Comments on: What’s “Burn in hell” in the language of flowers? https://sorrywatch.com/whats-burn-in-hell-in-the-language-of-flowers/ Analyzing apologies in the news, media, history and literature. We condemn the bad and exalt the good. Mon, 03 Aug 2020 19:25:07 +0000 hourly 1 By: One of many creeps | SorryWatch https://sorrywatch.com/whats-burn-in-hell-in-the-language-of-flowers/#comment-209662 Mon, 10 Jul 2017 19:32:38 +0000 https://sorrywatch.com/?p=4384#comment-209662 […] before he admitted it and then, horribly, offered to apologize “in person with a big bouquet of flowers”). The link with the headline that includes “Culture of […]

]]> By: sumac https://sorrywatch.com/whats-burn-in-hell-in-the-language-of-flowers/#comment-199412 Fri, 24 Jun 2016 05:16:58 +0000 https://sorrywatch.com/?p=4384#comment-199412 Oh. Oh. Oh my.

Hydrangeas were delivered today.

They came with a note, so I don’t have to wonder if I’ve forgotten my 4th wedding anniversary.

My favorite comment ever.

]]> By: sumac https://sorrywatch.com/whats-burn-in-hell-in-the-language-of-flowers/#comment-199331 Thu, 23 Jun 2016 01:45:26 +0000 https://sorrywatch.com/?p=4384#comment-199331 In reply to Diane in Los Angeles.

Really? I will try it. More to the point, we must let Madonna know.

]]> By: Diane in Los Angeles https://sorrywatch.com/whats-burn-in-hell-in-the-language-of-flowers/#comment-199328 Thu, 23 Jun 2016 01:18:58 +0000 https://sorrywatch.com/?p=4384#comment-199328 While I find hydrangeas insipid photographic subjects, I’ve always considered that my failure of artistic imagination. I do enjoy the plants when someone else does the work to grow them, and can add in their defense that Korean Hydrangea leaf tea (aka Gamro) is really terrifically sweet, spicy, and tasty.

]]> By: sumac https://sorrywatch.com/whats-burn-in-hell-in-the-language-of-flowers/#comment-199321 Wed, 22 Jun 2016 22:31:51 +0000 https://sorrywatch.com/?p=4384#comment-199321 In reply to Pamela McCorduck.

Good to know.

I see lime blossoms mean fornication, so that also might be something to hand out… judiciously.

]]> By: Pamela McCorduck https://sorrywatch.com/whats-burn-in-hell-in-the-language-of-flowers/#comment-199317 Wed, 22 Jun 2016 21:52:19 +0000 https://sorrywatch.com/?p=4384#comment-199317 It was. I was told never to bring red roses to my German dinner hosts, because in Germany, red roses mean Let’s Do It. So the international language of flowers is probably full of treacherous traps the unwary don’t know about. (Uh, I stuck to chocolates for the German hosts.)

]]> By: Katherine Catmull https://sorrywatch.com/whats-burn-in-hell-in-the-language-of-flowers/#comment-199298 Wed, 22 Jun 2016 13:04:05 +0000 https://sorrywatch.com/?p=4384#comment-199298 This was an extra-hilarious post.

]]> By: sumac https://sorrywatch.com/whats-burn-in-hell-in-the-language-of-flowers/#comment-199271 Wed, 22 Jun 2016 04:21:56 +0000 https://sorrywatch.com/?p=4384#comment-199271 In reply to Jonelle Patrick.

More pitfalls!

]]> By: Jonelle Patrick https://sorrywatch.com/whats-burn-in-hell-in-the-language-of-flowers/#comment-199268 Wed, 22 Jun 2016 03:55:23 +0000 https://sorrywatch.com/?p=4384#comment-199268 Ahahaha! Excellent post. And actually, in Japan I was highly amused to discover that although one OBVIOUSLY never gives chrysanthemums on any occasion except a funeral (“don’t get well, DIE!”), one not-so-obviously never brings a cheery living plant with roots to a friend in hospital (because it suggests a wish that the person will put down roots in the hospital ward and never leave) or a nice camellia plant (because the flowers drop all or once, like a samurai getting his head lopped off).

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