Registered: Sep 2000
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About 2 years ago, on Christmas morning, my mum’s first cousin, Gina, took her own life, overdosing on medication. She was 45 years old. Her sister Maria, who lives in New Zealand and hadn’t seen her for around 10 years, came to England for the funeral.

The wake took place at my parent’s house. Friends of Ginas were present (work mates, her boss), along with most of the family. It’s traditional to make a ‘collection’ and give it to the next of kin. When she was handed the money, she turned round to one of the guests and said:

“Oh god, it feels like I’ve just won the lottery”. And then she laughed.

It was a pretty appalling moment to behold.


I myself have been guilty of a linguistic tremor or two. My worst gaff was when a mate came out for a drink for the first time in a few weeks after his father had died. We all tread carefully with what we said, making sure we didn’t make any insensitive comments as he was still really cut up about it. We left the pub and got into one of the other lad’s car. As he reversed out of the car park, we all heard a loud ‘thump’ coming from the boot (probably a toolbox moving about) which startled us. As I always make wisecracks about everything, I turned to my grieving pal and said:

“Don’t worry about it, its probably just a dead-body”.

I almost died myself.




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Registered: Jan 2001
Location: Denver
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Right, I got one for ya.
So here I am, a young kid, in church youth group, listening to pastor preach. He's workin up a full head of steam and rolling on about this and that and all these miracles. He starts relating a story about man being raised from the dead. He said something along the lines of, "The guy had been dead for almost two days, he'd started to stink already, and with prayer, God raised him from the dead!", to which I responded, "Did he still stink?". Man oh man did get the look of death off that one.

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i was at music school in the canteen, and this really annoying boy came up to me and asked me for a cigarette. he always ponced off everyone, and never bought his own. i was fed up and snapped at him, telling him exactly what i thought, that he should fuck off and leave me alone and go and buy his own cigs for a change instead of being a tight fisted ponce. to which he replied "ooooOOOoooo well who fucking died then?". i looked up at him with tears in my eyes and told him that my mum had died just the day before. that kinda kicked him in the teeth.

moral of the story is, if someone is in a bad mood, don't pick at them, cos chances are something really bad might have happened. also, if you can't afford to buy your own smokes, then don't bother smoking at all.

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A teacher once asked me if I was a Jehovah's Witness. I told her, "I didn't see anything!"


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Just about everything I say or do is inapropriate to the situation.

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Originally posted by ComaWhite:
Just about everything I say or do is inapropriate to the situation.

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Originally posted by slappy:
i was at music school in the canteen ... looked up at him with tears in my eyes and told him that my mum had died just the day before.

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i thought it was best that i get on with things rather than mope about... even so, i did spend the whole day i the canteen staring into space and chain smoking.

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oooohhhh my dads gf has come out with some of the most insensitive things!!!

just when my mum died, my sister was getting married. my dads gf said "at least you don't have to worry about your mum turning up drunk and ruining the wedding now".

then, she asked my dad when he was going to get the money from my mum. when he told her it had nothing to do with him cos me and my sister were next of kin, she kinda freaked... at which point he dumped her.

they are back together now.

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Location: Shillington PA USA
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I fell in a icy parking lot a couple years back near christmas. Stepped on a patch of black ice and *SLAM* down to the pavement I went. A little kid (probably only 6 or 7) saw it happen and I heard him turn to his mother and say, "Mommy that guy looked like a comet coming to earth!"

I think I sat on the pavement and laughed for a good 20 minutes after that

GS

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A little over a year ago, first thing in the morning, i had a head-on accident on my way to drop some materials to a job site. Nobody got hurt, but my work van (that I had owned for less than two months) was trashed. I called my boss, told him I wouldn't be able to make it to my job for that day. He was fairly concerned about it, i was literally and figuratively a wreck. I told him I was going to take care of as much insurance stuff as I could, then call him after things were sorted out. I sat in the van, waiting for the tow truck, drinking coffee, a nervous wreck, contemplating just how fucked up my situation was. A few weeks earlier I had made a trip to seattle to talk to people about working over there. I had just bought my van, I was outfitted, I was ready to quit working for my boss, go independent. Without the van, I was fucked.

After dropping the van at the body shop, i walked the fifteen or so blocks home. On the way home I called my boss and told him I wanted to go do a job to work out some nervous energy. I was going to get my tools from the van and haul them in my truck. He offered to let me use his van and tools for that day. So I drive up to his house to get his van. My mind was still going in all directions at once. I was thinking that maybe I shouldn't quit, this guy is helping me out in my time of need. Granted, he's keeping a majority of the money from my work, but i'm still able to work, etc.

I rang the doorbell and both my boss and his wife answer the door. The boss is asking me about the wreck, is everyone alright, etc, sentiments of concern. He asked me if I really wanted to go back to work right away. I told him i did. He asked me what the situation with my van was. I told him the bodyshop expected it would have to be totalled. I mentioned that I had only made one payment on it, and that I would surely get screwed by the insurance company for the value of the van. In any scenario, I would be out some money and the use of that van or a replacement for four to six weeks.

At this point, the boss's wife speaks up. "Wow," Lady MacBeth says, "It sucks to be you, doesn't it?"

Totally stunned, just like I had another head-on, I look at her and say, "What?"

She repeats herself. "It sure sucks to be you."

"I guess it does, " I said. Then I got the van keys and went to work. I got my van back about six weeks later. I gave the boss my two weeks' notice about two weeks after that.



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Nine days before I had my daughter I was driving down a side road by my old high school. There was a truck in front of me with roofing supplies on it. Apparently they had driven right past the address they were supposed to drop the equipment off at. The asshole just threw the truck into reverse and backed right into me. When I started to get out of the car he made a comment about me "being too fat to get out of the fucking car". Once he found out I had a belly on me because I was almost about to give birth he said "ohh too bad I didnt hit you hard enough to make your water break. You look like you need to pop."


what a nice guy!


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a guy i used to work with went camping over memorial day weekend with his fiance and her daughter. They camped on a spot of public land that wasn't a designated camping area. A Forest Service guy came into their camp and started hassling them.

This guy's girlfriend had cancer and lost her hair to chemo. As a sort of show of solidarity, he shaved his head, too. The place they were camping was a few miles from the Aryan Nations compound, so the Forest Service fellow assumed they were noe-nazi skinheads. He started making rude comments and searched them for weapons. He also looked over their ID's. When he saw the girlfriend's driver's license picture, he said, "You looked a lot better with hair."

The guy showed a remarkable amount or restraint by not beating the fuck out of the Forest Service guy. Instead, he just said, "She's got cancer, you fucking asshole." The guy wrote them a $75 ticket. The couple filed a complaint against the guy, but I don't think anything ever came from it.

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I think Paint's GWAR story is the funniest ever.

When my mom went into the hospital, no one knew about it for a few weeks after her first trip. I was in an arguing fight with one of my friends and she looked at me and told me "Your mom should die for having a child like you". Little did she know my mom (at the time) was dying. Ouch.

My friend tiffany (we used to be really close when we were younger) had this dog named Chloe that she loved a lot. I had forgotten that Chloe had died a few years ago. We were talking and she brought up her dogs that she had, and I said, absent mindedly "How's Chloe? Oh wait, I forgot, she died." I didn't realize how rude and harsh that was until after I said that. I felt like shit, needless to say.

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Should I list a bunch of links to my posts or do you guys just know which ones are on topic here?
There should at least two thousand, maybe more.
Ten thousand if I get into Stile's archives.

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Originally posted by wonderaz:
Should I list a bunch of links to my posts or do you guys just know which ones are on topic here?
There should at least two thousand, maybe more.
Ten thousand if I get into Stile's archives.

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gee what an ego!!

like we actually remember!!





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Originally posted by AlcoholSoopaFiend:
gee what an ego!!

like we actually remember!!

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This is the funniest thread ever.

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While I was working at Sainsbury's I was a till one day. These two old people came through and bought shit loads of booze and nothing else. I tunred and smiled and said 'Having a party?' The guy turned and looked at me and said 'No a funeral'.

All I could think was 'I'll get my coat'.

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I am not expecting to change anything by this post other than awareness. Please do not take anything I say as fact, I am only relaying opinon of limited sources, who themselves know nothing and thus should also be ignored as heresay and could never be admissable in a court of law.

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