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Your not so subtle relatives

  • 29-04-2010 10:34am
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,618 ✭✭✭


    Anyone got any embarrassing aunts and uncles or cousins, that embarrass you big time, but you have a great laugh talking about them behind their backs???

    An uncle of mine was at one of his in-laws funeral in England, that he or his family here hadn't seen in ages. Anyways, the man is bull thick and about as subtle as gun. He was sitting in the church listening to the priest talking about the dead man, who he said is survived by his family and partner "John".

    The uncle pipes up when he hears this and whispers "Did ye hear that, the priest is after making a balls of that, he said he had a partner John". It was unknown to the family living in Ireland that the guy had switched sides and was gay.

    Anyways, John was mentioned a few more times, and even came up to say a few words about how he loved and will miss the deceased, well the uncle was going mad, "we're at the wrong f*cking funeral altogether, who the f*ck is this fella John?". So he finally cops anyways, and while leaving the church roars to his brothers in front of everyone, "Well, thats the first queer funeral I was ever at"

    Not so subtle.


Comments

  • Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    Maybe you should have said to your not so subtle relatives, "You're not so subtle relatives!"













    I like word play! :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,618 ✭✭✭Mr Freeze


    Knew someone would be back with that instantly.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,130 ✭✭✭✭Kiera


    I’m the embarrassing one in my family. I tend not to think before I speak and say the most inappropriate things at the wrong times.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 363 ✭✭swe_fi


    Love that funeral story...I once went to a funeral and got a serious fit of laughter for no apparent reason, I just could not stop laughing (like mega-shaking-crying-laughing) so I had to try and turn it in to a wail, the crying was already there. I think i failed though because people were looking suspiciously wondering why i was so upset (I was not particularly close to this man).

    My Dad traveled 80 miles in his car to put a note on the windscreen of my Aunts car saying "Please note that You or your family will NOT be required to attend XXXX's (my sisters) confirmation"

    Same Aunt actually, bought 4 scratch-cards for the family and her mean mean stingy rich ass of an ex-husband (of course) won €10.000 on his. But, he did not tell anyone and intended to keep it all for himself. When they eventually found out and pressurized him into admitting it, he said he had lost the ticket (as if).


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,547 ✭✭✭Agricola


    When an Aunt of mine from London visited one of her Irish cousins last summer, the first thing he said to her when he opened the door was..
    "Jaysus Ann, ya got fierce fat since I saw ya last!"

    :D


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,618 ✭✭✭Mr Freeze


    Kiera wrote: »
    I’m the embarrassing one in my family. I tend not to think before I speak and say the most inappropriate things at the wrong times.

    oh give us an example will ya??? Don't leave us hanging like that.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 888 ✭✭✭quicklickpaddy


    My uncle (Dad's brother) was over for Christmas dinner a few years back. He started talking about how my parents got together. He's a fairly tactful guy so I think he knew well what he was doing but he pipes up with:

    "Ya know, your Mom was the first person that your Dad ever brought home... And by then he was 27! We were actually starting to think your Dad was a queer..."


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,984 ✭✭✭Degag


    A few years ago my grandmother asked me if i had a girlfriend, i replied "no." She then asked me if i ever had one. At the time, i never had a "proper relationship" so i replied no, knowing she wouldn't agree with the more "casual" type of relationship. She then proceeded to shout (well it seemed like a shout) " You're still a virgin so, that's what i thought!"

    Never was i so mortified!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,224 ✭✭✭Bolag_the_2nd


    swe_fi wrote: »
    Love that funeral story...I once went to a funeral and got a serious fit of laughter for no apparent reason, I just could not stop laughing (like mega-shaking-crying-laughing) so I had to try and turn it in to a wail, the crying was already there. I think i failed though because people were looking suspiciously wondering why i was so upset (I was not particularly close to this man). QUOTE]

    the same happened to Tommy Tiernen!!!:rolleyes:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,228 ✭✭✭epgc3fyqirnbsx


    I have a cousin who met her fiance on a dating website.
    Her father introduces him to everyone as 'Google'


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 17,918 ✭✭✭✭orourkeda


    Relatives are a load of me hole


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 15,515 ✭✭✭✭admiralofthefleet


    my mother, she doesnt give a fuck what she says


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 324 ✭✭Unique User Name


    My Sister who is quite particular and likes to have everything planned and perfect was left in a fit of rage having been embarassed by our Uncle at her wedding. The day was going perfectly to plan, everybody enjoying themselves, a few drinks, a bit of dancing. The night wears on and said Uncle gets drunker and drunker.

    Eventually when everybody is sitting down he askes the band to stop playing the music and grabs the microphone. I could see my sister incandescent but yet paralysed with rage as our Uncle makes his way to the middle of the floor. Our Uncle starts siging and dancing alone as all the eyes in the room switch focus to him. But it gets worse. He begins a striptease right down to his tighty whities until our Aunty drags him from the floor. Myself and my Brother have never laughed so much in our lives :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,920 ✭✭✭Einhard


    I told my 90 year old granny that my younger brother was gay, just to see how she's react, and then forget to tell her that I was joking. Months later we're all out for dinner with the extended family, when she turns about and asks the brother how long it is he's been gay, and whether it was because he couldn't find a nice enough girl!

    She took it fairly well though. He didn't.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,221 ✭✭✭✭m5ex9oqjawdg2i


    I disowned my whole family at an early age. True story, it's easier that way ;)


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