To the fucker that had his cell phone at today’s funeral !
Thou art a fucky fuckmiester! How darest thou allow thine cell phone to ring whilst the Father was conducting a funeral!!!
Ya fuck!
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What the heck was the name of that movie?..
Oh yeah, Miami Rhapsody, kinda lame, but to get to the point. Towards the end of the movie, burial is taking place, grandmother I think. Guy’s phone rings, he gets it, screams “Yes, it’s a girl!”. To sum up, expectant father, who still made the funeral. Maybe this guy had an equally important reason for having his phone on. On the other hand he was equally likely to be a “fucky fuckmiester”.
Please noteth thou: Kwij’s acquaintance, Eats_Cryaons, will be arrivething shortly to shoveth Crayola fatties up thine butt, nose, and ears.
And verily I warn thee: If thou didst actually answer and talk during the sombre ceremony then thou shallst have a cordless model from the early 1980’s shoved into the aforementioned lower orifice which will be summarily sewn shut whilst your number is passed out to telemarketers everywhere.
Enter the ‘Vibration Function’…
Funny, I thought this was going to be a rant about the Newark diocese saying that there can no longer be eulogies at funerals. Everybody gets the same funeral, no personal messages, damnit, because everyone should be focusing on scripture, not memories for the dead.
Not good enough an excuse. It would be thoroughly understandable for a father to miss a funeral while the mother of his child was in labour. It would also be understandable if an expectant father had a pager set to vibrate so he could dash off suddenly and discreetly if need be.
If circumstances are such that you must, must, must be able to answer a phone, then they are extreme enough for you to have a legitimate reason not to attend a funeral. If you are a brain surgeon that may have to respond to a crisis, then you can keep your phone on vibrate and discreetly excuse yourself before answering.
You don’t let it ring and disrupt the proceedings.
Did I mention that this was in a movie?
Yes, but the point remains that movie-ha-ha doesn’t play out so well in real life.
Not to get caught in a recursive loop or anything, but, did I mention that this was in a movie? And did I then follow that up with “On the other hand he was equally likely to be a “fucky fuckmiester”?” I think the answer to both is “yes”.
I was at a friend’s wedding recently, and there was some idiot seated directly behind me and my siblings who let his cell phone ring during the vows… and he actually ansered it. Didn’t sound to be anything too important, either… even his kid tried to tell him not to answer it. :rolleyes: :mad:
F_X
It’s sad to me, but I think that’s it is becoming clear that places of worship and other sacred ceremonies are going to have to join in the theatrical and cinematic warnings about electronic devices.
The thoughtlessness of people never ceases to amaze me.
Back to loading my Crayola Canon[sup]TM[/sup] before I head off to Kitchener.
P.S. While working on one of the “Wingfield” trilogies. My housemate watched in horror as a cellphone rang in the audience. Esteemed Canadian actor Rob Beattie, paused during his one-man show and waited until the audience member completed his phone coversation, before asking “Are you finished?” My housemate said it was one of the most uncomfortable moments he’d ever wintessed on the job.
Ok, since we’re talking about inapropriate behaviour at funerals here…I recently attended one where they released white doves. (Personally, I thought that was more of a wedding thing, but whatever.)
Anyway, they “released” the doves by opening the top of the basket they were in. But they wouldn’t come out. So the guy sort of turned the basket on its side and shook them out a bit. But then they wouldn’t fly…well, a couple took off, but the rest were milling around the basket, cooing. The poor dove guy was all stooped over trying to scare them into the air but they just ran around. Finally he started grabbing them one by one and throwing them up and eventually they all got the idea and took off. Only lasted about a minute or two, but it was hilarious.
And it was SO hard not to laugh! But it’s a funeral and you’re a heartless bastard to laugh at a funeral. I felt bad for finding something funny at a funeral but I couldn’t help it. I was mostly able to stifle myself and it came out sounding like a cough so I don’t think I offended anyone.
Um, anyway…people should also turn their cell phones OFF at funerals.
The articles I read on this one seemed to be saying it was a neccessary response to those so in love with the sound of their own voices that their eulogy speech was over an hour. Get two or three of these in a row, and I don’t wanna be there even if it’s MY funeral!