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Not appropriate? Like Knock on Wood for example, or Ashes to Ashes? ;) :D

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I'm sure I read something recently about them doing that in the US...can't find any links to any articles though.

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Anyone fancy this? ;)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/b...re/3389493.stm

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Fair enough. All the Irish people I know are ex-pats, so maybe it's an ex-pat thing.
I didn't mean to convey the impression they were all like that. I do realise that not not everyone drinks at wakes. I do think it's nice to celebrate the life of the deceased person rather than mourn their death though.

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The only tine I drink the stuff is at the Ireland Rugby International's in Dublin. Two pints a year is enough for me. Otherwise I :sick: , and the black poo the next day just is'nt right. :erm:

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Quite probably yeah

Sorry, wasn't inferring that you were, probably came out a bit wrong.

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11 grand for a bludy diamond, christ there's suckers for all sorts. :rolleyes:

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I felt sorry for them at my nan's funeral, she was a big lady and they struggled a bit.
They're gonna have the same problem with my dad who scarily is turning into his mother...

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Yes, lots of drinking goes on in Wales, just as it does in England, Scotland, NI, Eire, France, Germany and just about any other country! Enough with the stereotypes please and on with the subject in hand!!

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ermmm... didn't he say wakes not Wales...

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@ Mr_love_monkey: I did...

@ Russ: As I said earlier, I was actually making the point that some people like to celebrate the life of the recently deceased. And, for some people (regardless of nationality) drinking is part of that. I was not trying to convey the impression that any race was a bunch of raving alcoholics.

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Never mind I understood what you were saying. :tu:

We are all very suddenly getting very protective of our various countries are we not?

Personally I just want folk to remember me with kindness,joy,mercy,love and with their particular choice of drink,alcoholic or non alcoholic,and to have a good time at the same time. :tu: :D

It should be a paaaaaaarrrrtttyyy .

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If people didn't 'enjoy' themselves at my funeral, I'd come back and haunt them.....

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I've been 10 funerals in as many years - drowning your sorrows is a bloody goog idea IMO and experience. Poeple deal with grief in their own ways.... The idea of a funeral is to mourn a death, but also to celebrate a life . I ceratinly don't want people having a thoroughly miserable time at my funeral, and I wouldn't dream of dictating from beyond the grave whether they could have a tipple or not... :rolleyes:

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so you would deny a deceased person wish ? :rolleyes:

personally i would find it offensive, i didnt drink , i dont like alcohol and a funeral is no place to celebrate something, as you said people mourn in diffarent ways but i dont think getting drunk or having a 'tipple' is sensible in these circumstances....