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Post by MalcolmR on Aug 9, 2021 12:46:16 GMT -5
It's aboyt 130 years old and is opened and shut about twice a day. I think the odd breakdown is acceptable. I don't believe they took out extended warranty, and anyway, repair was always conditional on the parts being available and the manufacturers have gone out of business. Anyway, your job is third on the list, after the drains outside Boris's holiday let have been cleared of a 30-ton fatberg and the fag-ends outside the sentry boxes at Buck House have been swept up. They will be a little late in turning up though, there's awful traffic congestion in that area for some reason.
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Post by martycanuck on Aug 9, 2021 14:10:19 GMT -5
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Post by Juli on Aug 17, 2021 11:14:24 GMT -5
So I don't drift the He's Dead topic:  Maki Kaji, the Japanese man known as the "Godfather of Sudoku", has died at the age of 69. One theory is that an American who taught English in Japan had taken some copies of Dell's puzzle books, which had puzzles called "Number Place", to have her students do the word puzzles to help with their language skills. Dell has been publishing the puzzles at least as early as 1979. I know I bought the magazines in high school and beyond, which would be '77 on, and solved those Number Place puzzles when I saw them, but I can't state specifically which year I first saw them. I'm roughly paraphrasing an article by Will Shortz, which I can't find right now. I did find this article in the Guardian, which also brings up the guy in the 1700s. |
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Post by martycanuck on Aug 23, 2021 20:43:31 GMT -5
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Post by martycanuck on Aug 25, 2021 15:12:44 GMT -5
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Post by MalcolmR on Aug 27, 2021 6:24:07 GMT -5
Are none of our American friends going to discuss the latest tragedy in Kabul?
Has Biden got the right strategy? Is it just Saigon all over again? Should US troops stay on US soil now?
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Post by Jim on Aug 27, 2021 7:24:21 GMT -5
What is there to say, really? It's a shit show. It's always been a shit show and it's going to be a shit show.
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Post by martycanuck on Aug 27, 2021 10:37:59 GMT -5
Are none of our American friends going to discuss the latest tragedy in Kabul? Has Biden got the right strategy? Is it just Saigon all over again? Should US troops stay on US soil now? Probably should be discussed over in politics if anywhere. The deal to pull out was set up by the former guy. The current guy’s team may or may not have mishandled it. I personally don’t think there was ever going to be a “right” way to get out but getting out is the right thing to do. |
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Post by MalcolmR on Aug 29, 2021 7:58:19 GMT -5
Over in the games topic, I have just mentioned Hooligan cheese. I have never tried it, but it sounds delicious. Has anyone on here tried it? |
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Post by frodi on Aug 29, 2021 11:34:56 GMT -5
Hints of mushroom. That would put me right off.
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Post by MalcolmR on Aug 29, 2021 12:18:47 GMT -5
I never think mushrooms taste of anything anyway.
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Post by Juli on Aug 29, 2021 18:54:34 GMT -5
I have never heard of it.
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Post by MalcolmR on Sept 6, 2021 13:52:54 GMT -5
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Post by martycanuck on Sept 6, 2021 20:18:42 GMT -5
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Post by mank on Sept 7, 2021 9:30:43 GMT -5
I thought about starting a new thread but figured I would just ask this question here. I read the one death notice in He's Dead Jim about the soccer player who was in a coma for 39 years. My first thought was why not pull the plug?
I had some surgery a week ago and before the surgery I had to provide a living will. It basically says do not use any extraordinary to keep me alive. In other words pull the damn plug. My wife has the same exact words in her living will.
So my question is do you have a living will? Would you want to be kept alive even though you were brain dead?
My FIL went through this with his second wife (first wife died years ago - my wife's mom) who had a massive stroke and was brain dead. The only thing keeping her alive was machines. We kept asking dad does she have a living will and he said he didn't know. He believed she would come back and said I think she moved today. Well, we found her living will and it said if the attending physician says I am alive only with machines pull the plug. She specifically said it is the doctor's call because she doesn't want to make her family and my FIL make that decision. My FIL kept saying I don't care what she wanted. We did convince him that she isn't alive, the doctors told him she isn't alive, my son, who is a doctor convinced him (grandpap) that she isn't alive. So he did finally have them pull the plug.
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Post by Gimpy on Sept 7, 2021 9:57:17 GMT -5
I'm the same, pull the plug. I was an organ donor until I discovered they keep you breathing until they can harvest the organs. At 83 they are probably too worn to be of any benefit  |
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Post by MalcolmR on Sept 7, 2021 11:12:47 GMT -5
I certainly have got one.
My Father had one, and it was a Godsend when his time came. My brother would have refused to let him go, "it's murder" he will have said, from a very safe 3000 miles away, having no intention whatsoever to coming back and helping to care for him, leaving me with the situation. He would have tried to pull rank (he is older than me and believes strongly in Primogeniture), it would have been a mess. In my Father's Living Will it was two doctors that had to agree, no decision to be made by the family. I have copied his Living Will word for word.
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Post by Juli on Sept 7, 2021 12:23:13 GMT -5
Yep, no machines for me. However, I have a serious fear of starving to death, so I did not initial the paragraphs (standard form thing, you initial the paragraphs you want) about withholding nourishment. If I can breathe on my own and my heart beats on its own, like Granny Weatherwax, I ate'nt dead.
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Post by Jeannette on Sept 7, 2021 13:51:05 GMT -5
Both of my parents had a living will stating they didn't want to be one life support. With Mom, while hard, it was sort of easy because the stroke had destroyed any chance of her being anything but comatose.
Honestly with Dad it was much harder. In the moment of finding him and him stopping breathing I totally forgot about it. The EMT's did CPR for almost an hour because his heart would beat on it's own for bit and then stop again. It was only after the fact that I remembered he wanted no heroics.
If I'm well and truly gone, no brain function, pull the plug.
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Post by graham on Sept 7, 2021 17:39:10 GMT -5
My first thought was why not pull the plug? His wife didn't want to. And, from what I read, she cared for him every day of those 39 years.
They aren't recognised in the UK, but I've recently updated my Will and I'm probably going to include a version of this which is a friend's statement:
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Post by Jim on Sept 7, 2021 17:48:52 GMT -5
If I thought someone would fight to keep me alive, I would. Reality is I'll be dead for a few days before I'm found.
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Post by MalcolmR on Sept 7, 2021 21:26:38 GMT -5
They aren't recognised in the UK Oh yes they are. |
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Post by graham on Sept 8, 2021 6:51:45 GMT -5
They aren't recognised in the UK Oh yes they are. It's not Panto Season yet, so I'll just say that I wasn't aware of that. |
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Post by Jim on Sept 9, 2021 12:46:16 GMT -5
Here's an interesting video detailing what's known about that condo collapse in Florida from earlier this summer.
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Post by frodi on Sept 9, 2021 16:25:09 GMT -5
I don't have a living will as such but if I'm incapable of making decisions B has full POA, financial and medical and I trust her implicitly. I don't fancy hanging around on machines just for the sake of. Luckily in Ireland intensive care beds are in short supply so the docs might be pushing for it.
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Post by Jeannette on Sept 10, 2021 6:37:16 GMT -5
That was a really cool video Jim.
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Post by MalcolmR on Sept 10, 2021 7:03:37 GMT -5
but if I'm incapable of making decisions B has full POA, financial and medical and I trust her implicitly. That was my mistake, I only had financial POA not medical for my Father. It would have been much easier, but my Brother would probably have objected. |
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Post by martycanuck on Sept 10, 2021 7:49:24 GMT -5
That was a really cool video Jim. Very good video indeed. They simply stick to presenting facts. |
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Post by graham on Sept 10, 2021 9:04:32 GMT -5
That was my mistake, I only had financial POA not medical for my Father. It would have been much easier, but my Brother would probably have objected. We had the same issue with my mother.
When she went into a nursing home, because we didn't have a medical POA, we had to go through the Office of the Public Guardian which, although well meaning, is an overworked and understaffed operation that's expensive and tedious.
Eventually we managed to get the full POA including health, but I'm not going to make that mistake with mine!
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Post by MalcolmR on Sept 13, 2021 7:59:05 GMT -5
Wow, no postings, anywhere on these boards, in the past 24 hours.
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