Do you have any relatives who drive you apsitively nuckin' futs?

[Lady Effingbroke]

(Inspired by the "idiot FR**per brother" thread).

In my family it is also my brother who wins the :dunce: award. Three kids with three different women, though to give him a modicum of credit he is attempting to raise the youngest one. 30 years old, has never voted (obviously didn't vote this year), thinks "all the French are gay" (a direct quote) and, when I told him that Kerry would have been a better president than Bush because other countries would be more willing to work with Kerry said "I don't give a fuck what other countries think." I could go on for pages, but you get the general idea.

So what about y'all? Any relatives you would just like to smack upside the head with a clue-by-four?

[imenja]

1. yeah, I knew that working with other countries thing would hurt Kerry

Americans don't care what other countries think. If fact, Bush's hatred abroad probably helped him.
A sad comment on our society.

[BlueJazz]

2. Out of respect for you, I'm not .....

...going to REALLY tell you what I think of your brother. :)

[Lady Effingbroke]

4. It's ok, I've already told him!

:D

[China_cat]

3. There's my stepfather's wife

but I don't really have to deal with her. Even going upside her head with the lug wrench of truth wouldn't do any good.

[Rumba]

6. Sounds like the type...

...I always describe as "unable to get a clue even if said clue were glued to a railroad spike and pounded into her brain."

[China_cat]

18. That's a very good description for her.

[Jim__]

5. Nah. All my relatives are great. Reasonable, smart, friendly. Too bad

I haven't seen any of them for the last 10 years.

[TaleWgnDg]

7. Yeah, if I could extract your "confirm file delete" and . . .

use it as a "clue-by-four" . . . it'd be fine and I'd be one happy camper!


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[PragMantisT]

8. Sometimes I want to kick my mom's ass

Because I could not share the same DNA as my brother. She had to by slutting around behind my Pa's back.

Pa was a lifelong Democrat; Ma is a nazi. Opposites attract.

[AlCzervik]

9. My sister in law-poor little rich girl

piss and moan about everything. The only good thing about her is her children, them i love and they have stayed sane despite living with her. One of the most ungracious people I've ever had the misfortune to know. My niece was diagnosed with a certain medical condition, it's not life threatening but it's something she'll have to manage with for the rest of her life, my siter in law says to me-"Why do all these things happen to me?" "Um, it happened to your daughter, not you so get your head out of your ass and support her."

[liberalmuse]

10. My mother.

She's an extremely beautiful but vain, shallow woman who decided at some point that any intelligence she possessed was useless, so she discarded it in order to play the dumb blonde.

She's a fundie who drives me nuts, but I have no choice but to feel compassion for her. At the same time, I'm unable to spend a significant amount of time in her presence without becoming suicidal. She was an abused child from a family of screamers. Her father would beat her until she passed out. When she was just a toddler, her parents would lock her in the car while they bar-hopped. I think that's where she learned to disassociate from reality and become a religious fanatic. Unfortunately, she's too crippled to grow up--at least in this lifetime. I still love the woman, but am unable to view her as 'mother'. My sister and I call her by her first name.

[Mist]

15. My mother's difficult too

Tho' she didn't get the unforgivable abuse your mother got, she was an alcoholic for many years. I learned to deal with her more easily when I realized she was emotionally about 8 years old. She's very nervous, critical, perfectionist, etc. BUT she did vote for Kerry!

[jonnyblitz]

11. my freeper father said the EXACT same thing

"I don't give a fuck what other countries think". and my pro-choice, pro-gay MOTHER who ALSO voted for Bush said, "I just don't like Kerry". So to answer your question, Yeah, my parents drive me nuts when it comes to politics.

[SmokingJacket]

12. Oh, man. Don't get me started.

My grandfather who said that black people shouldn't receive kidney transplants, because it would be a "waste." That one made me cry.

My dad who wouldn't go into a florist's because he was afraid he'd run into a gay person.

My mother who insisted that Fahrenheit 9-11 was "full of lies" even though she hadn't seen it.

My uncle who told us that maybe we should just admit we're "wrong," because a majority of Americans voted for **.

:puke:

[Maat]

16. Oh, yeah.

1. My mother, who I also refer to by her first name, because she really is just my birthmother, while my paternal grandparents were the ones that were there for me. Her millionaire oilman boyfriend, of local notoriety, took her to San Francisco when I was growing up, to see a certain doctor up there for a certain little procedure. At the same time, they were going to Rethuglican functions and speaking out against the evils of abortion. She voted for Bush the past two times - but then she believes that O.J. is innocent. I've barely talked to her for the past 25 years.

2. My sister-in-law.
3. My father- and mother-in-law.


But the in-laws moved out-of-state, so our holidays are nice and quiet. Wonderful.

[miss_kitty]

13. I would like to buy my brother

a ticket for the clue train. He listens to 'America's Pill Detector' and believes the shit, even though we all know he's pulling it out his arse (apropos). He bought that shithead Hannity's book. I think he might have read it. He always leaves it out when I visit (slow reader?:eyes:)

I left All Deliberate Speed over there, which, I am sure will not pique his interest in the least. I need to get it back. THAT was an accident.

[Lady Effingbroke]

17. It would be useless for me to lend any books to my brother, as well.

He wouldn't read them anyway, as they wouldn't substantiate his point of view. Now biographies of serial killers or NASCAR - that's another story!

[Technowitch]

14. Yeah, my father: The card-carrying John Bircher

He also collects Nazi memorabilia.

Oh, and he's a gun and arms dealer.

[Quakerfriend]

19. LOL!! haaaaaaaaaaaa! About to wet my pants laughing!

You are all too funny! My beloved mother.........She's now got serious organic brain syndrome at 78. But, can you believe she still crows for the Repugs! I figure she must be giving them a lot of money as she's got pictures of W and the Bushits all over the house........big glossy ones! Last time I stopped in to clean for her I took them down and hid them all.....then, unbeknownst to her, I signed her up for the national "do not call" reigstry!

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

22. Was he killed by Michael Douglas perchance? (nt)

[Liberal_Andy]

20. Don't talk politics with my clan!

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

21. I have a brother living in Spain who's Opus Dei

Sometimes distance is GOOD!