The James McClean Sponsored Poppy Thread

[GordonD]

1 minute ago, ICTChris said:

I know it sounds cold but what sort of person does that, goes and buys a teddy and puts it at Inverness town house for something like that?  A terrible crime but I just don't understand it.

Same mindset as people who send teddies for the Royal Baby, as if the parents couldn't afford to buy one themselves.

[ICTChris]

2 minutes ago, throbber said:

If there is a murder within a community then it makes sense to have some sort of public outcry of grief but to do it in Inverness when the murders are at the south of England then it's just morbid attention seeking. There wouldn't be any such nationwide shock if 2 girls were to be killed in the same way tomorrow I don't think, people have too many forms of alternative media at their fingertips.

There was an absolutely horrific murder of a child in Inverness around that time and I don't remember a single memorial or event or anything about it.

[RedRob72]

Feel like Rob is inching towards an epiphany here....

Go on indulge me, I'm sure you can think of at least one!!?

[dogmc]

Was a cinema mgr during the Diana hysteria n we were forced to stop films during the funeral. It was definitely the first time that I can think of for mass national hysteria. Genuinely unhinged behaviour all round. The roasters on social media mewling about fifa are the same sort of bandwagon jumping cretins who live to be outraged over nothing. Surprised Russell Brand hasn't been blamed again.

[RedRob72]

I wonder if we're also commemorating the hundreds of thousands we illegally killed in Iraq based on a pack of lies.

It's a fair point for me, Blair should be in the jug!

[topcat(The most tip top)]

Never thought Diana was hot either.   Good chance she was murdered by mi5 at the behest of the royal family btw. 

Better chance that she was just too dim to think of doing her seatbelt up when traveling at high speed through town with a driver who'd had a couple

[Jamaldo]

British people are just fannies tbh.

[DI Bruce Robertson]

people are just fannies tbh.

FTFY

[Dindeleux]

I wonder if we're also commemorating the hundreds of thousands we illegally killed in Iraq based on a pack of lies.

Never thought Diana was hot either.   Good chance she was murdered by mi5 at the behest of the royal family btw. 

I love the fact that you try to be edgy on here Pep as if we haven't heard it all before.

[Peppino Impastato]

Nothing edgy about it simple objectivity.   I love that you care though, touching. 

[KillieCon]

 

[speckled tangerine]

I was coming along Princes Street in Edinburgh yesterday to be greeted with a big van outside the National Gallery at the Mound selling "official merchandise".

So there you are. It's business.

[Sergeant Wilson]

3 hours ago, Peppino Impastato said:

Never thought Diana was hot either.   Good chance she was murdered by mi5 at the behest of the royal family btw. 

She was killed abroad, so surely it would've been MI6?

[Bully Wee Villa]

Maybe MI5 were on their holidays?

[Sergeant Wilson]

2 hours ago, ICTChris said:

The one I remember is the Soham murders - absolutely awful double murder of two wee girls.  Every ground in Britain had a minutes silence betore that game.  I remember this because it was a Highland derby that weekend and there was a silence at our game.  After the match I went out for a few pints and as I was waiting in front of the town house with my mate to get a lift home later on I noticed that there were flowers and teddy bears and candles piled up around the spot for the old cross, all for the two wee girls.

I know it sounds cold but what sort of person does that, goes and buys a teddy and puts it at Inverness town house for something like that?  A terrible crime but I just don't understand it.

You don't put new teddies down, you get an old shite one from the back of the cupboard. Likewise my old football shirt trick of tying a Charlton Athletic 1987 away shirt to the railings to commemorate the latest junkie or alkie that croaks.

[Njord]

5 hours ago, Torpar said:

Although the British army wasn't involved, there was an estimated 2000 British soldiers who fought by resigning for the British army and enlisting with the Australian and New Zealand forces. The poppy is a great way honour those brave British men who went to war, like the British Free Corps, those rascals.

Indeed. Similar to those brave boys of the Commonwealth from India that signed on for Mr H. Think they saw the same amount of action , ie none.

 

Had it in my memory from TV/book @ 30/35 years ago that there had been boots on the ground.

Cursory search sort of backs that up on the Brit forums.

There were apparently 6 bars to the GSM awarded with the legend "South Vietnam". That would suggest at least 6 British soldiers did serve there.

Speculation has been that they were attached to the Aussie or Kiwi SAS in a training role, and ended up "in country".

First page says 'yes' but it goes to 75 pages ffs.

https://www.arrse.co.uk/community/threads/did-any-british-forces-serve-in-vietnam.22383/

 

And Falklands definitely wasn't a War. 

 

Still to track down the last one though, the English have been diligent over the years in attacking folk.

[DAFC.]

Chap in my work got accused of being a "pro-IRA, disrespectful tool" for wearing a white poppy by an uber right-wing former Police Officer. He argued that it was an Easter Lilly and he was actually donating to the IRA. I am being serious. He then went on some random spiel about Bobby Sands. I honestly hate this time of the year.

I don't wear one. It's become a symbol of British Nationalism rather than a commemoration of those that died in both World Wars. Even at that it's a symbol for British Soldiers of all eras, which is quite dodgy because, y'know, the British Army committed a lot of vile acts in Palestine, Yemen and Ireland in the past, to name a few. 

[pandarilla]

It's a simple mark of recalling how shite killing folk is and it's apolitical.

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It used to be apolitical but not anymore.

I was almost sick in my mouth when that labour plp p***k asked the question of the pm. What an absolute c**t.

Her answer was pre prepared and basically mirrored the front page of the sun.

[The_Kincardine]

4 minutes ago, pandarilla said:

It used to be apolitical but not anymore.

I was almost sick in my mouth when that labour plp p***k asked the question of the pm. What an absolute c**t.

Her answer was pre prepared and basically mirrored the front page of the sun.

All this is tawdry bollocks and very sad and it's pathetic we've got here.

The poppy is nothing more than a Canadian-inspired aide-memoire and those who seek to politicise it (and yes, I'm looking at both the staunch Rangers fans and also the grey and green dross) are utter dolts.

[pandarilla]

All this is tawdry bollocks and very sad and it's pathetic we've got here.

The poppy is nothing more than a Canadian-inspired aide-memoire and those who seek to politicise it (and yes, I'm looking at both the staunch Rangers fans and also the grey and green dross) are utter dolts.

But it is political now - and has been for some time. It's a dog whistle issue for tabloid-reading numpties.

The change in the last 10-15 years has been quite stark.