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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: Karin on November 23, 2011, 01:18:33 PM
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Cyrano (1000+ posts) Wed Nov-23-11 12:23 PM
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Thanksgiving dinner + wingnut relatives = a horrible day
I have two wingnut in-laws who will be at Thanksgiving dinner and they always want to talk politics.
There's just no way I can avoid it. I've considered faking a heart attack or stroke to escape this ordeal, but I doubt if I'd get away with it.
These are people who think Ronald Reagan is God and that Newt Gingrich is a genius. They are against everything that most sane people believe in. They are intolerable dittoheads and Fox "News" addicts. And they are people I really don't want to be on the same planet with.
If I ever spoke up, I know I'd blow up. It really could become physical.
So I'm stuck with a day that I used to love that has become a horror. I can usually avoid them most of the year, but this is one day I'm stuck with. Maybe I'll get lucky and choke to death on some cranberry sauce.
I've often asked myself why I put up with it. There's no arguing a different point of view with them, but I'd really like to tell them to shut their stupid ****ing mouths. However, that would cause irreparable damage within my family with which I'm very close.
I'm sure that some of you have the same problem and you have my sympathy.
Nonetheless, Happy Thanksgiving to all here. I hope it's a good one.
inademv (677 posts) Wed Nov-23-11 12:27 PM
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4. Get an ipod/phone
and just listen to some podcasts the whole day.
Pretty rude. Why show up to dinner at all?
Other strategies:
MedicalAdmin (1000+ posts) Wed Nov-23-11 01:40 PM
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66. ...download a copy of the study (ies) that show that Fox viewers are less informed than a bag of rocks, toss it on the table and ask them to comment.
TheCowsCameHome (1000+ posts) Wed Nov-23-11 12:28 PM
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6. Tell them the turkey reminds them of the GOP candidates thus far.
Then run for the door with your take-out bag.
GoneOffShore (1000+ posts) Wed Nov-23-11 12:28 PM
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7. Some electric brownie's could go a long way.
Or electric popcorn - made with special butter.
Might mellow them out.
DCKit (1000+ posts) Wed Nov-23-11 12:31 PM
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10. A lot of us share your pain.
I have nothing BUT wingnuts in my family, so we two will be sharing a quiet Thanksgiving at home. Alone.
FarLeftFist (1000+ posts) Wed Nov-23-11 12:31 PM
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11. Let them know that FOX news viewers are dumber and be sympathetic.
Tell them it's not their fault, they've been duped.
Sal Minella (1000+ posts) Wed Nov-23-11 01:25 PM
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51. I would suggest just staring at them fixedly, silently, with a mixture of sympathy and revulsion -- the look you probably have on your face while watching a cat cast up a hairball.
xiamiam (1000+ posts) Wed Nov-23-11 01:19 PM
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47. take printed facts in your casserole dish
yardwork (1000+ posts) Wed Nov-23-11 12:36 PM
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23. I had to get divorced to get away from my wingnut in-laws.
OutNow (537 posts) Wed Nov-23-11 12:44 PM
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27. My suggestion - think of the most controversial thing you might say to them and then create a small sign with it on a piece of paper. When your asshat relative begins to rant take the paper out of your pocket and pin it to your shirt in front. Then point to it. Each time they say something absurd, point to it again. No words are needed.
Eg. - your political idea is bat-shit crazy - Tax the Rich, Feed the Poor - We're coming to take your guns after Obama is reelected - I am the 99% - etc.
:mental:
They'd take you away in a butterfly net.
Earth_First (1000+ posts) Wed Nov-23-11 01:23 PM
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48. Last weekend I had dinner with my parents, it culminated in calling him a "****ing asshole"
I got up and left.
Haven't spoken since.
(her father had been making fun of the OWSie hippies looking for handouts).
quinnox (1000+ posts) Wed Nov-23-11 01:29 PM
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53. Tell them they are wrong, and you don't want to debate them about it
Oh, that's effective.
Bigmack (1000+ posts) Wed Nov-23-11 01:46 PM
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72. They are being aggressive/abusive... and they know it...
so anything goes.
Tell them they are politically ignorant and demand that they stop talking politics.
You don't have to be abused.
If they refuse... leave.
What a victim.
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Cyrano (1000+ posts) Wed Nov-23-11 12:23 PM
Original message
Thanksgiving dinner + wingnut relatives = a horrible day
I have two wingnut in-laws who will be at Thanksgiving dinner and they always want to talk politics.
There's just no way I can avoid it. I've considered faking a heart attack or stroke to escape this ordeal, but I doubt if I'd get away with it.
These are people who think Ronald Reagan is God and that Newt Gingrich is a genius. They are against everything that most sane people believe in. They are intolerable dittoheads and Fox "News" addicts. And they are people I really don't want to be on the same planet with.
If I ever spoke up, I know I'd blow up. It really could become physical.
So I'm stuck with a day that I used to love that has become a horror. I can usually avoid them most of the year, but this is one day I'm stuck with. Maybe I'll get lucky and choke to death on some cranberry sauce.
I've often asked myself why I put up with it. There's no arguing a different point of view with them, but I'd really like to tell them to shut their stupid ****ing mouths. However, that would cause irreparable damage within my family with which I'm very close.
I'm sure that some of you have the same problem and you have my sympathy.
Nonetheless, Happy Thanksgiving to all here. I hope it's a good one.
From your lips to gods ears.
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Have some more cranberry sauce, Big-Nose.
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Why don't you politely say that thanksgiving in not an occasion for politics?
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yardwork (1000+ posts) Wed Nov-23-11 12:36 PM
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23. I had to get divorced to get away from my wingnut in-laws.
What a lucky spouse :lmao:
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At any public or private non-political function, I have never heard a conservative starting a political conversation. That's not to say that politics was not brought up but that it has always, in my experience, been brought up by a Liberal.
Every. Single. Time.
My best guess is that said leftwing nut has brought politics up and then been smashed with conservative logic. I would suggest that said DUchebag not bring up politics and it's RW family will not smash their pathetic political talking points.
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Didn't want this year to pass by without a thread from the anti-American primitives talking about their upcoming dread of having to defend their stupidity to their true-American conservative relatives and friends. And who better to set the tone than the forever miserable Oscar Wilde, the large-proboscised primitive.
Cyrano
Thanksgiving dinner + wingnut relatives = a horrible day
I have two wingnut in-laws who will be at Thanksgiving dinner and they always want to talk politics.
There's just no way I can avoid it. I've considered faking a heart attack or stroke to escape this ordeal, but I doubt if I'd get away with it.
These are people who think Ronald Reagan is God and that Newt Gingrich is a genius. They are against everything that most sane people believe in. They are intolerable dittoheads and Fox "News" addicts. And they are people I really don't want to be on the same planet with.
If I ever spoke up, I know I'd blow up. It really could become physical.
So I'm stuck with a day that I used to love that has become a horror. I can usually avoid them most of the year, but this is one day I'm stuck with. Maybe I'll get lucky and choke to death on some cranberry sauce.
I've often asked myself why I put up with it. There's no arguing a different point of view with them, but I'd really like to tell them to shut their stupid ****ing mouths. However, that would cause irreparable damage within my family with which I'm very close.
I'm sure that some of you have the same problem and you have my sympathy.
Nonetheless, Happy Thanksgiving to all here. I hope it's a good one.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=439&topic_id=2369524&mesg_id=2369524
Maybe we'll ALL get lucky and he'll choke to death on some cranberry sauce. :cheersmate:
Lots of additional stories on the thread for your amusement,
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I suspect he has to show up because the RW in-laws are probably the ones providing the free meal.
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I suspect he has to show up because the RW in-laws are probably the ones providing the free meal.
I think that that sound is the clang of steel hitting the target. H5.
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yardwork (1000+ posts) Wed Nov-23-11 12:36 PM
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23. I had to get divorced to get away from my wingnut in-laws.
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What a lucky spouse :lmao:
In the late 60's, I married into an extremely liberal military family. They thought of me as an ignorant southern country bumpkin racist and that was some of the nicest things they thought of me. The other kids of the family were anti-war hippies. F-I-L retired shortly after we got married and started a buisiness. He also became a teacher and taught for several years in the public school system. By the time we divorced, almost 20 years later, I was considered the raving liberal moonbat of the family....and my positions hadn't changed a bit... :lmao:
The "Real World" does strange things to people. :-)
...but we could still have a good Thanksgiving dinner without a fight.
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Cyrano (1000+ posts) Wed Nov-23-11 12:23 PM
Original message
Thanksgiving dinner + wingnut relatives = a horrible day
I have two wingnut in-laws who will be at Thanksgiving dinner and they always want to talk politics.
There's just no way I can avoid it. I've considered faking a heart attack or stroke to escape this ordeal, but I doubt if I'd get away with it.
These are people who think Ronald Reagan is God and that Newt Gingrich is a genius. They are against everything that most sane people believe in. They are intolerable dittoheads and Fox "News" addicts. And they are people I really don't want to be on the same planet with.
If I ever spoke up, I know I'd blow up. It really could become physical.
So I'm stuck with a day that I used to love that has become a horror. I can usually avoid them most of the year, but this is one day I'm stuck with. Maybe I'll get lucky and choke to death on some cranberry sauce.
I've often asked myself why I put up with it. There's no arguing a different point of view with them, but I'd really like to tell them to shut their stupid ****ing mouths. However, that would cause irreparable damage within my family with which I'm very close.
I'm sure that some of you have the same problem and you have my sympathy.
Nonetheless, Happy Thanksgiving to all here. I hope it's a good one.
:crybaby:
DCKit (1000+ posts) Wed Nov-23-11 12:31 PM
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10. A lot of us share your pain.
I have nothing BUT wingnuts in my family, so we two will be sharing a quiet Thanksgiving at home. Alone.
And i'm pretty sure they don't miss you one bit.
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Why don't you politely say that thanksgiving in not an occasion for politics?
Because I'd bet the mortgage that it's not the wing-nut in-laws who are browbeating the other guests with politics.
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Last night I did a DUFU on this very thread:
DUmmie FUnnies 11-23-11 ("Thanksgiving dinner + wingnut relatives = a horrible day") (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2811690/posts)
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Undergrounder and the Terrible, Horrible, CyraNo Good, Very Bad Day.
heh.
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Politics comes up at some of my family's holiday dinners, but somehow we manage to be civil about it :whatever: A few months ago, my cousin's 88 year old grandmother, this little old Italian lady, told us "Obama, One Big Ass Mistake America." It was just about the funniest thing I'd ever heard :lmao:
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Upon reflection I hope Cyranose and the DUtards all have horrible contentious Thanksgivings, and are humiliated by their 'Winger' relatives and in-laws (Who are no doubt providing all the food, the venue, and the hospitality in the first place), in the interests of mocking them all on Monday.
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Sorry Karin, didn't realize you had already posted this.
Mods, if you wish, please merge my thread into this one.
http://www.conservativecave.com/index.php/topic,66956.0.html
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