Slag Off a Family Member or Relative Thread

[mongers]

My brother's family was visiting this weekend, man they buy my nephews a LOT of toys. Arriving in the morning, they'd already been to the town's toyshop to buy one a Britains digger and that was in the knowledge that their aunt had promised a trip to said same toyshop for later in the day. 


I thought this might be a good thread for venting and semi-irrational complaints about relatives, and perhaps to take some of the burden off Syt for his American relatives, who are the only ones who regularly get criticised on Languish.

[Eddie Teach]

Some of my relatives also buy too many toys but none for me. 

[Josquius]

My uncle sort of flipped out when I said my babies weight in kilograms rather than in "English".
Unnaturally so.
I think the gammon have gotten to him.

[Duque de Bragança]

My uncle sort of flipped out when I said my babies weight in kilograms rather than in "English".
Unnaturally so.
I think the gammon have gotten to him.

What's "English" (sic) for babies? Pounds (not metric) or stones? 

[Josquius]

My uncle sort of flipped out when I said my babies weight in kilograms rather than in "English".
Unnaturally so.
I think the gammon have gotten to him.

What's "English" (sic) for babies? Pounds (not metric) or stones? 

Pounds apparently.
Which is not something I ever learned. When I was a kid I always just used stones. Seems to be the way a lot of non-medical people weigh babies though.

[Threviel]

What's the deal with baby weight anyway? If the baby is fine it's totally irrelevant information, why is everyone obsessed with it?

[merithyn]

What's the deal with baby weight anyway? If the baby is fine it's totally irrelevant information, why is everyone obsessed with it?

It's a way to determine size for gifts, at the very least.

[Duque de Bragança]

My uncle sort of flipped out when I said my babies weight in kilograms rather than in "English".
Unnaturally so.
I think the gammon have gotten to him.

What's "English" (sic) for babies? Pounds (not metric) or stones? 

Pounds apparently.
Which is not something I ever learned. When I was a kid I always just used stones. Seems to be the way a lot of non-medical people weigh babies though.

You could always try metric pounds.