What obituary language can you translate for us?

Free Spirit means substance abuser, or slut.

@filmfann Depending on the gender of the person in question, or does it go either way?

I always thought “free spirit” meant for a man either couldn’t hold down a job, or left his family behind as he moved around a lot. for a woman it meant didn’t work but dabbled with art in different media but never finished anything.

From Urban Dictionary (so feel free to dispute): Character
An alcoholic (euphemism). Used by local newspapers when reporting the death of winos. Usually a “character” is of no fixed abode, or at least of very limited means.

Respectable dead alcoholics, by contrast, are merely “convivial”; even if they are crazed ranters they would be “convivial and garrulous”.
“Mr Brew was a popular local character, normally to be found by the war memorial in the high street”.

@papayalily I would never limit the term “Slut” to just one sex.

@filmfann You wouldn’t, but what about the people using the term?

He had a “feckless charm” means he was “a real f**k up”.

does “loved to laugh” stand for something because I always hated that one. I mean who the fuck doesnt like to laugh? Just picture someone laughing and then getting really pissed off afterward lol

I know that at some point, long ago (Medieval or Early Modern Europe) saying that he wore “pointy shoes” was code for homosexual. But I’m having trouble remembering when (or who).

EDIT: Ha! I remembered (ok, Googled properly)!!!! William Rufus. William II, the Norman King of England from 1087 until 1100. He wore ”shoes with curved points”.

Horizontally inclined meant lazy during the reign of the Hapsburgs.

Source.

:-p

@Brian1946 Your source just leads to your comment on this thread.

A borderline rapist described as “an uncompromisingly direct ladies-man”
“Tireless raconteur” – bore
“Devotedly attached to his ideals” – fascist
“Gave colourful accounts of his exploits” – liar