# Phrases You've Copied From Your Parents....

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**Created:** [March 8, 2016, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-youve-copied-from-your-parents/748247 "2016-03-08T01:13:55Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 10, 2016, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-youve-copied-from-your-parents/748247/66 "2016-03-10T16:15:56Z")

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> [@MeanOldLady](#):
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> He also referred to my mother (you know, his wife and mother of his kids) as “your mother” and my siblings as “your brother/sister” as if they didn’t have names or he was in no way related to them. Cracked me up. My siblings and I still do this. “So I talked your mother earlier…” as if she isn’t mine, too.

But of course. If he’s done something good, he’s “my child”; if he’s done something wrong, he’s “your child”. The following is a common conversation starter with the Bros:

“Your mother is driving me crazy!” “You leave MY mother out of this, what has YOURS done?”

Overexcited or complaining children produce: “is anybody bleeding?”

Children looking like they’re about to hit each other: “Kill each other but don’t hit each other!”

> [@WV lawmakers suffer stomach illness after drinking raw milk to celebrate legalizing raw milk](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wv-lawmakers-suffer-stomach-illness-after-drinking-raw-milk-to-celebrate-legalizing-raw-milk/748437/17):
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> There’s no scientific benefit to drinking raw milk. It’s just that some people believe it’s more natural and therefore must be healthier.

\<— from another thread.

Another one, from Dad: “Veggies are good for you, natural is good for you, hemlock is a natural vegetable…”

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