Quote: zooo @ November 11 2011, 6:04 PM GMTA few years ago everyone started the 2 minute silence in Woolworths while I was part way through pouring some sweets into a pick'n'mix bag. I had to stand with a half full scoop hovering in the air, like a plonker.
It's much better being at home when it happens.
That's priceless, zooo!
However, I must wake up: when I first read this, I thought it was 2-minute silence for Woolworths! (I still miss that rag-bag of a shop.)
Help for Heroes sausages, bacon and ham.
Quote: Peter Brouhaha @ November 11 2011, 7:37 PM GMTHowever, I must wake up: when I first read this, I thought it was 2-minute silence for Woolworths! (I still miss that rag-bag of a shop.)
Aw, we could wear a ladybird in memory of it. 
(Will anyone get that...)
Quote: zooo @ November 11 2011, 8:36 PM GMTAw, we could wear a ladybird in memory of it.
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Only if it's not political, religious or commercial... 
Quote: zooo @ November 11 2011, 8:36 PM GMTAw, we could wear a ladybird in memory of it.
(Will anyone get that...)
That's one shop I miss. The pick n mix was awesome.
Quote: zooo @ November 11 2011, 8:36 PM GMTAw, we could wear a ladybird in memory of it.
(Will anyone get that...)
Quote: reds @ November 11 2011, 3:18 PM GMTI'd be interested to know their other ways .As much as we'd all like, I don't see the day when everyone sits down with a cup of tea and talks about their "disagreements" like grownups.
But there is a more sophisticated and developed committment to conflict resolution. As in Ireland this can be a dirty business and can leave a bad taste for all sides. A lot of warmongers dislike it as they naively think the business of brokering peace should be about the goodies inevitably defeating the baddies.
But war is ultimately just politics by other means.
Quote: TopBanana @ November 11 2011, 5:40 PM GMTMost of us do - and always have, but the way people are made to feel guilty if you don't show admiration and respect 100% of the time sticks in my throat.
Why only recently has this started? Why not 15 years ago? Or after the Falklands War?
It is much more recent. I seem to remember it was a campaign about 6 years ago by the Sun (whose corporation tax only finances the Caymen Island armed forces) for a second two minute silence on 11 November (it was always on the Sunday only). A manager of a supermarket dared to point this out when he had audacity not to conform and were treated to the most sanctimonious guff imaginable.
Quote: TopBanana @ November 11 2011, 5:40 PM GMTIt's more than just poppy wearing.
We are constantly beaten over the head with how brave 'our boys' are and how we should have pride in them.
There is an understandable admiration for people in any job that involves putting your arse on the line for an average wage, but the armed forces appear to be immuned from any criticism about their performance.
In Iraq for instance they seemed of been run out of town by a rag bag Iranian backed militia.
And as for the navy captured in Iranian waters, they just felt sorry for them and called one of them Mr Bean. J K Rowling is probably more important in spreading British influence then the armed forces.
Quote: zooo @ November 11 2011, 8:36 PM GMTAw, we could wear a ladybird in memory of it.
(Will anyone get that...)
A red ladybird or white? Sorry, we've had too much of all that bollo this week!
Talking of Pick 'n' Mix, did you see Joe Pasquale's poignant Pick 'n' Mix story on 'The Secret Life of Bob Monkhouse'? It was heartbreaking and almost funny at the same time. (Absolutely no disrespect meant to Bob, but I reckon he'd have seen the funny side of it.)
Quote: youngian @ November 12 2011, 9:56 AM GMTThere is an understandable admiration for people in any job that involves putting your arse on the line for an average wage, but the armed forces appear to be immuned from any criticism about their performance.
In Iraq for instance they seemed of been run out of town by a rag bag Iranian backed militia.And as for the navy captured in Iranian waters, they just felt sorry for them and called one of them Mr Bean. J K Rowling is probably more important in spreading British influence then the armed forces.
Your missing the point youngian. No-one has said the armed forces are perfect. They are liable to f**k up like anybody else. That poppy is there for those who died whilst doing the job. Some unlucky some doing the most heroic of deeds some perhaps fool hardy. There are lots of ways to die in a war but the fact is they died serving their country. Yes politicians are arseholes to a greater extent but whatever the circumstance of a death during a conflict they chose to put their life on the line and paid the ultimate price.