Funerals

[joswift]

The one time you went home from playing football with your friends was the last time you ever did it and you never knew it....

[kreator]

Growing old is worthless if you don't have a family which includes grandchildren.

[joswift]

Growing old is worthless if you don't have a family which includes grandchildren.

I have grandchildren, Im not that keen on kids

[IroNat]

Cheer up, Swifty.

[kreator]

I have grandchildren, Im not that keen on kids

I can imagine kids these days being unbearable with their fvcking phones and sh1t.

[Henda]

Phones/social media was one of the worst things that happened to society, I now refuse to socialise with anyone who always on their phone and think it’s the height of ignorance when in company, one of my mates often turns up Thursday nights when I’m watching the darts and alternates been talking incessantly and spending 30 minutes solid buried in his phone there’s no fucking happy medium

On the thread topic I only really go to a funeral of someone really close, I didn’t go to my aunt or uncles as never bothered with them when alive so why even turn up? Last one I went to was a childhood friend who sadly died at 38 we all went and got pissed after and good time was had nobody on phones but two lads nearly fighting over one charging the other 50 quid to hang a door haha

But I agree life is shit and gets shitter the older you get

[Taffin]

Sounds like it time to implement the robcguns principles

Yes it is.

I'm in.  Where do I sign?

[Taffin]

The one time you went home from playing football with your friends was the last time you ever did it and you never knew it....

I'm not a nostalgic person at heart, but I found a couple of freeview TV channels recently that are non-stop oldies in the evening.  I'm sat here laughing my head off at Alf Garnett - but they play It Ain't Half Hot Mom, Benny Hill, Up Pompeii, Kenny Everett, On the Buses, Steptoe and Son, etc etc. 

I shit you not - they put trigger warnings up about 'possibly offensive out-dated values' LOL.  I mean, On the Buses is a bit rapey I suppose, but I've been laughing my head off every night

If this is a shit idea please ignore and let me slink away - it's It Ain't Half Hot Mom on next on That's TV 2 (channel 65)  If Windsor Davies roaring about poofters and punka wallahs doesn't make you laugh nothing will! 

[oldtimer1]

Growing old is worthless if you don't have a family which includes grandchildren.

Holy shit, a voice of reason on this board of drug using mental midget psychos. 

[OneMoreRep]

Went to a funeral yesterday of an old school pal

Seeing all my old friends makes me feel like shit, its a shame people have to get old
I havent seen some of them for years, its funny that apart from funerals I never see them.

I look at them and the person they used to be has long gone, they have a distant empty look about them.

I was going to go and have. adrink with them later but after the last time I went to a funeral they were all just sat on their phones rather than talking.

It could be the last chance they get to see each other as the next funeral might be theirs but its like their phone is more important.

I chose not to go, in fact I wont be going to any more old friends funerals as its makes me feel like shit.

Oh and the Priest was a fucking immigrant black twat whos only beeen in the country since last December talking about "my memories of David", fucker never met him in his life.

Hey Jeff,

Seems like attending this funeral for your old buddy stirred up a lot of tough feelings for you. For what it's worth, it's completely understandable to feel a sense of sadness and loss when reconnecting with old friends under such circumstances. Honestly, it feels very grim.

Seeing your friends get old, along with the physical changes in them, can be a poignant reminder of the passage of time and the inevitability of aging and ultimately death. Forgetting Dave, who could be in a better place right now, it's natural to grieve the loss of your friends for the people they once were and to even feel a sense of disconnect from the present reality. The fact that they were hiding behind their phones doesn't surprise me. They could have honestly felt safer hiding in their phones then having to voice their feelings about how time is running out for all of us.

I completely understand if you don't want to attend any more funerals for your friends. You have to protect your own emotional well-being in order to be better able to cope with these difficult situations.

"1"

[joswift]

Hey Jeff,

Seems like attending this funeral for your old buddy stirred up a lot of tough feelings for you. For what it's worth, it's completely understandable to feel a sense of sadness and loss when reconnecting with old friends under such circumstances. Honestly, it feels very grim.

Seeing your friends get old, along with the physical changes in them, can be a poignant reminder of the passage of time and the inevitability of aging and ultimately death. Forgetting Dave, who could be in a better place right now, it's natural to grieve the loss of your friends for the people they once were and to even feel a sense of disconnect from the present reality. The fact that they were hiding behind their phones doesn't surprise me. They could have honestly felt safer hiding in their phones then having to voice their feelings about how time is running out for all of us.

I completely understand if you don't want to attend any more funerals for your friends. You have to protect your own emotional well-being in order to be better able to cope with these difficult situations.

"1"

wise words

[Rambone]

I'm in.  Where do I sign?

Right on my ass…after you kiss it!


Parsh?


DVDs?



BVDs?

[MajorDomo]

Imagine you live to 85 (average)
Put 85 marbles in a glass jar and then take out one for each year of your life

Now look at the jar, I have at most 25% of my life left, 10% of that is going to be fucking shit because of potential health problems

At 59 next birthday my days of achieving anything are pretty limited.

This is the same for 99.9999999999999% of people on the planet.

Life is a fucking joke

Truth. I just live for each day - I have no idea of what tomorrow will bring and I don't care.

[Dokey111]

You do know they sell the blood. They are not giving it away for free. If you ever need blood in a hospital it's sold again. Just look at your insurance itemized bill.

What's your point?

People need blood and there's no substitute.

What if one of your precious grandchildren needed it but everyone thought like you?

[Moontrane]

adopt a child in athird world country?
I pay enough to feed and clothe muslim terrorists in the UK

Remember "Live Aid" everyone thought they were doing something good?
It was to perpetuate a never ending famine so people keep paying out every year for people living in areas of the world that cant support them

Move the fucking wogs to somewere that can sustain life instead of feeding them in the desert.

The late philosopher Sam Kinison had something to say about that.

[Tapeworm]

Time is awesome. Last year I chainsawed down a bunch of trees to open up the view from my house. Bucked & stacked, its cured nicely and we've got enough firewood for two winters, which it is here in the other hemisphere.

I layered potassium nitrate on the stumps to stop regrowth and after a year they're ready for burning. Got about 20 smoldering. Doing more today. Gather up some dry small growth and twigs to get a boy scout blaze going on top of each, add a few mid sized logs. Once it burns down to ground level do a kegdrainer and put a good sized rock on top in case it rains. It also insulates and helps the burn.

Makes it way easier to get your backhoe across it. We can't all be Irongrip with his 50 ton excavators.

Sounds to me like you need to sell whatever bullshit urban shoebox you're in and go buy some land.

One day I'll build a trebuchet and calculate firing solutions for any spot for boulders of sufficient mass to crush a vehicle. You never know when you'll need to flatten someone's car with a boulder.

It's also for my own funeral. I'm going to be flung into the sea from a cliff top while a brass band plays I'm Sailing Away. The celebrant will be instructed to declare, as I reach the top of the arc, "What an asshole."

[Rambone]

Time is awesome. Last year I chainsawed down a bunch of trees to open up the view from my house. Bucked & stacked, its cured nicely and we've got enough firewood for two winters, which it is here in the other hemisphere.

I layered potassium nitrate on the stumps to stop regrowth and after a year they're ready for burning. Got about 20 smoldering. Doing more today. Gather up some dry small growth and twigs to get a boy scout blaze going on top of each, add a few mid sized logs. Once it burns down to ground level do a kegdrainer and put a good sized rock on top in case it rains. It also insulates and helps the burn.

Makes it way easier to get your backhoe across it. We can't all be Irongrip with his 50 ton excavators.

Sounds to me like you need to sell whatever bullshit urban shoebox you're in and go buy some land.

One day I'll build a trebuchet and calculate firing solutions for any spot for boulders of sufficient mass to crush a vehicle. You never know when you'll need to flatten someone's car with a boulder.

It's also for my own funeral. I'm going to be flung into the sea from a cliff top while a brass band plays I'm Sailing Away. The celebrant will be instructed to declare, as I reach the top of the arc, "What an asshole."

Make yourself useful and get to building some XXL coffins for these miserable Getbiggers

[wes]

 

[Taffin]

The late philosopher Sam Kinison had something to say about that.

Great bit - thanks for reminding me

[mphgrove]

Ron, in addition to the Pet Board, the Explicit Sex Board, and the Steroid Board, a “Mental Health and Ageing” Board seems needed these days (lol?)

[King Shizzo]

I very seldom attend funerals.....I send a card and or flowers unless it`s someone I was really close to.

I`m depressed enough as it  is..... and Jeff 59 is young bro...........you can still achieve anything you want......within reason of course.

All the best my friend.

I don't blame you. Imagine all of the funerals after thousands of years.

[wes]

I don't blame you. Imagine all of the funerals after thousands of years.

[oldtimer1]

What's your point?

People need blood and there's no substitute.

What if one of your precious grandchildren needed it but everyone thought like you?

My point is they make you feel like you are doing something charitable when they are making bank. If it was a two way chartable thing they would let you know they are not making money instead of using spin. If you know that then more power to you. You are then doing it for the right reasons. I think since they are not transparent and often spin the profit they are making they are not being forth coming. They often ask for volunteers to take the blood they are selling. One of the organizations pays huge salaries to plenty of their employees in their "non profit".

It's like you want to donate a kidney to a friend or family member. They can take it and not use it because it's not a match but say they will move up your loved one on the list. I just find it low rent.

[robcguns]

Just live and know you are gonna die. Who gives a fuck. Jeff train and enjoy food and some sex and besides that there is not much since you don’t enjoy children. Everyone dies so nothing different for anyone except the way they die. I go thru shit like this as well then realize it’s just death so fuck it. I welcome the other side. Cheer up Jeff, just give life the finger. I’ve never been one for funerals myself. People I know who passed know I how I felt and I don’t need to show up to their dead body to prove anything.

[IroNat]

I used to give my blood regularly until they found the AIDS.