My boyfriend's cousin is coming over from Canada to stay with us
and he's just told me she suffers from short term memory loss.

It's like a setup to a bad comedy film. And he says I'm not allowed to have fun with it because it's "insensitive".
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 9:10, 3 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

It's OK
You can take the piss - she'll forget about it soon enough.
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 9:13, Reply)

that's what I said!
and he said she was kosher Jewish so she can't eat meat and dairy within 2 hours of each other (what a stupid rule), so I said "how will she remember?"
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 9:21, Reply)

We used to make our Am keep a cigarette diary so that she didn't chainsmoke

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 9:22, Reply)

I bet that was depressing reading

( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 9:27, Reply)

Why don't you poke her with a stick when she's not looking.

(PsychoChomp, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 9:14, Reply)

I prefer to wait until they are looking
it confuses them.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 9:20, Reply)

I like the way you refer to people with a mental illness as "them"

(PsychoChomp, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 9:21, Reply)

I just meant people in general
I should have said one. I prefer to wait until one is looking.

No, I don't mean 'one mental person'.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 9:21, Reply)

But you're looking forward to mocking a guest in your house with a mental illness.
That's ok then.
(PsychoChomp, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 9:24, Reply)

oh for god's sake
you're such a miserable fuck sometimes
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 9:25, Reply)

:D

(PsychoChomp, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 9:26, Reply)

I think he's depressed again
Depression is a mental illness, so just don't start on him, right?
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 9:28, Reply)

I'm going to poke him with a stick

( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 9:29, Reply)

You want locking up you do

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 9:31, Reply)

Don't you think "diagnosing" me with depression
after reading a few posts I've written on here is a bit insulting to anyone/everyone who has actually got depression. Which is almost certainly someone who's reading this?
(PsychoChomp, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 9:31, Reply)

This is B3ta
Didn't you know we can diagnose ANYTHING within three posts
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 9:32, Reply)

Kitty has ricketts

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 9:35, Reply)

haha
I do so have ricketts!

My legs are like a wishbone.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 9:36, Reply)

could you stop a pig in a passageway?

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 9:37, Reply)

haha
are you coming on to me Mr Vipros?
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 9:38, Reply)

that depends....
I mean, obviously I know you are interested...
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 9:40, Reply)

it's all that pig in a passageway talk, got me all hot and bothered
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 9:42, Reply)

have you had to loosen your bodice?

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 9:46, Reply)

I wish I actually looked the way you probably think I do!

( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 9:47, Reply)

we've all seen you half naked

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 9:54, Reply)

oh and I dreamt about raptors
eating kittens last night, so I wouldn't read too much into my subconscious.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 9:42, Reply)

I'm knock-kneed!

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 9:37, Reply)

I diagnose
chronic narcissism
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 9:35, Reply)

With a side-diagnosis of
curmudgeonly old cunt
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 9:37, Reply)

People get very defensive when you point out
what they're doing isn't actually a nice thing to do.
(PsychoChomp, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 9:41, Reply)

the secret is not to care

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 9:45, Reply)

but it's pretty obvious that when I talk about mocking someone for an affliction
that I'm not actually going to do it. You always 'point out' to people the questionable morality of what they're talking about and completely ignore the fact that it's b3ta and they're obviously joking. Any time anyone makes a joke about doing something reprehensible you always come over all serious and say "that's a horrible thing to do". Really sucks the fun out of the forum sometimes.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 9:45, Reply)

You're the second easiest person to wind up on offtopic.

(PsychoChomp, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 9:47, Reply)

you're the second most annoying person on offtopic

( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 9:47, Reply)

Reread everyone of my posts while repeating
"it's b3ta and they're obviously joking" in your head.
(PsychoChomp, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 9:51, Reply)

who is most annoying?
it's roota isn't it?
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 9:54, Reply)

EH!

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 10:07, Reply)

hahahaha

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 10:13, Reply)

My godmother's got short-term amnesia after an aneurism
It's fucking hilarious.
My nana says things like "Oh, Am, could you remind me to take out the bins later?" and she juts her bottom lip out and goes "Are you being fucking funny?" but she's only messing about.
She loves playing charades but does Little House on the Prairie, Jaws, Brookside, and I Have Nothing (by WhitneyHouston) EVERY time.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 9:17, Reply)

haha win
I don't know how bad it is, although she's travelling alone so I would assume it doesn't get in the way of day-to-day activity.

I'm not allowed to make her watch Memento though.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 9:23, Reply)

Haha
We'd rather not let her travel alone. She has frontal lobe damage so it also affects her inhibitions, so she likes to talk to strangers and is a bit trusting. So not only could she forget where she's going, but she culd also be taken advantage of. She occasionally gets the bus a couple of stops, but she got lost last August Bank Holiday and it was too stressful.

Her SuperSkill after surgery was linedancing. It's hardly a bionic eye, but it'll do.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 9:26, Reply)

That's the thing, I don't know how bad it is
apparently it was after suffering meningitis as a child, so she's had it for a long time, but I don't know how bad it is. Her family have only just mentioned it so I can only assume that means it's not like Memento bad or anything.

She wants me to take her round all the cathedrals and historical sites in Manchester, I'm wondering if I can just walk around for a couple of hours and then tell her she's seen them hehe
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 9:29, Reply)

Haha, just get a rolling wall of scenery
Like in Scooby Doo
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 9:31, Reply)

I'm imagining that rattly drum sound
like you hear when cartoon characters run.
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 9:33, Reply)

Hahahahah

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 9:34, Reply)

yeah fuck the cathedral
let's go down to old Mr Willikins' factory!

Jinkies! A clue!
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 9:37, Reply)

Pull your mask off
And within five mins she'll have forgotten anyway.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 9:39, Reply)

*runs*
Like this
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 9:40, Reply)

I'm at work
so I can't listen to that, sorry
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 9:46, Reply)