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.

My ex's sister in law used to have this mole in her cheek with enormously long hairs growing from it. Her children used to sit in her lap sucking their thumbs with the other arm stretched up to play with the mole hair by twiddling it round their fingers. Shudder.

Oh god Rabbit, I think I know those sisters?! unless there are more weirdo caravan lesbian incest sisters.....

Had a nanny when I was a child who had carpet on the floors and walls of her entire house.

DM had a boyfriend many years ago who wouldn't let me do DSis sit on the sofa as he believed that sofas were for adults and children should sit on the floor (even if he wasn't there and no one else was in the room).

I did laugh at Boleyn's wall cat.
I have this sneaking suspicion that our family are the weird ones. (Eeek!)
I know someone (ok it's my dsis) , collected all the snails from garden and put them in a bag.(to take to park where lots of blackbirds and thrushes feed) Ndn, says hi,whatcha doing? Dsis says oh it's nice day, just taking snails to the park. Ndn was just . Sis realised and got giggles half way up road. But she knows she is mad snail woman now.

When he was 13, my ex's mother brought a witch doctor to the house to banish the demon that had 'got inside' him and made him start playing up at school!

That's not really a habit though.

ummm ...

Well, this one is my family but I have no part in it. Some (not all) of my cousins have the most disgusting toilet humour. They fart in each other's faces, do 'skin on skin' farts on each other and snapchat each other with photos of their poo in the toilet with comments on its consistency and size!! These are all women in their mid to late 20s! Luckily, they are well aware which of us have no wish to be subjected to their filth [grin!]

This thread is excellent and I'm just annoyed I can't think of anything sufficiently mad to contribute

This thread is amazing!
I'm off to sleep now and I'm going to be deeply disappointed if there aren't loads more weird stories

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MiL looking at a photo of DP who was in the garden in my knickers (long story), commenting on how well endowed he was and how he didn't get it from his father

Yeah, I'm Russian, so I'm weird anyway. But here are few:
My DP is finding it weird that when I drink tea, I'll leave the spoon in the cup. When taking a sip, I'm holding it with my thumb.
I also eat apples and pears with the centre bit, so only a stick is left after I'm done.
Not quite annoying or scary as everyone else's stories, but apparently weird.

oh estrus- my DH does the spoon in the tea thing!
(drives me mad! and he's weird )

I was invited home for tea at a school friend's house when I was about 10. She lived in an enormous, but crumbling house which was unspeakably filthy. The kitchen in particular would have been condemned by Environmental Health and it was the first time I realised that cookers could actually turn black with dirt. As indeed were all the saucepans, the kettle and pretty much every visible surface. Not that many surfaces were visible.

Her mother was immaculately dressed however, and seemed quite immune to the state of chaos around her. Even more oddly, when we sat down to tea (none of which I was particularly looking forwards to!) we were all issued with laundered napkins in silver napkin rings. After tea we went off to play and later on were offered like a hot drink and a biscuit. The biscuits, however, came out of a large brown sack and were Bonios! Dog biscuits being a family favourite much enjoyed by my friend and her brothers and sisters. All of whom munched away on them merrily!

Three pretty disgusting ones unfortunately, all from family members .

1. Mature man who not only bites off his toenails and chews them, but keeps small piles hidden about for chewing purposes.

2. Teenage girl who flosses her teeth with her hair (while attached to her head).

3. The worst. Mature woman who blows her nose onto her own skin and then rubs it in like moisturiser. When questioned, is convinced it has some kind of miraculous properties that are good for the skin (at least that's the story).

I just peed a little at omnomnom family, give it a thwack and howling wine family. Brilliant thread

I also know a grown woman who sits on her dads knee, one particular parry night she ended up straddling her father. Que many faces around the room.

Sorry. Party* night

An ex of mine had a bit of an odd relationship with his mum.

I remember the time,in his late 20's he told her he had bought new boxers.She excitedly said 'lets have a look then' and he dropped his trousers to show her..

That said,apparently it was quite normal for her to be walking around naked at times when he visited

Am now worried. As I don't have any stories, does that mean that mine are the weird family?!

someone had obviously met my exh and his family and as a result the hilarous 'royale family' was created, endless cups of tea, constant gawping at the t.v, very little intelligent conversation, oh god i could go and on it was so weird !

DH's gran feeds people according to 'pecking order'. FIL and DH get full meat and veg. MIL gets half portion meat and veg.

I get veg.

random, come round to mine, we'll feed you - sunken yorkie puds and very lumpy gravy i excel at but my roast tatties are to die for!

My mother in law picked up her dinner plate and licked it clean! In front of my children!

My mother licks plates in the kitchen. Sad to relate they're not always her own.

So kind of you mrsfuzzy.

But tell me:

Would I get to sit on a chair?

Would there be an actual protein component to the meal?

I'll be able to tell if you're lying.

Giggling at the butt holding family !

My dh's family are weird. They all burp ceremoniously after every meal. It's disgusting. They all do it heartily in turns starting from the eldest. Although I must admit they either tone down or don't do it infront of me anymore after I told DH how antisocial it was.