07 Jun 2020, 12:08 pm
BenderRodriguez wrote:
Maybe they should ask the Irish if they find inscriptions in English in their own country to be "triggering" and political 
can ya imagine, we would always be on google translate if there was only Irish inscriptions.Its poking fun of course, but quite accurate in its own way:
07 Jun 2020, 12:26 pm
WTF? You, Bender, have something against the town of Coventry?
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Anyway...okay so its in the heart of England, and not where the tensions are in Ulster.
So that means that the tombstone is like...
the Kingsmen's version of the song "Louie Louie"!
Nobody can understand the words...so...it MUST be concealing something DIRTY! So we HAVE to ban it from the airways!
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07 Jun 2020, 1:02 pm
Karamazov wrote:
vermontsavant wrote:
Karamazov wrote:
vermontsavant wrote:
I have not heard of suppressing what is said on a grave stone,what country did this,what jurisdiction did this?I have never heard of a gravestone being censored. 
It’s in the UK: Coventry area (about two and a bit hours drive from where I am).
The jurisdiction in question is the Church if England/diocese of Coventry. The church has very little legal power nowadays, but the erection of buildings and monuments on land it owns is subject to church courts rather than state courts.
You don't see this in the US ,cemetery's are private owned.
Ah, interesting: didn’t know that.
In the UK there are burial grounds owned by the established church, burial grounds owned by non-established churches (and by synagogues, maybe other religions have their own too, but I’ve never seen them), burial grounds owned by the state (local councils not central government), and burial grounds owned by private businesses.
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07 Jun 2020, 4:37 pm
Church of England say this is not a national policy (I think they are 
). I think they will need to do more than just say that though.
07 Jun 2020, 4:53 pm
BenderRodriguez wrote:
naturalplastic wrote:
WTF? You, Bender, have something against the town of Coventry?
What exactly is the problem? Coventry is a fairly famous location historically speaking and yes, I was shocked by its current state - that was about 10 years ago.
I have nothing against the place itself or its inhabitants but didn't expect to find so much filth, poverty, vandalism and violence there.
When was the last time you visited?
Sending the whole town of Coventry to...Coventry?
It just seemed like a nonsequitar to the thread topic.
But I guess I might be taken aback too if I expected to see a grand historical city, and saw a tawdry slum instead. Am an American so it not on my radar screen think about Coventry. I know that there is cathedral, something called "Coventry gardens", and that the whole city got pulverized by the Luftwaffe in WWII.
07 Jun 2020, 4:59 pm
fluffysaurus wrote:
Dara's right, absolutely idiotic.
If the family are big in the Irish community in Coventry and this is a CofE church then it's prob a church with a large number of protestant Irish families, is it possible the decision was made with them in mind. That makes more sense than the wider English community who as Karamazov pointed out wouldn't recognise it as Irish and wouldn't care if they did.
Coventry was bound to be ugly, we've been sending everyone we don't want to talk to there for decades..
If the family are big in the Irish community in Coventry and this is a CofE church then it's prob a church with a large number of protestant Irish families, is it possible the decision was made with them in mind. That makes more sense than the wider English community who as Karamazov pointed out wouldn't recognise it as Irish and wouldn't care if they did.
Coventry was bound to be ugly, we've been sending everyone we don't want to talk to there for decades..
What's up with that? When you ostracize folks, why do you Brits call it "sending them to Coventry" of all places?
07 Jun 2020, 5:30 pm
^ We don’t really know!
It’s first recorded in writing during the civil wars of the C17th, could be connected to a couple of events during that period, or be older 
fluffysaurus wrote:
Church of England say this is not a national policy (I think they are ). I think they will need to do more than just say that though.
). I think they will need to do more than just say that though.I think that would mean leaning on the chancellor of the consistory court to grant permission to appeal to the court of arches.
07 Jun 2020, 8:45 pm
vermontsavant wrote:
I have not heard of suppressing what is said on a grave stone,what country did this,what jurisdiction did this?I have never heard of a gravestone being censored.
Well,
I've inquired if I could have the following inscription on my headstone when I go:
"Thank god that is over with!"
But they wouldn't allow it.
Errr,
Joke.
07 Jun 2020, 8:54 pm
cyberdad wrote:
Also love the Irish sense of humour- this is an Irish car bomb - Guinness followed by an Irish cream and whiskey
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Perhaps the rest of us could learn a "ting or two"
Perhaps the rest of us could learn a "ting or two"
It's not a Guinness followed by Irish cream , you have to drop the shot glass into the Guinness and drink as one , it's a.k.a an elephant orgasm
07 Jun 2020, 9:01 pm
TuskenR wrote:
cyberdad wrote:
Also love the Irish sense of humour- this is an Irish car bomb - Guinness followed by an Irish cream and whiskey
Perhaps the rest of us could learn a "ting or two"
Perhaps the rest of us could learn a "ting or two"
It's not a Guinness followed by Irish cream , you have to drop the shot glass into the Guinness and drink as one , it's a.k.a an elephant orgasm
Good grief! my admiration for the Irish just increased
