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[omg]

it is the english way after a major tragedy to start joking about it. it is the way we are. it was inevitable that the english population of the site would start having a joke on this thread as we all have freinds who missed this being involved in this by a fraction. so we have all been through a bit of stress becuse of this. now we are having a laught. its the english way.

[PrejudiceSucks]

Aye, if we didnt laugh we'd be crying. It's just our way really.

[A. J. Raffles]

Laughing's a lot better than crying. It's less embarassing, for one thing.

[PrejudiceSucks]

Apart from if you were an undertaker or something. Some jobs you're just not allowed to laugh in. I'm not sure about crying.

[Stroggy]

I haven't been to many funerals (thank goodness) but they were always very cynical.
One was on the first of july and everyone was leaving that same day on holiday (funerals in Judaism are almost immediately after the person died, so nobody had the time to change their schedual so they would leave on holiday after the funeral) so almost everybody was dressed in black holiday clothes.
Another one was just a few months later, we went into the morgue to say our last goodbye to the deceased and there was a bit of a confusion about where the rabbi who was supposed to conduct the ceremony was. We ask the person working there where the body of the deceased was and he points over to one of the slabs and says "over there" then we asks where the rabbi was, he sighs and points to the slab right next to the previous one and says "over there."

[PrejudiceSucks]

Wow, that's really unlucky...

[A. J. Raffles]

A crying undertaker would be even worse, though, wouldn't it?

[mm_pie]

Originally posted by Stroggy+Jul 19 2005, 07:40 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Stroggy @ Jul 19 2005, 07:40 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-PrejudiceSucks@Jul 19 2005, 07:17 AM
I can't really see why Clifford's Tower is marketed as a tourist attraction when hundreds of Jews were killed inside it.

Why shouldn't it be? nearly every castle in Europe has a bloody past. If mere persecution of for example jews in medieval times is a reason to discourage tourism, Spain would have to be blocked off.
And voting in Galloway would help the jews little, the man is worse than Livingstone . [/b][/quote]
No, he is simply marketed as a nutter to genuine working class people by the evil english, right-wing tabloid press. (Michael Howard probably paid for it ) He has been tricked and mis-portrayed by the american government about the saddam hussein issue too. He would have worked with the community, for the community as he is doing in Bethnal Green and Bow.

[Sebatianos]

Well the worst funeral I ever attended to was simply :not_ok: :not_ok:

There's a tradition (held especially in villages) that they gather at the funeral parlor and have a small service there, take the coffin to the church, have a service there, take the coffing back to the cemetary and lower it, having another ceremony there. Then they fill up the hole.
Well at this wedding the church was up on a hill and while there was the service in the church the staff (the coffin is being transported by grave-digger's assistents (not really sure where he gets them) got drunk.
Their job is to put the coffin on a cart and take it of at the church, put it back on again and lower it in the hole (they also move the cart around).
I didn't see just what happened on the way, but when they were lovering the coffing in the ground it was cracked on one side! So I asked one of the people who were attending the church ceremony (I never go to a church - I'm atheist). That person told me they hit a statue of some church patron while carriying the coffin out of the church (one of them slipped or somethin and the all got carried away to one side).

[efthimios]

Funerals are a no no for me. I don't know in other countries but in Greece there are plenty of a sweet seeds or something. Have no idea what they are but they taste great, and you only find then in funerals.


I lost all "it" for funerals in the first funeral I attended, well, before the actual ceremony. The same day the guy died (living in the same building) some men brought the casket (sp?) and left it at the building's entrance. At one time as I was walking near it (but could not be seen by anyone since I was behind an extra wall, don't ask) I heard two of male relatives say ugly things about the dead guy. You see he was fat, not circus fat, but fat. So they were joking and things like that. They made me feel sick. He was a good man with many family and money problems but he always helped those in need. If I wasn't a kid at the time I would let them know of my feelings for what they said. :Titan: