If you have to run your mouth through an entire church service,

[Mr Hero]

Our ward music director would ask "Who had a good breakfast this morning?"
... hands rise ... "It's Fast Sunday."

"How many of you are converts?"
... hands rise ... "When are the rest of you joining?"

Way off topic, but reminds me of a story from when I was in college. One Sunday, the person giving the lesson asked who all in the room were converts. Thinking it was a trick question, I raised my hand.

He asked me when I got baptized. My answer? When I was eight (standard age to be baptized where I go to church)

[greensinestro]

I've been to a couple of funerals where people talked through everything, right down to the moment of silence to honor the dead. Rude rude rude!!!

[Racket_Man]

I've been to a couple of funerals where people talked through everything, right down to the moment of silence to honor the dead. Rude rude rude!!!

Just be glad they did not open a beer during the service (from one of the Blue Collar tours encore section).

[Aislin]

I'm sorry, I'm a bitch. I told someone off at a funeral the other day. I told her that we were all trying to hear the eulogy and could she shut up a minute. Of course some people were offended I spoke up.

[Ironclad Alibi]

I'm sorry, I'm a bitch. I told someone off at a funeral the other day. I told her that we were all trying to hear the eulogy and could she shut up a minute. Of course some people were offended I spoke up.

No doubt the people you told to shut up.

[jedimaster91]

Our ward music director would ask "Who had a good breakfast this morning?"
... hands rise ... "It's Fast Sunday."

"How many of you are converts?"
... hands rise ... "When are the rest of you joining?"

*snerk*

I hate Fast Sunday. It doesn't go very fast.


I too have my scriptures and teaching manuals on my phone. Much easier to carry around than my giant-print-for people-who-can't-see book. And at least when I'm playing Bejeweled during the kids' Sharing Time lesson (I teach in Primary and someone else teaches that class. I'm just there to keep them from ricocheting off the walls....) the sound is off.

[fireheart]

Try having a hurdy-gurdy playing during an Aboriginal smoking ceremony. Yeah....the hurdy-gurdy group weren't invited back for the following year's medieval fair.

(the "smoking ceremony" is not as it sounds. Basically a bundle of herbs and other items are placed inside a portion of tree bark, ignited, then blown out to produce smoke. The smoke is then trailed over the "leader" and then in all four cardinal directions. The reasons for it vary depending on the tribe that's doing it...I've heard everything from warding off evil, cleansing the area to inviting our ancestors (both "whitefella" and Aboriginal))

[Casino Jockey]

Try having a hurdy-gurdy playing during an Aboriginal smoking ceremony. Yeah....the hurdy-gurdy group weren't invited back for the following year's medieval fair.

thats just.. WOW..
i just underwent a bit of cultural training for my childcare course and we did alot of work on the Aboriginals and there culture and customs..

thats just downright rude

[Shalom]

At the synagogue I attend when I'm visiting the inlaws, there's a poster on the door to the sanctuary, with the message "For better communication with G_d - - Turn off your cell phone!"

(You'll still see some people gazing at their phones during the weekday services, but that's because they have the Siddur (Jewish prayer book) as an app on their smartphones. Me, I prefer to hold the real thing. On the Sabbath you can't use a phone anyway.)

One of the things I really like about the town I live in, is that it's the first place I've lived where, no matter which synagogue I attend, NOBODY talks during services. That just drove me nuts when I was younger. It's dead silent during the sermon, but when we're reading from the Torah, there's fifty conversations going on. What, you'll listen to the words of the Rabbi and disrespect the words of G_d? What kinda business is that?

"How many of you are converts?"
... hands rise ... "When are the rest of you joining?"

I heard something similar once.

Background on Jewish culture: The Hebrew word "Teshuva", literally "return", is the general term for repentance. If someone has sinned and repents his sin(s), the informal term is "doing Teshuva".

The term "Baal Teshuva", literally "one who has returned", is generally used to refer to someone who was once not Orthodox and has since become so, taking on Sabbath observance, eating Kosher, etc. Many Baalei Teshuva are more meticulous about their religious practices than even those who have been observant from birth.

So one time, a cousin of mine was asked by one of his Rabbis. "So tell me, are you a Baal Teshuva?"

He, having been observant all his life, and assuming he was being asked if he'd ever been irreligious, somewhat indignantly replied "Of course not!"

The Rabbi raised an eyebrow and asked gently. "So ... why not?"

(postscriptum: said cousin is now a Rabbi himself...)

[Jay 2K Winger]

Just be glad they did not open a beer during the service (from one of the Blue Collar tours encore section).

It wasn't just during a church service, it was during a eulogy.

Foxworthy: "I'm just gonna guess this: one of your relatives."
Engvall: "My Uncle Jack. We weren't even outside, we were in the church! The priest finishes talking, and we hear this pf'chk! And there's Jack with a can of Coors, and he just goes 'What?'"

[blas]

I'm not surprised.

You can't even go to a movie anymore without a bunch of noodleheaded morons talking well into the movie, if not the entire thing, or giggling or playing on their cell phones.

I'm pretty sure there are lots of tweets and updates during funerals and services.

Some people are just...retarded as to how to behave in public.

[fireheart]

thats just.. WOW..
i just underwent a bit of cultural training for my childcare course and we did alot of work on the Aboriginals and there culture and customs..

thats just downright rude

No shit. I was actually more amazed that said group weren't mobbed by the ENTIRE cohort of "entertainers" for the weekend. (there were about 5 groups there who were arena "performers" each with about 4-12 fighters PER GROUP)

I've gotten used to the Aboriginal welcome used at the start of most formal events. I remember for my sister's Year 10 "graduation" there were two boys on stage. One of them proceeded to give the entire welcome for my area's people...as a rap. In the language of said people. Then the other boy said the English translation more slowly and less "rappy".

On that note, there's actually a show which teaches the kids some ATSI words for different groups, it's featured on ABC's educational hour called "letter box" I believe. They start the show with the "informal" welcome for the group where the show is filmed and then have a few segments involving different Aboriginal words. (ATSI=Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander)

[Kogarashi]

I do take my phone to church with me because it's my replacement watch and I occasionally have need of the camera on it. Plus church is 3 hours (not counting choir practice and any after-church things I or my husband need to take care of). Of course, my phone goes on vibrate before I leave the house, and frequently doesn't get turned back on until late evening when I realize it's still in my Sunday bag, at which point I've invariably missed a call or two from family that afternoon. Oops.

I think what I dislike more than hearing a phone go off during church, though, is hearing it going off for a long time because whoever owns it either hasn't realized that's their ringtone or because they're too embarrassed to admit it's their phone by getting it out and silencing it. Or they can't find where it's hiding for some reason. I've gotten so used to responding immediately to my ringtone that when I hear it on someone else's phone (as an alarm sound, for instance), I immediately react.

Our ward music director would ask "Who had a good breakfast this morning?"
... hands rise ... "It's Fast Sunday."

"How many of you are converts?"
... hands rise ... "When are the rest of you joining?"

*giggling*

I too have my scriptures and teaching manuals on my phone. Much easier to carry around than my giant-print-for people-who-can't-see book. And at least when I'm playing Bejeweled during the kids' Sharing Time lesson (I teach in Primary and someone else teaches that class. I'm just there to keep them from ricocheting off the walls....) the sound is off.

Lucky. When I was a Primary teacher I was too busy keeping my charges from yanking on each other's hair or turning around to talk to the kids in the row behind us. Of course, now I'm in the nursery (18 months to 3 years old, for those curious), so I'm even more of a kid-wrangler than before....

[Mr Hero]

I remember something embarrassing that happened one time during church. I had my alarm set for 11:30 because where I attend meetings at 1. Well, I had found out the day before that none of my usual rides were going to make it, so I went with my brother's parents in law that meet for church at 11:00. I forgot to turn off the alarm. So of course when the bread and water (we use water in our church, not wine) and everyone is quiet, my alarm blares off. I panicked and then ran out of the meeting into the lobby and turned off my alarm there.

I was quite embarrassed and was glad I was just a visitor there. Though thanks to some boundary changes I'm actually part of that ward. (I got automatically released as a primary teacher in the old ward. Sad day)

[Kogarashi]

So of course when the bread and water (we use water in our church, not wine) and everyone is quiet, my alarm blares off.

The embarrassing stuff always seems to happen during the quietest part of the meeting, no?