Trale

Trale: noun. A trite tale. Trales are most often aired at annual family reunions, for example when your aunt Sue recounts yet another one of her shopping exploits during which she, through strategic use of coupons, made 12 quid, ending her story with a dull moral about not getting ripped off by big companies (dignity, no doubt, being a bourgeois concept invented to hold back the struggling proletariat). Or maybe you may think of your uncle James who tells yet another trale of his petty squabbles with local authorities, this time on being allowed to build a useless portico at the back of his house, the moral here being “well it’s my bleedin’ plot o’ land, innit!”