How we all doing with this Blue Monday thingy?

[barrybueno]

Anywon topped themselves yet :rubchin:

[Burney]

Anywon topped themselves yet :rubchin:

I was getting a bit worried about Sir C last week, but he seems to have cheered up.

[Pokster]

Anywon topped themselves yet :rubchin:

Well, my brother in law tried to on Saturday

[PSRB]

Anywon topped themselves yet :rubchin:

https://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2020/01/10-infinitely-more-depressing-days-than-blue-monday/

[barrybueno]

Well, my brother in law tried to on Saturday

I don't know what to say P. He failed which is a good thing at least. Need to surround him with some decent family and friends imo. My sister had us in a panic on NYD a few years ago but it turned out to be a cry for help. Either way not nice. Good luck :thumbup:

[Pokster]

I don't know what to say P. He failed which is a good thing at least. Need to surround him with some decent family and friends imo. My sister had us in a panic on NYD a few years ago but it turned out to be a cry for help. Either way not nice. Good luck :thumbup:

He's got MN and been told he won't be here in 6 months, so all very hard for him, his parents are ****e and treat themselves as the victims in all this....so feel for him

[Burney]

Well, my brother in law tried to on Saturday

Do you like him?

[Burney]

He's got MN and been told he won't be here in 6 months, so all very hard for him, his parents are ****e and treat themselves as the victims in all this....so feel for him

Ewww. Poor chap. Not being nasty, but I can completely understand why he'd want to in that situation.

[Pokster]

Do you like him?

yes...see above for why he tried to

[Pokster]

Ewww. Poor chap. Not being nasty, but I can completely understand why he'd want to in that situation.

same here, he's got 2 young (ish) kids and the youngest is becoming more and more withdrawn, horrible situation to be in, talked about it from day 1 but he now can't go to Switzerland as you have to be able to get there under your own power to be allowed to do it

[WES]

same here, he's got 2 young (ish) kids and the youngest is becoming more and more withdrawn, horrible situation to be in, talked about it from day 1 but he now can't go to Switzerland as you have to be able to get there under your own power to be allowed to do it

The mother of one of my daughter's school friends was diagnosed with it. She lived about 3-4 years but in the end, as it was explained to me, she had life extending drugs which she just chose not to take when life became unendurable and she then passed fairly quickly and peacefully.

Horrible to think of having to take that decision.

[Burney]

same here, he's got 2 young (ish) kids and the youngest is becoming more and more withdrawn, horrible situation to be in, talked about it from day 1 but he now can't go to Switzerland as you have to be able to get there under your own power to be allowed to do it

Grim. Sorry to hear that.

Has to be said that I do wish we'd grow up about assisted suicide in this country. I understand the squeamishness, but this absurd situation where we effectively subcontract the service to Holland and Switzerland (thus effectively restricting it to those wealthy enough to afford it) is a patent absurdity.

[Burney]

The mother of one of my daughter's school friends was diagnosed with it. She lived about 3-4 years but in the end, as it was explained to me, she had life extending drugs which she just chose not to take when life became unendurable and she then passed fairly quickly and peacefully.

Horrible to think of having to take that decision.

You die due to not being able to breathe. That's isn't 'peaceful', that's asphyxiation.

[IUFG]

You die due to not being able to breathe. That's isn't 'peaceful', that's asphyxiation.

my paternal grandmother died from ALS.

From the legs up; being compos mentis all the way through to the couldn't breathe bit and death.

:-(

[Burney]

my paternal grandmother died from ALS.

From the legs up; being compos mentis all the way through to the couldn't breathe bit and death.

:-(

:nod: That Lou Gehrig has a lot to answer for. :-(

[IUFG]

:nod: That Lou Gehrig has a lot to answer for. :-(

She died in April just before her birthday, whilst I was at St James' Park watching The Arsenal draw 0-0.

Come to think of it, I've seen The Arsenal draw 0-0 up there a few times :jonah:

[Burney]

She died in April just before her birthday, whilst I was at St James' Park watching The Arsenal draw 0-0.

Come to think of it, I've seen The Arsenal draw 0-0 up there a few times :jonah:

What year was this?

[IUFG]

What year was this?

I'll check. Gilberto had one cleared off the line. They hit the post.
Those were the highlights, istr.

I appreciate I should know what year my grandmother died. I don't.

:badgrandson:

[IUFG]

I'll check. Gilberto had one cleared off the line. They hit the post.
Those were the highlights, istr.

I appreciate I should know what year my grandmother died. I don't.

:badgrandson:

2007.

Time flies...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_prem/6513371.stm

[IUFG]

2007.

Time flies...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_prem/6513371.stm

2011 actually.

Got 0-0s mixed up. Gervinho sent off after some Joey Barton shíthousery.

[Burney]

I'll check. Gilberto had one cleared off the line. They hit the post.
Those were the highlights, istr.

I appreciate I should know what year my grandmother died. I don't.

:badgrandson:

Oof! Serves you right for going to away games in Newcastle imo. That's the behaviour of perverts and the mentally ill.

[Burney]

2011 actually.

Got 0-0s mixed up. Gervinho sent off after some Joey Barton shíthousery.

You still had a living grandmother in 2011? I had you down as an adult, i. My last remaining grandparent turned up her toes in 1996.

[IUFG]

Oof! Serves you right for going to away games in Newcastle imo. That's the behaviour of perverts and the mentally ill.

I have a mate from uni who is a solicitor and he used to work up there. I used to go up, stay with him and hit the toon for a couple of nights.

Those Geordie lassies like a good drink :lager:

[IUFG]

You still had a living grandmother in 2011? I had you down as an adult, i. My last remaining grandparent turned up her toes in 1996.

She was in her 90s, b.
And my parents were very young when I was born...

edit: maybe 80's. I don't do family details. I can't even remember the date of my first marraige. It was in June. Or July. :hide:

[WES]

You die due to not being able to breathe. That's isn't 'peaceful', that's asphyxiation.

I believe that once she decided to no longer take the drugs that were keeping her alive she was given something that allowed her to pass peacefully into unconsciousness before she passed over.

[Luis Anaconda]

You still had a living grandmother in 2011? I had you down as an adult, i. My last remaining grandparent turned up her toes in 1996.

Pah - youngster. My last one went 1988, right in the middle of the first Comic Relief night

This could be a very depressing version of the The Four Yorkshiremen sketch

[Burney]

Pah - youngster. My last one went 1988, right in the middle of the first Comic Relief night

This could be a very depressing version of the The Four Yorkshiremen sketch

We've all felt like that during Comic Relief, to be fair.

[Luis Anaconda]

We've all felt like that during Comic Relief, to be fair.

:nod: She should have stuck to watching RTE

[Pokster]

Pah - youngster. My last one went 1988, right in the middle of the first Comic Relief night

This could be a very depressing version of the The Four Yorkshiremen sketch

you lucky *******, my last parent went in 1990

[PSRB]

you lucky *******, my last parent went in 1990

My Dad's hanging in there. Thought we were going to lose him at Christmas but thankfully he's fully recovered and back playing tennis 3x a week.

[Luis Anaconda]

you lucky *******, my last parent went in 1990
And there you go - the Yorkshireman actually does win it

[Luis Anaconda]

My Dad's hanging in there. Thought we were going to lose him at Christmas but thankfully he's fully recovered and back playing tennis 3x a week.

Is your dad Roger Federer - probably about the right age and would explain your attitude to him?

Althoughnice to hear he's doing better

[Burney]

And there you go - the Yorkshireman actually does win it

"Luxureh! I were orphaned two year before I were born..."

[Burney]

Is your dad Roger Federer - probably about the right age and would explain your attitude to him?

Althoughnice to hear he's doing better

Is Roger Federer the most popular Swiss there's ever been? I can't think of anyone else who anyone likes as much. And I'm not counting Einstein, as he wasn't born one.

[Luis Anaconda]

Is Roger Federer the most popular Swiss there's ever been? I can't think of anyone else who anyone likes as much. And I'm not counting Einstein, as he wasn't born one.
Granit Xhaka? Johann Djourou? Philippe Senderos? Ursula Andress? How quickly you forget.

Always had a soft spot for Rousseau, but Federer and William Tell are probably the only really famous ones... unless you are a Jung man which I suspect you are not ;)

[redgunamo]

Mine are still going strong, touch wood, but we did lose my favourite grandmother a couple of years ago.



you lucky *******, my last parent went in 1990

[Luis Anaconda]

Mine are still going strong, touch wood, but we did lose my favourite grandmother a couple of years ago.

Did you lose her on a mission?

[Burney]

Granit Xhaka? Johann Djourou? Philippe Senderos? Ursula Andress? How quickly you forget.

Always had a soft spot for Rousseau, but Federer and William Tell are probably the only really famous ones... unless you are a Jung man which I suspect you are not ;)

Rousseau was really not a very nice man. Jung's main claim to fame was not being as dirty-minded as Freud, but he was just as big a bullshítter if you ask me.

I used to quite fancy Martina Hingis, though.

[redgunamo]

Certainly not! We operate a strict "no granny left behind" policy anyway, especially if they're worth a few quid.





Did you lose her on a mission?

[Burney]

Certainly not! We operate a strict "no granny left behind" policy anyway, especially if they're worth a few quid.

We used to have a similar mission statement on Friday nights at the Grasshopper in Westerham when I was a young man.

[redgunamo]

Wayne Rooney too, so I gather. Although you wouldn't think he'd need the money, would you. Just goes to show, you never can tell.


We used to have a similar mission statement on Friday nights at the Grasshopper in Westerham when I was a young man.

[Burney]

Wayne Rooney too, so I gather. Although you wouldn't think he'd need the money, would you. Just goes to show, you never can tell.

Yes. Although of course what we were calling a 'granny' then would have been at least a decade younger than I am now. :-(

[Luis Anaconda]

Rousseau was really not a very nice man. Jung's main claim to fame was not being as dirty-minded as Freud, but he was just as big a bullshítter if you ask me.

I used to quite fancy Martina Hingis, though.
Yeah - but also not a real Swiss. Funnily enough I think she was more attractive when she came out of retirement that time

[IUFG]

I used to quite fancy Martina Hingis, though.

meh. She's no Anna K, imo

https://media.gettyimages.com/photos/anna-kournikova-bends-down-to-pick-up-a-ball-picture-id650774972?s=2048x2048