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Originally posted by SIGnified:
Oh, I see.

What we do is … put them in a boat, kick it offshore a bit, and then send a flaming arrow to send it ablaze w blessings on to the halls of Valhalla.

Then there’s this Irish tradition thing called a wake …

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Originally posted by CPD SIG:
You forgot the empty liquor bottles!

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Such a tragedy for someone with a moniker like "half ounce", "wee-wee", "lil murder", "foo-fop" is taken from us soo soon!

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Originally posted by parabellum:
Ain't nobody flowed like fop RIP

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Originally posted by divil:
Vigils…

I despise them. They have to easily be in the top 5 of the most effete, pussy-ass things a human being could ever take part in.


Do they overcome the space time continuum so the deceased can be saved? Do they say fuck cancer? Do they justly confront human evil? No to all. All they do is serve as an ad hoc group therapy session for the powerless and weak. Vigils telegraph that this is the best society can do and it’s total weak sauce.

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How about the grotesque piles of plush toys purchased from the local CVS, mixed in with lit candles and handwritten sympathy cards? All piled up against a chain-link fence or some burn mark next to the road.

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Originally posted by CPD SIG:

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Originally posted by parabellum:
How about the grotesque piles of plush toys purchased from the local CVS, mixed in with lit candles and handwritten sympathy cards? All piled up against a chain-link fence or some burn mark next to the road.

I understand that people want to express their sympathy but this stuff with piles of junk which will have to be removed in a short time- yuck.

You forgot the empty liquor bottles!

These trinkets are often found on the streets of Chicago, and many other places, in order to commemorate the untimely passing of a future Rhodes scholar, the next person to go to the moon, cure cancer... Right after they were going to turn their life around.

Then there's the memorial t-shirts, often found with a childhood picture on it, like 6th grade graduation, and the recently deceased was 22yoa. (Because the most recent mug-shot photo is somehow in bad taste) The only better picture on the shirts is the one where the dearly departed looks like they were stricken with some disabling malady, probably arthritis- because that's the only way their fingers could twist like that.

Such a tragedy for someone with a moniker like "half ounce", "wee-wee", "lil murder", "foo-fop" is taken from us soo soon! They seem to have soo much to offer society.

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Originally posted by spunk639:
[QUOTE]Originally posted by CPD SIG:
[QUOTE]Originally posted by parabellum:


Those monikers in certain cultures are as important to the “dindu’s” as monikers like “Plato,” “Homer,” and “Socrates” may be to us. Remember it is our lack of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Cultural Sensitivity that we can’t appreciate empty cheap liquor bottles, drug paraphernalia and stuffed animals as a lasting tribute to such an inspiring and influential character. A signal of our privilege and racist attitudes that we need to make reparations for; or a notice to call public works to bring a street sweeper and remove the garbage from a public way.