Seemingly trivial things that annoy you
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Probably also worth doing it shortly before rain is forecast too, if it's somewhere not too far from where the public are likely to see it.
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Condolences.
As noted above, don't do it on a windy day either, unless you can be assured to be upwind at all times. As cold-hearted as I might be (and knowing that Mum had gone well before the funeral anyway), I really didn't want a faceful of her... there's plenty of very wafty ash in there.
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One would like to think that the dearly departed could have a chuckle about things like that. I think the best funerals are the ones where the living can have a laugh through the tears.
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Brother and I did a hike into the wooded valley where our dad had played as a young child for to spread the ashes as requested. I had the backpack. Yes it was heavy.
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Very much so. Wife and I were at my dad's bedside on one occasion as he was approaching the end. He was drifting in and out at this point. He turned to me and said "do you know what funeral is an anagram of?" He then wandered off for a moment before saying "real fun, and so it should be" then he drifted off to sleep again.
So we tried to make sure it was. In my parents' wills there is a clause that when the second of them goes £20k is to be spent on a party. Some of the money can be used to help get people there from abroad if necessary. But it has to be a good send off. Obviously we have to follow their wishes
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That sounds like Brewsters millions. Not sure how to spend £20k on a party.
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I'm trying to remember the funeral of a famous person that was televised (or at least had bits on the news) where someone (not Stephen Fry, but someone like that, I think) doing a reading or the eulogy had the congregation in stitches. It's so much better if you can remember the people you've loved with a chuckle and a smile, though that's always easier when the person has had a long life. I've been to two of my pupils' (one 16, the other 22), which are just awful... you really can't really celebrate what they've done in their short lives when the loss is still so traumatic for everyone.
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Cleese eulogy for Graham Chapman is the famous one.
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Given the 'average wedding' in 2022 cost £18,400, £20k for a proper knees-up doesn't sound too far off. Mind you, almost without exception, in my experience, the weddings where they havent gone all posh/pretentious just for the sake of it have been the jolliest.
Not that I'll be there, but I think I might stipulate a piss-up at The Bridge Inn in Topsham, with some decent jazz including some suitably inappropriate songs... Smoke Gets In Your Eyes (cremation), My Heart Stood Still (if I die of a heart attack), Bye Bye Blues, Don't Worry About Me, I Won't Dance (obvs!), That's All, etc.
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I remember walking right into a pile on the coast path at Challaborough. They’d poured it right on a spur that led the the best viewpoint, I was walking there to take a photo and didn’t see it at all.
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I was thinking it must have been a long time ago if Cleese was still funny.
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I fancy disco inferno as my coffin disappears through the curtains. Don’t like the song but would just love to think of the mixed reactions to burn baby burn.
The last cremation I went to the person before had the Laughing Policeman, it was a bit weird in the waiting room hearing it being piped through the speakers whilst standing with grieving friends and relatives of another person.
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When the Windows closedown jingle was universal, I thought that might have been quite funny to have as the coffin disappears, as unfailingly as you heard the jingle you remembered one more thing you'd meant to do.
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It is a pretty creepy laugh....
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Monty Python's 'Always look on the bright side of life' is a popular choice apparently.
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
A bit too obvious, but understandably so... a good tune, and funny lyrics. Makes me feel very old that the film is now 45 years old.
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A friend of mine was at an eccentric uncle's funeral and as people were walking in they played a Frank Zappa song which was mainly swearwords , which took some of the elderly relatives a bit by surprise 😆
Not sure what the song was!
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Mam used to help out at the funerals in the local chapel and someone had "Splish splash I was having a bath." as the coffin was carried out. Apparently it made everyone, definitely mam, smile. Certainly a change from My way.
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Our Mum & Dad went as top-dressing for the rhododendrons in Kew Gardens. Each time they let us in early so the deed was done before joe public showed up. Also on both occasions there was a nice drop of rain afterwards to wash them in.
I want to end up on a Lakeland fell, but I'm a bit ambivalent about upsetting the delicate nutritional balance of a delicate habitat...
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Also quite a good one for winding up God botherers. Bonus points for playing the video at the service.
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
At my mum and dad's wedding they asked the organist to play the Bach Tocatta in D minor but the organist wasn't up to it, so they had to make do with Widor. He got to have Bach at his funeral - it's a shame they didn't have a real organ at the crematorium but they did crank it up a bit.
1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
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I sang at a wedding where the bride came in to the Imperial March from Star Wars. That raised a chuckle.
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My sister had this guy https://stmaryscathedral.org.au/director-of-music-daniel-justin/ play at her wedding a few weeks ago. He's a friend of hers who played at the cathedral where she was a choral scholar and flew over from Oz just to play. My choir sang at the wedding too and we got him to accompany us on a couple of songs, gave him the music half an hour before, did a run through that he played from sight and then did the proper thing, I don't think the organ in that church has ever sounded like it before!
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Back onto the work phone issue, I remembered I had a phone here a colleague gave me to return when he left 6 months ago. I decided to transfer my SIM to that but couldn't find the SIM port anywhere so had to Google it but didn't know what Samsung model it was. I eventually tracked it down from looking at images (Samsung XCover 5, me neither). It turns out it is old school where you remove the back cover and can ctually remove and replace the battery too. It must be 15 years since I last had a phone like that, sems to work though and is supposed to have Wi-Fi calling that is critical where I am. It was still showing 67% charge when I switched in on after being unused in a box for 6 months too!
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😀 Hopefully it was at her request....
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
I suppose the theme tune to 'Rollerball' was quite fitting for an upcoming marriage 😱
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
The version from Brain Salad Surgery would be bizarre for a wedding...
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I think it's a bit annoying that people can't have spirited discussions on here without it either being personal or being taken personally.
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How dare you!!!!!
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