welshbairn Posted November 1, 2018 Share Posted November 1, 2018 It's not all bad. https://www.inverness-courier.co.uk/News/Poppyscotlands-Inverness-centre-gives-veterans-crucial-help-30102018.htm 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Ferrino Posted November 1, 2018 Share Posted November 1, 2018 Crucial. It's crucial. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Highland Capital Posted November 2, 2018 Share Posted November 2, 2018 The FACT they haven’t already is a DISGRACE!!!Here’s a respectful Halloween pumpkin to calm my angry blood.The reflection looks like a scary face. 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dee Man Posted November 2, 2018 Share Posted November 2, 2018 1 hour ago, Highland Capital said: The reflection looks like a scary face. It looks like the Cookie Monster with weird teeth. Presumably due to eating too many cookies over the years. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cerberus Posted November 2, 2018 Share Posted November 2, 2018 State of this poppyShe’s ‘membering hemorrhoids by the looks of that thing. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jdog Posted November 2, 2018 Share Posted November 2, 2018 10 hours ago, throbber said: Currently causing seething meltdowns online. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacksgranda Posted November 2, 2018 Share Posted November 2, 2018 8 hours ago, Tony Ferrino said: Crucial. It's crucial. A step up from "vital", but not as good as "critical". 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
throbber Posted November 2, 2018 Share Posted November 2, 2018 Currently causing seething meltdowns online.I can imagine! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scary Bear Posted November 2, 2018 Share Posted November 2, 2018 I live and work in Central Edinburgh and got a train from Waverley this evening I’ve still not seen a poppy for sale Poor marks for observation. They had lovely poppies for sale with ‘1918-2018’ written on them. Classy.f**k those daft c***s who dies 1914-1917. All that matters is the 100 years thing. People like that sort of stuff, 25, 50, 100.I’m glad no other major conflicts happened in that 100 years. Makes all the sacrifice worthwhile. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BishopLenBrennan Posted November 2, 2018 Share Posted November 2, 2018 I don't wear the poppy. I wore it, and was proud to wear it when I was a lot younger (Primary School age) because I thought it was the right thing to do. Most of my great uncles or great grandparents had served during WWII. Not long before he passed away, I was speaking with my elderly great uncle who was in his late 80s, and served in the Navy during the Second World War. He had always made a point of not speaking about anything he experienced during the war, but would give a wee speech every year at our local Cenotaph. He would always say that the main reason we remember is so that we remember how dangerous fascism was. His motivation for Remembrance Sunday was to make sure it never happened again. I was too young to properly appreciate his wisdom at the time, but I remember him watching the carpet bombing of Afghanistan post-9/11 and saying that the current modern America and Britain remind him more of the ideology he fought against than the ideology he fought to defend. It broke his heart to see Britain act as the aggressor, and I stopped wearing a poppy soon after. 10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ICTChris Posted November 2, 2018 Share Posted November 2, 2018 They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.At the going down of the sun and in the morning,We will remember them. 17 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Priti priti priti Patel Posted November 2, 2018 Share Posted November 2, 2018 26 minutes ago, BishopLenBrennan said: I don't wear the poppy. I wore it, and was proud to wear it when I was a lot younger (Primary School age) because I thought it was the right thing to do. Most of my great uncles or great grandparents had served during WWII. Not long before he passed away, I was speaking with my elderly great uncle who was in his late 80s, and served in the Navy during the Second World War. He had always made a point of not speaking about anything he experienced during the war, but would give a wee speech every year at our local Cenotaph. He would always say that the main reason we remember is so that we remember how dangerous fascism was. His motivation for Remembrance Sunday was to make sure it never happened again. I was too young to properly appreciate his wisdom at the time, but I remember him watching the carpet bombing of Afghanistan post-9/11 and saying that the current modern America and Britain remind him more of the ideology he fought against than the ideology he fought to defend. It broke his heart to see Britain act as the aggressor, and I stopped wearing a poppy soon after. We all make sense of the world in our own ways etc so I respect yours and your great uncle's opinions, but I couldn't make sense of them myself, because Britain in 1939 was a global imperial force subjugating people around the world. That's different to fascism, but not that different to what happened in the War on Terror, so I presume British imperialism wasn't the value set your great uncle believed he had fought for - in which case, what was? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Highland Capital Posted November 2, 2018 Share Posted November 2, 2018 In regards to the centenary, did the war not end in 1919? Or was that just in Europe? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bully Wee Villa Posted November 2, 2018 Share Posted November 2, 2018 (edited) Unless I'm being whooshed, the First World War ended on November 11th, 1918. Lots of people were still busy dying from "Spanish" Flu in 1919, though. Edited November 2, 2018 by Bully Wee Villa 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ICTChris Posted November 2, 2018 Share Posted November 2, 2018 In regards to the centenary, did the war not end in 1919? Or was that just in Europe?The armistice was in 1918, Treaty of Versailles to officially end it was signed in 1919 and ratified in 1920. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jdog Posted November 2, 2018 Share Posted November 2, 2018 https://mobile.twitter.com/giantpoppywatch 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BishopLenBrennan Posted November 2, 2018 Share Posted November 2, 2018 2 hours ago, Margaret Thatcher said: We all make sense of the world in our own ways etc so I respect yours and your great uncle's opinions, but I couldn't make sense of them myself, because Britain in 1939 was a global imperial force subjugating people around the world. That's different to fascism, but not that different to what happened in the War on Terror, so I presume British imperialism wasn't the value set your great uncle believed he had fought for - in which case, what was? I'm not saying I agree, or necessarily follow his logic or his opinion. All I'm saying is that his beliefs had an impact upon me and made me far more questioning of Governments and their attitudes to war. I'm willing to overlook the whiff of hypocrisy and naivety in his world views. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bully Wee Villa Posted November 2, 2018 Share Posted November 2, 2018 There have been lots of poppy flags handed out at Villa Park... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted November 2, 2018 Share Posted November 2, 2018 (edited) 10 hours ago, Margaret Thatcher said: We all make sense of the world in our own ways etc so I respect yours and your great uncle's opinions, but I couldn't make sense of them myself, because Britain in 1939 was a global imperial force subjugating people around the world. That's different to fascism, but not that different to what happened in the War on Terror, so I presume British imperialism wasn't the value set your great uncle believed he had fought for - in which case, what was? Bit of whataboutery going on there, what the Germans were doing was unprecedented in human history given the industrial scale of the slaughter, and the clerical selection criteria. Mind you, my Dad didn't know why he was fighting until the war was over and the stories came out. Doubt the Bishop's Great Uncle did either. Edited November 2, 2018 by welshbairn 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cerberus Posted November 2, 2018 Share Posted November 2, 2018 46 minutes ago, Bully Wee Villa said: There have been lots of poppy flags handed out at Villa Park... What's a poppy flag? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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