Posted on 11/24/2016 11:38:57 PM PST by Rummyfan
Thanksgiving is a magical time when families gather together in a traditional celebration featuring gratitude, joyous fellowship, and the cruel mockery of insufferable millennial relatives. We are also seeing the rise of a new Thanksgiving tradition: tiresome, geek-scribbled columns about how to talk to your obnoxious conservative uncle at the dinner table that pop up every year on essential millennial websites like Vox, Salon, and Perpetual Barista.
But how about some guidance for those of us who eagerly embrace our inner obnoxious conservative uncle? Well, here are some helpful hints for when that smug tool spawned by your sister and her twitchy second husband opens up his piehole for something other than inserting pie.
Welcome Him to Dinner: Extend a hearty greeting, like “Good to see you! Of course, when I was 25, I spent Thanksgiving in a fighting position eating reconstituted pork patties, but your part time Chore Monkey gig is pretty much the same. Come on in!”
(Excerpt) Read more at townhall.com ...
I don’t like the idea of mocking “chore monkey” work, I will never look down on people making an honest living
I endured a discussion of “Native American” vs. “Amerinidian” without making a peep, even though the former term is a pet peeve of mine, as I’ve reported on this forum with a comment on the usage of “Native Vermonter” in the coverage of a UV NCAA basketball game.
Am I a saint? Or what?
Luckily for me, there were no leftazoids among the nine of us who were able to gather this year.
Thank God for that, and that nine of us were able to gather.
He’ll likely react poorly, and if he becomes really annoying, build a wall between you and him with mashed potatoes and demand he pay for it.
Priceless...
I would make it my business to be the obnoxious conservative uncle. If the snowflakes leave in disgust, more dressing for me.
I hate Millennials of the snowflake variety. Hate ‘em, hate ‘em, hate ‘em.
On the plus side, the young man I sat next to at Thanksgiving dinner told me he was an apprentice HVAC mechanic. I congratulated him on his decision to learn a trade.
Half my family voted for Clinton but their attitude is old school. “Too bad we lost, hope we were wrong about Trump, we’ll see what happens”.
They were here yesterday. My inlaws. She: Brown University, 1990, Europe after college, settled in Queens, married he: Jamaican born, his ma moved to Queens, CCNY, teaching in Blackboard Jungle Queens public school, married she, both moved back to Cincinnati with two mixed race snowflakes, one lesbian in Queen Latifa outfit, one pot smoking anti-work advocate.
My wife made me swear not to engage. My tongue is now ragged from being been bitten all day. I think wife was right.
But, it was a gleeful, lovely Thanksgiving.
I am the difficult, conservative uncle.
clicking into the title and then reading the start gave me a good gut laugh this morning!! “Thanksgiving is a magical time when”
No one in my family is speaking to me. We had a very quiet Thanksgiving.
If it helps, my wife is descent of South American indigenous people. A people who were particularly brutalized by the Spaniards. She brought up the subject of those atrocities against all indigenous and the people protesting them speaking of how wonderful our country is and that what happened so long ago does not define us today. She is a singular patriot and worked hard for her citizenship. It truly means something to her. If she is trying to impress me she has succeeded for over 20 years...
Same here, nine of us, none of "them".
I wouldn't mind a woman in the White House, just NOT THAT WOMAN.
Best quote of the day, right there.
I’m not sure how brutalization etc. impinge on the terminology of “Native American”. Maybe it’s “you brutalized us so now we own you and you have to go by what we say.” That’s about how it looks to me.
Note that “Nativism” was a movement in the early 20th century against the large, if not unlimited, immigration from Europe. The “Natives” being those who were born here ... go figure.
I’m not sure how brutalization etc. impinge on the terminology of “Native American”. Maybe it’s “you brutalized us so now we own you and you have to go by what we say.” That’s about how it looks to me.
Note that “Nativism” was a movement in the early 20th century against the large, if not unlimited, immigration from Europe. The “Natives” being those who were born here ... go figure.
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