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The 40 y.o. son, it may be discovered (imo) is autistic, mentally ill, or developmentally challenged, brain damaged, and was alleged to be on antidepressants.
Would not surprise me one bit if the antidepressants were SSRI's.
Happens more often than the general public realize.
Don't shoot the messenger.

M O S Q U I T O ! ! !
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Other way round, Gershun. Little old lady criticised son's potatoes. You don't diss a man's potatoes.

Don't know how I can be flippant about it. It's just terribly, terribly sad. Sorry, folks!
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Just slap them all.
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Geeze CM, one minute we are discussing mosquitoes and suddenly we're picturing a little old lady being murdered cause her potatoes didn't pass muster. What a buzzkill................get it, buzz kill? LOL

No problem CM, you can kill my buzz anytime. :)
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It didn't say, CW. I think it was only because of the potato factor that my paper even thought the story interesting. Feelings running high over the roasties, and all that.

Sounds to me like six of one, half a dozen of the other, and a shove that was harder than intended. Don't think bullying narcissists go in much for cooking Christmas dinners for their mums, do they? And post lung-cancer (presumably it was the chemo aggravating the osteoporosis) she could be forgiven for getting crabby if he wasn't parboiling the spuds right.

But I'm only guessing. I'll see if there's any more about it to come.
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Last time I got out I tried to stay away until somebody wondered...didnt happen. I thought I had disappeared, no one noticed.
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Gotta love " the holidays" and how they bring families together!
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I imagine the background history will be the deciding factor, if it is allowed to be heard. Was mom a narcissistic harpie or was son a drunken lout who had a history of abusing the women in his life?
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Blimey.

Headline today: "Son 'killed mother in Christmas lunch row.'"

"A man killed his mother after she criticised his efforts at making Christmas lunch, a court heard.

Mark Jennens, 40, tried to throw 78-year-old Hazel Jennens out of a house they shared in a Christmas Eve row over potatoes, jurors were told.

He is alleged to have frogmarched his mother, who had osteoporosis and lung cancer, to the door before pushing her to the ground in 2015.

Ms Jennens... broke her hip and later died from bronchopneumonia in hospital.

Mr Jennens denies manslaughter. The trial... continues."

Given that the three purposes of criminal prosecution are supposed to be: punishment, deterrence and public interest, which of these is this particular charge supposed to be supporting? Does anyone imagine this poor bloke is going to feel any worse sitting in a prison cell than he already does anyway? Or that it will help to make sure he doesn't push his mother over again? Or that it will teach other caregivers that getting frustrated and physical with their sick mothers is wrong?

I suspect this verdict will depend a lot on who's on the jury.
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Sharyn...I saw A lot of different heads in people's homes and restaurant's in Alaska and I'm pretty sure there was a mosquito mixed in and I know they sell t-shirts there with a picture of a huge mosquito and it says State Bird underneath it.They really are extra large there.
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Today,I learned that if you spray a fly that's annoying you with Spic and Span antibacterial spray,it knocks 'em out just long enough for you to kill them.
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Lol!!, MsMadge, good one!! I wonder if they do taxidermy??
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The mosquito's are so big in Alaska,they jokingly call it the State Bird.
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Exactly Sharyn!
Swat them away!
Thanks for returning to caregivers behaving badly!
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Just because they carry your blood, doesn't mean you have to invite them to dinner.
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Family version of mosquito humor:
Mosquitos are like family. Annoying, but they carry your blood.

Arguing with stupid people is like killing a mosquito on your cheek. You might or might not kill it, but either way, you will end up slapping yourself.

It's mosquito season again......As if I didn't already have enough blood-sucking relatives in my family.

A mosquito landed on my brother's face....easiest decision of my life.

Persons of faith version:

Why didn't Noah swat those two mosquitos?

A mosquito landed on my friend's face, so I slapped him. Then there was another mosquito, so I said, Here, turn the other cheek.....

The pastor is so full of Christ that when a mosquito bites him, it flies away singing:
"There is power in the blood!"
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Keep Calm
Slap Someone
And yell Mosquito!

More mosquito humor:
My life sucks. Other mosquito answers: Congratulations.

I hate mosquitoes. I know I am delicious, but da#n!

I don't care what people think of me. At least mosquitos find me attractive.
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Anybody get a few extra "Likes?". That was me, back to being me now.
Love,
from Sendhelp.
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What a horrible thing to do.... So you cowards think you're bad because you started in on me? At my house even? I still handled all of you, left one of you on the ground. So I came out my door and I got attacked.. big deal! You think you got me in my face, You're lucky I don't have any marks on my face. I have some on my arms, legs, and my neck but that ain't nothing! Bet you weren't expecting me to swing back since it was like eight against one. I'm too dang old for that crap.
Yeah I'm not gonna lie, I was getting tired of your crap and just wanted to get back to the house. But, I kept on swinging and making sure you got yours too. All I have to say is... you attacked me, not once but twice, you punks! And as soon as I ran to the house and you all followed me in, this time I went ballistic and sprayed your butts.
I had no choice. I hate mosquitos!!! Mosquitoes are not my friends!!!
Copy and Paste to see if your friends read all the way through! 😛
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West Nile is one of those things I leave up to fate, there is no way to get through an entire summer without getting bit by at least one mosquito, no matter how careful you are.
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I was wondering where you were. It doesn't seem the same on here without you.

I am still sick but I am sure others will hold the fort down for you Send. Come back soon. We miss you when you are not here. :)
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FF, I don't blame you for your wish!! In Cali it was ridiculous on the 4th, the week leading up to it and after. Then on New Years again. I will see how Idaho is tonight. It doesn't get dark here until almost 10:30!!
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I am behaving badly... I want it to rain, and rain hard... but wait until 10:00p when most of the community firework shows are over. That way it will drive indoor the neighbors who think we all enjoy having cannon sounding fireworks up to midnight, loud enough to shake the whole house, and make you jump out of your skin when you least expect it.... [sigh].
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Ha ha Send
My Saturday night was nearly identical except I had cookies and cream on a cone

I see your point about filling the squirt guns with root beer better make it whisky
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Yeah, Luckylu.....
The res can fill the squirt guns with almost anything....pay backs for the really mean caregivers. Lol.
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Hi Luckylu! Where ya been?
I just got back from shopping...
Oh, and I thought of you and your pets when we visited the dogs.
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How nice of you MsMadge...Root beer floats will be a big hit and the squirt guns will be a blast!
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At my home here, we are making the best out of July 1st:
White chocolate rasberry truffle ice cream, strawberry ice cream, sliced bananas, brownie bites, with strawberry preserves topping. It is diet due to NO whipped cream.
Add one Lactaid tablet. Yum!

My hubs and I already celebrated at the innnout place.
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There is one little problem with your plan, MsMadge.
The foaming root beer would clog the squirt guns, imo.
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I decided that I'm going to make the best out of the 4th of July at the hoca

I bought fixins for root beer floats and squirt guns
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