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!

@PussGirl

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

My invoice does this about my exh. I left him nearly 15 years ago!

Uncle not invoice

@purplesequins

brexit vaccination wirecard andré rieu

Oh god, Id forgotten about André Rieu....... I must get more wine in !

Excellent idea. If I ban casual and not so casual racism, sexism and homophobia I can probably do the whole day without a peep out of FIL.

All of these plus:
Pronouns
Gender vs Sex
TWAW. 🌹

@CrapSticks

The shagability of Boris and Trump (who would you rather sleep with etc)
🤮

My Father reads the Daily Mail and socialises at his golf club. I do not want to hear about:

The BBC (failings of).
Boris Johnson (the wonders of).
Blue passports.
France and the French in general, in fact extend that to the EU.
The lady golf captain and her entitled attitude.
Obesity in women and calling me miss piggy if I take a second helping of anything (I was dangerously underweight growing up and I'm now a healthy BMI and size 12).

All of the above!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

However, I am now a christmas table conversation legend in our family as I once put my head in my hands and told my FIL that 'I think we have exhausted the subject of the boiler' everyone else cheered!

Will he still love Johnson after all the partying?

Could I ban talk of cocktails drunk on nights out that I didn't attend and the accompanying photos, please?

My parents come to ours on Xmas day. On boxing day we all.. Brother etc go to theirs
Boxing day is termed as mum's day in our house
It's all about her.
I've already told her talk of boxing day on Xmas day is banned.
Las tweek she already referred to boxing day as Xmas day

When twenty something relative is going to get a 'proper job'

@thebabasavedme that has made my day! Crying laughing.

And Yes to the poster who mentioned the computer games drivel coming out of DS's beautiful but phenomenally annoying mouth.

It started on Monday morning at seven thirty and there's no end in sight.

At least tomorrow we'll be with all the in laws so it won't just be me telling him to pack it in.

@Rekorderlig88

My parents come to ours on Xmas day. On boxing day we all.. Brother etc go to theirs Boxing day is termed as mum's day in our house It's all about her. I've already told her talk of boxing day on Xmas day is banned. Las tweek she already referred to boxing day as Xmas day

Interested as to why Boxing Day is all about your mum?

Snowflakes.

Graduates who know who to operate an iphone but not a broom.

Entitled young people (see above) who can't afford to buy houses because they live on avocados and craft beer.

Immigration

The Muslims who are taking over Sweden.

The Muslims who are taking over the UK

Angry Feminists who don't appreciate being 'treated like a lady,' who are bitter, ungrateful sluts who are all ugly lesbians anyway.

Anything/anybody Woke

Trans people

How there are no white people in adverts any more.

How there are no straight couples in adverts any more.

The useless Tory government with no backbone.

The even more useless Labour opposition.

BLM

Trump was robbed.

Meghan Markle is a grabby bitch who wants to bring the royal family down and Harry is a spineless whinger who should see her for the scheming madam she is.

Facebook censors free speech.

Covid isn't really dangerous and the vaccine is completely unnecessary.

People who are vaccinated are stupid gullible sheep.

All and any of these things will be brought up within 15 minutes of being in the door of my mother's house by her fucking awful partner.

And I say this as a Brexit supporting Tory, who thinks the end of freedom of movement is a very good thing and we need a better handle on immigration, so if I say that, you know it must be bad.

The funniest thing is that he is in his late seventies with a heart condition and dodgy lungs after a lifetime of chain smoking. My mother won't allow him to leave the house because if he gets Covid he'll probably die.

So he sits indoors in the safety of her home while she conveneintly runs around (not terribly well herself but fully vaxxed) getting everything he needs, while he pontificates on facebook about how Covid isn't dangerous and we are all being duped.

I say let him out. Let's put it to the test. Omicron can have him. Bring it on. It can't come soon enough for me.

I spent Christmas Day with him once. Never again. My mother has to accept that she'll never spend Christmas (or any day really) with us again, unless he dies before she does.

Nduja I can see why you'd be encouraging him to fight the fear and get out there.
It's crazy times.

@NdujaWannaDance

I sympathise, we will tick quite a few on your list too with fil. Late 80’s and stuck in the 1950’s, middle class, well spoken, male head of the home etc etc. (Not the covid denying though at least).

No choice for me but to suck it up although my DD’s will call it out now.

Ailments - various and ever-changing
Treatment - or possible treatment - for said ailments
Medication - or possible medication - for said ailments
GPs - which one is best to see for said ailments
GPs - how they are 'not what they used to be'
Ailments of next door neighbours and various other people we don't know and will never meet
The Tories
Brexit
Daily Mail
People bumped into in Waitrose over the past year - who we don't know and will never meet
Articles from the local rag about people we don't know and will never meet

Nah -. I would put all those topics in a hat, everyone pulls out a topic to discuss. Interruptions allowed. Storm offs &table thumping - points dedcuted. Great family fun all round.

I doubt you can avoid covid dominating half the conversation.

I am not mixing as much as in the past but when I do it is tedious - I couldn't lift my arm/ drive the car/ sleep properly after the first/second/ third jab, but at least the queue for jabs was very short/long/slow, the staff were very efficient/ helpful/sympathetic/few, but this one was much easier/ less painful/ made me iller/had no side effects than the first/second/third and on and on and on .............
I do not fecking care!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Who owned the pet rabbit 65+ years earlier. As my DMIL and her siblings are aged 72-85 I can only assume they’re all remembering various rabbits, unless it was one rabbit with an insanely long life span. But they nearly came to blows one Christmas over just who owned the rabbit and one sibling left in a huff.

Almost as of the New Yorker is here.

Impressions don't go down well in my family. There was the year my normally very quiet dad did a random impression of one of my BIL, then a newish boyfriend for DSis, which involved DSis waiting on him hand and foot. Very funny and very accurate, DSis didn't agree...
Board games are also banned. My mum is competitive to the point she once upturned a game of Buckeroo.

In my DP's family we're not allowed to mention the time his mum threw a coat hanger at him cause he refused to take part in his scouts parade. She denies this.
And we're definitely not allowed to mention the time she told him to give up on his career dream after six months on the dole. He went onto make it big in his chosen career. She denies this too.
And we're not allowed to bring up our forthcoming wedding as MIL wants one of her granddaughters front and centre and we don't. Nothing good can come from that conversation!

Sex
Money
Religion
Politics
Hunting
Vegans
Pensions
House prices
Lower class riff-raff getting into Oxbridge
Boris
Brexit
Bloody Covid
People on benefits
Waitrose vs Lidl