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Can't really go into detail, well, I could, but I don't want to.
From now on, at all family gatherings, I am going to respond to all subtle, and not so subtle, racist bullshit with, "Yeah, those Niggers have had it way too easy for way too long in this country."

I just want to drink.

Drink

Repress

Repeat

There's a reason that my clan is 3500 miles from where I chose to live. I also feel this will be the LAST family gathering I attend with my wife's family. I can't wait for the new leaf to turn. I find as I age I tolerate stupidity less well.

That's not good in any situation.
Worse if you cannot respond with the righteous fist.

+1 on the drinking.

I wouldn't dignify an asshat statement with any response. Keep the peace, maybe let them notice on their own that you disapprove of the shit falling out of their mouths.

One stunted branch of our family has the fundie bug pretty bad, we used to do turkey day with them pretty regularly. One year one of my cousins was wearing a particularly offensive anti gay shirt, something about god killing fags or some such. Being a theater geek I have a lot of gay friends and have lost a couple close friends to HIV, and being young enough at the time to not care about pissing off family, I popped off with "Are you fucking kidding me?" I don't see them much any more, and I don't particularly miss them.

A friend recently told me, "never mistake time with your family for a vacation."

Sound advice.

I went this close to kick my step mother out of my house last night. Luckily I hadn't drink enough so I just waited until she left by her own will.
It's one thing to accept to go people's houses and endure their bullshits, it's another to spend your day cooking to have them come to your place and insult you.
(what, can't I have a rant once in a while too?)

What SSCAM said. Although I didn't exactly follow the "Repress" part to a t.

And now I'm out of scotch.

the only way to have a decent family get together is to make your own family and teach them to be decent human beings.

i did ok on that part, it's the teaching them to wash up afterwards for me that i didn't do well enough on.

kudos to all of you who refrained from committing a holiday massacre. not sure i could have done as well as you all did.

Soooo glad I have no racist/prejudiced family members.... although my dad can be a jerk sometimes

This evenings vitriol was reserved for the Jews, specifically the Hasidic sect that lives here. While there are admittedly some issues with the Ultra Orthodox Community that do need to be addressed, the language at the dinner table was pretty disgusting.

I am exhausted.

One of my brothers has developed a thing about gays. And, uh, eugenics. He never used to express these kind of things but these days he practically evangelizes. I'm pretty sure he gets some of it from Orson Scott Card, I mean, he quotes him often. Although his slide into intolerance also correlates to the attitude shift of Canada's political right, previously about secular fiscal conservatism, increasingly about American-style church'n'guns.

Anyway, I got my Easter supper from Swiss Chalet and enjoyed it alone.

rolly wrote:the attitude shift of Canada's political right, previously about secular fiscal conservatism, increasingly about American-style church'n'guns.

Another american export we should apologize for

My easter dinner consisted of soda and ramen...

/RM

Was today easter? Cool, should be some cheap candy at the store tomorrow. We went to The Hunger Games with some friends then went to a tapas bar. That does explain why my friend brought up the jewish flying zombie.

roadmissile wrote:

rolly wrote:the attitude shift of Canada's political right, previously about secular fiscal conservatism, increasingly about American-style church'n'guns.

Another american export we should apologize for

My easter dinner consisted of soda and ramen...

/RM

We exported Celene Dion and Nickelback, call it even.

What AZ said. I even love and get along with both my and my wife's family, but that doesn't mean that both sometimes require patience. Hell, I'm sure I'm a PITA at times, too.

Wifey and I stayed home this year. We invited my folks up for dinner, but they declined. So I went for an early morning Easter ride and then the Mrs. and I had dinner at home together. She made an excellent baklava that was very yummy.

My balaclavas are usually pretty dry.

Nyuk Nyuk Nyuk.


I'm fortunate that the racist asshole part of my family is the part that I'm not related to by blood, and am in no way obligated to care about or spend any time with.

The rest of my family, while being devoutly Christian and markedly conservative, did not get bitten by the prejudicial bug, and are totally cool with all of their gay relatives. Though we are drastically different, we typically get along pretty well (that being said, I still have to censor myself rather heavily so as not to offend).

Oh, and my easter was spent welding up some more of my soon to be awesome, competition grade BBQ smoker (that I wish was already finished, because then I wouldn't still be sitting here, waiting for this goddamned pork butt to finish cooking; instead, I would be asleep, while the thing just smoked its happy little ass off until I woke up in the morning, but noooooo, I've got to work on this crappy little weber kettle, whose temperature spikes every time the damned wind blows, and will jump 100 degrees by barely touching the damper... but yeah, we're talking about Easter and assholes, so I'll shut up).