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to share the things my BIL has moaned about whilst staying at our house for the past 3 days?

629 replies

BanKittenHeels · 15/09/2019 15:50

Amazon Prime Video doesn’t have the new Quentin Tarantino film that has just come out at the cinema. Ergo Amazon Prime is a waste of money.

The shower screen in the guest bathroom has a stationary rather than hinged shower screen.

That someone used the loo in the middle of the night and he could hear them flush - his bedroom door was 3/4 open.

We have stair gates, so our children don’t break their necks. “Really inconvenient”

The Thai restaurant sent us too many prawn crackers. They sent an appropriate amount for the number of people, actually.

My deodorant is blue. And what?

We don’t have an endless supply of spare clothes in his size and to his taste.

His hair was still in the shower in his en suite when he went back to use it the next day.

The towels I put out for him are white.

Our front gate is too squeaky.

The planes overhead are too low.

We have too many rugs.

He can hear traffic when in the garden.

Our dogs won’t cuddle him.

Our children wear shorts.

The settings of the seats in the car we lent him weren’t to his liking.

He doesn’t like the preset radio stations on our car radio.

My DH (his brother) “doesn’t wear a hat”??????

We don’t have his very specific music taste available to him on vinyl, although we did think to search out appropriate Spotify playlists for him but “that’s not quite the same authenticity”.

The local swimming pool (in a large city) keeps “provincial, British hours”.

Microwave steamers are “excessive gadgets”. Then 30 minutes later, “I suppose you could steam veg in your steamer, have you thought of that?” No shit!

None of the 3 duvets we offered him were suitable.

I use my inhaler too frequently.

Why do I have rosehip oil in the bathroom, it’s of no use to anyone.

Confused HmmAngry

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flouncyfanny · 15/09/2019 16:26

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abbey44 · 15/09/2019 16:26

Oh my goodness, he's the reincarnation of my late FIL Shock

Commiserations Flowers

Coffeeandchocolate9 · 15/09/2019 16:26

Oh, and make complaint bingo cards!

Elderflower14 · 15/09/2019 16:26

Can you not pack his possessions and move to the nearby hotel...?

BanKittenHeels · 15/09/2019 16:26

I have no idea what the issue is with blue deodorant/not wearing a hat/DC wearing shorts because I didn’t engage him in his batshit opinions. I just shot him my “catch yourself on” look, but it just doesn’t register with him.

Last night after a glass of wine with dinner I did start laughing at everything he said. There were many more than in my OP but it was mostly moaning about very specific things in some Netflix series he wanted to watch and thought DH would like.

He goes tomorrow but then is back again either Thursday or Friday. I’ve made brisket for dinner later and I’ve slaved over it and the pudding. One negative comment about the meal and I’ll phone the local hotel right there and then in front of him. I can laugh off most of it as him being ridiculous but if he bitches about the food I’ll go for his neck. Grin

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EL2019 · 15/09/2019 16:26

I agree give him a list but divide the paper into two columns.

  1. Criticisms BIL has made of our hospitality
  2. Nice comments BIL has made

Maybe that will shock him into reality.

( or offend him so much he never comes again - either way is a winner)

DadDadDad · 15/09/2019 16:27

His complaints are so bizarre, maybe you need to get some fun out of it. So he complains, and you say (for example) "3!" Keep doing it until he asks, and explain you're scoring his complaints out of 10.

Elderflower14 · 15/09/2019 16:27

Cross Post...... 😁 😁 😁 😁 😁

ISmellBabies · 15/09/2019 16:28

Please write these out as a list, and next time he moans, don't let anyone say anything (hush them) until you've written it on the list. Make it as obvious as possible while you're doing it, repeat his complaint slowly out loud as you write it. Do it every time and leave the list on the table.
If he ever asks to stay again, use the list to remind him he doesn't have a great time at yours.

SchadenfreudePersonified · 15/09/2019 16:29

Coffeeandchocolate9

Grin Grin Grin

PMSL!

Funnyface1 · 15/09/2019 16:30

Give him something to really complain about. Really.

ISmellBabies · 15/09/2019 16:31

X-posted with some excellent suggestions there. I love the scoring dadadad!

Justmuddlingalong · 15/09/2019 16:32

Could you enjoy a hotel break on your own whenever he comes to stay? If your thread is light-hearted, that fine, but there's no way on earth I'd have him to stay again.

BanKittenHeels · 15/09/2019 16:32

DH is reading this thread and bent double at some of your suggestions.

Please write these out as a list, and next time he moans, don't let anyone say anything (hush them) until you've written it on the list. Make it as obvious as possible while you're doing it, repeat his complaint slowly out loud as you write it. Do it every time and leave the list on the table.
If he ever asks to stay again, use the list to remind him he doesn't have a great time at yours.

I actually feel like I could do this and pull it off.

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CodenameVillanelle · 15/09/2019 16:33

Seriously though why are you hosting him? And he's going but coming back again?

1forAll74 · 15/09/2019 16:34

All these moans and groans, but he does have one like,,he likes coming to your house and moaning non stop... I am not sure what I would do with all this, he sounds a bit unhinged, or not quite wired properly.

BogglesGoggles · 15/09/2019 16:35

I would start doing it back in the same tone of voice.

‘You moan too much.’
‘Why are you always so rude.’
‘You never have anything nice to say.’
‘Why don’t you have any social skills.’
‘You’re a really shit guest.’

Ellie56 · 15/09/2019 16:36

Why is this joyless twat staying with you? I would tell him to piss off.

StressyDressyHeels · 15/09/2019 16:36

Will he be leaving a review on trip advisor?

seeyounexttime · 15/09/2019 16:37

YABU because you have blue deodorant and therefore must be a terrible person, I'm on BIL's side...

MadamBatty · 15/09/2019 16:39

I’d make up a spreadsheet. Complaint date/time, action required, responsibility, resolved y/n. Agree to review the sheet on a daily basis at an agreed time.

That or tell him to go feck himself, he’s a guest. Not a paying customer.

Mildrivingiusmad · 15/09/2019 16:39

I’m always one for a conspiracy theory - are you sure your DH hasn’t paid him to behave like this so you are grateful that you married the right brother?!

Watchingthyme · 15/09/2019 16:39

Oh please make the list. Pretty please

OhWhatFuckeryIsThisNow · 15/09/2019 16:40

Get yr dh to roll his eyes and say "you know, you were a whingey kid and you're still a whingey kid." (And keep us updated)

makingmammaries · 15/09/2019 16:41

YABU to have allowed him to come and stay, surely, if he’s been like this for 20 years. Moan at me once, shame on you; moan at me twice...

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