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Worst dinner party stories.

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Smileandtheworldsmileswithyou · 02/12/2020 02:01

I know there have been threads on this before, I just absolutely love them for some reason. These and the CF ones are the best! I'll start with mine. I had recently moved with my husband to a new country and my new boss invited me and a few other people from work to his house for dinner. When we arrived he was completely pissed, literally stumbling around drunk. He spent ages showing us a lizard on the wall which we all politely commented on, and waited and waited for the food...He then dropped a box of brownies all over the floor that another guest had brought as a gift and laughed about it for ages. Finally we were asked to sit down for dinner, but he said he couldn't carve the chicken so asked me to do it for him. He then came into the tiny kitchen to watch me try and carve it up and told me how I shouldn't worry, he would make sure I passed my probation at the end of the year. He then persuaded my husband to go in and finish off the job with the chicken before asking him if I was happy at work and if I liked him. We finally got to the table and he starts drinking my wine which I just ignore. He then tells everyone that he has made the bread rolls himself, even though I saw them in a packet in the kitchen. He told us a big elaborate tale about where he found the seeds for them. Dessert was finally served at around 1am, by which time everyone was desperate to get the hell out of there. He said we should take it in turns to host, funnily enough no one ever did take him up on that!

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toocoldforsno · 12/05/2021 09:17

[quote MiddleClassProblem]@AirFace you do know black is not a nationality? Or does that not matter to you? Maybe you didn’t bother to get to know where he was from.[/quote]
There was also the implication that the American and the Australian were obviously white, as you know, thats the norm. Hmm
The whole post was just appalling.

Malin52 · 12/05/2021 09:44

We served PomBears at a dinner party with some new neighbours. We love them and it's usually our winning dinner party dish (plain for weekdays and salt n vinegar for weekends/special occasions) but our guests clearly thought this was odd as they kept on exchanging glances.

We haven't seen them since. I found them a little weird.

Amandasummers · 12/05/2021 10:11

I just made the assumption that at some point, the offender managed to offend the American because he was American, the Australian because he was Australian and the black man because he was black....surely she was simply pointing out where the offence was, had the black man been welsh and insulted for being welsh, I imagine, that would have been the relevant factor. Why find offence where it wasn’t meant

toocoldforsno · 12/05/2021 10:15

@Amandasummers

I just made the assumption that at some point, the offender managed to offend the American because he was American, the Australian because he was Australian and the black man because he was black....surely she was simply pointing out where the offence was, had the black man been welsh and insulted for being welsh, I imagine, that would have been the relevant factor. Why find offence where it wasn’t meant
Offence is very much there whether you understand it or not. Hmm
MiddleClassProblem · 12/05/2021 10:23

@Amandasummers

I just made the assumption that at some point, the offender managed to offend the American because he was American, the Australian because he was Australian and the black man because he was black....surely she was simply pointing out where the offence was, had the black man been welsh and insulted for being welsh, I imagine, that would have been the relevant factor. Why find offence where it wasn’t meant
Yet there was no mention of Australia or Australians. Just because someone doesn’t mean to offend with their racism, doesn’t mean it wasn’t offensive.
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