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"'Especially this time of year'"

A friend of mine lost his brother in a car crash before Christmas, so it obviously came as a bit of a shock as he was only 19, whole life ahead of him, etc.

However, what I really noticed was the number of people who said "that's terrible, especially this time of year!".

To which I really wanted to reply:

"What, so if it had happened in, say, March, then it wouldn't have mattered? You f#####g p###k." But I don't say that. Perhaps I should. Who knows.

So, can someone tell me when "this time of year" begins, so I can try my best not to die during it. Afterall, I wouldn't want to upset anyone. Hell, if I can get far enough away from christmas, maybe no one will give a s##t at all....

Famitsu! wrote:
> Miserableman wrote:
> Be sure not to die at the same time as someone extremely famous. If
> Posh + Becks wrapped their Ferrari round a pillar in a Parisian
> tunnel, for instance, then Mother Teresa died four days later,
> no-one
> would remember the latter.
>
> Oh irony.
>
> Mother Theresa died just after Princess Diana died/was assasinated by
> Mi5, Mi6, KGB, Mossad, Stonemasons, CIA etc (must have been a bit of
> a pile up in that tunnel).

would that be the same tunnel that miserableman mentioned in his obviously adapted example??
it would??
well that kinda leaks all over the irony then doesn't it? :P

Miserableman wrote:
> Be sure not to die at the same time as someone extremely famous. If
> Posh + Becks wrapped their Ferrari round a pillar in a Parisian
> tunnel, for instance, then Mother Teresa died four days later, no-one
> would remember the latter.

Oh irony.

Mother Theresa died just after Princess Diana died/was assasinated by Mi5, Mi6, KGB, Mossad, Stonemasons, CIA etc (must have been a bit of a pile up in that tunnel).

Be sure not to die at the same time as someone extremely famous. If Posh + Becks wrapped their Ferrari round a pillar in a Parisian tunnel, for instance, then Mother Teresa died four days later, no-one would remember the latter.

And it did make me chuckle.

I shall tell my friend that one, forthwith.

If it's funny, I'll laugh, regardless of who / what it's about.

Goatboy - that was the best response to YHs joke. Ever.

Goatboy wrote:
> A joke.

:^D

People say that because it's the traditional time for families to get together, and an empty chair at the dinner table is noticeable. My girlfriend had 3 empty chairs out of the 10 there normally would be this year...although one is away in Australia.

Lil Ginge wrote:
> everyone said that to us las year when we lost grandad.

Have you found him yet?





*runs*

My next door neighbour died a week before Christmas a few years back. He was only about a year older than me.

Anyway, whislt everyone else is 'coming together' and having a good time a lot of people I dunno reflect more and it might make matters worse if you were mourning around this time.

I do know what you mean but there is a little difference around it, not that it's easier in March but blah whatever.