Gestures for the the Queen before West Ham game

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Diogenes the Cynic said:
Who's forcing you to mourn again?

I guess we shouldn't have done that whole "he's not heavy he's my brother" thing the other year either then?

And I hope you were this vocal about taking the knee as well.

Such a small thing, a minutes silence and the national anthem to mark the passing of the monarch of this country.

Absolutely pathetic the amount of outrage coming from people considering it costs them absolutely nothing.
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The respect show from us to the people of the city with our moments for the Hillsborough tragedy is very different, and you know it. A large number of people that take part in that were personally affected or have close family/friends who were. The people that are mourned for with those actions were killed unlawfully and many thousands suffered because of it.

Seriously though, how many minutes silences do they want? Wasn't there a 2 minute silence on the day she died? There will be another on the day of the funeral. If you haven't taken, or wont be taking the opportunity to partake in either of those to show your respect, then I guess you just don't want to. Its becoming like the DFS sale. Here, this is your last chance to have 2 minutes silence, the HRH sale ends Friday. On Saturday.... Welcome to the HRH sale, have one minutes silence just before the chance ends 11:59pm this Sunday. Then come Monday, well, you get the jist.

I'm not sure why they have to ensure to the best of their ability that every single person 'pays their respect', 'pays there dues' kisses the boots' of a woman who lived a privileged life for 96 years, then died of old age.

I'm not sorry that she died as she lived a full life and died of natural causes, but I am sorry for the grief that her surviving family will now go through, as I would be any family who have lost a mother/grandmother etc.

Its very odd that you bring in the taking of the knee, as that was an agreed show of solidarity by the players, not the fans, and those that disagreed with it, for various uneducated reasons, were really quite vocal about if you remember.
 


I think we’ve done well to get to 11 pages and for sure is a sign of GOT’s increasingly maturity to act sensibly and respectfully on divisive, emotionally charged matters. It’s in this spirit that I request my permanent ban from the Current Affairs forum to be rightfully overturned or just merge that forum with the Ale House so one can debate others in a very mature way. Thank you.

Everton forever we are on our way together.
 
kev said:
You see this as me having an "irrational hatred of a minutes silence"
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Nice one kev, but also read the rest of the thread with people being irrationally mad about having a minute's silence because of the passing of a monarch.

Also yeah, you're making generally a huge deal out of literally next to nothing. It's not like they're taking people to the centre of the pitch and shooting them, it's a minute of silence. lol

So yeah, it's entertaining. People are preemptively getting mad about nothing. What's there not to enjoy out of this?

Wonder what @davek thinks about this situation. He always has a balanced and unbiased view.
 

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