To ask the silliest things people have said to you. (Title edited by MNHQ)

[Mightymelon]

Mine’s just told me that when DH and I have a daughter (not anytime soon it would seem) I will have to stop dying my hair as it sets a bad example but it would be fine if we had sons.
She has a daughter, and has been dying her hair since 1972... 🤷‍♀️🤦‍♀️🙄

Does anyone else’s Mil say rediculous things you have no idea how to respond to or just mine?

Regale me with strange MIL stories so I don’t feel so weirded out 😂😂

That not that’s - sorry

When DH had a tattoo she told him, perfectly straight faced' that he couldn't murder anyone now as he'd be recognised 😂

The stupidest thing mine ever said is when DD was 3 days old. We'd just got back from hospital and I had the 3 day mental hormones. She asked whether the baby slept and exP said not at all and she said "why's that my darling? Don't you love your mummy? Do you hate her and want her never to sleep again?" I burst into tears! Breaking up with ex was a double success as I got rid of her too.

Why just MILs?

“Oh I wouldn’t go her used to eating all those foreign foods, what’s the point she won’t be able to get them much over here” - said whilst I was feeding DD sweet potato

I agree, why just MIL's? Some people just love to stir the pot!

That I am having an affair (it would seem that I have found a way to be in two places at once). And also that I starving my children and that us why they keep putting things into their mouths (after watching me trying to concivencr a clichy teething toddler to eat for an hour).

That 10 inch bamboo barbecue skewers were a reasonable toy to give to an 11 month old toddler, not yet walking (but able to move around on two feet by holding onto furniture with one hand). Apparently if she'd fallen on them they would not have injured her as they would just break. It was at that point I started seriously trying to cut back the amount of time we spent with PILs - at least DH heard that particular gem...

My mil was relatively sane, compared to my mum anyway, now if you wanted stupid stories you shouldn't have restricted it to mils

@MNHQ please can we have a MIL topic for this misogynistic crap?

Oh not again, please.

Why windows?

Not my MIL but DM - I couldnt fly when I was 5 months pregnant (I had visited my GP to make sure it was ok btw) as when the plane took off, the baby would be sucked out. I did point out that no one had to have an enema before flying incase their next poo was sucked out but that was, apparently, different.

Ex-MIL had "nothing against" her African neighbours, but didn't "understand why they have to have so many children".

They had 4. She was mother of 6.

My MIL doesn't have a home screen on her computer apparently, my partner had to tell her it's the screen with Donny Osmond on it.

@Wiggly and @Sugar
Go wild with anyone - my pot stirrers are generally MIL SIL and H’s nan

But any weird shit is welcome here!

For balance, my own mother says some pretty stupid stuff. Borderline hate crimes, some of it, if she were to say it in public.

As you can imagine I'm pretty LC with my family...

I love these threads, but make it about everyone not just mil's

@bertrandrussel does this already exist if I’ve made a dupe I’m happy to ask HQ to delete?

@Potato2242 would asking for a title be a waste of HQ’s time?

Boring, misogynistic, tedious, repetitive, nasty, ageist, petty.....thread. Get a life op.

‘Childbirth is much worse for the man than the woman... terrible watching someone in so much pain’

While I get that I’m sure it’s hard to see someone you love in pain and be helpless etc, I’m 32 weeks pregnant and have told her if she tries being like ‘oh how are yooooou’ over DH afterwards I will have to hate her a little bit

Don't get me wrong, my own MIL is a pain in the behind, but I hate the constant MIL bashing on here at times.

Clearly this thread has been taken the wrong way.

It was meant to be lighthearted bizzare things that come out of clearly very well meaning women’s mouths that just make you go WTF?

Yes. People on this site complain about their mils because misogyny

My nan ate a slice of quiche my mum had made, then told my dad he should have married a 'proper' woman who would know that one doesn't put onions in an egg custard