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Guavanaut posted:Found Wes Streeting's barber what i'd like to see is the dumb and dumber style modified vehicle the proprietor drives
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Feb 6, 2024 14:35
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Aipsh posted:My mother died a couple of days ago, but this is all happening in Ireland so I’ve had to fly over, but one thing that strikes me is the difference between the time. The only reason the funeral hasn’t happened yet is because she died on a weekend and Monday is a bank holiday over here. i'm sorry to hear that, op
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Feb 6, 2024 14:38
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Aipsh posted:My mother died a couple of days ago, but this is all happening in Ireland so I’ve had to fly over, but one thing that strikes me is the difference between the time. The only reason the funeral hasn’t happened yet is because she died on a weekend and Monday is a bank holiday over here. Sorry about your mum, mate. I think I can speak for most Irish people that we find it extremely weird that the British take weeks (?) to bury their dead
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Feb 6, 2024 15:07
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Speaking from albeit sparse recent experience it seems to be more about a lack of venues. That and a tendency to avoid workdays due to the narrow list of who you can get compassionate leave for.
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Feb 6, 2024 15:11
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Failed Imagineer posted:Sorry about your mum, mate. I'm pretty sure it's another side effect of our collapsed society rather than a cultural thing. Took about 6 weeks for my aunt to get her funeral, was real crap. And it's entirely because the whole thing was badly backed up in Cheltenham where she had lives. My gran meawnhile died in Inverness and it was more like 3 weeks from death to burial. Which still seems far too long to me
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Feb 6, 2024 15:24
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grobbo posted:https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/02/12/a-teens-fatal-plunge-into-the-london-underworld That's an extraordinary (and chilling) story.
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Feb 6, 2024 15:34
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Aipsh posted:My mother died a couple of days ago, but this is all happening in Ireland so I’ve had to fly over, but one thing that strikes me is the difference between the time. The only reason the funeral hasn’t happened yet is because she died on a weekend and Monday is a bank holiday over here. Condolences on your loss.  We always try to get it done in three days irrespective of faith, can be longer if a cremation is chosen.
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Feb 6, 2024 15:37
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forkboy84 posted:I'm pretty sure it's another side effect of our collapsed society rather than a cultural thing. Took about 6 weeks for my aunt to get her funeral, was real crap. And it's entirely because the whole thing was badly backed up in Cheltenham where she had lives. My gran meawnhile died in Inverness and it was more like 3 weeks from death to burial. Which still seems far too long to me Yeah I guess, but it also has to be at least part cultural. Like, if you started telling people in Ireland that they'd have to wait 6 weeks for burials I'm pretty sure it would be treated about as well as telling them that the bodies were just going to be dumped in the street. Idk, just a strange difference, but the UK is a much more crowded place. Sorry to raise such a morbid topic and again sympathies to the newly bereft
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Feb 6, 2024 15:38
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The Queen was buried 11 days after she died so clearly it can happen faster if you're rich enough
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Feb 6, 2024 15:41
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Being fair her venue is rarely fully-booked.
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Feb 6, 2024 15:50
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forkboy84 posted:I'm pretty sure it's another side effect of our collapsed society rather than a cultural thing. There is so much loving paperwork behind the scenes, and each form has a 2 day turnaround waiting while it's sat in the post or someone's inbox for it to get stamped. Nothing is digital, everything is a physical form someone needs to sign, and god help you if the one person in the relevant authority who isn't a jobsworth is on holiday. He took on a funeral for an Irish family once, he and his son had to spend about 2 days driving around taking form A from office 1 to office 2 to get it signed, so that he could get them to release form B and drive it across to office 3 to get it signed. And the family still weren't happy with how long it took (quite rightly as well).
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Feb 6, 2024 16:07
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Sorry about your mother, Aipsh. condolences Failed Imagineer posted:Yeah I guess, but it also has to be at least part cultural. Like, if you started telling people in Ireland that they'd have to wait 6 weeks for burials I'm pretty sure it would be treated about as well as telling them that the bodies were just going to be dumped in the street. Idk, just a strange difference, but the UK is a much more crowded place. Remember when the gravediggers in one council went on strike for ten days in January 1979 and 150 burials were delayed by up to a week? And this was stirred into such a scandal that the entire socio-economic system of the country was irrecovably altered? Now a two week wait between the death of a relative and the funeral/burial is the norm. Same with the infamous The Bins!
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Feb 6, 2024 16:08
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lol jesus christ  'we're the Popular Conservatives, or PopCons! for short  . we're a grassroots movement dedicated to restoring the vibrancy of our national democracy . our policy agenda is  SUFFER NOT THE WOKE TO LIVE, TAKE BACK OUR COUNTRY FROM THE SINISTER FORCES OF THE GLOBALIST TRANS CONSPIRACY.'
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Feb 6, 2024 16:19
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We should let Liz Truss have a go at being PM, it would be funny.
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Feb 6, 2024 16:21
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Bobby Deluxe posted:Have worked for a funeral director, can confirm it's a cultural norm and not a collapse thing. This was back in 2012ish? Going to disagree with you, it's just that we've been going downhill since 1979 not 2010. In the 80s my grandparents were buried within a week, and when my great aunt's funeral took just over a fortnight in the 90s there were many mutterings of concern. E: I suppose the fact we have closed coffins probably made this particular collapse easier, though Oh dear me fucked around with this message at 16:30 on Feb 6, 2024 |
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Feb 6, 2024 16:23
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Didn't Liz Truss used to be left-wing? I know the answer is power and wealth, but what the gently caress happened?
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Feb 6, 2024 16:26
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Apraxin posted:lol jesus christ The families they're talking about aren't yours. 
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Feb 6, 2024 16:29
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Oh dear me posted:Going to disagree with you, it's just that we've been going downhill since 1979 not 2010. In the 80s my grandparents were buried within a week, and when my great aunt's funeral took just over a fortnight in the 90s there were many mutterings of concern.
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Feb 6, 2024 16:31
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I remember there was a lot of paperwork when we had my grandmother's funeral, don't think I would have managed if I hadn't had my mum helping. I think there is at least an online thing where you can put the death cert number in and it informs a bunch of different departments about it. But yeah in general a lot of paperwork, I remember we had problems with the insurance paying the funeral director because they needed proof she was dead. I feel like the funeral director could have sent a photo or something but that's bureaucracy.
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Feb 6, 2024 16:36
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PriorMarcus posted:Didn't Liz Truss used to be left-wing? I know the answer is power and wealth, but what the gently caress happened? Her dad is a socialist but I don't know if she was. Anyway, good to hear about that left wing extremism that's been controlling the country for the last 14 years...
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Feb 6, 2024 16:45
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My brother and his son have ghosted at least two direct requests from my mum's solicitor to try to find out where her body or ashes are located. There's a good chance that I may eventually end up with them, so that she can have her wish of having her ashes placed in a steam locomotive firebox.
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Feb 6, 2024 16:48
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fuctifino posted:My brother and his son have ghosted at least two direct requests from my mum's solicitor to try to find out where her body or ashes are located. There's a good chance that I may eventually end up with them, so that she can have her wish of having her ashes being placed in a steam locomotive firebox. I just feel sorry for the innocent soul whose ashes where used in this test run.
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Feb 6, 2024 16:51
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Apraxin posted:lol jesus christ Changing my username to "wokery nonsense" e: sorry about your mum, Aipsh
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Feb 6, 2024 16:51
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Bobby Deluxe posted:There is so much loving paperwork behind the scenes, and each form has a 2 day turnaround waiting while it's sat in the post or someone's inbox for it to get stamped. Nothing is digital, everything is a physical form someone needs to sign, and god help you if the one person in the relevant authority who isn't a jobsworth is on holiday. After my dad died late last year, I lost count of the times we were told about my fetch quest of the Green Form that I will receive from the registrar and must take to the funeral directors, who are located on the south side of town. Was at least amusing to see the registrar triple check the spelling of Hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis OwlFancier posted:I think there is at least an online thing where you can put the death cert number in and it informs a bunch of different departments about it.
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Feb 6, 2024 16:57
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Aipsh posted:My mother died a couple of days ago, but this is all happening in Ireland so I’ve had to fly over, but one thing that strikes me is the difference between the time. The only reason the funeral hasn’t happened yet is because she died on a weekend and Monday is a bank holiday over here. Sorry to hear. I've said this before here, if there was one thing I would force on others is the Irish wake. Its traditional in some parts to follow the body home from the hospital, when the hearse collects it. Did so with my father, that was an 80 mile drive. Slower than normal through towns, but normal speed on the motorway. My brother's wife is from Australia, and their funerals are all dour silence and gloom and nothing else. She had a shock when we were drinking and laughing the nights of the wake. Best group therapy you can ever get.
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Feb 6, 2024 16:58
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happyhippy posted:Sorry to hear. Would make a good mission if GTA ever goes to Ireland
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Feb 6, 2024 17:05
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PriorMarcus posted:Didn't Liz Truss used to be left-wing? I know the answer is power and wealth, but what the gently caress happened? Liz Truss is a puppet OP. A literal talking meat suit who is saying things the rich people funding whatever the gently caress she is doing want her to say. I mean they all are to some extent but she is a particularly grievous example because she’s thick as dogshit and hasn’t had an original thought in decades.
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Feb 6, 2024 17:05
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smellmycheese posted:Liz Truss is a puppet OP. A literal talking meat suit Given her open sub tendencies she'd probably read this like  
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Feb 6, 2024 17:08
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Thanks for all your goondolences and goondolences to those who lost others. Good to know though, that the UK (England) continues to be as much of a failing state as I imagined in funeral terms, or at the very least, unwilling to modernise the process even slightly. We contacted the funeral home the day she died and quite literally anything that didn’t require our direct input was sorted by the end of the day. It’s very impressive over in old Hibernia
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Feb 6, 2024 17:15
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Apraxin posted:lol jesus christ 
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Feb 6, 2024 17:17
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happyhippy posted:Sorry to hear. You've not lived until you've experienced a proper Calvinist funeral. When I was a kid we lived in an old farm worker's cottage (which by the by, glad we left before I was 6, it was so poorly insulated that one winter the toilet water froze over) & the local farmer was a really nice guy, let me steer his tractor & was just super nice all round, had no problems with us kids playing in the hay bails & poo poo. Well we moved & didn't see him many times after that but I went to his funeral when I was 17, it was a Free Church of Scotland service. Swear to god, the most miserable funeral I've ever been at. Just so loving grim & joyless, seemed just wrong for a guy who was so friendly & nice. I wept more at that funeral that the funerals of all 4 of my grandparents, (well, 3, I skipped my granny's because I had tickets to Supersonic Festival that year), an aunt, an uncle, & other more distant relatives funerals combined. It was not remotely cathartic, I don't think it was meant to be, I think it was meant to be miserable because joy is a sin. Fond memories are a sin. Everything is a sin.
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Feb 6, 2024 17:21
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I did attend half a catholic funeral and the amount of "oh god we love you so much and we know you always make the right choices by killing this 30 year old woman with a young daughter" was very offputting. Like half the function of the funeral is to try and convince people not to question their commitment to the church because something tremendously hosed up has happened.
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Feb 6, 2024 17:24
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The baptists are cunts for telling my gran, when she was dying of cancer, that she wouldn't get into heaven because she had gotten divorced. From her abusive husband. gently caress those guys. The minister in question even made a point of bringing it up at the funeral.
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Feb 6, 2024 17:28
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forkboy84 posted:I'm pretty sure it's another side effect of our collapsed society rather than a cultural thing. Took about 6 weeks for my aunt to get her funeral, was real crap. And it's entirely because the whole thing was badly backed up in Cheltenham where she had lives. My gran meawnhile died in Inverness and it was more like 3 weeks from death to burial. Which still seems far too long to me Gloucestershire. My dad died in Gloucestershire in 2015. It was a WEEK before mum was even able to book an appointment in Gloucester to go register the death (so by that time it was already 10 days past his death). Firstly, she had been ringing the number every day for a week to try to get the appointment but noone ever answered, there wasn't an engaged tone, nor an answering machine of any sort. We didn't know this until she told us. Because we mere slips-of-things had heard of this creation known as The Internet and it's servant The Google, we finally found out that the number in the nearest local town she'd been given to call rang in to an office that was staffed for one hour every blue moon. So we managed to find out that she would have to go to Gloucester to do it. Well thank goodness my sister can drive because there was no way to get there and back in under 2 days by public transport and taxis round there almost non-existent. Ended up being 6 weeks before dad's funeral. Of course, all those living in cities were like "but you just pop in to the office the same day" or other such words of completely useless and irrelevant information, once you get outside a city or large town, forget anything you think is "the way things are".
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Feb 6, 2024 17:34
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Aipsh posted:Thanks for all your goondolences and goondolences to those who lost others. My condolences Aipsh.
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Feb 6, 2024 17:34
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Aipsh posted:
I'm glad that at least you're not having to deal with all the faff, and my condolences.
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Feb 6, 2024 17:37
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drat even Harry has flown back. He must be serious
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Feb 6, 2024 17:39
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A second private jet has flown into the south wing of the palace.
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Feb 6, 2024 17:43
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serious gaylord posted:drat even Harry has flown back. He must be serious Certainly feels like he's a lot closer to being dead than we've been led to believe.
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Feb 6, 2024 17:44
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PriorMarcus posted:Certainly feels like he's a lot closer to being dead than we've been led to believe. Sat down in Buckingham Palace and took a sip from the wine glass still left from the day Brenda carked it only for the remaining Novitruss to get working.
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