AIBU to start a list of banned topics for Christmas Dinner with relatives! (Light hearted)

[jennytheonionslayer]

I thought it would be fun to create a list of banned conversation topics for Christmas get togethers, I will start but feel free to add to this list!

Politics
Covid Jabs
NHS
Setting up complicated gadgets
Casual lazy racism
Misogyny
Brexit,
Old people
Young people
Middle aged people
Boris
Gender stereotypes
Gender fluidity
Immigration

I'm sure I have missed loads!

Over to you!

Also no going over operations (routine type obv) persistant bad backs /legs /necks anything on the body at all really! No MM or PH ,the Jabs/NHS .Brexit and whether we will/wont be locked down again .Also prices of Cheese whatever!

The route home?

No, surely, the various near misses, speeding Range Rover, shortcut that should have been taken on the route HERE will fill more riveting hours

It might be easier to give a list of the things people can talk about

my ex H - once my mother gets a whiff of anything to do with him she's off into a full rant about his various shortcomings almost exactly identical to all her previous rants - it's getting a bit wearing four years after leaving him

@AnnaMagnani

A new one in our house is the BBC. Apparently they pay every one far too much but claim to be short of cash so have had to steal it off the pensioners.

DM has only been here 3 days and this is her favourite topic. It's banned along with anything else she's read in the Daily Mail which she claims she just gets for the TV schedule

She sounds a bit like my son in law.

I’d like to ban my Grandma from saying “doesn’t DP treat you well/look after you/work hard” etc.
Yes he does but it’s not the bloody 50s! I work just as hard, earn just as much money as he does and treat him well as well.
Then she’ll start with the “are the girls nice where you work?” Errr I work in a male dominated industry and am actually the only “girl” in my team
I know she’s just old fashioned and means well but it does my head in!

@rainbowdancegirl

It might be easier to give a list of the things people can talk about

This is why (mostly) men go to (mostly) pubs and talk about football. Everyone can have an opinion, none of them can ever be tested (“I think Gareth Southgate should have picked Boggins instead of Goggins” etc) and no harm is done.

Fucking bastarding Pokemon. I swear to god there'll be a murder if they get onto bloody Pokemon. Again!

The past
The future
Feelings

All of 'The Idiots' .. that is anyone else doing anything except staying at home - being on the road , socialising, going into shops , going on holiday - except them

All of 'The Idiots' .. that is anyone else on the road

Rats (imaginary) or not, because there really are rats in the roof (they are imaginary)

Next door's extension .. ( the cause of the imaginary rats)

and whats on the dash cam.. thus proving all the other drivers are Idiots

Also better to steer clear of opinions, thoughts, ideas or comments.

Given the ever increasing list, you may as well just spend the day with the Poor Clares.

My wedding cake.

It's a long and tortuous story spanning 29 years and causes dh's left eye to twitch maniacally when it comes up...and DMIL ensures it always does.

Oh yes my Dad loves to discuss future days out in lots of detail. For example “well I think we’ll aim to leave around 8 as that will give us at least 4 hours to spare in case of traffic. And I think we’ll probably take the M1 and perhaps park in Hemel Hempstead and take the train into London. Now I did hear there were engineering works so I’ll have to check the timetable” and on and on it goes.

He can be extremely interesting but as he’s gotten older he’s become increasingly preoccupied with the details.

On my side of the family, it's Princess Diana.

There was an almighty row once as several people had very different opinions of her. It was insane.

Vaccination status! Banned!!!

My birth (I’m over 50 but it’s apparently still a valid topic of conversation) and my mother telling me she brought up her younger siblings from the age of 2. Younger sibling strongly denies this.

Scottish independence is the only topic that has resulted in rage and tears around our Xmas table.

Private education.

Hang on everyone. Can we organise a last minute swap situation. I’m seeing things which don’t raise any hackles in my family. Eg happy to discuss Diana (bit boring but we can do it) or train timetables (!) or wedding cakes wtc.

These are particular only to my mum: complaints about other people, complaints about her cats and long and detailed descriptions of what she does when at work.

Seeing the word monopoly makes my eye twitch.

Me, basically.

I teach in the ME & have been stuck there for 2 years because of covid. Visiting finally for Xmas.

My parents have helpfully banned my least likeable elderly relative from commenting on:

Muslims, sand, Muslims, bloody trendy teaching methods that weren't about in his day when you were allowed to throw chalk (digression onto blackboards being 'banned' & something about only being allowed to refer to Xmas as Winterval now, because Muslims...), camels, foreign food, head scarves, undutiful daughters who carelessly get themselves stranded in godforsaken countries full of sand & camels & foreign food oh & Muslims...

They've also banned me from having more than 3 glasses of wine, because we all know that dear old Great Uncle Islamophobia won't actually able to help himself...

I've told them as soon as he starts I'm changing the subject to Brexit then sloping off for a quiet spliff with my cousin.

Monopoly was banned by my DM as my DF would always win and it led to raging arguments about 'why are you so good with fake money but we are always in the shit with real money?'

When I got married DH suggested we played Monopoly. I told him it was banned. He said 'You are an adult now, lets play Monopoly'.

We didn't get round the board once before I nearly divorced him. It's banned again.