Spaw,

I would add that your 'offensive' hunour, when directed at your friends, especially those in difficulty, is nothing if not sensitive and heartwarming.

Some of your friends on here have been through some difficult times of late to do with their health and when people have started ringing their death knell (with the best of intentions) you have been there to offer levity and optimism.

Those with the most to worry about, ie your sick friends, have known exactly where you are coming from, got the joke and been cheered up.

If it wasn't for your humour, those threads would read like a fucking gravestone and your ... our friends would be all the more terrified and pessimistic.

Humour isn't just justified, it is essential.

Life is to be lived.

Death will have its day.

That day is not now.

I will remember funny mischievous kids like anne frank with a glint in my eye.

If there is a lesson to be learned from her book it's 'stop bloody moaning'.