Traveller head stones at Drumcliff cemetary.

Fighting Irish

dr.fuzzenstein wrote: »

Nothing against you Balagan, it's just a general rant, but that is the attitude that absolutely makes me scream about the Irish.
Yes, we need regulation regarding headstones, the smell of aftershave, the width of cats, the angle of rooftiles, the colour of socks worn on Tuesdays, availability of asparagus over the Xmas period and if you're allowed to tuck your shirt into your pants.
Don't like the look of someone? Call your local TD and have him sort out some laws!
It's this sick attitude that everyone can be forced to cooperate by forcing them through legal means.
Soon it will be enshrined in law how you're supposed to wipe your arse (3 sheets, one up, one down and one to polish).
No one will ever live beside people they always like, be it they're attitude, appearance, unkempt lawn, old banger of a car and, as in this case, their headstones.
But has anyone ever heard of dialogue? Talking to the other person?
Not in Ireland, if someone does something you don't like you go to the gards, your solicitor and your TD about it.
Maybe I wouldn't like some Fools and Horses headstone beside a loved one's grave, but before I go and start some campaign for the proper regulation of the appearance of headstones in cemeteries I would probably assess if now I have enough time in my life to start something that is A: positive and B: worthwile, maybe work for charity or something, because as soon as thoughts like that would enter my head I'd know that I had WWWAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY to much time on my hands.
It's an attitude like that that gets springboards and ladders removed at Kilkee because "a proper Health and Safety audit has to be performed on them"

bang on

Balagan

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firesidechat wrote: »

Just checked on Google Earth and it seems we also are still a european country.
Can we not be unique and original and not follow the trend of other countries.
I forgot that wouldn't be possible cause we would have to open our minds
and think outside the box, Something we are not comfortable with doing.

If you are willing to open your mind enough to be happy to bury your granny between two gigantic marble headstones with life sized etchings of men holding pints in their hands, then, by all means, exercise that right. It would not be my choice nor would it be the choice of many.

Mr Cawley

Balagan wrote: »

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If you are willing to open your mind enough to be happy to bury your granny between two gigantic marble headstones with life sized etchings of men holding pints in their hands, then, by all means, exercise that right. It would not be my choice nor would it be the choice of many.

I would have more compassion than to erect a monster around any of your familes' graves (god forbid).

people will view death many different ways. Respect, celebration etc


graves should not impinge on others views.

dr.fuzzenstein

Balagan wrote: »

You'll be hearing forthwith from my solicitor!

You're originally from a European country, right? Some European countries have pretty stringent rules about gravestones/memorials. How about yours?

German, me.
Been here since '94 and was young enough not to have to care too much about graveyard regulations at the time .
I'm pretty sure the Germans have all the regulations in the world and in fact they do.
And that's part of the reason I came here of all places, I met all these really cool dude Irish in Germany and thought "wow, Ireland must be the most relaxed and laid back country in the world, bit like a European Jamaica", but having lived here for a while that is no longer the case (or never was), all you hear is bints on the radio going "oh we must regulate this and have a law for that and forbid the other and this isn't very good and I don't like that and all young people should be locked up and bring back hanging and so on and so forth (must stop reading the papers and listening to the news)".
Ireland in my mind is falling into the same trap Germany fell into, regulate everything and invent a million new laws, they make no one happier, they serve no purpose all they do is make people that little angrier, more bitter, resentful of each other and life and everyone only thinks about "oh, can he doe that, should I call the police".
In Munich there are people living in high rise buildings several miles away from the beer gardens.
Come closing time they get the binoculars out and if they see lights on they call the police.
Not because they're disturbed (though they might be), but simply because they're bitter, resentful, evil people.
(Monumental Cliché of the day) Can't we all just get along? :cool:

Shapey Fiend

This forum is getting absolutely swamped with riff raff these days. I remember the time when I could sit on this forum sipping martinis without being bothered by commoners with usernames like "Fighting Irish". How absolutely horrid.

I'm in half a mind to extradite myself to the Clare Herald forum, except the name Herald has all sorts of working class connotations.

Run_to_da_hills

Shapey Fiend wrote: »

This forum is getting absolutely swamped with riff raff these days. I remember the time when I could sit on this forum sipping martinis without being bothered by commoners with usernames like "Fighting Irish". How absolutely horrid.

I'm in half a mind to extradite myself to the Clare Herald forum, except the name Herald has all sorts of working class connotations.

What???

Fighting Irish has been about 8 years according to his signiture, and you are about just 6 months unless you are a duplicate poster.

CiaranMT

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

What???

Fighting Irish has been about 8 years according to his signiture, and you are about just 6 months unless you are a duplicate poster.

He may just have been posting sarcastically.. Possibly..

Fighting Irish

CiaranMT wrote: »

He may just have been posting sarcastically.. Possibly..

I do that a lot, but in this thread, no

TequilaMockingBird

We had a local bloke shot dead in his Hi-Ace - so, naturally, his family decided it would be fitting to have a large marble sculpture of a Hi-Ace van on his grave. Complete with registration plate...

I know it makes me a bad person to snigger when I walk past it.

Shapey Fiend

You have to be making that up. I need a picture of this.

TequilaMockingBird

Shapey Fiend wrote: »

You have to be making that up. I need a picture of this.

http://www.sligoweekender.ie/news/story/?trs=cwsnmhidql

Best I can do.

maiden

Is this it?

http://phocus.photoshelter.com/image/I0000aKAVKDgs6Kw

http://phocus.photoshelter.com/image/I0000EW3FHzpeWsA

TequilaMockingBird

No, the one I've seen is in Sligo Cemetery. But OMG - there's two?!

:pac:

RocketFalls

This reminds me of one I saw a few years ago.
It was a statue depicting the amalgamation of the front end of a horse and the rear end of a motorcycle.
I **** ye not.

Anyway, that was probably the most metal grave marker I've ever had the [mis?]fortune to see.

igorbiscan

MAIDEN,show some respect,show some privacy,show some dignity, shame on you..these are real people here,families..respect the dead..

CiaranMT

Fighting Irish wrote: »

I do that a lot, but in this thread, no

I was actually referring to Shapey Fiend bud! I'm on your side.


That's the most original gravestone I've ever seen. Prefer cremation myself but if it had to be burial I'd have something outlandish like that.

maiden

''MAIDEN,show some respect,show some privacy,show some dignity, shame on you..these are real people here,families..respect the dead..''


Igor, these are photos that are on the net FFS (how is that private????), im sure whoever took them had permission!!!!

Of course these are real people, I harldly thought they were fake!!!