Reply to: Puts it all into perspective

[EternalOptimist]

As Cojak said, why do we sweat the small things.

I suppose people just have a 'worry level'

there will always be something to worry them, if it's not being eaten by a sabre toothed tiger, it's worrying if there will be enough apple sauce for the pork roast

[norrahe]

Nothing like death or dying to put things in perspective.

I got an e-mail from an old friend a few weeks back, we'd lost touch over the years and it was great to hear from him and I looked forward to resuming correspondence.

About halfway down his e-mail he told me that he was trying to get in touch as he had developed cystic fibrosis and had probably less than a year to live.

What got me was the optimism of it all, this was a guy who had two liver transplants, a quadruple bypass and had died more times on the operating table than he'd cared to remember but he was excited about his bucket list. It seemed the CF had brought back on the cirrhosis that he'd had before his transplants when he was a teenager and the anti rejection drugs had knackered his kidneys.

His musing was that many people who have had transplants often don't get to live a long life and he was going to make the most of what time he had left.

As Cojak said, why do we sweat the small things.

[PAH]

It's no laffing matter.

God help us if you ever start drinking anything stronger than Fosters.

Edit: connect four.

[norrahe]

It's no laffing matter.

I went in for an ingrowing toe-nail and the anaethetist got it wrong. So they thought I was a gonner and stripped me down to the chassis. When they realised they had made a mistake , they had to do a recall on all of the bits.

In the meantime, they had grafted
1. A pair of 3 inch ears onto an african elephant
2. A hyper-active masturbation gland onto a Bonobo monkey
3. A Moustache onto a galapogus tortoise
4. My penis onto a syrian gerbil
5. my liver into George Best

I eventually got them all back except for the liver. I wonder what happened to George ?

My Heart is in Ireland - Brendan Grace - YouTube

[EternalOptimist]

Hmm, not if they are asking whether they can harvest your organs.

It's no laffing matter.

I went in for an ingrowing toe-nail and the anaethetist got it wrong. So they thought I was a gonner and stripped me down to the chassis. When they realised they had made a mistake , they had to do a recall on all of the bits.

In the meantime, they had grafted
1. A pair of 3 inch ears onto an african elephant
2. A hyper-active masturbation gland onto a Bonobo monkey
3. A Moustache onto a galapogus tortoise
4. My penis onto a syrian gerbil
5. my liver into George Best

I eventually got them all back except for the liver. I wonder what happened to George ?

[TimberWolf]

"We don't have time to get written consent, so you'll have to give consent verbally." That one concentrates the mind, although you'd have to be a bloody idiot to say "I'd rather not" if they say that

Hmm, not if they are asking whether they can harvest your organs.

[NickFitz]

"We don't have time to get written consent, so you'll have to give consent verbally." That one concentrates the mind, although you'd have to be a bloody idiot to say "I'd rather not" if they say that

(S)He who is tired of CUK is tired of life.

Still here

[RobertRice]

WRRS.

I was on a picket line on Wednesday supporting some primary school teachers with their kids when all of a sudden a Maserati Granturismo MC Stradale came screeching up, pulled to a halt and two men with machine guns wearing Top Gear t-shirts jumped out and mowed down a dozen of them in cold blood. I then reflected on the family and friends of the deceased. Put my petty worries aside and wondered how much the car cost to insure.

Hope you feel better soon.

x

[MarillionFan]

A few weeks ago the train into work was delayed by a suicide. Lots of tuts in the carriage from people been held up. Initially thought I'm going to be late for a meeting then reflected on the family and friends of the decessed. Put my petty worries about been late for a meeting into perspective.

WRRS.

I was on a picket line on Wednesday supporting some primary school teachers with their kids when all of a sudden a Maserati Granturismo MC Stradale came screeching up, pulled to a halt and two men with machine guns wearing Top Gear t-shirts jumped out and mowed down a dozen of them in cold blood. I then reflected on the family and friends of the deceased. Put my petty worries aside and wondered how much the car cost to insure.

[RobertRice]

A few weeks ago the train into work was delayed by a suicide. Lots of tuts in the carriage from people been held up. Initially thought I'm going to be late for a meeting then reflected on the family and friends of the decessed. Put my petty worries about been late for a meeting into perspective.

[Freamon]

NSFW -Loud

ol man ribber

"Them that plants em is soon forgotten" - indeed.

[PAH]

For some working is the highlight of their life. For others, there's CUK.

[nomadd]

Working from home and writing up my work progress report, wading through office politics and dodgy (non-existant) project plans and milestones.

10 minutes ago got a knock on the door from a neighbour, the neighbour on the other side of us just dropped dead last night, his missus is devastated.

I'm not going to worry about things quite so much as I did an hour ago.

I've worked on two sites as a contractor where I've witnessed permie's have massive heart attacks from very stressful jobs. In both cases, they required quadruple-bypass surgery. One of those guys phoned me at work, in tears, the day before the operation; he and his wife had just signed the papers absolving the hospital of any responsibility should he die during the procedure. His kids had also been at his side (daughter was in tears.)

Never quite looked at work the same way since then... And that was 10 years ago.

Most of the permies at my current site - an IB - think I'm mad when I tell them they are muppets for working 60-80 hours a week for bugger-all bonus or overtime pay.

Ho-hum.

[EternalOptimist]

Occasionally, when life seems to be piling on the agony, I like to go and sit by the sea. The relentless inevitabliity of the waves washes away the worry, after all, in a hundred years time who's going to care about anything I've ever done, but those waves will still be rolling in.

NSFW -Loud

ol man ribber

[PAH]

what a great thing to do we should all take more time to just stand and stare

I thought we already were. Staring at all the sockpuppets crashing on CUK's shores.

In 100 years all that will be left will be AtW still waiting for his new sofa, having been dumped by all his sockies.