| lesley153
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Ooh yes - drag the cart for a day. If he couldn't do that, then make him walk in front of it for a week.
Then bludgeon him to death? Please? |
Reply #3541. Sep 28 11, 8:43 PM
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| C30
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Sounds reasonable to me Lesley! Let the punishment fit the crime, thingy!
Btw. talking of horses..........recently had a very impressive funeral cortege pass by........hearse being pulled by two black horses......shame they chose to "deposit their offering" right outside my driveway!
Reply #3542. Sep 29 11, 12:28 AM
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We had a old fashioned Funeral in Lincoln Recently, black horses with the head gear, a glass hearse was i believe for a traveler. And was from the church at bottom of Lincolns main road north to south and it was heading south, the road it had to use to get to the cemetary is always chocker block at the best of times the funeral made things worse.
And for the first time i never heard anyone complain there were 20 cars in the funeral cortege and the police stopped traffic to allow all 20 to follow hearse.
Have to say the horses and hearse were a magnificent sight.
Reply #3543. Sep 29 11, 1:06 AM
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| lesley153
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FT members in El Salvador and Lancashire, linked across the sea, not by hands but by equine embellishments right outside their front door. Isn't that wonderful!
Did you say people _weren't_ complaining about being held up by a funeral? So there is hope. I wonder how today's me-me-me headlong fights for speed would cope with running in? There would be an appreciable increase in funerals, I suspect. |
Reply #3544. Sep 29 11, 6:03 AM
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| lesley153
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For anyone too young to know what that's about - new cars used to have to be driven very slowly for months and er probably more months. It was once rare to be able to complete a journey without finding yourself behind at least one slow car with a "Running In" notice in the back window.
Now, I think most drivers get in and stamp on the accelerator, whatever the car is and however new.
 http://www.whatcar.com/car-news/what-car-q-and-a/do-you-still-need-to--run-in--new-cars/233500
Of course they also need to become familiar with the hooting and flashing controls for when they're on the motorway following someone who's doing less than 90, or anyone who's sticking to the speed limit anywhere else. Indicators? Nah, not important. |
Reply #3545. Sep 29 11, 6:13 AM
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| C30
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Re "that funeral".................I was standing in my driveway, chatting to my neighbour who was giving his car a clean...and I said, "Dunno what is happening, motor-cycle cop sitting at road junction" (I have a corner house). Next came the "clip, clop" of a slow moving "neddy gallopodies", and this hearse (identical to what Prof described) came past, followed by several hundred people walking and finished by another motor-cycle cop bringing up the rear!
"Must be someone important", I commented.
"Sure won't to that when I go", replied my neighbour.
"Nor me"!
So as neither of us knew who the deceased was, (which is unusual as my neighbour,although a very nice chap, usually is the font of all knowledge about events locally), I went indoors to see if anything on local TV news. I figuered that if the deceased warranted such a lavish funeral, he/she ought to have been at least a Pop Star, or Film Star, or maybe a Sports Star.
It transpires, the funeral was for a motor-cycle racing sportsman, who had been killed in a recent race, and lived just around the corner. In fullness of time, it was splashed all over front page of local "freebie" newspaper.
I confess I had never heard of him, and I suspect that had he not been killed, neither would 99% of the local population!
The inevitable deluge of wet stuff overnight, removed "the deposit".
Reply #3546. Sep 29 11, 8:18 AM
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daymare
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People here, from what I've observed, tend to be respectful during a funeral procession. It could be superstition as interrupting a funeral or getting in line between funeral cars means you could be next. It could also be they understand it would not be taken kindly and the results of being rude are not worth the outcome.
Me? When I give up my mortal coil, I want no funeral. I want no services and my body....well, I haven't quite made up my mind yet.
Back to happy thoughts....Lesley, how are you and Jonathan? Has he settled into his new flat and how's the job? Is the magic light still working?
Reply #3547. Sep 29 11, 9:04 AM
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| trojan11
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Funerals here are done pretty quickly. 'Dead-Buried,' within a very short space of time. There's no cremation, and so no crematorium. Only the rich can afford to be 'chilled' for a few hours in order to prevent the inevitable whiff from the deceased. An invitation to a funeral means "Get here now!"
Reply #3548. Sep 29 11, 11:12 AM
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| tiepolo
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When I shuffle off, I'll be cremated. I'm not ready to go, though.
Ashes to ashes, etc. (And I don't mean whatever you British talk about when you speak of sports.)
Reply #3549. Sep 29 11, 11:47 AM
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| lesley153
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Ray, thank goodness for rain! Would any of us have heard of the motorcyclist?
Daymare, I think there's a global reverence for funeral processions - at least I thought there was, till Gary posted that on one particular occasion nobody complained. There's not much more churlish than hooting a funeral cortège.
Thank you, all is well. Lamp is on its best behaviour, I'm feeling good and getting out more, and Jonathan has taken to his new life like a duck to water. At least twice this week, he has spent time having a beer or chatting with his new colleagues simply because they're "such nice people." We should all be so lucky!
Good idea, Trojan. I imagine that applies to a lot of hot countries, although it's probably attributed to religion, rather than the very serious practicality of preventing the whiff!
Tiepolo, I'm planning to live for ever. |
Reply #3550. Sep 29 11, 1:59 PM
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| trojan11
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Nope, Lesley, it's quite literally down to the fact that bodies don't keep too well that they are put under the ground as quickly as possible. As far as cremation is concerned, 'tho, yes, religion prevents that.
Reply #3551. Sep 29 11, 7:17 PM
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| tiepolo
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Lesley, I hope you do, with health and happiness a-plenty.
Reply #3552. Sep 29 11, 8:17 PM
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| lesley153
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That's exactly what I meant but didn't use the right words. It makes sense to bury people quickly in hot countries, and it is generally held that an early burial allows people to start grieving sooner and therefore healing sooner.
If you say the religion requires it, you don't have to bother explaining anything - the fact that the religion prescribes it is the reason. Does that make sense? Too cynical?
Thank you, tiepolo. If you live for ever, when does boredom set in, I wonder?
Night, everyone.
Lesley, cynical, 3.30. |
Reply #3553. Sep 29 11, 8:26 PM
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| C30
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Lesley..........as you expect to be the first person to live forever (even the late JC didn't achieve that), it is left for you to inform posterity when boredom sets in! Unfortunately none of us are going to be here to hear your pearls of wisdom on the subject! Lol
As I am a firm disbeliever of this "life hereafter" religious clap-trap........it is absolutely of no interest to be WHAT they do with my body once I have snuffed it, as I shall neither know nor feel it!
Reply #3554. Sep 30 11, 12:06 AM
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| C30
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2nd paragraph, for "be" read "me"..........I really do wish FT would give us the option of editing our posts!
Further to not knowing or feeling what is done with my body after "crossing the bar", add "I hope"! Lol
Reply #3555. Sep 30 11, 12:08 AM
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channe
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Funeral processions here in Oz don't get much respect any more in major cities. In fact, the fast pace of life is such that I don't recall seeing one for years. Swift and harsh is the response for those who dare hold up the flow of traffic in this fair city.
Reply #3556. Sep 30 11, 5:51 AM
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| lesley153
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Typo missed till you mentioned it, and "hope" duly noted!
Moses is supposed to have made 120, and wasn't recorded as saying "I'm bored," and nor was Methuselah. Not sure I want to compare notes with either of them! |
Reply #3557. Sep 30 11, 5:52 AM
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| lesley153
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| Channe, isn't that a bit sad? |
Reply #3558. Sep 30 11, 5:53 AM
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| lesley153
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I've just spotted the following comment in a parenting blog:
"... everyone has an opinion on every aspect of parenting (even if they don't have children / had children 20-30 years ago) ... "
I can understand her dismay. What on earth can the parents of 20-30-uear-olds possibly hope to know, or remember, about bringing up children.
*ping* I think I know why that may have got up my nose so much - it's because my niece, whose youngest once stood a good chance of being electrocuted if I hadn't been there, said roughly the same thing: that I was a dinosaur, therefore any opinion I had about child care was automatically invalid.
May I be preserved from young people who still know everything. |
Reply #3559. Sep 30 11, 10:46 AM
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Jazmee27
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I second that
Reply #3560. Sep 30 11, 11:17 AM
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