Quote: Marc P @ July 1 2012, 11:01 AM BSTOh dear.
What did I tell you about "oh dear"?
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I probably wasn't listening Rwayne. Sometimes it is the only fitting response. 
Quote: Marc P @ July 1 2012, 11:17 AM BSTI probably wasn't listening Rwayne. Sometimes it is the only fitting response.
We both know you read everything I post very carefully. 'Oh dear' is just a very lazy response, much like just posting a small face instead of using words.
Quote: sootyj @ July 1 2012, 10:38 AM BSTHow are you planning to turn him around?
Nb 1400 miles ouch!
Even if he doesn't stop drinking, my house is safer than a tent in a forest filled with homeless people. Four months ago the guy was a manager at my company and pulling down 6 figures. After he was laid off he started drinking daily and fighting with his wife and just stopped coming home. I'm going to try to dry him out. He can be difficult, but he admits he has a problem and wants to kick the habit. Fingers crossed.
1400 miles is only halfway across the country. 600 miles of the trip are in Texas.
Time to board the flight. Next stop: Phoenix.
Can we take a straw poll on how many bcgers would travel 14 inches to piss on rwayne if he/she was on fire?
Quote: sootyj @ July 1 2012, 11:24 AM BSTCan we take a straw poll on how many bcgers would travel 14 inches to piss on rwayne if he/she was on fire?
You COULD do that... or get a life. You choose.
Quote: sootyj @ July 1 2012, 11:24 AM BSTCan we take a straw poll on how many bcgers would travel 14 inches to piss on rwayne if he/she was on fire?
I would, just to have a reason to use a Urinelle.
Quote: rwayne @ July 1 2012, 11:19 AM BSTWe both know you read everything I post very carefully. 'Oh dear' is just a very lazy response, much like just posting a small face instead of using words.
Are you an editor now then??? It's entropic minimalism dear.
Are you going to have to stop brewing beer while he's there? Or is that a really stupid question.
Quote: rwayne @ July 1 2012, 11:25 AM BSTYou COULD do that... or get a life. You choose.
That comeback is so feeble I can't even be bothered to reedit it
Quote: Marc P @ July 1 2012, 11:28 AM BSTAre you an editor now then??? It's entropic minimalism dear.
Pompous?...Oh I mean bombastic.
Perhaps keep the 'dear' for the sweet, avuncular, mildly sexual flirting you like to do with the female members on here. Particularly the new ones. Imagine the small face winking, knowingly, if you wish.
Quote: zooo @ July 1 2012, 11:29 AM BSTAre you going to have to stop brewing beer while he's there? Or is that a really stupid question.
I only just thought that
Quote: DaButt @ July 1 2012, 4:31 AM BSTI woke up this morning thinking that it would be an uneventful day, but 7 hours from now I'll be on a flight to Los Angeles. A dear friend is bottoming out after encountering a perfect storm of unemployment, marital problems and excessive drinking, so I'm flying out there, seeing my kids and grandson for an hour or two and then driving him and his car 1400 miles back to my house. It feels a little like adopting a 53-year-old child, but I know that he would be dead or in jail 2 months from now if left to his old devices. Hopefully I can get him to turn things around.
One minute we're talking guitars...
Heavy stuff.
I know it sounds callous, but make sure you don't let him take you down with him.
I've had dealings with someone like this - they've got to want to be 'saved'.
Good luck.
Quote: zooo @ July 1 2012, 11:29 AM BSTAre you going to have to stop brewing beer while he's there?
Nah, I don't think so. We'll see how it goes.
Quote: Lazzard @ July 1 2012, 11:38 AM BSTI know it sounds callous, but make sure you don't let him take you down with him.
He's one of my oldest and dearest friends. I'll be ok and hopefully so will he.
Quote: rwayne @ July 1 2012, 11:33 AM BSTPompous?...Oh I mean bombastic.
Perhaps keep the 'dear' for the sweet, avuncular, mildly sexual flirting you like to do with the female members on here. Particularly the new ones. Imagine the small face winking, knowingly, if you wish.
Have you got your green spectacles on again dear?