To wonder what are the most [shock] family habits you've ever encountered?

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Mine are: an ex years ago was one boy with two sisters and one night we got talking about what they called their genitalia when they were growing up. I was flabbergasted when he said "Oh, I had a 'cock' and my sisters had 'minges'"

However that was not as bad as the family BBQ (same family) where we were all sitting around a table having a lovely lunch; me, ex-bf, his parents, sisters, sisters' boyfriends and then ex-MIL casually mentioned that she hadn't woken up till 9am that morning.
"That's not true," says ex-FIL promptly, "I heard you having a shit at 5." did not cover it.

Love the cat sous chef! I have conversations with the cats all the time

My late grandad made a caravan out of a bed frame and plywood... And drove it all the way to Italy for a family holiday.
Apparently it started falling apart on route! He was an excentric oh yes! He also used to go and sit in the car to get peace and quiet from bickering women. He was the only male in the family at the time.

I love you people ... am off sick and feeling very sorry for myself but this thread has been a right tonic!

Worksallhours that is truly astonishingly odd, are you sure you didn't dream it?

I am so fucking gutted that I missed the VagCat pic. I am livid at myself.

I used to go out with someone who's mother was a faith healer.....she also used to own a ferrari, a jag and bought her son a porsche for his 21st birthday. Enough said.

miserable I mis-read that as she 'used to own a ferret, a jag and bought her son a porsche'.

Is it just me or is The Cat and Fanny a great name for a pub?

Sorry all. I would PM the picture, but surely this thread has been an education in the types of loons that lurk about.

I am fairly surprised at the amount of interest it has garnered, but I guess it's been eh, ... normalized? in my head over the past 14 years.

Thanks to all for recalibrating my meter, just in time for the holidays!

I used to go out with someone who's mother was a faith healer...

I don't know how it's possible for a normal person to spend time with a faith healer. You are made of tough stuff, lady.

OH and I talk to each other in Fred West's voice.

How has this thread not been moved to classics yet?!?

exWife how did that come about? Do you mean just his accent?

During the course of my internet dating career I have encountered many an interesting individual. I was once chatting to a young man who shared the fact that his mum (he still lived at home) regularly wandered into his room and if he happened to be um, okay let's say it, having a wank, would stay and watch with interest. Right so...when he shortly after sent me a picture of a naked older woman as an "example of the sort of thing he found attractive", it wasn't too difficult to draw the conclusion that this was in fact his mum. Delete, block, scour brain with bleach!!!

I once went out with someone whose family took being inhospitable to new levels but combined this with astonishing nosiness.

They insisted on seeing everyone he was going out with (he was 23 at the time!) but equally, they disliked anyone coming into the house, let alone provide them any sort of hospitality. So I was summoned to his house to collect him before we went out somewhere but when I got there - early on a summer evening in broad daylight! - they refused to answer the door. His mother then snuck around the side of the house, peered at me over the back garden gate and went back inside.

She then came back in, opened the front door a tiny little way, and said, grumpily, "He's having his tea. You don't need to be on our property so if you wait in the street he'll be along in about 10 minutes". I was so aghast that I obeyed! Only to be joined by his sister's boyfriend who confirmed that these were the expected arrangements and that despite him going out with the sister for over a year, he'd never been allowed beyond the garden either.

When the boyfriend eventually came out, I asked him, tactfully, if his mother had some sort of issues with people coming into the house (despite them wanting to meet me) because it seemed so odd. He was deeply offended and said that nobody except family was ever allowed across the threshold because "For all we know, you'll steal things and also, you'll wear our carpets and furniture out". So he was as odd as the rest of them.

I didn't bother to return for another date.

Aww man can't believe I missed pic ??

My husbands dad came round with his 2 daughters (husbands half sisters) to see my baby son, one was about 4 months pregnant herself and said "I can't believe one of those is going to come out my fanny"

Ex step sis and her dad have a weird touchy feely thing. One dinner party she sat on his lap and he stroked her bare back (under her top) with his hand for ages. They also share a bed if they go visiting family. Gross!

Wow. Just wow to some of these.

My DH's family not in same league but definitely odd. His mum laid his clothes out for the next morning each night until we got together (he was 18). For years after we lived together she would do a care package of razors, deoderant, loo roll etc for him. This only stopped when we got married (he was 27) because then formal man care was now my role!

We are pretty tame, but do this thing in shops where we grab one another by the upper arm and pretend to be escorting each other out of the shop pretending we are a security guard.

I worry out daughter will pick up our weird nonsense words and not speak properly.

We are also the weirdos that give the dog a voice (he's french) - he talks in the 3rd person about what he gets up to during the day - didn't realise it was weird until our aupair came to live with us (she's french) and heard us doing it and then we had to admit that the dog has a song and she asked us to sing it - the entire family sand the dog's special theme song to him - and she wet herself laughing at us - will give her something to tell her parents when she's home this Christmas

I used to have a friend who would burn her toast then scrape the burnt bits over the kitchen floor. Everyone in her family did it. She stayed overnight and was quite shocked when asked to scrape over the sink.

Uh-oh! Now I'm getting scared. I was smugly assuring myself that my family was 'normal' but lately I'm saying "But we do that, that's not weird...is it?" to quite a few posts.

But I'm not saying which ones*!!!

OK, I'll admit to dog voices and some odd eating habits. But that's ALL!!

Oh my! My cats have been talking for years, I had no idea this was odd.

One of my lovelies passed away this year and now converses with us from cat heaven - is that not normal?

exWifebeginsat40 "OH and I talk to each other in Fred West's voice."

Why?