| Gallows humour.... 10:51 - Oct 12 with 891 views | Bloots |
....I was chatting to my elderly neighbour at the weekend.
When I enquired about her family, she told me that her daughter in law had tested positive for the rona.
I asked if she was OK and she replied by saying:
"Oooh she's riddled with it"
I keep giggling to myself about it.
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| Gallows humour.... on 10:59 - Oct 12 with 826 views | BlueBadger |
Once had a gentleman refuse further(increasingly unpleasant) life-saving treatment on the grounds that he'd had a long, happy life and was b*ggered if he was going to end it in an uncomfortable, undignified fashion.
His final comment at the end of the discussion to me and the attending registrar was 'now, can you two f*ck off, I need to read the final chapter of this bloody book before I shuffle off'. [Post edited 12 Oct 2020 11:08]
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| You undoubtedly are a bad man on 13:06 - Oct 12 with 646 views | factual_blue |
....but not because you giggled at that. |  |
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| Gallows humour.... on 13:44 - Oct 12 with 572 views | NthQldITFC |
| Gallows humour.... on 10:59 - Oct 12 by BlueBadger |
Once had a gentleman refuse further(increasingly unpleasant) life-saving treatment on the grounds that he'd had a long, happy life and was b*ggered if he was going to end it in an uncomfortable, undignified fashion.
His final comment at the end of the discussion to me and the attending registrar was 'now, can you two f*ck off, I need to read the final chapter of this bloody book before I shuffle off'. [Post edited 12 Oct 2020 11:08]
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Magnificent. I hope you f*cked off with a smile on your face. |  |
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| Gallows humour.... on 13:51 - Oct 12 with 558 views | BlueBadger |
| Gallows humour.... on 13:44 - Oct 12 by NthQldITFC |
Magnificent. I hope you f*cked off with a smile on your face. |
Put a smile on the face of his family as well. His daughter, visiting later when I was called to the ward again about him by the incoming nightshift(because something hadn't been handed over properly and Forms Had Not Been Filled In) remarked with a chuckle 'I see the stubborn old b*gger's going out the way he's lived then'. | |
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| Gallows humour.... on 14:23 - Oct 12 with 508 views | Ryorry |
Serious reply - black comedy can be a big crutch in helping to get through bad times - lots of it around in WW2 I believe, and some of the best literature makes it a feature - Brecht (esp 'Mother Courage'), Laurence Sterne (Tristram Shandy), Oscar Wilde, Alfred Jarry (Ubu Roi). |  |
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