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drmccoy said:
I just thought of something else: He would probably be eligible to have a vet's grave marker on his crypt. Of course tweedle dim and tweedle hoard don't know or care to look into it.

http://www.military.com/benefits/burial-and-memorial/headstones-and-markers.html
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Not to sound weeny, but I'd love to see Chris reaction if that was brought to his attention. Would be nice if Bob got that medallion for his grave. Seeing how Chris always talks about Bob's service in Korea, it would be nice if Chris sat down and did this for his father. It would be a nice gesture towards his father, for once.
 
Stud2Stud said:
Not to sound weeny, but I'd love to see Chris reaction if that was brought to his attention. Would be nice if Bob got that medallion for his grave. Seeing how Chris always talks about Bob's service in Korea, it would be nice if Chris sat down and did this for his father. It would be a nice gesture towards his father, for once.
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I've toyed with the idea of compiling all the information I've dug up on Bob (including some other forum poster's discovery of his Auburn Yearbook photos) and sending it too him, as well as in on grave markers and how to get what medals he was entitled too. I don't particularity like Chris but he obviously misses Bob so I would hope he would put some effort :lol: into maintaining his dad's legacy as a vet. But I'm not willing to put lots of work into something the stupid asshole will disregard as "da twolls".
 
drmccoy said:
I've toyed with the idea of compiling all the information I've dug up on Bob (including some other forum poster's discovery of his Auburn Yearbook photos) and sending it too him, as well as in on grave markers and how to get what medals he was entitled too. I don't particularity like Chris but he obviously misses Bob so I would hope he would put some effort :lol: into maintaining his dad's legacy as a vet. But I'm not willing to put lots of work into something the stupid asshole will disregard as "da twolls".
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Sending him a batch of infos on his father alongside with the hint he could get him that memorial badge sounds like it would fall on deaf ears anyway.
Maybe sending him a message that he could get the badge thingy could work... if Chris even opens and reads the mail.

Mostly I think it would fail, but it might be worth a shot. Not to get a reaction out of Chris, but rather as a little memorial service to the internet lumberjack if it succeeds.
 
drmccoy said:
I've toyed with the idea of compiling all the information I've dug up on Bob (including some other forum poster's discovery of his Auburn Yearbook photos) and sending it too him, as well as in on grave markers and how to get what medals he was entitled too. I don't particularity like Chris but he obviously misses Bob so I would hope he would put some effort :lol: into maintaining his dad's legacy as a vet. But I'm not willing to put lots of work into something the stupid asshole will disregard as "da twolls".
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You DO know that every time someone gets the feels for Chris, that he soon does something horrid to make you regret it. Right?
 
Chipmunk With A Banana said:
You DO know that every time someone gets the feels for Chris, that he soon does something horrid to make you regret it. Right?
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He's been slowly collecting pity points over the last few months since he maced a guy.
It kinda feels like he's building up to something big...
 
Chipmunk With A Banana said:
It's what happens when someone doesn't have the sense or ability to arrange a pre-need contract at their local funeral home (seriously, people. Go take care of that if you hadn't by now! The younger you are the cheaper it will be). The state may find a pauper's plot to dump you in if all else fails, but they're going to check around with all the nearby crash testing faculties and med schools to see if they need any new stiffs first.
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No, this isn't true, and if it was it'd be illegal and amoral as all get-out. Destitute/unclaimed dead people are (depending on the state) either cremated or buried in a potter's field.

In order to become a medical cadaver, you really have to go out of your way and make arrangements with a specific medical facility.
 
DX10 said:
No, this isn't true, and if it was it'd be illegal and amoral as all get-out. Destitute/unclaimed dead people are (depending on the state) either cremated or buried in a potter's field.

In order to become a medical cadaver, you really have to go out of your way and make arrangements with a specific medical facility.
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Not to argue, but

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/...-anatomical-gift-association-medical-research

"The Cook County medical examiner's office so far has turned over five bodies to the Anatomical Gift Association of Illinois as part of the policy, said Paul Dudek, the group's executive vice president."
 
drmccoy said:
I've toyed with the idea of compiling all the information I've dug up on Bob (including some other forum poster's discovery of his Auburn Yearbook photos) and sending it too him, as well as in on grave markers and how to get what medals he was entitled too. I don't particularity like Chris but he obviously misses Bob so I would hope he would put some effort :lol: into maintaining his dad's legacy as a vet. But I'm not willing to put lots of work into something the stupid asshole will disregard as "da twolls".
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I know that what I'm about to say is going to rankle some people, but please bear with me.... Sometimes I wonder about the nature of Chris missing Bob. Does he genuinely miss him, or does he miss Bob taking on the roles that Chris is now responsible for since his death (bills, being Barb's errand boy. etc.)? Maybe it's a combination of the two.

Yeah, I know this sounds cold and awful, but prior to Bob's death there was very little indication that Chris felt anything for him (please correct me if I'm off-base here). Based on some of the "Classic Chris" videos and emails, it can be intuited that Chris had a rather contentious relationship with Bob. The old Christmas video was very telling as well, with Chris and Barb sitting across from Bob (Chris's arm around Barb's shoulder). The body language in that video spoke volumes.

Maybe I'm misinterpreting things because I'm not making allowances for Chris being autistic - I don't know.

Anyway, just throwing this out there. I'm interested in hearing other people's thoughts on this.
 
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Thetan said:
I know that what I'm about to say is going to rankle some people, but please bear with me.... Sometimes I wonder about the nature of Chris missing Bob. Does he genuinely miss him, or does he miss Bob taking on the roles that Chris is now responsible for since is death (bills, being Barb's errand boy. etc.)? Maybe it's a combination of the two.

Yeah, I know this sounds cold and awful, but prior to Bob's death there was very little indication that Chris felt anything for him (please correct me if I'm off-base here). Based on some of the "Classic Chris" videos and emails, it can be intuited that Chris had a rather contentious relationship with Bob. The old Christmas video was very telling as well, with Chris and Barb sitting across from Bob (Chris's arm around Barb's shoulder). The body language in that video spoke volumes.

Maybe I'm misinterpreting things because I'm not making allowances for Chris being autistic - I don't know.

Anyway, just throwing this out there. I'm interested in hearing other people's thoughts on this.
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One could argue that he only realized how much Bob meant to him emotionally once he was gone.
I wouldn't be surprised if part of the reason why he misses Bob is him just wanting someone else to be the target of Barbs malice, but I wouldn't reduce it entirely to just that.

I guess it's a mix of Chris missing the useful aspects of Bob like "taking care of stuff" but also his emotional support and the mutual affection. The exact balance might be depending on Chris mood and what happened to him recently. Like wanting another person to talk to when he's sad or having someone more sane than Barb to get advice on one day and wishing there was some other person to do menial work and errands the other.
 
Thetan said:
I know that what I'm about to say is going to rankle some people, but please bear with me.... Sometimes I wonder about the nature of Chris missing Bob. Does he genuinely miss him, or does he miss Bob taking on the roles that Chris is now responsible for since is death (bills, being Barb's errand boy. etc.)? Maybe it's a combination of the two.

Yeah, I know this sounds cold and awful, but prior to Bob's death there was very little indication that Chris felt anything for him (please correct me if I'm off-base here). Based on some of the "Classic Chris" videos and emails, it can be intuited that Chris had a rather contentious relationship with Bob. The old Christmas video was very telling as well, with Chris and Barb sitting across from Bob (Chris's arm around Barb's shoulder). The body language in that video spoke volumes.

Maybe I'm misinterpreting things because I'm not making allowances for Chris being autistic - I don't know.

Anyway, just throwing this out there. I'm interested in hearing other people's thoughts on this.
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I don't think there needs to be a clear line between the two. Chris misses the role Bob played in his life. Some of that is very practical, some of it is more emotional. It's not wrong to miss the practical things Bob did.
 
Stud2Stud said:
Sending him a batch of infos on his father alongside with the hint he could get him that memorial badge sounds like it would fall on deaf ears anyway.
Maybe sending him a message that he could get the badge thingy could work... if Chris even opens and reads the mail.
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Not to mention that the badge would disappear into the Hoard.:(
 
Thetan said:
Yeah, I know this sounds cold and awful, but prior to Bob's death there was very little indication that Chris felt anything for him (please correct me if I'm off-base here). Based on some of the "Classic Chris" videos and emails, it can be intuited that Chris had a rather contentious relationship with Bob. The old Christmas video was very telling as well, with Chris and Barb sitting across from Bob (Chris's arm around Barb's shoulder). The body language in that video spoke volumes.
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There was also the LBP "tutorial" video where he made an insulting avatar of Bob and belittled him for having sex at such an advanced age, as if he was blaming Bob and his decrepit sperm for Chris being born autistic.


"Another factor lies upon the father's age upon conception. The mother's age is not a factor here. DOONG! HAVE YOUR CHILDREN BEFORE YOU'RE LIKE FORTY OR FIFTY!!"

Yep. Blame it all on Bob for your 'tizzim, Chris. Certainly had nothing to do with Barb being a bar-hopping hooah.
 
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Chipmunk With A Banana said:
Yep. Blame it all on Bob for your 'tizzim, Chris. Certainly had nothing to do with Barb being a bar-hopping hooah.
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Man, I know the big trend on the forums is to blame everything on Barb, and frequently it's pretty reasonable, but are you really saying Chris having autism has anything to do with Barb screwing around? Even if you assume that advanced parental age is what did it, it takes two people to make a baby, and it's not like Bob was spending his life virtuously sitting at home reading the Bible until Barb bust in Kool-Aid-Man-style.

That said, I do think Bob took a lot of undeserved shit from Chris, like that video shows pretty well. The impression I get is that it was the dynamic you see in a lot of households where the parents vary in strictness and the kid tends to resent the "mean parent," because they don't really have the cognitive and emotional faculties to understand what's going on. In Chris's case, it's a little weird because it seems like Bob only took on the role of the "mean parent" after high school, during Chris's very serious failure to launch; as a result, I think Chris only developed that very childish resentment in adulthood, when Bob began to expect him to pull his weight and started to come down on some of his interests. (I think it's a real shame that the tomgirl thing happened so close to Bob's death, because I suspect it soured things just a little more there.)

When you look at Chris's earlier attempts at creativity, like his "self-documentary" or his fake radio show, they really give the impression that Chris thought his dad was cool and got along with him pretty well when Chris was too young to be a disappointment. My suspicion is that, without the arguments, some of that's returning to the surface and producing some genuine grief in Chris. He's expressing it poorly, but... dude's autistic, what do you expect?
 
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Stud2Stud said:
Not to sound weeny, but I'd love to see Chris reaction if that was brought to his attention. Would be nice if Bob got that medallion for his grave. Seeing how Chris always talks about Bob's service in Korea, it would be nice if Chris sat down and did this for his father. It would be a nice gesture towards his father, for once.
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It wouldn't have been done for his father.

"Hmm, yeah. I was a sperm inside him when he earned that. Seeing his vet medallion really makes me feel proud to have been there for Mr. C. I've definitely seen more than those DANG MALE TROLLS in their basements can ever imagine. Hmph. :cool:"
 
Lurkingjay said:
I think it's a real shame that the tomgirl thing happened so close to Bob's death, because I suspect it soured things just a little more there.
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I'd say it's not coincidence...
Bob became too frail to stop his son from doing the tomgirl-thing aside from calling him a faggot.
 
Stud2Stud said:
I'd say it's not coincidence...
Bob became too frail to stop his son from doing the tomgirl-thing aside from calling him a faggot.
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Legit question: there any evidence that Bob tried to stop most of Chris's crazy crap? The impression I got is that, while he was argumentative, he gave up any kind of action after Chris got out of PVCC and got onto SSDI. It's Barb who told Chris to knock it off with the attraction signs, Sonichu Sub-Episodes, etc. I agree that both Bob and Barb gave up after a certain point, thus the escalation in crazy crap being pulled, but I got the impression Bob never did that much to stop Chris besides yell at him.
 
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