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Post by mids on Oct 11, 2024 12:09:44 GMT
Too lazy to Google it herself.
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Post by wetkingcanute on Oct 11, 2024 22:27:35 GMT
I have not heard of the expression 'African Time' but having been a Funeral Celebrant for ten years and conducted well over 1500 services I can tell you this.
Whenever I conducted a service where African or West Indians were either family or just in the congregation at least one, often several, people were late. Every time!
I did services where people would turn up after the deceased had been cremated, at burials after the coffin had been lowered.
Nobody minded - it wasn't a problem. It was just something that always happened.
But one time, when Covid was raging and they had restricted the congregation to just five (I think it was five or six) the service at Croydon Crem had started, the door was shut and the Chapel Attendant was posted on the door. A very large young black guy came running up the path and asked if this was the service for -and gave the correct name. He then asked to be let in. The attendant said "I'm sorry Sir I can't let any more people in."
The young bloke said "Look Mate - that's my Dad's funeral and if you don't let me in I'll deck you right here!" To which the attendant said "of course Sir - right this way!"
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Post by flatandy on Oct 11, 2024 22:48:52 GMT
It sounds like everyone acted correctly. The poor bloke got to his dad's funeral and the attendant didn't get in the way and the rules were bent in order to allow it. I wonder who the other five people were and which of them should have been thrown out.
Did you ever get people who just liked to watch funerals? I was at a funeral for the missus's aunt last week and there was a weird girl in a wheelchair at the front of the weird catholic church and nobody knew who she was. It turns out that she just goes to lots of funerals in the church. Which seems weird to me but diff'rent strokes.
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Post by mids on Oct 12, 2024 6:41:15 GMT
His dad?
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Post by wetkingcanute on Oct 12, 2024 7:35:39 GMT
Yes, very occasionally there would be someone that no one knew. But you can't do anything -funerals are public.
(Unless a member of the family gets angry and throws them out - which has happened.)
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Post by mids on Oct 12, 2024 16:08:54 GMT
Come on people! I don't make these racist jokes for my own amusement, you know. |
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Post by voice on Oct 12, 2024 16:17:36 GMT
I rather thought you did.
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Post by Repat Van on Oct 12, 2024 19:50:56 GMT
Come on people! I don't make these racist jokes for my own amusement, you know. Your jokes are shite and never make sense. |
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Post by mids on Oct 12, 2024 20:02:39 GMT
Come on people! I don't make these racist jokes for my own amusement, you know. Your jokes are always brilliant. |
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Post by perrykneeham on Oct 13, 2024 7:07:41 GMT
I have not heard of the expression 'African Time' but having been a Funeral Celebrant for ten years and conducted well over 1500 services I can tell you this. Whenever I conducted a service where African or West Indians were either family or just in the congregation at least one, often several, people were late. Every time! I did services where people would turn up after the deceased had been cremated, at burials after the coffin had been lowered. Nobody minded - it wasn't a problem. It was just something that always happened. But one time, when Covid was raging and they had restricted the congregation to just five (I think it was five or six) the service at Croydon Crem had started, the door was shut and the Chapel Attendant was posted on the door. A very large young black guy came running up the path and asked if this was the service for -and gave the correct name. He then asked to be let in. The attendant said "I'm sorry Sir I can't let any more people in." The young bloke said "Look Mate - that's my Dad's funeral and if you don't let me in I'll deck you right here!" To which the attendant said "of course Sir - right this way!" To be fair, it was his third that week. Just to make sure. |
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Post by mids on Oct 13, 2024 20:04:01 GMT
Bald. Bald. What a load of shite. "A judge has said using the word about a man could breach equality laws because it is "inherently related to gender". It follows a lengthy legal case brought by electrician Tony Finn who claimed he had been sexually harassed by his boss during a heated row in 2019. www.lbc.co.uk/news/bald-hair-men-man-ruling-high-court-latest-tony-finn/ |
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Post by flatandy on Oct 14, 2024 0:30:19 GMT
What nonsense. Bald and balding men are just pathetically weak and unmanly.
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Post by perrykneeham on Oct 14, 2024 6:34:57 GMT
"the British Bung Company" is great. Like a company out of Beano. There's a company in Henfield called Grommets Ltd. Walked past their warehouse yesterday.
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Post by perrykneeham on Oct 14, 2024 6:36:55 GMT
Also, this story illustrates how protected characteristics have simply become a way of leveraging compensation. The bloke's clearly happy with being called a cunt, and it's probably accurate, which is why he was sacked.
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Post by mids on Oct 14, 2024 6:48:26 GMT
I drove through a town in the Peak District yesterday and there was a small local company that described themselves as "Funeral Directors, timber merchants and joiners".
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Post by Repat Van on Oct 14, 2024 11:49:30 GMT
“ He said he was a victim of sexual harassment after comments were made about his baldness, including being called a "stupid bald c***" by his supervisor during an argument.”
It’s interesting that this is considered sexual harassment? I guess the term in the legal sense just means abusing somebody on account of their gender. Is “bald” really gendered though? I guess more men than women go bald but if you have ever been to a women’s hairdresser women with hair loss aren’t that rare a sight.
Irrespective it is inappropriate workplace behaviour and people who bring physical traits into arguments are inherently pathetic.
What does him being bald have to do with the price of cheese?
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Post by Repat Van on Oct 14, 2024 11:50:50 GMT
“ The landmark employment tribunal ruling was made by a panel of three bald men, according to The Telegraph”
LOL!
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Post by mids on Oct 14, 2024 12:10:00 GMT
Misandrist.
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Post by flatandy on Oct 14, 2024 13:19:20 GMT
What does him being bald have to do with the price of cheese? It's a sign of weakness. He probably wouldn't have the mental fortitude to do his job. |
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Post by voice on Oct 14, 2024 14:28:53 GMT
It's a wonder he hasn't grown a beard, bald men who grow beards are cunts, it's the most pathetic bit of overcompensating you can do
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