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to think this is NOT conversation for dinner?

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OhFraktiousTree · 24/12/2011 20:15

What is it about Christmas that brings out the worst in people around a table?!

Tonight the family, in between bickering over the last roast potato and deciding when to leave for midnight mass, discussed enemas. Specifically - clay based ones.

Please tell me this isn't just my family! I dread to think what we'll be talking about tomorrow

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McPhee · 28/12/2011 08:08

My sisters boyfriend proceeded to tell us, over Xmas dinner, that a certain xbox controller was like a dildo. He'd never met us before. Needless to say he's not left a good impression Hmm

Dozer · 28/12/2011 08:34

Yy, what's a clay enema? And what is it for?!

I don't mind inappropriate dinner chat, more interesting than random small talk, unless you're squeamish!

StealthPolarBear · 28/12/2011 08:41

Yes, this sounds more interesting than the conversation we tend to have about which route did you take to get here? Are you sure that's the quickest way? But what about all the little villages you have to go through? I find going down through X and turning left to be a good way..." and on and on. We live an hour away - one or both of us probably do the journey at least weekly.
But that is my only gripe - other than that the conversation is fine! It's just the routeplanner talk tends to happen every time we see them and go on for about an hour.

MyDogAteMyMincePies · 28/12/2011 20:46

Well my mum decided to tell me the story of why I caught chicken pox at six weeks old;

"Well your brother was in the hospital being circumcised..."

WTAF?!?!?! I didn't need to know that info, you could of made something up!!!! Shock

slowburner · 28/12/2011 20:51

Try having a meal with vets. I shit you not, they can clear a table in minutes the subjects they think are suitable for a dinner table. ESP large animal vets. Eugh.

YANBU, it isn't a fit subject, but I agree about the seeming lack of roast pitatoes

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OhFraktiousTree · 29/12/2011 22:29

For those who care a clay based enema is one where you mix around a tablespoon (although the exact quantity was a subject for intense discussion) of a fine clay powder to make a solution and, you must leave it too long or it will settle, erm, insert it. It's to reduced inflamed and irritable colons. Too much colonic irrigation can do that apparently.

You'll all be relieved to know that colonic troubles didn't come up over Christmas dinner. Instead we discussed TV. How boring.

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GeraldineHoHoHobergine · 29/12/2011 22:34

My dad once told me he was a cross dresser over a tuna mayo sandwhich. Awkward doesn't really describe it.

GeraldineHoHoHobergine · 29/12/2011 22:38

As a disclaimer I'm a nurse so not easily shocked. That is a tough convo to have at 16 though.

YonderRevoltingPeasantWhoIsHe · 29/12/2011 22:56

colonic troubles didn't come up over Christmas dinner

Thankfully.

YonderRevoltingPeasantWhoIsHe · 29/12/2011 22:57

Geraldine my mum came out to me at nine in the morning over my work phone.

Whilst I was in a meeting. That was fun.

AnotherMincepie · 29/12/2011 23:01

I couldn't stomach that Xmas Shock I'd have to say brightly "shall we change the subject?" or "would you like to talk about that when we're not eating?"

GeraldineHoHoHobergine · 29/12/2011 23:17

Yonder, I feel your pain, it's so hard to be understanding sometimes eh?

Ozziegirly · 30/12/2011 00:46

My great Aunt was a wonder for inapropriate gross medical conversations at dinner. I recall once her telling me about her husband with a stomach upset, and how he hadn't been able to make it to the bathroom "Really, Ozziegirly, there wasn't a spot in the room where there wasn't vomit".

iklboonkey · 30/12/2011 01:09

At family do last week MIL's latest beau was telling us all about his tour in Iraq in the first conflict and how he has lots of photos of dead, mutilated & burning bodies if we want to see them. This in front of a 6 and 10 year old.

ComposHat · 30/12/2011 01:10

I was sat in the works canteen with three colleagues, you know the type, the ones who talk about NOTHING but their children and assume you are equally enamoured with their offspring.

They spent the entire dinner break talking about the consistency, frequency, smell of their children's shites, whilst the rest of the workforce were trying to eat. Then one of them trying to describe the colour of one of their child's motions piped up with: 'it was about that colour' and pointed at the bowl of soup I was eating. I nearly barfed.

Inconsiderate, self absorbed sods!

Fo0ffyShmo0ffer · 30/12/2011 01:16

Tonight's tea table conversation with DS (9) was the whys and wherefores of the Drag Act.

giraffesCanGoFirstFootingOnNYE · 30/12/2011 01:23

willselfless Xmas Grin

OnemorningXmasCockMonkey · 30/12/2011 14:02

I was once in a meeting and the manager picked up the phone, spoke briefly to his wife and sat down. With a smile he announced 'My son has just done his first poo on the potty!'.

bachsingingmum · 30/12/2011 14:39

My F was an obstetrician and gynaecologist and my M and nurse and midwife so I was brought up from infancy with this type of dinner table conversation and think nothing of it. My DH was a little surprised when he first joined us for meals (17 year old lad listening to episiotomy stories...) but 30 odd years later he's used to it now!

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