More sad than shameful
My mum's uncle had some sort of breakdown when his wife died prematurely. Treatment in those days was not particularly sympathetic to the mentally ill and ultimately, after several incidents involving the police, had a lobotomy. When we used to visit him when I was very young he lived in a grim tower block in Sunderland and had literally no posessions. He was the smelly mental bloke who all the local kids would tease and throw things at. He would always concoct some long-winded story for my mum to persuade her to give him some cash (which she always had intended to do anyway). It used to break my heart as a small boy to see this strange man with a thick Sunderland accent which I could barely understand.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Wed 7 Dec 2011, 15:02, 4 replies, latest was 14 years ago)

Cheerful story.
Got any more like that?
(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Wed 7 Dec 2011, 15:05, Reply)

: (

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Wed 7 Dec 2011, 15:05, Reply)

What annoys me is that the council give these people tower block residencies,
but he refused to make use of the facilities and actually jump out of the window.
There's no pleasing depressives.
(The Personality Horse www.tinyurl.com/perhor, Wed 7 Dec 2011, 15:06, Reply)

Says the man who is off his tits on Prozac.

(The Personality Horse www.tinyurl.com/perhor, Wed 7 Dec 2011, 15:08, Reply)

Fuck you.

(The Personality Horse www.tinyurl.com/perhor, Wed 7 Dec 2011, 15:08, Reply)

No, fuck you.

(The Personality Horse www.tinyurl.com/perhor, Wed 7 Dec 2011, 15:08, Reply)

after genetic testing and some genealogy research i discovered that i am a direct descendent of kublai khan
but NOT related to Ghengis
(Quintno EXPERIMENT RUINED CANCELLED, LEFT 4EVER, Wed 7 Dec 2011, 15:10, Reply)

'Twas four AM in Xanadu
When, by stately decree,
Kubla Khan opened fire
On Cliff Richard OBE
(The Personality Horse www.tinyurl.com/perhor, Wed 7 Dec 2011, 15:11, Reply)

four of my uncles invented the iron nail, simultaneously at different locations
before that people used blu tack for everything
(Quintno EXPERIMENT RUINED CANCELLED, LEFT 4EVER, Wed 7 Dec 2011, 15:12, Reply)

Blu Tac?
Spack attack.
(The Personality Horse www.tinyurl.com/perhor, Wed 7 Dec 2011, 15:13, Reply)

neil buchanan birthed my hamster

(Quintno EXPERIMENT RUINED CANCELLED, LEFT 4EVER, Wed 7 Dec 2011, 15:14, Reply)

I had an uncle who was scotch.
I couldn't understand him. My brother had to translate for me. I really liked him. He didn't have a breakdown or a lobotomy though.
He didn't even have a garden.
(The Personality Horse www.tinyurl.com/perhor, Wed 7 Dec 2011, 15:10, Reply)

The scotch have their own language, it's English mixed with
alcohol
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Wed 7 Dec 2011, 15:24, Reply)

FUCKYOUYAARSEHOLE!
*drops bottle of Buckfast*

*pisses self*
(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Wed 7 Dec 2011, 15:55, Reply)

*wonders which tower block that would be*

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Wed 7 Dec 2011, 15:23, Reply)

Was that you chucking stones?
Y'little basta'
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Wed 7 Dec 2011, 15:45, Reply)

Not me guv
All bar one of the tower blocks in Sunderland are on the other side of the river from where I grew up and where the other one was is far too dangerous to go round!
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Wed 7 Dec 2011, 15:51, Reply)

From what I remember it all looked terrifyingly dangerous round there
But then I had never been in a tower block before.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Wed 7 Dec 2011, 15:53, Reply)

Whereabouts was this exactly?
I'm interested!
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Wed 7 Dec 2011, 15:54, Reply)

'Fraid I can't narrow it down anymore than: Sunderland
I was no more than 10 or 11 the last time we went there.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Wed 7 Dec 2011, 15:56, Reply)