I find using a loud hailer from the east gun tower suffices when conversing with the neighbours.

This must be a misprint then, from BC's footy thread...........



spyker 20 Jan 22:32
boxing - not everyone is being serious you know........,





































(i am though)

OOOORRRRAAAAAALLLLLLLLLIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEE

Spyker, chill mate, you will burst something.

spyker 21 Jan 12:29
I have a very good sense of humour but I also comment on threads/people that just aren't as funny as people seem to think they are. Imagine of you struggle out the house and make it to a pub with the footy on, some people watching it, some people aren't, somebody stands up and shouts goooooooaaaaaallllllll! for no reason. How many people in that pub would find it any more than mildly amusing? Why is it any funnier on a forum?

I was in The Red Lion in Plaistow when a cup final was on. I had backed Reference Point for a tidy sum in the A.R. Dennis shop across the road.

I dont like football, so I grabbed the remote, switched to channel 4 and threw the remote over the bar.

The horse won and I went to collect my dosh.

When I came back to get my keys and my fags the cvnts had locked me out of the pub.

No sense of humour, some people.

no course not - are you a lady doing exercise and getting all hot and sweaty btw?

Good luck with that - I've had/got serious health problems as well so know it aint easy, should get easier after the initial hard work/horribleness!

Luckily mine is stable and should remain so as long as i take care of myself (got liver disease). Physical pain only lasted about a year though i do get the odd twang - prob not a lot compared to you - watch those painkillers they can be addictive!

I thought I was rough but there's always somebody worse off.

If we were horses they'd shoot all three of us. :(

Good luck to both of you

Cheers the pair of you, BC - they very nearly did 9 years ago! i was as close to death as i ever want to be until it actually happens - I'm only 36 now - puts everything into perspective which is why I have the live and let live outlook now - lifes too short to be bothered by pettiness.

over 55yr old, lol, acting like a 12 yr old on the football forum, attention seeking loner

I'll be happy just to get to 55 (and will also have my place in the Guiness Book of records) at least i don't have to worry about a pension and becoming an embittered old man........

you tell me Charlie lad :)

KaneGould, if you cannot be civil to our much respected BC, then please refrain from posting unwarranted, unsolicited rude, remarks. fyi BC is a pillar of this community.

I've got alcoholic cirrhosis and various other accompanying things like varices in my oesophagus which if they burst i end up drowning in blood but they are under control. Think that picture of George Best in hospital and that was me a year or so earlier (in fact we had the same doctors but he paid for them!), he drank again, I haven't, he's dead, I'm not - of course he did have a few years on me!
I had a blood count of 2 which basically means my blood was water and i had to have all sorts of transfusions (most of which leaked out of a hole in my hand!) and was in hospital for 2 months. Horrible experience as i was moved around and ended up in a leukemia ward and I was pretty close to topping myself as there was i with a (mostly) self inflicted illness and these poor sods were dying and it wasn't their fault. Anyway i got through that and left hospital about a month before i should have done but I wasn't hanging around there any longer!
The liver controls an awful lot of the body, many hormones, temperature and of course blood cleaning etc so if it fecks up then most of the other organs can do as well. Something like 2/3rds of people with what i've got die within 3 years (1/2 of those within 6 months). It is under control and as long as i don't drink or come under too much stress (such as a road accident as i can't have a general anaesthetic) it should be all right but the doctors don't really know as it's usually older people that have this so don't last as long (and many drink themselves to death). I'm susceptible to infection but can't take many medicines (anti-biotics for example) so if I get ill then I have to ride it out, i also can't take pain killers (apart from codeine). I'm kind of a running experiment and am closely monitored and if the time came I would prob be ok to have a transplant but the rest of me might be feked by then. My granddad died from liver failure when young (and he was teetotal) so there seems to be a weakness there and this obv wasn't helped by me being a heavy drinker.
I've maintained my health for this long (9 years in April) but I can tell the doctors are getting 'itchy' as they haven't had many (if any) patients that have lasted as long as me so if I get to 55 I'll be well chuffed! Like I say at least i don't have to worry about saving for my old age!
I volunteer for a few charities to highlight the dangers of booze (but am not anti it or preachy) to try and pay something back as i'm fully aware of my own stupidity but this is getting harder as i'm getting more tired more often. i've always been chilled so don't concern myself with the future and just get on with it, fate will do whatever she wants and I'll take whatever is chucked at me.

Keep throwing punches Spyker, it's not over until the final bell.

Great post Spyker, good luck with that mate.

Thanks for the kind words all but trust me box - people like you are much stronger than i'll ever be - you are ill through no fault of your own and probably have to manage more pain in a week than I have in the last 9 years. Although i was in all prob born with a liver weakness i basically made myself ill so deserve what comes my way and when in hospital i decided to turn down a transplant if offered it as i didn't deserve it - this has changed a little but I'm still not sure i'd accept one now.
I've had a funny year as the dwp in their wisdom say that i am no longer entitled to incapacity benefit as my condtion is managed. I've been through 2 appeals but as i don't fit in the box they say that i am not eliigable - ironically if i started drinking again I would be eligable, fecked up or what?
They have forced me onto jsa but no fecker is going to employ me atm so my outlook is a bit bleak. I tried doing a full week at the charity i volunteer for last year but it didn't work out (which I've told them). I've also been informed that they suspect me of benefit fraud when i have done no such thing.i'm seeing 1 solicitor tomorrow about my appeal and another next week about the fraud case! i've got a meeting (under caution) on the 1st Feb with the dwp and council about the fraud.and can't wait to hear what it is they think I've been up to and trust me you may be hearing more of this in the media when it's all done as it's tantamount to harasment., I've got a few media contacts as I have been on tv about my illness. i love proving people wrong though and will have great delight in doing that with the dwp as whatever they've cooked up is**- i did win 10k last year over a weekend but that isn't against the rules and i didn't go over any limits - it's enough to drive a man to drink!

spyker.

You're going through that and they know stress makes things worse! Utter bastids! Good man, keep proving people wrong one day at a time.

Good night and good luck, Spyker

Mornin' BTF, I too have been lying in bed for the last few years, I was paralysed 21 yrs ago but had a good life and down the pub every day. A few games of dominoes, a few pints and a few bets until I had to have a leg off and a new aorta fitted due to bad circulation a few years back.

I'm getting a couple of hours of physio a week, which has led to me now being able to sit out for an hour or so a day.

On the plus side, with all this enforced free time, I've found that I can now turn a fair profit percentage for the 1st time albeit for my smallsh stakes ;)