-Angle717@reddit

What was the bad thing
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Status-Mousse5700@reddit

Ooh Matron
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dospc@reddit

"Of course I'm the one who's laughing because I actually love brown toast"
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No-Daikon3645@reddit

Just the one, Mrs Wembley, whenever anyone offers me a drink.
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Pileroidsareapain@reddit

I don’t know why, but I have always remembered, “Don’t you yell at me, Mr Warwick!”
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FamProbsLookingAtDis@reddit

So easy to get in and out of Y'know
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LillyAtts@reddit

"I'm fine thank you Susan". "My nipples are roasting". "It's rubbish, attention-seeking rubbish!" "Oh no! Anyway". And I don't say it, but the word "ubique" pops into my head more than is normal.
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Spirited_Praline637@reddit

“I’m boiling!” - when it’s so hot in the summer that I’m walking around shirtless.
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10642alh@reddit

You plonker!
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mrbalsawood@reddit

“Fire the nuclear weapons”
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GT_Pork@reddit

Best high winds actor this fellas ever seen
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Neefew@reddit

I always say SEVEN like Len Goodman
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idontlikemondays321@reddit

‘There’s only one way to find out Mark’
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RikB666@reddit

A plan so cunning, you could put a tail on it and call it a weasel.
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PrisonPing@reddit

"Mmm, nice"
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Oak-Smoked-Salmon@reddit

I say “Hungelos McMungelos” when I’m peckish
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karlvontyr@reddit

Don't panic Mr Mainwaring
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death-in-tipton@reddit

“Language Timothy”
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Oak-Smoked-Salmon@reddit

“How very dare you”
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Hairy-Blood2112@reddit

This time next year, we'll be millionaires.
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bleach1969@reddit

I can do that gizza job
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PrestigiousGlove585@reddit

You know what they say! A cuckoo in may, ooh argh, ooh argh ay!
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flyingshrimp21@reddit

Float, float, float.....OLIVEEEEEEEER!
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Stinkinhippy@reddit

I can't walk through a supermarket fruit section without wanting to shout at some poor innocent person A MANGO?! Who's you think you are.. a fucking mango. (Been a long time, might be a bit off with the quote)
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Interest-Visible@reddit

Yeaahhhh Drackie It cheers my wife up
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splitpersontragedy@reddit

Four naan, that's Insane
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