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Spending a long weekend with a family with *very* different political opinions from mine. Strategies please!!

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RookieHole · 10/12/2019 13:18

This weekend my PILs are visiting. They have very very different political opinions from mine and it's going to be a bastarding nightmare given the election on Thursday.

Me and my DP also have quite different views but generally rub along okay and do lots of agreeing to disagree.

But my PILs are a different story. They don't accept that people have different opinions but are adamant that they're right and those with opposing views are wrong. They have all the facts, those with opposing views have just been brainwashed. You get the picture.

Anyway, I can't just say 'shall we have another drink' every single time politics gets mentioned or I'll need a stomach pump by Friday night.

What I need are stock phrases to divert the conversation away from politics or mantras to tell myself to stop me doing a murder in the dead of night.

Please help!

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longwayoff · 17/12/2019 16:14

Waterjungle, great idea. Just the right level of passive agression.Grin

RookieHole · 17/12/2019 16:47

@waterjungle

Excellent suggestion, I will keep that in mind for next time around.

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CanISpeakToYourManager · 17/12/2019 22:01

My friend said she and her husband give the children 'politics kazoos' and anytime anyone starts talking politics, the kids are allowed to blow the kazoos noisily until the subject is changed.

Absolutely inspired.

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