Embarrassing relatives
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slomax said:
I beg to differ. The way she said it implied that Muslim people are not clean. Her assumption was that foreign doctors may not be nice people, so she was in fact surprised that he was nice, despite her perceptions of people with different ethnic backgrounds.
She said some other stuff that i probably shouldn't post on here. I think it was just the era that 80+ year olds in England grew up in.
Grow up, FFS. It's called society. It's a mix of folk with different views and expectations. She's an 80+ year old woman who would probably have been mortified if she thought she'd given offence.She said some other stuff that i probably shouldn't post on here. I think it was just the era that 80+ year olds in England grew up in.
Please don't feed that intolerant PC mentality.
Has to be my eldest when she was three.
We were eating with friends in a very nice restaurant when this massive woman walks in and stumbles on the few stairs coming down to the dining area.
She then falls flat on her face and all the tables shake. The restaurant goes very quiet then this little petulant voice pipes up.
"Hers fallen over cos hers too fat".
We were eating with friends in a very nice restaurant when this massive woman walks in and stumbles on the few stairs coming down to the dining area.
She then falls flat on her face and all the tables shake. The restaurant goes very quiet then this little petulant voice pipes up.
"Hers fallen over cos hers too fat".
CharlesdeGaulle said:
It's a mix of folk with different views and expectations. She's an 80+ year old woman who would probably have been mortified if she thought she'd given offence.
Please don't feed that intolerant PC mentality.
I'm not disputing that, that fact that today it is seen as racist was the point you raised. Today that IS seen as racist, and that's just the way it is nowadays. The fact that points of view back then were not considered racist, doesn't mean that if you say it now, it is not racist....Please don't feed that intolerant PC mentality.
slomax said:
CharlesdeGaulle said:
It's a mix of folk with different views and expectations. She's an 80+ year old woman who would probably have been mortified if she thought she'd given offence.
Please don't feed that intolerant PC mentality.
I'm not disputing that, that fact that today it is seen as racist was the point you raised. Today that IS seen as racist, and that's just the way it is nowadays. The fact that points of view back then were not considered racist, doesn't mean that if you say it now, it is not racist....Please don't feed that intolerant PC mentality.
I know an old bloke who, when told it would be difficult to get a taxi on Friday mornings, exclaimed ...All got their arses in the air, have they?
BlackCup said:
MiL has a cupboard to the side of her kitchen with all the old booze, beer, party stuff etc etc, what does she call it? Her glory hole.
I told her what it meant, her being a 'wivvit' 80yr old thought it was hilarious!
Haha, my grandmother said a similar thing to me just today, she said "I bet you can't wait to get back to your glory hole?" meaning my flat...obviously I told her what it meant, her being a 'wivvit' 80yr old thought it was hilarious!
mybrainhurts said:
I know an old bloke...
Bloody hell, how advanced in years does one have to be, to be considered an 'old bloke' by MBU? Embarrassment is best meted out by hard of hearing octogenarians I always find - they always think they're whispering...
My Grandad, on seeing a large black chap in the pub who obviously had a healthy appetite:
'BLOODY HELL! LOOK HOW MUCH FOOD THAT DARKIE'S GOT ON HIS PLATE!'
(We were standing not four feet from the guy at the time
He just gave me a knowing wink and a grin)Similarly, my Gran while in hospital:
'WHY DO ALL OF THESE NURSES HAVE SUCH BIG FAT ARSES?'
You gotta love 'em
A few years back we were at a cousins birthday party and everyone was sitting around awkwardly trying to make chit chat. My 5 year old nephew was playing with the cat in the middle of the room and everything went a bit quiet. My mum says to my nephew:
"do you like rubbing kims pussy?"
"do you like rubbing kims pussy?"
When i was a kid some Mormon missionaries came round and were let into the entrance hall of the house by one of my siblings, immediately at the bottom of the stairs.
My eldest sister was talking to the pair of 19 year-old innocent young-men from Utah when her daughter, my niece, aged 3 or 4 at the time, came crying to the top of the stairs. Everyone looked up, and, clutching a bloody pair of knickers, my little niece screamed that "Mummy is bleeding!"
I think the missionaries felt slightly awkward
My eldest sister was talking to the pair of 19 year-old innocent young-men from Utah when her daughter, my niece, aged 3 or 4 at the time, came crying to the top of the stairs. Everyone looked up, and, clutching a bloody pair of knickers, my little niece screamed that "Mummy is bleeding!"
I think the missionaries felt slightly awkward
matlee said:
My father will sleep anywhere in any position.
I took a new girlfriend over to my folks place to meet them and upon walking into the kitchen found my father in this position. Absolute outters in a curry. *insert korma joke here*
Has he been to the docs? Sounds like Narcolepsy...I took a new girlfriend over to my folks place to meet them and upon walking into the kitchen found my father in this position. Absolute outters in a curry. *insert korma joke here*
Notshortnottall said:
My Aunt has a habit of substituting words into sentences which are ever so slightly different to what she means but always raise a smile.
At Christmas, Red, Red Wine came on the radio to which she exclaimed how much she enjoyed listening to WD40!
One of her better ones was when she announced she was off down south to watch the lunar apocalypse!
My Mum's like this. I think the best one was when she said that she'd just bought a load of CDs and DVDs from HIV. She also said she thought it was a shame that the lead singer of The Killers had died and we'd never hear anything from them again. Turned out that despite owning several of their albums, she'd got Brandon Flowers (the well known straight American Mormon singer of The Killers) mixed up with Freddie Mercury.At Christmas, Red, Red Wine came on the radio to which she exclaimed how much she enjoyed listening to WD40!
One of her better ones was when she announced she was off down south to watch the lunar apocalypse!
She uses very clunky, folksy language most of the time that makes her sound like a country bumpkin in a Thomas Hardy novel. I've come to the realisation that it's just the way hippy folkies spoke in the Seventies, and given that she still thinks it is 1976 and refuses to believe anything has changed unless it's given its own special slot on the news, she hasn't noticed how odd she sounds. She's also politically correct 'for the Seventies', so while she wouldn't dream of using any racist words, as far as she's concerned all Black people are 'West Indian', all Oriental people are 'a bit Chinesey' (never 'Chinese', always 'a bit Chinesey'. As with 'little bit more of a mixed area', the 'a bit' is important), all Asian people are 'Indian' and all Southern Europeans are 'Italian'.
Whenever she makes any kind of mistake of any sort, she announces to everyone 'I've boobed'. This is the only way she can say she's made a mistake. She talks in her own stock-phrase cliches for some reason, so 'lock the door' becomes 'turn a key in the door', and 'rough area' becomes 'a little bit more of a mixed area' (the 'a little bit more of a' bit is vital). Nothing she says 'flows' at all, and as a result it takes her about five minutes to come out with things it takes everyone else 30 seconds to say.
What's most embarassing, though, is the voices she puts on to speak to different people, or when recounting events. If she feels she's been hard done-by and she wants to recall a conversation (which she will, in full), the other person's words will always be voiced in a harping Margot-from-The-Good-Life warble, whereas everything she said will be in the be-forever-humble-Uriah little voice like an am-dram kid playing the lead role in Oliver Twist.
But the worst is when she's talking to any tradesmen or people in shops. She puts on a dreadful Equity-extra-who's-got-a-line-in-Corrie attempt at a Lancashire accent. I've no idea why she does this but it's mortifyingly embarassing.
She is actually from Lancashire, but from a really middle-class bit where no-one sounds like that. Neither of her parents sounded like that, nor do either of her sisters or any of their kids.
My dad doesn't give a toss what he says or who's listening...a few years back the wife and I went to Vancouver with them and while on the flight over, me and the wife were sat in a row of 3 seats with an old granny on the aisle seat. Mum and dad were sitting behind us. About halfway into the flight we kept noticing a s
tty smell that seemed to be coming from the granny. We were trying our hardest to ignore it, until (bearing in mind it was an overnight flight and everyone was trying to get some sleep) I felt a pair of hands on our headrests and saw my dad's head appear over the top along with the words "have you st?" at the top of his voice. At this the little granny quickly got up and scuttled off to the toilet....poor old girl, she must've felt awful
tty smell that seemed to be coming from the granny. We were trying our hardest to ignore it, until (bearing in mind it was an overnight flight and everyone was trying to get some sleep) I felt a pair of hands on our headrests and saw my dad's head appear over the top along with the words "have you st?" at the top of his voice. At this the little granny quickly got up and scuttled off to the toilet....poor old girl, she must've felt awfulGassing Station | The Lounge | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff