OT: Ping Clancy in NB

Thanks my darling - this f****ng company we're with never sends any kind of notice - they just love pissing you off for the whole f****ng day - hate the useless bastards.

If I send you a cheque, can you buy me one of those tickets?

Hate f****ng Aliant - hate the f****rs - bastards!!!

Hugs - Sharon

S'excuse my language people - but I am totally pissed off with this company ... been trying to rework settings all day. *&^%$%$ There - that's better language.

Sharon (N.B.) ............................................................................ ....

Sorry, cannot excuse the language whatever the provocation. Personally I find it offensive.

Sally

She didn`t intend it to come to the newsgroup, Sally! Haven`t you ever pressed the wrong button? ;-))

Pat P

I couldn't see any indication that this was a private message gone astray - I just scrolled through in the normal way and came upon this 'mouthful' that at first I thought was from one of the spammers.The apology made no mention of wrong button pressing either.

Sorry - not a prude, not from a sheltered background but non of my family or my friends use this sort of language, and I have no intention of 'listening' to it.

Unfortunately you have to read what the thread is before you put a block on it, but I have now.

It is a pity though that there is a need to put a block on any messages isn't it.

Sally

I'm not sure what indication you would expect to see. In my program if I hit "reply" instead of "reply to sender by email" it isn't marked any differently, it just goes to a different place. I don't know why you would think it was from a spammer either, since it was clearly marked "clancy" who has been a long-time regular. I knew exactly who it was from as I was reading it. Sharon has apologized and you choose not to accept that apology. Fine, but I really don't think that you can justify that particular rudeness on your part. Do it or don't do it, but don't try to justify it.

I guess that means you won't be reading Usenet much anymore, then, since you really have no way of controlling what other people write.

Elizabeth

Thank you Elisabeth for understanding - it truly was a 'pushing the wrong button' mistake - I wish I was so perfect as to not ever make a mistake again in my life. :-O Oh wellll - you win some, you lose some ....... tra la la la la

Shar> > I couldn't see any indication that this was a private message gone

I'm very proud of having bit my tongue on one of those yesterday. I went to my father's brother's funeral. My father is the youngest of six children and has lost three brothers and a sister in the last 4 years. As I was leaving, I almost said "see you at the next one" to my cousin. I'm very glad I didn't, because I would have had to follow it up with "flip ya for it" since his mother and my father are the only two left. Although it both horrifies me and gives me the giggles at the same time, I suspect it would have just horrified him.

Elizabeth

"clancy" wrote

No you don't really---then you would be waaaaaay to good to hang out with most of us here, and we'd miss you. Dawne, who occasionally pushes the wrong button on both computers and people

Having been to my fair share of funeral lately, I know exactly what you mean. The giggles come at the oddest and usually most inappropriate moments.

Cheryl

My 88-year old mother has specifically said - no "Amazing Grace" and she wants a closed casket. "If they couldn't visit me when I was alive - and they can't remember what I look like........"

Unfortunately, it is likely it will be her funeral that will be the next. All her siblings (of ten children) but one are gone.

Marg

I love Amazing Grace but your mother has taste, it is overworked at funerals and memorials.

I agree with Marg's mom. I hate the song: Amazing Grace. I guess it might make sense for born again Christians or someone who didn't discover religion until later in life but I never saw myself as a "wretch" and I never saw myself as being blind and then seeing. At my funeral - in about 50 or so years hopefully - I would like a pot luck stitch-in with readings from Dr. Seuss. And definitely a closed casket. I want people to miss me, naturally, but I want them to remember me with laughter at the service. :-))

My sister, on the other hand, wants professional mourners with the song: Somewhere over the Rainbow in the background.

Liz from Humbug

We got into a discussion about funerals one night at choir practice. The others thought it was pretty funny that I wanted no one to speak. They can all just think whatever thoughts they have of me while listening to all my favorite songs being played. The final song, though, would be Neil Diamond's "Forever in blue jeans". :)

I think I'm also going to put a curse on anyone who tries to put makeup (other than a *minimal* amount) on me or put me in anything *other* than jeans when I've bitten the Big One!!! BEG!

I do like the stitch-in idea, though! :))))

Joan

This thing of getting family friends to do an eulogy is quite a new thing here at "ordinary" funerals, but becoming far more usual. It`s not something that i personally approve of. as I think it`s just too much to ask of family members or friends who really loved the deceased.

John`s family have always been great ones for "Viewing the deceased". That`s something else I want to make sure doesn`t happen - I think it`s best to remember them as they were. That body lying their is no longer THEM. They`ve gone - to wherever they go. I did it once and really wish I hadn`t. Not that it was horrific - just "empty". Closed coffins for me - the cheapest and most environmentally friendly one you can find.

Pat P

I fully agree with every word, but I want to be cremated. Further, if people in my life feel strange about the ashes, I just want them eliminated. If people in my life are up to spreading them about, that would be wonderful, but in death my body has nothing to do with my mind stream. Actually, in life it has nothing to do with my mind stream! It's only the vehicle.

Need a good, cheap, knowledge expanding present for yourself or a friend?

Aren't the ashes supposed to be awfully good for roses? I was thinking I would like to be buried under a rose bush, but roses tend to be high maintenance here. A Morden rose maybe. Dora

"bungadora" wrote

Now there's the answer--my mum gets quite tedious about not wanting a funeral because "who would come at my age", and I have threatened to compost her. Now I can scatter her on my rose bushes And Dora---try the "Explorer" series of roses (Martin Frobisher, John Cabot etc). They grow here in Regina. Dawne

As another alternative, I know someone who blows glass. When her lover died, he was cremated, so she had him made into paperweights, which were distributed to friends and family. Dora