Wish my FIL would shut up!!!

[cookiemonster100]

Inlaws staying for the weekend.
My Father in law insists on talking tripe while we are watching TV! Watching the opening ceremony and just keeps gibbering on. I have tried to be nice and asked him to be quiet but he won't shut up!! And he is drunk which just makes him argumentative.
I just want him to go home.....

It is irritating when someone goes on when you're trying to watch something, but then it's a bit of a sociable thing to watch.

I would say he just sounds as though he's getting into the spirit of it, but drunken blathering is never nice.

How did you phrase the 'STFU will you??'?

FIL nice enough chap but stands beside you fires questions asking you what you are doing when you are trying to make.

I think its rude to watch tv when you have visitors

I agree however we all wanted to watch it!! He tends to talk tripe when drunk

Family is different though bejeez, for a lot of people anyway.

I agree telly off when they are visitors, but if you're comfortable enough to be relaxed and drunkenly chat while you're watching telly it can be nice.

When my dad used to come round every other weekend there's no way we'd have treated him like a formal guest, he just did what we did and was happy doing that.

.I would never have tv on whilst anyone was here, not a case of being formal.....

But, I don't much like the tele. Only the kids watch it really. And my parents rarely put there's on. So it would be dead weird for me to put it on whilst parents were here....

Therefore, I am highly unqualified to comment on this thread and so will now STFU

Theirs, not there's

Could be worse, my FIL persists with the most awful 1930s type racism, never intended maliciously but unpleasant in its inappropriateness. He never learns and MIL has perfected the "It's just the way he is" defence followed by playing the victim if anybody refuses to humour him.

We have family round a fair bit, especially if there is something we all want to watch on. I now record whatever it is we are watching (if I am really keen on it) as I know there will be times when chatter will take over (and why not, or just not have people roound).

Then, if I feel I have missed anything or want to watch it 'properly' I can stick it on the next day or so when im pottering round the house.

You can't just not talk to your guests.

And you can't be that bothered about watching it if you are MNing during it

Never STFU bejeez

We have the telly on a lot, and given that dad could pack his fair share of bevvies away, the box was a good option to avoid the OPs situation

It depends on whether the person round expects to be formally entertained Gnocchi.

If they're staying for a while and round often it is possible for them to want to fit in with your normal life, that's why they're there.

You can chat and watch the TV, and if the conversation goes quiet for a while, that's OK too.

My tv seems to be on all the time. However the visitors i get are family. & friends & we either watch it or flick through music channels. I dont do formal entertaining.

OP i know how u feel. My dd has been asking me questions all the way through the opening ceremony. How am i meant to know whats going to happen next. Im not mystic meg