A dirty joke
on 03/30/2010 at 09:21 AM
He’s rumored to be the most shoplifted author in the UK. He says he’s proud of that.
Sad that he has Alzheimer’s which he’s been outspoken about.
Chris, I don’t know what the limitations of your level of admin are. If you look in the categories thingy and see the Edit or Add button or whatever it is, then you have the power to add categories yourself.
If not, then we pretty much ought to have an email “meeting”, because that thing needs a serious Spring Cleaning. We have way too many categories that are almost identical, and plenty of them that never get used. “eye candy” and “weekend women”: pics of chix, yet we have 2 categories for that. Duh. And quite a few more just like that.
I’m open to suggestions. Analyze, conjugate, document, email.
Drew,
Went back and looked, then I looked again. No ‘Edit’ or ‘Add’ button.
I’m just an ‘Admin’. I note that you and peiper are ‘Super Admins’. Am I the only ‘Admin’ left? I thought the Skipper invited several others around the time he invited me. What happened to them?
Then Mr. Christian opened up it up to all the BMEWS Recon folk. Got really lively for awhile and then… nothing.
I have to agree, need some spring cleaning. Some of the categories were very time-specific.
Plus, I still have to choose to between BMEWS or BMEWS Recon when I sign in to post. Can the Recon.
peiper,
I’d be proud if I was so popular my books were the most shoplifted. As for the Alzheimer’s problem, well, at least he remembers what he suffers from.
Yeah, I’m a little flippant. We are all going to suffer something as we age. Watching and helping care for my mother, who lost her leg to complications of diabetes a couple of years ago, has led me to think I’d rather suffer like Sir Pratchett than go through the rest of my life in a wheelchair. I really do NOT wish to be so dependent on others.
But, I believe God does this for a reason: He wants to see if you will help your fellow man, or your mother.
But no doubt God has other plans for me. Probably strike me blind. That would be my own personal hell. I love to read.
It’s a good joke too.
I’ll see what I can do with the Recon thing.
Chris, Re.Pratchett. you didn’t think I was being critical did you? If so, I didn’t mean to leave that impression.
Re. the wheelchair and being dependent. Yeah. You are right but there’s some things worse.
The wife’s mother went from burden to curse. Totally bedridden and diaper changes up to 4 times a day.(proving me right that she was always full of it) The wife had help in the day with two of those changes. But believe it or not, as much help as they gave, some of them were a curse as well. Often not on time, not because of a previous patient usually. But that’s by the way. Ppl can be late. They hardly ever communicated to let us know when they were coming or just how late they expected to be. And ALL of them carried mobile phones. They worked in teams but arrived separately each coming from another place. Sometimes one lady would be on her own for quite a while wondering where her partner was. See, they didn’t even notify each other. No courtesy of a call, and often they turned their phones off so the office couldn’t make contact and slip in an extra patient between calls. Some of them were great people and we liked them very much. But others while they knew their job well enough, also thought they already knew everything there was to know about everything and so were very difficult to be around.
We had a daily schedule and much of the time it worked okay. I’m being long winded. There’s so much I’m leaving out. I think I’m trying to say the the helpers caused problems of their own on top of what we already had to put up with. Wife especially. Age sucks, especially when ill.No peiper. I didn’t think you were being critical.
I knew a doctor, now deceased, who told me how he had to care for his mother. Yes, she was bedridden. Diapers would have been a blessing. But she couldn’t even have a bowel movement. He had to manually remove… well, I’ll leave it at that.
We grumble, bitch, and moan, but my personal philosophy is that God does this for a reason. Will we care for our own? Or will we rely on some nameless ‘good Samaritan’? Will we get our own hands dirty? Or will we vote for Obamacare to do it for us?
I shudder to think of it, but I’d seriously rather have Mom living here with me. (mind you, wife disagrees vehemently, but we might end up with her mother living under our roof...) It’d be easier in so many ways. But I’m taxed so highly I can’t afford to make the house wheelchair accessible. My sister, who has a wheelchair accessible house, won’t do it. (sigh)
My outlook on this has changed in the last three or four years. I started reading some history. Mostly about how the Mormons lived and crossed the Plains in the 1840s. They had no health care. Reading their diaries, about how they dealt with sickness, death, etc, has given me a completely different outlook. You were born at home, you died at home. No health insurance in sight.
That’s my goal now. I want to die at home. Not in some institutional hospital. Especially one run under Obamacare.
I’m getting long-winded too. Probably fodder for a decent Toastmasters speech.
The 1840s when folks had no health care and how they dealt with their lot in life.
Well, I don’t think they had a huge choice in the matter. They got on with things as best they knew how at the time. A tough lot I’d say. And not just the Mormons. Can you just imagine trying to explain to those folks how pol. correctness works and how its become a way of life. Oh, and try explaining to those hardy ppl, our compensation culture. Oh boy.God does this for a reason. Will we care for our own? Or will we rely on some nameless ‘good Samaritan’? Will we get our own hands dirty?
I’ll leave obamacare out of it for now but just had to pick up on this.
Since god as I have always understood things is all knowing, then it seems god would already have known that my wife, given her devotion and character, would always be there for her mother. She didn’t need to be tested. Personally, I think the idea that god has a reason is an easy way to explain the unexplainable. The bomb in the Russian subway? Oh, easy. God’s will. He ... has his reasons and we are not to question. Why? Why not? And what sort of test did he have in mind for the family of a three yr old girl who was raped?
Or was he testing the girl?Peiper, free will always needs to be tested. You are always given a choice. Sometimes, your choices suck, but you still have a choice.
God knows my heart. His interest is; what am I going to do about it? Will I personally minister to my own mother? Or the poor? Or will I let the godless government tax me to death to empower death panels?
So yes, we all need to be tested. Your wife included.
The road to Hell is paved with good intentions, actions build a road to Heaven.
Sorry. My guess is that you and your wife are better people for going through the test. I suppose at some point I might even consider myself better for putting up with Mom.
It’s a burden. But if we don’t do it, who will?
03/30/2010 at 08:43 AM
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