Way TMI... and for what?

[Ternasthebard]

I'm going to agree with Veniteangeli there. I've had a relative succumb to cancer myself and there's just something about that happening that you just don't ever want to bring up to just win an argument unless you want to become no better than the people you're arguing with.

Even if it's just imaginary, it just doesn't feel right.

[taxguykarl]

I'm going to agree with Veniteangeli there. I've had a relative succumb to cancer myself and there's just something about that happening that you just don't ever want to bring up to just win an argument unless you want to become no better than the people you're arguing with.

Agreed there. I lost my cat to that disease last summer. Poor kitty. Halloween just wasn't the same without her.

[veniteangeli]

Condolences for your pet.

That said, I'm a bad bad person... My mind went to how "my pussy got cancer" comments could be told to the ill tempered woman in the OP when she pulled the cancer card, just to see how fast her mind (or what she has for a mind) can blue screen. (Bonus points if you're a guy that could have told her that with a straight face. *G* )

Now if you'll excuse me, I've gotta ride this handbasket to someplace warm.

Are you not understanding how joking about cancer is making us all uncomfortable? Please stop. Admitting that you are a "bad bad person" isn't making our hurt any less real when you insist on making light of the issue regardless.

[mathnerd]

But it is kind of satisfying to watch an SC trying to use some sort of disability or illness get put in their place.

For example, this past summer some old bat was being a jerk to a person in line at a big box store, wanting to jump in front of the line because she was disabled and in pain and couldn't stand that long, and nobody understood what it was like to have that pain!!!! Then my kids and I got in line*. The look on her face was priceless as she took in:

-The kid in the wheelchair, with obvious skeletal deformities in his legs and arms.
-The other kid with a cast on his right leg
-The third kid with the braces left ankle, left arm, and obvious skeletal deformities on his knees and arms.

Funny how her "woe is me" act ended when she was confronted with kids who were obviously in worse shape. I didn't even say anything; just the existence of those kids made her instantly contrite. I was amused.

*For those who don't know, two of my three kids have a bone disease that causes loads of problems. The middle child escaped the disease, which is genetic, but he's kind of crazy and often breaks himself. He broke both of his legs in separate sports incidents this summer.

[Jetfire]

Are you not understanding how joking about cancer is making us all uncomfortable? Please stop. Admitting that you are a "bad bad person" isn't making our hurt any less real when you insist on making light of the issue regardless.

Apologies. Deleted the post.

[MutualAddiction]

I apologize to the group. I didn't mean any offense and worded my post inappropriately. Cancer is never a joke. All of my relations have cancer currently or have succumbed to various cancers (in my family we don't ask what, we ask where.) The way I deal with their deaths and my inevitable diagnosis is humor.
This was the wrong place for it.
I have deleted the offending post.