Inlaws and Outlaws

[unmaker]

Over Christmas dinner one year, I told my entire extended family of my atheism. My uncle Karl - very much the proper Christian - was shocked speechless in mid-passing of the ham. Noting the suspended plate of succulent pig-flesh, and seeing an opportunity to further discomfit my inlaws, I added "...and I'm a vegetarian too

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[diaphthora]

i very much know the feeling. last year i found myself explaining both secular humanism and veganism to a bunch of people who already thought i was insane. so then they breathed their germs on me and gave me the flu, on purpose, i'm sure [right...].

[unmaker]

And you know, it's not like Secular Humanism is complicated or strange. It's not like we're trying to a hitch a ride on a comet or anything. It's all pretty common sense stuff. And yet people have the hardest time understanding what it is exactly.

[shrikalikadevi]

Ok... the first half of this entry = bwahahahahaha. Second half = /omfg.kill.
*hugs*

[unmaker]

I was half-tempted to add "...and I'm gay." just to see if I could thin the herd a bit with cardiac arrest. I have entirely too many inlaws that have entirely too many opinions as to how I should live.

[tragicallyjulia]

Hahahahaha! (It's funny because it's not me.)

I'm so lucky to come from an immediate family of agnostics and an extended family of not overtly religious people.

[unmaker]

What? Are you some kinda Canadian?

[inertiacage]

i'd be all cranky about it..."you can only wish me a Merry GIFTmas since that's really what the holiday's about anyway".

[unmaker]

I would so get a lump of coal. Of course even that would be an improvement over: a lime green sweater, a tapestried man-purse embroidered with cats (might not I catch teh ghey?), a book on weight loss (note: I am not remotely overweight), a toaster warmer (It's a TOASTer?), a golf club (I play golf? And don't I need more than "a" golf club?), children's books (Um, what???), a jar of peanuts (What? Did you buy my gift at a drug store?) - oh, and none of it wrapped by the way.

a thanksgiving in oklahoma

[monster_pranks]

at dinner one year, we were talking and i commented on how many dead animals were on the table. my cousin looked at me and asked, "what does it matter? are you a vegetarian?" my great grandpa yells, "WHAT? SHE'S A HOMOSEXUAL? blaaaah JESUS YOU NEED JESUS"

vegetarian. vagetarian. all the same thing.

Re: a thanksgiving in oklahoma

[unmaker]

What would the holidays be without half-senile, wrongheaded old person? I mean, besides tolerable...