Rich pleaders

[Jane]

april  I would have given him a £20 note on my way out.   When I go to Edinburgh and see buskers with dogs I give money to them all and my son who is cynical tells me they only have dogs to pull on the heart strings of people like me but I don't agree they love their dogs as they look so well cared for.

Susan, that's what Malcolm said so maybe it's a "Man Thing" that stops them having to cope with difficult feelings. I told him that the owner might go without food, but the dog would always be fed.

[Lugg]

How about showing some respect for people who suffer from epilepsy and the massive impact this has on their lives.

It can be a very tough illness to live with.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epilepsy

Petey, I doubt very much that that driver ever had epilepsay. Don't be so grouchy with this false concern about people with epilepsy.
And if you really want to know just how tough it is then just ask me about it instead of clicking onto wiki wonder world. Sometimes with epilepsy you can only get through the day if you have sense of humour. Lighten up for goodness sake and stop trying to be everyones conscience for a change.

[petey]

Petey, I doubt very much that that driver ever had epilepsay. Don't be so grouchy with this false concern about people with epilepsy.
And if you really want to know just how tough it is then just ask me about it instead of clicking onto wiki wonder world. Sometimes with epilepsy you can only get through the day if you have sense of humour. Lighten up for goodness sake and stop trying to be everyones conscience for a change.

False concern?

I've lived with epilepsy for 11 years so know exactly what its like so I don't appreciate 'humorous' posts relating to epilepsy

[Lugg]

I know. I wasn't having a go at you and sympathise with what happened to you. My comment was directed at Lugg who I think made a totally unnecessary post about making someone have an epileptic fit.

If he knew what it was like to live with epilepsy, perhaps he wouldn't be so quick to judge.

And if you also know you also would not be so quick to judge me. You know nothing about me and you know didly squat about epilepsy. So have a go at someone else for a change and also I advise you to get your fact right about people before trying to be their pet lawyer.

[Lugg]

False concern?

I've lived with epilepsy for 11 years so know exactly what its like so I don't appreciate 'humorous' posts relating to epilepsy

So have I so piss off. Get a life and stop living miner.

[petey]

So have I so piss off. Get a life and stop living miner.

I asked you not to make humorous posts about epilepsy. That is all

I'm certainly not trying to get into a 'who knows more about epilepsy' debate!

[lookout]

Aww,don't upset yourself Lugg,it's not worth it,as you're a decent guy.

[Lugg]

I asked you not to make humorous posts about epilepsy. That is all

I'm certainly not trying to get into a 'who knows more about epilepsy' debate!

I'm sorry Petey. I'm in one of those moods to day. You may know about them? I apologise and will now log off for the rest of the day.

[Patti]

Sometimes we have to be more mindful....

We are going off piste with this thread.....No I'm not a mod anymore..just saying! 

[susan]

Patti  think it would be more appropriate if you said this thread is taking the p**s   Think the Mods are on the move I'm off

[Jane]

Petey, I doubt very much that that driver ever had epilepsay. Don't be so grouchy with this false concern about people with epilepsy.
And if you really want to know just how tough it is then just ask me about it instead of clicking onto wiki wonder world. Sometimes with epilepsy you can only get through the day if you have sense of humour. Lighten up for goodness sake and stop trying to be everyones conscience for a change.

Lugg, I would never try to undermine how trying it must be to live with, but other than when he was coming out of seizure, my father, in his 80s retained a really naughty sense of humour regarding it. I took him out one day and as he got out of the car he said he couldn't remember if he'd had his meds. I told him not to worry, that what ever happened I would cope with. He responded with a grin and told me that I'd have to because he wouldn't know anything about it, would he................I'm smiling as I recall that day but feeling emotional as well.

[Jane]

I asked you not to make humorous posts about epilepsy. That is all

I'm certainly not trying to get into a 'who knows more about epilepsy' debate!

Petey/Lugg. My heart aches for whoever is afflicted by it . There's no such thing as having it "better" than another person and I'm also certain that nobody would wish another to be worse.

[susan]

Hi Lugg I have never known you to be disrespectful to anyone with an illness or treat it as a joke you have far too much compassion in you for that.  Things sometimes come over not as they were meant we are all guilty of it not just you.

[petey]

Petey/Lugg. My heart aches for whoever is afflicted by it . There's no such thing as having it "better" than another person and I'm also certain that nobody would wish another to be worse.

I have no intention of getting into an argument with anyone relating to this. I have suffered with epilepsy since 2001 which has had a massive impact on my life.

My epilepsy is controlled by medication and I have not had a grand mal seizure for many years. However, having epilepsy continues to have an impact on my family, working and sporting life, so I am less tolerant of 'jokes' or 'humourous' comments made about epilepsy as I am well aware of the devestating effect it can have on sufferers and their close family.

[Jane]

I have no intention of getting into an argument with anyone relating to this. I have suffered with epilepsy since 2001 which has had a massive impact on my life.

My epilepsy is controlled by medication and I have not had a grand mal seizure for many years. However, having epilepsy continues to have an impact on my family, working and sporting life, so I am less tolerant of 'jokes' or 'humourous' comments made about epilepsy as I am well aware of the devestating effect it can have on sufferers and their close family.

Petey, I feel certain this is not something you would willingly have revealed had the conversation not gone the way it had and I don't imagine it was easy. My mother, close to 80, lived in terror of it happening. Coping with her terror was infinitely worse than coping with my father's epilepsy. She never knew it had been a stroke which had caused it. I couldn't trust her to keep it from him and it would have totally devasted him. He was able cope by means of black humour and I would never have taken that coping mechanism from him.