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!

@Cuck00soup

My SILs

Miranda Hart

Whether Brussels should have a cross cut into their bottoms.

@cuck00soup Brussels like the EU?

@Outwiththenorm

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.

Omg I love this.

Encouraging, though, that the subject of sex v gender is likely to come up in so many households unless banned. I don’t think this would have been the case even a year ago.

brexit
inheritance
immigrants
religion
covid
the government

Do we need another post for likely topics that can be covered?! I'm not sure there's anything left though!

DH's family (and DH) are constantly referring to things that happened a precise number of years, months or days ago or that are happening x years, months or days in the future. For example : just think, 32 days ago we were sitting in that cafe in town, and in 2 months and 3 days we'll be travelling to see aunty Sue, and it will be 14 months since Gordon died a week on Tuesday. For some reason it really winds me up.

Private education caused quite a big row between DIL and me. I am afraid I started it by saying that grandchild had told me she was lonely in her relatively new fancy school.

Thankfully we got over it but oh the drama. So unlike me I like to tell myself.

It was awful. Never again will that topic pass my lips.

I think the only ones definitely banned here are arguments between dsis and her offspring about each others defects, politics (dsis finds it boring, her children don't see above) and food. Films are a safe topic...

For my family it’s just don’t get Grandad started.
So especially nothing against Margaret Thatcher, Alan Shearer or the England football team.
If he decides to disagree just go with it. Accept you are wrong (even when you’re not) and never ever bring up that topic ever ever again.
He is insane, but he is my grandad and I love him despite his faults.
I wish no one would comment on my weight!!!

I’m just hoping to get through dinner without the dragging of anyones ex spouses names into the conversation!
Christmas should be free from pontificating about people from whom you are divorced!!

Owen Farrell v George Ford

Any documentaries my FIL has watched (he is the only person I know that can talk about an hour's documentary for an hour and a half. How is that even possible?)

I'm wondering about asking about JK Rowling with the previous potterheads..

All of the above.

• Causal brags about how little you’ve eaten
• Bias in the mainstream media
• How left wing and extreme my politics are… (I’ve voted Tory most of my life but draw the line at UKIP and Trump. I spend Christmas in a parallel universe where my extremely alt-right family make out like I’m the one with extreme views…)

List of safe topics over Christmas dinner! http://www.mumsnet.com/Talk/amiibeingunreasonable/4434569-list-of-safe-topics-over-christmas-dinner?msgid=113596025#113596025

Opposing thread here thanks Op and hope it's ok to have copied your idea!

GalaPie. You can’t leave us hanging. I want to know about The Wedding Cake. Pleeeeeease.

@cortex10

DH's family (and DH) are constantly referring to things that happened a precise number of years, months or days ago or that are happening x years, months or days in the future. For example : just think, 32 days ago we were sitting in that cafe in town, and in 2 months and 3 days we'll be travelling to see aunty Sue, and it will be 14 months since Gordon died a week on Tuesday. For some reason it really winds me up.

Nearly as brilliant as the rabbits 😂

The route home:
Anyone remember the London Bus Routes stories about how to get from one suburb to another, usually Croydon was involved.

Cortex10 my parents do this too. We were having a quick cup of tea to say goodbye before our dream family holiday of a safari in South Africa. My mother pointed out that in two weeks it would all be over, the money spent and the trip a distant memory.

Great. Just what you want to think before you've even left home.

I’m just hoping to get through dinner without the dragging of anyones ex spouses names into the conversation!

Well a sparkly starter, followed by a glass or two of vino, and a large baileys at the end - someone is BOUND to slip up. it's the long silence after which is the worst

@Fmesanta

List of safe topics over Christmas dinner! http://www.mumsnet.com/Talk/amiibeingunreasonable/4434569-list-of-safe-topics-over-christmas-dinner?msgid=113596025#113596025

Opposing thread here thanks Op and hope it's ok to have copied your idea!

Happy to have inspired a new thread!

As a teenager, was once trapped in a room with DGM and next door neighbour who had a very long conversation about cuts of meat. Not controversial, but incredibly dull. Also, I was and am a vegetarian.

As a teenager, was once trapped in a room with DGM and next door neighbour who had a very long conversation about cuts of meat.

You see I think, now I am a woman in my fifties, that's a conversation I can totally get behind.

To be fair, as a teenager almost anything a grandparent and a next door neighbour might chat about would be the dullest stuff on the planet.

The trouble is, if you don't talk about these things you end up with THE most boring conversation ever. I'd rather argue about politics than hear about someone's neighbour's son's illness or some soap I've never watched.

Missing my family today, where at least everyone agrees on how much we all hate the Tories and can get drink while discussing how vile they are for hours.

Depends on your family's arguing style and the history of the relationships though. I like a good debate probably more than the average person but some people can get very belligerant in drink and can't help making it spiteful and personal. Especially if they feel you've 'owned' them or humiliated them by being a bit more quick witted in debate than they are. It's not worth the hassle. Debating is best done with strangers.

Missing my family today, where at least everyone agrees on how much we all hate the Tories and can get drink while discussing how vile they are for hours.

Well that's fine if you are all on the same page. The problems arise when you are not!