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Got the eye from some family at a funeral last year (family by marriage only).
The rest of us (mom's side) were all happy, and a bunch of deer hunters were talking together off in the corner.
The uptight ones were by our corner and didn't like us having upbeat conversation.
WTF?
Always have a great time at weddings and funerals...........moms side big, all conservatives, gun owners, deer hunters.
Shame we only get to see each other at weddings/funerals...............just the way it is.
Hell, one of my cousins is my hunting partner. We've been hunting together since we were 10 yrs old.

Weddings suck...........unless somebody is marrying into good hunting ground.

I got hammered at the ol lady's class reunion, was hanging w the deer hunters at the bar.
Pissed her off I had such a good time.
Haven't had to go to any since

I'm the guy everyone is warned about, I go to weddings and other family functions and enjoy myself. I let the others act like they're walking on thin ice

I got one aunt left. And she owns 2 ranches. And my cousins ( her two boys) are awesome fellas.

Got just a few other good cousins left around who either hunt or fish like crazy.

Everybody else is dead as Julius Caesar. So we have good times!

I love it. I am too, even at work.

Im leaving tomorow for a family wedding. They are mostly liberals. They are used to me combating them but this time since Trump won and Dems not in control of either house .i will just ignore them. I figure why punch down.

I rarely do family functions and have gotten pretty good at convincing my wife she should go without me. She'll usually come home after and tell me she should have stayed home also.

Just do not drink the water.

No one has to go to a wedding (or funeral), unless its yours.

I don’t like weddings in general and I only go to the weddings of people I care about..... the people I care about hate libs as much as I do. My nephew is getting married this coming weekend and I told my wife that I’m not wearing a shirt and tie. I’ll wear my best jeans and my “cleanest dirty shirt” or I ain’t going. My sweet wife said “it doesn’t matter what you wear it only matters that you show up” so I’ll show up. This is the third year in a row that I’ve been required to attend a wedding on opening day of deer season and the last year I’m attending a wedding during hunting season. Two years ago it was my brother, last year it was my hunting partners daughter and this year my nephew. My one sister (nephews mom) is very, very conservative and she wouldn’t invite liberals but I’m like Jorge in that I’ll let one stupid ass comment from a liberal slide but if they insist I’ll oblige. I’ve gone to more than a few events with liberals that I had them crying and cussing me out long after the event, those were fun times. 😁

Don't these guys know not to get married in hunting season since it puts a possible non-hunting obligation (anniversary) in their hunting season for the rest of their married lives?

Ask them about the 100 million or so who died in safe, gun free socialist regimes in the last 100 years. Also, about 25,000 of the 33,000 gun deaths in the US yearly are suicides and most the others are gang/drug related. Guns are used over 600,000 times a year to Stop an assault. How many of those would have died?
Good luck, sucker.

To those of you who have said you'll let one slide: Imagine how the lib would be whining about some micro aggression if you said the least little thing that could be misinterpreted. Yet they have no reservation about firing a deliberate opening shot.

Wear a MAGA hat. I wear it when I fly. Nice quiet flight with no one except the stewardesses bothering me.

ETA: And compliments from random people in the terminal, a black airline employee and the military guys.

You're a good man, you'll work it out. I always tell me wife, I will not say a thing out of turn unless attacked first. Then all bets are off.

I don't let anything slide, it's not my nature and I'm not changing. That said, if they don't say sheit, I ain't gonna start nothing either.

I am rarely forced into these things but it happens. I have finally learned to just not speak until spoken to. However, if a direct controversial question is asked, tact is not my failing...

Of course the last wedding we went to was this past July. The groom drove up in a 1950's vintage John Deere tractor and the bride arrived, with the bride's maids in a flat bed Ford. We were drinking moonshine by 7pm. I'm guessing that's not the type of wedding you're going to.

The only way for me to keep my mouth shut is to stay home.

My family is pretty varied. So are my friends. I'm used to differences of views. Keep the group you're talking to small. There are a lot of differences that don't matter when you're talking to someone one on one explaining personal experience rather than talking to a group where it becomes a matter of defending positions. Often times it's easiest to talk to either the far left or the far right but not both together.

Tom