TOMapleLaughs Posted September 2, 2015 Share Posted September 2, 2015 Avril Lavigne, Chad Kroeger separate, but remain 'best of friends' Canadian music stars Avril Lavigne and Chad Kroeger have announced their separation. Lavigne, 30, announced the split on Instagram, vowing that the couple remain "the best of friends." They began dating in July 2012 after uniting to write music together for Lavigne's self-titled fifth record. They got engaged the next month and married on Canada Day in 2013 at a grand medieval castle in France. Over the last year, Lavigne has struggled with her health, ultimately telling People magazine that she had been diagnosed with Lyme disease. http://www.cbc.ca/news/arts/avril-lavigne-chad-kroeger-separate-but-remain-best-of-friends-1.3213257 What? Lyme disease? Isn't that easily curable? Sorry, what a crybaby. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riviera82 Posted September 2, 2015 Share Posted September 2, 2015 I cant stand either one of them and therefore do not care. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jägermeister Posted September 2, 2015 Share Posted September 2, 2015 You'd think a couple that got engaged after 1 month of dating would last. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hugor Hill Posted September 2, 2015 Share Posted September 2, 2015 Dynasty? What an insult to music. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cerridwen Posted September 2, 2015 Share Posted September 2, 2015 What? Lyme disease? Isn't that easily curable? Sorry, what a crybaby. Perhaps a little research about Lyme Disease would be in order before calling someone a 'crybaby' because they've had it. Avril Lavigne was bedridden for 5 months with the disease. A person who goes undiagnosed (or is misdiagnosed) can develop neurological symptoms that can range from stiff neck and severe headache (meningitis), temporary paralysis of facial muscles (Bell's Palsy), numbness, pain or weakness in the limbs, or poor coordination. More subtle changes such as memory loss, difficulty with concentration, and a change in mood or sleeping habits have also been associated with Lyme Disease. My 4 year old niece has Lyme Disease right now. It is not fun and it is nothing to laugh about or mock. I get that you are not fond of Ms. Lavigne but to call her a 'crybaby' for having a disease that can have huge implications for some people shows a distinct lack of class and empathy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TOMapleLaughs Posted September 2, 2015 Author Share Posted September 2, 2015 Perhaps a little research about Lyme Disease would be in order before calling someone a 'crybaby' because they've had it. Avril Lavigne was bedridden for 5 months with the disease. A person who goes undiagnosed (or is misdiagnosed) can develop neurological symptoms that can range from stiff neck and severe headache (meningitis), temporary paralysis of facial muscles (Bell's Palsy), numbness, pain or weakness in the limbs, or poor coordination. More subtle changes such as memory loss, difficulty with concentration, and a change in mood or sleeping habits have also been associated with Lyme Disease. My 4 year old niece has Lyme Disease right now. It is not fun and it is nothing to laugh about or mock.Honestly I didn't know it was serious disease. There seems to be a lot of misinformation out there about it right now, including info that it's not serious. Now i'm aware. Apologies and thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LaBamba Posted September 2, 2015 Share Posted September 2, 2015 Perhaps a little research about Lyme Disease would be in order before calling someone a 'crybaby' because they've had it. Avril Lavigne was bedridden for 5 months with the disease. A person who goes undiagnosed (or is misdiagnosed) can develop neurological symptoms that can range from stiff neck and severe headache (meningitis), temporary paralysis of facial muscles (Bell's Palsy), numbness, pain or weakness in the limbs, or poor coordination. More subtle changes such as memory loss, difficulty with concentration, and a change in mood or sleeping habits have also been associated with Lyme Disease. My 4 year old niece has Lyme Disease right now. It is not fun and it is nothing to laugh about or mock. I get that you are not fond of Ms. Lavigne but to call her a 'crybaby' for having a disease that can have huge implications for some people shows a distinct lack of class and empathy. I heard she got it from a wood tick, that's what the wife suggested anyway. "Check the girls for ticks, I don't want them to get sick like Avril" It's all making sense now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tortorella's Rant Posted September 2, 2015 Share Posted September 2, 2015 Why the hell does anyone want to get married anymore. Half the time they don't even work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Ambien Posted September 2, 2015 Share Posted September 2, 2015 What a crybaby.RIP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taxi Posted September 2, 2015 Share Posted September 2, 2015 They didn't spawn did they? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nucklehead Posted September 2, 2015 Share Posted September 2, 2015 Perhaps a little research about Lyme Disease would be in order before calling someone a 'crybaby' because they've had it. Avril Lavigne was bedridden for 5 months with the disease. A person who goes undiagnosed (or is misdiagnosed) can develop neurological symptoms that can range from stiff neck and severe headache (meningitis), temporary paralysis of facial muscles (Bell's Palsy), numbness, pain or weakness in the limbs, or poor coordination. More subtle changes such as memory loss, difficulty with concentration, and a change in mood or sleeping habits have also been associated with Lyme Disease. My 4 year old niece has Lyme Disease right now. It is not fun and it is nothing to laugh about or mock. I get that you are not fond of Ms. Lavigne but to call her a 'crybaby' for having a disease that can have huge implications for some people shows a distinct lack of class and empathy. It's joke, chill. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RonMexico Posted September 2, 2015 Share Posted September 2, 2015 Why the hell does anyone want to get married anymore. Half the time they don't even work. By that logic half the time it does work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GLASSJAW Posted September 2, 2015 Share Posted September 2, 2015 It's joke, chill. Perhaps a little research on jokes. (1) Sigmund Freud’s Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious (1905) proposes a psychological account of why we make jokes, and why they cause us pleasure. He sees them as one of the ways in which we allow repressed topics and feelings to be given indirect expression; and he sees the pleasure that we express in laughter as a form of relief at being able to overcome repression. (In other works by Freud, he discusses dreams and slips of the tongue, or so-called “Freudian slips,” as similar ways in which repression can be indirectly overcome.) For Freud, this explains why so many jokes have a sexual or an aggressive – or indeed a sexually aggressive -- content, since these are the instincts that we are least willing to admit to directly. The following discussion focuses on Freud’s idea of the purpose behind “hostile” jokes: Though as children we are still endowed with a powerful inherited disposition to hostility, we are later taught by a higher personal civilization that it is an unworthy thing to use abusive language; and even where fighting has in itself remained permissible, the number of things which may not be employed as methods of fighting has extraordinarily increased. Since we have been obliged to renounce the expression of hostility by deeds -- held back by the passionless third person, in whose interest it is that personal security shall be preserved -- we have just as in the case of sexual aggressiveness, developed a new technique of invective, which aims at enlisting this third person against our enemy. By making our enemy small, inferior, despicable or comic, we achieve in a roundabout way the enjoyment of overcoming him -- to which the third person, who has made no efforts, bears witness by his laughter. We are now prepared to realize the part played by jokes in hostile aggressiveness. A joke will allow us to exploit something ridiculous in our enemy which we could not, on account of obstacles in the way, bring forward openly or consciously; once again, then, the joke will evade restrictions and open sources of pleasure that have become inaccessible… The prevention of invective or of insulting rejoinders by external circumstances is such a common case that tendentious jokes are especially favoured in order to make aggressiveness or criticism possible against persons in exalted positions who claim to exercise authority. The joke then represents a rebellion against that authority, a liberation from its pressure. The charm of caricatures lies in this same factor: we laugh at them even if they are unsuccessful simply because we count rebellion against authority as a merit. At this point in the discussion, Freud recognises a problem in his theory, which is that quite often the individuals we laugh at in jokes aren’t important people at all. As an example, he reconsiders Jewish jokes about “Schadchen” or traditional marriage-brokers, who are very lowly figures in the community – but who “strike at something more important,” as he puts it, namely the serious institution of marriage upon which their work is based, and the serious underlying questions of sexual attraction and sexual relations. An earlier example of a “Schadchen” joke goes as follows: “The bridegroom was most disagreeably surprised when the bride was introduced to him, and drew the broker on one side and whispered his remonstrances: ‘Why have you brought me here?’ he asked reproachfully. ‘She’s ugly and old, she squints and has bad teeth and bleary eyes…’ – ‘You needn’t lower your voice,’ interrupted the broker, ‘she’s deaf as well’.” (pp.103f.) Freud’s argument continues: If we bear in mind the fact that tendentious jokes are so highly suitable for attacks on the great, the dignified and the mighty, who are protected by internal inhibitions and external circumstances from direct disparagement, we shall be obliged to take a special view of certain groups of jokes which seem to be concerned with inferior and powerless people. [Does] what we have learnt of the nature of tendentious jokes on the one hand and on the other hand our great enjoyment of these stories fit in with the paltriness of the people whom these jokes seem to laugh at? Are they worthy opponents of the jokes? Is it not rather the case that the jokes only put forward marriage-brokers in order to strike at something more important?… [They] are the better jokes because… they are in a position to conceal not only what they have to say but also the fact that they have something – forbidden – to say… The whole of the ridicule now falls upon the parents… who think this swindle is justified in order to get their daughter a husband, upon the pitiable condition of girls who let themselves be married upon such terms, and upon the disgracefulness of marriage contracted on such a basis… The popular mind… knows the sacredness of marriages after they have been contracted is grievously affected by the thought of what happened at the time when they were arranged. (Sigmund Freud, Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious, Penguin Freud Library, vol.6, pp.147-51) (2) A “psychiatrist” joke: A man goes to see a psychiatrist, saying he’s worried about being obsessed with sex. The psychiatrist decides to try a Rorschach inkblot test. He shows the patient the first inkblot and the patient says it looks like a couple making love on the beach. When he shows him the second, the patient says it looks like a couple making love under the shower. With the third, he says it looks like a couple making love in the park. At the end of the test the psychiatrist looks over his notes, and says, “Well yes, you do seem to have a strong preoccupation with sex.” The patient replies, “You can talk. You’re the one with all the dirty pictures.” Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LaBamba Posted September 2, 2015 Share Posted September 2, 2015 Why the hell does anyone want to get married anymore. Half the time they don't even work. And what happened to taking care of your sick Spose. He was probably like, "you don't have sex with me anymore". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheFirstLine Posted September 2, 2015 Share Posted September 2, 2015 It's joke, chill. Nope. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Ambien Posted September 2, 2015 Share Posted September 2, 2015 It's joke, chill. No chance, you've angered the PC police. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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AllHailSmyl Posted September 2, 2015 Share Posted September 2, 2015 The thread title made me drop of the floor laughing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alflives Posted September 2, 2015 Share Posted September 2, 2015 I heard she got it from a wood tick, that's what the wife suggested anyway. "Check the girls for ticks, I don't want them to get sick like Avril" It's all making sense now. Hey, are not these little ticks carried around by deer? Plus, I think they are super small, and left on the shrubs and bushes, as the deer brushes by. I think? We don't have the little beggars on Melmac. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baka Posted September 2, 2015 Share Posted September 2, 2015 "Forerunners of a potential Canadian Musical Dynasty" Are you insulting Canadian music or are they actually that popular in Canada? I haven't heard that guys name ever or Avril's since people raged about her making some Asian music video that some thought was racist. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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