So, Mrs Cow's Mam finally passed away yesterday morning
Bit of a relief really. What was the last bad thing to happen to you?

Alt:
What was the last good thing to happen to you?
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Thu 4 Jul 2013, 10:45, 200 replies, latest was 12 years ago)

Well, that would have been when Mrs Cow's mum passed away. I had my ding-dong up her at the time. Very embarassing.
I guess it's probably slightly bad taste to bring that up at the moment though, so I shall just say "flatmate drama".
( Kroney, Thu 4 Jul 2013, 10:47, Reply)

i am too polite and sensistive to make such a crass joke at this difficult time

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Thu 4 Jul 2013, 10:48, Reply)

It's never too early to own up to mistakes.
I'd never dare make a joke.
( Kroney, Thu 4 Jul 2013, 10:49, Reply)

That was you in the mask* at the other end of her?

*MARRsk
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Thu 4 Jul 2013, 10:48, Reply)

The old dear I was having sex with dying before I had finished.
Alt: Finishing anyway.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Thu 4 Jul 2013, 10:47, Reply)

The old MARR

( Kroney, Thu 4 Jul 2013, 10:48, Reply)

traffic was a bit shit this morning and I missed breakfast
alt: getting to second stage interview for a new job
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Thu 4 Jul 2013, 10:47, Reply)

Bad: I had to come to work today
Good: my kid's ninja suit, sword and DVD of Dougal & the Blue Cat have all arrived.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 4 Jul 2013, 10:52, Reply)

my tie clip still hasn't arrived : (

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Thu 4 Jul 2013, 10:52, Reply)

Tie clips are for pricks anyway, you've had a lucky escape.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 4 Jul 2013, 10:53, Reply)

incorrect

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Thu 4 Jul 2013, 10:54, Reply)

You're still a prick?

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Thu 4 Jul 2013, 10:55, Reply)

correct
alright you woven willow wanker
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Thu 4 Jul 2013, 10:56, Reply)

Sorry Nakers, but he's right.
They're either for people whose ties are a health risk yet whose bosses still insist they wear one (meaning they work for a company that treats its staff like disposable resources and are therefore probably an ill-educated knuckledragger) or for people who can't be bothered to tie a proper tie and the less said about them, the better.
( Kroney, Thu 4 Jul 2013, 10:55, Reply)

I beleive that was the straw that broke PJ's marriage
still you are also incorrect, but thanks for playing
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Thu 4 Jul 2013, 10:57, Reply)

Textbook response

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Thu 4 Jul 2013, 11:01, Reply)

The only other possible group I can think of that might require a clip-on
are male strippers. This second interview you're having, it's not for a career change, is it?
( Kroney, Thu 4 Jul 2013, 11:03, Reply)

i do have the body of an olympic diver and the cock of an OX...

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Thu 4 Jul 2013, 11:04, Reply)

Are you confusing a tie clip with a clip-on tie?

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Thu 4 Jul 2013, 11:07, Reply)

i'm not stunned postetr

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Thu 4 Jul 2013, 11:08, Reply)

He is.

(PsychoChomp, Thu 4 Jul 2013, 11:09, Reply)

this would explain what he was blithering on about

( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 4 Jul 2013, 11:26, Reply)

RIP Mrs Cow's Mam.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 4 Jul 2013, 10:53, Reply)

WIV DA UNGULATES NOW :'(

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Thu 4 Jul 2013, 10:55, Reply)

very good

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Thu 4 Jul 2013, 10:55, Reply)

Indeed this
Quite pleased its all over with now. That's been a hard 3 months
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Thu 4 Jul 2013, 10:55, Reply)

that is an impressive erection

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Thu 4 Jul 2013, 10:57, Reply)

I'm sure, man.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 4 Jul 2013, 10:57, Reply)

Sorry dude.
Why good? Was she suffering, or did you just not like her?
(Pookie Bear had some very shiny foez, Thu 4 Jul 2013, 10:56, Reply)

She had lung cancer which spread to her brain
Lost all movement down her right hand side, was bed bound and in pain
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Thu 4 Jul 2013, 10:59, Reply)

Yeah when they're fucked, thr Grim Reaper can be a blessing.

(Pookie Bear had some very shiny foez, Thu 4 Jul 2013, 11:08, Reply)

I felt sorry for her Dad
He's been her 24 hour carer for all this time
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Thu 4 Jul 2013, 11:09, Reply)

i understand from my friend whose mum died of lung cancer (she never smoked in her life, but her dad was and is a 30 a day man, and he's fine...)
from what she said, lung cancer is king of all the cunt cancers
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 4 Jul 2013, 11:22, Reply)

So not smoking is worse for you than smoking?

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Thu 4 Jul 2013, 11:23, Reply)

That's what did for Roy Castle

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 4 Jul 2013, 11:24, Reply)

i think pancreatic is the quickest to kill

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Thu 4 Jul 2013, 11:27, Reply)

I think in cancer terms, dying quickly is preferable.

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Thu 4 Jul 2013, 11:30, Reply)

Well, not preferable to it clearing up and never bothering you again, but you know what I mean.

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Thu 4 Jul 2013, 11:31, Reply)

another friend of mine was in charge of clinical trials for cancer drugs
she said the average time they bought patients was 5 years, and really, you wouldn't want the last 4 years and 6 months. it's a fucking evil disease.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 4 Jul 2013, 11:47, Reply)

This is what annoys me so much about people whining that they can't get drugs on the NHS.
If there was actual proof that these significantly helped extend your life, they would be available, but they don't in any meaningful way, but people aren't willing to listen to reason.
( Bazongaloid, Thu 4 Jul 2013, 12:00, Reply)

ssg is still alive though

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 4 Jul 2013, 13:08, Reply)

I'm sorry to hear this. I bet Mrs Cow is devastated.
There was this time when I was really happy that it was Friday then someone pointed out that it was in fact Thursday and proceeded to torment me about it, it was horrible, horrible I tell you I never want to have to go through a day like that again.

Alt: I found a £20 note in my pocket, does that count?
( hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Thu 4 Jul 2013, 10:58, Reply)

she'll feel better once the grieving dividend kicks in

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Thu 4 Jul 2013, 10:59, Reply)

Her Dad is still kicking around
He's as tight a Yorkshire man as they come!
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Thu 4 Jul 2013, 11:01, Reply)

kick skip
+ around in a circle

He's as tight a Yorkshire man as they come
( hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Thu 4 Jul 2013, 11:24, Reply)

Any note found in a pocket counts as FREE MONEY
even though it is yours
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Thu 4 Jul 2013, 11:02, Reply)

It's was in a pair of trousers that had been washed, I have a small zip up pocket at the back and there it was \o/

( hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Thu 4 Jul 2013, 11:11, Reply)

were they red?

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Thu 4 Jul 2013, 11:29, Reply)

So the money has been laundered

( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Thu 4 Jul 2013, 11:41, Reply)

I've got tomorrow off so it's basically friday.

(PsychoChomp, Thu 4 Jul 2013, 11:09, Reply)

:(

( hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Thu 4 Jul 2013, 11:10, Reply)

Me too

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Thu 4 Jul 2013, 11:11, Reply)

The worst thing is apart from Christmas, I have not used any of my annual leave
yet since November last year.
( hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Thu 4 Jul 2013, 11:23, Reply)

I NEED SOME TIME OFF :(

( hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Thu 4 Jul 2013, 11:26, Reply)

have you thought about killing yourself, then you'll have eternity off

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Thu 4 Jul 2013, 11:29, Reply)

No, no I haven't
I still have my bucket list to work through


And by bucket list I mean the females in your family
( hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Thu 4 Jul 2013, 11:38, Reply)

i've got tomorrow off
which means running along the river, then shopping, then dinner out, then a party on a boat. it'll be just like it's saturday. except that, you know, it's not...
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 4 Jul 2013, 11:18, Reply)

lots of sympathy for mrs cow
especially for the 6-12 month bit, that's the darkest part, when it truly sinks in just as most people stop asking how you are.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 4 Jul 2013, 11:21, Reply)

I know
That'll be fun
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Thu 4 Jul 2013, 11:30, Reply)

Yesterday I went to a new "barbers". It was a hair salon but they were offering mens haircuts for only a fiver.
As I sat down I had a horrible feeling that this was a really shit idea as the guy seemed really nervous and actually asked me if I knew that a no.2 grade was really quite short.

I reckon that if you're going to offer mens haircuts, it would be a good idea to at least once in your life to have been to an actual barbers and have a hair cut.

This guy clearly hadn't. He was holding the clippers so nervously and his hads were actually shaking. He made no effort to tidy the hair around my ears and when he started cutting the top of my hair he didn't bother wetting it and combing it straight, he just start hacking away at it with his shaking hands.

I ended up with the hair on one side of my head noticeablly longer than the other.

Luckily this morning I went back to my normal barbers and paid the guy there twice as much as yesterdays haircut to make it look better.

tl:dr Me and Gonz are going to the cinema to see Pacific Rim. Yes, me and Gonz are getting in on some Rim action.
( Bazongaloid, Thu 4 Jul 2013, 11:34, Reply)

I went to a Turkish barbers at Christmas and was more than mildly alarmed when he set fire to my ears

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Thu 4 Jul 2013, 11:37, Reply)

what do you expect for a fiver?

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Thu 4 Jul 2013, 11:37, Reply)

A pint, a bag of peanuts and some change.

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Thu 4 Jul 2013, 11:40, Reply)

or a blowjob off your mum



and sister
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Thu 4 Jul 2013, 11:42, Reply)

Same person

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Thu 4 Jul 2013, 11:42, Reply)

Don't be silly
I pay family rates.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Thu 4 Jul 2013, 11:49, Reply)

£4.60 for a pint of Kroneybourg at Centerparcs the other week :o(

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Thu 4 Jul 2013, 11:42, Reply)

Kronenbourg is grim at any price

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Thu 4 Jul 2013, 11:43, Reply)

meh
More for me
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Thu 4 Jul 2013, 11:44, Reply)

Seize c'est merde, mais les petites bouteilles de la normale ne sont pas mauvais, quand il fait beau

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Thu 4 Jul 2013, 11:48, Reply)

I like Kronenbourg.
Better than Stella
(PsychoChomp, Thu 4 Jul 2013, 11:53, Reply)

what hair?

( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 4 Jul 2013, 11:48, Reply)

ball

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Thu 4 Jul 2013, 11:49, Reply)

ball hair is the worst.

( Kroney, Thu 4 Jul 2013, 12:07, Reply)

Stick in your teeth does it?

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Thu 4 Jul 2013, 12:09, Reply)

he knits it into cardigans

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Thu 4 Jul 2013, 12:12, Reply)

That film looks awesome.
Del Toro makes proper visual films so it will be mega.

Giant monsters vs giant robots. What more do you need?

Apart from a storyline.
( GeordieJay Bummers are deaf, Thu 4 Jul 2013, 11:57, Reply)

You don't need a plot if you have giant robots and explosions.
Any attempt at a story is merely a device to carry you from one giant robot explosion to another.
( Kroney, Thu 4 Jul 2013, 12:00, Reply)

this is waht made Transformers such a classic

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Thu 4 Jul 2013, 12:02, Reply)

Exactly!
That Michael Bay knows how to do big robots and explosions.
( Kroney, Thu 4 Jul 2013, 12:06, Reply)

He also knows how to rape classic horrors.

( GeordieJay Bummers are deaf, Thu 4 Jul 2013, 12:08, Reply)

I don't watch horror films, so he's never offended me with them.

( Kroney, Thu 4 Jul 2013, 12:11, Reply)

You too scared?

( Bazongaloid, Thu 4 Jul 2013, 12:13, Reply)

Pretty much, yeah.
I don't see the attraction in paying money to be scared.
( Kroney, Thu 4 Jul 2013, 12:24, Reply)

large sweet popcorn, mixed fizzy slush puppy, imax glasses.

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Thu 4 Jul 2013, 12:00, Reply)

Gonz, is your name change a refernce to a new Magicians book coming out by any chance?

( Bazongaloid, Thu 4 Jul 2013, 12:02, Reply)

Yup ! The Lev said the new book is "due in august", I think that means he's got to hand it to his publishers then, so that's when i'm going to re-read both of them for the 6th time (I don't think thats an exasoration).

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Thu 4 Jul 2013, 12:08, Reply)

Oh cool.
I didn't like the second one as much as the first, it felt a bit of a rehash in parts, but the bit in the first book when they guy gets his hands bitten off was really gripping and properly unpleasant.
( Bazongaloid, Thu 4 Jul 2013, 12:13, Reply)

Yeah', I'm with you on that, there was too much of the book in Follory, it got a bit tedious when searching for the keys, especially at the end when the sea started to run out.
But Julia's bit with the rejects was good, I loved the bits with the europen mythical creatures and assended humans... and it was pretty grim when Raynold appeared.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Thu 4 Jul 2013, 12:19, Reply)

Yeah, but at the same time, it was essentially a similar description to that when the baddie appeared in the first one
even down to the thrashing legs and snuffling noises made when he broke the guys neck.
( Bazongaloid, Thu 4 Jul 2013, 12:23, Reply)

It was a bit, but it takes me a good month or two to read a book, so they didn't come to quick for me.

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Thu 4 Jul 2013, 12:38, Reply)

And good seats.
Twice Ive been second row from the front in the corner at an IMAX screening. You get quite a sore neck after a three hour film.
( GeordieJay Bummers are deaf, Thu 4 Jul 2013, 12:06, Reply)

I've never been to Imax
tru stry
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Thu 4 Jul 2013, 12:07, Reply)

Just a bigger screen and louder explosions and suchlike

( GeordieJay Bummers are deaf, Thu 4 Jul 2013, 12:07, Reply)

and how many pounds extra?

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Thu 4 Jul 2013, 12:08, Reply)

I bet I would still sleep through out the whole thing :(

( hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Thu 4 Jul 2013, 12:09, Reply)

Depends on the cinema.
I also got caught up in the D-Box moving seats hype. Only works for action films really.

Im a member at Cineworld so it's only a quid or so more for me.
( GeordieJay Bummers are deaf, Thu 4 Jul 2013, 12:12, Reply)

They got one about 15m bus ride from me, so i've never had a bad seat. All their seats have loads of leg room too.
I always get an end seat in the middle.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Thu 4 Jul 2013, 12:15, Reply)

Stringer Bell

(PsychoChomp, Thu 4 Jul 2013, 12:19, Reply)

Condolences. Mind, losing the mother in law is what most men dream of.
Last bad thing was the death of a friend last year. Quite young, quite tragic.

Last good thing was my surprise trip to Paris.

Life generally mills along at a happy pace though. Make the best of what you have innit.
( GeordieJay Bummers are deaf, Thu 4 Jul 2013, 11:54, Reply)

What if what you have is cancer?

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Thu 4 Jul 2013, 11:55, Reply)

Then you make the most of your time left
while being in incredible pain until you last, gasping, torturous breath.
( GeordieJay Bummers are deaf, Thu 4 Jul 2013, 11:58, Reply)

GAIDs strikes again : (

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Thu 4 Jul 2013, 11:57, Reply)

Can you imagine :(
Put something on the end of it!
( GeordieJay Bummers are deaf, Thu 4 Jul 2013, 12:07, Reply)

Wrap it up before you slap it up

/Westwood
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Thu 4 Jul 2013, 12:08, Reply)

Beyoncé Knowles
STD awareness message was somewhat confusing
( hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Thu 4 Jul 2013, 12:09, Reply)

Ha!

( GeordieJay Bummers are deaf, Thu 4 Jul 2013, 12:12, Reply)

My condolensces
I have a different view on death to a lot of people close to me, which makes it difficult sometimes, as I don't really know what to say.
It's a sort of "Don't miss them when they're gone, just be thankful that you knew them at all" type thing. Ashes to ashes, and all that.
We're just dust in the wind, dude. Dust.....wind.
( Two Hats 🎩🎩, Thu 4 Jul 2013, 12:12, Reply)

Or you could go down the middle eastern route
And scream in the street until you feel better. I can see how that might help some people.
( Two Hats 🎩🎩, Thu 4 Jul 2013, 12:13, Reply)

screaming in the street is their answer to everything

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 4 Jul 2013, 12:33, Reply)

I know, bloody savages

( Two Hats 🎩🎩, Thu 4 Jul 2013, 12:41, Reply)

TWOEY \o/

( hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Thu 4 Jul 2013, 12:13, Reply)

Hey you
What's the happy haps Harters?
( Two Hats 🎩🎩, Thu 4 Jul 2013, 12:14, Reply)

Well I thought it was Friday and they all reminded me it was only Thursday,
THURSDAY Twoey and, and I don't even have any chicken for lunch, life can be so unfair :(
( hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Thu 4 Jul 2013, 12:16, Reply)

That is literally the most tragic story I've ever heard
How, in 2013, can someone like you be deprived of something as simple as chicken? THANKS DAVID CAMEWRONG!
( Two Hats 🎩🎩, Thu 4 Jul 2013, 12:19, Reply)

I tell you who has the right idea about Chicken Thursdays
That Colonel Sanders guy
( hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Thu 4 Jul 2013, 12:23, Reply)

RIP

( Two Hats 🎩🎩, Thu 4 Jul 2013, 12:25, Reply)

Oh, I did wonder what Cameron's press nickname would be.
It seems so obvious, in hindsight.
( Kroney, Thu 4 Jul 2013, 12:25, Reply)

and the NO-alition, maybe?
Can't think of non-crude one for Clegg.
( Two Hats 🎩🎩, Thu 4 Jul 2013, 12:28, Reply)

Nick Dregg?
like the stuff at the bottom of a barrel?
( Kroney, Thu 4 Jul 2013, 12:29, Reply)

Ooh, good
Yeah, that'll work
( Two Hats 🎩🎩, Thu 4 Jul 2013, 12:30, Reply)

Is she in Wales? Watch out if she is, they'll have her non cancer ridden organs out before she's cold.

( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Thu 4 Jul 2013, 12:14, Reply)

So what?
Organ donation is a good thing.
( Bazongaloid, Thu 4 Jul 2013, 12:17, Reply)

They won't use cancer patients organs anyway. Either their riddled with cancer, drenched in chemo or radioactive.

(PsychoChomp, Thu 4 Jul 2013, 12:19, Reply)

Yeah! And I bet they do it caerphilly there

( Reginald Donkeyfuck, Thu 4 Jul 2013, 12:19, Reply)

You'd think that, but I've seen a leeked document

( Two Hats 🎩🎩, Thu 4 Jul 2013, 12:37, Reply)

Nothing wrong. If you've given consent.

( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Thu 4 Jul 2013, 12:20, Reply)

Which is why consent is assumed unless you take steps to say you don't.
There is nothing wrong with this situation at all.
( Bazongaloid, Thu 4 Jul 2013, 12:22, Reply)

Wasn't it 'assumed consent' that got chompy into trouble?

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Thu 4 Jul 2013, 12:25, Reply)

Ha ha

( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Thu 4 Jul 2013, 12:27, Reply)

Whilst I'm largely for organ donation and won't be personally opting out if they introduce it over here
I'm not sure I entirely like the undertone that the law carries with it, which is that the state owns your organs unless told otherwise.
( Kroney, Thu 4 Jul 2013, 12:27, Reply)

This.

( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Thu 4 Jul 2013, 12:27, Reply)

The NHS isn't the state.

(PsychoChomp, Thu 4 Jul 2013, 12:28, Reply)

It's in a fucking state
\o/
( hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Thu 4 Jul 2013, 12:30, Reply)

Mmmmm....that's some good satire

( Two Hats 🎩🎩, Thu 4 Jul 2013, 12:30, Reply)

chomps is like the best wing man EVAH
he sets them up..........
( hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Thu 4 Jul 2013, 12:31, Reply)

Regardless, the idea is that the legal owner of the organs
isn't the person that grew them unless they specifically say that they want to hang onto them.
( Kroney, Thu 4 Jul 2013, 12:30, Reply)

Even If that's true, what does it matter?
You're dead. You don't need them, someone else does. Until they start taking them from me while I'm alive, I couldn't give a shit.
( Two Hats 🎩🎩, Thu 4 Jul 2013, 12:32, Reply)

Some people will have a problem with a recently deceased person being harvested
for whatever's still of value. It's rather...mucky, ethically speaking.
( Kroney, Thu 4 Jul 2013, 12:34, Reply)

True, people of a spiritiual or religious bent are going to have a problem with this
And that's fine...they have the choice to opt out. I guess that's who this whole thing is about. The people that DON'T want to leave their organs.
( Two Hats 🎩🎩, Thu 4 Jul 2013, 12:35, Reply)

It isn't at all mucky ethically speaking.

( Bazongaloid, Thu 4 Jul 2013, 12:36, Reply)

In my mind, the undertone is that they want to ensure that plenty of organs are available in order to save lives
I don't think it's as entirely cloak & dagger as the press want us to believe.
( Two Hats 🎩🎩, Thu 4 Jul 2013, 12:29, Reply)

Sure, I'm not against it as a concept.
But I can understand the problem some people have with it. It is a rather dictatorial move. Whether the intentions are good or not doesn't stop it being so.
( Kroney, Thu 4 Jul 2013, 12:31, Reply)

If they weren't giving us the option of opting out, I'd agree, but they are.
They're giving us the option.
( Two Hats 🎩🎩, Thu 4 Jul 2013, 12:34, Reply)

I don't want to get all conspiratorial over it because I genuinely don't believe this is a bad move,
I'm just saying I can see why certain people might have an issue with it.

Suppose large numbers of people opt out, would they cancel the law or cancel the right to opt out? The precedent is already in place that shows the legality of the NHS or the state owning your kidneys. The argument will be, as now, that a living person needs a dead person's organs more than the original owner. Suddenly the population has lost control of what happens to their own bodies after death.

Again, I'm not against the law. I'm not suggesting that I seriously believe the above will occur. I'm just saying I can kind of get why people might not be altogether welcoming over it.
( Kroney, Thu 4 Jul 2013, 12:38, Reply)

But that's not the law, and that wouldn't become the law because the element of consent will always be kept
You could just as easily suggest that, what if they change the law to make everyone where clear plastic clothes in case you carry a hidden weapon. Yes, theoretically it could happen if all the MPs decided to vote for it, but in reality it would never happen. Same with organ donation, there will always be the option of consent.

This simply makes it more likely that people who don't have a problem with it, but who didn't bother getting a donor card, will end up donating their organs.
( Bazongaloid, Thu 4 Jul 2013, 12:41, Reply)

It's not though, is it?
You still have a choice, your family can still opt out after you are dead.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Thu 4 Jul 2013, 12:35, Reply)

This is the problem
A lot of people I've heard complaing about this are saying "MAYBE I DON'T WANT TO LEAVE MY ORGANS TO SOMEONE"...well that's what this initiative is about. Giving you the choice to opt out. What more can they do?
( Two Hats 🎩🎩, Thu 4 Jul 2013, 12:36, Reply)

Unless you're a tinfoil hat wearing fuckhead
it's perfectly obvious that this provides a benefit with no downside. I daresay people who take Captain Placids view that if someone asks you to do something you will refuse out sheer cuntymindedness will get their knickers in a twist, but the vast majority of people will see this for what it is, an attempt to allow very sick people a chance of living.
( Bazongaloid, Thu 4 Jul 2013, 12:35, Reply)

the downside is going to be when someone hasn't given consent and the family of the deceased is devastated when only a shell of a human is returned to them

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Thu 4 Jul 2013, 12:51, Reply)

I have a donor card in my wallet, but I very rearly carry my wallet with me.
Time is quite important for harvesting your organs, they are welcome to mine after death, I would hate to think that process was hindered by this and that someone would be deprived of what I could give after death
( hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Thu 4 Jul 2013, 12:55, Reply)

They won't know will they,

( Bazongaloid, Thu 4 Jul 2013, 12:55, Reply)

of course they will, taking the organs and not telling anyone is fucking creepy

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Thu 4 Jul 2013, 12:56, Reply)

Also, I'm pretty sure the family can still remove consent after death if they are such selfish cunts.

( Bazongaloid, Thu 4 Jul 2013, 12:57, Reply)

I might opt out just to annoy you.

( Kroney, Thu 4 Jul 2013, 13:01, Reply)

there is a jodi piccoult book about a little girl who needs a heart transplant
and the available match is from a convict on death row

quite interesting reading
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 4 Jul 2013, 13:03, Reply)

But what's left isn't the person.
The person is gone. What's left behind just *looks like the person.

Unless they died of something horrific, in which case it quite often doesn't.
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Thu 4 Jul 2013, 12:59, Reply)

I reckon if you're bothered enough by it, then you'd pipe up.
I'd rather someone feel uncomfortable at someone knicking their wobbly bits than someone with broken wobbly bits goes dead.

I don't reckon this is the same as property and assets though, i'd be upset if they get returned to the needy.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Thu 4 Jul 2013, 12:43, Reply)

Can I opt out of giving mine to a brown person?

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Thu 4 Jul 2013, 12:45, Reply)

or a poor person who has destroyed their liver and lungs with high strength cider and cheap fags?

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Thu 4 Jul 2013, 12:47, Reply)

or anyone fat

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Thu 4 Jul 2013, 12:52, Reply)

i do not get why anyone is dumb enough to smoke in this day and age - it's expensive, looks bad, stinks, makes you a dreadful kisser because you taste like shit, and it's bad for you
if smokers realised how genuinely offensive they smell, i wonder if they'd do it. the lifts in this place reek of it, however hard the poor cleaners work.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 4 Jul 2013, 12:55, Reply)

Especially rollies yeah? Am I right? rollies?

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Thu 4 Jul 2013, 12:57, Reply)

I'm going to smoke rollies when I go to a festival.
It's what I do.
( Bazongaloid, Thu 4 Jul 2013, 12:57, Reply)

rollies look worse
but are they worse - i guess it depends if you put filters in them or not
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 4 Jul 2013, 12:58, Reply)

One of my ex-girlfriends enjoyed watching me smoke
though I didn't enjoy it much. Put a weird sort of performance anxiety on me "am I smoking this right? does it look good? oh god I hope she doesn't notice that I'm finding this really weird and uncomfortable".

True story.
( Kroney, Thu 4 Jul 2013, 12:58, Reply)

she was imagining you sucking a really small penis

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Thu 4 Jul 2013, 12:59, Reply)

Well, she had to put p with doing that for realsies, so I guess that's fair enough.

( Kroney, Thu 4 Jul 2013, 13:00, Reply)

that is fucking weird
almost as weird as going out with you in the first place
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 4 Jul 2013, 12:59, Reply)

There could possibly be an addiction element

(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Thu 4 Jul 2013, 13:43, Reply)

Very sorry / relieved to hear that, old chap.
Now comes your hard work, as you support her through the grieving, forgive the erratic mood swings, look after the kids, and try not to put your foot in it whilst still knowing that a lot of pain is going to be taken out on you anyway.

Still, on the plus side, you've been married for years so you should be used to all that.

Alt: job. yay.
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Thu 4 Jul 2013, 12:57, Reply)

You make it sound like his wife's pregnant.

( Kroney, Thu 4 Jul 2013, 13:02, Reply)

What can I tell you?
Bitches be trippin'.
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Thu 4 Jul 2013, 13:06, Reply)

Bitches fucking better not be.....

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Thu 4 Jul 2013, 13:07, Reply)