Moving Tombstones

Not sure if this is anywhere else, but around here there is some stupid craze to put these stickers on rear windows of cars/trucks. What the hell is this about? They always say "In Memory of"... what are they dedicating? Thier cars?

Are people so detached from life that they think they need to "show off" that they know someone who died?

i just don't get it....

I thought this was about moving headstones/graves when land is being developed.

This is weird. Why would you want to advertise somebody's death on a car? Surely this will contribute to accidents, as other drivers are distracted by the text.

You sure these guys didnt run them over, and it's a condition of their early release from prison.

Bit mordid. Life is for the living.

'Kev 4 Trish' in a Ford Capri,across the windscreen,in green is more my bag..

Apart from not being called Kev or having a bird called Trish.

Boatraceface wrote: Bit mordid. Life is for the living.

'Kev 4 Trish' in a Ford Capri,across the windscreen,in green is more my bag..

Apart from not being called Kev or having a bird called Trish.

Reminds me of this car on base driven by some wife and her kids that had scribbled really BIG:

"My daddy, your hero"

Told my wife I'd leave her if she ever thought about putting crap like that on our vehicles...

EdelBrock wrote:

Boatraceface wrote: Bit mordid. Life is for the living.

'Kev 4 Trish' in a Ford Capri,across the windscreen,in green is more my bag..

Apart from not being called Kev or having a bird called Trish.

Reminds me of this car on base driven by some wife and her kids that had scribbled really BIG:

"My daddy, your hero"

Told my wife I'd leave her if she ever thought about putting crap like that on our vehicles...

Did you see what Lee Van cleef's son plastered all over their Chevrolat?

"My daddy is a baddie"

It's probably something to do with the cultural impact of Sept-11. From that date onwards, anyone who dies tragically is a "hero", not a "victim" and should be glorified for being dead.

(Obviously firemen and cops who were there to help others could well deserve the title (apart from the NYFD and NYPD being long term terrorist sponsorts)...but there's nothing heroic about being BBQ'd at your desk, it's just a horrible, tragic thing.)

Boatraceface wrote:

EdelBrock wrote:

Boatraceface wrote: Bit mordid. Life is for the living.

'Kev 4 Trish' in a Ford Capri,across the windscreen,in green is more my bag..

Apart from not being called Kev or having a bird called Trish.

Reminds me of this car on base driven by some wife and her kids that had scribbled really BIG:

"My daddy, your hero"

Told my wife I'd leave her if she ever thought about putting crap like that on our vehicles...

Did you see what Lee Van cleef's son plastered all over their Chevrolat?

"My daddy is a baddie"

A bit ironic that it was on a car, eh?

but he was the baddest interior designer around

Doctor? wrote: It's probably something to do with the cultural impact of Sept-11. From that date onwards, anyone who dies tragically is a "hero", not a "victim" and should be glorified for being dead.

(Obviously firemen and cops who were there to help others could well deserve the title (apart from the NYFD and NYPD being long term terrorist sponsorts)...but there's nothing heroic about being BBQ'd at your desk, it's just a horrible, tragic thing.)

You know, I think yer onto something there. Didn't see any of this, then there were stickers memorializing 9/11 and the deaths especially of NYPD NYFD...

But Cambo, you truely are a bigot aren't ya! Why can't regular people be called 'heroes'? Why do you have to do a heroic act to become one? I think that's just descrimatory

EdelBrock wrote:

Doctor? wrote: It's probably something to do with the cultural impact of Sept-11. From that date onwards, anyone who dies tragically is a "hero", not a "victim" and should be glorified for being dead.

(Obviously firemen and cops who were there to help others could well deserve the title (apart from the NYFD and NYPD being long term terrorist sponsorts)...but there's nothing heroic about being BBQ'd at your desk, it's just a horrible, tragic thing.)

You know, I think yer onto something there. Didn't see any of this, then there were stickers memorializing 9/11 and the deaths especially of NYPD NYFD...

But Cambo, you truely are a bigot aren't ya! Why can't regular people be called 'heroes'? Why do you have to do a heroic act to become one? I think that's just descrimatory

Well as I said, it's understandable to consider people heroes when they walked into that to help others.

I suppose the rest of the victims would deserve the name of hero if they'd all known that a bunch of crazy godtards were going to fly a couple of airliners into their office that day, and they still went in to do their "duty".

Ireland's equivalents are roadside shrines, typically a statue of frigid Mary. Those are usually for kids or loved ones who ended up as roadkill. Also there are enormous gable-wall murals, but you need to be a mass murdering cunt to get one of those.....usually the shittier the thing you did, the bigger the mural.....grenade in a pub gets your picture in the background of someone elses mural....if you want top billing, you've gotta do something REALLY nasty and cowardly, and then preferably die by your own retarded actions, or get shot by the law/other side. The more murals a person gets, the more likely that the other side has a nasty song about them.....eg....there are thousands of pics of that starvo, Bobby Sands, all over Belfast.....and there is also the moving ballad sung by the other lot..."could you hack a pasty supper bobby sands?" I wish I knew some crude nationalist songs, because I bet they're funnier.

I'm surprised you even kid about it, being ex USMC.....much as they may often have been on the "wrong side" owing to idiotic government foreign policy, there's no denying that they've sometimes been the very definition of heroes.

You know what a true hero is?

The guy who stands up at 4am and says...."We need skins, I'll go to the all night garage for some.....do any of you want anything?" (but that does tread towards territory of the heroism vs idiocy nature).

First I'm a PRIOR Marine (there's no 'ex' unless yer kicked out).

But it is a damn travesty and horror that people had to perish that way, but simply dying doesn't make a hero. I just think we loosely fling that word around with wild abandon and its lost its potency.

When I think hero, I think immediately of this:

http://www.military-quotes.com/forum/usmc-sergeant-issued-navy-cross-t67432.html

If someone can measure up to actions like that, then they are heroes in my book...

Burt Reynolds wrote: You sure these guys didnt run them over, and it's a condition of their early release from prison.

Would that be "in loving memory" then?

But good idea. I never saw such over here.

Americans have the market for fat mawkish sentinentality well and truly covered.

Jacqui's declared the residents of those holes, unpersons.

Are all these people victims of road traffic accidents? Is the memorial the place of impact? If so it would be like a mobile version of those clusters of dead flowers you see attached to street lights and on bad bends.

James Thomas wrote: Are all these people victims of road traffic accidents? Is the memorial the place of impact? If so it would be like a mobile version of those clusters of dead flowers you see attached to street lights and on bad bends.

Ahhhh....the Engerlish equivalent to the frigid mary shrines.

Personally, with the trucks, I'd say a cartoon toddler with a big red X through it would be better.

James Thomas wrote: Are all these people victims of road traffic accidents? Is the memorial the place of impact? If so it would be like a mobile version of those clusters of dead flowers you see attached to street lights and on bad bends.

I don't know, but I don't think so. I'll have to ask someone that has it randomly... we also have the memorials on the side of the road. Don't understand the reasoning behind that either. Only for traffic acciedents and gang-related crossfire victims do people do this.
What if yer mum passed away on the couch, should a memorial be set up there as well? Is that why Liam sleeps on so many floors? Cause all the couches in Breetan are full of memorials?

I've only seen it among black people up here. Normally involved with some dude getting shot. The horrific airbruses are especially amusing