As joker is a shifty **** I did question the legitimacy of this thread, I dont know the guy but cancer is probably the thing I fear the most, dementia being a close second. I do however have an aversion to public displays of grief and sending flowers from not 606 would be creepy as ****. If I was the guy in question I would be pissed off at joker for opening my private business up to the scrutiny of so many strangers on a part of the forum he never used. A kind gesture all the same syd but I think joker is hunting a reaction with this thread.
As some of you already know i lost my father to bowel cancer earlier this year after watching him suffer both the pain and indignity this horrible disease brings. Anything that get's people talking and thinking about donating to cancer reasearch is a good thing. Some of the comments i have read in this thread are not only disgusting but of a level i really thought this country had left behind years ago. To all that have lost to this illness my thoughts are with you to those that wish to make light of it's impact i pray you never find yourself in a position like i have been to witness the effect cancer has on someone close to you. Billy my thoughts are with you mate.
We are all differant but I do know Billy and know that the thoughts of people from both Sunderland and Newcastle boards have given him some comfort and support and that to me is a great thing. Sending flowers from people who are thinking of him would have been no more than a gesture of support and TBH I feel for you if that upsets you so much, to me its just being a nice caring human being. the final bit is dementia, a subject close to my heart because I set off soon for my weekly visit to my mum, 86 and in later stages of the disese. 12 months ago I spent some of my Christmas day with her in hospital, she was a little confused but still my mum. This year I will spend Christmas day with my mum but she wont know me, will no doubt tell me I am a disgrace and be angry with me, the norm these days. Sorry for my public display of emotion, you can laugh if you like, I really dont mind.
Enjoy christmas the best way you can cyprus, try to remember your mum how she was not how she is, difficult i know but the real mum is blocked by dementia the memories you both have can never be blocked. On a lighter note my gran did try to do her self some toast whilst suffering and ended up setting off the fire alarms, she'd put her knickers in the toaster and the bread in the washing machine!!
It seems you may have missed the tone of my post. I congratulated you on a kind gesture but tempered it by saying its not something I think I would like in his situation. I don't see where you got the idea I was criticizing dementia as I can't think of anything worse to deal with, but don't let the fact I have called you a **** a few times get in the way of your judgements. In saying that I still think flowers from internet strangers are a bit creepy.
I already give to Cancer charities. Prostate Cancer killed my father but I have no problem with Cancer jokes or people ripping the pish out of it. Why should I? They didn't know him. It's not an attack on him. Anyways, he cracked more jokes about it on his way out than any other ****.
Sometimes when i`m having a piss i pop it away, only to find i dribbled on my pants... This could either be because i have switched to an 80s style boxer instead of the CK type tight ones ? or my prostate is on the way out...... Don`t you ****ing mock me
I haven't been here long so tell me to **** off if you want. But OP, you can't take the piss and take the piss and take the piss with no moral compass, then act like a moral ***got when someone says something about a subject close to you. The original disagreement wasn't even offensive. You're doing it wrong.
If people want to donate to Cancer Research, they will. Telling them that someone who uses a different part of an internet forum they frequent has lost his wife to the disease is not going to make them change their mind.
Just thought I would update you, especialy those who think what we did was wrong, how offended YOU would be, how YOU would not like it and by the way one comment about the man not using GC Billy Chunky may ring a bell, he posts on here. It was Janie, his ladies funeral yesterday and he posted last night to say how upset he had been, what a bad week it had been and how the thoughts and kind words of so many had helped to get him through. You see I dont think of me, what I would like, what I would do I think of him and what he would like, how we can help. What some on here call mopes and moaners I see as good decent people, am I taking the high moral ground, not really, just not sinking to the low ground many enjoy. Go on, insult me, you know you want to.
Syd, stop taking things so personally. I said it was a nice gesture but not one I would like should the roles be reversed. This is my last words on the subject as I have no intention to argue on a thread about a guys dead wife.
You just ****ing wait. I will be sending a bunch of flowers to your funeral. And at the thread starter, you're a star mate. I never doubted your compassion.
