to not want to o to mils early for tea because fil..

[donbean]

will have football/criket/golf etc etc etc on all afternoon..
and we will be bored.

YANBU!

no YANBU, if he hasn't got the good grace to turn it off and have a conversation with you sod him

can you not invite them to yours?

saying that my fil waltzes in here once a year and sits glued to sky sports news or behind a paper for the duration

drives me bonkers

Not at all! sounds really boring. there's a limit to the boredom you can endure.

that is quite bad although I must admit I was expecting something like FIL was going to do a slideshow of holiday snaps.

And not just boring but rude -YANBU

and we got there and yes....football on, ds who is 5 and hyperactive was a very bored very retlsess little chap.
had football on all through the meal, then bike racing.
this is the fil who wouldnt take ds to the cinema because footy was on one sat. mil took him by herself...we paid and thought it would be nce because they hadnt seen ds (their only gc) for 3 months. (they live 20 mins away.RAT BAGS

When they visit you, sit staring at Cbeebies for three hours. Nobody move. Nobody go to the loo. No tea, no cake. Just stare at the screen. NO talking either.

tell dh in future they can come to you. end of. tv off during meal times and if he wants to watch his precious football he can stay at home

are we related per chance?!??

oh god my fil has the tv on so loud, both at his house and when he comes here. It drives me mad.

madamCholet..that is the best suggestion EVER.

mine has it on sky sports news ffs - its the same thing over and over and over again and we're 'lucky' if they visit once a year

I took the remote off him once and turned the tv off, he stomped off out the patio doors and disappeared for 2 hours in a huff

the silence was golden

fil does the same - although not too loudly - just as background noise. It drives me up the wall, as I was brought up that if guests are here the TV is OFF!

He even wanted me to put our TV on during DD1's 2nd birthday party to check the football scores. Umm, no, it's a party!!

He's nice in all other aspects though, so I'm lucky.

mine checks it inbetween courses at dinner ffs

inbetween arguing whether or not you can buy asparagus in ireland wtf?!?!?

lol at dizzy's fil!

When he's not watchin tv too loudly, my fil moans about Polish people being in England. He knows full well that my father is Polish.

Tell him you can but not everywhere. In Superquinn probably! Irish people aren't fooled by asparagus. It's the emperor's clothes of the vegetable world. It's yuck.

I like asparagus.

I can eat it, but I'm underwhelmed by it!

me too but not the way it makes you pee smell lol

itsahardknocklife, I'd say "well never mind polish people in England, there's one in your sitting room, shall I leave? I can if you like"!!!!!!!!!!

I've told him and told him, he still moans about Polish people coming over here. I say tings like 'if Polish people didn't come here you wouldn't have a grandchild', but it doesn't sink in. He can't help being thick! Tee hee.

am quite convinced mine isn't quite 'all there' either

When we visit, FIL spends most of his time watching stuff like Dancing on Ice and other shitey reality shows whilst moaning about how shitey all reality shows are...saying that it can't be called entertainment, all the while sitting engrossed in it...