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TIL my uncle's "offensive" roast joke at Thanksgiving in Dallas got the whole table laughing, so is roasting family still fair game?
My uncle made a joke about my cousin's 2019 divorce at dinner and half the table laughed while my aunt walked out, which made me wonder where the line sits. Some folks say roasting is just how our family shows love, but others swear a joke about someone's real pain is never okay no matter the room. Where do you all land on roasting family at gatherings, is it fair game or should some stuff stay off the menu?
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shane_park926d ago
My cousin's wedding weekend a few years back, my other cousin made a joke about his DUI and the room went dead quiet, then his mom left the table. What worked after was my uncle pulling him aside and saying the joke was fine on a random Saturday but not at a wedding with his mom there. So we set a loose rule: roast stuff people can laugh at themselves about, not the stuff that still stings. His divorce was fresh, and that is not a joke, that is a wound.
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