Giles ,'Lies My Parents Told Me'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
While I don't think you should worry about speaking ill of the dead, I'm not happy she's dead. It's just a thing. Her death doesn't change the world in any way for me. Hey, maybe alive and intermittently aware of her decay is an apter punishment than oblivion.
EXHAUSTED. I am blaming the wind, and the things it put in my eyes.
A delightfully random assortment of images for your Monday enjoyment: [link]
This is relevant to recent discussion. [link]
Coincidentally, was just reading this thing on Margaret Thatcher and the misapplication of death etiquette, which argues that not speaking ill of the dead is a fine rule when it comes to, say, not mouthing off to the friends and family of a private citizen -- but it's not relevant to criticizing the public works of public figures, and enforcing it is an active part of building up hagiography around the powerful.
I always took not speaking ill of the dead as showing kindness to the mourners.
Work got called off due to wind. Wind day!
Only we drove most of the way there first, and the drive was twice as bad on the way home. [link]
Not speaking ill of the dead has always seemed like one of those rules you only invoke when you are about to violate it - "not to speak ill of the dead, but...". But maybe that is from reading murder mysteries and not real life.
And the wind map is going crazy today too.