• nyahlathotep@sh.itjust.works
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    10 days ago

    My Grandpa and I are driving. We pass a cemetery. He nudges my leg, points to the cemetery, and says “Y’know, people’re dying to get in there.”

    Same joke, every single time.

    I miss my Grandpa

  • Volkditty@lemmy.world
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    10 days ago

    My old home town’s cemetery is in the shadow the soybean processing plant.

    There is an odor.

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    10 days ago

    maybe an unpopular opinion: fuck capitalism and corporate greed and all that, yes, but would you rather that space be used for a cemetary or housing? I don’t mind my bones being put somewhere with a shit view if it means living people don’t have to see that shit.

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldOP
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      9 days ago

      Living people still have to see it. The only reason I saw it was that we drove by it on the main road through town, which is also a highway.

      They also have to see the factory and the many, many oil wells in the county. Businesses have oil wells in their parking lots. One very expensive-looking house had an oil well in its front yard.

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    It’s just smart planning. If you build the oil processing place where you bury dead people after a long enough amount of time you’ll have oil you can get right there!

    • Ms. ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.ml
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      I swear I’d claw them to death if they tried. I’m early in recovery from major surgery, today I walked to an ice cream place to get a shake. It was like 4 blocks, took everything I had in me. I’m dragging this milkshake with me to my grave that long strawed bastard can go ahead and test which of us is crazier right now