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Pert_UK (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-05-05 02:52 AM Original message |
"Mourners" photograph dead Pope with cellphone cameras...WTF? |
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rawtribe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-05-05 02:59 AM Response to Original message |
1. The nerve.. |
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murielm99 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-05-05 02:59 AM Response to Original message |
2. They should have disallowed cell phones in the basilica. |
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Sandpiper (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-05-05 02:59 AM Response to Original message |
3. The whole thing seems so ghoulish |
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Skittles (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-05-05 03:01 AM Response to Original message |
4. I think parading his corpse around is ghoulish and in bad taste |
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Cooley Hurd (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-05-05 07:27 AM Response to Reply #4 |
16. I remember 1978... |
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Skittles (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-05-05 07:37 PM Response to Reply #16 |
23. I am lucky enough to never have been forced to do that as a child |
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moggie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-05-05 08:06 AM Response to Reply #4 |
18. Need to show people he's still dead |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-05-05 03:56 AM Response to Original message |
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Cuban_Liberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-05-05 04:33 AM Response to Reply #5 |
6. Nice broad-brush smear. |
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ET Awful (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-05-05 05:18 AM Response to Original message |
7. Well, when they televise his corpse, put pictures of it on the front page |
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B Calm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-05-05 05:32 AM Response to Original message |
8. I don't know, but I think it's a Kansas thing. We have relatives |
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Cooley Hurd (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-05-05 07:28 AM Response to Reply #8 |
17. My uncle did that at my mom's funeral... |
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tanyev (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-05-05 08:10 AM Response to Reply #8 |
19. Yep, Iowa, too. |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-05-05 05:36 AM Response to Original message |
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RPM (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-05-05 06:03 AM Response to Reply #9 |
10. as if he wasnt photographed in life.... |
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LostinVA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-05-05 07:15 AM Response to Reply #9 |
15. Agreed. Possible cultural differences, too |
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Mojorabbit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-07-05 02:23 AM Response to Reply #15 |
44. One side of my family is Portuguese |
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mrbill (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-05-05 06:20 AM Response to Original message |
11. the catholic church is very liberal about photography...... |
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Gin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-05-05 06:35 AM Response to Reply #11 |
12. there was a professional photographer taking picures of the body |
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mrbill (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-05-05 06:58 AM Response to Reply #12 |
13. in this case it seems the norm....... |
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Media_Lies_Daily (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-05-05 07:09 AM Response to Original message |
14. But it's okay to televise his dead body worldwide??? |
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wicket (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-05-05 08:12 AM Response to Original message |
20. It used to be a tradition to photograph dead bodies |
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LizW (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-05-05 08:46 AM Response to Reply #20 |
21. Yes, it's a cultural thing |
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woodsprite (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-05-05 09:43 PM Response to Reply #20 |
31. Now we just watch CSPAN. n/t |
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alcuno (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-05-05 08:48 AM Response to Original message |
22. So you probably wouldn't like our tradition of tapping a keg outside |
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ohio_liberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-05-05 07:45 PM Response to Reply #22 |
25. I like your tradition |
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aeolian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-05-05 07:39 PM Response to Original message |
24. Mourners photograph Pres. McKinley with cameras. |
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Redstone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-05-05 07:46 PM Response to Original message |
26. So fucking what. |
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Pert_UK (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-06-05 03:55 PM Response to Reply #26 |
42. What a stupid argument...... |
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LeftyMom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-05-05 07:50 PM Response to Original message |
27. Open casket funerals are creepy |
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CornField (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-05-05 07:58 PM Response to Original message |
28. As long as they don't run and try to pose with the body |
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tammywammy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-05-05 08:21 PM Response to Original message |
29. An uncle took photos of my grandma at her funeral |
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QC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-05-05 09:40 PM Response to Original message |
30. Not everyone is as squeamish about death as middle-class white Americans. |
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RedCappedBandit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-05-05 09:45 PM Response to Original message |
32. Am I the only one? |
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QC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-05-05 09:59 PM Response to Reply #32 |
35. Must have been some other dead guy, |
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xultar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-05-05 09:58 PM Response to Original message |
33. So now we'are against Cellphone cameras? WTF??? n/t |
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xultar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-05-05 09:58 PM Response to Original message |
34. I suppose you didn't know the Vatican announced the death via SMS |
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Mabel Dodge (180 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-05-05 10:02 PM Response to Original message |
36. I agree with QC |
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jdj (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-05-05 10:03 PM Response to Original message |
37. I guess next the pope sex video will come out... |
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nini (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-05-05 10:05 PM Response to Original message |
38. This isn't so unusual in other cultures |
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Liberal In Texas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-05-05 10:07 PM Response to Original message |
39. Cell phone camera or Pentax....what's the difference? |
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ohio_liberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-05-05 10:07 PM Response to Original message |
40. It's not disrespectful |
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deadparrot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-05-05 10:10 PM Response to Original message |
41. The whole "dead body on show" thing creeps my grandmother out to no end. |
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Pert_UK (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-07-05 02:19 AM Response to Original message |
43. OK - here are some further points for people who just don't get it. |
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Pert_UK (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-07-05 08:07 AM Response to Original message |
45. BBC article on this very same subject: |
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