There's not even a decent footie match on tele today!!
Scuse me? Just watched AFC Wimbledon vs Oxford. Decent enough game that my team won comfortably enough 
You lot are a bunch of miserable shitehawks aren't you. If any one of the people you are moaning about had a terminal illness you'd be bleating away about how important family is and about resolving stuff before it's too late yada yada yada. Go on surprise yourself, do something positive today. Maybe they'll join you....
Peace
Drac. You playing Buckeroo?
Ah the DM readers, is it just me do you also get a running commentary on programmes such as:
UK Border Patrol - oh look they come here with no money, don't speak English etc.
The Aussie version of border patrol - see they send em back, thats what we should do
Police Interceptors (or similar police chase stuff) - oh I expect he's got no insurance and they won't send him to prison, oh no he'll get let off
Any attractive woman on the TV (i.e Tess Daly) -oh what is she wearing, she's uselss etc.
Please tell me I'm not the only one, please!
On our own this Christmas, me better half (hugely pregnant and due to be induced 28th) and 2yr old daughter. In laws stuck up north an MIL currently hospitalised, my family on a bender at my parents. Currently on daily monitoring at the hospital to keep tabs on baby's health. Feeling rather frustrated at probably having to rely on our childminder should things kick off early.
Quite fancy a ride to chill out but leaving the ladies alone is probably rather bad form.
Time to MTFU and wait for the big event
Strange Christmas, and spectacularly sober
I loved reading about every one woes - but I did wonder why on earth you dont just say no to them all and sod off on your bike for the day. Or celebrate without them, dont invite them over, dont go and vist.
Life is too short to waste it, so sod them.
Spend it with people you like and doing the things you like.
When we told my future inlaws that we were getting married we had to de ice the door to get out the reception was that frosty.
I worked in a garage and clearly wasn't marriage material. They are ok now but I am still like a dog with 2 dicks about the way I slaughtered them in their Christmas quiz.
How can you say no to SWMBO that we aren't gonna visit her parents cos they are imbeciles (to put it politely)
If you're a real man you don't even try, you just suck it up and then whinge about it on here.
We'be had the kind of Xmas that puts all this sort of thing into perspective but I've still enjoyed reading this thread and sympathise with many of you.
Not long to go now guys!
Even the dog has started crying and pleading to go home. The dragon has broken out into song.. painful.
Weasel - MemberAh the DM readers, is it just me do you also get a running commentary on programmes such as:
UK Border Patrol - oh look they come here with no money, don't speak English etc.
The Aussie version of border patrol - see they send em back, thats what we should do
Police Interceptors (or similar police chase stuff) - oh I expect he's got no insurance and they won't send him to prison, oh no he'll get let off
Any attractive woman on the TV (i.e Tess Daly) -oh what is she wearing, she's uselss etc.
Please tell me I'm not the only one, please!
Oh don't worry your not the only one, even funnier was the FIL commenting on an Asian lad stopped on one of those police camera action programs "bet he has no insurance or license" (turned out to be totally legit) then the wife pointed out "he" hadn't got his license back following his heart attack yet had driven to see his brother!
We still don't think he understood the double standards as he went back to reading the DM
Yeah, Drac will be getting the buckaroo out. I wouldnt be suprised if he strategically places the toy so that when it bucks its saddle bags off its erse they will go down his sister in laws blouse!
The MiL has several moods some of which are fine. But then at the mention of politics or a "foreign" accent, goes into a xenophobic/racist froth! She had a total fit today when she picked up the paper I'd bought in the petrol station: "The Bishop of York is black?!!!! But I'm from Yorkshire". She didn't know. She's horrified I work with Poles, Fins and especially Germans. I despair. Why does this happen to old people? 
"The Bishop of York is black?!!!! But I'm from Yorkshire". She didn't know. She's horrified I work with Poles, Fins and especially Germans. I despair. Why does this happen to old people?
They grew up in a different time and they get scared easier.
My dad hated the japanese. I mean properly, genuinely hated them. He'd use all the racial stuff to describe them. It embarrassed me. After he died I requested his war records from the MOD and it turned out that he'd been quite heavily involved in the liberation of a number of commonwealth POW camps from the Japanese at the end of the war. Felt naive.
It's ficking easy to judge people and far harder to understand them.
My mother had to move from Liverpool during the war. She was moved to Fort Augustus and then Torridon to get away from it all.
She would get on well with your mother,Buzz ;O)
How can you say no to SWMBO that we aren't gonna visit her parents cos they are imbeciles (to put it politely)
Easy - well in advance you start going on about how it would be nice and romantic to spend xmas just as a couple; citing how bad both sets of 'rents are at times, and you want to do something special together.
Once the cycle is broken, it's much easier to be independent thereafter.
OR, move to Oz - there haven't been any arguments this year over why we weren't coming....
Has anyone read Irvine Welsh's collection of short stories Reheated Cabbage...?
It contains a lovely little story about the Begbie family Christmas..
I recommend that everyone has a read of that to get some perspective before next year.. 
I have this fantasy every year of a perfect family Xmas interspersed with great rides. The reality is , we have to have two christmases because our families live on opposite sides of the country, then new year. So it's a full ten days of it. After 3 days I go a bit jack nicholson in the shining. The Mrs also has a thing about me falling asleep during day.
Had a great Xmas day, really lovely, but enough now thank u.
We have my MIL for three weeks. She's obese, always ill, takes dozens of tablets, witters incessantly about supermarket coupons, promotions, Coronation Street and East Enders and, sorry to say this.... she smells terrible because she's incontinent and is scared to take baths or showers.
But she is harmless and would never deliberately hurt anybody, unlike my own mother who is venemous and who Mrs Gti absolutely detests. The last time we met her she managed to get alone with Gti junior aged 11 and asked him: "What would you do if your Mum and Dad split up?"
The Inlaws'll be gone in 2 hours
Then no more bullying of my wife behind my back, my mother in law's sense of 'humour' (she cackled for 5 minutes when I said Sainsbury's were out of milk - WTF?)
Oh and refusing to share the crisps with your grandson
Less than an hour to go...
my girlfriend's family are all Finnish, so they've never heard of the dailymail. We spent the days visiting various family members, many of whom are elderly, funny and not at all xenophobic or racist. They're absoultely lovely. It didn't quite feel like a christmas break for me (so extremely busy) but it was good fun.
Previous girlfriend's father was a preacher. He'd nag my girlfriend that i should come carol singing, to church, that i shouldn't go to her sister's wedding because i'm not christian and that I don't earn enough money. Other than that, he was a really nice man. With her grandad, i had to pretend to be a good christian farmer boy to keep him happy. The rest of the family were great.
I'm happy that with my current girlfriend and her family, i don't have to pretend to be someone else.
(she cackled for 5 minutes when I said Sainsbury's were out of milk - WTF?)
Works at Tesco?
Can someone please tell me if they think this is normal. My mother in law (my husband's mother) bought a present for my husband's ex-wife, then asked him if he was going to see her and if so could he deliver it for her. I could cheerfully strangle the old bat.
I loathe my in-laws. In fact I loathe my wifes entire family, every single one of them.
I wouldn't know where to begin with my vitriol plus it would probably upset people. I really do hate them.
I hear they really like you 
You're being lied too.
If you are a human being with a modicum of basic human decency, you would hate them too.
My Bro put on a DVD Eulogy on Boxing day he made for a mate , I had to leave the room. There is a time and a place for that kind of thing .
My Mum always , without fail gives me a cold or flu for Christmas . Every year she rocks up with a torrent of snot flying around " I think Im past the infectious stage" , yep ,I think not .
Then she had a go at me for drinking too much , OK 4 pints is a fair bit , but spaced out over 6 hours it isnt .
Woke up today with a sore throat and swollen Tonsils , Thanks Mum!
Fed up of a relatives wife and detest having to be civil with her. She cheats, lies and steals and has playing the victim down to an artform. I fell for her sob stories a few years back and sold her some items they needed cheaply, I discovered recently she deliberately broke them all a few days after I dropped them off and claimed off her new for old insurance policy. For years I felt sorry for them thinking it was one lot of bad luck after the next not knowing she lying the whole time. She's obese and claims she's overweight as eating healthy is too expensive (that old story) despite ordering take away most nights, she leaves they empty dominos boxes and chineese trays in the garden for all to see. She has nabbed an antique from my Gran who passed away recently that was intended for me, and I'm having trouble getting it back, it's the sentimental value I'm interested in, were as she is interested in it as it's worth a bit if money, I just pray she doesn't sell it. My sister asked how on their income they can afford big TV's, apple laptops, new furniture and holidays twice a year when she can't despite earning more money. The simple answer is they can't and don't have their priorities in order, after asking me again for money (while she is wearing a new coat) as they can't pay a heating bill of get credit ratings high enough for new mobiles. I told them no and now I'm the bad guy. Just had to sit for dinner with her and listen to how hard up she is while she plays for money off my mum and dad. They said no and now they are the bad guys too. My girlfriend is from a very wealthy family but I don't touch her money, live off it or ask for it (well I did borrow a car off her mum for 6 months while I saved for a new one) I'd be with her and love her the same if she had no money, despite this my relatives wife was telling me she was thinking of writing to my
girlfriends mum (who she has met once) asking for 'enough to bail her out'...
Bitching over. Feel better.
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