I had to park the Vette on the street yesterday. Went out last night, had a few to drink and decided to leave it out as I was in no shape to drive.

Went to the river place today and did some work on the property.

Get home today and sit down with a brew after a hard days work and one of the kids from the neighborhood rings the doorbell to tell me that the Vette had been egged.

3 hits, front, door and rear. I moved the car into the drive way, got out the pressure washer and cleaned it up. Thank God for carbon ceramic coating as it came right off. My detailer is afraid that the clear coat may have been compromised. If so, its time for a respray or to find new panels.

FML.

My day also consisted of finding all of our wine grapes eaten by some thing despite all the work and bird netting as well as finding out my oldest and best friends cancer has spread and is now terminal.

F*&k

F'd paint, F'd grapes and F'n dying buddy.

 

Ranks as a pretty bad day. I hope your friend won't have too hard a time. Cancer sucks.

 

Bad day all the way around. Hope things get better; especially for your friend.

 

Rough day Z.....sorry about your bud....everything else can fix.......I also had a Corvette egged back in the day.....I only wish I could catch the bastards who do stuff like that....maybe its best that I don't.....

 

I lost my best friend last week. My little brother. Cancer does suck. As for your other troubles, Think ( Baton Rouge ). No disrespect intended.

 

Sad that people do that to something that can't defend itself.

 

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Yeah, got news a friend passed away Monday. Cancer also. Put the small crap in perspective. Hope you future days are much better.

 

Cancer is the devil's disease.....there are cockroaches in society that will die painlessly with ease, while good people get cancer and die suffering. It isn't fair....no matter what anyone says...it's not fair at all.

 

A guy I know told me a couple of weeks ago that he was diagnosed with prostate cancer two years ago, but he said the hell with it, he didn't want to live without his prostate gland (which I can tell you isn't fun). Another guy he knew who had been through it told him what it was like.

Generally, once they diagnose you (depending on how they stage it) they give you five years or so, as it is slow to move out of the prostate.

So then he tells me that he was diagnosed a few weeks ago with incurable mesothelioma, a type of lung cancer, and they give him 2-5 years (he is almost 65). So the decision to not get treated for prostate cancer was the right one, as it turns out.

He's selling his business and is going to spend time with his numerous kids/grandkids which are spread out over the east coast, but has never taken enough time to do before.

Life is short. Even if you die of old age, it's still short.

 

I'm sorry about your friend. My Mother died of cancer, in May, so I know what you are feeling. When you think about all that he is going through, it makes the egg issue seem pretty small.

 

For what it's worth, I would encourage you to tell your friend to go on youtube and watch Rick Simpson Run from the Cure. Also tell him to google "how cannabis oil kills cancer". There is a lot of anecdotal as well as scientific information that discusses how this might be a powerful way to fight cancer. There are accounts of many people who have recovered even after being given the same type of diagnosis as your friend. I know about this from firsthand experience, as my Dad has been taking the oil for the past year to fight colorectal cancer (in addition to chemotherapy and monoclonal antibodies). I can only say that my dad has gotten good results from it, as evidenced by ongoing CAT and PET scans. Like a friend of his who passed away from cancer used to say "when it is the 9th. inning, two strikes, and you are loosing, you have to swing at anything."

 

Much sadness in this thread. I have also heard good things about cannabis oil.

Big pharma wants to keep this under wrap.

 

I heard all that years ago, and it is all total BS.

The drug companies, medical universities, and the entire universe of doctors, oncologists, nurses, assistants, etc. world-wide KNOW that Simpson oil "cures cancer," but there is a conspiracy among these untold millions of people to suppress it, because there is too much money in treating cancer (and, apparently, there would be NO money for those providing the "magic pill." And doctors are actually evil and mean, and enjoy watching their patients die.)

Right. The truth can only be found on the internet. Somehow, the conspiracy has kept this information secret on every form of media EXCEPT for the internet.

Uh huh.

I remember a doctor being interviewed on TV probably 25-30 years ago, and he said something that stuck with me. Paraphrased: "We will probably never have 'a cure for cancer.' We will experiment with different therapies for different cancers, have various levels of success, and will continue to chip away at it a bit at a time."

Looking back, his prediction seems to be quite accurate.

Cancers are all different, are very complex, and the treatments are different. There is no magic pill and probably never will be. They pick away at different treatments for each type, hoping to prolong life or at least improve what is left of one's life.

Going from memory, from what I learned a few years ago:

Cancer cells (whether lung, prostate, breast, etc.) are cells that came from that origin but mutated. The latest research (as I recall) is about using (extracting) those cells from one's body and culturing cells that will fight and kill those unique cells, and they inject them back into your body, and they "turn on" your immune system to recognize and kill the existing cancer cells. Something like that. I think it's called "gene cell therapy."

There has been some remarkable success with it for certain specific cancers in some people. As with most things in life there is very little that is black and white -- nearly everything is shades of gray. Today, the realistic goal seems to turn (most) cancers into treatable, chronic diseases instead of a death sentence.

My neighbor has recurring prostate cancer, and he is given some type of estrogen which suppresses testosterone -- which prostate cancer cells feed on. So they are "starving" the PC cells. He has been on this for 5-6 years and is doing fine so far. But it is not a cure, and it won't work for any other type of cancer. The disease is being managed.

In another generation or two, there will probably be huge advances in gene cell therapy. But, as in the past, it will probably come by going two steps forward and one step back.

Oh well, life for all of us will end somehow, sometime.

 

Well, it's true big oil has suppressed the 200 mpg vapor carburetors. I read it on the internet.

 

Haha.

I worked on carburetor molds at Rochester Products from '77-'81. There was quite a bit of knowledge floating around about fuel systems, and the mystical 200 mpg carb was always good for a laugh.

Of course, there was no internet to "prove" anything so we had to use common sense.

 

And now we don't to rely on silly old common sense!

 

Ha, anything can be "proven" or "disproven" on the internet.



Would you believe there is actually a website called The Flat Earth Society?


The moon landing was faked! I have proof! Mr. Griffin was actually airbrushed out of the original from 1969. But I have that original:

 

Of course it was...