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Re: Selfies at funerals
« Reply #50 on: 01 Nov 2013, 04:54 »
I don't know about the US, but Norse style cremation is illegal in Norway, ironically enough.
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« Reply #51 on: 01 Nov 2013, 05:00 »
Probably because it's a pagan ritual. Is Norway as srs bsnz about their Chrisitianity as the Swedes?
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« Reply #52 on: 01 Nov 2013, 05:04 »
Well we recently got rid of our state church, how that was even a thing for so long still baffles me. Sweden got rid of their about 10ish years before Norway though. I don't think they're that crazy about it really, of course some very loud people are, but they're not the majority. There's even a community somewhere that practices old Norse traditions, I think they might be allowed to have those type of funerals, but don't quote me on that.
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Re: Selfies at funerals
« Reply #53 on: 01 Nov 2013, 05:07 »
According to Valdis the Swedish royal family still has to be Lutheren and apparently they only just changed the "every infant born here is baptised Lutheran... or else fuckers" rule.

Does the old traditions include pillaging England on the regular? Because I will start filling out immigration papers today if that's the case.
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« Reply #54 on: 01 Nov 2013, 05:16 »
Hahah, I don't think you get to pillage, unfortunately. It is true that the Royal family are lutheran, and many babies get baptised that way, but that's not a rule and I don't think it ever was. I know plenty of people who weren't baptised, I was because my family is lutheran, but everyone always stress that freedom of religion is important. I went to church one Christmas and they had invited all the muslims from the local mosque to see what Christmas was like and just be friendly, and then the muslims invited all the christians to their mosque at a later date, so even the church is trying to be respectful towards people outside of it.
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Re: Selfies at funerals
« Reply #55 on: 01 Nov 2013, 05:30 »
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It is true that the Royal family are lutheran, and many babies get baptised that way, but that's not a rule and I don't think it ever was.

Are you sure? Because here it's embarrassingly written into our constitution that any monarch who isn't Lutheran automatically abdicates the throne and that the Royal family must be raised into the "pure Lutheran faith".

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Re: Selfies at funerals
« Reply #56 on: 01 Nov 2013, 05:35 »
Oh, I meant babies in general, not royal babies. I have no idea if they have to be lutheran or not, but princess Martha-Louise believes in guardian angels and runs an 'angel school' where you can attend to get in touch with your personal guardian angel, which doesn't exactly go hand in hand with lutheran beliefs...
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Re: Selfies at funerals
« Reply #57 on: 11 Dec 2013, 19:05 »


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Re: Selfies at funerals
« Reply #58 on: 11 Dec 2013, 19:34 »
....you know, say what you will about Dubya, he didn't take a selfie at a world leader's funeral.

Also one of the other shots of this scene shows a facially expression from Michelle Obama that, if I was a secret service guy I'd be radioing my boss "Sir, if the first lady attacks the president, what's the protocol?"
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Re: Selfies at funerals
« Reply #59 on: 11 Dec 2013, 19:59 »
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....you know, say what you will about Dubya, he didn't take a selfie at a world leader's funeral.

About that...   :wink:
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Re: Selfies at funerals
« Reply #60 on: 11 Dec 2013, 20:07 »
That's not a selfie.
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Re: Selfies at funerals
« Reply #61 on: 11 Dec 2013, 20:27 »
What's the funeral for? Bono's career? But yeah, not a selfie.

Edit: Oh actually at the event. Err.. who invited Dubya? Isn't he ranching or something?
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Re: Selfies at funerals
« Reply #62 on: 11 Dec 2013, 21:00 »
South Africans seem to like their funerals rowdy, so I'll cut them a little slack.

Carter and Clinton were there too.  Bush Sr. is too frail to travel anymore.
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Re: Selfies at funerals
« Reply #63 on: 11 Dec 2013, 23:10 »
Quote from: GarandMarine on 11 Dec 2013, 19:34
....you know, say what you will about Dubya, he didn't take a selfie at a world leader's funeral.

Also one of the other shots of this scene shows a facially expression from Michelle Obama that, if I was a secret service guy I'd be radioing my boss "Sir, if the first lady attacks the president, what's the protocol?"

GM, you may have just listed Dubya's greatest acheivement.

Also, it has always been a law enforcement policy to avoid interference in domestics where possible. No secret service officer is ever going to risk shooting either the President or the First Lady and I don't reckon being the one on the front page manhandling either would factor in any career prospects so my vote falls firmly with separate them with a hose.
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Re: Selfies at funerals
« Reply #64 on: 12 Dec 2013, 00:02 »
Quote from: GarandMarine on 01 Nov 2013, 05:07
According to Valdis the Swedish royal family still has to be Lutheren and apparently they only just changed the "every infant born here is baptised Lutheran... or else fuckers" rule.

Does the old traditions include pillaging England on the regular? Because I will start filling out immigration papers today if that's the case.

You come pillage me whenever you like, baby.
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Re: Selfies at funerals
« Reply #65 on: 12 Dec 2013, 00:30 »
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It is true that the Royal family are lutheran, and many babies get baptised that way, but that's not a rule and I don't think it ever was.

Are you sure? Because here it's embarrassingly written into our constitution that any monarch who isn't Lutheran automatically abdicates the throne and that the Royal family must be raised into the "pure Lutheran faith".

It's the same here! We tried to write that out of the constitution some twenty years back, even had a big enough majority for it in the parliament, but the king went "try to do that and you can kiss your monarchy goodbye. Glhf with fucking presidential elections, noobs", so people decided to wait.


"Norse funerals" - if you're talking about what popular culture thinks is a norse funeral - putting someone on a raft and burning it - that never happened in the norse countries, and for good reason - the raft burns away before the body, so you get a decomposing corpse washing up on the shore.

I'm assuming GM is talking about a real norse funeral - get buried with your stuff and your ship in a hill. So digging you down with your gun collection and your... car, I guess? I mean, an aircraft carrier would be cool, but the real estate required...
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Re: Selfies at funerals
« Reply #66 on: 12 Dec 2013, 01:10 »
I thought the pyre funerals happened in Norse culures but were land based affairs, longboat and all and something about warriors who died away from home.

As you can probably tell, I'm not an authority on the subject.
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« Reply #67 on: 12 Dec 2013, 09:02 »
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