Trashy Things Your Family Did (or still does)

viciously slap faces

My parents always made us wear our pajamas to the drive-in. And then we had to go play on the playground before the movie....swings and slides and merry go round in our PJs.

My dad would fart at the dinner table and laugh.

earrings

caftans

High heel boots

If people were coming over, we had to put clothes on. we usually just ran around in our underpants.

Save Cool Whip containers to use as Tupperware. My mom would pack a lunch using a Cool Whip container and I hated it. Also eating Cool Whip in the first place!

We subscribe to the print version of "Reader's Digest" and send them jokes and story ideas by snail mail. Still!!!

Awwww R8 that makes me feel warm and fuzzy! Do you still get the Saturday Evening Post mailed to you as well?

Being rabid racists and having no shame about it. Using such phrases as "chimping around" when speaking of blacks. Posting racist memes on Facebook.

Surprise anal in the middle of dinner, church baptisms, weddings, and even one time at a funeral! Talk about digging a deep hole!

For snow boot waterproofing, my mom used to save Wonder Bread plastic bags to wrap our feet in before putting on our boots.

We used a vinyl Holly Hobby tablecloth in the breakfast room to protect the “very old and very valuable” oak pedestal table underneath. Peeling the tablecloth off for a new one resulted in a tortured oak surface coated in fuzz.

Trash owning their trashiness. Good first step to lift yourselves out and up. Keep going. We need to laugh together!

"good food, good God, let's eat, meat!"

Oh, and we only used the dining room on Sundays because the fancy table wobbled and that’s where the old dog peed when she couldn’t go out or she was angry or something frightened her or she was bored.

This thread is inherently self loathing. There will be some withering posts here, but there's something wrong about trashing your own family for having the misfortune of raising a lisping old queer. Old white gay men's ideas standards and taste are equally tacky. This is work for a therapist. Putting down what you were fed or how your mother dressed or what kind of things they did to save money is just sad. Good Manners are nothing more than the ability to make people feel comfortable. Shame on all y'all.

If you hate your family or they hurt or damaged you, this is not the way to express it. We call old white gay men GLIBS. I won't tell you what it stands for.

May God visit healing to your troubled minds this night.

"rub a dub dub, thanks for the grub!"

r17 - i don't think that at all. i grew up in a non-religious household and we didn't say grace with meals unless we were with our Fundie Xtian relatives (which we did without any animosity or derision). i only posted the few other prayers from my in-laws who were "devout" Catholics.

Nowadays when we can have holidays together with mixed company, we all just do a go-round saying what we're thankful for. for other regular family dinners, nothing really said unless someone feels compelled to say thanks for a particular situation/event.

who gives a fuck what you think, r17?

Be nice, R20. R17 didn’t have a family. Given away at birth because of the family curse. We don’t talk about it.

r21 i'm sorry for you.

My mother and her sisters would steal heavy glass beer mugs from their favorite pizza restaurant. Once they even got away with the giant glass pitcher.

I think my sister still uses the set.

Both my parents smoked inside the house even though us kids hated it. Our teachers thought we smoked because we reeked.

For some reason my father would never use a coaster for his drink and he would leave water stains on the nice wood table underneath. This would send my mother into fits! She would have to take ashes from the ashtray to scrub it out. It worked!

Well for starters, my Nana shot my father

R19 I’ve seen you and others use “Xtian“ as some sort of derogatory way to say Christian. You do understand that replacing Christ with an X is not something new, it is called a Christogram? Perpetuating the idea that it is disrespectful is as ignorant and trashy as the fundamentalists.

r26 fuck you. stop trying to make anything out of nothing. i have no hate of anyone of a christian faith. i was trying to be a christian person who was all about being fundamental. i'm so sorry i did phrasing wrong. you might try to take a minute. i love everyone. except MAGATs and pedos.

[quote] Save Cool Whip containers to use as Tupperware. My mom would pack a lunch using a Cool Whip container and I hated it. Also eating Cool Whip in the first place!

We reused Cool Whip containers as well. I still like Cool Whip.

I use "xtian" as a shortcut and yes, I'm aware it's nothing new. If you choose to see it as a sign of disrespect, well, that is on you.

[quote] "good food, good God, let's eat, meat!"

It's "Good bread, good meat, good God, let's eat."

[quote] This thread is inherently self loathing.

No, it's a thread for those of us who possess the crucial skill of being able to laugh at ourselves and our family foibles. It takes some wisdom and maturity to master; you might get there yet.

[quote] It's "Good bread, good meat, good God, let's eat."

That's how we said it, too, but I'd imagine there are regional variations.

i didn't mean to offend anyone with the use of the Xtian label. i thought that was pretty popular with Christians. I'm sorry for my mistake and thanks for letting me know.

I'm not the above poster but I love to type "Xtian" to be derogatory! I heard they hated it.

I hate those freaks and what they've done to America!

My sister went to a community college then a state school and then she got a JOB!, and married an IRISH CATHOLIC policeman.