Adults who's pets "cross the rainbow bridge". I've had a few animals over the years, from cats to horses. They all died. If I told someone about it I'd say they died. It's a fact of pet ownership and not one to shy away from nor be coy or childish about.
It's just a phrase for most and gives a nicer image than dying on a vet's table or similar.
I wouldn't read too much into it personally.
Incidentally, the pictures are of Cindy on her very last day, funnily enough on a bridge with a rainbow! 😆:
Also my Mum and Dad died
they didn't "pass" or "go forward" or whatever other dumb Americanised carp people come up with
Kick the bucket? Give up the ghost? Pop your clogs? Shuffle off this mortal coil? 😆
I'm sure you've used one at some time or another.
also add "furr babies" - anyone calling them that needs help and someone needs to check how they treat their pets
treating pets as people leads to all sorts of bad feeding and exercise habits!!
Yet again, for most, it's just a saying and not indicative of how their pets are actually treated.
I am not going to reveal my real name but it is the same as a now long gone tv character.
In an office I was asked for my name by the boss of the office and gave it to a blank look and reply
“ yes but what is your real name?”.
The office staff who all knew me were in knots as they tried to keep from laughing too much. I suspect he was not a popular boss.
It's Nora Batty, isn't it?
The one that used to mildly irritate me was 'Sir Ming' for Sir Menzies Campbell.
If you are not being ironic, it is pronounced 'Ming - Is'.
The 'z' is often a sort of glottal stop, especially in Scottish names.
Dalzeil (Dee - Ell), Queenzieburn (Queenie - Burn), Culzean (Cull - Ain) Castle, it is a thing, but most people are too ugnorant to know better.
Thank heavens John Menzies is not still around, it was PAINFUL!
For the past 6-7 or so years Ma B and me have had to deal with Pa B's relatively early and aggressive Alzheimer's diagnosis. He spent the last year of his life in a secure unit after being sectioned, so you get the idea. During that time, certain organisations and individuals insisted that Pa B was on a "journey" with Alzheimers, like it was all a jolly day out and, if it rained a bit we'd all make the best of it. This isn't Personal Matters so I'll leave it there, but the phrase was generally used by those who provided the least actual practical help of dealing with the issues we faced. He wasn't on a "journey", he was dying in a particularly cruel way.
Sorry, I've just been patronised by someone who used this phrase and lost my guano a little bit.
That sounds awful and yes, you'd have thought they would have known better.
The crappy one was from a big company beginning with H and looking at reviews afterwards their TV's seem to have a bit of a reputation. I do hope their trains are better built.
What, the ones with cracks in their frames? 😆
Labelled up a parcel yesterday and clicked the postman collection option. He didn’t turn up today, so I popped it down to the post office.
then received this, you couldn’t make it up.
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I know, I mean, where were you
@postman ?
Yes, I never understood why it wasn't "Sir Menz".
Read above.
