General Chit Chat

[Gooner Girl]

Here he is now.

Looks a bit like that Ukrainian fella on the news a lot. Shouldn't he be manning the barricades summat?

Feck me, Harry G told me he was in Wales!

Harsh! You mean brother!

[Gooner Girl]

My job role has changed recently, from dealing with cancer to palliative care and end of life issues (Not Mrs Bob tells me she can hardly wait for me to get home and depress her even further with my day).

Death is still very much a taboo subject, but just out of interest and following on from Bobo's plea for us all to make a will, how many of your loved ones know what your wishes are around resuscitation, burial or cremation etc?

I hadn't really thought about it much, but I'm going to be mightily pished off if they wheel me in to Whitney Houston's 'I will always love you' then bury me.

If I'm brain damaged, let me go and I'm in for cremation of what's left after the donor team have been in to slice me up. Apart from the eyes. No fecker touches my eyes.

Thought's??

Not really thought about it a massive amount but I want to be buried and I too feel funny about my eyes being donated though am happy to have anything else taken. Suppose I should make a will.

Is this how you open dinner party conversations once people ask what you do for work Bob?!

[bobo the clown]

My wife & kids all know ... if I'm a wreck then DNR, don't go to silly lengths to keep me going & if assisted suicide is available then it's for me if I'm that bad. Also, I'm happy for any spare part surgery if anyone would have mine. Finally, I'm a burner and the ashes split between Rivington and a place near hear called the Panorama.

Light hearted a funeral as is possible. Some good rousing hymns and through the curtains to Free's 'Morning, Sad Mourning' (quite heavy I suppose) switching to Zepplin's 'Kashmir'.

Sorted. No surprises, all informed. Oh .... & if my ex-boss turns up to the burning then some fckr has to put him in with me.

[Hoboh]

My job role has changed recently, from dealing with cancer to palliative care and end of life issues (Not Mrs Bob tells me she can hardly wait for me to get home and depress her even further with my day).

Death is still very much a taboo subject, but just out of interest and following on from Bobo's plea for us all to make a will, how many of your loved ones know what your wishes are around resuscitation, burial or cremation etc?

I hadn't really thought about it much, but I'm going to be mightily pished off if they wheel me in to Whitney Houston's 'I will always love you' then bury me.

If I'm brain damaged, let me go and I'm in for cremation of what's left after the donor team have been in to slice me up. Apart from the eyes. No fecker touches my eyes.

Thought's??

This subject is one I do give real thought about; I must say I find talking about death to be more awkward than taboo and it can be unsettling for those closely involved.
I suppose it really depends upon how much, if any, time you have to gently influence these things, some are luckier than others in this respect.
Much as we like to think we are, we are not masters of our own destiny and we need to use whatever time is given to us wisely.

[Bruce Rioja]

Thought we'd had this, but anyway, I recently made a will leaving all nett profits in trust for my nephews and niece. I was horrified to learn that my half sisters and brothers (thanks Dad, you utter c*nt) have an equal claim against my estate to both my brothers, so it needed sorting. So, with that sorted, just send me through the curtain to this

[Montreal Wanderer]

My job role has changed recently, from dealing with cancer to palliative care and end of life issues (Not Mrs Bob tells me she can hardly wait for me to get home and depress her even further with my day).

Death is still very much a taboo subject, but just out of interest and following on from Bobo's plea for us all to make a will, how many of your loved ones know what your wishes are around resuscitation, burial or cremation etc?

I hadn't really thought about it much, but I'm going to be mightily pished off if they wheel me in to Whitney Houston's 'I will always love you' then bury me.

If I'm brain damaged, let me go and I'm in for cremation of what's left after the donor team have been in to slice me up. Apart from the eyes. No fecker touches my eyes.

Thought's??

Over here we have a will and a living will (mandate), which says what happens if I'm still alive but incapable of making decisions. My will opts for cremation and my ashes will come home to join my parents in the Christ Church, Heaton, wall or remembrance. The estate can pay for my kids trip to bring the ashes and they can see where I came from. I've left any services up to my wife and kids - I couldn't care less - though I expect the University will have a memorial service (I started there over 50 years ago).

[Dujon]

Mrs Dujon and I made our wills years ago. We have no need to change them. Thinking about this the other day I realised that I don't know where those wills are. They were originally stored in a Safe Custody Packet (SCP) in one of the local branches of the bank for which I used to work. This was a free service provided by the bank for customers as well as employees. Since then though the bank has undergone a number of changes. Firstly it changed its name from A to B. Then B had some sort of amalgamation with C. After that C was absorbed into D, which still exists.

I think that it's time for me to start tracking that SCP else we'll die intestate.

[Montreal Wanderer]

Mrs Dujon and I made our wills years ago. We have no need to change them. Thinking about this the other day I realised that I don't know where those wills are. They were originally stored in a Safe Custody Packet (SCP) in one of the local branches of the bank for which I used to work. This was a free service provided by the bank for customers as well as employees. Since then though the bank has undergone a number of changes. Firstly it changed its name from A to B. Then B had some sort of amalgamation with C. After that C was absorbed into D, which still exists.

I think that it's time for me to start tracking that SCP else we'll die intestate.

While we get copies of our wills, they are also lodged with the appropriate government authority. Surely that would be true of NSW.

[Dujon]

No, Monty, it is not.

http://www.bdm.nsw.gov.au/bdm_dth/bdm_wil.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Wills
Lodgement of new registrations into the Registry's Wills Register has been discontinued, effective January 2013. However, searches relating to wills previously listed on the register may still be conducted.

Access to the Wills Register
While you are alive, only you or your authorised representative can access details of your will from the Wills Register.

An authorised representative may be your solicitor or the Executor to your estate.

The Registry cannot divulge any personal information regarding the contents of the will as it only records the location at which it is held.

[Montreal Wanderer]

No, Monty, it is not.

http://www.bdm.nsw.gov.au/bdm_dth/bdm_wil.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Wills
Lodgement of new registrations into the Registry's Wills Register has been discontinued, effective January 2013. However, searches relating to wills previously listed on the register may still be conducted.

Access to the Wills Register
While you are alive, only you or your authorised representative can access details of your will from the Wills Register.

An authorised representative may be your solicitor or the Executor to your estate.

The Registry cannot divulge any personal information regarding the contents of the will as it only records the location at which it is held.

How very backward looking! Well, at least your wills will be there.

[Hoboh]

Who the hell has that plane?

[jaffka]

Now it's possibly been hijacked.

However, I think it's aliens that have done it.

[Little Green Man]

Who the hell has that plane?

Vincent Tan's got it hidden deep inside a hollowed-out volcano

[Hoboh]

Who the hell has that plane?

Vincent Tan's got it hidden deep inside a hollowed-out volcano

I was thinking more little fat man in NK tbh

[malcd1]

Who the hell has that plane?

Vincent Tan's got it hidden deep inside a hollowed-out volcano

I was thinking more little fat man in NK tbh

That doesn't make any sense. If North Korea wanted the plane, they would have just used the teleporter that Kim Jong-Un invented in his bedroom. There would have been no need to turn off the communications devices. He could make it disappear out of the air and reappear in NK.

[Annoyed Grunt]

Now it's possibly been hijacked.

However, I think it's aliens that have done it.

Police are searching the house of one of the pilots....

[Worthy4England]

Now it's possibly been hijacked.

However, I think it's aliens that have done it.

Police are searching the house of one of the pilots....

Think they sould be able to spot from outside, whether it's in there. Planes are quite large.

[Worthy4England]

Mate of mine won 42 grand on an accumulator at Cheltenham yesterday. His first horse was favourite and came nowhere...would have been heading up to 250k had that one come in too...

[clapton is god]

Mate of mine won 42 grand on an accumulator at Cheltenham yesterday. His first horse was favourite and came nowhere...would have been heading up to 250k had that one come in too...

I'm still sweating on an email from Lottery HQ about that £108,000,000 they owe me. Perhaps I should give it up.

[clapton is god]

Now it's possibly been hijacked.

However, I think it's aliens that have done it.

Police are searching the house of one of the pilots....

Said to Mrs C yesterday that I'd be looking at either the pilot or co-pilot. Should've been a detective me.