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icecreamandkittens , Tambako The Jaguar Report

People In This Online Group Share What Things Their Family Members Had The Courage To Do At Their Thanksgiving Gathering (30 Stories) This was just a joke, but I still felt It was worth sharing...My uncle made a scene about having dropped something on the floor. When he was sure enough of us were now paying attention, he bends over to pick it up, his shirt rides up and we see a tramp stamp tiger crawling out of his buttcrack. It was a temporary tattoo that he had my aunt help him put on specifically put on for this occasion.

Final score:

252points

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glowworm2 2 years ago

I like this uncle’s sense of humor.

94points

People In This Online Group Share What Things Their Family Members Had The Courage To Do At Their Thanksgiving Gathering (30 Stories) Every year my family "subconsciously" gives all the left overs to whichever cousin isn't doing the best in life.

I've gotten the leftovers for the last 6 years.

Jrud1990 , Rex Roof Report

Final score:

197points

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Kanuli 2 years ago

You have to look at the bright side: they acknowledge how bad you are off. This is a good foundation for more help, understanding and some love and energy to help you out of it. Much preferable over ignorant people, or people who pretend not to see whats going on.

91points

People In This Online Group Share What Things Their Family Members Had The Courage To Do At Their Thanksgiving Gathering (30 Stories) My religious extended family were in deep prayer and the dinner table when my mom yelled “f**k! The bread is burned!”

fireburd , DoD News Report

Final score:

183points

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Fabian Meresse 2 years ago (edited)

Once gardened at a churchyard, the old priest was kind and came to ask if the guys and I wanted a coffee, wich we gladly accepted.He went to his house close to the church. A few times later, we heard a big mess in the kitchen, and probably the worst curses we had ever heard ! We were dying laughting, then he came back, red faced...So human tbh

66points

People In This Online Group Share What Things Their Family Members Had The Courage To Do At Their Thanksgiving Gathering (30 Stories) I was at my wife’s uncles house for thanksgiving , and his wife decided right after dinner to play their wedding video ( because it was also their anniversary weekend). She looks for a half hour to find the video tape, finds it and gathers the whole dinner party (25 ish people) to the back room area, plays the video, and right as she’s walking down the aisle, mid way down the aisle it goes fuzzy..... and cuts to...... Dale Earnhardt’s funeral. Uncle joe used that tape to record Dale Earnhardt’s funeral. Granted it was in small town Michigan wherenthe nascar track is, but still....Everyone froze in complete shock and I started laughing and felt like i was in a sitcom but it was real life.

homanisto , Movieing Memories Report

Final score:

154points

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MikeWheelerFan 2 years ago

Wow, Uncle Joe is an a-hole

52points

People In This Online Group Share What Things Their Family Members Had The Courage To Do At Their Thanksgiving Gathering (30 Stories) My uncle brought pizza to thanksgiving because he didn’t like my grandmas cooking. She had spent all day cooking our thanksgiving meal and he brought pizza! He, my aunt, and my cousins ate the pizza like it was nothing. My grandma went into the other room and cried.

marabou22 , Matt Buck Report

Final score:

148points

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Deutschland Mädchen 2 years ago

Aww poor grandma. If you don't like it, pretend to eat it and then go eat something else later or beforehand

174points

People In This Online Group Share What Things Their Family Members Had The Courage To Do At Their Thanksgiving Gathering (30 Stories) someone (we never figured out who, though i suspect my younger cousin) set the TV to the playboy channel right as we were finishing up eating (this year we had so many people we had to eat in the living room, right next to the TV

i don't think I've ever seen my grandma laugh as much as she did when she saw everyone scrambling to find the clicker :)

Fishb20 Report

Final score:

140points

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Deutschland Mädchen 2 years ago

Maybe your grandma did it...

115points

People In This Online Group Share What Things Their Family Members Had The Courage To Do At Their Thanksgiving Gathering (30 Stories) My brothers got into a fight. My oldest brother slept with my younger brother's new wife, who was like 20 years younger than him. They got into a fist fight and broke through the wall of their dad's trailer. The police had to be called. Aaaand that's why I stopped going to family evening. This was by no means an unusual occurrence, just the first thing that came to mind.

creepysnowflake , Dan Gaken Report

Final score:

131points

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R Carson 2 years ago

Also classy.

37points

People In This Online Group Share What Things Their Family Members Had The Courage To Do At Their Thanksgiving Gathering (30 Stories) The woman my cousin had just married stole a Costco sized box of individually wrapped Cheezit packages from our garage. I just happened to notice they were gone when putting food in the fridge. Asked about it publicly and she locked up, started stuttering, and went to get them out of her car. She returned with the excuse "I thought these were mine. I have a box just like them at home".

chandabear17 , Jim Kelly Report

Final score:

123points

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Rosemary Probert 2 years ago

Make sure you never leave her alone in your house.

73points

#10

People In This Online Group Share What Things Their Family Members Had The Courage To Do At Their Thanksgiving Gathering (30 Stories) This isn’t an isolated thing, but if someone doesn’t show up for thanksgiving or Christmas we automatically check the inmate records at the county jail. It’s happened a few times that someone’s absence is accounted for by an arrest and/or jail stay.

In 2016 my brother was a no show for Christmas and we checked the jails website. We saw our unique last name on their roster and assumed he’d been arrested. Turns out it was my uncle. I never did ask my brother where he was that year.

ManhattanMaven , 826 PARANORMAL Report

Final score:

121points

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Deutschland Mädchen 2 years ago

What's up with all the uncles on this list??

53points

[deleted] , Stephanie Young Merzel Report

#11

People In This Online Group Share What Things Their Family Members Had The Courage To Do At Their Thanksgiving Gathering (30 Stories) Big Thanksgiving dinner at the in-laws, even my inlaws’ extended family members were there, and out of nowhere my mom tries to start a conversation with “I’m not a racist but...” and I didn’t even hear the rest because I was laughing because she most definitely was a racist. That was the last year she was invited.

Final score:

116points

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Kanuli 2 years ago

My FIL often makes racist jokes. I often question them, plus his wife is asian, and if he overdoes it, I ask her and her sons what they think about his slurs n stuff, in hope he thinks about this some day.

40points

#12

People In This Online Group Share What Things Their Family Members Had The Courage To Do At Their Thanksgiving Gathering (30 Stories) My husband's brother and his sister-in-law (who was married to his OTHER brother) always disappeared for about 20-40 minutes at the same time.

This happened for four years in a row before anyone got nosey enough to go looking for them.

Sister-in-law is now married to the Thanksgiving Hookup Brother.

sexandbooks , the Italian voice Report

Final score:

106points

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Gingerfoxx 2 years ago

tell me you're from Alabama without telling me you're from Alabama

76points

#13

People In This Online Group Share What Things Their Family Members Had The Courage To Do At Their Thanksgiving Gathering (30 Stories) Not sure if it counts, but my girlfriend and I were getting really serious and so our families had Thanksgiving together for the first time. It was a huge deal for us and our families and it was a great day. She broke up with me the next day.

spenceraston , Mark Doliner Report

Final score:

103points

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May 2 years ago

Something tells me the story would sound very different if she was telling it.

110points

#14

People In This Online Group Share What Things Their Family Members Had The Courage To Do At Their Thanksgiving Gathering (30 Stories) My aunt was sent to bed because she was too drunk last year and ended up falling down the stairs an hour later when she tried coming back

tim-whale , Rex Roof Report

Final score:

101points

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Kristin Malliet 2 years ago

The pumpkin pie better be worth it!

19points

#15

People In This Online Group Share What Things Their Family Members Had The Courage To Do At Their Thanksgiving Gathering (30 Stories) My uncle and my cousin's husband fought about flat earth for 3 hours

Kitten_Tamer_14 , Kurayba Report

Final score:

99points

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Kanuli 2 years ago

3 hours to speak the words: foucault's pendulum? Disprove those physics and you have my attention.

25points

#16

People In This Online Group Share What Things Their Family Members Had The Courage To Do At Their Thanksgiving Gathering (30 Stories) We were hosting thanksgiving and prepared all the food ourselves and my mom spend all morning cooking and baking. My aunt, uncle and cousins arrive right before dinner and walk in with a White Castle case and said they just stopped to eat a few minutes ago. We had prepared thanksgiving just for them and they decided that they wanted White Castle instead.

pizzaman07 , Kyle James Report

Final score:

92points

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WildBerry 2 years ago

I would have said, "Since you ate already, how about if you leave and we'll see you another time".

87points

#17

People In This Online Group Share What Things Their Family Members Had The Courage To Do At Their Thanksgiving Gathering (30 Stories) My aunt and uncle showed up an hour late to dinner. My aunt then proceeded to yell at all of us because we started eating without her. The rest of the family still makes jokes about it and some are still not on speaking terms with her.

Jackhiy99 , Josh Evnin Report

Final score:

91points

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Nikki Sevven 2 years ago

Ridiculous. It's hard enough to get everything hot and on the table at the same time, but to hold everything for an hour, then go through that again? Nope.

52points

#18

People In This Online Group Share What Things Their Family Members Had The Courage To Do At Their Thanksgiving Gathering (30 Stories) My sister in laws mother brought her young boyfriend to our family thanksgiving. Turns out the boyfriend was my cousins ex that she just broke up with a few weeks prior.

[deleted] , Daniel Morrison Report

Final score:

90points

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R Carson 2 years ago

Fun

28points

#19

People In This Online Group Share What Things Their Family Members Had The Courage To Do At Their Thanksgiving Gathering (30 Stories) We were hosting a young lady my wife worked with, as well as her boyfriend. Halfway through dinner and somehow the discussion got to how her and her brother "once got super trashed on Robitussin, and next thing you know we ... Uh ... Yeah that was really a weird time."

Everyone just got really quiet as we were trying to decide how to fill that one in and where to go with it. For some reason they got really quiet after that.

ValleyNerd , RosiePosieTosie Report

Final score:

89points

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WildBerry 2 years ago

Should have gone with the weirdness and told them about the time you found outer space aliens drinking all your beer in the basement and had a party with them.

24points

#20

People In This Online Group Share What Things Their Family Members Had The Courage To Do At Their Thanksgiving Gathering (30 Stories) I have a crazy cousin who came after not being invited and then yelled at everyone because no one brought the “special bread” her son likes and now he’s STARVING. Maybe bring your own Hawaiian sweet bread if that’s the only thing your spawn will eat.

She then boxed up a large portion of the leftovers and left and was unseen until the next unfortunate family function.

squirmdragon , Paul Sullivan Report

Final score:

89points

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WildBerry 2 years ago

Why let her in the house?

61points

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#21

People In This Online Group Share What Things Their Family Members Had The Courage To Do At Their Thanksgiving Gathering (30 Stories) My first Thanksgiving at my future in-laws house, when I was meeting most of them for the first time, his Dad, when I had never met) mentioned my breasts multiple times, once referring to them as "pillows". I was mortified.

Scribbler14 , Kristopha Hohn Report

Final score:

86points

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R Carson 2 years ago

Classy

33points

Mortifier , Jim, the Photographer Report

#22

People In This Online Group Share What Things Their Family Members Had The Courage To Do At Their Thanksgiving Gathering (30 Stories) My brother in law's father went out to the refrigerator we keep in the garage and ate both pumpkin pies we made before dinner was even served.

Final score:

83points

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May 2 years ago

I've never had pumpkin pie, are they smaller than normal pies? I mean how can one person eat two whole pies?

33points

#23

People In This Online Group Share What Things Their Family Members Had The Courage To Do At Their Thanksgiving Gathering (30 Stories) Blasted uncle got butt f**kin naked for the "what do you give thanks for" speeches. No joke. Best day ever

dooman333 , Mark Report

Final score:

76points

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WildBerry 2 years ago

Was he trying to prove why he was saying he gives thanks for his huge weener?

22points

#24

People In This Online Group Share What Things Their Family Members Had The Courage To Do At Their Thanksgiving Gathering (30 Stories) I don’t think this constitutes as trashy, but my uncle hosted Thanksgiving last year. It was amidst all the drama about kneeling during the national anthem in the NFL. So naturally instead of having a small prayer before the dinner, he had us stand for the national anthem.

moistwettie , James Jones Report

Final score:

76points

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Maiun 2 years ago

I hope you knelt

38points

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#25

People In This Online Group Share What Things Their Family Members Had The Courage To Do At Their Thanksgiving Gathering (30 Stories) My uncle poured Crown Royal on his turkey and ate it.

ExportAye , Mark Doliner Report

Final score:

71points

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May 2 years ago

What's Crown Royal?

20points

Maiun 2 years ago

Apparently it's a cheap Canadian whiskey

16points

Tonya Wallace 2 years ago

A coin purse company.🤭😉

14points

Leo Domitrix 2 years ago

Booze. Not good booze, either, but don't say that to someone drinking Crown Royal.

8points

Davja 2 years ago

If you don't remember, then you have probably had Crown Royal.

6points

Sally Smith 2 years ago

liquor

2points

RoseAnne Hutchence 2 years ago

Canadian rye whiskey, about equal in quality (several types) to John Walker.

1point

Paula Marowsky 2 years ago

I fail to see any wrongdoing... after all pouring a brevage over something is just the same as drinking it before, during, or after eating... plus we don't know if the uncle's turkey whas tasty enough

4points

Bad Alchemy 2 years ago

I can't decide if that action is a response to the turkey or the family dynamic. 🍾🥴

4points

Capelli rosa e patate 2 years ago

I like this man

2points

Valerie G. 2 years ago

Isn't that the whiskey that comes in a blue cloth bag? For some reason there were plenty of those bags around my house to go around during marble season. I can just now see the looks on the faces of the ladies who had to patrol the playground at recess and lunchtime. I do believe that assumptions were made.

2points

WildBerry 2 years ago

Valerie - what is marble season?

0points

The Starsong Princess 2 years ago

It’s rye whiskey, something a Canadian dad drinks, and the uncle is a man who knows what he likes.

2points

Dre Mosley 2 years ago

I've had Crown and Coke, but Crown and turkey?

2points

R Carson 2 years ago

yuck

2points

kaitertot the god 2 years ago

anybody familiar with the show i think you should leave with tim robinson? i instantly thought of the sloppy steaks sketch.

0points

Summer Mason 2 years ago

Boss move.

0points

Mark Karol-Chik 2 years ago

Sounds interesting

0points

Amanda Hunter 2 years ago

Must be an alcoholic.

0points

Auntriarch 2 years ago

And a glass of gravy by the side?

0points

Joe Smith 2 years ago

Turkey must have been dry.

0points

WildBerry 2 years ago

Yeah. And god knows where he poured the gravy.

0points

#26

People In This Online Group Share What Things Their Family Members Had The Courage To Do At Their Thanksgiving Gathering (30 Stories) Aunt took all of the left over turkey, all of it.

themattcrumb , rochelle hartman Report

Final score:

71points

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Kanuli 2 years ago

Cheap. My family did this before, but in agreement with the rest of the famliy. And because we really didn’t have any money and no one else wanted anything.

31points

#27

People In This Online Group Share What Things Their Family Members Had The Courage To Do At Their Thanksgiving Gathering (30 Stories) She was responsible for bringing the dessert. She showed up 3 hours late and instead of bringing dessert she brought an open bag of frozen pierogis. It was a real downer.

TheLongAndWindingRd , Willis Lam Report

Final score:

66points

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Robert T 2 years ago

Which kind, as pierogies can be savory or sweet? I mean an open bag of frozen anything is pretty crappy, but it would have been even worse if they were potato & cheddar as in the picture!

22points

#28

People In This Online Group Share What Things Their Family Members Had The Courage To Do At Their Thanksgiving Gathering (30 Stories) I told my girlfriends sister in law the brides maids dresses she picked out were tacky. Thinking i was talking to someone else in the family. I proceeded to tell her they looked like whoopi goldberg in sister act. She still despises me.

allharveybman , Elin B Report

Final score:

65points

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Dina Simoné 2 years ago

Maybe keep your opinion to yourself?

44points

#29

My cousin posted her new wedding pictures while sitting at the thanksgiving dinner table. She hadn’t told any of us that she got married. My aunt said “you got married??” She denied it.

em_317 Report

Final score:

64points

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Kanuli 2 years ago

Funny. I got wedding presents on a reunion, only told 2 persons and ye, won’t trust both ever again.

13points

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#30

People In This Online Group Share What Things Their Family Members Had The Courage To Do At Their Thanksgiving Gathering (30 Stories) I have an uncle who once got so drunk he decided to mix the red and white wines together

Marko_Ramius1 , Kai Schreiber Report

Final score:

47points

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Helmut Kok 2 years ago (edited)

I guess there was no Rose

30points

#31

People In This Online Group Share What Things Their Family Members Had The Courage To Do At Their Thanksgiving Gathering (30 Stories) One thanksgiving my family (grandparents and aunt’s family) were all eating at a buffet that was decorated extensively with a ton of gourds, pumpkins, general thanksgivingy decorations... and we all started taking them back to our table every time we went to the buffet table. We had our entire table covered before the staff started to notice. Trashy but hilarious!

[deleted] , Dan Saffer Report

Final score:

16points

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YoyoSthlm 2 years ago

Not funny at all.

89points

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#32

People In This Online Group Share What Things Their Family Members Had The Courage To Do At Their Thanksgiving Gathering (30 Stories) My grandpa was pretending to fake punch my grandma for s**ts and giggles. The thing is, she leaned into it. He knocked her out and she fell to the floor. Best Thanksgiving ever, went down in history

cvbresl1n , Austen Squarepants Report

Final score:

15points

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Marcos Andrade 2 years ago

Just like he planned for years

4points

#33

People In This Online Group Share What Things Their Family Members Had The Courage To Do At Their Thanksgiving Gathering (30 Stories) Picked up an entire stick of butter with their hand to butter their corn.

No wrapper. Bare hand to butter.

IneptNoodle , Joanna Bourne Report

Final score:

14points

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Dina Simoné 2 years ago

Thats disgusting

2points

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#34

People In This Online Group Share What Things Their Family Members Had The Courage To Do At Their Thanksgiving Gathering (30 Stories) Farted at the table and wafted it at everybody.

rational-logic , Michael Arrington Report

Final score:

13points

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Dylan Bess 2 years ago

That’s the most evil thing i have ever read on boredpanda

7points

#35

People In This Online Group Share What Things Their Family Members Had The Courage To Do At Their Thanksgiving Gathering (30 Stories) Well, my mother-in-law once cancelled the holiday. She’s a raging lunatic. She made her sons take her to K&W Cafeteria. I went home.

SouthernGirl2016 , Eugene Kim Report

Final score:

11points

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WildBerry 2 years ago

She didn't feel like doing all the cooking again?

8points

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Two_rolling_black_eyes 2 years ago

I had a GF whose sister went Le Cordon Blue straight out of high school then got a job in NYC. She missed most holidays because of work. When the sister was 22, she had Nov/Dec off between jobs and told everyone she would love to cook a special Thanksgiving dinner. She rented out a local restaurant so she could have a full kitchen, hired some staff, and invited the family. When the GF and I showed up, there was cops there. Turns out the family had decided she was still too young and told her she couldn't sit with the adults. I was told she calmly walked back into the kitchen and told her staff to remove all the food, went back out and pointed at the sign on the wall saying management reserves the right to refuse service, and told everyone to leave. No one tells a chef where to sit in their restaurant. When several people took umbrage to that, she called the cops and had them removed for trespassing. Best leftovers I've ever had.

23points

GenericPanda09 2 years ago

Wonderful response... and totally called for.

15points

Gin. No tonic 2 years ago

What's up with the (American?) way of separating kids' and adults' tables? In my country kids always sit at the same table with adults, no matter how many people there are.

6points

SAF saf 2 years ago

wtf!? too young at 22 y/o to sit with a bunch of petty, bitter assholes huh? Good on her.

2points

Leo Domitrix 2 years ago

I can add to this list. I was five, as I recall. Uncle A's third wife announced her pregnancy as her grateful thing... but he'd had a vasectomy. All I really remember is we kids hid behind the furniture in the living room and tried to play "Go Fish".

16points

Dorothy Parker 2 years ago

Sad no one told him vasectomies aren't totally foolproof, and men are told to use other methods as well. And...why didn't he tell wife number three he'd had one?

1point

Corgi 2 years ago (edited)

I could tell SO many. My eldest aunt/uncle are real pieces of work. This one takes the cake though: They decided to bring their own meal one Thanksgiving. Without bothering to tell us. Rude move #1. On top of that, for Rude #2, They then informed us that they intended to cook it at our house. We live in an area where electric rates triple at high times on holidays. My mom had food fixed for 10 which was more than enough as there was only 4 adults and 3 kids. Food that was ALREADY DONE and ready to eat. My aunt started a fight over it. WHY was my mom being SOOO penny pinching, not letting THEM use our oven for 3 hours?! WHY couldn't we be patient?! My uncle called the electric company to work out, to the penny, what it would cost. He then gave money to my dad going, "Here, we didn't realize you were so hard up that you couldn't afford some extra electricity." And then their Christmas card was PRICELESS. It was literally, "Merry Christmas. Why have you cut off communication with us?"

13points

Susie Elle 2 years ago

Some people are just idiots

1point

GenericPanda09 2 years ago (edited)

As a Brit I wouldn't normally have any family thanksgiving memories... but the time I realised just how much the US put into this holiday was 1995 and I was attached to a US unit in Bosnia.. they weren't supposed to be on the ground there because politics but the reality was a few were.. and the way they did it was having units like ours that were half brit and half american. So anyhoos.. thanksgiving comes and we brits get a msg to meet them at a place.... we got there and god knows how in that shithole but they'd acquired a turkey and a place to eat it.. had everything laid out and we did the whole family thing together.. from all ranks... and it was a fantastic show of 'family' that truly I've always taken away with me. Loved those guys for doing that and including us... I did hear later that they'd paid a few hundred US dollars for that turkey.

11points

GenericPanda09 2 years ago

A family of 6 brits and 6 yanks...all eating thanksgiving in the warzone, with a lesson in 9 ball to follow. Loved it.

6points

GenericPanda09 2 years ago (edited)

If any Americans reading this know a former col. called Frantom.. a former (probably went higher) Maj. Zamorison )sp?... and a former lt Mertz (also known as McGuyver for his ability to whittle a stick into a microchip)... and who must have certainly gone higher up the chain.. tell them Lister says Hi. I kinda lost touch when I went through a bad illness from that theatre and eventually got medivac'd because I was so wrapped up in looking strong all the time and wasn't able to show any weakness and i felt ashamed i'd not done that last month with them there. but especially Gordon Frantom.... he was the boss of bosses and taught me pretty much everything i later held dear as a boss myself. The only guy I'd ever call sir again.

2points

Ellie 2 years ago

Oh my, I've got one. I was about 10 or so. My mom hates Thanksgiving because it's way to much work for a meal that no one in our house really likes ( except her in-laws and the always come for Thanksgiving, so that's why we do it) My hometown did a Thanksgiving meal takeout so we got that instead of a whole turkey and everything. MIL seemed disappointed but whatever. The next morning, my mom goes black Friday shopping and while she was gone, the In-laws made an ENTIRE THANKSGIVING MEAL. Turkey, stuffing, everything. MIL leaves all the dishes for my mom to do because it's 'her house' and refused to take any leftovers. We ended up throwing out so much food because MIL made a 20 person meal for the 7 of us. And we all hate turkey lol. Anyways, we visit other family now for Thanksgiving and eat lasagna or pizza instead lol :)

8points

Crown Feather 2 years ago

I had a similar experience one year- my mum and my dads parents have a rocky relationship (especially his mum). Well, they came over one year. And bought a huge thing of turkey- like 20 pounds I think? No one but them liked turkey. We usually get ham or chicken, which we all like. It was kind of miserable for the other six of us, who didn’t touch the stuff and instead ate the side dishes. My grandparents (specially my dad’s mum) made some rude comments later about us not appreciating the turkey (that no one wanted). We ended up throwing the rest out since no one would even go near the leftovers because they couldn’t take leftovers- they drove and they lived a few states away. I never liked Thanksgiving, it seems mostly pointless to me and like a huge thing set up to get more money out of the Fall-Winter season, food wise.

0points

Timmy Pillinger 2 years ago

Killed all the natives and took their country.

5points

SilentBob731 2 years ago

Everything's bigger in America, including Genocide.

1point

Lara Verne 2 years ago

We don't celebrate Thanksgiving, but two years ago, my coworker decided to buy turkey and make dinner for her family. Turned out that turkey was too big for her oven....

3points

Lori Ballard 2 years ago

I have so many Jerry Springer could do multiple Family Thanksgibing episodes! The best one was when I was 10 two uncles got into a fight over which is better Ohio State or Michigan which sent them both to the hospital with broken bones. The following year in additional to the no politics and religion at Grandma's house she added no sports to the list

2points

jk nbt 2 years ago

invited to the Sunday-before-Thanksgiving after services Thanksgiving covered dish at a Hispanic church I was visiting... they had thick brown mole sauce for the turkey and for the rice also... very complex, compelling, "this is going to take some getting used to" type tastes, nice, but different... Mole is interesting, to say the least... chocolate, chicken broth, red pepper, and who knows what else??? I served it to my very anglo family at our family Thanksgiving that next Thursday and they all were appalled... mole-sauce...0-jpeg.jpg

2points

Auntriarch 2 years ago (edited)

Hmm, I might just do this for Christmas... Thanks for the tip jk

0points

Kyndal T 2 years ago

I wasn't there but! My brother in law brought his fiancé down to meet us the day b4 thanksgiving. We had a great time. The next day they went to see father in law's parents and extended family and introduce her to them too. Then they'd come back for dinner with us. Apparently father in law's disgusting brother asked her if she was "expecting". Several times. Ugh. He was drunk before 2pm and they didn't stay long or eat. It was not a great first impression. I feel so bad that they drove 8 hours to see us, an additional 2 hours to see the others, and that's probably what she'll think of every time she remembers their trip. They had dinner with us later that night but I don't think she's gonna wanna come back after that. :(

1point

cb !!! 2 years ago

not super trashy but my half-sister's mother has tried to show up to our thanksgiving every year, usually high and drunk on the arm of a new boyfriend. she got uninvited 15 years ago and yet.

0points

Space whale 2 years ago

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0points

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Two_rolling_black_eyes 2 years ago

23points

GenericPanda09 2 years ago

Wonderful response... and totally called for.

15points

Gin. No tonic 2 years ago

What's up with the (American?) way of separating kids' and adults' tables? In my country kids always sit at the same table with adults, no matter how many people there are.

6points

SAF saf 2 years ago

wtf!? too young at 22 y/o to sit with a bunch of petty, bitter assholes huh? Good on her.

2points

Leo Domitrix 2 years ago

16points

Dorothy Parker 2 years ago

Sad no one told him vasectomies aren't totally foolproof, and men are told to use other methods as well. And...why didn't he tell wife number three he'd had one?

1point

Corgi 2 years ago (edited)

13points

Susie Elle 2 years ago

Some people are just idiots

1point

GenericPanda09 2 years ago (edited)

11points

GenericPanda09 2 years ago

A family of 6 brits and 6 yanks...all eating thanksgiving in the warzone, with a lesson in 9 ball to follow. Loved it.

6points

GenericPanda09 2 years ago (edited)

2points

Ellie 2 years ago

8points

Crown Feather 2 years ago

0points

Timmy Pillinger 2 years ago

Killed all the natives and took their country.

5points

SilentBob731 2 years ago

Everything's bigger in America, including Genocide.

1point

Lara Verne 2 years ago

We don't celebrate Thanksgiving, but two years ago, my coworker decided to buy turkey and make dinner for her family. Turned out that turkey was too big for her oven....

3points

Lori Ballard 2 years ago

2points

jk nbt 2 years ago

2points

Auntriarch 2 years ago (edited)

Hmm, I might just do this for Christmas... Thanks for the tip jk

0points