Family Events

MJ23

Some are just torture. Making small talk with cousins you dont like.
Sister-in-laws going "when are you giving us a day out" or "its your turn next"
Aunts that can never remember your name, and they say "oh arent you tall"
I'm fúcking 30, i've been the same height for the last 13 years.

RichieC

I enjoy mine, I quite like my family.

sonic85

RichieC wrote: »

I enjoy mine, I quite like my family.

i like most of my family too but it doesnt stop them asking stupid questions and/or forgetting who you are

BEASTERLY

MJ23 wrote: »

Some are just torture. Making small talk with cousins you dont like.
Sister-in-laws going "when are you giving us a day out" or "its your turn next"
Aunts that can never remember your name, and they say "oh arent you tall"
I'm fúcking 30, i've been the same height for the last 13 years.

OP your obviously not a member of the traveling community, i hear their family events get quite interesting!;)

hondasam

what's not to like about family events, there great fun.

Da Shins Kelly

Well, some members of my family aren't talking to one another, so extended family gatherings are sometimes a bit awkward. A couple of my aunts aren't playing with a full deck either, so they don't know what's going on half the time. Most of these events usually just end up with me wandering around, pretending to be interested in endless stories told by people I've never met before/don't like/didn't realise I was even related to, or being told by my dad not to talk to certain people there.

So, yeah, I don't like 'em.

KeithM89_old

'Ah sure youll have a dance!'

Fuck off!

hondasam

sonic85 wrote: »

i like most of my family too but it doesnt stop them asking stupid questions and/or forgetting who you are

ye need to get together more, get to know them properly.

bronte

They're a bit more fun since I moved away from Ireland.

Last one I was dreading a bit for reasons the OP mentioned, but it was actually quite nice to see the lot of them again...it had been so long.
I did get the usual suspect aunts asking when I was going to move home and "settle" down but I just laughed. Someday I'll have the balls to say "so I can end up like you?"
Damn good party though!

sonic85

KeithM89 wrote: »

'Ah sure youll have a dance!'

Fuck off!

jaysus i hate that. if im sipping a pint in the corner i dont want some auld bag i hardly know coming over trying to drag me (literally) out on the floor. jog on

RichieC

hondasam wrote: »

what's not to like about family events, there great fun.

"They are" indeed

marksparks08

MJ23 wrote: »

Some are just torture. Making small talk with cousins you dont like.
Sister-in-laws going "when are you giving us a day out" or "its your turn next"
Aunts that can never remember your name, and they say "oh arent you tall"
I'm fúcking 30, i've been the same height for the last 13 years.

i love goin to family events there brill everyone gets along free drinks etc

BEASTERLY wrote: »

OP your obviously not a member of the traveling community, i hear their family events get quite interesting!;)

my uncle is married into travellers and ill tell ya somethin there events are unbelievable between the endless drink an damn fine women, sing songs are brill to

pragmatic1

Cant stand half my family so good thing we dont see eachother often.

Chuck Stone

hondasam wrote: »

what's not to like about family events, there great fun, when you're pissed

FYP

hondasam

marksparks08 wrote: »

my uncle is married into travellers and ill tell ya somethin there events are unbelievable between the endless drink an damn fine women, sing songs are brill to

like all good family get together's it ends in a fight.

ball

I just got invited to a family session today. I'm actually looking forward to it. Some of my friends are coming too.
At our family sessions, we sit around drinking, playing music and telling stories.
Usually goes on til 6am or so.

deathrider

Weddings, funerals, christenings- All these days make me want to stab myself repeatedly in the face. Now it's not my family that's the problem, they are lovely people and I get on great with them, but it's their friends that show up at all the gigs that really piss me off. There are tons of these morons and not a brain between them.

marksparks08

hondasam wrote: »

like all good family get together's it ends in a fight.

not necessarily bout 20% the time

ball wrote: »

I just got invited to a family session today. I'm actually looking forward to it. Some of my friends are coming too.
At our family sessions, we sit around drinking, playing music and telling stories.
Usually goes on til 6am or so.

likewise :D

Cupcake_Crisis

I come from a family of borderline alcoholics, my family get togethers are great craic. I've been out partied by my parents/ aunts on more than one occasion.

Temptamperu

My family is deadly craic. they all like the booze to flow and a laugh to be had me ma is a bit dry cause shes sober but we still have lots o fun :cool:

stovelid

Just tell them you didn't ask to be born.

kingelmo

My fathers side of the family are brilliant... Seriously brilliant crack, we even arrange to have a get together every year it just contains drink but its a great laugh..

My mothers side.. oh holy god - torture!!!!!!!!:mad: All pioneers and do nothing but complain about there aches and pains!! They would just drive u to drink!!!

And those 'special' relations coming out with the statement:"awww sher havent you got as big".... yes thats what intends to happen to people when u dont see them... i think growing happens naturally well duah!!!!:mad: Head Wreckers!!!!

Cupcake_Crisis

kingelmo wrote: »

My fathers side of the family are brilliant... Seriously brilliant crack, we even arrange to have a get together every year it just contains drink but its a great laugh!!

We do that as well. About once every 2 months my dads side of the family comes up to ours and we spend the night in the bar drinking and having a sing song. Great craic altogether!!

Dravokivich

MJ23 wrote: »

Aunts that can never remember your name, and they say "oh arent you tall"

I was meeting up with family once a few years ago and was talking with my uncles mother (he had married into the family). She was pretty much like a second granny to me when I was a kid, but she couldn't remember me directly. Confusing me for my dad or 1 of my mothers cousins and even as a son of his. I had introduced myself to her 3 times through out the night.

Last year I was at a funeral for one of my great aunties. Another couldn't remember who I was and kept mistaking me for her brother.

I never had any bother with it and don't understand why someone would.

westendgirlie

If someone says to you "Do you remember so & so".........

NEVER, EVER, say No! You'll be there all night if you do getting the family history.

On a weekly basis my mum will say, "you know Joe or whoever" I automatically say Yeah even tho I haven't the foggiest who she is on about

Son Of A Vidic

KeithM89 wrote: »

'Ah sure youll have a dance!'

Fuck off!

I hate when some people think you know all that auld dancing shyte.

"Huckle Buck with you?"....."I'll buckle you like fúck if you try."

sbsquarepants

Temptamperu wrote: »

My family is deadly craic. they all like the booze to flow and a laugh to be had me ma is a bit dry cause shes sober but we still have lots o fun :cool:

Probably the menopause. Lube her up and she'll be fine:D

Lando Griffin

I love family events, we have great fun.
My OH hates coming to any of our get togethers and always feels left out.
What does she expect when she refuses to play Pictonary, Monopoly Scrabble etc with us and just sits watching her X Faxtor type programms.

Kevin Duffy

I hate these occasions too, but only because of one habit my mother has if I wander too close to her while she's talking to what I think is a complete stranger - she can't just introduce me to somone I haven't seen in years, she has to say "do you know who this is?". Invariably I say "no, sorry, I have a terrible memory", to which they laugh and pretend not to take some slight offence, then we have an awkward silence, then exchange two lines of meaningless small talk, then I betray my ignorance of their recent tragic event by asking "how's things?" and we loop back to the awkward silence.

But could she introduce me to some hawt burd not related to me when she talks to them? Oh no, that'd be too much to ask.

kingelmo

or one time.. we were all having a civil meal and a few drinks in a hotel for my step dads 50th.. lost my mother and my uncle.. me and my sister(ages 21 and 31) went looking for them.. no where to be found..

Manager of the hotel came over to me(i previously worked there) saying that security of the night club down stairs had notified them that in the security man's own words "there's two lunatics of old people down here and we cant get them out what da hell do me do"...

We were very reluctant to go to the club and see what was goin on..

There ya go my mother braking it on the dance floor and my uncle dancing on a table with 3 bouncers around him tryin to get him down...

Oh god the shame but so incrediably funny

RachaelVO

kingelmo wrote: »

My fathers side of the family are brilliant... Seriously brilliant crack, we even arrange to have a get together every year it just contains drink but its a great laugh..

My mothers side.. oh holy god - torture!!!!!!!!:mad: All pioneers and do nothing but complain about there aches and pains!! They would just drive u to drink!!!

And those 'special' relations coming out with the statement:"awww sher havent you got as big".... yes thats what intends to happen to people when u dont see them... i think growing happens naturally well duah!!!!:mad: Head Wreckers!!!!

I have the other way around. Love being with my mothers side. Absolutely love it, the craic, the jokes the sing songs. All just brilliant, always die for about week after I've been with the all, but I wouldn't miss those dos for the world.

My Dads family are all very nice n all, but kinda tea party nice. It's enjoyable, but it just doesnt stand out. Half of them don't drink the other half are alcies and hardly ever make it.