Or better yet kill them all and let God sort it out.
Easier peasier and also righter winger
/s
As they always say: Every complex problem has a simple, clear and erroneous solution.
Wow. I looked at the start of the thread, May 25.
Certainly not a case where the doctor says, “Relax. You’ll die of something else before you die of this.”
@Atamasama - have you watched “Mr. Bates vs the Post Office”?
I have had a couple people I know die of cancer this past year, and I’ve never witnessed it before. In both cases it seemed sudden, even though they had been sick for months or longer. But they seemed wholly alive and especially with my friend he was in such good spirits I just assumed there would be this obvious decline and then everyone would gather around his deathbed and he’d squeeze our hands and it would be this whole production before he actually died. Instead it was like, here he is making jokes online, ranting about politics as usual, and oh by the way I have another surgery this month, and then suddenly he’s dead. It’s not what I thought it was going to be. You always think you have more time.
I wonder if terminal illness is experienced the same way for the person dying.
I had a friend die of cancer last year. I visited him in hospice, and he was alert and talkative. I found out he died two days later.
My mother lived less then a week between her Cancer diagnosis and her passing away. She had a stomach ache that sent her to the ER twice. The first time they sent her home; the second time they admitted her. They discovered she had tumors throughout her stomach and liver that had come from her lungs. One doctor was telling us how treatment can buy her some time; another told us our mother was never leaving the hospital. Turned out he was telling us the truth.
It can all happen very fast.
I had a friend die of cancer a few years ago. She certainly knew when she was near the end. And she posted what was obviously intended as her final Facebook post, something saying goodbye, and all about love and Jesus and faith. She’s obviously spent some time composing it.
But actually dying took longer than she expected. And i think she must have gotten bored. Because there were two more Facebook posts after that, both somewhat morbid jokes with video game themes.
I Zoomed with someone with lung cancer for an hour in the evening. We spoke energetically on complex topics. By the time I woke up, they were dead.
I have not, but I like Toby Jones so I might check that out. Thanks!
My mother-in-law died of cancer a few years ago now, but yeah, I remember that we visited her six weeks before her death (we had known she was terminal for a few months) – she was sleeping more than usual and didn’t go out when we did with the kids, but other than that she was her usual chipper and upbeat self. She went to the hospital with fluid in her lungs four weeks after that. The two weeks after that was a lot of decline. So not quite as fast as some of the other stories, but still pretty fast. I think she might have held on for a bit for her kids to come visit – all three were able to come out and see her, and she basically died right afterwards.
Adams only blamed the failure of the Dilbert show on Black people (it was specifically Black people) many years later. At the time he didn’t say that at all, which, of course, is all wholly consistent with an asshole making up a story later on.
His claim was that they cancelled it to load in shows about Black people. Of the shows UPN added in the following season, almost all were largely about people who were not Black.
I remember watching that and it was cringeworthy bad. It completely overlooked the office absurdity for which the strip was famous, and went for wacky cartoon characters instead.
Maybe it just showed how much easier it was to make 7 jokes a week (some re-treads among them), and expand them into 6 daily strips and 1 Sunday spread, compared to writing, producing, directing and acting a half-hour weekly sitcom.
Of course, I’ve never done either of those things, nor likely could I, so who am I to say.
Yeah. He only wrote 3-5 episodes, but he was maybe involved in other ways?
Don’t forget that he had help coming up with those jokes. He put his email in the corner of every strip, prompting readers to send him their workplace experiences, which a lot of the strips were based on. That would have made the jump from the strip to TV even greater.
I bought a couple Dilbert books. I always relatrd to the early strips. The technical staff drawn in the cartoons closely matched various people I worked with.
I never watched the tv show. I haven’t read the comic strips in at least 25 years. I can’t remember the last time I bought a newspaper.
I never followed any personal or political comments Scott expressed. That’s true of most actors, musicians, and artists. I avoid reading about their public activities or causes.
RIP Scott
I hope they put a pocket protector in your burial suit.
Also, i think he did his best work when he was a drone within corporate America, working for over of the baby Bells.
It appears to me that the website https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nH7dgUq5Qe4 is the entire run of the television series.
My well-meaning but politically clueless ex-wife bought me the 2026 Dilbert daily desk calendar for Christmas. It’s got “normal” comics on one side and “spicy” ones on the other. The normal ones are unfunny, and spicy ones are unfunny, and about 10% of them are incredibly offensive. It was well meant - I was a big Dilbert fan back when we were married and Adams was still semi-rational - so I wasn’t sure how to give her a hint not to buy me it again next year. Hopefully his death will mean it’s not an option.