WTF Sh*t's F*cked Up and Bullsh*t - a "Who Cares" thread for news

[Innula Zenovka]

This was done when I was a kid in Canada, I remember kind of hating the smell of roses and jasmine because that's what they used to disguise the smell of the body during the wake which often lasted two or three days. The body would be in a box or coffin at the house and everyone would come over and pay their respects. After the wake, a funeral director would pick them up and cart them off to the graveyard with all the family members following. Everyone would meet at the graveyard where the priest would bless them, give a eulogy and they would be buried. I have pictures that my family took of the dead family members during the wake. I guess that was a thing then.

It looks like this is still being done: Having a funeral at home, not at a funeral home

I don't think I'd want a home funeral or wake but the idea of a green burial does appeal to me. Also when my step Dad died I kept some of his ashes in a locket that the funeral home gave me. I'm not sure that's all that different than keeping a tattoo?

Holding a wake at home certainly used to be the tradition in parts of Ireland, Wales and the north of England, too.

How about this, though?

 

[Rose Karuna]

Holding a wake at home certainly used to be the tradition in parts of Ireland, Wales and the north of England, too.

How about this, though?

The skull thing is, well, and I don't think I'd personally want something like that in my house.

OTOH the idea of having my body burned and turned into a diamond or gemstone is kind of appealing.

 

[Grey Mars]

Holding a wake at home certainly used to be the tradition in parts of Ireland, Wales and the north of England, too.

How about this, though?

...well, NOW I want a weird burial.

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

Donate your body to one of those places that lets them rot in the woods to study how bodies decay for forensic science.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

I think I already explained my last wishes once, on either pre-VVO or maybe even SC. They were very simple.

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

When I go, I want to be cremated. But before I go, I want to eat an entire bag of unpopped popcorn.

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

Senator: Dems back reparations for those who 'do the crime'

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville asserted that Democrats support reparations for the descendants of enslaved people because “they think the people that do the crime are owed that.”

apnews.com

I'm actually kinda speechless!

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

lol wth?

Sleepover ends in hours-long police standoff in Tuscaloosa; 2 boys rescued, woman jailed

Two residents who live in the complex told officers they had allowed their children – two boys ages 9 and 10 - to stay overnight with a neighbor, who was now refusing to allow the children out of the apartment, said police spokeswoman Stephanie Taylor.

www.al.com

Dasha Sharnell Bishop, 23, refused to come to the door for the parents and for the officers who first responded.

Bishop, who had remained barricaded in a back bedroom with the children, was transported to the Tuscaloosa County Jail and charged with felony interference with custody.

See this is why you never offer to fix an adult's computer, it just makes them dependent!

Seriously though lol, I don't get this AT ALL. I did a bunch of sleepovers, and from what I remember especially at that age the parents usually couldn't wait to get us out of their house. "Are your parents here yet?" "You told them ten o'clock, right?" "You can wait for them outside if you want..."

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

See this is why you never offer to fix an adult's computer, it just makes them dependent!

 

[Free]

KCPD Said Missing Black Women Reports In KC Were "Completely Unfounded." Less Than A Month Later, One Escaped After Being Kidnapped From Prospect & Tortured in a Basement For Over A Month – The Kansas City Defender

The horrifically tragic events explicitly disprove KCPD’s earlier statement that reports of missing Black women in KC are “completely unfounded” rumors.

kansascitydefender.com

A horrible story, but the key bits that damn police just about everywhere in the U.S.:

In mid-to-late September, The Kansas City Defender published a video of Bishop Tony Caldwell, a local Kansas City community leader who was one of many in the Black Kansas City community who made reports of numerous murdered and missing Black women. In the video, Bishop Caldwell specifically identified that the women who were missing were being taken from an area on Prospect Avenue in Kansas City.

The Kansas City Police Department made a statement addressing the community testimonies and called them “completely unfounded rumors,” dismissing the concerns. Local news outlets followed suit, in essence, silencing any ongoing community voices which maintained concern of the missing Black women.

 

[Jolene Benoir]

This one, too. A young girl disappeared after going to the bathroom at a Mavericks game. The police at the event told the father to contact his local police dept who then told him to contact the Dallas police since that is where it occurred, passing the buck. They did enter her name into a national missing persons database. She was later found by an anti-trafficking organization who used facial recognition to identify her online. She was being held in a hotel room in Oklahoma City, being sold for sex. Eight people were charged.

Texas Teen Goes to Bathroom at NBA Game, Is Found 10 Days Later Sold for Sex in Oklahoma Hotel

On April 8, a 15-year-old girl went to an NBA game with her dad. It was 10 days before he saw his daughter again. The teenager from North Richland Hills, Texas, was at a Dallas Mavericks game with her father at the American Airlines Center in Dallas when she went to the bathroom right before...

www1.cbn.com

 

[Innula Zenovka]

 

[Erich Templar]

Well, of course. We have to get our cars parked correctly, so that we can then go and queue for the sex.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

Oh beautiful, for spacious skies, for amber waves of grain....

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

But also,

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

 

[Free]

Lara Logan's mind has definitely become derailed.



Amazingly, that was too much for Newsmax.

 

[Soen Eber]

Lara Logan's mind has definitely become derailed.



Amazingly, that was too much for Newsmax.

So now NewsMax is part of the conspiracy

(pushes a pin into his board and ties a thread, connecting it to another pin holding a picture of Hillary Clinton while shouting and cackling "THE TRUTH IS OUT THERE!!")

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

You have GOT to be kidding me

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

In America, we will literally throw food in the garbage right in front of a child who hasn't eaten before we'll let him have any food for free.