RIP Threads

[iandg]

As a family around the dinner table we always used to say "so and so can't play chess".

 

[Fab Foodie]

Mostly I think that's right [although I do have an archaic tendency to not diss the dead. dude]

I put not dissing the dead in the 'respect for the living' category, if you get my meaning....

 

[Dirk]

Ready instant pastys.??🧐

 

[Jody]

They are buried or cremated.

Harsh crowd.

It's a commonly used phrase and appears to have been for centuries.

Is it really that offensive?

 

[Dogtrousers]

Sometimes I'm in the 'never heard of them camp' and end-up discovering somebody whose oeuvre I may enjoy...

I remember one where I was genuinely surprised that I had never heard of the person who had died, given the amount of attention their death was causing. I found this interesting and (foolishly) posted as such. People got angry that I was being disrespectful. I won't do that again.

I've forgotten now who they were and never discovered their oeuvre.

 

[ColinJ]

As a family around the dinner table we always used to say "so and so can't play chess".

Wasn't it a bit confusing when talking about living people who can't play chess?

I was out in my sister's garden and accidentally kicked the bucket. I wasn't wearing shoes - it really hurt!

 

[Roseland triker]

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They get flooded out weekly so that's why emmets live there 🤩🤩

 

[Jody]

Not offensive, just a way of wimping out from reality.

Take it up with someone next time you're at a funeral. Point out they are wimps and why you feel that way.

 

[Andy in Germany]

What about the ones in open caskets, surrounded by grieving family?

That's a method of cremation in Nepal; there's a temple for this purpose in Kathmandu, alongside the river. The remains are laid on a pile of logs and the eldest living male relative lights the fire.

It isn't a pleasant place; the ashes are pushed into the river and the poorest of the poor scour through the water looking for fillings and jewellery.

 

[classic33]

Not offensive, just a way of wimping out from reality.

Offensive. Don't try and force your beliefs and opinions on how they should deal with death.

 

[Andy in Germany]

I was also a bit freaked out to learn that graves are rented. When the "lease" is up the remains are removed and the headstone delivered to the next if kin. Ready for the next occupant!

Happens here too; the lease is 5 years and you either have to buy another one or take the grave away. So much for "final resting place".

 

[Jody]

I have not attended a funeral for nearly 40:years. Pointless waste of time.

Says it all really......

 

[Jody]

I’m open about my attitude to death.

Very.

One less person to waste your time on.

 

[Jody]

Bye

Cya

 

[Randomnerd]

It’s been wandering a bit off topic.

Ok I get some people may want to acknowledge the death of someone who made an impact on their cycling experience but why the myriad of other individuals that frequently crop up in the New Posts feed?

Eh, why not just ignore them? I've no interest in Zwift etc, so I ignore that stuff.

I'd say you rather labour your cold, harsh reality schtick - we know you don't care. And the irony of starting a thread about it is surely not lost on you?

Why do papers carry obituaries? Why do we bother with headstones? What point the biographer? History, schmistory.