Whatever happened to buying a poppy and wearing it with respect and quiet dignity? Instead of all this pissing and moaning about who’s not wearing one, and who’s not selling them. Gets right on my tits.
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I think the remembrance of the 100 years of the first world war is different and worth the extra, The men and women who went to war were volunteers not the regular army or called up, They volunteered to fight for both their country and for the freedom of Europe, They gave up families, wives, children and in most cases their future for a cause and freedom that a lot would not see and would die for others freedom, They deserve some recognition be it by a poppy or something else, They were brave volunteers who died for our ours and Europes freedom and deserve just a moment of thought on Sunday.
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Each to their own as far as I’m concerned. If you don’t want to wear one fine, if you want to wear one fine.
The whole idea of a free nation and freedom of speech/expression is that you get to choose. Everyone banging on about it disrespecting the people who died to deliver freedom during the war(s) seem to forget that the freedom that those people died for allows you to choose whether to wear a poppy or not.trevor, Pineapple Salesman, Rogered Tart and 3 others like this. -
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The poppy has, through no fault of its own, become a 'look at me' symbol, as attention seekers look at ways to think of more extravagant ways of outdoing last years attention seeking. What's wrong with how it used to be, you'd buy a poppy of the guy from the british legion and then wear it on remembrance day. Now we have 'rivers' of poppys, football kits with poppys, emergency vehicles with poppys, everybody on TV wearing one weeks before november 11th etc. And if you dare to disagree with this like James McClean and not wear one you are chastised as some sort of Devil character. I always put some money into the collection tin as a small token of my appreciation of what was sacrificed by others for future generations benefit. But i do not wear a poppy because of the hysteria that has come to surround it. It doesn't make me think any different, i just refuse to be forced to do something because of pressure from sections of the public and media.
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The poppies have been a symbol or remembrance for years.... I don't know why people feel the need to change that to different meanings.
I'm not saying that people that have died in other wars don't deserve to be remembered... far from it. But I do not understand the need to change the tradition, if you feel that strongly about it, use another date to wear white poppies as remembrance.
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Thats not the point,disabled veterans are employed to make them so they should be worn as a mark of respect
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By holding the few in recent times who were denounced by both nations as a tragic mistake as a reason for not respecting the 150,000 who joined up and fought and the 50,000 Irish soldiers who although wearing a British uniform were fighting and gave their lives for the freedom of Europe from tyranny and gave him the freedoms he enjoys is pathetic and shows a distinct whiff of a deep seated prejudice and hate of the country he takes a good living from
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A local lad who was only16 was given a " white feather" so the kid signed up lying about his age, packing what he needed and went to the front.
His mother found out wrote a letter to the army and the reply was your son has been killed in action on the first day.
I could never get into my head what those poor souls thought when the command came to them in the trenches "up and over" knowing there were German machine guns awaiting them, cannon fodder.
They gave their lives for what we have today.Bantam 760 and trevor like this. -
The pins are more are better because even if you do buy another the next year they come in more styles which makes them more collectable. And if you like the initial one you buy you can just keep wearing it and give the money.
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The plastic from poppies is an infinitesimal problem, come on!!
They were selling them in Asda Shipley tonight, but they didn't have any white ones so they lost out.......
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