GabrielBell12fi

No -- that would be if they tried to tempt you to be buried in a sarcophagus

They were scared Covid19 would mutate into a zombie virus and people would leap out of the caskets and start eating the mourners' brains?

So since the last time I was here, this has pretty much been stuck in my head, so I thought I would share it with you. (Sorry)

Into the ground you have to go
The afterlife awaits you know
Into the fire you have to go
To end your earthly journey

If the box is shaped and
the lid comes off
then around a coffin
your relatives sough

But a rectangular box
with a long hinged lid -
Do you really have to ask it?
You are lying in a casket

Into the flames we have to go,
The afterlife is calling so,
Into the flames we have to go,
To send us on our journey

Into the ground we also go,
Six foot down, way down below,
Into the ground we have to go,
we are buried for our journey.

(I am aware I am going to hell)

I'd want the casket hinged at the top, so I can do the vampire thing of raising up by my feet.

Yeah -- that made me laugh way too loud.

I learned about this from "Scorpion". A man named Doctor Toby Curtis is trying to help his ex-wife get her stolen identity back, and through a series of unfortunate events she and Toby end up stuck in a casket by the man who stole her identity, then the follow conversation ensues :-

Toby : I just keep messing your life up

Amy : No, you were just trying to help. I'm the one who got you trapped in a coffin.

Toby : This is a casket. Coffins are tapered at the top and bottom.

Amy : Really? This is the last conversation you want to have? Correcting someone's word choice?

And since then I have ALWAYS remembered it. Because -- you know -- it's something that sticks with you.

(Did I mention I am a fun of dark humour?)

Is it just me, or does the kid playing Harry not have green eyes?

https://www.tumblr.com/gabebell12fi/784906449407131648/when-you-write-fanfiction-there-are-no

I thought about it.

This post (if you can see it, and if you can't I will post a summary in a further reply -- still not sure how tumblr handles this sort of thing so I do apologise in advance) was triggered by something that happened when I signed up to a different social media site.

Two days after I joined, I posted an adapted quote from Harry Potter, and was told that it was against the "implicit rules" of the site. I made it clear I wasn't supporting the author, but that I had no desire to stop talking about Harry Potter.

I was told that it was going to be made an explicit rule, so I asked if I could delete my account, at which point I was banned and my account was deleted. Because I wanted to quote, write about and discuss Harry Potter in a positive manner. Not the author -- I made that perfectly clear -- just the world

I am all for boycotting the author. No merch, no books, no streaming, no cinema trips.

But activities that can't possibly increase her wealth and bring people joy? Not to mention spread messages of equality, tolerance, freedom and such?

Yeah, that I don't understand. And am never going to understand.

Well isn't that going to put the kneazle amongst the hippogriffs.

Turpsicorian.

I learned that from Cats. (Hence I may not have spelt it correctly).

You'd think it would produce sleet.

Kind of not connected but on the same topic :-

I was totally surprised when I realised my boss didn't know there was Nazis in The Sound of Music.

I mean -- who doesn't know there are Nazis in The Sound of Music? That's like something EVERYONE knows? How is there someone who doesn't know that?

But no -- he was genuinely surprised when the Nazis arrived.