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Hi im new but need your veiw my brother in law is shit!!!!!!!!!!!!

255 replies

daze18 · 29/12/2011 21:37

Hi
My brother in law this crimbo as ignored the family dinner ,boxing day and refusing contact he as an habit of being a twit. The problem is due tih behaviour his wife is now drink's booze like it's bloody tap water and im left with her kid and sod's off back to his home. Would it unresonable to slap him and show him hey im english but he 's a canadian shit with no manner's. This christmas was speacil because my mum in law is close to death and we have no other surivivng parent's so we had a good drink quite literally £300 bar bill we were all in a mess but who cares obviously the canadian one did. I apologise if canadian's are reading this but if were not for my hubby's job i would of floored him by now god help's us at mum's funeral were considering getting the police on stand by.

OP posts:
ThePhantomPlopper · 29/12/2011 21:50

Your second post made the situation MUCH clearer.. urm Confused

PatriciaHolm · 29/12/2011 21:50

Step away from the apostrophes!!!

dearprudence · 29/12/2011 21:50

On Twitter I think, Maryz.

TarquinGyrfalcon · 29/12/2011 21:50

I still can't understand.

OP, did you get a big bag of apostrophes for Christmas?

LeBOF · 29/12/2011 21:50

We are all Canadians here. All of us.

Pandemoniaa · 29/12/2011 21:51

Quite, LeBOF!

thepeoplesprincess · 29/12/2011 21:51

So you ran up a £300 bar tab in an attempt to show him that you don't need to drink to have fun?

Makes perfect sense.

hester · 29/12/2011 21:51

I'm still struggling to understand. Are you saying, basically, he's a tight-arsed Canadian (which seems to be an important factor, though I'm not sure why) and you are binging Brits who like to act like an episode of Shameless at Christmas and he can't handle it and so stays away? And so you think he's a tight-arse Canadian?

crazynanna · 29/12/2011 21:51

Confused more at 2nd post than the first

GypsyMoth · 29/12/2011 21:52

So where is he now?

ThePhantomPlopper · 29/12/2011 21:52

I think hester has it.

ArtVandelay · 29/12/2011 21:52

FWIW....

  1. Please don't hit him.
  2. You must refuse to care for your niece/nephew - its not appropriate if you are drunk. They need to pay a sober babysitter who can care for them properly.
  3. Try to make your MIL's Xmas a happy one with minimal stress given that you think its her last.

Xmas is a time when tensions often run high in families. Please keep posting and let off steam that way rather than through any violence or scenes.

smackapacca · 29/12/2011 21:52

OK so if that's what you're saying (don't really know what that is), and you're clear on the matter then what can we help you with?

caramelwaffle · 29/12/2011 21:53

I bought Maple syrup today - I really did. Yum.

JustAnother · 29/12/2011 21:53

His wife told you he doesn't like sex?? Nice family!

To2012AndBeyondTheLimits · 29/12/2011 21:53

Did the bag of apostrophie's (Wink) come from BIL?
Could he not have spared a few commas or maybe full stop's (Grin) too? two? to?

crazynanna · 29/12/2011 21:53

Who did you/he have sex with at the bar?Or have I got that bit wrong?

Pandemoniaa · 29/12/2011 21:53

PS. Would a bag of apostrophes be an "Off The Tree" extra or a main present? Either way, the OP appears to have got a veritable bargain bucket's worth.

Maryz · 29/12/2011 21:53

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Message withdrawn at poster's request.

dearprudence · 29/12/2011 21:54

OP, did you get a big bag of apostrophes for Christmas? - TarquinGyrfalcon

Grin Grin

caramelwaffle · 29/12/2011 21:54

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Maryz · 29/12/2011 21:55

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Message withdrawn at poster's request.

PictureThis · 29/12/2011 21:55

DH is looking at me like I'm tapped. I have tears running down my cheeks whilst snorting with laughter at some of the responses on here (sorry OP, don't mean to detract from your problem). As you were.

AnnieLobeseder · 29/12/2011 21:56

The errant apostrophes are making my eyes bleed.

Where did anyone ask you for smileys?

Why do you care what he thinks of how you celebrate Christmas. Why does me care how you choose to celebrate it?

You both sound really immature. Grown adults don't sulk.

And WTF does his nationality have to do with anything.

I see you're new to Mumsnet, but if you're planning to stick around, you'll find less than helpful responses if you don't type clearly and/or make disparaging comments about entire groups of people based on the behaviour of one individual.

ScarletLadyOfTheNight01 · 29/12/2011 21:56

On the first day of Christmas my true love gave to me....a partridge and apo-o-stropheeeees sings

On another note...WTF has him being Canadian got to do with the price of fish?

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