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"Mr Martin, who lives with Tina and his other sister, Sharon, who has special needs" What, and he didn't have "special needs"? I suspect that mealy-mouthed PC phrase was far more appropriate and descriptive of his situation than of hers. I think he had special feeds.

Death Impends has made the highly commendable decision to have a donation made to the UK's Cats Protection League as a celebration of his winning performance, meaning every winner from the second competition onwards has chosen an admirable and public spirited prize. This fact should be regularly celebrated on the Irate Visitors thread. £10 will be donated tomorrow, I guarantee. C'mon guys, post some admiration for Death Impends on this thread and then allow it to slowly sink down the listings.

Fucking hell! http://www.ign.com/b...soon.454158743/

Been thinking about this and Rik Mayall both dies early following a severe accident which they appeared to have recovered from. Does this have implications for Richard Hammond? Dunno, I'll phone Niki Lauda and and Stirling Moss and ask them.

Sorry to hear about your dad, first and foremost. We've had a few experiences of that illness in the family and its genuinely hideous. So much sympathy in that regard. The internet is great for getting long distant relatives back together though. A few years ago I realised I knew sod all about my family tree, or family beyond the few folk I saw regularly. So I made an effort to get in touch with a bunch of cousins whose names I'd heard often from the older members of the family but never seen (it had been an open invite, I'd just been a bit shy about it before) outside of funerals. But then when I was investigating the family tree, I came across two branches of the family completely unexpectedly. A relative of my mums grandad who keeps in touch via email, who was able to give us lots of information we'd lost about my great-grandad. And delightfully, my cousin via my dads mum (who died before I was born) whom I never knew existed, but we have become fine friends since. She's about a decade older than me so able to fill in lots of details about the granny I never knew, and had pictures too! It's like little pieces of gold dust! So yeah, its utterly delightful when this all comes together like this, and how nice it has for you at a time when you'd really need the good stuff! Best wishes and good luck to you.

Jesus christ that is horrible , I hope at least that guy is fired .

Family I have never met and know so little about getting in touch. My dad is at the end of his life, we had a real scare last week when his care team didn't think he would make it through the night, he did and has rallied, for which I am grateful, although it is a temporary respite, Alzheimer's is a cruel disease. Returning home after visiting him, full of relief that he had recovered a bit I turned on my computer to find a message from one of my dad's nieces asking to be friends on Facebook. Since then things have escalated and I am now in touch with a whole side of his family I knew existed but had only seen their names on Christmas cards or through Dad talking about them on his rare forays down south to Derby, Bedfordshire and Great Yarmouth to meet up with his brothers and sisters. A couple of those cousins I met as kids, their parents I did meet at family parties as kids and one Auntie I have kept in touch with over the years although she is now heading down the same road to dementia as my dad and I had wondered why I hadn't heard anything from her for a while. Here we are a bunch of cousins all getting to know each other online and sharing family memories of our parents and ourselves, seems growing up in Scotland, England and Australia in the 1960's, 1970's and, for my second cousins who are also in touch, the 1980's we didn't have too many different experiences. Extremely old family photos of my Dad and his siblings are winging their way all over the net. I have the photos of the young handsome uncle who was sadly killed in an accident in 1958 and have made them available to all the cousins, many are downloading and printing them off to take to their surviving parent as nobody else had them except for Dad. A cousin in Australia has informed us she has a photograph of our grandmother who died in 1939, oh how my dad would have loved to see that, all his life he said there was a photo of his mum but he didn't know who had it, I should have it in my clutches in the next 2 weeks. There was a huge rift in the family in 1939 when our grandmother died, a sad, sad story that many of us have some information on, we have pieced it together and got some real results. Not least the cemetery in Scotland our grandfather is buried in and the grave and plot number, a secondf cousin has also sent me a copy of his death certificate. Efforts continue to piece together the rest of the story but we are happy to be in touch and what I really want to say is this is a 'Room Lovely' moment for me. I will lose my Dad soon but I have gained the contact with his family he always wanted me to have.

I think we can all understand that plus with all his previous issues im sure it all just became too much!Horrible for his family though then again maybe he knew what parkinsons does -which from personal experience is heartbreaking.

I think Billy Graham is oblivious to what's going on at the moment for it to have any affect. Even if he has got the TV on and his face appears on the screen he will probably just think its his obituary being played!

OK. Well done DI.

Who is the twat here? Don't you realise that Footballers are as important to a Death Pool as singers, film stars, politicians, paedophiles etc. it is an important part of peoples lives, so just because you don't like football, or what surrounds it, don't take the moral high ground. Get a life.

Idiots decide it's a great idea to blindfold a giraffe before transporting it. The poor old giraffe can't see what is going on and hits its head when the truck is driven under a bridge. The giraffe dies. http://www.abc.net.a...highway/5640684

I like "or summat" as it pays hommage, or summat, to a DL legend. It has been used by others, besides myself, for a period which considerably predates the time you first appeared on this forum like a boil would appear on ones arse without warning so you can fuck right off on that score. There is no crisis and no fight. You will have to try harder,nobody really gives a shit. Calm down for fucks sake. I was only teasing, I usually laugh when you say it. Just thought you'd been oversummating it lately or summat. This linguistic fad has reached its summit, or summat, and I didn't want to see its credibility plummat. Is there a real boil on your arse that's bothering you? Try changing your underwear every once in a while. Showers are also good. Also last time I checked this wasn't an invite-only forum and it wasn't when I signed up. But if you really think I'm a boil on the forum's arse then get the powers that be to end sign-ups and ban me and anyone else ya don't like. Go ahead make my day etc. I am, to be fair,amazingly calm. I am currently 105 miles from home,sitting in an armchair at my parents home. Two feet away from me is one of those Hospital beds where my Dad is laying. Ive been here since Tuesday doing my bit to care for him as the clock counts down to the moment I lose him. That's killing me. Now,to be fair,I tend not to let too much detail of my personal life enter the fantasy world of the WWW but,in this case, Ive considered it prudent to encapsulate my thoughts and feelings about all things and life in general. The bottom line is it doesn't matter a fuck does it, its why I cannot possibly be irate here, there or anywhere ( apart from being seriously pissed off with God,a massive cunt TBF) and, so, all things come to pass. By all means continue to be pivotal to the forum, by all means pick fights, rant and rave or do anything you wish to do here, as you say,its an open forum,nobody is going to ban you,why should they? This,nicely,brings me to the whole point of this post. Whoever you really are, wherever you maybe or whatever floats your boat matters not one single fuck to me and, as Im sure you will agree,matters not a jot to the vast majority who frequent this microcosm of cyberspace. So,to paraphrase you with something you tend to use (unless Im very much mistaken)calm down for fucksake, life really is too short. A fucking men.

I like "or summat" as it pays hommage, or summat, to a DL legend. It has been used by others, besides myself, for a period which considerably predates the time you first appeared on this forum like a boil would appear on ones arse without warning so you can fuck right off on that score. There is no crisis and no fight. You will have to try harder,nobody really gives a shit.