So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

[tonyb]

The theater's presence is undoubtedly of real benefit to the town's commercial interests. Feet on the street, as they say. Please tell me that the shopkeepers and such in the vicinity are well aware of that.

 

[p51]

Seeing that clip, and the other one featuring you at the theater, I'm reminded of my peripheral acquaintance with the manager of the Blue Mouse in the Proctor District of Tacoma, Washington. The Blue Mouse, which has been there since 1923, is run as a for-profit business, although any proceeds above the cost of running the place is typically put back into the structure. For the owners and the workers, it truly is a labor of love.

I've driven past it several times (I love going to the Tacoma Trains hobby shop around the corner). Never seen a movie there, though.
Ever gone to the Fox Theater in Centralia? Really cool, my wife and I just watch Buster Keaton's, "The General" there last weekend with organist accompaniment! http://www.centraliafoxtheatre.com/

 

[Zombie_61]

...Heck, a co-worker told me of a family at a funeral recently where the kids were playing with loud tablets and the mother as on the phone, during the entire service! So glad that wasn't me, I'd have given them all the bum's rush for sure.

I'm not sure which is more disrepectful--your example, or the nitwits taking selfies at funerals in front of the casket. :doh:

 

[LizzieMaine]

I'm not sure which is more disrepectful--your example, or the nitwits taking selfies at funerals in front of the casket. :doh:

It could be a *lot* worse.

It was the thing in the late Victorian era to prop up the guest of honor before the funeral for one last loving embrace by the living.

 

[Zombie_61]

It could be a *lot* worse. It was the thing in the late Victorian era to prop up the guest of honor before the funeral for one last loving embrace by the living.

I have heard of that, and if I'm not mistaken it was an accepted practice at that time. But what these selfish, mouth-breathing, "I must photo document every moment of my life because I'm just that important to humanity" jerks are doing is not, as far as I know. This, of course, brings us back to your "Cult of the Individual" comment--they have no courtesy, consideration, or respect for anyone but themselves.

 

[ChiTownScion]

It could be a *lot* worse.

It was the thing in the late Victorian era to prop up the guest of honor before the funeral for one last loving embrace by the living.

Family legend regarding my great grandfather, born in County Cork and emigrated to Chicago: at the wake held at the house, the boys wanted to prop Martin up for "one last round" with them in the kitchen.

 

[tonyb]

Wow, and I thought photographing the dearly departed laid out in that satin-lined box was the pinnacle of tackiness.

Me, I don't care to gaze upon corpses, let alone pose for pictures with them. The only good thing to be said for viewing a body is that it is all the evidence I need that the person I knew is no more. His or her earthly vessel remains, but that is decidedly not a person. And to that end, I can do just fine without the undertaker's ministrations.

 

[Hercule]

Wow, and I thought photographing the dearly departed laid out in that satin-lined box was the pinnacle of tackiness.

It is a very long tradition in German culture to do just that. One may also find it in other European cultures and, indeed, in 19th century America.

 

[Edward]

There was a time it was done in Ireland too. I can see it being more desirable in those days where they would have a 'last picture taken on their phone from three weeks ago, or whatever. A lot of poor folks in that era lived and died without ever leaving their image on camera. Others might not have been in another known photo since their wedding photo.

 

[Edward]

Here's one for the "so trivial...." lisrt: value judgements being made by weather reports. I now get all my weather reports from an app on my field telephone. I can't abide watching weather on TV owing to the inane comments they keep making. I like cold and rain. I hate hot, Sunny weather. It rives me demented when some grinning twit says "Oh! Great, lovely weather coming up, a heat wave!", or makes out like nothing of value could possibly happen in the next week because there'll be a bit of rain....

 

[p51]

Wow, and I thought photographing the dearly departed laid out in that satin-lined box was the pinnacle of tackiness.

Me, I don't care to gaze upon corpses, let alone pose for pictures with them. The only good thing to be said for viewing a body is that it is all the evidence I need that the person I knew is no more. His or her earthly vessel remains, but that is decidedly not a person. And to that end, I can do just fine without the undertaker's ministrations.

Yeah, you said it best. I agree 100% with this. I had no idea it was ever a 'thing' to pose with dead people like that. And here I thought it was a horrible thing to force kids to 'go kiss grandpa goodbye' in the coffin. That's nothing compared to this.
Man, creeps me out just thinking about it.
I assume when someone died badly, there was always the question later on, "I don't see photos of you with the deceased. How'd he die?"

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

And here I thought it was a horrible thing to force kids to 'go kiss grandpa goodbye' in the coffin. That's nothing compared to this.
Man, creeps me out just thinking about it.

And they probably never had to kiss grandpa when he was alive so why start now???

 

[tonyb]

Edward's observation is a good one. In an age when photographs were much more costly and difficult to arrange than they are today, a lasting image of the loved one, even a post-mortem one, is better than no photo at all to remember him by. I suspect that death masks served a similar purpose for many.

 

[LizzieMaine]

When my uncle died, my grandmother was too sick to go to the funeral -- so she asked my mother to take a Polariod of him laid out in the casket, which she did. She still has that photo, tucked away in a drawer, and it's truly hideous. The undertaker had enough makeup on him for a chorus girl, and the Polaroid film accentuated it to where he looks like a puffy Joel-Grey-in-Cabaret. It's really a horrible photo, but my grandmother cherished it to her own dying day. Go figure.

 

[HudsonHawk]

So back to little things that annoy you...why can't anyone seem to cut a sandwich properly anymore? The point of cutting a sandwich in half is to make it easier to handle, easier to eat without spilling the sandwich guts all over the table, or worse, your shirt. To that end, sandwiches should be cut on the diagonal. This is not regional preference or some obscure "in the know" protocol. This is SOP and everyone should know this. Secondly, when you cut the sandwich, you are likely the only who will handle the sandwich and be in possession of a knife. Please cut it all the way through. To leave a corner or the bottom like some whacked bread piano hinge is simply unacceptable on any level.

 

[Hercule]

So back to little things that annoy you...why can't anyone seem to cut a sandwich properly anymore? The point of cutting a sandwich in half is to make it easier to handle, easier to eat without spilling the sandwich guts all over the table, or worse, your shirt. To that end, sandwiches should be cut on the diagonal. This is not regional preference or some obscure "in the know" protocol. This is SOP and everyone should know this. Secondly, when you cut the sandwich, you are likely the only who will handle the sandwich and be in possession of a knife. Please cut it all the way through. To leave a corner or the bottom like some whacked bread piano hinge is simply unacceptable on any level.

You obviously have never encountered my wife. She has strict protocols as to how sandwiches are cut. Grilled cheese are to be cut so as to have points (diagonal) where as BLTs (actually, she insist they be LTBs otherise they'll taste disgusting) are cut in half evenly, north and south. I have learned not to argue but to just tell her everything is on the counter, go make it yourself. All this from a woman who can, and I kid you not, pick out the blue M&Ms in a blindfolded taste test.

 

[2jakes]

Trivial...yet it ticks me off !


When asked for my options on how I prefer my hamburger,
I have to add the last one, otherwise...

the buns are out of the box & cold !


When someone makes a sandwich & proceeds to the cash register to handle the money .

 

[p51]

Speaking of burgers...
You go to a fast food place and they have on the menu:

• A hambuger
• A cheeseburger

You order the former and you'll often wind up with the latter. If they want to put freaking cheese on everything, just tell us. I order a hamburger and I always have to make sure they didn't put cheese on the thing. Isn't that why they have two types on the menu?

To that end, sandwiches should be cut on the diagonal. This is not regional preference or some obscure "in the know" protocol. This is SOP and everyone should know this.

SOP to you, maybe, but every sandwich where I grew up was cut down the centerline that I ever saw. I didn't even see a diagonal cut one until I was in my 20s, on the other side of the country.
No slam on you, but it always cracks me up when any one person's opinion, on anything, is voiced as "THE" way to do or think something...

 

[tonyb]

...

No slam on you, but it always cracks me up when any one person's opinion, on anything, is voiced as "THE" way to do or think something...

We get a lot of that around here. But it's mostly in jest. Or so I hope.

 

[Fading Fast]

and more of the trivial: this new internet advertising nonsense of having an ad push the text down a second or two after you land on a page, so that, to continue reading, you have to scroll, to, then, a few seconds later have the ad and text move back up so that, once again, you now have to scroll up to continuing reading is crazy. It, one, makes me angry at the site (is that really a good long-term strategy) and, two, I feel like I'm playing a silly distorted game of hopscotch with the website. The WSJ and NYT and a few others have taken to this new torture for its paying (and, since some portions are free, non-paying, but eyeball providing) readers.

And HH, yes, please cut the sandwich all the way through - Cosi is a constant violator of this simple rule.