The game, going back generations, allows for plenty of rudeness about people's appearance - grandma's legs are the subject of a long-standing joke, and Richard's sister takes a lot of stick about her thick ankles. Jackie feels it was rather more genteel in the past : "We used to say things like 'perhaps the Christmas cake has sunk a bit'". Richard's nose comes in for some unflattering comments too, though he admits "I'm a bit of a show-off, so I don't mind being the centre of attention even if it's to have horrible things said about me!". Minor grievances also get their airing, and people have been known to storm out. Richard's wife thinks the game so barbaric she refuses to join in, but he points out that a kind of Parliamentary privilege applies to all that's said, and once out of the house it's all forgotten.