^^ Yeah, that sucks.

It was a picture of a tumor.

Everyone gets cancer.

that shit was HOF worthy

i look forward to your reaction when your parents get it.

really? that's pretty fucked up.

so is starting this thread, considering how many of us have lost people we care about to the disease.
My dad died of pancreatic cancer less than a month ago.
I'm a little touchy about the subject right now.

Actually, it was a picture of Seinfeld that I had originally posted.

wouldn't have been funny even if seinfeld himself posted it, troll.

i don't know, kitten, seinfeld's a pretty funny guy.

At least we can all agree that Armed & Dangerous was HELLA-funny.

oh, right, Mr. Pinkus.

I used to be able to read lips: "Hello, Mike, I hear you lost your penis." "Oh, yes. Yes, I did. Have you seen it?" "Yes, I believe I saw it with the cocktail wieners." "Oh, thank you very much. I better go look in the kitchen then." Or, words to that effect.

I am definitely hearing Candy doing the high voice. Awesome.

here's the "deal" with cancer.


it will take at least one person you love from you, whether or not they had any bad habits.
it may force you to watch them waste away, from a once robust person with a love of life, to a hollow, listless shell of their former self.
it may kill them by starvation, because the tumors block their digestive tract.
it may kill them by choking, as the tumor blocks their throat.
it may kill them by suffocation, as the tumors fill up their lungs.
it may kill them by destroying their mind and motor skills, as the tumor eats their brain.
it may kill them in a matter of weeks, if the tumor hits their liver or circulatory system.
it may kill them slowly and painfully.
it may kill them quickly and painfully.

being with them through the last moments of their life will be one of the most heart wrenching things you'll ever go through.

but since you don't have a heart, and don't care about anyone but yourself, riffy, maybe you'll get lucky and it'll never happen to anyone you care about.

maybe it will just happen to you, and you'll be all alone to suffer through it yourself.

now why don't you go make a joke about airline peanuts, or something?

i was just posting a lighthearted reference on a public messageboard that has lots of members that may have recognized the Seinfeld episode it came from.

i thought the airline peanuts thing was a bit too played out. had to get a tad obscure.

look at these two threads i linked and tell me that some posts don't make a little light of cancer.

http://www.thenoiseboard.com/index.php?showtopic=167359

and

http://www.thenoiseboard.com/index.php?showtopic=177819


and I was only doing a Seinfeld bit.


p.s. my mom died of cancer.

flipper and i have an understanding about the cancer thing.

you, on the other hand, are nothing but a pathetic troll. I don't even believe you had a mother, and if you did, you probably ate her after she gave birth to you under a bridge somewhere. and if she really died of cancer, you wouldn't find it funny in the least if you ever cared about her. so why don't you just drop it?

I know the Seinfeld episode Riff Raff is talking about so I thought this thread was pretty funny. Jerry was trying to bomb and used the cancer bit to make sure he did.

That being said my mom is battling lung cancer right now so I can understand the people who don't find it funny.

So there you go ...

I'm really sorry to hear that, Dan
I hope she pulls through.

so, are you saying riffraff was trying to bomb?

RiffRaff was just making a reference to a Seinfield episode.





Sorry Dan about your Mom.

Thanks. She just had a lobectomy and appears to be cancer free now. She's just rehabbing from the actual surgery now. She's getting better every day.

I think he/she was just quoting the episode. Who knows.

Jerry: "and what's the deal with Cancer?"

Audience: "I have cancer!"

Kramer: "oooh. tough crowd"

Good luck to your mom Dan. I am glad it was identified and treated when it was. My mother died of lung cancer. She never smoked, they didn't figure out what it was till it was pretty far along.

It's been a few years now so cancer jokes don't bug me. It's such an awful thing, laughing about it is one way of coping. But different people have different reactions. I would be willing to bet Riff Raff wasn't trying to tweak you in particular DJKyttyn. He's kind of a dildo but mostly harmless.

I agree.

my grandmother had lung cancer in her 60s and they managed to get it out... she lived another 20 or so years before she was diagnosed with liver cancer, which spread really fast - she died within a few months of that diagnosis.

yeah, he's a dildo... but dad died a month ago TODAY. I'm sure in the future i will be able to laugh about it, but right now it's too soon... right now, i can still see him taking his last breath, as clear as day. I can still see the "coffee grounds" mess of stomach acid and dried blood that came out of his mouth the minute he passed. I can still see him staring, vacant yet terrified, into space as we tried to lift him from his chair to his hosptial bed on the last night he was conscious.

I'm so sorry Heather, but believe me as one who has been through this way too many times this too shall pass. You will remember this horrid period less and less as you make a conscious effort to remember only the good. Certain things/smells can trigger those awful memories, but really I push it completely out of my mind. My loved ones I know would not want me to be dwelling on the last days of their death, but to celebrate the life.

Dj, I'm truly sorry. I didn't mean to be such a dick. I did lose my mom to cancer and i guess i deal with it through humor. (plus the fact that my family kept me in the dark about it so that i could finish college. i am still dealing with that shitstorm) yes, it's terrible to some, but in my family, that's just the way it is. a defense mechanism if you will.

i know i am a prize douche. (signature option anyone?)

but i really meant it as a seinfeld thing. and it backfired huge. i was too much of a stubborn douche to admit it. granted i could have gone down a different path with a different seinfeld reference, but that's what came out of my tiny head.

i'll be more thoughtful in the future. i do appreciate you coming down hard on me for it. i deserved it.

it's probably just what i needed to realize that i need be more sensitive and think before i post (which i do not excel at. duh). especially when it comes to losing family.


but seriously, i'm really sorry.

ok. dropped.

Wow


OK, maybe he's not so much of a dildo

I was thinking the same thing.

Yeah, what she said. Over time, the bad memories of the end of his life will fade, and you will
remember him as the healthy, vibrant man that he was for 98% of his life. It will be hard
for a while, that's for sure.

Hang in there.

wow. thanks, riff. that was very human of you. I really appreciate it.

and i'm sorry i said you ate your mom under a bridge. that was pretty lousy, and i apologize too. sometimes, people say nasty things when they're upset. I shouldn't have said that. I'm very sorry you lost your mom. It sounds like she was quite young, and passed before her time. That's a terrible thing to have to go through.

now, lets all have some xmas cookies and talk about how Dr. Watson has 16x the amount of african DNA than the average caucasian, or something.

I'm sorry but that is a funny sentence.

it was kind of funny at the end of the episode:

Jerry returns to the comedy club kitchen to a chorus of boos. he's soaked with sweat. Kramer and Bania are there.

Bania: Ouch.
Kramer: You didn't do so bad.
Jerry: What are you talking about? I bombed!
Kramer: No, you had some good stuff. The cancer bit? It was edgy, it was not my sort of thing but some of those people out there, they really liked it.
Jerry: Like who?
Kramer: Like that guy who yelled out.
Jerry: He had cancer!
Kramer: And laughter is the best medicine.

I was thinking the same thing

while i'm absolutely thrilled that someone i find hysterical thinks i made a good joke, I really AM sorry i said that.

i guess everyone has their moments.

i guess it sorta comes of like "I'm sorry i blew up your mom, ricky."

at least I got a new signature out of this

No cancer is funny. Except ball cancer. And that's providing you do not have ball cancer. Because then it wouldn't be funny.

So pretty much 9 times out of 10, cancer is not funny. Unless it's ball cancer. And you don't actually have it.

Sweet.