Spongebob squarepants Gravestones cause controversy

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I think they are a disgrace and shouldn't have been allowed in the first place.

There is too much 'commercialism' in the world today. A bit of respect for our departed loved ones should be the rule.
 
I can't see the problem myself :confused: any Victorian cemetery or Forest Lawn's would upset them as well I guess.
 
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conny said:
I think they are a disgrace and shouldn't have been allowed in the first place.

There is too much 'commercialism' in the world today. A bit of respect for our departed loved ones should be the rule.
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I take it you're alright with angels and other fictional stuff. What's wrong with spongebob if it makes the family happy?
 
Taste is a matter of consensus, and most people accept angels and religious icons as fairly sombre, traditional things to have in a graveyard. The spongebob things were ridiculous and garish and had no place there. The best of it was ... the deceased wast even a child she was a fully grown woman who served in the military. What were the parents and the artist thinking...if they want to remember her like that then do it in their own home or garden, not in a public graveyard where it will be seen by other people 99.9% of the time and her own family only the other 0.1% of the time.
 
cajar said:
Taste is a matter of consensus, and most people accept angels and religious icons as fairly sombre, traditional things to have in a graveyard.
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Certainly that is the case in this country, and Europe as far as I know.

Aren't these Spongebob things in America? If so, that would explain it. The words 'American' and 'subtle' never appear together.

Same with their humour. It all seems like slapstick to me (except for The Simpsons, of course).
 
sooey said:
Taste is a matter of consensus
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No, it isn't. Not everybody wants to conform, nor should they be made to. :rolleyes:
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a person's choice to conform has reached its limit when it starts to affect other people. sing loudly to music in a nightclub for example, but not on the tube. wear bright pink to college, but not to a funeral.
 
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cajar said:
Taste is a matter of consensus, and most people accept angels and religious icons as fairly sombre, traditional things to have in a graveyard.
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Certainly that is the case in this country, and Europe as far as I know.

Aren't these Spongebob things in America? If so, that would explain it. The words 'American' and 'subtle' never appear together.

Same with their humour. It all seems like slapstick to me (except for The Simpsons, of course).
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Granted, but even by their standards, the gravestones look shocking.
 
We can't have anything in a graveyard offending the living can we :rolleyes:
And yet you never hear the dead making a fuss about the garish headstones about them so I guess they don't give a damn.

All to often we hear that a few well chosen words, a pink headstone for a loved child. The partner left to morn a loved one wanting to continue to show their love with plants/flowers all being forced to change the words or remove their tributes because it has offended some some pompous prick or doesn't comply with the rules.

Ffs get a life and see a little joy in it just as you would the sun falling on a loved ones grave. The birds singing around you and maybe a rabbit waiting to nibble the flowers you have just left............................and while you're grouched tending the grave and telling them your news you get to tell them about the latest headstone :p
 
I wonder what God thinks of this.

Have you heard anything, Mike?
 
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