Random Rants

Seul

Sounds like the only rational choice.

Cutlasshound

Found out yesterday that my dad has bowel cancer. He's not felt right for the past two years apparently and never went to the bloody doctor as for some bizarre fucking reason both my parents believe that you shouldn't go to the doctor, ever, as they will misdiagnose you.

Didn't stop my mum shouting at him for a solid hour as to why he hadn't been sooner, even though she's the worst culprit (she wouldn't go herself recently and it took the birth of my son to make her go, as she wasn't allowed to see him due to the fact that both her eyes were leaking pus).

Now my mum is talking like the poor bugger is already dead whilst I'm trying to put a positive spin on it for my dads sake and to be supportive but she is relentlessly going through every possible scenario - which includes repeatedly telling all friends and relatives over the phone, to the extent that she is reading them all the medical report in relentless detail, including the fact that my dad has piles. For fucks sake.

Not posting this for sympathy but simply to get it off my fucking chest so apologies!

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mclaincausey

Sorry man. Love and light!

Giles

Mums - who'd have them?…......Come down here and we'll do our best to cheer you up......

Snowy

Sounds like deep down she's extremely sh!t scared of loosing your father and doing a piss poor job of coping with it. Feel for you all mate!

Cutlasshound

Cheers guys much appreciated!

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Seul

Cutlasshound: I would make a very poor "Your mother couldn't stomache the news" joke, but this isn't a laughing matter. I hope this terrible news will be followed up by better news soon.

Megatron1505

Sorry to hear about your troubles mate, hope everything works out for the best.

Cutlasshound

Cheers dudes

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Cutlasshound

Although no reaction will be as thermonuclear as the time when - aged 28 - I told her that if got a three quarter sleeve tattooed!

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Peter

a somewhat more petty little rant.. the weather outside is awesome, the thermometer in my apartment is showing 30 degrees celsius and im trying to write my thesis. fml haha..

Megatron1505

Went outside this morning to find that the metal thing that holds the ridge tiles onto my roof has literally fallen off, exactly on the month that I could have done without ANOTHER bill

seawolf

WTF! Can you get up there and fix it yourself?

Megatron1505

The only things stopping me are….

I have no idea what those things are called, or where to buy a new one. Google has proved surprisingly shit on this task.
I crap myself on ladders.
Pam actually wants a decent job doing of it and not my half asses attempt at building work (you should see the pointing I did, bad enough to get me out of doing construction work for years).

seawolf

You ended up doing your own pointing?

Roofing is such a pain in the ass. fwiw, it doesn't sound like this will be an expensive fix to me.

Megatron1505

I did part of my own pointing, which was so bad that we ended up paying a dude to do the rest

urbanwoodsman

@Megatron1505:

I crap myself on ladders.

I feel your stomach pain.

ky

@Megatron1505:

I have no idea what those things are called, or where to buy a new one. Google has proved surprisingly shit on this task.

if you google roof tile clips there should be a lot of information available, but depending on the type and shape of tile used the clip will differ as well.

i can't help with 2) or 3) though….

Giles

@Megatron1505 may I just point out that @ky is female and appears to know a shit load more about building and DIY than you do…..

Megatron1505

Thanks @ky

@Giles there are otters who know more about DIY than me.

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