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What is a topic that should be avoided during a family or other social gathering?

Example: Lower digestive tract (colonoscopies, hemorrhoids etc)

Posted - November 26, 2021
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  • 13395
    Uncle Elmer's booze problem.
      November 26, 2021 11:41 AM MST
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  • 44649
    Unless he's not there.
      November 26, 2021 12:47 PM MST
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  • 10662
    That would depend on the family.   When my nephew visits from Australia, he makes sure that all dinner conversations end up being about feces, vomit, or festering body parts (without fail).

    For our family, chickens, are a taboo subject.  My niece was never too fond of chickens.  For her 20th birthday, her brother wrapped up a live chicken (in a big box) and gave it to her.  Let's just say more than feathers flew.  So for our family, feces is a fine topic, but not chickens.
      November 26, 2021 12:34 PM MST
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  • 44649
    Your nephew must be a bogan.
      November 26, 2021 12:48 PM MST
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  • 10662
    He's a jerk too.
      November 26, 2021 1:24 PM MST
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  • 53524

     

      That comma after the word “chickens” doesn’t belong there at all.

      November 26, 2021 2:23 PM MST
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  • 10662
    Another one??? 

      November 26, 2021 3:13 PM MST
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  • 5451
    Your nephew would fit right in at my family’s holiday meals.  He’d probably have a lot to talk about with my grandmas and my great aunts who always try to outdo each other with those kinds of stories about their health.
      November 27, 2021 3:49 AM MST
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  • 7795
    Prostitution!
      November 26, 2021 1:07 PM MST
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  • 1952
    Bathroom humor, I know it should be avoided but when the kids are over everyone seems to end up talking about it and then we all sit around like a bunch of nincompoops laughing our heads off. :):)
      November 26, 2021 2:01 PM MST
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  • 13277
    You're a day late and a buck short. Thanksgiving was yesterday.
      November 26, 2021 2:18 PM MST
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  • 53524

     

      It’s understood by all around here that no one should bring the sub-basement as a topic of conversation. Grrrrrrr.


    ~

      November 26, 2021 2:20 PM MST
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  • 44649
    Cool stairs. Up or down?
      November 26, 2021 3:42 PM MST
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  • 53524

     

      Of course!

    (Nice try, Professor. You’re either working for the police or you’re investigating on your own, but no matter which it is, I’m not going to make it easy for you. Grrrrrrr.)
    ~

      November 26, 2021 4:53 PM MST
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  • 10052
    Politics. 
      November 26, 2021 5:17 PM MST
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  • 5451
    My family couldn’t stay away from either politics or lower digestive problems this year.  We even combined the two into one topic.
      November 27, 2021 3:57 AM MST
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  • 10052
    Biden's colonoscopy came up, didn't it? Hehe!

    I really don't miss a more traditional Thanksgiving! 
      November 27, 2021 7:54 AM MST
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  • 5451
    I think my family pretty much covered all of the topics that shouldn’t be discussed at the dinner table on Thursday.  My kids are now just waiting for the most embarrassing possible time and place to ask me what that offensive word means. lol.


    This post was edited by Livvie at December 20, 2021 7:12 AM MST
      November 27, 2021 3:42 AM MST
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  • 6023
    The myriad ways you have plotted to kill them.
    Especially if any of those ways include poisoning their food. This post was edited by Walt O'Reagun at December 20, 2021 7:12 AM MST
      November 29, 2021 3:07 PM MST
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