People are just ignorant. Not necessarily mean-spirited (although sometimes they ARE that), just ignorant and they say stupid things.

It's tough with strangers because so often, as in some of the more appalling examples above, they say dumb things and they don't even think about the canser thing...unless someone "calls them" on it. I think once they are, even if we do it in a gentle way or a funny way, most people are mortified and probably punish themselves for much longer than we even would! In my experience, it's even MORE effective to slap them down nicely because then they have the added guilt of having offended such a nice person (who also happens to have cancer!)

I keep these comments, and people, on my imaginary "wall of shame". Some of them I can actually laugh about (later) because they are SO stupid!

And now for something completely different.

I know, piling on Kim Jong Il is just too easy and a waste of my unique talents, but this is just beyond the scope of weirdness. As a review, Kim Jong Il, the supreme leader of North Korea, has the world's largest Daffy Duck memorabilia collection and the world's largest pornography collection. I can only hope that they are mutually exclusive. Furthermore, Kim Jong Il believes he is a direct descendant of Darth Vader. Yes, that is Darth Vader from the Star Wars fame. I don't think that is possible, if you look at the light saber scene from Star Wars III, didn't Anakin lose his ......... errrr, naughty bits in the fight with Obi-Wan? Use stop motion on the DVD and I think you will see flying off to the upper right hand side of the screen ........ anyways, I digress. So he is a bit whacked.

If he was only whacked, you could only almost forgive him. Who doesn't have a peculiarity or two? But he is evil as well. He once had someone shot for failing to address him as "The beloved and benevolent father of all the Korean people."

"Geeze Mom, I'll miss you but if I make the exception for you than I'll have to make the exception for everyone.

Yes, this is the guy who is spending billions of dollars on a nuclear weapons program while his people are starving, but that isn't even the strangest thing.

Kim Jong Il said he isn't going to join multilateral talks on nuclear disarmament until the United States stops printing money that is so hard to counterfeit. One of the few things in North Korea which is still economically feasible to pursue is counterfeiting. Counterfeiting is believed to be North Korea's largest source of foreign capital. There are only a few currencies left in the world which are worth counterfeiting and only one currency, United States, which is so widespread that counterfeiting isn't tremendously obvious. So the new currency with security threads, watermarks, microprinting, ultraviolet inks, and laser etched holographs puts a serious bind on North Korea's most profitable industry. I am getting all misty eyed thinking about how American currency is creating such a hardship on the regime of Darth Vader Jr.

I'm thinking that if Kim Jong Il wants to do something special for the people of North Korea, then he could dive off his platform shoes into the deep end of a dry swimming pool and put himself out of the misery of the North Korean people.

Lee, you've made a pretty strong case. I agree, we could do without him.

I also wish he was out of power. I'm probably one of the few people that you will meet these days that was in support of invading Iraq, and I still am. I wanted that b*****d Saddam out of there. He was a threat to us and an evil Hitler-like creature to his own people, much like Kim Jong Il. I'm glad he's no longer in power.

Bill:

As if I needed to say this, but I wanted Saddam Hussein out of power too. Weird isn't it. I got a contract to map mass graves in Iraq based on radar imagery. What was discovered is so horrific that it can't be described here. It made tough hardened soldiers cry. Saddam needed to go.

Lee

I am fully in agreeance with you Lee-Bill about Sodomy Insane and Ding Dong Il. I support(ed) the invasion as well. So what are we going to do about Uckmadinnajihad?

Sorry for dredging this thread out of the morgue, but when I see someone doing something evil, I don't just sit around. I make snarky comments about them. So there!

Today's candidate to be banished from this planet is Christina Erteszek who was selling special bras which are supposed to promote breast health and according to her web site, prevent breast cancer. The bra has dozens of lumpy things all over it and it is supposed to massage the breast and provide better lymphatic circulation. The bras sell for $71 dollars and are called The Brassage. I know, I thought I should put Ms. Erteszek's head into a toaster as soon as I heard the name. Anyways, several breast health experts including Dr. Susan Love, said the bras were useless and they were also exploitive in that they played on women's fears and may actually provide a false sense of security. No medical doctor could be found that would suggest that the Brassage had any effect whatsoever. So, for trying to make a buck off of the misery of women with breast cancer, I nominate Christina Erteszek for the hand grenade eating contest.

Oh yeah, the brassage makes it look like the wearer is smuggling marshmallows. I'm just saying.............

Hey Lee! Good call.
Here is a video clip - the woman was not up to fielding the reporter's questions and walked out on the interview.

http://living.aol.com/morning-rush/t...htmlws-main|dl

Anyway - sounds like "snake oil" to me.

Just one final thought on the brassage and then I'll let this thread fade into obscurity where it belongs.

If massage could in any way prevent breast cancer, then Colleen should be curing people like the Lady of Guadeloupe. I'm just saying that I did my part for cancer prevention. I did it for science.

I'd like to nominate my surgeon, or ex surgeon as he is now!

Some time after my surgery I had begun asking questions and wanting to understand more about this disease and the type I had.
We don't as routine in Ireland get a copy of our path report (although I did request it and was given it by my onc ) so one day at a check up I began asking him (my surgeon) questions. he answered the first one or two which were fairly harmless but when I questioned further he completly shut me out by saying and I quote, " I think thats all you need to know for now"......gulp!!!
Hence he's now my ex surgeon, he was the best in the country at his job and a complete gentleman but what a let down in the info catgegory:(
I think a year of being banished may help him contemplate his error's. :)

Bumping this up.....Very good, Lee!

You know. If the world wasn't filled with a bunch of scumbags, there would be no need for this thread, but...........

Colleen went to a Relay for the Cure event in our town yesterday. There were several vendors that were, for the most part, offering volunteer services. There were booths which gave the various hospitals and the state government opportunities to let cancer victims and their families know about counseling services. There was a booth for Locks of Love. There were booths from some local businesses which were offering free trinkets, most of the booths manned by cancer survivors. There were a few booths selling food at a reduced cost for the day long event. You know. A bunch of people who pitched in and were trying to do a good deed. It was an event that the organizers could take a lot of pride in.

There was however one booth which had a semi-deranged pitchwoman giving away water which had some ridiculous health claims. The water was supposed to be slightly alkaline. You see, supposedly disease, and we all know that cancer is a disease, cannot survive in an alkaline environment. Since normal water is slightly acidic, then it actually could promote disease, including cancer. Of course she mentioned the liver, kidneys, and the spleen, so naturally, one had to assume that she knew what she was talking about. After all, who in the world even knows what the spleen does?

I listened to the pitch politely for a while until I saw that a few gullible souls were starting to get sucked in by the pitch so I decided that I should, in good conscience, turn on a lights so that this cockroach would climb back into the dark where she belonged.

"Excuse me, did you say water is slightly acidic?" I asked.

"Why yes it is" answered the cockroach.

"So why did chemists set a neutral pH value of 7.00 to the acidity of pure water?"

"Well, pure water is pH neutral, but what about all the additives they add to the water?"

"Reading the latest water board report, only pH neutral additives can be added to water as a matter of state and federal law. Just one more question. Can drinking water which is slightly alkaline change the alkalinity of your body?" I asked.

"It only makes sense that if you add alkaline into your body through drinking water that your body alkalinity will increase." proudly proclaimed the cockroach.

"Really? I thought body acidity is a fairly complex system which is regulated by thirst, kidney, and liver function, and by trying to force the body to be more alkaline or acidic will only make the internal organs work harder to try to maintain a normal pH level."

The cockroach began to get pretty peeved at me at this point. She asked if I even cared about the cancer survivors and those individuals who were fighting cancer.

"So you are making the implication that this water can fight cancer?"

"Yes, it can. It fights all diseases," said the cockroach.

"What complete dummies we all are. We inhumanely watch our loved ones go through horrific operations, radiation, and chemotherapy treatments when we could just be slurping down over-priced water instead. Why in the name of God aren't the doctors tuned into this miracle cure?"

"It's all about profit and big pharmacology!" she said.

So there you have it, the big conspiracy theory. You all went through so much grief instead of just drinking alkaline water because it is all a plot to make money. Never mind that our HMO is a non-profit organization. They are in on it too for some strange reason.

Colleen went back and got a bottle of the alkaline water. I tested it with a pH test kit we had laying around the house and the alkaline water had a pH of 7.00, the same as our tap water. Nice.

So is it wrong of me to wish that the cockroach goes on a fishing trip and gets a salmon treble hook snagged in her lip? Is it wrong of me to dream about the cockroach riding a motorcycle under a low strung piano wire, and thwippppp!!, her head comes off.

The thing that worries me the most is that someone will eventually believe the cockroach and think they are invulnerable to cancer and stop doing PAP smears or Mammograms. Maybe someone will have cancer and choose to drink this supposedly alkaline water instead of getting medical help which could save their lives.

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Britney Spears may be pregnant again. Need I say anything more. If that isn't evidence that another Biblical Flood needs to be ordered, I don't know what would be.

If I wasn't such a solid web community citizen, I would mention that one's uterus is not a clown car, but I will show restraint and not mention it.

There is no need to thank me for my show of restraint.

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Thank you for speaking out. My hair is just short enough now, or should I say long enough that people are not sure if it is a choice or if I had cancer. I am just glad that it is long enough that it looks like a choice and I no longer look like a cancer patient. I would have laughed to hear you speak so bluntly. Hurray for you.

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This Tololos a**hole. I'd like to throw him down a well and then hand him down a greased rope.

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Bill said "This Tololos a**hole. I'd like to throw him down a well and then hand him down a greased rope."

Bill, I am shocked you said that on a caring community web site. You completely forgot the part about fire ants along the walls of the well, putting piranhas in the water below with jagged spikes protruding out of the water and laughing hysterically when Tololos fell in. Please strive to be a better web citizen.

I hope this can be a lesson to us all.

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"I hope you get cancer again"

That quote is from the crazy lady across the street. She said it to Colleen on the Fourth of July.

We were lighting off legal fireworks in front of our house and the crazy lady across the street came home. Usually when she hears fireworks, she comes running out of her house, usually without clothes on, and yells obscene things to the entire neighborhood, so we weren't real pleased to see her car pulling into her driveway.

She really is crazy. Not just sort of crazy but bull-goose, moonbeam, acorn fed boar hog, bat doot, loony toons crazy. She was featured on the O'Reilly Factor on a segment about cities which cannot outlaw public nudity. She has a phobia about plastic and believes she is the only sane person in the world because she is the only person on the planet who doesn't have plastic seeping into her skin, moving up to her brain and telling her what to do.

Anyways, she came home as we were cleaning up the fireworks mess and she made some snarky comment like, "Lighting toxic substances on fire, now that's real intelligent!" Beings how we get this sort of comment on a regular basis, our family answered in unison, "You smoke, don't you?" (She does but she insists that she only smokes healthy organic tobacco.) She went away for a few moments and we thought that was the end of it. She came over to Colleen and says, "I hope you get cancer again!" and off she went.

I am almost never at a loss for words. But I cannot think of an uglier thought than to wish anyone get cancer. I wouldn't wish cancer on my worst enemy. Maybe Kim Jong Il or Bob Ahmedinijad just because the world would be safer place and it would ease personal suffering in their countries, but certainly not anyone else.

And to wish that on Colleen, that is just ludicrous. Colleen is one of the most mild-mannered, even tempered persons I have ever met. I have never met a single person who couldn't get along with Colleen.

So, I do not wish harm on the mentally ill, but comments like that are beyond any bounds of common decency.

Is hoping for a little bit of Karma or cosmic justice wrong of me? Probably, and this poor lady is tormented enough already. But the ugly sentiment behind the comment makes me wish this person would move ....... to some other planet.