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Nice Planet 18: Welcome To Our Planet. Sorry It's So Messed Up.

St. Clown said:
That’s what their infant said.

How can somebody do that? I flatly do not understand. After having a baby girl, she became my life. How can somebody forget to take care of their baby like that? It boggles my mind.
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There's a reason carmaker started to make this alert a standard feature:

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St. Clown said:
That’s what their infant said.

How can somebody do that? I flatly do not understand. After having a baby girl, she became my life. How can somebody forget to take care of their baby like that? It boggles my mind.
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Ever have a change in routine in your commute that you miss because your mind goes on autopilot? Like "Oh I was supposed to pick up the dry cleaning on the way home. Oops. Guess I'll grab it tomorrow." That's how it happens in 99% of these cases, sleep-deprived parents change their routine, normally by having the "other" parent on drop off duty for the day for some reason and their brains just skip over the change and forget about it until it's too late. There was an article a few years back (I'm thinking 7 or so, since I think my wife was still pregnant when I read it and it freaked me out thinking about it from a "there but for the grace of God go I" perspective) about the different treatment by the criminal justice system of parents that this happened to. Race played some role, but more often it was down to whether the local prosecutor was a tough on crime zealot or not.

Having said all that, at 11 months and while the parents were both at church together? Doesn't fit the normal pattern.
 
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dxmnkd316 said:
Catholics, for one.
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Born and raised Catholic and attended mass every Sunday through high school. Longest mass I was ever in was a little over an hour. Maybe an hour and 20. The only services I have ever heard going that long are pentecostal or some evangelical types.
 
dxmnkd316 said:
Catholics, for one.
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Only for major holidays, or what was known prior to Vatican II as a "High" Mass. There is traditionally more pomp and circumstance, but in the modern era this amounts to an occasional incense ceremony, and some priests will take the extra time to sing all the spoken parts during the Liturgy of the Eucharist.

Otherwise, a typical Sunday Mass in "Ordinary Time" is about one hour.
 
dxmnkd316 said:
Catholics, for one.
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... hi. Born and raised Catholic. Even going to midnight mass on Easter I was never there longer than 2 hours. Traditional Sunday mass is an hour to 75 minutes tops. Daily mass should never be over 45.

And if you go to St Mary Magdalene's in downtown Omaha, daily mass is 15 minutes and Sunday is 35. Even Palm Sunday with the reading of the passion will be done in 45, there.
 
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FadeToBlack&Gold said:
Only for major holidays, or what was known prior to Vatican II as a "High" Mass. There is traditionally more pomp and circumstance, but in the modern era this amounts to an occasional incense ceremony, and some priests will take the extra time to sing all the spoken parts during the Liturgy of the Eucharist.

Otherwise, a typical Sunday Mass in "Ordinary Time" is about one hour.
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I sat through a 3-hour Easter mass once (Easter vigil?). It both sucked and blew.
 
unofan said:
Ever have a change in routine in your commute that you miss because your mind goes on autopilot? Like "Oh I was supposed to pick up the dry cleaning on the way home. Oops. Guess I'll grab it tomorrow." That's how it happens in 99% of these cases, sleep-deprived parents change their routine, normally by having the "other" parent on drop off duty for the day for some reason and their brains just skip over the change and forget about it until it's too late. There was an article a few years back (I'm thinking 7 or so, since I think my wife was still pregnant when I read it and it freaked me out thinking about it from a "there but for the grace of God go I" perspective) about the different treatment by the criminal justice system of parents that this happened to. Race played some role, but more often it was down to whether the local prosecutor was a tough on crime zealot or not.

Having said all that, at 11 months and while the parents were both at church together? Doesn't fit the normal pattern.
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Yes to all of this. As a father of two toddlers, I can understand the feeling. That said, there were two of them there, and three hours is a long time. If I forget something, my wife is generally good at reminding me. Not so much vice versa, but I digress.
 
Terrible. Palm Bay is the next town over from me - we go down there to shop because we have a micro-target (Bullseye?) and they have a SuperTarget. Basically a blue-collar town with a bunch of recently developed starter homes for young professionals. Not surprising to me in the least that the sheriff would offer sympathy and deference to the family rather than handcuffs, seeing as how they are (presumably) god-fearing’, Jesus-lovin’, gay-hating’ white folk.
 
St. Clown said:
I sat through a 3-hour Easter mass once (Easter vigil?). It both sucked and blew.
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Easter Vigil and, as Kep said, weddings are another matter. As I recall from my youth, Easter (and, to a lesser extent, Christmas) brings out a lot of lapsed Catholics for a sip of wine and a divine cookie so they can assuage their guilt, then go back to ignoring the church the other 364 days a year. That meant standing room only and it usually took half an hour just to distribute communion to all attendees.
 
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