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Any CF Karma stories

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Bethany83 · 04/04/2024 10:44

Inspired by yesterday's thread of the bill splitting karma, which was very uplifting to read, can anyone share any stories where CF got their come uppence? These will be a wonderful read for all especially victims of CF!
I don't have any to offer I am afraid...

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GeorgesMarvelousCalpol · 30/04/2024 18:29

Thanks so much @WiddlinDiddlin, love to hear these stories about EnormoCob 😍🐴

AskingQuestionsAllTheTime · 30/04/2024 18:36

Part cob, part seagull!

WiddlinDiddlin · 30/04/2024 19:45

I think he must have been a seagull in his former life... he'd also poo on things that offended him (turn out headcollars would mysteriously appear under a pile of poo in the field...)!!

Stickyricepudding · 01/05/2024 05:32

What a champion horse! 😍😍🐎

SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 01/05/2024 13:07

Enormo-Cob for Prime Minister!!

isitbananatimealready · 01/05/2024 13:17

Emotionalsupportviper · 10/04/2024 08:32

I’m religious and I do think God tests you with that which you fear the most, but he doesn’t punish you with those tests, they make you stronger.

I also have a deep faith - but I don't believe that God causes bad things to happen to "test" us.

I believe that things happen in the world - some good, some very bad, some natural, some circumstantial, some man-made - and that we cope with them because we must.

I also do believe that if we open ourselves to God, then we will receive support and strength that we could never achieve on our own, and will be guided in the best course of action to take.

Bad things are neither a punishment nor a test IMO, they just are things that happen - but they can be an opportunity to learn more about ourselves, and to develop a deeper relationship with God.

My late DM was very religious, and she went to her early grave genuinely believing that God was punishing her for her wickedness by giving her cancer.

I'm sorry, and I know you have your faith, but I cannot accept any way of thinking which makes people suffer such unnecessary mental torture in their last days.

Emotionalsupportviper · 01/05/2024 13:43

isitbananatimealready · 01/05/2024 13:17

My late DM was very religious, and she went to her early grave genuinely believing that God was punishing her for her wickedness by giving her cancer.

I'm sorry, and I know you have your faith, but I cannot accept any way of thinking which makes people suffer such unnecessary mental torture in their last days.

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I'm so sorry - that is heartbreakingly sad.

I agree that it is a terrible way to think. I'm sorry that your poor mum had been brought up in a faith denomination which led her to believe that she was wicked, and that cancer (or anything) was a punishment for any behaviour in the past. It must have devastated her. I'm sure, that like most of us, she had done things she wished she hadn't, but also, like most of us, those things were not terrible. I can absolutely see why you won't accept this way of thinking - I don't either. It is cruel - especially as truly horrible people don't blame themselves for anything - ever.

I can see why this devastated you. Flowers

BlackeyedSusan · 02/05/2024 11:10

Monka · 09/04/2024 22:32

I have one. I used to work before and up to the Christmas period in a supermarket while I was at uni. One year they told us that some customers were placing beer crates under the trolley area and that we should always stand up and check there was nothing under the trolley even if they didn’t put the items on the belt for us to scan, otherwise they would be walking out with a few crates of free beer.

So I always let customers put the stuff on the belt, scan it and then before getting up to check I would ask them, “are you sure there is nothing else for me to put through the till?” The ones who tried it on would look a bit shifty and say no and then look all put out when I asked them to place the beer crates on the conveyor belt so I could scan them! There were quite a few people who did this and I was always so surprised how many people didn’t consider this stealing.

Asda installed mirrors on the opposite till at trolley level to spot this!

WearyAuldWumman · 03/05/2024 14:10

My husband would have admired that punch - he used to do a bit of boxing in the army.

SinnerBoy · 03/05/2024 14:12

Yeah, knocked flat by two different fellas! I hope it really hurt.

IncognitoMam · 03/05/2024 15:13

Bloody hell what a bastard attacking an old man. So glad he got his comeuppance.

SinnerBoy · 03/05/2024 15:13

I know, I'm quite sad one of them didn't punch him a few more times.

AskingQuestionsAllTheTime · 03/05/2024 15:26

Once in the past of a friend of mine, some thugs picked on the wrong little old man. This is not my story, so I cannot vouch for it, but I believed her.

Because of I forget now what having gone wrong, she and another member of the crew of a boat she was working on at the time ended up after the pubs had shut in a rough part of a seaport town. She was a not-very-large lass in her early twenties, he was a small elderly bloke who probably stood a couple of inches shorter than she did, and a group of three late-adolescent Yoof decided they didn't like the yachting gear they had on. So they started to push her about a bit, and one of them got out a knife.

Her account of what happened next was that there was a confused scuffling noise, and then there were three Yoof on the ground making pained noises, one with an obviously broken arm, and her friend was casually standing heavily on the knife, with its blade against the edge of the kerb and its hilt in the gutter so that the blade snapped.

The mistake the Yoof made was to assume that because a bloke is small and elderly he wasn't in the SBS when he was younger and there was a war on.

WearyAuldWumman · 03/05/2024 15:32

AskingQuestionsAllTheTime · 03/05/2024 15:26

Once in the past of a friend of mine, some thugs picked on the wrong little old man. This is not my story, so I cannot vouch for it, but I believed her.

Because of I forget now what having gone wrong, she and another member of the crew of a boat she was working on at the time ended up after the pubs had shut in a rough part of a seaport town. She was a not-very-large lass in her early twenties, he was a small elderly bloke who probably stood a couple of inches shorter than she did, and a group of three late-adolescent Yoof decided they didn't like the yachting gear they had on. So they started to push her about a bit, and one of them got out a knife.

Her account of what happened next was that there was a confused scuffling noise, and then there were three Yoof on the ground making pained noises, one with an obviously broken arm, and her friend was casually standing heavily on the knife, with its blade against the edge of the kerb and its hilt in the gutter so that the blade snapped.

The mistake the Yoof made was to assume that because a bloke is small and elderly he wasn't in the SBS when he was younger and there was a war on.

Excellent! Reminds me of what happened to my late husband's friend's dad.

Retired coalminer. Sitting out in the front garden, watching the world go by.

A teenager started shouting and swearing at him:"You stupid auld b...." etc.

Retired miner: "What's that son?"

"Ye stupid auld fool!"

"What's that son? A cannae hear ye - A'm a bit deaf. Ye'll have tae come a bit closer!"

The teenager walked up to the front garden fence and yelled in his face "Ye're a stupid auld ba....!"

Plout! A punch right to the nose. The teenager ran off howling. Other teens standing nearby pointed and laughed.

longtompot · 03/05/2024 16:23

Because of all the Twix posting on this thread you made me add them to my home delivery shop this week, and all I can say is WTF has happened to the length of them!? There is about a quarter of a Twix missing!

BillStickersWillBeProsocuted · 03/05/2024 16:24

longtompot · 03/05/2024 16:23

Because of all the Twix posting on this thread you made me add them to my home delivery shop this week, and all I can say is WTF has happened to the length of them!? There is about a quarter of a Twix missing!

That's why everyone's buying 2!

Verv · 03/05/2024 16:30

longtompot · 03/05/2024 16:23

Because of all the Twix posting on this thread you made me add them to my home delivery shop this week, and all I can say is WTF has happened to the length of them!? There is about a quarter of a Twix missing!

Thats why you need to buy the king size!

TheCadoganArms · 03/05/2024 16:41

Years ago when I was playing rugby my team used to base ourselves in a pub as we had no bar in our clubhouse. On a typical Saturday evening you had four home sides and a couple of away teams enjoying a few beers. One time a group of Chelsea fans came in and were minding their own business up until the BBC sports results service came up on the big screen. A young lad on my team was a Liverpool fan and he made a fairly innocuous 'Yessss' excited sound when he saw that Liverpool had won their game. The Chelsea lads in the corner upon seeing this could not comprehend being a pub with a Liverpool fan and made a bee line towards this young lad with fists clenched and shouting all sorts of abuse. It was quite crazy just how upset these dickheads were but they had only made it halfway across the room before you heard the collective scrape of about thirty chairs being pushed backwards and a whole pub of rugby players standing up to defend the young lad. Watching the yobs stop in their tracks and see the blood drain from their faces was a sight to behold. Cue lots of backtracking and stammering "we were only joking" nonsense. I remember one particularly enormous back rower gently make his way to the front of the crowd and walk up to the Chelsea guys, lean over them and politely says "Your problem is that we are not stuck inside with you, you are stuck inside with us, I think its probably best that you leave...........now" which they did with a flurry of apologies.

Handyweatherstation · 03/05/2024 16:57

@TheCadoganArms nice one!

Me and DH lived in a village on a road opposite woodland and one day I told a teenage boy off for deliberately damaging the trees. He got arsey with me and went off with a mean look on his face. As I wanted to work in the front garden and suspected the boy would be back, I asked DH to come outside for a while. DH is, shall we say, 'handy' and he looks it too. Ten minutes later the boy came striding around the corner with a friend, clearly intent on having some fun, only to see a scowling DH standing there holding a metal pole. He growled 'Is that him?' loud enough to be heard by them and both boys slunk past with their heads down. A few years later I saw the lad in a pub with what looked like his dad and could tell that he recognised me. He looked like a rabbit in the headlights.

IncognitoMam · 03/05/2024 17:35

TheCadoganArms · 03/05/2024 16:41

Years ago when I was playing rugby my team used to base ourselves in a pub as we had no bar in our clubhouse. On a typical Saturday evening you had four home sides and a couple of away teams enjoying a few beers. One time a group of Chelsea fans came in and were minding their own business up until the BBC sports results service came up on the big screen. A young lad on my team was a Liverpool fan and he made a fairly innocuous 'Yessss' excited sound when he saw that Liverpool had won their game. The Chelsea lads in the corner upon seeing this could not comprehend being a pub with a Liverpool fan and made a bee line towards this young lad with fists clenched and shouting all sorts of abuse. It was quite crazy just how upset these dickheads were but they had only made it halfway across the room before you heard the collective scrape of about thirty chairs being pushed backwards and a whole pub of rugby players standing up to defend the young lad. Watching the yobs stop in their tracks and see the blood drain from their faces was a sight to behold. Cue lots of backtracking and stammering "we were only joking" nonsense. I remember one particularly enormous back rower gently make his way to the front of the crowd and walk up to the Chelsea guys, lean over them and politely says "Your problem is that we are not stuck inside with you, you are stuck inside with us, I think its probably best that you leave...........now" which they did with a flurry of apologies.

That's fantastic 🤣

Elderflower14 · 03/05/2024 22:52

Just remembered another that my late DH told me years ago. He was weeding in the front garden when a guy walking his dog went past. About 10 yards down the road the dog did a crap. The bloke hadn't seen DH and went to walk away. DH said very loudly that he hoped the man was going to pick the crap up. The man looked very embarrassed and was scrabbling in his pockets. Apparently the only thing he had was a newly ironed crisp white hankie. He apparently picked the crap up with that!! 🤣 🤣

PotterHead1985 · 05/05/2024 16:46

I too have purchased some twix today and am also disappointed by the size