Relatives you cannot stand

[suityou01]

Will be in a room full of them today. Snobby "wine bar" types. Snooty, snidey, back handed compliment,

With your help I can go armed with pithy one liners that cut them down to size. Please give generously.

[eliquant]

Will be in a room full of them today. Snobby "wine bar" types. Snooty, snidey, back handed compliment,

With your help I can go armed with pithy one liners that cut them down to size. Please give generously.

"Nice to meet you Jeremy, tell me are you of blue blood ? what no ? then why on earth are you trying to immitate the Queen with her accent ?"

[RichardCranium]

Put the kids on instruction to be little tulips.

"Have you met the children?"

[suityou01]

Put the kids on instruction to be little tulips.

"Have you met the children?"

DVD player has been banned owing to SY02 reading your post about "including" them. Thanks mate.

[RichardCranium]

DVD player has been banned owing to SY02 reading your post about "including" them. Thanks mate.

Sorry.

In that case, load the kids up with coloured sweets and bright orange pop. See how mental you can get them.

[suityou01]

Sorry.

In that case, load the kids up with coloured sweets and bright orange pop. See how mental you can get them.

Genius. I will get my DVD player.

Sorry, their DVD player.

[conned tractor]

Sorry.

In that case, load the kids up with coloured sweets and bright orange pop. See how mental you can get them.

Vimto flavoured chewits seem to be pretty good for that. If you can still find them.

[Board Game Geek]

Sorry.

In that case, load the kids up with coloured sweets and bright orange pop. See how mental you can get them.

Wasn't tartrazine the poison of choice many years ago in various orange drinks ?

Snobby relatives eh ?

"Your upbringing is showing" should put them in their place.

[OrangeHopper]

"Would you like to have a look at my trout fly collection?"

"Have you ever pondered the advantages of a Vector over an ArrayList?"

"Hey, kids, show Uncle George your Crazy Bone collections."

[TheFaQQer]

With your help I can go armed with pithy one liners that cut them down to size. Please give generously.

I've always found a "oh, why don't you just f*** off, you c***" works a treat.

If you don't like using the c word, go for "f*** you, you f***ing f***" which I find summarises the situation neatly.