Pixies Place Forums - What made you sad today?

dicksbro

01-03-2009, 05:14 AM

(((AngelicVampires))) Sorry to hear about your kitty :(

Dicksbro, how awful :(

The two last posts made me sad, as did some of the latest PostSecret (http://postsecret.blogspot.com/) entries.

Thank you, FWM. The visitation was yesterday. They planned for it to last from 2PM until 7PM with a short service afterwards. People started showing up at 10AM and it didn't stop until about 7:30PM last night. Then the service to a packed church. Our pastor had been Irish and his family were very uplifting as they remembered our pastor (and their loved one). A sad ... but somehow joyful service as we believe he's in a wonderful place now with none of the trials of this life. The funeral service will be later this morning and, again, it's expected that the church will be filled to capacity with an overflow into our parish hall where closed circuit TV will allow them to witness and be a part of the service.

FlirtWithMe

01-03-2009, 06:13 AM

Thank you for the update, dicksbro. It sounds like he was an enormously popular man and did great things for your community.

You will be in my thoughts this morning.

:console:

FlirtWithMe

01-30-2009, 04:37 AM

Some news from a very dear friend.

FlirtWithMe

02-13-2009, 02:27 PM

More news, from a different source :(

themi01

02-13-2009, 04:08 PM

The buffalo plane crash

Oldfart

02-13-2009, 06:59 PM

Mrs OF and I flew into (and out of) Buffalo for PAGAN06.

FlirtWithMe

02-18-2009, 06:56 AM

Knowing that two friends I love and respect are not happy, for different reasons, and I am too far away from either of them to give any hugs :(

scotzoidman

02-28-2009, 01:58 AM

Watching my father-in-law in the hospital bed, & seeing the barely-masked pain on the faces of my wife & sister-in-law. :tear:

PantyFanatic

02-28-2009, 02:03 AM

It shouldn't be so hard getting into this world and out too. :(

scotzoidman

02-28-2009, 02:15 AM

I was trying to think of something profound to say over "in Miracle Land..."

I think you just said it for me.

IowaMan

03-02-2009, 04:28 PM

One of my best friends from elementary and high school buried his dad today. :(

Lilith

03-02-2009, 07:29 PM

George dying

Aqua

03-02-2009, 07:35 PM

Her^^^ news.

FlirtWithMe

03-10-2009, 11:01 AM

Reading the article about Wendy Richard's funeral (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1160629/The-gangs-Laughter-tears-EastEnders-Co-salute-Wendy-Richard.html) :(

pinkFlames

03-11-2009, 02:19 AM

I never watched EastEnders but I loved her as Miss Brahms in Are You Being Served?. I was saddened to hear of her death.

FlirtWithMe

03-21-2009, 01:26 AM

Hearing that a friend has lost her baby :tear:

Neige

06-13-2009, 01:22 PM

Vinci has passed away. :(

themi01

06-13-2009, 01:26 PM

See the Ark 2

jseal

06-13-2009, 06:57 PM

Listening to a drunken DEA lieutenant babble nonsense for an hour.

PantyFanatic

06-14-2009, 07:21 AM

Vinci has passed away. :(

:console:

Aqua

09-07-2010, 01:10 PM

Learning that a coworker passed away over the weekend. :(

Lord Snow

09-07-2010, 03:26 PM

Major bummer.

Oldfart

09-07-2010, 08:59 PM

Reminders of your own mortality just aren't fun.

Lord Snow

09-07-2010, 10:09 PM

Depends on how you use it OldFart. If you dwell on your mortality it's a bummer, if you use it to spur you into something you've always dreamed of doing then it's a great thing. Same thing with remembrance. If you remember how they lived and loved vs. how they died.

angelababy

09-08-2010, 01:18 AM

sad.... work... boss.... i dont know how, just sad....

MrNaked

09-12-2010, 06:43 AM

I was supposed to meet an old classmate from high school yesterday evening. It has been over 25 years since we'd seen each other and just got in contact again. She didn't show, and she had a good reason, I'm sure. The fact is I was really looking forward to seeing her again. I'm sad she didn't show, and here it is almost 5 in the morning and I've been up all night thinking about it.

: (

Oldfart

09-12-2010, 09:14 PM

Don't sweat it, you'll find out why all in good time.

sodaklostsoul

09-19-2010, 01:22 AM

Same stuff like every other day. Money, daughter, work and life.

angelababy

09-27-2010, 03:53 AM

my boss. again!!!! he made me crazy............

pinkFlames

10-05-2010, 06:29 AM

Chatting to my grandmother who is not well on her birthday.

sodaklostsoul

10-16-2010, 10:22 PM

R. I. P. Mr. Fishy

I'm sorry for not getting the top for the tank. :(

Oldfart

10-19-2010, 05:25 PM

Mr C's gone.

According to the Oz ABC News site:-

Tom Bosley, one of the stars of the long-running 1970s television series Happy Days, has died of heart failure aged 83.

For 11 seasons, Bosley played long-suffering, gravel-voiced father Howard Cunningham.

He was the perfect foil for the show's eternally cool Arthur "The Fonz" Fonzarelli, played by Henry Winkler, and Cunningham's less hip son Richie, played by Ron Howard.

Bosley earned an Emmy nomination for best supporting actor in 1978.

He went on to star in Murder She Wrote and The Father Dowling Mysteries.

Agent Sheryl Abrams says Bosley had been battling lung cancer and died of heart failure in hospital near his Palm Springs home.

Winkler has paid tribute to Bosley, saying he was his mentor.

"I'm in shock, I really am," Winkler told Los Angeles' KNX-1070 News Radio.

"I spoke to him just a few weeks ago and he seemed to be getting his strength back.

"We really were a family. Tom was not only the TV father, he was also one of the dads on the set," he added.

Scott Baio, who played Fonzie's cousin Chachi, paid tribute to Bosley on his Twitter page.

"Mr Tom Bosley will be missed by many," Baio wrote.

"He was a great actor, teacher and man."

Oldfart

11-10-2010, 06:41 PM

It's Remembrance Day.

All those young lives gone to keep the wheels of politics grinding.

All the civilians caught in the middle.

All the politicians and leaders who haven't learned a fucking thing.

Oldfart

11-10-2010, 06:47 PM

This is horrible.

From the Oz ABC News,

Amazon under fire over paedophile manual

Anger: The Pedophile's Guide to Love and Pleasure is on sale on Amazon (www.amazon.com)
Online retail giant Amazon is under fire for selling a self-published digital book called The Pedophile's Guide to Love and Pleasure.

The reviews' page for the book, by Phillip R Greaves and available for Amazon's Kindle electronic reader, was deluged with criticism after the Seattle-based company offered it for sale.

"This is a joke, right? What reputable business would even consider allowing this book to be sold from their website?" said a visitor identified as "Emerald Storm."

"This is absolutely despicable."

"Shame on Amazon for allowing such garbage to be sold on its site," said another with the handle "thirty something."

The book, whose full title is "The Pedophile's Guide to Love and Pleasure: A Child-Lover's Code of Conduct," had received more than 305 "reviews", with 297 giving it a one-star rating, the lowest possible.

Most of the "reviews" were appeals to Amazon to remove the book.

"Amazon, you might want to consider taking this horrid book off your website if you want to have any business this holiday season," wrote "ecirtap."

"Shame on you, Amazon, for allowing a book like this to be uploaded for purchase! This book gives advice to people about something that is ILLEGAL in every state in this nation. It needs to be removed from the site immediately," wrote another customer.

In a statement distributed to TechCrunch and other technology blogs, Amazon said it "believes it is censorship not to sell certain books simply because we or others believe their message is objectionable.

"Amazon does not support or promote hatred or criminal acts, however, we do support the right of every individual to make their own purchasing decisions," it said.

In a product description to sell the book, the author frames it as an attempt "to make paedophile situations safer for those juveniles that find themselves involved in them, by establishing certain rules for these adults to follow.

"I hope to achieve this by appealing to the better nature of paedosexuals, with hope that their doing so will result in less hatred and perhaps liter [sic] sentences should they ever be caught," Greaves said.

We aren't allowed to beat these people to death, I have been reliably informed.

CruelTease

11-11-2010, 05:43 AM

I saw that yesterday, it made me pretty sad too.

PantyFanatic

11-11-2010, 10:43 AM

We know the Amazon whores sell their customer list to everyone anyway. I wonder how sales would be if it was known a list for just this item was going to be auctioned off to the public? :cool:

CruelTease

11-11-2010, 10:54 AM

I hope the police are all over the sales of this book.

Oldfart

11-11-2010, 05:34 PM

But Amazon later withdrew the book from its online store after a campaign against it spread on Twitter, Facebook and other media.

Commenting online, some people had said they planned to boycott the online store in protest.

The book title appeared on the company's website yesterday but a subsequent message read: "We're sorry. The Web address you entered is not a functioning page on our site".

There was no immediate comment from Amazon.

dicksbro

11-12-2010, 05:23 AM

Sounds like the Publisher should be identified and a boycott of other books they publish would be in order. After all, they truly knew what they were doing. :(

Oldfart

11-12-2010, 07:07 AM

It was a self published book, so there's no middle-censor.

CruelTease

11-12-2010, 08:34 AM

Hubby made me sad today. Never in all my life have I met someone of his age who is so useless at taking care of themselves.

Lord Snow

11-12-2010, 09:10 AM

Well, it's obvious you haven't met one my cousins........

dm383

11-12-2010, 05:44 PM

Visiting my just-turned 17 year-old daughter ~ and leaving her, on the opposite side of the country! :(

DM

dicksbro

11-12-2010, 06:33 PM

Getting in only one of my two walks today. :(

pinkFlames

11-14-2010, 01:41 AM

Missing my grandmother.

Oldfart

11-16-2010, 07:38 PM

Governments of supposedly democratic allies who brook no criticism.

British author jailed in Singapore
ABC News.

A Singapore court jailed a 75-year-old British author for six weeks for publishing a book critical of executions in the city-state.

Alan Shadrake was handed the prison sentence and a fine of 20,000 Singapore dollars ($15,000) for contempt of court over the book, which features an interview with a former chief executioner.

High Court Judge Quentin Loh dismissed a last-minute apology by Shadrake as "nothing more than a tactical ploy in court to obtain a reduced sentence" and ruled that the freelance journalist will have to serve two extra weeks in prison if he fails to pay the fine.

"A fine should be imposed to prevent Mr Shadrake from profiting from his contempt (of court)," the judge said.

The ruling said the sentence was the stiffest ever imposed for contempt of court in Singapore. The previous longest jail term was 15 days.

Shadrake, who lives in Malaysia and Britain, was arrested by Singapore police in July after launching the book Once a Jolly Hangman: Singapore Justice in the Dock.

It includes a profile of Darshan Singh, the former chief executioner at Singapore's Changi Prison who, according to the author, executed about 1,000 men and women from 1959 until he retired in 2006.

It also features interviews with human rights activists, lawyers and former police officers on cases involving capital punishment.

In a November 3 ruling that found Shadrake guilty, the judge said: "Mr Shadrake's technique is to make or insinuate his claims against a dissembling and selective background of truths and half-truths, and sometimes outright falsehoods.

"A casual and unwary reader, who does not subject the book to detailed scrutiny, might well believe his claims... and in so doing would have lost confidence in the administration of justice in Singapore."

PantyFanatic

11-16-2010, 11:00 PM

.....Alan Shadrake was handed the prison sentence and a fine of 20,000 Singapore dollars ($15,000) for contempt of court over the book, which features an interview with a former chief executioner.
.... and ruled that the freelance journalist will have to serve two extra weeks in prison if he fails to pay the fine.....
Sounds like a deal to me. I can't make $7.5k/wk. :shrug:

Oldfart

11-17-2010, 02:21 AM

Sounds like a deal to me. I can't make $7.5k/wk. :shrug:

Damn that broken photocopier.

sodaklostsoul

12-26-2010, 11:35 PM

Can't afford to take the girl back for Grandmother's funeral.

Lord Snow

12-26-2010, 11:45 PM

That really sucks. *hugs

sodaklostsoul

12-27-2010, 11:13 AM

Thanks LS, least her dad isn't mad.

jseal

12-28-2010, 10:48 AM

Dad couldn't visit. :(

Lilith

12-28-2010, 11:05 AM

The story about the 5 teens in Hialeah, Fl.

Oldfart

12-28-2010, 04:52 PM

Just looked it up. Modern kids with no understanding of old hazards. Damn shame.

Lilith

12-28-2010, 06:54 PM

Just a stupid accident.

Lilith

12-29-2010, 10:17 AM

Not being in Seattle today.

sodaklostsoul

01-01-2011, 08:45 PM

My Lindor truffles are almost soupy inside.

shadowsfate

01-06-2011, 09:21 PM

Finding out how bad my best friend is, healthwise. She finally went in to the ER yesterday with what she thought was a bad case of the flu. Turns out it is a serious kidney infection, and she's probably gonna be hospitallized for a while longer

Lord Snow

01-06-2011, 09:48 PM

Major bummer man. Hope everything turns out okay.

shadowsfate

01-06-2011, 10:42 PM

Yeah me too, but it won't be a quick recovery from what I understand. She's a wonderful perosn, but just has the worst luck when it comes to her health (and she tries very hard to be as healthy as possible)

Lord Snow

01-07-2011, 06:26 AM

Some people just get the short end of the stick. I have cousin and an aunt like that. My aunt has rheumatoid arthritis and my cousin has to many issues to list.

Lilith

01-07-2011, 05:47 PM

Finding out that I once again will not be getting paid for the years that I have been teaching as per the negotiated salary schedule. I will be allowed to count 2 of the 5 years which means a $177 a year raise as opposed to the $1253 raise I have earned.

Oldfart

01-07-2011, 06:47 PM

The joys of the free market, pity you don't have a negotiated salary structure. Oh, you do. How do they get away with that?

Lilith

01-07-2011, 07:13 PM

We are teachers.

Oldfart

01-07-2011, 07:24 PM

Don't you then have the ability to subliminally implant your charges with an instruction to beat up, en masse, the makers of these decisions? It may not get you your raise, but satisfaction level is 870%.

Lilith

01-07-2011, 07:40 PM

I do have a biter :p

Oldfart

01-09-2011, 05:58 AM

Sad today, Phoenix carnage.

Lilith

01-09-2011, 10:34 AM

Amazing act of hate and cowardice.

gekkogecko

01-09-2011, 10:40 AM

Arizona: Too much to deal with.

PantyFanatic

01-09-2011, 11:40 AM

Today.

Lilith

01-10-2011, 09:21 AM

Being home sick.

Lord Snow

01-10-2011, 04:38 PM

Having to go in to work today when none of the roads were plowed. Then when I got there over the half the crew didn't show. That includes those that showed up late.

rabbit

01-10-2011, 08:32 PM

Watching "The Worst Cooks in America".

Truly Pitiful, just pitiful. And pathethic. No excuse for it.

shadowsfate

01-23-2011, 02:08 PM

Saying goodbye to my son as he (temporarily) moves to his moms. Hardest thing I've ever had to do, but with my health issues and his current problems, I can't take care of him like he needs, and his mother will be able to do a lot to help him get back to where he needs to be

PantyFanatic

01-23-2011, 03:03 PM

The Blackhawks. :(

Oldfart

01-23-2011, 05:19 PM

Absolutely wonderful comic book heroes, oh, um, the other Blackhawks.

dicksbro

01-23-2011, 05:21 PM

The Chicago Bears offense so far. I wonder if in watching the tapes before the game they were accidently watching the Cubs? :shrug: :(

Pita

01-28-2011, 06:30 PM

Finding out that my favorite supervisor had a miscarriage. Life sure can suck the big one! :(

sodaklostsoul

07-27-2011, 06:40 PM

Throwing out some of our stuff cause it got wet even when we had it off the floor. There was so much water in the garage the stuff are stuff was sitting on was floating. :(

Lord Snow

07-27-2011, 09:15 PM

Ewww.....Really sorry to hear that.

dicksbro

07-28-2011, 04:50 AM

The Weather Channel suggesting today's high will be near 95F. Enough is enough. :(

jseal

07-30-2011, 12:10 PM

More anti-Muslim polemicists claiming that Islam requires women to wear a burqa.

Lord Snow

07-30-2011, 01:35 PM

I thought Islam was the culture/people and Muslim was their religion. If that's the case then I do believe traditions of the culture/people require the burqa, though I don't think the religion does. I could be wrong, I don't know much about either.

Oldfart

07-30-2011, 09:39 PM

Mostly the culture and the religion are inextricably entwined.

The berka is supposedly the woman's choice, but if hubby is demanding, obedience rules.

Lord Snow

07-31-2011, 08:47 AM

Throughout history in many countries religion and culture are like that.

PantyFanatic

07-31-2011, 09:02 AM

Historically, religion and culture have been evolving things with religion always being behind.

AZRedHot

08-03-2011, 09:56 AM

Waking up so stiff I could barely move. Again.

Oldfart

08-03-2011, 06:29 PM

There isn't a winning return comment to that one.

Lord Snow

08-03-2011, 08:34 PM

I'd be more than happy to rub those kinks and entertain any others you might have AZ.

AZRedHot

08-03-2011, 10:00 PM

There isn't a winning return comment to that one.

Nope. I got a referral to a rheumatologist from my doc; her first available appointment? Mid-October.

Gee, thanks.

I'd be more than happy to rub those kinks and entertain any others you might have AZ.
Sold! That sounds pretty nice.

Lord Snow

08-04-2011, 10:34 PM

Sounds like I found the winning return comment........ I swear, Route 66 is looking better and better.

Oldfart

08-05-2011, 05:44 PM

Better than 65 or 67?

Sorry, Aussie joke.

Lilith

08-06-2011, 06:46 AM

Some news about our local college coach's 6 year old. He has a rare blood disease, that I just happened to have read about earlier in the day as my kiddo is going to be needing to see a hematologist, so I had been studying up.

rabbit

08-07-2011, 07:40 PM

Some news about our local college coach's 6 year old.

Yes, I know. Scary shit... :(

Fangtasia

08-14-2011, 01:39 AM

Watching some cancelled old TV shows that i wish were still being made today

Lilith

08-30-2011, 04:53 AM

When I got to work Monday I found that someone had broken into our portables and stolen our laptops. All of the work I have done for this year including the countless weekend hours is gone. I had not backed anything up yet. It was full of things I just can't recreate easily. The damn thing was over ten years old and not worth anything but I really needed the contents.

jseal

08-30-2011, 04:57 AM

Lilith,

Sorry to learn of this! Best of lock on recovering all you can. :console:

Oldfart

08-30-2011, 06:42 AM

Bastards.

PantyFanatic

08-30-2011, 07:01 AM

:gb:

Oldfart

08-30-2011, 07:44 AM

Yep.

Oldfart

09-10-2011, 10:57 PM

Cliff Roberson has left the building.

dicksbro

09-11-2011, 04:42 AM

Lilith, sorry to hear about the theft. Hopefully the people responsible will be caught and punished and that by some wild accident, the materials you need will still be there.

jseal

02-28-2012, 09:25 PM

Well, I guess it was bound to happen (http://jme.bmj.com/content/early/2012/02/22/medethics-2011-100411.full) sooner or later. Still ...

Oldfart

02-28-2012, 11:46 PM

This is a bigger minefield than the DMZ.

At what point do you draw the line in eugenic euthanasia? 10yo, 20yo, red-head, over 50?

It gives me the shivers.

jseal

02-29-2012, 07:39 PM

It is astonishing to read what academics can dream up, isn’t it?

pinkFlames

03-01-2012, 07:12 AM

This is a bigger minefield than the DMZ.

At what point do you draw the line in eugenic euthanasia? 10yo, 20yo, red-head, over 50?

It gives me the shivers.

At times it's tempting to abort my 12 year old "fetus". Could I also abort someone else's 51 year old one?

Oldfart

03-01-2012, 07:00 PM

Some people would kill for the right of post-partum abortion.

Oldfart

03-01-2012, 07:30 PM

Some of the people who are reporting Science stories, yet lack the science knowledge to understand the story.

A current story goes thusly:-

Baby coral can clone, researchers say
By Natalie Poyhonen
Updated March 02, 2012 09:35:31

During the experiments, about half of the fertilised coral eggs broke into smaller fragments.

Marine scientists in north Queensland have discovered baby coral on the Great Barrier Reef can clone itself before developing into adult coral.

The team from the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) in Townsville set out to research what happens to fragile coral embryos when they fragment during different wave conditions.

Unlike most animal embryos, the coral does not have a protective outer layer.

Dr Andrew Negri says during the experiments, which mimicked wave heights during coral spawning, about half of the fertilised coral eggs broke into smaller fragments.

"If there are choppy conditions in the ocean, this would be enough to break the coral embryos apart and create smaller coral clones," he said.

Dr Negri says it is just one of the strategies used to reproduce and could help its long-term survival.

"By having such fragile embryos maybe this increases the number of larvae that are available to settle," he said.

"But it could be that producing a different size range or wider size range of different embryos and larvae may help them as well - may help them to get into smaller nooks and crannies and settle and attach and avoid predators."

Hereby endeth the story.

What has not been understood by the reporter is that corals, like their cousins the jellyfish and the hydras are not animals, but colonies of closely related beasties. If the fragment contains enough of all the types of beasties, it can grow into a complete polyp.

Lord save us from hemi-comprehension.

Coaster

03-02-2012, 09:05 AM

Sad that I didn't catch up with TinglingTess before I leave for the weekend. Everyone please give her birthday hugs from me!!!!

Lord Snow

03-03-2012, 04:05 PM

I'm going to borrow this thread and slightly change it to "what pissed me off within the past 48 hour".

I had to bust my ass at work for some big wigs that are coming through this week, so they made us work 5 days at 8 hours instead of 4 days at 10 hours so I lost a day off.

I got a rejection letter from a possible job that would have paid me a hell of a lot more money after waiting almost a month for some word from them. (The letter was written on the 29th and delivered on the 2nd).

I've felt like shit for two days straight and it's from a combination of allergies and possibly a cold.

Because my cousin is moving out there is a huge mess in the downstairs and he's been up very late for a few days in a row making it hard for me to sleep.

And this morning my ranchero decided she no longer wanted to start.

sodaklostsoul

03-05-2012, 02:16 PM

The little toddler that was found after the tornado didn't make it after all.

Oldfart

03-05-2012, 06:05 PM

Bummer.

Oldfart

06-30-2012, 08:22 PM

It's the 70th anniversary of the Montevideo Maru.

Google it, it's important.

dicksbro

07-01-2012, 04:50 AM

It's the 70th anniversary of the Montevideo Maru.

Google it, it's important.
That was a sad event ... so many lives lost. It's too bad that the submarine couldn't have known what the cargo was and let that ship pass. :(

Oldfart

07-01-2012, 08:15 AM

Survival rate in Japan was abysmal, so for most of them it was a blessed release.

Pity it couldn't have been captured and redirected to friendlier places.

Lilith

07-09-2012, 10:34 PM

lots. I am super blue lately.

PantyFanatic

07-09-2012, 10:46 PM

lots. I am super blue lately.
I understand with not being able to attend PAGAN-XII. :console:

.........and you SO wanted to become Guardian of the Colors. :shrug:

AZRedHot

07-09-2012, 11:11 PM

A call from one of my dearest friend's daughter. My friend has been sick for 2 years, and recent surgery hasn't help. She's going to come take her to her house for awhile to take care of her and see a new specialist. She asked me to pick her up at the airport.

gekkogecko

07-11-2012, 10:35 AM

News that my girlfriend wont' be in town for her birthday.

Oldfart

07-11-2012, 09:15 PM

lots. I am super blue lately.

There is an "other side" to the shit shower you're swimming in.

You are safe, you are loved and you are contributing beyond your call.

Everything else will find it's level.

You'd look better in gold than blue.

Lilith

07-11-2012, 10:25 PM

Well I do accept gifts ;)

Thanks dear friend.

Oldfart

07-12-2012, 05:14 AM

I'll send M shopping for some "Happy Chick stuff"

Maybe she'll get some for you too.

Lilith

07-12-2012, 08:02 AM

I am sad I am missing you guys this year.

sodaklostsoul

07-14-2012, 05:32 AM

Lost a friend to cancer and I can't fix something beyond my control.

Aqua

07-17-2012, 11:22 AM

(((((soda)))))

Oldfart

07-17-2012, 09:53 PM

(((soda)))

dicksbro

07-18-2012, 04:17 AM

((((( soda ))))) Sorry to hear about the loss of your friend.

sodaklostsoul

07-20-2012, 10:43 PM

Thanks guys. She fought hard but it kept spreading. She left behind a 13 yr. old girl.

Lilith

07-20-2012, 10:49 PM

my child

Oldfart

07-21-2012, 11:23 AM

She did leave something behind.

It's those who leave nothing and no-one behind who make me saddest.

sodaklostsoul

07-27-2012, 09:30 PM

Had a 20 yr. old doing 60 in a 30 while texting down a main street thru a busy intersection and took out a bike and 3 cars besides light pole and hedges. the man on the bike died, he was one of our customers. Kid turned 21 next day.

Lord Snow

07-27-2012, 10:43 PM

Happy b-day to the new inmate.

jseal

07-28-2012, 07:26 AM

I had to have Mischief, my calico housecat put down.

Lilith

07-28-2012, 08:03 AM

sorry jseal

sodaklostsoul

07-28-2012, 02:56 PM

Sorry to hear that jseal.

sodaklostsoul

07-29-2012, 09:26 PM

My friend and dart team buddy just lost his GF to a drunk driver, she was 36. And my sis's cat finally gave up. :(

PantyFanatic

07-30-2012, 09:55 PM

My friend and dart team buddy just lost his GF to a drunk driver, she was 36. And my sis's cat finally gave up. :(
OK. That's it SODA! :mad:
You are WAAAAAY over your quota for loss this year. No more of those reports until 2022 at the soonest.

Oldfart

07-30-2012, 10:33 PM

I had to have Mischief, my calico housecat put down.

Sorry to hear.

sodaklostsoul

07-30-2012, 11:55 PM

OK. That's it SODA! :mad:
You are WAAAAAY over your quota for loss this year. No more of those reports until 2022 at the soonest.
I agree!!!!!

scotzoidman

08-18-2012, 09:42 PM

Not so much sad, but I guess close enough for this thread:
Early this a.m. I was called out for a courier run that's not unusual for me, p/u a prescription at one of our Great Ubiquitous Corner Drugstores, & deliver to a nursing home out of town. Mind you, even a short walk thru any nursing home is kinda sad in of itself, but I've learned to not let it get to me (much). First, at the pick up point, I have a message on the blackberry giving the patient's name & date of birth; these DOB's have been getting too close for comfort for some time, but this one read xx/xx/54 - 2 yrs older than me, & for the math challenged, that's a 58 yr old...in a nursing home. Scary, disturbing, & sad all at once.

Getting to the home just ahead of the emergency squad & seeing a patient curled up like dead bug with his legs in the air wasn't a happy visual either.

dicksbro

08-19-2012, 03:18 AM

Sorry to hear about the loss Soda and I hear you Scotz. It's true, it seems like as we age we hear of more and more folks not that far off from our own ages having problems we never thought much about when we were young. :(

kleclere

08-20-2012, 08:09 PM

Not having a warm smile to look at.

jseal

08-20-2012, 08:56 PM

A personally important meeting I was trying to arrange in September became impossible to schedule.

Oldfart

08-21-2012, 03:31 AM

Bugger.

Lilith

08-24-2012, 10:13 PM

My friend's 10 month old has a brain tumor the size of a lemon. I will be driving through the hurricane to get to the town the flew her to for surgery. That baby better be ok.

Oldfart

08-25-2012, 01:29 AM

I am legally obliged, under penalty of a $50 or so, to vote today.

AZRedHot

08-25-2012, 04:25 PM

Knowing my friend, whom we've been trying to get help all week because she hasn't slept, still didn't sleep last night after she attempted to check herself in to the ER for acute exhaustion. Seems she's having a manic episode due to prednisone use. I didn't even know this was a thing, but the intarwebs tells me it's well known, like 'roid rage. We've been worried sick for her all week.

PantyFanatic

08-25-2012, 07:15 PM

I am legally obliged, under penalty of a $50 or so, to vote today.
I would almost welcome that system. The most effect I could have with my vote would be to NOT as I attempted to get as much coverage and attention :rant: as I was first in line as the polls open, to pay my $50 and state how I believe the procedure, process and result have deteriorated to a meaningless and corrupt state I can no longer endorse, participate or believe in. http://www.freesmileys.org/smileys/smiley-char124.gif (http://www.freesmileys.org/smileys.php)

Oldfart

08-25-2012, 07:32 PM

How can you possibly say that, PF? We have seen that our representatives (and there are many ardent men of God among them) are there to ensure that YOUR wishes as their electorate are heard and acted apon. There is no personal aggrandizement or financial aspect to their service.

Shame, PF, shame.

Lord Snow

08-25-2012, 08:05 PM

^^^^^^^^ Sarcasm right?

PantyFanatic

08-25-2012, 11:24 PM

^^^^^^^^ Sarcasm right?
Yes Sheldon! :roflmao:

Oldfart

08-25-2012, 11:40 PM

Thought you'd like that one, PF.

PantyFanatic

08-25-2012, 11:54 PM

:thumbs:

:rofl:

Lord Snow

08-26-2012, 05:53 AM

Oh good, I'm one for one then. :D

Lilith

08-28-2012, 05:44 AM

My friends baby died today in surgery. Her baby brain was filled with cancer. She was so beautiful.

gigi

08-28-2012, 07:36 AM

Oh no. I am so very sorry. For all of you. (((hugs)))

Oldfart

08-28-2012, 07:42 AM

Shit Bugger Fuck.

Give the mother (parents?) our love.

Sometimes shit is unfairly unavoidable.

PantyFanatic

08-28-2012, 10:22 AM

:tear:

sodaklostsoul

08-28-2012, 10:39 AM

Lilith

08-28-2012, 03:19 PM

Thanks. Funny I tell you guys stuff I can not even fathom letting escape my lips. She looked like a little angel afterwards. I had to check to see if she had sprouted wings.

AZRedHot

08-28-2012, 03:56 PM

I'm so sorry, Lilith. Such a tragedy for your friends and all who know and love them.

dm383

08-28-2012, 04:39 PM

My friends baby died today in surgery. Her baby brain was filled with cancer. She was so beautiful.

Sometimes, there are no words.

Rest in peace little one.

DM

Oldfart

08-28-2012, 06:48 PM

Funny I tell you guys stuff I can not even fathom letting escape my lips.

That's the price you pay for having a devoted e-Family.

pinkFlames

08-28-2012, 07:44 PM

My friends baby died today in surgery. Her baby brain was filled with cancer. She was so beautiful.

That's terrible news. :(

PantyFanatic

08-29-2012, 02:32 AM

..... She looked like a little angel afterwards. ......
She is in the truest sense. :angel:

Lilith

08-29-2012, 04:51 AM

Thanks every one. I am going to try to go to work today.

sodaklostsoul

09-09-2012, 06:27 PM

Another neighbor of my sis's just told her he has a brain tumor.

PantyFanatic

09-09-2012, 11:54 PM

:hair: You stop talking to people!!!

Oldfart

09-10-2012, 02:23 AM

Death is part of life. Sometimes life gets too close.

Oldfart

09-19-2012, 03:26 AM

Johnathan Livingstone Seagull author is in a bad way after a plane crash last week. Not a transtion, yet.

http://news.yahoo.com/son-seagull-author-bach-speaking-slowly-heals-213707553.html

Lilith

09-19-2012, 05:00 AM

Seeing the baby's urn and trying to talk the mama into not giving up her career.

Oldfart

09-19-2012, 08:08 AM

Mama needs to understand that the two are separate, and that her career may help cushion her grief. She may not understand this for a long time, but it must come for her soul's sake.

ShadowDancer

10-02-2012, 01:30 PM

Finding out that my most favoritest (i know not a word...but still...) puppies at my brother's house may die due to injuries sustained in a dog fight. She's the SWEETEST baby...a 4 yr old pitt named Angel. She's SO pretty all white with black spots and one blue eye and one brown eye. She's the ulitmate "momma" when it comes to kids/kittens/puppies. I've been trying not to cry ever since I got the text from my brother.

Oldfart

11-01-2012, 05:29 AM

Seeing Dunchad's name in the birthday list for today.

Oldfart

11-17-2012, 07:12 PM

A Raptor fighter crash in Florida today.

The pilot ejected safely, but the airframe didn't survive.

Lilith

11-21-2012, 01:39 PM

so many places choosing to be open on Thanksgiving

gigi

11-22-2012, 01:07 PM

Today...more than any other, I miss my father. He loved Thanksgiving. So the day, although lovely, is colored with sad.

Lilith

11-22-2012, 03:49 PM

Someone I have known for 8 years just confided the most horrific thing happened to him nearly 20 years ago. I am soooooooooooo sad, I can not even imagine how he stands upright daily.

Oldfart

11-22-2012, 07:19 PM

Today...more than any other, I miss my father. He loved Thanksgiving. So the day, although lovely, is colored with sad.

If it's something your father would have enjoyed, just imagine him at the table having fun. That's a recipe for joy, not sadness.

jseal

11-24-2012, 09:52 AM

After a variety of tests, my BIL was admitted at Georgetown Medical earlier this morning. He's not doing well.

Lilith

11-24-2012, 10:07 AM

sorry to hear Jseal

rabbit

12-03-2012, 06:53 PM

My son failed to make the middle school basketball team. He is really disappointed, and I am hurting for him.

ShadowDancer

12-03-2012, 08:54 PM

this: Cousins Fighting Cancer (https://www.facebook.com/cousinsfightingcancer)

the girl is 14 and has stage 4 ovarian carcinoma and is in her final days...her baby cousin is just 15 mos with a type of brain cancer.

:boohoo:

Lilith

12-03-2012, 09:09 PM

My friend's baby died at 10 mos of that brain cancer just 3 mos ago. Mother fucking cancer has to go.

Lilith

12-12-2012, 05:40 PM

knowing that someone will have to live with their choices but so do I

Oldfart

12-12-2012, 07:26 PM

My son failed to make the middle school basketball team. He is really disappointed, and I am hurting for him.

If it was that he simply was out-performed in the selections, it's OK. If he was out-friended or didn't try his best, there are problems.

ShadowDancer

12-14-2012, 03:46 PM

My heart goes out to all the families affected in Newtown, CT at Sandy Hook Elementary School! 18 kids (ages 10 and under) dead...8 or 9 adults at last count.

Wildeye

12-14-2012, 04:30 PM

My wife getting hung up on her size.

My age and becoming impotent.

Mean , crass and judgemental idiots

But I was made up to see a beautiful gay girl with a gorgeous baby. That was great

Oldfart

12-14-2012, 05:26 PM

My heart goes out to all the families affected in Newtown, CT at Sandy Hook Elementary School! 18 kids (ages 10 and under) dead...8 or 9 adults at last count.

Sad beyond words.

Wildeye

12-14-2012, 06:01 PM

Everything I listed pales compared to Newton, just read it on the computer. Terrible event. So many lives destroyed. Heart-!breaking. As a parent and as a man this makes me feel lost and powerless, god knows how the parents, families and friends feel.

Fangtasia

12-14-2012, 06:56 PM

Reading the news and all those innocent lives lost (20 kids and 7 adults). Just heartbreaking.

Oldfart

12-14-2012, 07:12 PM

Reports say the gunman was known to the school and was buzzed-in shortly before the shooting at about 9:30am local time.

The poor person who opened up the gates of hell.

Fangtasia

12-14-2012, 07:19 PM

He was the son of one of the teachers (whom he went there to kill)

PantyFanatic

12-15-2012, 12:42 AM

Conflicting details still coming from media at this late moment but those will eventually be sorted. The tragedy is another wack-job went off and if any kind of innocent killing can be worse than another, the loss of children make it the ultimate sin against man.
:tear:

Jax

12-15-2012, 07:30 AM

Very, very tragic in CT. Wow. My heart just feels for those people.

Coaster

12-15-2012, 03:04 PM

they were just babies...............

Oldfart

12-16-2012, 06:48 PM

No Coaster, this was worse. These kids had grown to be thinking, loving, arguing, playing, fighting explosions of potential. Parents and friends had time to bond with these people to a depth babies can't reach. Loss of babies is horrible, but the loss of these children was so much harder. What's worse, being crushed by a 100 ton rock or a 1000 ton rock? Dunno, I'm trying to put into words shit that we shouldn't have to know.

PantyFanatic

12-17-2012, 12:45 AM

Noble attempt my friend to find logic in insanity, but you fail as surely as all the "experts" who are expounding right now. It's just WRONG!

Lilith

12-17-2012, 06:19 AM

It makes me sad that people are saying he had autism like it is the cause of his decisions. That is not how autism works. It is going to increase the problems for people on the spectrum I fear.

Pita

12-17-2012, 05:47 PM

I just finished reading about the principle whose husband was over 20 years older and how he had fallen madly in love with her. He asked her five times to marry him before she said yes. Then he built her a dream home that she would live in long after he had died. Now he sits without her and the dreams and plans forever changed. Her brave attempt to stop this tragedy will live on. :(

Oldfart

12-17-2012, 07:41 PM

We need evil to remind us how good the good can be in the world, but why does the evil need to be so bad?

jseal

12-17-2012, 09:21 PM

Oldfart,

You're asking difficult questions again.

Good for you.

Oldfart

12-17-2012, 10:29 PM

Perhaps my sig should be "Calm, quiet, smooth, devastating, difficult".

jseal

12-19-2012, 10:58 AM

There are many worse ways to be identified.

jseal

12-19-2012, 11:00 AM

11+ hours in the local ER with my BIL because one of his PICC lines had a blood clot in it. Since his condition was not critical, he kept missing the triage cutoff.

Oldfart

12-19-2012, 07:43 PM

General Hospital re-runs on the TV?

jseal

12-20-2012, 06:23 AM

While also boring, those episodes have the redeeming value of being relatively brief.

Lilith

12-20-2012, 08:32 PM

My sweet girl passing away. 2012 has not been my year.

rabbit

12-20-2012, 09:11 PM

If it was that he simply was out-performed in the selections, it's OK. If he was out-friended or didn't try his best, there are problems.

He gave his best, just inexperienced. One of those hard life lessons, that he needs to work harder.

:sun:

Coaster

12-20-2012, 11:25 PM

interruption of fantasies..........

dicksbro

01-07-2013, 03:40 AM

Two funerals this weekend. The wife of a very good friend (who has Alzheimers) passed away; and, a friend of more than 40 years from down in Decatur also died. My wife and I made the visitations for both and the funeral for the wife. Unfortunately, we can't get back down to Decatur today, so I'm glad we made it yesterday.

What do you say, let's call a moratorium on transitions for a while. :wish:

Oldfart

01-07-2013, 04:18 AM

It's out of our hands, old friend.

dicksbro

01-07-2013, 06:36 PM

Thanks, OF. You're right, of course. Your friendship means a lot to us. God bless!

Rhiannon

01-07-2013, 07:20 PM

sounds good tome

Two funerals this weekend. The wife of a very good friend (who has Alzheimers) passed away; and, a friend of more than 40 years from down in Decatur also died. My wife and I made the visitations for both and the funeral for the wife. Unfortunately, we can't get back down to Decatur today, so I'm glad we made it yesterday.

What do you say, let's call a moratorium on transitions for a while. :wish:

Lilith

01-07-2013, 07:20 PM

my kiddo

Lilith

01-12-2013, 10:35 AM

Now my other kiddo. Poor baby has the flu really really bad. 103 fever, has not eaten for 2.5 days, says everything hurts. I hate not being able to fix things.

Oldfart

01-12-2013, 07:51 PM

Poor little bugger. Give him our love.

Fangtasia

01-12-2013, 08:21 PM

I am distressed that some people truely have not a fucking brain in their heads.....just witnessed 2 dogs left in a vehicle in 30C heat for over 30 min....WTF?? There are warning everywhere about leaving ANYTHING in a parked vehicle can end with horrific results.....seeing dogs in heat distress is anything but pleasant!!

Lord Snow

01-12-2013, 08:50 PM

Either call the appropriate authorities for animal abuse, or break the window out and leave a nice little note that you rescued their animals from the oppressive heat.

Oldfart

01-12-2013, 09:40 PM

Windows were open, LS, but under a radiating hot roof, the mutts were still in trouble.

Fangtasia

01-12-2013, 11:08 PM

I did try to call a few someones to assist, but being Sunday no answer. Windows were open, but unsure on dog friendliness, and legal recourse of grabbing someones dogs, i know its a bloke who owns the dogs and personal safety is also an issue.

Its very distressing to see an animal suffering, i would not be suprised if those dogs get home and just tossed in the back yard again. They were very clearly distressed, massive drooling and panting for all they were worth. I did not like the helplessness i felt nor the fact i was watching these poor animals die....as i said distressing
I couldnt do nothing, i just dont feel i did enough for them, i feel horrid to be honest. I dont want to have to go through that ever again

Lilith

01-13-2013, 08:21 AM

Knowing I have the beginnings of the flu now too.

Lord Snow

01-13-2013, 05:51 PM

I'm sick as well. We need to start a Pixies infirmary at this rate.

Oldfart

01-13-2013, 06:54 PM

I'm lucky my virus filters are active.

dicksbro

01-14-2013, 04:50 AM

I'm sick as well. We need to start a Pixies infirmary at this rate.
Why don't we all pick roles to play at the infirmary ...

dibs on being they gyneocologist! :D

Oldfart

01-14-2013, 05:55 AM

ENT, mainly T, for me.

Pita

01-16-2013, 07:40 AM

I'm sad because I'm about to leave to get a crown on a tooth and give my dentist an outrageous amount of money that should be going for pretties in my new house. :(

Fangtasia

01-16-2013, 09:01 AM

I got some news yesterday that really didnt sink in until today....but i am trying my hardest to let it fully play out before i hit panic mode

ShadowDancer

01-16-2013, 11:02 AM

getting it confirmed last night that I have the FLU! ICK!!

Lilith

01-16-2013, 04:07 PM

All 3 of us at my house have confirmed cases too and my #1 Most Honorable Son has not developed secondary infections in both ears.

Fangtasia

01-16-2013, 05:23 PM

My pixies family who have the flu, take care of yourselves!

Oldfart

01-16-2013, 05:49 PM

Yes, and don't send any over here, please.

Fangtasia

01-16-2013, 08:43 PM

Tis here already, was sposed to go out to lunch with a friend, she rings me this morning sick as with the flu....told her i aint going near her lol She can stay home!

Oldfart

01-21-2013, 07:04 AM

USS Guardian was warned that they were entering closed waters.

USN says that any complaint needs to be referred to the Embassy.

Ship grounds on fragile reef (UNESCO listed) and is still stuck there.

Gmmuursgh!!!! The Philippines are unhappy.

Oldfart

01-30-2013, 06:00 PM

A badly damaged minesweeper that has been stranded on a World Heritage-listed coral reef in the Philippines for nearly two weeks may need to be dismantled before it is removed.

The US Navy says the drastic measure of pulling apart the 68-metre USS Guardian has been proposed in a salvage plan to Philippine authorities.

"This was determined to be the best option and would involve the least damage to the Tubbataha Reef," navy spokesman Lieutenant Commander James Stockman said in a statement.

The Guardian became grounded on the Tubbataha Reef, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in a remote part of the Sulu Sea, on January 17.

The US Navy has previously said the boat, which has a wood and fibreglass hull, was too badly damaged to be towed away.

But it had not come up with a firm alternative plan as to how the vessel could be moved off the reef.

Thousands of litres of oil on board the Guardian have been removed but the vessel is being battered by huge waves.

Angelique Songco, the superintendent of the Tubbataha marine park, says that is causing it to gouge a destructive trail along the reef.

She says dismantling the ship will further damage the reef but letting it remain there longer will lead to even more harm.

"It will cause more damage the longer it is left there," she said.

The head of the Philippine office of the World Wildlife Fund, Jose Maria Lorenzo Tan, agrees the ship should be dismantled if there is no other way to shift it off the reef.

"If this is the only option, then the sooner they can remove it, the better. They cannot risk that the ship simply breaks apart," he said.

The US Navy has repeatedly apologised for the incident but has refused to explain publicly why the Guardian was sailing so close to the reef.

This has fuelled anger over the incident in the Philippines, a former American colony and important US ally in the Asia-Pacific region.

Vessels sailing into the marine park need permission, but Philippine authorities said the crew of the Guardian had made no request to enter and had even ignored radio messages from government rangers that it was about to hit the reef.

AFP