Our deepest condolences to the Devlin family for the loss of both Joe and Roslyn on the afternoon of 15th February 2023.

I.can’t.

Arts said:

I have sent our condolences .. I’m finally shook.
Our deepest condolences to the Devlin family for the loss of both Joe and Roslyn on the afternoon of 15th February 2023.
Please contact…
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sorry this is. the email that I received from one of his work colleagues with their contact details… so I asked that person to pass on our deepest condolences to the girls from us… and added a note about how much a part of our lives he was…

such a pain in the arse and a great man… this news can FUCK OFF.

Can’t really say how shocked and sad I am about this. What a terrible thing to happen.

Arts said:

Arts said:

I have sent our condolences .. I’m finally shook.
Our deepest condolences to the Devlin family for the loss of both Joe and Roslyn on the afternoon of 15th February 2023.
Please contact…
—-

sorry this is. the email that I received from one of his work colleagues with their contact details… so I asked that person to pass on our deepest condolences to the girls from us… and added a note about how much a part of our lives he was…

He was, thogh Boris will have to be forced to admit it.

Arts said:

such a pain in the arse and a great man… this news can FUCK OFF.

He’d give that a :thumbsup:

Oh no…

Oh no…

oh.

:(

fuck.

Awful tragedy. Condolences to the rest of the family.

He’ll be very much missed here.

dv said:

Can’t really say how shocked and sad I am about this. What a terrible thing to happen.

You are not the lone stranger here. I’m as shocked as anyone.

Bubblecar said:

Awful tragedy. Condolences to the rest of the family.

He’ll be very much missed here.

This, in spades.

Arts said:

such a pain in the arse and a great man… this news can FUCK OFF.

:)

I got the Fuck off conjugations in Irish for him. He was most amused.

Sorry folks big hugs all round.

Sad news indeed.

My greatest sympathy to his daughters.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.abc.net.au/article/101981368

ms spock said:

Arts said:

such a pain in the arse and a great man… this news can FUCK OFF.

:)

I got the Fuck off conjugations in Irish for him. He was most amused.

Sorry folks big hugs all round.

I liked him. Much more doesn’t need to be said. Mrs rb is shocked and sends her condolences.

Arts said:

:)

Appropriate time to raise our glasses to a good friend.

Two decades of chatting and boozing. Hard to grasp that it’s all gone, he wasn’t even ill.

The Rev Dodgson said:

Sad news indeed.

My greatest sympathy to his daughters.

Indeed. His sprogs. His much loved sprogs.

That’s shocking news.

Very sad indeed.

Bubblecar said:

Arts said:

:)

Appropriate time to raise our glasses to a good friend.

Two decades of chatting and boozing. Hard to grasp that it’s all gone, he wasn’t even ill.

So fill to me the parting glass and gather as the evening falls
And gently rise and softly call goodnight and joy be to you all
Ah
But since it fell into my lot that I should rise and you should not
I’ll gently rise and softly call good night and joy be to you all
Fill to me the parting glass and gather as the evening falls and gently rise and softly call goodnight and joy be to you all.
Fill to me the parting glass
And gather as the evening falls and gently rise and softly call goodnight and joy be to you all goodnight and joy be to you all.

Ah bugger. :(

Bubblecar said:

Arts said:

:)

Appropriate time to raise our glasses to a good friend.

Two decades of chatting and boozing. Hard to grasp that it’s all gone, he wasn’t even ill.

He’d at least be pleased that we could lift a glass in his memory.
No invalid stout about but I have raised a Coopers Sparkling to a good man.

His last post on the forum.

Typically smart-arsed. :-)

https://tokyo3.org/forums/holiday/?main=https%3A//tokyo3.org/forums/holiday/posts/1994587/

fuck eh

FUCK

Been out most of the day, saw the early chat about this but didn’t think much of it.

..words fail me right now.

I hope the girls have plenty of support.

Just no. I can’t believe it right now.

Well this is the most fucked news I’ve heard in a long while :-(

i’m having the sensation I won’t want that what i’m reading to be true for quite a long time

For whomever can, please keep us updated on Facebook with anything that can be done to help his family and any arrangements. :-(

Sorry to hear this.. he was a decent one..

Condolences to all his loved ones

I guess this is about them. :(

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-02-16/couple-drowns-bastion-point-mallacoota-beach/101981368

Bubblecar said:

Arts said:

:)

Appropriate time to raise our glasses to a good friend.

Two decades of chatting and boozing. Hard to grasp that it’s all gone, he wasn’t even ill.

Lovely tribute, Bubblecar

I don’t know what to say…………….

sarahs mum said:

Bubblecar said:

Arts said:

:)

Appropriate time to raise our glasses to a good friend.

Two decades of chatting and boozing. Hard to grasp that it’s all gone, he wasn’t even ill.

So fill to me the parting glass and gather as the evening falls
And gently rise and softly call goodnight and joy be to you all
Ah
But since it fell into my lot that I should rise and you should not
I’ll gently rise and softly call good night and joy be to you all
Fill to me the parting glass and gather as the evening falls and gently rise and softly call goodnight and joy be to you all.
Fill to me the parting glass
And gather as the evening falls and gently rise and softly call goodnight and joy be to you all goodnight and joy be to you all.

He would have liked that.

Oh, heavy heart.
Joe was a good bloke.
So sad

Peak Warming Man said:

sarahs mum said:

Bubblecar said:

:)

Appropriate time to raise our glasses to a good friend.

Two decades of chatting and boozing. Hard to grasp that it’s all gone, he wasn’t even ill.

So fill to me the parting glass and gather as the evening falls
And gently rise and softly call goodnight and joy be to you all
Ah
But since it fell into my lot that I should rise and you should not
I’ll gently rise and softly call good night and joy be to you all
Fill to me the parting glass and gather as the evening falls and gently rise and softly call goodnight and joy be to you all.
Fill to me the parting glass
And gather as the evening falls and gently rise and softly call goodnight and joy be to you all goodnight and joy be to you all.

He would have liked that.

The Parting Glass
Recorded and videoed on Sunday 7th April 2013 in Memorial Hall, University College Dublin, Ireland.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eisW0skJ9fU

This is just awful news.
I really liked him and have some great memories.

On behalf of Fire Orchid and Neddles, can I just say fnerk.

Hope there’s some way we can let their sprogs know at some point what a valued member of this community he was.

Sibeen last Sunday :)

sibeen said:

sarahs mum said:

sibeen said:

I am find it near unfathamble that Cody Longo has passed on.

fathom.

who’s cody longo?

Don’t tell Arts, I’m quite drunk. Actually, well fucking pissed.

poor Mum.

sarahs mum said:

poor Mum.

Yes I was thinking that too. She had every right to expect she’d be going first and they’d have many adventures to come.

:(

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I am really, really really sad.

Mrs V has give me a good cuddle. Apparently I talked about sibeen quite a bit. And she opened a bottle of Basedow’s 2021 shiraz to have with the Char Siu Pork I cooked. I’m pretty sure Joe would have liked this quite outstanding wine. We toasted him, a couple of times.

Vale sibeen. I will very seriously miss your bad manners, smart-arsed comments and incisive thoughts.

:(

Vale sibeen and wife.

Life is fragile

I am deeply saddened to hear of this. He was a character and exuberant contributor to a once-great online community.

I plan to attend the funeral, if possible.

Please accept my sincere condolences for this loss.

Rule 303 said:

I am deeply saddened to hear of this. He was a character and exuberant contributor to a once-great online community.

I plan to attend the funeral, if possible.

Please accept my sincere condolences for this loss.

Thanks for planning to go to the funeral. Please pass on our deep felts.

Happy to see you though. You’ve been missed sir.

Rule 303 said:

I am deeply saddened to hear of this. He was a character and exuberant contributor to a once-great online community.

I plan to attend the funeral, if possible.

Please accept my sincere condolences for this loss.

Thanks Rule. I really hope you can.

If possible, please pass on my condolences, and tell them how much I will miss Joe. A lot. So much, I cannot explain.

sarahs mum said:

Rule 303 said:

I am deeply saddened to hear of this. He was a character and exuberant contributor to a once-great online community.

I plan to attend the funeral, if possible.

Please accept my sincere condolences for this loss.

Thanks for planning to go to the funeral. Please pass on our deep felts.

Happy to see you though. You’ve been missed sir.

+1

I would love to see you back here again.

Sibeen called me names for leaving that infected cyst too long and having to have an emergency operation.

Now I’m tempted to call him names for venturing into a dangerous sea and getting into trouble. But it’s too late now.

Don’t go swimming in the wet fucking sea,
It’s a very dangerous place to be.

Stay on the shore and drink a little more,
Lay on the sands and dream.

:(

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I cannot describe how sad I am.

Bubblecar said:

Sibeen called me names for leaving that infected cyst too long and having to have an emergency operation.

Now I’m tempted to call him names for venturing into a dangerous sea and getting into trouble. But it’s too late now.

Don’t go swimming in the wet fucking sea,
It’s a very dangerous place to be.

Stay on the shore and drink a little more,
Lay on the sands and dream.

He was enough of a local to know the waters. He would have known the risk. Also probably got away with it in the past.

Michael V said:

:(

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I cannot describe how sad I am.

Hugz.

Also here.

Michael V said:

:(

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I cannot describe how sad I am.

Yes, it’ll take a while.

This is so shit. Words cannot describe my sympathy for the sprogs. I think if I was a close enough family friend or rellie i’d just hug it out and cry with them for ten minutes.

sarahs mum said:

Bubblecar said:

Sibeen called me names for leaving that infected cyst too long and having to have an emergency operation.

Now I’m tempted to call him names for venturing into a dangerous sea and getting into trouble. But it’s too late now.

Don’t go swimming in the wet fucking sea,
It’s a very dangerous place to be.

Stay on the shore and drink a little more,
Lay on the sands and dream.

He was enough of a local to know the waters. He would have known the risk. Also probably got away with it in the past.

Aye. In fairness, we don’t know what happened. Apparently sibeen called for help which alerted people on the shore.

But whether it was he or his wife who first got into difficulties is unknown. By the time help arrived they were both face down in the water and far apart.

sarahs mum said:

Michael V said:

:(

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I cannot describe how sad I am.

Hugz.

Also here.

I’m Pissed. That’s the best send-off I can give sibeen.

Sad news about our Holiday Forum friend and hs wife.

Miss your banter buddy

Witty Rejoinder said:

This is so shit. Words cannot describe my sympathy for the sprogs. I think if I was a close enough family friend or rellie i’d just hug it out and cry with them for ten minutes.

The sprogs never posted here but it seems as if we know them.

Awful tragedy to suddenly lose both parents in this way.

Hi Arts. Can you report back with the funeral details if you come across them. I might be able to attend for the forum.

Phil_C said:

Hi Arts. Can you report back with the funeral details if you come across them. I might be able to attend for the forum.

Thanks. I hope you can do that

Michael V said:

sarahs mum said:

Michael V said:

:(

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I cannot describe how sad I am.

Hugz.

Also here.

I’m Pissed. That’s the best send-off I can give sibeen.

+1

.. and fuck Spotify for making do the whole log-in verifcation shit agian tonight.

Bulgarian Umbrella just rang me with the news. :(

I can’t believe it yet.

I’ve just grabbed the stubby holder that we scored at the Moon & Sixpence while drinking with Sibeen, and have cracked open a beer in his honour.

What shit news to end what was a good day.

No. I can’t believe the sorrow I feel on hearing this shit news. That bastard. A cheeky, witty but always kindhearted bastard. And both of them. Their kids. They’re precious kids. (sprogs). I’m so incredibly sad and sorry to hear about this.

Such sad news – must be very tough for the family :-(

There are no words.

transition said:

i’m having the sensation I won’t want that what i’m reading to be true for quite a long time

+1

>>Of all the comrades that e’er I’ve had, they’re sorry for my going away.
and all the sweethearts that e’er I had,
they’d wish me one more day to stay. <<

The best version/s of ‘The Parting Glass’ are by Liam Clancy himself IMO. It was the song I chose for my late husband’s funeral at the closing as most fitting.

badchap said:

>>Of all the comrades that e’er I’ve had, they’re sorry for my going away.
and all the sweethearts that e’er I had,
they’d wish me one more day to stay. <<

The best version/s of ‘The Parting Glass’ are by Liam Clancy himself IMO. It was the song I chose for my late husband’s funeral at the closing as most fitting.

Yep. That’s beautiful too.

I know that he liked the Dropkick Murphys …

How bloody awful, a real shock.
My heart breaks for their girls.

kii said:

How bloody awful, a real shock.
My heart breaks for their girls.

:(

As shebs would say, it is about time they grew up.

This is a huge thing his girls are facing right now. I hope his extended family are around to surround them with love and scoop them up into their arms.

There are no death notices for them as yet on The Age or the Herald Sun online pages. These sort of notices are open, no paywall. I don’t think the very latest have been uploaded yet today.

Bugger

Bubblecar said:

Sibeen called me names for leaving that infected cyst too long and having to have an emergency operation.

Now I’m tempted to call him names for venturing into a dangerous sea and getting into trouble. But it’s too late now.

Don’t go swimming in the wet fucking sea,
It’s a very dangerous place to be.

Stay on the shore and drink a little more,
Lay on the sands and dream.

“I survived a heart attack but it was a bloody rip that took me out?!?”

Well fuck this shit. I’ll raise a glass for him.

monkey skipper said:

This is a huge thing his girls are facing right now. I hope his extended family are around to surround them with love and scoop them up into their arms.

I was thinking about the girls and remembering self.I was 15 when my father died and I am glad the girls are older. I am sure if I was a few years older the coping would have been easier. If he had lived a little longer I might have been able to relate to him as an adult instead of a superdad. I hope the girls band together instead of fall apart.

i was also remembering holding baby Sarah and telling her that if her grandfather were still here he would love you. those parents are going to be missed so many times.

sarahs mum said:

monkey skipper said:

This is a huge thing his girls are facing right now. I hope his extended family are around to surround them with love and scoop them up into their arms.

I was thinking about the girls and remembering self.I was 15 when my father died and I am glad the girls are older. I am sure if I was a few years older the coping would have been easier. If he had lived a little longer I might have been able to relate to him as an adult instead of a superdad. I hope the girls band together instead of fall apart.

i was also remembering holding baby Sarah and telling her that if her grandfather were still here he would love you. those parents are going to be missed so many times.

Yeah. Nothing it my life compares to what the girls are having to deal with.

sarahs mum said:

monkey skipper said:

This is a huge thing his girls are facing right now. I hope his extended family are around to surround them with love and scoop them up into their arms.

I was thinking about the girls and remembering self.I was 15 when my father died and I am glad the girls are older. I am sure if I was a few years older the coping would have been easier. If he had lived a little longer I might have been able to relate to him as an adult instead of a superdad. I hope the girls band together instead of fall apart.

i was also remembering holding baby Sarah and telling her that if her grandfather were still here he would love you. those parents are going to be missed so many times.

Yes I was 16 when my father died.

FUCK

wakes up and slaps own face

Nup…. I wasn’t dreaming …………..

It is pleasant, despite the tragic circumstances, to see so many of our old regulars popping back in to lay wreaths. I do hope you’ll keep popping in.

He helped Curve out when he was in his final days and took the time and made the effort to go to his funeral
He was a good man and a great loss for all those who had the privilege of knowing him.

Peak Warming Man said:

He helped Curve out when he was in his final days and took the time and made the effort to go to his funeral
He was a good man and a great loss for all those who had the privilege of knowing him.

He was indeed a good man.

Whenever the ABC thinks kWh is a unit of power, or Elon Musk does something stupid, I’ll think of mr been.

dv said:

Whenever the ABC thinks kWh is a unit of power, or Elon Musk does something stupid, I’ll think of mr been.

Test match cricket won’t be the same.

I’m still in shock ;(

I wasn’t able to log into the forum from my phone last night to post.

Who am I going to call an Old Man now when our birthdays come around, I am 4 days older then Shebs and we always had friendly banter when we met up in Melb :(

I shall head to the bottlo and grab a dark ale, probably Coopers and raise a glass to him tonight.

roughbarked said:

Bubblecar said:

Arts said:

:)

Appropriate time to raise our glasses to a good friend.

Two decades of chatting and boozing. Hard to grasp that it’s all gone, he wasn’t even ill.

He’d at least be pleased that we could lift a glass in his memory.
No invalid stout about but I have raised a Coopers Sparkling to a good man.

TA for alerting me.

Waking Ned Devine (1998)
set to Liam O’Maonlai

The Parting Glass

All the money that e’er I had
I spent it in good company
And all the harm I’ve ever done
Alas, it was to none but me
And all I’ve done for want of wit
To memory now, I can’t recall
So fill to me the parting glass
Goodnight and joy be to you all!

Fill to me the parting glass
And drink a health whate’er befalls
Then gently rise and softly call
Goodnight and joy be to you all!

Of all the comrades that e’er I had
They’re sorry for my going away
And all the sweethearts that e’er I had
They’d wish me one more day to stay.
Since it fell into my lot
That I should rise, and you should not
I’ll gently rise and softly call
Goodnight and joy be to you all!

But since it fell into my lot
That I should rise and you should not
I’ll gently rise and softly call
Goodnight and joy be to you all!

So fill to me the parting glass
And drink a health whate’er befalls
Then gently rise and softly call
Goodnight and joy be to you all!

Divine Angel said:

Bubblecar said:

Sibeen called me names for leaving that infected cyst too long and having to have an emergency operation.

Now I’m tempted to call him names for venturing into a dangerous sea and getting into trouble. But it’s too late now.

Don’t go swimming in the wet fucking sea,
It’s a very dangerous place to be.

Stay on the shore and drink a little more,
Lay on the sands and dream.

“I survived a heart attack but it was a bloody rip that took me out?!?”

Yes, death lurks everywhere.

Would have been a harrowing way to go, especially knowing your loved one was succumbing too and there was nothing you could do.

One of our great entertainers. He will be missed like Geoff D.
Cricket will never be the same.

Tamb said:

One of our great entertainers. He will be missed like Geoff D.
Cricket will never be the same.

Yeah. Who am I gunna hang shit on now whenever the Melbourne Stars lose a match from a winnable position?

Tamb said:

One of our great entertainers. He will be missed like Geoff D.
Cricket will never be the same.

Aye. I still miss GeoffD. He was a top bloke.

sarahs mum said:

monkey skipper said:

This is a huge thing his girls are facing right now. I hope his extended family are around to surround them with love and scoop them up into their arms.

I was thinking about the girls and remembering self.I was 15 when my father died and I am glad the girls are older. I am sure if I was a few years older the coping would have been easier. If he had lived a little longer I might have been able to relate to him as an adult instead of a superdad. I hope the girls band together instead of fall apart.

i was also remembering holding baby Sarah and telling her that if her grandfather were still here he would love you. those parents are going to be missed so many times.

How old are the girls now, anyone know?

Has the youngest turned 18 yet?

party_pants said:

sarahs mum said:

monkey skipper said:

This is a huge thing his girls are facing right now. I hope his extended family are around to surround them with love and scoop them up into their arms.

I was thinking about the girls and remembering self.I was 15 when my father died and I am glad the girls are older. I am sure if I was a few years older the coping would have been easier. If he had lived a little longer I might have been able to relate to him as an adult instead of a superdad. I hope the girls band together instead of fall apart.

i was also remembering holding baby Sarah and telling her that if her grandfather were still here he would love you. those parents are going to be missed so many times.

How old are the girls now, anyone know?

Has the youngest turned 18 yet?

From what he’d said, they were both driving cars?

party_pants said:

sarahs mum said:

monkey skipper said:

This is a huge thing his girls are facing right now. I hope his extended family are around to surround them with love and scoop them up into their arms.

I was thinking about the girls and remembering self.I was 15 when my father died and I am glad the girls are older. I am sure if I was a few years older the coping would have been easier. If he had lived a little longer I might have been able to relate to him as an adult instead of a superdad. I hope the girls band together instead of fall apart.

i was also remembering holding baby Sarah and telling her that if her grandfather were still here he would love you. those parents are going to be missed so many times.

How old are the girls now, anyone know?

Has the youngest turned 18 yet?

Yeah I think so.

Haven’t been in here for quite a while, but just felt like popping in to shake my fist at the universe for allowing shitty things to happen. :-(

party_pants said:

sarahs mum said:

monkey skipper said:

This is a huge thing his girls are facing right now. I hope his extended family are around to surround them with love and scoop them up into their arms.

I was thinking about the girls and remembering self.I was 15 when my father died and I am glad the girls are older. I am sure if I was a few years older the coping would have been easier. If he had lived a little longer I might have been able to relate to him as an adult instead of a superdad. I hope the girls band together instead of fall apart.

i was also remembering holding baby Sarah and telling her that if her grandfather were still here he would love you. those parents are going to be missed so many times.

How old are the girls now, anyone know?

Has the youngest turned 18 yet?

I seem to remember she’s legally drinking now, after that earlier episode.

Langy said:

Haven’t been in here for quite a while, but just felt like popping in to shake my fist at the universe for allowing shitty things to happen. :-(

Yeah

Langy said:

Haven’t been in here for quite a while, but just felt like popping in to shake my fist at the universe for allowing shitty things to happen. :-(

Wow. Even Langy turned up.
and yes. I’m shaking my fist at the universe too.

Langy said:

Haven’t been in here for quite a while, but just felt like popping in to shake my fist at the universe for allowing shitty things to happen. :-(

Hi Langy.

Yes, it’s been making me angry in the same abstract way.

Langy said:

Haven’t been in here for quite a while, but just felt like popping in to shake my fist at the universe for allowing shitty things to happen. :-(

*joins in the fist shaking

dv said:

Langy said:

Haven’t been in here for quite a while, but just felt like popping in to shake my fist at the universe for allowing shitty things to happen. :-(

Yeah

+1
Just returned from visiting an old friend whose husband died suddenly & without warning. She’s a mess.

Tamb said:

One of our great entertainers. He will be missed like Geoff D.
Cricket will never be the same.

What he says is true! (Tá an fhírinne aige).

Some of us from the forum went to GeoffD’s funeral. We spoke of how much he meant to us. It might not be possible but it would be nice to make a gesture to sibeen’s sprogs?

party_pants said:

Tamb said:

One of our great entertainers. He will be missed like Geoff D.
Cricket will never be the same.

Yeah. Who am I gunna hang shit on now whenever the Melbourne Stars lose a match from a winnable position?

:(

Triail fadfhulaingthe! (It will be an endurance test for you party_pants)

ms spock said:

Tamb said:

One of our great entertainers. He will be missed like Geoff D.
Cricket will never be the same.

What he says is true! (Tá an fhírinne aige).

Some of us from the forum went to GeoffD’s funeral. We spoke of how much he meant to us. It might not be possible but it would be nice to make a gesture to sibeen’s sprogs?

Knowing him as we do we can imagine the gesture he’d make.

My thoughts keep bouncing between the sibeen family and my Gracie.

I feel stuck and exhausted. I’m also angry about all of it.

Fuck.

Langy said:

Haven’t been in here for quite a while, but just felt like popping in to shake my fist at the universe for allowing shitty things to happen. :-(

Dia duit Langy! (Hello!)

****shakes fist along with Langy****

Tamb said:

dv said:

Langy said:

Haven’t been in here for quite a while, but just felt like popping in to shake my fist at the universe for allowing shitty things to happen. :-(

Yeah

+1
Just returned from visiting an old friend whose husband died suddenly & without warning. She’s a mess.

:’‘’‘(((

Tá brón orm Tamb! (I am sorry Tamb!)

ms spock said:

Tamb said:

dv said:

Yeah

+1
Just returned from visiting an old friend whose husband died suddenly & without warning. She’s a mess.

:’‘’‘(((

Tá brón orm Tamb! (I am sorry Tamb!)

Go raibh maith agat

kii said:

My thoughts keep bouncing between the sibeen family and my Gracie.

I feel stuck and exhausted. I’m also angry about all of it.

Fuck.

still Gracie had some much better years due to you. bests to you for that.

Tamb said:

Just returned from visiting an old friend whose husband died suddenly & without warning. She’s a mess.

:(

She’ll need lots of support.
Not just for now, but for some time.

Tamb said:

ms spock said:

Tamb said:

+1
Just returned from visiting an old friend whose husband died suddenly & without warning. She’s a mess.

:’‘’‘(((

Tá brón orm Tamb! (I am sorry Tamb!)

Go raibh maith agat

’Sé do bheatha (You are welcome!)

AussieDJ said:

Tamb said:

Just returned from visiting an old friend whose husband died suddenly & without warning. She’s a mess.

:(

She’ll need lots of support.
Not just for now, but for some time.

That’s the truth! It’s just the start of the journey, unfortunately.

sarahs mum said:

kii said:

My thoughts keep bouncing between the sibeen family and my Gracie.

I feel stuck and exhausted. I’m also angry about all of it.

Fuck.

still Gracie had some much better years due to you. bests to you for that.

And your stories about Dis-Grace were heart warming.

AussieDJ said:

Tamb said:

Just returned from visiting an old friend whose husband died suddenly & without warning. She’s a mess.

:(

She’ll need lots of support.
Not just for now, but for some time.

Fortunately she has supportive children.

DO hasn’t checked in. I hope he’s been informed of sibeen and his wife’s passing.

Bubblecar said:

party_pants said:

sarahs mum said:

I was thinking about the girls and remembering self.I was 15 when my father died and I am glad the girls are older. I am sure if I was a few years older the coping would have been easier. If he had lived a little longer I might have been able to relate to him as an adult instead of a superdad. I hope the girls band together instead of fall apart.

i was also remembering holding baby Sarah and telling her that if her grandfather were still here he would love you. those parents are going to be missed so many times.

How old are the girls now, anyone know?

Has the youngest turned 18 yet?

I seem to remember she’s legally drinking now, after that earlier episode.

I’d guess 19 and 21. But I don’t know why I think that.

roughbarked said:

DO hasn’t checked in. I hope he’s been informed of sibeen and his wife’s passing.

He has, I advised him last night :(

Spider Lily said:

roughbarked said:

DO hasn’t checked in. I hope he’s been informed of sibeen and his wife’s passing.

He has, I advised him last night :(

Thanks SL.

Spider Lily said:

roughbarked said:

DO hasn’t checked in. I hope he’s been informed of sibeen and his wife’s passing.

He has, I advised him last night :(

thanks.

roughbarked said:

Tamb said:

One of our great entertainers. He will be missed like Geoff D.
Cricket will never be the same.

Aye. I still miss GeoffD. He was a top bloke.

I’m sure we all remember where we were when we heard that news. SSSFers weren’t supposed to pass.

You guys all look after yourselves ya hear. I don’t look good in black. Or tears.

Dropbear said:

roughbarked said:

Tamb said:

One of our great entertainers. He will be missed like Geoff D.
Cricket will never be the same.

Aye. I still miss GeoffD. He was a top bloke.

I’m sure we all remember where we were when we heard that news. SSSFers weren’t supposed to pass.

You guys all look after yourselves ya hear. I don’t look good in black. Or tears.

Do drop back in now and then to see how the place is faring. ;)

Dropbear said:

roughbarked said:

Tamb said:

One of our great entertainers. He will be missed like Geoff D.
Cricket will never be the same.

Aye. I still miss GeoffD. He was a top bloke.

I’m sure we all remember where we were when we heard that news. SSSFers weren’t supposed to pass.

You guys all look after yourselves ya hear. I don’t look good in black. Or tears.

Soon as I saw the news I was taken back to the exact place that I learnt about Geefer’s passing.

OCDC said:

Dropbear said:

roughbarked said:

Aye. I still miss GeoffD. He was a top bloke.

I’m sure we all remember where we were when we heard that news. SSSFers weren’t supposed to pass.

You guys all look after yourselves ya hear. I don’t look good in black. Or tears.

Soon as I saw the news I was taken back to the exact place that I learnt about Geefer’s passing.

<3

You stay well too ya hear

Oh shit.

FUCK, FUCK, crap, shit.

Farewell you larger than life loveable larikin.

Doesn’t seem real.

Numb.

https://www.funeral.info/n/441hdd

Found this searching for Joe Devlin Mallacoota.

Seems like his dads funeral but shows he had a big extended family that will hopefully take care of his girls.

tauto said:

Oh shit.

FUCK, FUCK, crap, shit.

Farewell you larger than life loveable larikin.

Doesn’t seem real.

Numb.

It does not seem real!

tauto said:

https://www.funeral.info/n/441hdd

Found this searching for Joe Devlin Mallacoota.

Seems like his dads funeral but shows he had a big extended family that will hopefully take care of his girls.

:(

As soon as I heard the bad news, I went looking for the stubby holder that I last drank from with Sibeen. Bulgarian Umbrella, myself, Sibeen and I think a couple of others were drinking at the Moon & Sixpence in Perth. Sibeen as usual was drinking a stout, and we had already had a few when a very attractive lass approached us bearing free beer. Not ones to turn down the offer of free beer, we agreed. The stubbies were completely hidden in the holder, and we had to guess what beer it was just by taste.

After a couple of swigs, I was unsure, as I am not usually a beer drinker, but Sibeen and BU had both declared that it was some horrible U.S. pisswater. Upon unzipping the holders, lo & behold, a stubby of Budweiser. Much hilarity ensued, the girly wasn’t impressed and we didn’t get any more free beer, so we continued to buy our own.

My memory of that night gets a bit hazy after that, but I have some pics on a hard drive somewhere. Last night was the first time I used that stubby holder since that night drinking in a pub with Joe.

Cheers, mate. Happy Trails.

tauto said:

https://www.funeral.info/n/441hdd

Found this searching for Joe Devlin Mallacoota.

Seems like his dads funeral but shows he had a big extended family that will hopefully take care of his girls.

I’ve searched with Melbourne as the place. There has been nothing in The Age or the Herald Sun so far. I’ve only looked for death notices, funeral will take longer. They will be with the coroner, so there may be some delay.

Shebs is sibeen?

Often wanted to meet sibeen, but he would never come along to any puds.

Hard to believe Sibeen is gone.

:(

I will moozy around the place, do some reading.

Tau.Neutrino said:

Hard to believe Sibeen is gone.

:(

I will moozy around the place, do some reading.

:(

Great little story, Kingy – thanks for sharing.

badchap said:

Great little story, Kingy – thanks for sharing.

Yes, sounds like typical sibeen :)

Keep the stories coming.

It may still be another several days before any death notices appear. It was over a week before Mr Badchap’s notice went in; they won’t publish any obits until the next of kin’s is in.. There’d be a report for the coroner and many sad meetings and gatherings..If I recall correctly both their girls would both be 20s? by now? (I _think the older girl shares the same name as my daughter and is also similar age-25ish).

badchap said:

It may still be another several days before any death notices appear. It was over a week before Mr Badchap’s notice went in; they won’t publish any obits until the next of kin’s is in.. There’d be a report for the coroner and many sad meetings and gatherings..If I recall correctly both their girls would both be 20s? by now? (I _think the older girl shares the same name as my daughter and is also similar age-25ish).

I think 22 and 18-19 would be the approximate ages. Junior sprog started uni this year.

badchap said:

It may still be another several days before any death notices appear. It was over a week before Mr Badchap’s notice went in; they won’t publish any obits until the next of kin’s is in.. There’d be a report for the coroner and many sad meetings and gatherings..If I recall correctly both their girls would both be 20s? by now? (I _think the older girl shares the same name as my daughter and is also similar age-25ish).

Approximately that.

Oh, ok thanks Witty R..

OMG, I cannot believe this has happened :(

What a terrible tragedy. My own father drowned and it was a lot to deal with, but I cannot imagine losing both parents in this way.

This is so hard to comprehend, and I have many thoughts right now, but now…

Rest in Peace.

:(

Speedy said:

OMG, I cannot believe this has happened :(

What a terrible tragedy. My own father drowned and it was a lot to deal with, but I cannot imagine losing both parents in this way.

This is so hard to comprehend, and I have many thoughts right now, but now…

Rest in Peace.

:(

Yeah it’s so tragic. I hope the sprogs have the psychological support to help them to cope with so many mixed emotions. It is natural for the grief to go hand in hand with anger about such easily preventable deaths.

wtf…….. sibeen?

Trevtaowillgetyounowhere said:

wtf…….. sibeen?

Aye. I thought you’d probably already heard the sad news.

Trevtaowillgetyounowhere said:

wtf…….. sibeen?

We all feel that way.

oh no….

sarahs mum said:

Trevtaowillgetyounowhere said:

wtf…….. sibeen?

We all feel that way.

Yeah.

:(

:(

:(

Bubblecar said:

Trevtaowillgetyounowhere said:

wtf…….. sibeen?

Aye. I thought you’d probably already heard the sad news.

No. Just found out the the wife knew but didn’t connect the SSSF connection so didn’t mention it…. well that’s proper shit news.

Trevtaowillgetyounowhere said:

Bubblecar said:

Trevtaowillgetyounowhere said:

wtf…….. sibeen?

Aye. I thought you’d probably already heard the sad news.

No. Just found out the the wife knew but didn’t connect the SSSF connection so didn’t mention it…. well that’s proper shit news.

It’s a crazy thing to happen. Still hard to believe.

From my current reading, Sentient by Jackie Higgins, a quote from Oliver Sacks, a few months before his death:

“ I cannot pretend I am without fear. But my predominant feeling is one of gratitude… Above all, I have been a sentient being, a thinking animal on this beautiful planet, and that in itself has been an enormous privilege and adventure.”

The Rev Dodgson said:

From my current reading, Sentient by Jackie Higgins, a quote from Oliver Sacks, a few months before his death:

“ I cannot pretend I am without fear. But my predominant feeling is one of gratitude… Above all, I have been a sentient being, a thinking animal on this beautiful planet, and that in itself has been an enormous privilege and adventure.”

Nice.
It has also been an enormous privilege and an adventure to have known sibeen.

Keep seeing news pertinent to ongoing discussions with sibeen and being keen to get his take and then remembering.

St Peter-: Dear oh dear……flips page…….dear oh dear oh dear.
Sibeen-: Well……um…….yes I wasn’t perfect but since you’ve got me hear I’d like to have a word about Elon, he’s a right bastard you need to do something about him.

Peak Warming Man said:

The Rev Dodgson said:

From my current reading, Sentient by Jackie Higgins, a quote from Oliver Sacks, a few months before his death:

“ I cannot pretend I am without fear. But my predominant feeling is one of gratitude… Above all, I have been a sentient being, a thinking animal on this beautiful planet, and that in itself has been an enormous privilege and adventure.”

Nice.
It has also been an enormous privilege and an adventure to have known sibeen.

It is also a “Dr Who like”, rip in the current time-line of reality that is extremely difficult to comprehend. I keep expecting to wake up and see him post here about how easily we can be fooled, but the facts keep hitting me right in the feels. :(

Kingy said:

Peak Warming Man said:

The Rev Dodgson said:

From my current reading, Sentient by Jackie Higgins, a quote from Oliver Sacks, a few months before his death:

“ I cannot pretend I am without fear. But my predominant feeling is one of gratitude… Above all, I have been a sentient being, a thinking animal on this beautiful planet, and that in itself has been an enormous privilege and adventure.”

Nice.
It has also been an enormous privilege and an adventure to have known sibeen.

It is also a “Dr Who like”, rip in the current time-line of reality that is extremely difficult to comprehend. I keep expecting to wake up and see him post here about how easily we can be fooled, but the facts keep hitting me right in the feels. :(

Yeah mate, I’ve lost a few friends over the years but sibeens passing and the circumstances involved have affected me profoundly.

Peak Warming Man said:

Kingy said:

Peak Warming Man said:

Nice.
It has also been an enormous privilege and an adventure to have known sibeen.

It is also a “Dr Who like”, rip in the current time-line of reality that is extremely difficult to comprehend. I keep expecting to wake up and see him post here about how easily we can be fooled, but the facts keep hitting me right in the feels. :(

Yeah mate, I’ve lost a few friends over the years but sibeens passing and the circumstances involved have affected me profoundly.

Yes. I am feeling this much more than I thought I would too. It’s been around 21 years for me since I’ve been reading his posts. Met him several times in person. Never met his wife or kids of course. But after such a time you feel like you know the person, and will miss them dearly now that they are departed. It was a tough day at work keeping my mind on the job.

For once I’m glad that a few years ago I reached out to sibeen to thank him for taking the time years before to help me with one of my uni subjects I was having trouble with. (It was digital electronics.) Normally I miss that kind of opportunity and end up regretting it, probably unto my own grave.

Still pretty crappy though. :-(

From: AussieDJ
ID: 1996699
Subject: re: Wordle Thread Containing Possible Spoilers

sarahs mum said:

I’ve been looking for Sibeen’s wordle record. I found where he was excited about 45 seconds. And I found where he thought he almost bettered his 32 second record.but i couldn’t actually find the 32 second post.

His quickest ever – at 15 seconds –
https://tokyo3.org/forums/holiday/?main=https%3A//tokyo3.org/forums/holiday/posts/1881193/

Annoyed at a 48-second post –
https://tokyo3.org/forums/holiday/?main=https%3A//tokyo3.org/forums/holiday/posts/1899721/

Happy with 39 seconds –
https://tokyo3.org/forums/holiday/?main=https%3A//tokyo3.org/forums/holiday/posts/1924788/

Whingeing about the NYT slowing him down –
https://tokyo3.org/forums/holiday/?main=https%3A//tokyo3.org/forums/holiday/posts/1944744/

Posting this in his memory – his last appearance in this thread:
https://tokyo3.org/forums/holiday/?main=https%3A//tokyo3.org/forums/holiday/posts/1994359/

sarahs mum said:

From: AussieDJ
ID: 1996699
Subject: re: Wordle Thread Containing Possible Spoilers

sarahs mum said:

I’ve been looking for Sibeen’s wordle record. I found where he was excited about 45 seconds. And I found where he thought he almost bettered his 32 second record.but i couldn’t actually find the 32 second post.

His quickest ever – at 15 seconds –
https://tokyo3.org/forums/holiday/?main=https%3A//tokyo3.org/forums/holiday/posts/1881193/

Annoyed at a 48-second post –
https://tokyo3.org/forums/holiday/?main=https%3A//tokyo3.org/forums/holiday/posts/1899721/

Happy with 39 seconds –
https://tokyo3.org/forums/holiday/?main=https%3A//tokyo3.org/forums/holiday/posts/1924788/

Whingeing about the NYT slowing him down –
https://tokyo3.org/forums/holiday/?main=https%3A//tokyo3.org/forums/holiday/posts/1944744/

Posting this in his memory – his last appearance in this thread:
https://tokyo3.org/forums/holiday/?main=https%3A//tokyo3.org/forums/holiday/posts/1994359/

:(

sarahs mum said:

From: AussieDJ
ID: 1996699
Subject: re: Wordle Thread Containing Possible Spoilers

sarahs mum said:

I’ve been looking for Sibeen’s wordle record. I found where he was excited about 45 seconds. And I found where he thought he almost bettered his 32 second record.but i couldn’t actually find the 32 second post.

His quickest ever – at 15 seconds –
https://tokyo3.org/forums/holiday/?main=https%3A//tokyo3.org/forums/holiday/posts/1881193/

Annoyed at a 48-second post –
https://tokyo3.org/forums/holiday/?main=https%3A//tokyo3.org/forums/holiday/posts/1899721/

Happy with 39 seconds –
https://tokyo3.org/forums/holiday/?main=https%3A//tokyo3.org/forums/holiday/posts/1924788/

Whingeing about the NYT slowing him down –
https://tokyo3.org/forums/holiday/?main=https%3A//tokyo3.org/forums/holiday/posts/1944744/

Posting this in his memory – his last appearance in this thread:
https://tokyo3.org/forums/holiday/?main=https%3A//tokyo3.org/forums/holiday/posts/1994359/

He was a rapid Wordler and no mistake. Quick on the Quordles too.

It’s a pity people usually have to be dead for nice things or the truth to be said about them.

They should have been pretending, come back and say thanks friends or I’ll try better

Langy said:

Haven’t been in here for quite a while, but just felt like popping in to shake my fist at the universe for allowing shitty things to happen. :-(

Likewise. I just found out. This is awful. Condolences to his family, especially the kids. :(

Mad Man Moon said:

Langy said:

Haven’t been in here for quite a while, but just felt like popping in to shake my fist at the universe for allowing shitty things to happen. :-(

Likewise. I just found out. This is awful. Condolences to his family, especially the kids. :(

Thanks for peeping in, Chris.

What a weird family this is.

dv said:

What a weird family this is.

Why?

kii said:

dv said:

What a weird family this is.

Why?

Quite different people, widely distributed, but bound together for 20 years and more.

dv said:

kii said:

dv said:

What a weird family this is.

Why?

Quite different people, widely distributed, but bound together for 20 years and more.

Yeah, I suppose.

dv said:

kii said:

dv said:

What a weird family this is.

Why?

Quite different people, widely distributed, but bound together for 20 years and more.

I suppose we all must have something in common.

The Rev Dodgson said:

dv said:

kii said:

Why?

Quite different people, widely distributed, but bound together for 20 years and more.

I suppose we all must have something in common.

Well I wouldn’t go that far

Goodbye to Shebs

The Rev Dodgson said:

dv said:

kii said:

Why?

Quite different people, widely distributed, but bound together for 20 years and more.

I suppose we all must have something in common.

more than half a brain.

dv said:

The Rev Dodgson said:

dv said:

Quite different people, widely distributed, but bound together for 20 years and more.

I suppose we all must have something in common.

Well I wouldn’t go that far

Reasonably similar morals and decency for life and see through the bullshit of existence

sarahs mum said:

The Rev Dodgson said:

dv said:

Quite different people, widely distributed, but bound together for 20 years and more.

I suppose we all must have something in common.

more than half a brain.

Raised a smile :)

The Rev Dodgson said:

sarahs mum said:

The Rev Dodgson said:

I suppose we all must have something in common.

more than half a brain.

Raised a smile :)

Wait, each or between us?

I’ve been away on the Gold Coast for several days.

Sibeen is gone?

How is this possible?

dv said:

The Rev Dodgson said:

sarahs mum said:

more than half a brain.

Raised a smile :)

Wait, each or between us?

I can’t smile anymore, and only laugh at stoopid cat videos.

captain_spalding said:

I’ve been away on the Gold Coast for several days.

Sibeen is gone?

How is this possible?

It shouldn’t be but it is :(

He and his wife drowned last week.

Bubblecar said:

captain_spalding said:

I’ve been away on the Gold Coast for several days.

Sibeen is gone?

How is this possible?

It shouldn’t be but it is :(

He and his wife drowned last week.

Good God. Doesn’t that stop you in your tracks. The poor devils. I nearly drowned when i was a kid, and while it’s not the worst way to go, i can assure you it’s not the best.

I’m devastated. He was such a sensible bloke, how could it happen to him?

captain_spalding said:

Bubblecar said:

captain_spalding said:

I’ve been away on the Gold Coast for several days.

Sibeen is gone?

How is this possible?

It shouldn’t be but it is :(

He and his wife drowned last week.

Good God. Doesn’t that stop you in your tracks. The poor devils. I nearly drowned when i was a kid, and while it’s not the worst way to go, i can assure you it’s not the best.

I’m devastated. He was such a sensible bloke, how could it happen to him?

Body surfing, caught in a rip.

:(

:(

:(

I am still extremely sad.

Michael V said:

captain_spalding said:

Bubblecar said:

It shouldn’t be but it is :(

He and his wife drowned last week.

Good God. Doesn’t that stop you in your tracks. The poor devils. I nearly drowned when i was a kid, and while it’s not the worst way to go, i can assure you it’s not the best.

I’m devastated. He was such a sensible bloke, how could it happen to him?

Body surfing, caught in a rip.

:(

:(

:(

I am still extremely sad.

And his wife as well. The more i think about it, the worse it seems/feels/gets.

sarahs mum said:

The Rev Dodgson said:

dv said:

Quite different people, widely distributed, but bound together for 20 years and more.

I suppose we all must have something in common.

more than half a brain.

Between us?

captain_spalding said:

Bubblecar said:

captain_spalding said:

I’ve been away on the Gold Coast for several days.

Sibeen is gone?

How is this possible?

It shouldn’t be but it is :(

He and his wife drowned last week.

Good God. Doesn’t that stop you in your tracks. The poor devils. I nearly drowned when i was a kid, and while it’s not the worst way to go, i can assure you it’s not the best.

I’m devastated. He was such a sensible bloke, how could it happen to him?

Caught in a rip.

I think this is only the 2nd time in my life that someone I know has died truly unexpectedly. The other time was in a car accident.

dv said:

I think this is only the 2nd time in my life that someone I know has died truly unexpectedly. The other time was in a car accident.

:(

Music in Sibeen’s honour…

Fear a’ Bháta – LYRICS + Translation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBbSP1yNJTc

ms spock said:

dv said:

I think this is only the 2nd time in my life that someone I know has died truly unexpectedly. The other time was in a car accident.

:(

Music in Sibeen’s honour…

Fear a’ Bháta – LYRICS + Translation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBbSP1yNJTc

Fear a’ Bháta – LYRICS + Translation

dv said:

I think this is only the 2nd time in my life that someone I know has died truly unexpectedly. The other time was in a car accident.

Childhood friend, Steve Lapthorne, disappeared with his girlfriend. These days I think he might have been an early Milat disappearance.

Bob disappeared.

Love of my life John herion overdosed.

I can’t help thinking that Sibeen would be amused by the fact that his passing made Australia wide ABC news.

He would have had an interesting take on it. Probably a curmudgeonly comment telling them to fuck off with news and put the cricket back on!

Poor ol’ Shebs. And Mrs Shebs.

Silly old ex-pongo. He should have known that soldiers don’t belong in the sea.

Bubblecar said:

sarahs mum said:

From: AussieDJ
ID: 1996699
Subject: re: Wordle Thread Containing Possible Spoilers

sarahs mum said:

I’ve been looking for Sibeen’s wordle record. I found where he was excited about 45 seconds. And I found where he thought he almost bettered his 32 second record.but i couldn’t actually find the 32 second post.

His quickest ever – at 15 seconds –
https://tokyo3.org/forums/holiday/?main=https%3A//tokyo3.org/forums/holiday/posts/1881193/

Annoyed at a 48-second post –
https://tokyo3.org/forums/holiday/?main=https%3A//tokyo3.org/forums/holiday/posts/1899721/

Happy with 39 seconds –
https://tokyo3.org/forums/holiday/?main=https%3A//tokyo3.org/forums/holiday/posts/1924788/

Whingeing about the NYT slowing him down –
https://tokyo3.org/forums/holiday/?main=https%3A//tokyo3.org/forums/holiday/posts/1944744/

Posting this in his memory – his last appearance in this thread:
https://tokyo3.org/forums/holiday/?main=https%3A//tokyo3.org/forums/holiday/posts/1994359/

He was a rapid Wordler and no mistake. Quick on the Quordles too.

Never heard of them and don’t know what they are, but it sounds impressive Mr Car.

Cymek said:

It’s a pity people usually have to be dead for nice things or the truth to be said about them.

They should have been pretending, come back and say thanks friends or I’ll try better

Going for the pround and philosophical today Cymek.

Moments like sibeen’s dying do make you think.

Mad Man Moon said:

Langy said:

Haven’t been in here for quite a while, but just felt like popping in to shake my fist at the universe for allowing shitty things to happen. :-(

Likewise. I just found out. This is awful. Condolences to his family, especially the kids. :(

***waves to Chris!***

Michael V said:

captain_spalding said:

Bubblecar said:

It shouldn’t be but it is :(

He and his wife drowned last week.

Good God. Doesn’t that stop you in your tracks. The poor devils. I nearly drowned when i was a kid, and while it’s not the worst way to go, i can assure you it’s not the best.

I’m devastated. He was such a sensible bloke, how could it happen to him?

Body surfing, caught in a rip.

:(

:(

:(

I am still extremely sad.

It’s not really believable – it is hard to believe he is dead. He was ex-military. I wouldn’t have thought he could be caught out like that. That’s what I kept telling myself when folks first were discussing that he could be one of the drowned couple. I kept thinking it couldn’t be him.

ms spock said:

Michael V said:

captain_spalding said:

Good God. Doesn’t that stop you in your tracks. The poor devils. I nearly drowned when i was a kid, and while it’s not the worst way to go, i can assure you it’s not the best.

I’m devastated. He was such a sensible bloke, how could it happen to him?

Body surfing, caught in a rip.

:(

:(

:(

I am still extremely sad.

It’s not really believable – it is hard to believe he is dead. He was ex-military. I wouldn’t have thought he could be caught out like that. That’s what I kept telling myself when folks first were discussing that he could be one of the drowned couple. I kept thinking it couldn’t be him.

i was thinking that too

when it happens it happens fast

wookiemeister said:

ms spock said:

Michael V said:

Body surfing, caught in a rip.

:(

:(

:(

I am still extremely sad.

It’s not really believable – it is hard to believe he is dead. He was ex-military. I wouldn’t have thought he could be caught out like that. That’s what I kept telling myself when folks first were discussing that he could be one of the drowned couple. I kept thinking it couldn’t be him.

i was thinking that too

when it happens it happens fast

I got the vibe that he was attempting to save his wife’s life. that is honorable.

sarahs mum said:

wookiemeister said:

ms spock said:

It’s not really believable – it is hard to believe he is dead. He was ex-military. I wouldn’t have thought he could be caught out like that. That’s what I kept telling myself when folks first were discussing that he could be one of the drowned couple. I kept thinking it couldn’t be him.

i was thinking that too

when it happens it happens fast

I got the vibe that he was attempting to save his wife’s life. that is honorable.

She might have been trying to save his life. We may never know the details.

wookiemeister said:

ms spock said:

Michael V said:

Body surfing, caught in a rip.

:(

:(

:(

I am still extremely sad.

It’s not really believable – it is hard to believe he is dead. He was ex-military. I wouldn’t have thought he could be caught out like that. That’s what I kept telling myself when folks first were discussing that he could be one of the drowned couple. I kept thinking it couldn’t be him.

i was thinking that too

when it happens it happens fast

As i suggested earlier, if they’d got out of it alive, i’d be ribbing him endlessly about how soldiers shouldn’t go near the sea.

As for drowning, it’s fast, but not so fast that you aren’t aware that it’s happening, or that there’s no realisation that ‘hey, this is it!’.

sarahs mum said:

wookiemeister said:

ms spock said:

It’s not really believable – it is hard to believe he is dead. He was ex-military. I wouldn’t have thought he could be caught out like that. That’s what I kept telling myself when folks first were discussing that he could be one of the drowned couple. I kept thinking it couldn’t be him.

i was thinking that too

when it happens it happens fast

I got the vibe that he was attempting to save his wife’s life. that is honorable.

i suspect so

she might have got a cramp/ something hes tried saving her and theyve both gone. then again he might have had a problem

swimming in the ocean is risky in my book, if you don’t know any better or you let your guard down for a moment that’s the end of that.

i was on a student camp years ago and someone led into the ocean along the RNP south of sydney. i was floating with the others in this swell then suddenly realised this was dangerous. i made my concerns known and swam back.

it might have been something as simple as getting water slam into one of their faces, they’ve panicked and its gone from there.

wookiemeister said:

sarahs mum said:

wookiemeister said:

i was thinking that too

when it happens it happens fast

I got the vibe that he was attempting to save his wife’s life. that is honorable.

i suspect so

she might have got a cramp/ something hes tried saving her and theyve both gone. then again he might have had a problem

we do seem to know that we are working with a known and notorious rip. And two people who have probably swum in the area many times.

sarahs mum said:

wookiemeister said:

sarahs mum said:

I got the vibe that he was attempting to save his wife’s life. that is honorable.

i suspect so

she might have got a cramp/ something hes tried saving her and theyve both gone. then again he might have had a problem

we do seem to know that we are working with a known and notorious rip. And two people who have probably swum in the area many times.

a rip plus something else

wookiemeister said:

sarahs mum said:

wookiemeister said:

i suspect so

she might have got a cramp/ something hes tried saving her and theyve both gone. then again he might have had a problem

we do seem to know that we are working with a known and notorious rip. And two people who have probably swum in the area many times.

a rip plus something else

Before I was aware I had blocked arteries to my heart, I jumped into water from a jetty when I was out with family.
Immediately felt pain and a very poor ability to swim back to shore, further our or if it was worse would have been a bad outcome.
People could easily drown if circumstances are against you

Post on the Facebook SSSF page from one Sibeen’s daughters just now

Cymek said:

Post on the Facebook SSSF page from one Sibeen’s daughters just now

Aye. She seems to be confusing Facebook SSSF (where sibeen never set foot, AFAIA) with the old SSSF and this HF.

Bubblecar said:

Cymek said:

Post on the Facebook SSSF page from one Sibeen’s daughters just now

Aye. She seems to be confusing Facebook SSSF (where sibeen never set foot, AFAIA) with the old SSSF and this HF.

Be a good idea if someone could direct her here.

I dunno, we have quite the strange sense of humour, especially when dealing with grief.

Ailish Devlin

Hello, I am the youngest daughter of Devlin, more well known as sibeen on this forum. My sister found this through a lovely man who made a post just earlier about my mother, Roslyn and Dad regarding the tragedy.
Seeing all the comments expressing how well liked and known dad was within this community is very lovely to hear.
I am posting as I wish to maybe talk to a few of you lovely people who knew him and maybe even help me figure out and get on this forum, if possible.
Dad rooted his love of science in me from an early age. He taught me everything from physics to astronomy and much more and we bonded like no others over it. Only just the other week there was a full eclipse and dad my sister and I all sat out at night just admiring this phenomenon and sharing such a great time.
From as early I can remember dad was constantly on this forum, it was always up on his desk top at all times in his office, where he often Would show me funny memes and content he was discussing with others. The distinct purple and black screen was embedded into his P.C.
Thankyou all for bringing him so much joy in his amazing life.

From Facebook.

Divine Angel said:

I dunno, we have quite the strange sense of humour, especially when dealing with grief.

I think she would have been familiar with her father’s own somewhat devilish soh :)

Anyway this thread will give her an idea of how appreciated he was by many people.

Cymek said:

wookiemeister said:

sarahs mum said:

we do seem to know that we are working with a known and notorious rip. And two people who have probably swum in the area many times.

a rip plus something else

Before I was aware I had blocked arteries to my heart, I jumped into water from a jetty when I was out with family.
Immediately felt pain and a very poor ability to swim back to shore, further our or if it was worse would have been a bad outcome.
People could easily drown if circumstances are against you

there was a history

In that case…

When the Queen died back in September and it brought forumers out of the woodwork, sibeen remarked something along the lines of, “if I’d know the death of a monarch would make forumers come back, I’d have killed her myself months ago!”

Divine Angel said:

In that case…

When the Queen died back in September and it brought forumers out of the woodwork, sibeen remarked something along the lines of, “if I’d know the death of a monarch would make forumers come back, I’d have killed her myself months ago!”

More people turned up for him that the queen I noticed

Bubblecar said:

Divine Angel said:

I dunno, we have quite the strange sense of humour, especially when dealing with grief.

I think she would have been familiar with her father’s own somewhat devilish soh :)

Anyway this thread will give her an idea of how appreciated he was by many people.

Wonder if she’s the one he trained to fetch his beer…?

fsm said:

Ailish Devlin

Hello, I am the youngest daughter of Devlin, more well known as sibeen on this forum. My sister found this through a lovely man who made a post just earlier about my mother, Roslyn and Dad regarding the tragedy.
Seeing all the comments expressing how well liked and known dad was within this community is very lovely to hear.
I am posting as I wish to maybe talk to a few of you lovely people who knew him and maybe even help me figure out and get on this forum, if possible.
Dad rooted his love of science in me from an early age. He taught me everything from physics to astronomy and much more and we bonded like no others over it. Only just the other week there was a full eclipse and dad my sister and I all sat out at night just admiring this phenomenon and sharing such a great time.
From as early I can remember dad was constantly on this forum, it was always up on his desk top at all times in his office, where he often Would show me funny memes and content he was discussing with others. The distinct purple and black screen was embedded into his P.C.
Thankyou all for bringing him so much joy in his amazing life.

From Facebook.

I was okay again. Until this.

OCDC said:

fsm said:

Ailish Devlin

Hello, I am the youngest daughter of Devlin, more well known as sibeen on this forum. My sister found this through a lovely man who made a post just earlier about my mother, Roslyn and Dad regarding the tragedy.
Seeing all the comments expressing how well liked and known dad was within this community is very lovely to hear.
I am posting as I wish to maybe talk to a few of you lovely people who knew him and maybe even help me figure out and get on this forum, if possible.
Dad rooted his love of science in me from an early age. He taught me everything from physics to astronomy and much more and we bonded like no others over it. Only just the other week there was a full eclipse and dad my sister and I all sat out at night just admiring this phenomenon and sharing such a great time.
From as early I can remember dad was constantly on this forum, it was always up on his desk top at all times in his office, where he often Would show me funny memes and content he was discussing with others. The distinct purple and black screen was embedded into his P.C.
Thankyou all for bringing him so much joy in his amazing life.

From Facebook.

I was okay again. Until this.

Oh.

:(

I am still very, very sad.

:(

OCDC said:

fsm said:

Ailish Devlin

Hello, I am the youngest daughter of Devlin, more well known as sibeen on this forum. My sister found this through a lovely man who made a post just earlier about my mother, Roslyn and Dad regarding the tragedy.
Seeing all the comments expressing how well liked and known dad was within this community is very lovely to hear.
I am posting as I wish to maybe talk to a few of you lovely people who knew him and maybe even help me figure out and get on this forum, if possible.
Dad rooted his love of science in me from an early age. He taught me everything from physics to astronomy and much more and we bonded like no others over it. Only just the other week there was a full eclipse and dad my sister and I all sat out at night just admiring this phenomenon and sharing such a great time.
From as early I can remember dad was constantly on this forum, it was always up on his desk top at all times in his office, where he often Would show me funny memes and content he was discussing with others. The distinct purple and black screen was embedded into his P.C.
Thankyou all for bringing him so much joy in his amazing life.

From Facebook.

I was okay again. Until this.

yeah. these times are not easy.

I take some solace in knowing that if I did drop dead tomorrow at least some people here would care. Thank you people before that happens coz i won’t be here to thank you after..

sarahs mum said:

OCDC said:

fsm said:

Ailish Devlin

Hello, I am the youngest daughter of Devlin, more well known as sibeen on this forum. My sister found this through a lovely man who made a post just earlier about my mother, Roslyn and Dad regarding the tragedy.
Seeing all the comments expressing how well liked and known dad was within this community is very lovely to hear.
I am posting as I wish to maybe talk to a few of you lovely people who knew him and maybe even help me figure out and get on this forum, if possible.
Dad rooted his love of science in me from an early age. He taught me everything from physics to astronomy and much more and we bonded like no others over it. Only just the other week there was a full eclipse and dad my sister and I all sat out at night just admiring this phenomenon and sharing such a great time.
From as early I can remember dad was constantly on this forum, it was always up on his desk top at all times in his office, where he often Would show me funny memes and content he was discussing with others. The distinct purple and black screen was embedded into his P.C.
Thankyou all for bringing him so much joy in his amazing life.

From Facebook.

I was okay again. Until this.

yeah. these times are not easy.

I take some solace in knowing that if I did drop dead tomorrow at least some people here would care. Thank you people before that happens coz i won’t be here to thank you after..

Awwww. Ta.

sarahs mum said:

OCDC said:

fsm said:

Ailish Devlin

Hello, I am the youngest daughter of Devlin, more well known as sibeen on this forum. My sister found this through a lovely man who made a post just earlier about my mother, Roslyn and Dad regarding the tragedy.
Seeing all the comments expressing how well liked and known dad was within this community is very lovely to hear.
I am posting as I wish to maybe talk to a few of you lovely people who knew him and maybe even help me figure out and get on this forum, if possible.
Dad rooted his love of science in me from an early age. He taught me everything from physics to astronomy and much more and we bonded like no others over it. Only just the other week there was a full eclipse and dad my sister and I all sat out at night just admiring this phenomenon and sharing such a great time.
From as early I can remember dad was constantly on this forum, it was always up on his desk top at all times in his office, where he often Would show me funny memes and content he was discussing with others. The distinct purple and black screen was embedded into his P.C.
Thankyou all for bringing him so much joy in his amazing life.

From Facebook.

I was okay again. Until this.

yeah. these times are not easy.

I take some solace in knowing that if I did drop dead tomorrow at least some people here would care. Thank you people before that happens coz i won’t be here to thank you after..

Do you, by any chance, own a boat?

captain_spalding said:

sarahs mum said:

OCDC said:

I was okay again. Until this.

yeah. these times are not easy.

I take some solace in knowing that if I did drop dead tomorrow at least some people here would care. Thank you people before that happens coz i won’t be here to thank you after..

Do you, by any chance, own a boat?

No. I’m hydrophobic. Ceptin for a nice warm bath.

sarahs mum said:

captain_spalding said:

sarahs mum said:

yeah. these times are not easy.

I take some solace in knowing that if I did drop dead tomorrow at least some people here would care. Thank you people before that happens coz i won’t be here to thank you after..

Do you, by any chance, own a boat?

No. I’m hydrophobic. Ceptin for a nice warm bath.

Reassuring news.

captain_spalding said:

sarahs mum said:

captain_spalding said:

Do you, by any chance, own a boat?

No. I’m hydrophobic. Ceptin for a nice warm bath.

Reassuring news.

This merely decreases the chance that it’s petert who does away with her. It is not zero.

captain_spalding said:

sarahs mum said:

captain_spalding said:

Do you, by any chance, own a boat?

No. I’m hydrophobic. Ceptin for a nice warm bath.

Reassuring news.

but I am a depressive that lives alone miles from nowhere. And i have asked spocky to cut out the continual talk about suicide but she hasn’t got the hint.

sarahs mum said:

but I am a depressive that lives alone miles from nowhere. And i have asked spocky to cut out the continual talk about suicide but she hasn’t got the hint.

Don’t you go anywhere. Your art is too good to lose.

captain_spalding said:

sarahs mum said:

but I am a depressive that lives alone miles from nowhere. And i have asked spocky to cut out the continual talk about suicide but she hasn’t got the hint.

Don’t you go anywhere. Your art is too good to lose.

the world is a terrible place to live. but i don’t want to die.

captain_spalding said:

sarahs mum

[/quote said:

Don’t you go anywhere. Your art is too good to lose.

Yeah .. can’t have a hippy on the mountain with out the hippy.

Cymek said:

Post on the Facebook SSSF page from one Sibeen’s daughters just now

Ailish Devlin *will be visiting the Holiday Forum! Some beautiful comments there on Facebook!

Amhránaí

Amhrán na mBolmán

Tá an fharraige ag léim is tá na héisc á lascadh faoin aill,
Tá na tonnta i ndiaidh a chéile ag éalú isteach ar an trá,
Tá an mhuic ghainimh spréachadh is í ag fógairt ó oíche go lá,
Ach caith uaim, an créatúr, is liom féin thú má thagann tú in am.

Ar maidin an lae úd, b’shin Aifreann a d’éistíos seal gearr,
Óra, d’imigh an scéala agus chruinnigh na céadta ar an trá,
Bhí na fir ann ag spréachadh is iad ag caitheamh corrcheann ag na mná.
‘S bhí mise mé féin ann is dheamhan a b’fhéadfainn tada eile a rá.

’S nach mairg a d’iarradh nach Gaelach an baile é an Trá Bháin,
’S go bhfuil na héisc fhéin sa gcéibh ag iarraidh a thíocht ann,
Níl ort ach sméideadh ar an mbraeim is í thoir ag an gceann,
’S nach dochreidte an scéal é go léimfeadh sí isteach in do láimh.

‘S ní áibhéil ná bréag a rá nach raibh bolmáin ann,
Mar bhí siad ins na dtréinte ó siar sean bhóithrín Dhubháin,
Muise tógadh na céadta ann ‘s thart timpeall tigh Pheaidí Sheáin,
’S go bhfuil siad fós fhéin sa draein ag tigh Choilm Shiobháin.

Anuas ag tigh Kheane dhom fhéin is mé ag iarraidh a bheith in am,
Sea casadh fear cléibh dhom is bhí a dhá shúil amuigh thar a cheann,
Ba strainséara é an créatúr is díol a bhéilí a bhí sé a iarraidh fháil.
Is nach é baile na féile é is go lá an tsléibhe ní thiocfaidh sé gann.

sarahs mum said:

OCDC said:

fsm said:

Ailish Devlin

Hello, I am the youngest daughter of Devlin, more well known as sibeen on this forum. My sister found this through a lovely man who made a post just earlier about my mother, Roslyn and Dad regarding the tragedy.
Seeing all the comments expressing how well liked and known dad was within this community is very lovely to hear.
I am posting as I wish to maybe talk to a few of you lovely people who knew him and maybe even help me figure out and get on this forum, if possible.
Dad rooted his love of science in me from an early age. He taught me everything from physics to astronomy and much more and we bonded like no others over it. Only just the other week there was a full eclipse and dad my sister and I all sat out at night just admiring this phenomenon and sharing such a great time.
From as early I can remember dad was constantly on this forum, it was always up on his desk top at all times in his office, where he often Would show me funny memes and content he was discussing with others. The distinct purple and black screen was embedded into his P.C.
Thankyou all for bringing him so much joy in his amazing life.

From Facebook.

I was okay again. Until this.

yeah. these times are not easy.

I take some solace in knowing that if I did drop dead tomorrow at least some people here would care. Thank you people before that happens coz i won’t be here to thank you after..

You are a foundational member.

I don’t know how folks would go on.

DA would come and offer support again like she did sibeen. So we have her for back at least.

sarahs mum said:

captain_spalding said:

sarahs mum said:

No. I’m hydrophobic. Ceptin for a nice warm bath.

Reassuring news.

but I am a depressive that lives alone miles from nowhere. And i have asked spocky to cut out the continual talk about suicide but she hasn’t got the hint.

I totally missed your post and request about that sarahs mum.

My apologies.

ms spock said:

sarahs mum said:

captain_spalding said:

Reassuring news.

but I am a depressive that lives alone miles from nowhere. And i have asked spocky to cut out the continual talk about suicide but she hasn’t got the hint.

I totally missed your post and request about that sarahs mum.

My apologies.

:) cheers.

Hello,
This is Ailish Devlin, Joe Devlin’s (sibeen) daughter, I am making this post off of Tash’s (unsure of her username) spare login that she so generously has lent me. You may have already seen my facebook post that was posted in here.

Seeing the mutual devastation among users truly has once again proven to me (never doubted it haha) that my dad was such a loveable, funny, helpful, and incredibly intelligent man. Seeing the concern in the comments for me (19) and my beautiful older sister Sinéad (21) (his sprogs) and comments specific to us and his life truly shows how close so many were with him and for that, I am so immensely sorry.

to clear a few things up and help gain closure I am letting the COD of both of my incredible parents be known. Mum and Dad were swimming at our favourite beach in Mallacoota on a trip just them two. A place we swam 100s of times before. It was known to be a rougher surf beach but growing up how we did, all of us were very well-abled in water, especially mum and dad. We do not know exactly what happened but it’s known a horrific rip was created and the sand beds were too soft and unable to gain footing on. It is said dad was screaming for help for mum and tried to help her. The rest is unknown but ultimately neither was able to be saved.

I can’t even remember a time when I didn’t walk past or into dads office and this forum was displayed on one of the screens. Every night after dinner dad loved some good stout, a cheese board, and possibly some cricket OR random science videos (I’ve never known someone with a larger love for learning), accompanied by some good banter and laughs on this forum. I want to thank you all for that.

I would absolutely love to hear some stories or just anything etc if anybody is able to share.

Tonight, I hope everyone will pour up a stout (preferably Guinness), and possibly berate ABC as well as Elon and many other things I’m sure you knew pissed him off in all ways imaginable ;), in honour of my most amazing father (and mother) Love you forever dad.

Thanks Ailish.

We are all deeply saddened by this, and really feel for you and your sister, and your grandmother.

It is a strange thing how much we had grown to know your Dad over the years through posting here. Whenever he visited Perth I was always happy to go and catch up with him. We all feel like we have lost a good friend.

Take good care of yourself, and your sister. Feel free to drop back in here any time you need to. If there is anything, no matter how small, that we can do to help it would be no effort at all.

party_pants said:

Thanks Ailish.

We are all deeply saddened by this, and really feel for you and your sister, and your grandmother.

It is a strange thing how much we had grown to know your Dad over the years through posting here. Whenever he visited Perth I was always happy to go and catch up with him. We all feel like we have lost a good friend.

Take good care of yourself, and your sister. Feel free to drop back in here any time you need to. If there is anything, no matter how small, that we can do to help it would be no effort at all.

+1
Thanks Ailish.
Take care.

ahhhh so Arts was The Lab. The cat is out of the bag. Good to see you here Ailish. Me and your dad had some funny habits, not reading each others posts for one even when quoting them. He would never admit to liking my jokes, “don’t encourage him!” was praise enough for me though.

The Lab said:

Hello,
This is Ailish Devlin, Joe Devlin’s (sibeen) daughter, I am making this post off of Tash’s (unsure of her username) spare login that she so generously has lent me. You may have already seen my facebook post that was posted in here.

Seeing the mutual devastation among users truly has once again proven to me (never doubted it haha) that my dad was such a loveable, funny, helpful, and incredibly intelligent man. Seeing the concern in the comments for me (19) and my beautiful older sister Sinéad (21) (his sprogs) and comments specific to us and his life truly shows how close so many were with him and for that, I am so immensely sorry.

to clear a few things up and help gain closure I am letting the COD of both of my incredible parents be known. Mum and Dad were swimming at our favourite beach in Mallacoota on a trip just them two. A place we swam 100s of times before. It was known to be a rougher surf beach but growing up how we did, all of us were very well-abled in water, especially mum and dad. We do not know exactly what happened but it’s known a horrific rip was created and the sand beds were too soft and unable to gain footing on. It is said dad was screaming for help for mum and tried to help her. The rest is unknown but ultimately neither was able to be saved.

I can’t even remember a time when I didn’t walk past or into dads office and this forum was displayed on one of the screens. Every night after dinner dad loved some good stout, a cheese board, and possibly some cricket OR random science videos (I’ve never known someone with a larger love for learning), accompanied by some good banter and laughs on this forum. I want to thank you all for that.

I would absolutely love to hear some stories or just anything etc if anybody is able to share.

Tonight, I hope everyone will pour up a stout (preferably Guinness), and possibly berate ABC as well as Elon and many other things I’m sure you knew pissed him off in all ways imaginable ;), in honour of my most amazing father (and mother) Love you forever dad.

Ailish,

A beautifully written piece from an obviously intelligent, articulate and well loved daughter.

One anecdote that comes to mind, was the “bottle of red wine” saga. I’m not sure if it was you or your sister, that was very naughty and polished off a special bottle of red. Much trouble ensued that provided us all some amusement and conversation for many many weeks. Was that you being very naughty with the bottle of red????? 😁

You and Sinéad and all of the families are very much in our hearts at this time.

Ailish,

i will miss being called a ‘fish-head’ by your dad when he would disparage the Navy in which i served.

He was a good bloke.

For a pongo.

I am saddened by this news.
Sibeen was always telling me that I was wrong.
And he was right, I was wrong, now and then.

He left the world too soon.
Come back, just tap on the coffin.
Someone will hear you. Turn on a light.

Not fair this news.
Here have some 5G signal.
Just enough to return you back to life.

Feel free to orbit the Earth a few times.
See all the stars up there.
They are waiting for you. For us.

ChrispenEvan said:

ahhhh so Arts was The Lab. The cat is out of the bag.

Worth it

Arts said:

ChrispenEvan said:

ahhhh so Arts was The Lab. The cat is out of the bag.

Worth it

Def. I don’t think any of mine would have worked.

:-)

ChrispenEvan said:

Arts said:

ChrispenEvan said:

ahhhh so Arts was The Lab. The cat is out of the bag.

Worth it

Def. I don’t think any of mine would have worked.

:-)

I had emailed CB88 to approve Ailish if she wanted to join so as to forewarn him.

ChrispenEvan said:

ChrispenEvan said:

Arts said:

Worth it

Def. I don’t think any of mine would have worked.

:-)

I had emailed CB88 to approve Ailish if she wanted to join so as to forewarn him.

+1

So nice to see you here, Ailish.
Your dad was most disparaging about facebook, He would approve of you coming here instead.

And thank you for telling of the ultimate love your parents had for each other.

Ailish, you need to check out one of the test cricket threads. Your Dad had his own unique way of updating the scores when a wicket fell.

hm, haha I’m intrigued. will be checking that out

yes, I knew he’d be looking down on me and rolling his eyes. Unfortunately, a facebook post just had to be made first so I could find out how to get to the good stuff that he’d approve of hahah

First test India v Aus last week

https://www.tokyo3.org/forums/holiday/?main=https%3A//www.tokyo3.org/forums/holiday/welcome/

party_pants said:

First test India v Aus last week

https://www.tokyo3.org/forums/holiday/?main=https%3A//www.tokyo3.org/forums/holiday/welcome/

Sorry hot link

party_pants said:

party_pants said:

First test India v Aus last week

https://www.tokyo3.org/forums/holiday/?main=https%3A//www.tokyo3.org/forums/holiday/welcome/

Sorry hot link

try again

The Lab said:

yes, I knew he’d be looking down on me and rolling his eyes. Unfortunately, a facebook post just had to be made first so I could find out how to get to the good stuff that he’d approve of hahah

You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy

ChrispenEvan said:

The Lab said:

yes, I knew he’d be looking down on me and rolling his eyes. Unfortunately, a facebook post just had to be made first so I could find out how to get to the good stuff that he’d approve of hahah

You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy

Hey, I resemble that remark…

The Lab said:

Hello,
This is Ailish Devlin, Joe Devlin’s (sibeen) daughter, I am making this post off of Tash’s (unsure of her username) spare login that she so generously has lent me. You may have already seen my facebook post that was posted in here.

Seeing the mutual devastation among users truly has once again proven to me (never doubted it haha) that my dad was such a loveable, funny, helpful, and incredibly intelligent man. Seeing the concern in the comments for me (19) and my beautiful older sister Sinéad (21) (his sprogs) and comments specific to us and his life truly shows how close so many were with him and for that, I am so immensely sorry.

to clear a few things up and help gain closure I am letting the COD of both of my incredible parents be known. Mum and Dad were swimming at our favourite beach in Mallacoota on a trip just them two. A place we swam 100s of times before. It was known to be a rougher surf beach but growing up how we did, all of us were very well-abled in water, especially mum and dad. We do not know exactly what happened but it’s known a horrific rip was created and the sand beds were too soft and unable to gain footing on. It is said dad was screaming for help for mum and tried to help her. The rest is unknown but ultimately neither was able to be saved.

I can’t even remember a time when I didn’t walk past or into dads office and this forum was displayed on one of the screens. Every night after dinner dad loved some good stout, a cheese board, and possibly some cricket OR random science videos (I’ve never known someone with a larger love for learning), accompanied by some good banter and laughs on this forum. I want to thank you all for that.

I would absolutely love to hear some stories or just anything etc if anybody is able to share.

Tonight, I hope everyone will pour up a stout (preferably Guinness), and possibly berate ABC as well as Elon and many other things I’m sure you knew pissed him off in all ways imaginable ;), in honour of my most amazing father (and mother) Love you forever dad.

Thanks for thinking of us Ailish and visiting. So sorry that these are the circumstances. He will certainly be missed here too.

We know he thought the world of you. Take care of yourself and your sister and gran. xxxx

hahaha oh my, yes that was me! let’s just say they definitely weren’t happy. Gosh, it’s so surreal hearing all this stuff!! but in a good way. Is there any way I could find the thread or topic that would’ve discussed that unless it’s unable to. (trying to get used to navigating and using this site)

party_pants said:

party_pants said:

party_pants said:

First test India v Aus last week

https://www.tokyo3.org/forums/holiday/?main=https%3A//www.tokyo3.org/forums/holiday/welcome/

Sorry hot link

try again

https://tokyo3.org/forums/holiday/?main=https%3A//tokyo3.org/forums/holiday/topics/16521/

Link

Cricket started by sibeen just so he could be the first potty mouth to post.

The Lab said:

hahaha oh my, yes that was me! let’s just say they definitely weren’t happy. Gosh, it’s so surreal hearing all this stuff!! but in a good way. Is there any way I could find the thread or topic that would’ve discussed that unless it’s unable to. (trying to get used to navigating and using this site)

Probably would have been in a chat thread, there’s a new one each month. There is a reasonable index linked above too…

furious said:

The Lab said:

hahaha oh my, yes that was me! let’s just say they definitely weren’t happy. Gosh, it’s so surreal hearing all this stuff!! but in a good way. Is there any way I could find the thread or topic that would’ve discussed that unless it’s unable to. (trying to get used to navigating and using this site)

Probably would have been in a chat thread, there’s a new one each month. There is a reasonable index linked above too…

oh god. Fancy searching chat threads for that! what an act of futility that would be.

Boxing day day test.

https://tokyo3.org/forums/holiday/?main=https%3A//tokyo3.org/forums/holiday/topics/16496/

Link

Woodie said:

The Lab said:

Hello,
This is Ailish Devlin, Joe Devlin’s (sibeen) daughter, I am making this post off of Tash’s (unsure of her username) spare login that she so generously has lent me. You may have already seen my facebook post that was posted in here.

Seeing the mutual devastation among users truly has once again proven to me (never doubted it haha) that my dad was such a loveable, funny, helpful, and incredibly intelligent man. Seeing the concern in the comments for me (19) and my beautiful older sister Sinéad (21) (his sprogs) and comments specific to us and his life truly shows how close so many were with him and for that, I am so immensely sorry.

to clear a few things up and help gain closure I am letting the COD of both of my incredible parents be known. Mum and Dad were swimming at our favourite beach in Mallacoota on a trip just them two. A place we swam 100s of times before. It was known to be a rougher surf beach but growing up how we did, all of us were very well-abled in water, especially mum and dad. We do not know exactly what happened but it’s known a horrific rip was created and the sand beds were too soft and unable to gain footing on. It is said dad was screaming for help for mum and tried to help her. The rest is unknown but ultimately neither was able to be saved.

I can’t even remember a time when I didn’t walk past or into dads office and this forum was displayed on one of the screens. Every night after dinner dad loved some good stout, a cheese board, and possibly some cricket OR random science videos (I’ve never known someone with a larger love for learning), accompanied by some good banter and laughs on this forum. I want to thank you all for that.

I would absolutely love to hear some stories or just anything etc if anybody is able to share.

Tonight, I hope everyone will pour up a stout (preferably Guinness), and possibly berate ABC as well as Elon and many other things I’m sure you knew pissed him off in all ways imaginable ;), in honour of my most amazing father (and mother) Love you forever dad.

Ailish,

A beautifully written piece from an obviously intelligent, articulate and well loved daughter.

One anecdote that comes to mind, was the “bottle of red wine” saga. I’m not sure if it was you or your sister, that was very naughty and polished off a special bottle of red. Much trouble ensued that provided us all some amusement and conversation for many many weeks. Was that you being very naughty with the bottle of red????? 😁

hahaha oh my, yes that was me! let’s just say they definitely weren’t happy. Gosh, it’s so surreal hearing all this stuff!! but in a good way. Is there any way I could find the thread or topic that would’ve discussed that unless it’s unable to. (trying to get used to navigating and using this site)

Us = Forum members.

The Lab said:

Woodie said:

The Lab said:

Hello,
This is Ailish Devlin, Joe Devlin’s (sibeen) daughter, I am making this post off of Tash’s (unsure of her username) spare login that she so generously has lent me. You may have already seen my facebook post that was posted in here.

Seeing the mutual devastation among users truly has once again proven to me (never doubted it haha) that my dad was such a loveable, funny, helpful, and incredibly intelligent man. Seeing the concern in the comments for me (19) and my beautiful older sister Sinéad (21) (his sprogs) and comments specific to us and his life truly shows how close so many were with him and for that, I am so immensely sorry.

to clear a few things up and help gain closure I am letting the COD of both of my incredible parents be known. Mum and Dad were swimming at our favourite beach in Mallacoota on a trip just them two. A place we swam 100s of times before. It was known to be a rougher surf beach but growing up how we did, all of us were very well-abled in water, especially mum and dad. We do not know exactly what happened but it’s known a horrific rip was created and the sand beds were too soft and unable to gain footing on. It is said dad was screaming for help for mum and tried to help her. The rest is unknown but ultimately neither was able to be saved.

I can’t even remember a time when I didn’t walk past or into dads office and this forum was displayed on one of the screens. Every night after dinner dad loved some good stout, a cheese board, and possibly some cricket OR random science videos (I’ve never known someone with a larger love for learning), accompanied by some good banter and laughs on this forum. I want to thank you all for that.

I would absolutely love to hear some stories or just anything etc if anybody is able to share.

Tonight, I hope everyone will pour up a stout (preferably Guinness), and possibly berate ABC as well as Elon and many other things I’m sure you knew pissed him off in all ways imaginable ;), in honour of my most amazing father (and mother) Love you forever dad.

Ailish,

A beautifully written piece from an obviously intelligent, articulate and well loved daughter.

One anecdote that comes to mind, was the “bottle of red wine” saga. I’m not sure if it was you or your sister, that was very naughty and polished off a special bottle of red. Much trouble ensued that provided us all some amusement and conversation for many many weeks. Was that you being very naughty with the bottle of red????? 😁

hahaha oh my, yes that was me! let’s just say they definitely weren’t happy. Gosh, it’s so surreal hearing all this stuff!! but in a good way. Is there any way I could find the thread or topic that would’ve discussed that unless it’s unable to. (trying to get used to navigating and using this site)

can you remember what year and month it was?

From: sibeen
ID: 1417825
Subject: re: August Discussion
There’s a mexican standoff going on at the sibeen household. Junior sprog has rung twice and I’ve refused to answer. She has now sent four or five texts which I’ve ignored. I’m wondering when she’ll get the hint and walk downstairs and ask me what she’s after.

ChrispenEvan said:

From: sibeen
ID: 1417825
Subject: re: August Discussion
There’s a mexican standoff going on at the sibeen household. Junior sprog has rung twice and I’ve refused to answer. She has now sent four or five texts which I’ve ignored. I’m wondering when she’ll get the hint and walk downstairs and ask me what she’s after.

oh my god, this is making me so happy

Drives down to beach.
Kicks sand. Kicks water.
Kicks water again.
Drives back home.

ChrispenEvan said:

From: sibeen
ID: 1417825
Subject: re: August Discussion
There’s a mexican standoff going on at the sibeen household. Junior sprog has rung twice and I’ve refused to answer. She has now sent four or five texts which I’ve ignored. I’m wondering when she’ll get the hint and walk downstairs and ask me what she’s after.

That was posted on the 1st of August, 2019.

If you wish to see more posts like that. 😎

sprog sibeen site:https://tokyo3.org/forums/holiday/

Link

The Lab said:

ChrispenEvan said:

From: sibeen
ID: 1417825
Subject: re: August Discussion
There’s a mexican standoff going on at the sibeen household. Junior sprog has rung twice and I’ve refused to answer. She has now sent four or five texts which I’ve ignored. I’m wondering when she’ll get the hint and walk downstairs and ask me what she’s after.

oh my god, this is making me so happy

how do i find the index again, I was on it before but somehow can’t find it whoops- also very delirious and sleepy right now

ChrispenEvan said:

If you wish to see more posts like that. 😎

sprog sibeen site:https://tokyo3.org/forums/holiday/

Link

ahhh the link won’t work

The Lab said:

The Lab said:

ChrispenEvan said:

From: sibeen
ID: 1417825
Subject: re: August Discussion
There’s a mexican standoff going on at the sibeen household. Junior sprog has rung twice and I’ve refused to answer. She has now sent four or five texts which I’ve ignored. I’m wondering when she’ll get the hint and walk downstairs and ask me what she’s after.

oh my god, this is making me so happy

how do i find the index again, I was on it before but somehow can’t find it whoops- also very delirious and sleepy right now

My link was a google search. When you get the results and click on one the whole thread will load. May take a while as the chat threads are quite big. Though going by sibeens bragging about how fast his internet was might not be too long. Then do a search in the thread for sibeen.

The Lab said:

ChrispenEvan said:

If you wish to see more posts like that. 😎

sprog sibeen site:https://tokyo3.org/forums/holiday/

Link

ahhh the link won’t work

open in new tab. this forum has blocks on some websites and won’t open them here.

ChrispenEvan said:

From: sibeen
ID: 1417825
Subject: re: August Discussion
There’s a mexican standoff going on at the sibeen household. Junior sprog has rung twice and I’ve refused to answer. She has now sent four or five texts which I’ve ignored. I’m wondering when she’ll get the hint and walk downstairs and ask me what she’s after.

Hahaaa love it

badchap said:

ChrispenEvan said:

From: sibeen
ID: 1417825
Subject: re: August Discussion
There’s a mexican standoff going on at the sibeen household. Junior sprog has rung twice and I’ve refused to answer. She has now sent four or five texts which I’ve ignored. I’m wondering when she’ll get the hint and walk downstairs and ask me what she’s after.

Hahaaa love it

I remember that post 😆

love to you Ailish, and sister

proud of family your dad, always sensed that

glad you called in

The Lab said:

Woodie said:

The Lab said:

Hello,
This is Ailish Devlin, Joe Devlin’s (sibeen) daughter, I am making this post off of Tash’s (unsure of her username) spare login that she so generously has lent me. You may have already seen my facebook post that was posted in here.

Seeing the mutual devastation among users truly has once again proven to me (never doubted it haha) that my dad was such a loveable, funny, helpful, and incredibly intelligent man. Seeing the concern in the comments for me (19) and my beautiful older sister Sinéad (21) (his sprogs) and comments specific to us and his life truly shows how close so many were with him and for that, I am so immensely sorry.

to clear a few things up and help gain closure I am letting the COD of both of my incredible parents be known. Mum and Dad were swimming at our favourite beach in Mallacoota on a trip just them two. A place we swam 100s of times before. It was known to be a rougher surf beach but growing up how we did, all of us were very well-abled in water, especially mum and dad. We do not know exactly what happened but it’s known a horrific rip was created and the sand beds were too soft and unable to gain footing on. It is said dad was screaming for help for mum and tried to help her. The rest is unknown but ultimately neither was able to be saved.

I can’t even remember a time when I didn’t walk past or into dads office and this forum was displayed on one of the screens. Every night after dinner dad loved some good stout, a cheese board, and possibly some cricket OR random science videos (I’ve never known someone with a larger love for learning), accompanied by some good banter and laughs on this forum. I want to thank you all for that.

I would absolutely love to hear some stories or just anything etc if anybody is able to share.

Tonight, I hope everyone will pour up a stout (preferably Guinness), and possibly berate ABC as well as Elon and many other things I’m sure you knew pissed him off in all ways imaginable ;), in honour of my most amazing father (and mother) Love you forever dad.

Ailish,

A beautifully written piece from an obviously intelligent, articulate and well loved daughter.

One anecdote that comes to mind, was the “bottle of red wine” saga. I’m not sure if it was you or your sister, that was very naughty and polished off a special bottle of red. Much trouble ensued that provided us all some amusement and conversation for many many weeks. Was that you being very naughty with the bottle of red????? 😁

hahaha oh my, yes that was me! let’s just say they definitely weren’t happy. Gosh, it’s so surreal hearing all this stuff!! but in a good way. Is there any way I could find the thread or topic that would’ve discussed that unless it’s unable to. (trying to get used to navigating and using this site)

Hi Ailish,

When did Bono visit your place?

Yes, I remember that red wine episode. It was all very amusing looking on from the outside :)

You’re Dad certainly loved his cricket and his stout (not necessarily in that order). I remember one late night, early morning, a couple of years ago he and I pushing on until dawn watching a T20 World Cup semi final (I think).. I was trying to follow the exciting last stages of a tennis final at the same time. There were many similar occasions, especially with test cricket.

You seem to be handling the pain of your loss remarkably well.. at least you’re putting a brave face on it.

Onya

always remember that Shebs agreed with me that BBL was real cricket while Test was fake cricket.

Arts said:

always remember that Shebs agreed with me that BBL was real cricket while Test was fake cricket.

I remember a Mr Been who really loved his test cricket.

So hard to believe, a daily voice in our lives for 20 years, disappears.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FJt4y4fH938

The Lab said:

ChrispenEvan said:

If you wish to see more posts like that. 😎

sprog sibeen site:https://tokyo3.org/forums/holiday/

Link

ahhh the link won’t work

You would have to open the link in a new tab or window. This forum block a lot of links from openng directly in the forum.

Right click: open in new tab.

Thanks everybody who helped Ailish get here and talk to us.
Joe loved his daughters dearly. Spoke of you both often.
It is such a shocking loss to us all.
I am glad to hear that you both have real names other than younger and older sprog. They are great Irish names. My two favourite Irish names to boot.

Yes, very nice to see a sprog peeping in. I hope Ailish finds some interesting and comforting posts amongst sibeen’s contributions over the years.

Irish songs by Alphabetical Order some soulful ones for sibeen

You can listen and choose your own ones.

I have a Mrs Sibeen story. It’s not much but it made me laugh at the time, having someone we ‘knew’ but had no idea who we were.

I organised a birthday present for Alex, and Rule’s missus knows Mrs sibeen, so Mrs sibeen got added to the chat.

“I don’t know who any of you are or what’s going on, but Joe says he’s heard of you and is willing to throw some money into the cause.”

:)

one of the many things dad and I loved bonding over and exploring was music :) I recall going on his phone and he would create a new playlist every few months titles “New for Ailish”. he never knew I saw this but it made me feel so happy :)

roughbarked said:

one of the many things dad and I loved bonding over and exploring was music :) I recall going on his phone and he would create a new playlist every few months titles “New for Ailish”. he never knew I saw this but it made me feel so happy :)

roughbarked said:

Thanks everybody who helped Ailish get here and talk to us.
Joe loved his daughters dearly. Spoke of you both often.
It is such a shocking loss to us all.
I am glad to hear that you both have real names other than younger and older sprog. They are great Irish names. My two favourite Irish names to boot.

:)

roughbarked said:

The Lab said:

ChrispenEvan said:

If you wish to see more posts like that. 😎

sprog sibeen site:https://tokyo3.org/forums/holiday/

Link

ahhh the link won’t work

You would have to open the link in a new tab or window. This forum block a lot of links from openng directly in the forum.

Right click: open in new tab.

thankyou! i was looking through these all last night

Arts said:

always remember that Shebs agreed with me that BBL was real cricket while Test was fake cricket.

dad used to love taking me mum and sister to BBL games

I am so glad that these stories are able to make you smile.

The Lab said:

one of the many things dad and I loved bonding over and exploring was music :) I recall going on his phone and he would create a new playlist every few months titles “New for Ailish”. he never knew I saw this but it made me feel so happy :)

That’s wonderful! Iontach!

ms spock said:

The Lab said:

one of the many things dad and I loved bonding over and exploring was music :) I recall going on his phone and he would create a new playlist every few months titles “New for Ailish”. he never knew I saw this but it made me feel so happy :)

That’s wonderful! Iontach!

+1

The Lab said:

Arts said:

always remember that Shebs agreed with me that BBL was real cricket while Test was fake cricket.

dad used to love taking me mum and sister to BBL games

yes, we used to talk about how much better The Scorchers are than the Stars. :)

sibeen said: Date: 6/09/2019 00:01:33
From: sarahs mum

Younger sprog was given one of those fake robot babies today. It’s apparently a move to keep teenage pregnancy at bay. I’ve just heard a kerfuffle upstairs. It has woken up and is crying. There’s angst. I don’t think this will go well.

roughbarked said:

That’s a nice bunch of memories.

sarahs mum said:

roughbarked said:

That’s a nice bunch of memories.

At heart he was a fun loving Irishman.

roughbarked said:

At heart he was a fun loving Irishman.

I thought that that was a euphemism for ‘a drunk’?

(My family origins are Irish, so i have grounds for this suspicion.)

I have been thinking about all the ways I’m going to miss Shebs..

the BBL/Test back and forth (though he was totally coming around to BBL)
the posts I’m going to respond to telling him that I don’t read his posts
the playful jabs about engineers and their competence
the friendly banter
beer nights on his trips to Perth
how well he models being a parent
his stupid emails
the encouragement
the only person who reads my work
being called a girly swot..
all the rest..

my Heart still hurts , but I am so happy that Ailish can take comfort in this part of this amazing human. The forum has given the family record.. and that’s a lovely thing.

captain_spalding said:

roughbarked said:

At heart he was a fun loving Irishman.

I thought that that was a euphemism for ‘a drunk’?

(My family origins are Irish, so i have grounds for this suspicion.)

Let’s not reduce sibeen to a silly cliché. He was a smart and hard-working man who was very successful in his field, and led a full and varied life.

Arts said:

I have been thinking about all the ways I’m going to miss Shebs..

the BBL/Test back and forth (though he was totally coming around to BBL)
the posts I’m going to respond to telling him that I don’t read his posts
the playful jabs about engineers and their competence
the friendly banter
beer nights on his trips to Perth
how well he models being a parent
his stupid emails
the encouragement
the only person who reads my work
being called a girly swot..
all the rest..

my Heart still hurts , but I am so happy that Ailish can take comfort in this part of this amazing human. The forum has given the family record.. and that’s a lovely thing.

I’m sad that he never got to hear more of my music. He enjoyed a little piece I posted a few years back and was looking forward to hearing more.

Arts said:

I have been thinking about all the ways I’m going to miss Shebs..

the BBL/Test back and forth (though he was totally coming around to BBL)
the posts I’m going to respond to telling him that I don’t read his posts
the playful jabs about engineers and their competence
the friendly banter
beer nights on his trips to Perth
how well he models being a parent
his stupid emails
the encouragement
the only person who reads my work
being called a girly swot..
all the rest..

my Heart still hurts , but I am so happy that Ailish can take comfort in this part of this amazing human. The forum has given the family record.. and that’s a lovely thing.

Beautifully put!

Bubblecar said:

captain_spalding said:

roughbarked said:

At heart he was a fun loving Irishman.

I thought that that was a euphemism for ‘a drunk’?

(My family origins are Irish, so i have grounds for this suspicion.)

Let’s not reduce sibeen to a silly cliché. He was a smart and hard-working man who was very successful in his field, and led a full and varied life.

He was that, and i meant no offence. I valued his opinions and his advice on the things he knew about, and i respected his knowledge. And i enjoyed giving and receiving the occasional gentle dig in the ribs with him.

Bubblecar said:

captain_spalding said:

roughbarked said:

At heart he was a fun loving Irishman.

I thought that that was a euphemism for ‘a drunk’?

(My family origins are Irish, so i have grounds for this suspicion.)

Let’s not reduce sibeen to a silly cliché. He was a smart and hard-working man who was very successful in his field, and led a full and varied life.

He was that, and i meant no offence. I valued his opinions and his advice on the things he knew about, and i respected his knowledge. And i enjoyed giving and receiving the occasional gentle dig in the ribs with him.

Arts said:

I have been thinking about all the ways I’m going to miss Shebs..

the BBL/Test back and forth (though he was totally coming around to BBL)
the posts I’m going to respond to telling him that I don’t read his posts
the playful jabs about engineers and their competence
the friendly banter
beer nights on his trips to Perth
how well he models being a parent
his stupid emails
the encouragement
the only person who reads my work
being called a girly swot..
all the rest..

my Heart still hurts , but I am so happy that Ailish can take comfort in this part of this amazing human. The forum has given the family record.. and that’s a lovely thing.

Stupid emails praytell?

Arts said:

I have been thinking about all the ways I’m going to miss Shebs..

the BBL/Test back and forth (though he was totally coming around to BBL)
the posts I’m going to respond to telling him that I don’t read his posts
the playful jabs about engineers and their competence
the friendly banter
beer nights on his trips to Perth
how well he models being a parent
his stupid emails
the encouragement
the only person who reads my work
being called a girly swot..
all the rest..

my Heart still hurts , but I am so happy that Ailish can take comfort in this part of this amazing human. The forum has given the family record.. and that’s a lovely thing.

>>the playful jabs about engineers and their competence<<

By how many orders of magnitude?

OMG, I cant even.. I have no words..

my deepest condolences to Joe’s family and to all here…

sibeen will be missed

The Lab said:

Hello,
This is Ailish Devlin, Joe Devlin’s (sibeen) daughter, I am making this post off of Tash’s (unsure of her username) spare login that she so generously has lent me. You may have already seen my facebook post that was posted in here.

Seeing the mutual devastation among users truly has once again proven to me (never doubted it haha) that my dad was such a loveable, funny, helpful, and incredibly intelligent man. Seeing the concern in the comments for me (19) and my beautiful older sister Sinéad (21) (his sprogs) and comments specific to us and his life truly shows how close so many were with him and for that, I am so immensely sorry.

to clear a few things up and help gain closure I am letting the COD of both of my incredible parents be known. Mum and Dad were swimming at our favourite beach in Mallacoota on a trip just them two. A place we swam 100s of times before. It was known to be a rougher surf beach but growing up how we did, all of us were very well-abled in water, especially mum and dad. We do not know exactly what happened but it’s known a horrific rip was created and the sand beds were too soft and unable to gain footing on. It is said dad was screaming for help for mum and tried to help her. The rest is unknown but ultimately neither was able to be saved.

I can’t even remember a time when I didn’t walk past or into dads office and this forum was displayed on one of the screens. Every night after dinner dad loved some good stout, a cheese board, and possibly some cricket OR random science videos (I’ve never known someone with a larger love for learning), accompanied by some good banter and laughs on this forum. I want to thank you all for that.

I would absolutely love to hear some stories or just anything etc if anybody is able to share.

Tonight, I hope everyone will pour up a stout (preferably Guinness), and possibly berate ABC as well as Elon and many other things I’m sure you knew pissed him off in all ways imaginable ;), in honour of my most amazing father (and mother) Love you forever dad.

That’s beautiful, Ailish. You and Sinéad take care of yourselves and your grandmother, too.

Divine Angel said:

I have a Mrs Sibeen story. It’s not much but it made me laugh at the time, having someone we ‘knew’ but had no idea who we were.

I organised a birthday present for Alex, and Rule’s missus knows Mrs sibeen, so Mrs sibeen got added to the chat.

“I don’t know who any of you are or what’s going on, but Joe says he’s heard of you and is willing to throw some money into the cause.”

And it was an amazing pressie so thank you again one and all!

OCDC said:

Divine Angel said:

I have a Mrs Sibeen story. It’s not much but it made me laugh at the time, having someone we ‘knew’ but had no idea who we were.

I organised a birthday present for Alex, and Rule’s missus knows Mrs sibeen, so Mrs sibeen got added to the chat.

“I don’t know who any of you are or what’s going on, but Joe says he’s heard of you and is willing to throw some money into the cause.”

And it was an amazing pressie so thank you again one and all!

I was also impressed. It seemed so personal.

captain_spalding said:

roughbarked said:

At heart he was a fun loving Irishman.

I thought that that was a euphemism for ‘a drunk’?

(My family origins are Irish, so i have grounds for this suspicion.)

You are not far wrong.
Níor aimsíodh aon rud.

Arts said:

I have been thinking about all the ways I’m going to miss Shebs..

the BBL/Test back and forth (though he was totally coming around to BBL)
the posts I’m going to respond to telling him that I don’t read his posts
the playful jabs about engineers and their competence
the friendly banter
beer nights on his trips to Perth
how well he models being a parent
his stupid emails
the encouragement
the only person who reads my work
being called a girly swot..
all the rest..

my Heart still hurts , but I am so happy that Ailish can take comfort in this part of this amazing human. The forum has given the family record.. and that’s a lovely thing.

Hear hear.

Bubblecar said:

captain_spalding said:

roughbarked said:

At heart he was a fun loving Irishman.

I thought that that was a euphemism for ‘a drunk’?

(My family origins are Irish, so i have grounds for this suspicion.)

Let’s not reduce sibeen to a silly cliché. He was a smart and hard-working man who was very successful in his field, and led a full and varied life.

Without any doubt.

Bubblecar said:

Arts said:

I have been thinking about all the ways I’m going to miss Shebs..

the BBL/Test back and forth (though he was totally coming around to BBL)
the posts I’m going to respond to telling him that I don’t read his posts
the playful jabs about engineers and their competence
the friendly banter
beer nights on his trips to Perth
how well he models being a parent
his stupid emails
the encouragement
the only person who reads my work
being called a girly swot..
all the rest..

my Heart still hurts , but I am so happy that Ailish can take comfort in this part of this amazing human. The forum has given the family record.. and that’s a lovely thing.

I’m sad that he never got to hear more of my music. He enjoyed a little piece I posted a few years back and was looking forward to hearing more.

But you’re just a slack bastard about sharing because you think we don’t want to ear it.

roughbarked said:

Bubblecar said:

captain_spalding said:

I thought that that was a euphemism for ‘a drunk’?

(My family origins are Irish, so i have grounds for this suspicion.)

Let’s not reduce sibeen to a silly cliché. He was a smart and hard-working man who was very successful in his field, and led a full and varied life.

Without any doubt.

Sorry if I sounded too grumpy there, I didn’t mean to :)

buffy said:

Arts said:

I have been thinking about all the ways I’m going to miss Shebs..

the BBL/Test back and forth (though he was totally coming around to BBL)
the posts I’m going to respond to telling him that I don’t read his posts
the playful jabs about engineers and their competence
the friendly banter
beer nights on his trips to Perth
how well he models being a parent
his stupid emails
the encouragement
the only person who reads my work
being called a girly swot..
all the rest..

my Heart still hurts , but I am so happy that Ailish can take comfort in this part of this amazing human. The forum has given the family record.. and that’s a lovely thing.

>>the playful jabs about engineers and their competence<<

By how many orders of magnitude?

All he had to play with.

diddly-squat said:

OMG, I cant even.. I have no words..

my deepest condolences to Joe’s family and to all here…

sibeen will be missed

is being.

OCDC said:

Divine Angel said:

I have a Mrs Sibeen story. It’s not much but it made me laugh at the time, having someone we ‘knew’ but had no idea who we were.

I organised a birthday present for Alex, and Rule’s missus knows Mrs sibeen, so Mrs sibeen got added to the chat.

“I don’t know who any of you are or what’s going on, but Joe says he’s heard of you and is willing to throw some money into the cause.”

And it was an amazing pressie so thank you again one and all!

I’ve actually had these from this forum. So, before I do step off this mortal coil, I’ll say thank you all now.

Bubblecar said:

roughbarked said:

Bubblecar said:

Let’s not reduce sibeen to a silly cliché. He was a smart and hard-working man who was very successful in his field, and led a full and varied life.

Without any doubt.

Sorry if I sounded too grumpy there, I didn’t mean to :)

‘At’s o.k. You good kid.

sarahs mum said:

OCDC said:

Divine Angel said:

I have a Mrs Sibeen story. It’s not much but it made me laugh at the time, having someone we ‘knew’ but had no idea who we were.

I organised a birthday present for Alex, and Rule’s missus knows Mrs sibeen, so Mrs sibeen got added to the chat.

“I don’t know who any of you are or what’s going on, but Joe says he’s heard of you and is willing to throw some money into the cause.”

And it was an amazing pressie so thank you again one and all!

I was also impressed. It seemed so personal.

It made me nearly feel like youse know me after 20+ years…

OCDC said:

sarahs mum said:

OCDC said:

And it was an amazing pressie so thank you again one and all!

I was also impressed. It seemed so personal.

It made me nearly feel like youse know me after 20+ years…

It seems so.

OCDC said:

sarahs mum said:

OCDC said:

And it was an amazing pressie so thank you again one and all!

I was also impressed. It seemed so personal.

It made me nearly feel like youse know me after 20+ years…

NHOY

Woodie said:

The Lab said:

Hello,
This is Ailish Devlin, Joe Devlin’s (sibeen) daughter, I am making this post off of Tash’s (unsure of her username) spare login that she so generously has lent me. You may have already seen my facebook post that was posted in here.

Seeing the mutual devastation among users truly has once again proven to me (never doubted it haha) that my dad was such a loveable, funny, helpful, and incredibly intelligent man. Seeing the concern in the comments for me (19) and my beautiful older sister Sinéad (21) (his sprogs) and comments specific to us and his life truly shows how close so many were with him and for that, I am so immensely sorry.

to clear a few things up and help gain closure I am letting the COD of both of my incredible parents be known. Mum and Dad were swimming at our favourite beach in Mallacoota on a trip just them two. A place we swam 100s of times before. It was known to be a rougher surf beach but growing up how we did, all of us were very well-abled in water, especially mum and dad. We do not know exactly what happened but it’s known a horrific rip was created and the sand beds were too soft and unable to gain footing on. It is said dad was screaming for help for mum and tried to help her. The rest is unknown but ultimately neither was able to be saved.

I can’t even remember a time when I didn’t walk past or into dads office and this forum was displayed on one of the screens. Every night after dinner dad loved some good stout, a cheese board, and possibly some cricket OR random science videos (I’ve never known someone with a larger love for learning), accompanied by some good banter and laughs on this forum. I want to thank you all for that.

I would absolutely love to hear some stories or just anything etc if anybody is able to share.

Tonight, I hope everyone will pour up a stout (preferably Guinness), and possibly berate ABC as well as Elon and many other things I’m sure you knew pissed him off in all ways imaginable ;), in honour of my most amazing father (and mother) Love you forever dad.

Ailish,

A beautifully written piece from an obviously intelligent, articulate and well loved daughter.

One anecdote that comes to mind, was the “bottle of red wine” saga. I’m not sure if it was you or your sister, that was very naughty and polished off a special bottle of red. Much trouble ensued that provided us all some amusement and conversation for many many weeks. Was that you being very naughty with the bottle of red????? 😁

this was around november 2018, any way i could find these threads :)

The Lab said:

Woodie said:

The Lab said:

Hello,
This is Ailish Devlin, Joe Devlin’s (sibeen) daughter, I am making this post off of Tash’s (unsure of her username) spare login that she so generously has lent me. You may have already seen my facebook post that was posted in here.

Seeing the mutual devastation among users truly has once again proven to me (never doubted it haha) that my dad was such a loveable, funny, helpful, and incredibly intelligent man. Seeing the concern in the comments for me (19) and my beautiful older sister Sinéad (21) (his sprogs) and comments specific to us and his life truly shows how close so many were with him and for that, I am so immensely sorry.

to clear a few things up and help gain closure I am letting the COD of both of my incredible parents be known. Mum and Dad were swimming at our favourite beach in Mallacoota on a trip just them two. A place we swam 100s of times before. It was known to be a rougher surf beach but growing up how we did, all of us were very well-abled in water, especially mum and dad. We do not know exactly what happened but it’s known a horrific rip was created and the sand beds were too soft and unable to gain footing on. It is said dad was screaming for help for mum and tried to help her. The rest is unknown but ultimately neither was able to be saved.

I can’t even remember a time when I didn’t walk past or into dads office and this forum was displayed on one of the screens. Every night after dinner dad loved some good stout, a cheese board, and possibly some cricket OR random science videos (I’ve never known someone with a larger love for learning), accompanied by some good banter and laughs on this forum. I want to thank you all for that.

I would absolutely love to hear some stories or just anything etc if anybody is able to share.

Tonight, I hope everyone will pour up a stout (preferably Guinness), and possibly berate ABC as well as Elon and many other things I’m sure you knew pissed him off in all ways imaginable ;), in honour of my most amazing father (and mother) Love you forever dad.

Ailish,

A beautifully written piece from an obviously intelligent, articulate and well loved daughter.

One anecdote that comes to mind, was the “bottle of red wine” saga. I’m not sure if it was you or your sister, that was very naughty and polished off a special bottle of red. Much trouble ensued that provided us all some amusement and conversation for many many weeks. Was that you being very naughty with the bottle of red????? 😁

this was around november 2018, any way i could find these threads :)

It is a big pool of messy talk.
Some of us are swimming the morass attempting to pick out gems.

party_pants said:

The Lab said:

Woodie said:

hahaha oh my, yes that was me! let’s just say they definitely weren’t happy. Gosh, it’s so surreal hearing all this stuff!! but in a good way. Is there any way I could find the thread or topic that would’ve discussed that unless it’s unable to. (trying to get used to navigating and using this site)

can you remember what year and month it was?

november 2018- possibly december. I can just crtl+f to find his specific posts, just need help finding the chats from those month

The Lab said:

party_pants said:

The Lab said:

can you remember what year and month it was?

november 2018- possibly december. I can just crtl+f to find his specific posts, just need help finding the chats from those month

Every Chat thread is listed in DV’s Index up there ^, Ailish.

Bubblecar said:

The Lab said:

party_pants said:

can you remember what year and month it was?

november 2018- possibly december. I can just crtl+f to find his specific posts, just need help finding the chats from those month

Every Chat thread is listed in DV’s Index up there ^, Ailish.

…listed chronologically and linked, too.

Bubblecar said:

The Lab said:

party_pants said:

can you remember what year and month it was?

november 2018- possibly december. I can just crtl+f to find his specific posts, just need help finding the chats from those month

Every Chat thread is listed in DV’s Index up there ^, Ailish.

A month’s chat is a serious undertaking but a find type search will find every mention of sibeen.

roughbarked said:

Bubblecar said:

The Lab said:

november 2018- possibly december. I can just crtl+f to find his specific posts, just need help finding the chats from those month

Every Chat thread is listed in DV’s Index up there ^, Ailish.

A month’s chat is a serious undertaking but a find type search will find every mention of sibeen.

There will still be a lot to read. He was inclined to voice an opinion…it’s in the genes from experience of my own family with similar roots.

:)

buffy said:

roughbarked said:

Bubblecar said:

Every Chat thread is listed in DV’s Index up there ^, Ailish.

A month’s chat is a serious undertaking but a find type search will find every mention of sibeen.

There will still be a lot to read. He was inclined to voice an opinion…it’s in the genes from experience of my own family with similar roots.

:)

The impeccable chant of no restraint.

https://tokyo3.org/forums/holiday/?main=https%3A//tokyo3.org/forums/holiday/topics/10475/

Link

Search sprog

From: sibeen
ID: 1311204
Subject: re: December Chat, 2018
Oh dear, Oh fucking dear.

Junior sprog went off on school,camp this morning and is back later in the week. SWMBO decided to do a scan of junior sprogs social media, including a site that junior sprog didn’t realise that SWMBO knew about. Last evening she’d posted a video of herself sculling out of a bottle of wine that she’d nicked from my collection.

SWMBO has downloaded the video and sent it to junior sprog with the message “enjoy camp”.

Oh dear, Oh fucking dear.

You have the right to remain silent.

ChrispenEvan said:

https://tokyo3.org/forums/holiday/?main=https%3A//tokyo3.org/forums/holiday/topics/10475/

Link

Search sprog

From: sibeen
ID: 1311204
Subject: re: December Chat, 2018
Oh dear, Oh fucking dear.

Junior sprog went off on school,camp this morning and is back later in the week. SWMBO decided to do a scan of junior sprogs social media, including a site that junior sprog didn’t realise that SWMBO knew about. Last evening she’d posted a video of herself sculling out of a bottle of wine that she’d nicked from my collection.

SWMBO has downloaded the video and sent it to junior sprog with the message “enjoy camp”.

Oh dear, Oh fucking dear.

Made me smile again.

Peak Warming Man said:

You have the right to remain silent.

I remember that post!

Michael V said:

ChrispenEvan said:

https://tokyo3.org/forums/holiday/?main=https%3A//tokyo3.org/forums/holiday/topics/10475/

Link

Search sprog

From: sibeen
ID: 1311204
Subject: re: December Chat, 2018
Oh dear, Oh fucking dear.

Junior sprog went off on school,camp this morning and is back later in the week. SWMBO decided to do a scan of junior sprogs social media, including a site that junior sprog didn’t realise that SWMBO knew about. Last evening she’d posted a video of herself sculling out of a bottle of wine that she’d nicked from my collection.

SWMBO has downloaded the video and sent it to junior sprog with the message “enjoy camp”.

Oh dear, Oh fucking dear.

Made me smile again.

That is funny, busted with video evidence

ChrispenEvan said:

https://tokyo3.org/forums/holiday/?main=https%3A//tokyo3.org/forums/holiday/topics/10475/

Link

Search sprog

From: sibeen
ID: 1311204
Subject: re: December Chat, 2018
Oh dear, Oh fucking dear.

Junior sprog went off on school,camp this morning and is back later in the week. SWMBO decided to do a scan of junior sprogs social media, including a site that junior sprog didn’t realise that SWMBO knew about. Last evening she’d posted a video of herself sculling out of a bottle of wine that she’d nicked from my collection.

SWMBO has downloaded the video and sent it to junior sprog with the message “enjoy camp”.

Oh dear, Oh fucking dear.

Well……. there ya go,, and there ya have it. Irrefutable evidence, hey what but!

Cymek said:

Michael V said:

ChrispenEvan said:

https://tokyo3.org/forums/holiday/?main=https%3A//tokyo3.org/forums/holiday/topics/10475/

Link

Search sprog

From: sibeen
ID: 1311204
Subject: re: December Chat, 2018
Oh dear, Oh fucking dear.

Junior sprog went off on school,camp this morning and is back later in the week. SWMBO decided to do a scan of junior sprogs social media, including a site that junior sprog didn’t realise that SWMBO knew about. Last evening she’d posted a video of herself sculling out of a bottle of wine that she’d nicked from my collection.

SWMBO has downloaded the video and sent it to junior sprog with the message “enjoy camp”.

Oh dear, Oh fucking dear.

Made me smile again.

That is funny, busted with video evidence

Ha

dv said:

Cymek said:

Michael V said:

Made me smile again.

That is funny, busted with video evidence

Ha

I remember the forum eagerly awaiting further instalments of that saga.