Live in a chud state so not surprising but I was at the park with my kids when I overheard two Dads who knew of each other but hadn't really met. Within two minutes of introducing themselves they were talking about Venezulean gangs taking over Aurora Colorado. I couldn't believe how two strangers at a childrens park could so quickly get to that topic.
My dad has an old Vizio in their office that has terrible sound quality and he always has it blaring. Can hear it at the other end of the house. It's like listening through a tin can.
my mother's partner will play old episodes of Perry Mason on televisions spread across the house. the living room, the garage, by the pool etc. he's got It rolling wherever he goes. the man is a menace.
Honestly anything to do with technology at my parents' house is a nightmare. Their kitchen is a room away from the living area. My mom and dad will be watching the same game during football season in each room, but there's a slight delay on one so you get an extremely annoying echo affect. I'm pretty sure my dad bought the one in the kitchen from Fred's dollar store(no I'm not kidding). They also still have tivo so one remote can control both TVs if there wasn't enough chaos already.
My dad keeps his tv on Fox business 24/7. My mom stays in another room and keeps her tv on blue bloods or some other such procedural show while she reads books
When is the shower? I genuinely want to hear the conclusion of this. I'm guessing she'll come but I love hearing Boomers get their egos checked about their racist beliefs.
MIL arrival is T minus 8 days. Shower is in 10 What makes this visit absurdly combustible is the 7 hour commute the MIL will have to make because she is carpooling with my Sister in Law that lives in the Canadian Rockies. Those two just went two months without talking because the MIL kept sending her articles about how great JD Vance is due to his new found Catholicism. The MIL actually said ‘Fine go ahead and block me and my beliefs.’ The SIL did, and then the MIL kept complaining to us about how she can’t believe her daughter blocked her mother. We kept telling her well you told her to. I’m half expecting and preparing the MIL to be dropped off at the border and told we need to come pick her up at Canadian customs if we want her there. The MIL has been warned if she brings up politics, comments on someone’s sexuality or race, she will be shunned, not just by us, but by all of my family and our friends that do not subscribe to any of her thoughts. The invasion of Normandy had less variables than what could occur next weekend.
I’m guilty of having my TV on but most of the time it’s just a random live sporting event on. It’s mostly just to have some background noise.
it’s the easiest thing ever to just have a beer and watch a game with someone and not talk politics. but that’s simply a bridge too far for maga freaks
For most it’s just become so much of their personality that I don’t think they even know how to have normal interactions these days.
It’s the religious ones that get me. My in laws have politics and religion now intertwined and are thus used to confirm and shield them from criticism when one or the other is brought up. They are so warped mentally they will and have started a prayer before a dinner at someone else’s home that isn’t religious. Not like a short one, but ones that are a minute long.
At this point, I just assume most people that are over the top religious are just using that as an excuse to be a clown.
MIL probably will never have any self-reflection, but good on all of you for being united in not putting up with her shit.
The wrinkle that truly defies all logic and demonstrates how irredeemable and lost some of these people are is that my in laws are FUCKING CANADIAN, and they live in a Canadian city that is completely buoyed by the American economy and will cripple and die without trade to it. They still root for someone and a party that is actively trying to ruin their quality of life and area they live in.
Being on the other end of some dipshit assuming I believe a thing because of being a white straight dude who has red hobbies is my absolute hell. There are fewer things as irritating as immediately having a dude I barely know say one sentence out of nowhere that makes my blood boil and having to make a split second decision on whether I want to ruin the rest of an event or a social interaction or not. These idiots just assume and, I guess, get validation like you saw more than they’re ever challenged
people get real comfortable letting some insane stuff fly to me because they think every white southern dude agrees with them
my in-laws are like this. went to a Braves game with my FIL and we didn’t make it one time through the order before he started on his shit. asking me why we haven’t found a church even though i said i would when i asked his permission to marry his daughter (this did not happen). dawg can we not do this right now. or ever. but especially right now.
true story i told him we’d thought about joining the Unitarian church in our neighborhood and he said that wouldn’t count
These are the types of people where I pretend I’m still religious and very passive aggressively talk down on their Protestant churches. I’m aware this doesn’t help.
Yep, I get this vibe all too well. My FIL talked to the priest that married us and invited him over for a dinner with my wife and I to ‘bless’ our home a couple years ago. My FIL wasn’t even going to be there. The audacity of these people to interject themselves into others lives under the disguise of religion is immeasurable. The dinner never happened because we don’t go to church and the priest was verbally attacked by a family member of my wife’s at our wedding. He rightfully wants nothing to do with us. Yeah my in laws are pretty wild. This thread helps me cope
It is very funny how other white people just assume you're also a shithead. If someone looks around before they broach a subject then you know it's going to be a real heater.
my redneck cousin’s friend dropped a hard R to me after meeting me like less than an hour before. immediately cursed him out and even my dipshit cousin had some words for him. just insane decision making from these people
My dad will have the TV on (some sport) his laptop open (Alabama message board for Boomers, I am a 2nd generation poster, why it comes so naturally to me) and a book that he is actively reading.
My wife just had surgery and just finished with the soccer season she runs and is spent. This weekend my daughters first communion is Saturday so my wife wanted to do Mother’s Day on Saturday since we’re going to see everyone and give all of us a day off on Sunday. MIL would absolutely not do that and has to celebrate on Sunday which means she’ll be at our house all day playing on her phone while I’m having to cook some large meal for everyone to eat.
i always enjoy being responsible for food. don’t have to worry about the kids just get to listen to some music, have a drink and cook.
This reminds me of a clip from some random podcast someone posted on here I think. The two hosts were talking about how much society has changed and what is and isn’t acceptable anymore. One host mentioned how he used to drop the hard R all the time up until a few years ago and how he would just casually use it all the time in daily conversation. His cohost was caught off guard and couldn’t believe what he was hearing. He finally interrupted him and asked what he thought the hard R word was. Guy definitely thought hard R meant the R word and not the N word
It's really strange what sort of look around before you speak bigotry flies, though. I've literally only heard a person use the hard r (not r worded) version a handful of times in my life. Probably fewer than 10. But if you want to hear a real fucked up opinion of trans people or muslims (especially in the 2000s), you're in for a treat.
Yeah i think it was mentioned before but fox news itself is a socializing force too. If youre 'antiwoke' and someone accuses someone else of being woke then you guys recognize each other immediately