myrmepropagandistManufacturing weapons for sale should be a taboo profession like undertaker or executioner. You should have to paint your door black or something and your daughters can't get married IDK. SOMETHING
quangobaudUndertaker? Taboo? 🤔
My uncle was an undertaker and there are a whole host of things that come with that job. In some ways it's very respected, but he also had to stay in on New Year's day since so many people thought having him come to your house on the first was "bad luck" ... my mom would let him come over and he told me about all of the other things that come with the job.
Though, now it's all nationalized funeral home franchises. Not like you'll know your undertaker. Kind of sad, really.
Queen of AnxietyI have a cousin who is a mortician. It's something of a family business, though he moved and is working for a different place now. I think less nationalized, but I could be wrong. It was nice having him take care of my dad's funeral, as messy as my dad was when alive.
Maybe because of it being kind of in the family, I never thought it too weird.
@futurebird @miguelpergamon We didn't have any New Years superstitions. I always feel mildly jealous reading about other people who did things differently on New Years. Now all we do is follow the Swedish tradition of watching Ivanhoe and eating pizza. Sam Neill loses every time, but maybe 2027 will be the year Brian Gilbert beats Ivanhoe. :)