# My MIL's boyfriend is nice with a large dash of nutso **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 10, 2013, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-mils-boyfriend-is-nice-with-a-large-dash-of-nutso/646792 "2013-01-10T20:49:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![boozilu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4da419/32.png) [@boozilu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boozilu)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2013, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-mils-boyfriend-is-nice-with-a-large-dash-of-nutso/646792/1 "2013-01-10T20:49:25Z")
My mother-in-law is visiting, and she is a lovely person. Her boyfriend of a few months, who we just met, is also very nice and helpful. Except he randomly comes out with some wacky statements. - I never get the flu because I had a flu shot in 1962. - All flu these days is manufactured in labs and released to the public to make profits for the health care companies and doctors. - If you don’t eat apples with pork, the pork’s toxins will make you sick. (Wonder why we didn’t get sick after eating ham at Christmas?) - Those little Ethiopians are good workers. - Most cancers can be cured with a citrus diet; you just have to know which kind. These are separate, of course, from the misstatements. Like his story about the woman whose boyfriend just returned from Iraq after his tank was hit by an IUD. Whew. Glad to get that out. Now I can go back to being polite. ---
**Author:** ![Blackberry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecd19e/32.png) [@Blackberry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blackberry)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2013, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-mils-boyfriend-is-nice-with-a-large-dash-of-nutso/646792/2 "2013-01-10T21:02:55Z")
Does the MIL seem embarrassed about it? I sure would be. ---
**Author:** ![Delta-9](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3be4f8/32.png) [@Delta-9](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Delta-9)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2013, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-mils-boyfriend-is-nice-with-a-large-dash-of-nutso/646792/3 "2013-01-10T21:04:48Z")
> [@boozilu](#): > > Like his story about the woman whose boyfriend just returned from Iraq after his tank was hit by an IUD. Those crazy Iraqi women… ---
**Author:** ![Dag\_Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@Dag\_Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dag_Otto)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2013, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-mils-boyfriend-is-nice-with-a-large-dash-of-nutso/646792/4 "2013-01-10T21:16:27Z")
Crazy like a fox. Who knew that a tank’s Achilles’ heel would be a small missile shot from enemy lady parts? ---
**Author:** ![boozilu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4da419/32.png) [@boozilu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boozilu)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2013, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-mils-boyfriend-is-nice-with-a-large-dash-of-nutso/646792/5 "2013-01-10T21:32:58Z")
I know I’m terrible but I keep picturing that IUD . . . MIL seems slightly amused and tolerant. I guess there are a lot of worse things he could be than nutty. ---
**Author:** ![lavenderviolet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/cdc98d/32.png) [@lavenderviolet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lavenderviolet)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2013, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-mils-boyfriend-is-nice-with-a-large-dash-of-nutso/646792/6 "2013-01-10T22:02:29Z")
If he hasn’t always been like this, I would wonder if he might be developing dementia and that might have impaired his “filter”. However, it could be just be harmless eccentricity. ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2013, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-mils-boyfriend-is-nice-with-a-large-dash-of-nutso/646792/7 "2013-01-10T22:07:28Z")
> [@boozilu](#): > > - Those little Ethiopians are good workers. Well…they ARE. ---
**Author:** ![Nawth\_Chucka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c57346/32.png) [@Nawth\_Chucka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nawth_Chucka)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2013, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-mils-boyfriend-is-nice-with-a-large-dash-of-nutso/646792/8 "2013-01-10T22:07:50Z")
Is his name Larry by any chance? Does he sell LifeVantage? ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2013, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-mils-boyfriend-is-nice-with-a-large-dash-of-nutso/646792/9 "2013-01-10T22:21:52Z")
> [@Dag\_Otto](#): > > Crazy like a fox. Who knew that a tank’s Achilles’ heel would be a small missile shot from enemy lady parts? And even more effective against seamen. ---
**Author:** ![cerberus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@cerberus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cerberus)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2013, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-mils-boyfriend-is-nice-with-a-large-dash-of-nutso/646792/10 "2013-01-11T05:50:50Z")
Dammit, I’m visualizing an IED with a payload made entirely of IUDs. ---
**Author:** ![ioioio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ioioio/32/316_2.png) [@ioioio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ioioio)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2013, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-mils-boyfriend-is-nice-with-a-large-dash-of-nutso/646792/11 "2013-01-11T13:34:06Z")
I need some work done. Where can I find some of those little Ethiopians? ---
**Author:** ![Sailboat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sailboat/32/461_2.png) [@Sailboat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sailboat)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2013, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-mils-boyfriend-is-nice-with-a-large-dash-of-nutso/646792/12 "2013-01-11T13:47:53Z")
> [@cerberus](#): > > Dammit, I’m visualizing an IED with a payload made entirely of IUDs. Those things [can be dangerous](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalkon_shield). Fortunately there’s a defense – the Dalkon Shield Shield. ---
**Author:** ![Reno\_Nevada](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Reno\_Nevada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reno_Nevada)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2013, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-mils-boyfriend-is-nice-with-a-large-dash-of-nutso/646792/13 "2013-01-11T15:51:11Z")
> [@boozilu](#): > > - If you don’t eat apples with pork, the pork’s toxins will make you sick. (Wonder why we didn’t get sick after eating ham at Christmas?) Duh! Pork toxins make you sick. PORK, not ham. Where do you come up with these things? ---
**Author:** ![Blackberry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecd19e/32.png) [@Blackberry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blackberry)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2013, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-mils-boyfriend-is-nice-with-a-large-dash-of-nutso/646792/14 "2013-01-11T16:15:17Z")
> [@ioioio](#): > > I need some work done. Where can I find some of those little Ethiopians? Seattle. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2013, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-mils-boyfriend-is-nice-with-a-large-dash-of-nutso/646792/15 "2013-01-11T16:18:55Z")
My sister-in-law’s husband is kind of the same, except his thing is wild and crazy conspiracy theories. She seems to know all his theories and I think she just rolls her eyes at them. I assume that he isn’t nuts in any significant way; he seems to be a good husband and father in all the ways that count. ---
**Author:** ![lorene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/65b543/32.png) [@lorene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lorene)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2013, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-mils-boyfriend-is-nice-with-a-large-dash-of-nutso/646792/16 "2013-01-12T20:16:54Z")
> [@Reno\_Nevada](#): > > Duh! Pork toxins make you sick. PORK, not ham. Where do you come up with these things? One of my favorite recent things that my son has said: _Mom, I just found out…PIGS are made of HAM!!_ ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2013, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-mils-boyfriend-is-nice-with-a-large-dash-of-nutso/646792/17 "2013-01-12T23:17:33Z")
Hey, I have often said that the best way to make enemy infantry disperse and run for the hills would be to drop a large payload of tampons on them. They don’t even have to be used ones; men just have a superstitous fear of these things.