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Worst dinner conversation

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Greydove28 · 05/12/2021 19:11

Was out for Christmas dinner Friday when one of the guests started an in-depth conversation about their daughter having the shits for a month while we were all eating.

What's the worst dinner conversation you have been party to? Confused

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Musmerian · 05/12/2021 20:08

@Santahatesbraisedcabbage

Ils over for tea. Very fuddy fuddy. Ds announced he had found his first pubic hairs.. Mil went a shade of white I am sure.. On the plus side they didn't stay long!!
Brilliant!
SawdustandHay · 05/12/2021 20:22

The repeated conversation with grandparents about the relative merits of pig, sheep, chicken and police manure.
No I’m joking that was quite interesting. The worst ones are so boring I can’t remember them.

DrSbaitso · 05/12/2021 20:38

@SawdustandHay

The repeated conversation with grandparents about the relative merits of pig, sheep, chicken and police manure. No I’m joking that was quite interesting. The worst ones are so boring I can’t remember them.
Chicken and what manure?
TheRealHousewife · 05/12/2021 20:44

Hi @DrSbaitso I’d guess she meant chicken &poultry manure.

DrSbaitso · 05/12/2021 20:47

Poultry! That makes sense.

Brilliant autocorrect 👏 😃

Sayke · 05/12/2021 20:47

There was one time when our kids were all new starters at the nursery. One of the organiser-type mums invited about ten of us over for supper. One of the guests told us some random embarrassing story about herself and encouraged everyone to share theirs. Turns out she was a newspaper journalist and she printed everything we spilled! So embarrassing.

FirewomanSam · 05/12/2021 21:04

I’ve been to several dinner parties with doctors who dominated the conversation with really grim stories about patients at death’s door, horrible symptoms they’ve seen in patients that week, or just spent the whole evening swapping generally boring anecdotes with each other using jargon and medical terms that nobody else at the table could understand Sad

Palomathegoose · 05/12/2021 21:05

Breakfast time on a long haul flight. My then five year old son stood on his seat bang in the middle of the very small cabin, looked down at his PJ bottoms and asked in a very loud voice "Mummy, Daddy, why does my willie stick up some mornings?" That was a long flight.

TillyTopper · 05/12/2021 21:27

Some of these are fab, love the one from @Onairjunkie though.

christmasbirdsandchristmasherd · 05/12/2021 21:29

aibu at its best Grin

BlowDryRat · 05/12/2021 21:37

@Lovelydovey

My DF worked in A&E and used to come home with tales of what had happened that day. My DM used to walk out and eat in the kitchen. I lapped up his stories. Mind you DM also hated eating with me because I used to call chicken “dead hen” even while we were eating it.
DS went through a stage of asking why we're eating dead animals and saying it wasn't very nice to kill them and eat them. He would go on and on and on.

Police manure Grin

SawdustandHay · 05/12/2021 21:46

@DrSbaitso

Poultry! That makes sense.

Brilliant autocorrect 👏 😃

No. Really! Police manure from the police horses! It’s good if you can get it.
tallduckandhandsome · 05/12/2021 21:48

@Lovelydovey

My DF worked in A&E and used to come home with tales of what had happened that day. My DM used to walk out and eat in the kitchen. I lapped up his stories. Mind you DM also hated eating with me because I used to call chicken “dead hen” even while we were eating it.
I feel sorry for your DM!
PooWillyNameChange · 05/12/2021 22:10

@Sayke

There was one time when our kids were all new starters at the nursery. One of the organiser-type mums invited about ten of us over for supper. One of the guests told us some random embarrassing story about herself and encouraged everyone to share theirs. Turns out she was a newspaper journalist and she printed everything we spilled! So embarrassing.
I wonder if that person is now on AIBU. Y'know the threads "...to ask you your most embarrassing story".
DrSbaitso · 05/12/2021 22:14

@Sayke

There was one time when our kids were all new starters at the nursery. One of the organiser-type mums invited about ten of us over for supper. One of the guests told us some random embarrassing story about herself and encouraged everyone to share theirs. Turns out she was a newspaper journalist and she printed everything we spilled! So embarrassing.
That must have been one slow news week.
Sayke · 05/12/2021 22:41

@PooWillyNameChange
Indeed Wink

Onairjunkie · 05/12/2021 22:57

@TillyTopper

Some of these are fab, love the one from *@Onairjunkie* though.
I can’t remember now if teenage me was thinking “oh how lovely, French, how wonderful to have a chance to converse in my second language,” or if teenage me was hungover and a bit cross about being at work and thought “I’ll show you, you pretentious twats.” 😇
Ironingtsunami · 05/12/2021 23:10

NC for this as could be very outing to people who know me on here. I was at an engagement dinner for someone in my extended family. The fiance's family were old school money - from the SE, public school, all in elite jobs (banking, corporate law etc) All very polite, just a different world to me.
Family member (who is a bit of a wind up merchant' introduced me to them as: 'This is ironingtsunami. She's a social worker you know'

The response:
'Fascinating! We had some gyspies staying on our field last week....'

Where do you go with that?? I just wanted to hide!

HunterGatherer · 06/12/2021 16:38

Ironingtsunami

I've had similar at a posh inlaws dinner party. All the other guests in banking and law! DSIL introduced me and explained I work in the NHS and they did a (pre covid) round of applause, as they'd never met anyone who actually did that kind of shit/mercy role, working with the great unwashed, for barely any pay before Shock.
In the next breath, they were asking if I had thought of moving to the private sector......Hmm

Ihopeyourcakeisshit · 06/12/2021 16:43

My now mil announcing that she had found my handcuffs on the bed while she was putting my now dh's laundry away.

ApocalypseNowt · 06/12/2021 16:58

Dinner party with a bunch of posh lawyers (I am neither) where they were discussing a court case involving a man having sex with a duck. Went on for ages.

They asked what my thoughts were on the matter and I said "I just feel sorry for the duck" which was apparently hilarious... Hmm

Hummingbirdcake · 06/12/2021 17:00

‘What do you do?’
‘I’m not working at the moment I’ve got ME.’
( I had made a huge effort to come out and anticipated being shattered for the next week as a result).
‘Oh you mean you’re really lazy and you can’t be bothered working.’
Turns back on me.

Sparklfairy · 06/12/2021 17:02

My parents were at dinner with my DMs best friend and her partner (fiance?) for best friends birthday.

Partner dumped best friend during dinner in front of everyone.

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Greydove28 · 06/12/2021 18:05

Oh my! These stories are a lot worse than mine 🤣

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Greydove28 · 06/12/2021 18:06

@ApocalypseNowt

Dinner party with a bunch of posh lawyers (I am neither) where they were discussing a court case involving a man having sex with a duck. Went on for ages.

They asked what my thoughts were on the matter and I said "I just feel sorry for the duck" which was apparently hilarious... Hmm

I hope noone was eating duck at the time too 🤣 What a strange bunch thinking that was ok dinner conversation .

I found it quite difficult to eat through the shits story i had to endure.

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