Dead loved ones.
Many of us have them, some more than others, so let's pour out the grief and see if we can get the fuck over them.
( stuj (^(^;;^)^) GO TEAM SPIDERS!(^(^;;^)^), Tue 17 May 2011, 12:56, 19 replies, latest was 14 years ago)

I prefer to go for the old 'Supress it until it comes out years later in violent rage' technique

( Two Hats 🎩🎩, Tue 17 May 2011, 13:10, Reply)

This is a top MAN answer.
:D
( stuj (^(^;;^)^) GO TEAM SPIDERS!(^(^;;^)^), Tue 17 May 2011, 13:18, Reply)

I considered going with 'I drink until I can't remember'
but then this came to me
( Two Hats 🎩🎩, Tue 17 May 2011, 13:20, Reply)

Today
Is 10 years since my Grandma died. (Genuinely.)

IT. NEVER. GETS. ANY. EASIER.

Seriously though, there's enough pain, suffering and sadness in the world without the need to add more. If you're struggling to get over something, see a professional. Don't ask a bunch of fuckwits (present company not excepted) when they are just as likely to turn around and say "man the fuck up".
(ThatNiceMan thought he was being funny, Tue 17 May 2011, 13:11, Reply)

Meh.
Man the fuck up.
;p
( stuj (^(^;;^)^) GO TEAM SPIDERS!(^(^;;^)^), Tue 17 May 2011, 13:19, Reply)

I miss my Granddad (Taid), who lived down in Wales.
Only really got to see him once a year. Then when we found out he was ill, and went down to see him, he couldn't remember us.
The day before we were due to leave we went to see him and he was a little more with it and gave me a thumbs up. He died the next morning, thank fuck we hadnt left for home or we wouldn't have found out for 12 hours. No mobile phones then.

He was a great guy and I love all my memories of him, from working in the greenhouse, smoking a pipe, playing darts and dominoes, to him burying a carrier bag of potatoes for me to dig up as he hadn't planted any that year.
( Maffers I flow kinda strange like Spina Bifida footprints, Tue 17 May 2011, 13:36, Reply)

I like that potato story.

( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Tue 17 May 2011, 13:42, Reply)

I went running into the house with this bag of spuds, my mum and stepdad pissing themselves laughing.
My nan keeping a straight face and my taid out the back, king of the vegetable patch.
( Maffers I flow kinda strange like Spina Bifida footprints, Tue 17 May 2011, 13:44, Reply)

Were they still in the bag?
He gets extra points if they were.
:D
( stuj (^(^;;^)^) GO TEAM SPIDERS!(^(^;;^)^), Tue 17 May 2011, 13:50, Reply)

Yeah it was a carrier bag full.
I was probably about 5 year old.
( Maffers I flow kinda strange like Spina Bifida footprints, Tue 17 May 2011, 13:52, Reply)

:D
Top granddadding.
( stuj (^(^;;^)^) GO TEAM SPIDERS!(^(^;;^)^), Tue 17 May 2011, 14:06, Reply)

I lost my favourite pen the other week.
It had a highlighter in the other end.

alwez in r harts
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Tue 17 May 2011, 13:41, Reply)

Poor Doc Ess.
WE WIL REMEMBRE!
( stuj (^(^;;^)^) GO TEAM SPIDERS!(^(^;;^)^), Tue 17 May 2011, 13:49, Reply)

my fish died the other week
I wrote a song about the bin I put it in
( glued eel /questions/questionsyoudliketoask/post1648081, Tue 17 May 2011, 13:46, Reply)

Poor fishie.
:(
( stuj (^(^;;^)^) GO TEAM SPIDERS!(^(^;;^)^), Tue 17 May 2011, 13:50, Reply)

Indeed. My 75yo father was chatting the other day about how he'd gone to see the doc to get his cholestrol checked
Turns out he's got a 15% chance of dying of a heart attack.

"Well that's how I'd like to go" said Dad, "Quickly and with the minimum of fuss", and helped himself to some more cream in his coffee.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Tue 17 May 2011, 14:24, Reply)

That's
how mine went.

He was 54 and I was 19. No warning, just alive one moment, gone the next.

21 years later, I'm still bothered by it and it has shaped me to be the fuck-up you see before you today.
( Larry Death Anger Pain Fear Aggression, Tue 17 May 2011, 19:37, Reply)

You need to get over it. It's the circle of life.

( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Wed 18 May 2011, 9:21, Reply)

Ok Simba.... :-D


It's easier said than done, knowing a problem exists isn't the same as having a solution.

It's complex, and I'll save it for this QOTW, if it gets selected, as it would just sound like self-pity here.
( Larry Death Anger Pain Fear Aggression, Wed 18 May 2011, 14:19, Reply)