Gestures for the the Queen before West Ham game

[Paul Rideout]

I'd be against any colonial force as I'm Irish.

you boo Norway, Sweden and Denmark then I assume?

 

[Moomin]

Cocks out during the 97th min as a moment of respect for our greatest Monarch.

 

[kev]

Is that enough to audibly protest though?

You can not support something, or find something tedious and still not audibly protest a memoriam.

By the same reasoning you can also show full respect and mourning without having (yet another) memoriam at a football game that has no connection to the person you are mourning.

 

[Ferguson1878]

My scouse not English plane banner is due to fly over goodison about 3:15pm would really like a clap of apprication for it as this has cost me a lot of money and effort

 

[Martin Alvito]

the British Monarchy outlawed Sati, thousands of deaths will have been saved and loads of women in India will be grateful to this day that such a barbaric custom was pretty much ended.

All that can be claimed from something like this is a mixed-bag record. It doesn't answer the charges any more than, say, claiming that defeating Nazi Germany and the Marshall Plan justify what the United States did to Native Americans in the 19th Century (or afterward, for that matter).

 

[GrandOldTeam]

By the same reasoning you can also show full respect and mourning without having (yet another) memoriam at a football game that has no connection to the person you are mourning.

People can, and will show respect in their own ways.

The question is whether to audibly protest or not isn't it?

Sometimes in life, things happen in front of you that you can't control. All you can control is your reaction.

I wouldn't boo my worst enemy when they snuff it.

So I wouldn't be arsed booing at a football pitch regarding the death of an 96 woman I've never met.

 

[Johnnytotal]

I'd be against any colonial force as I'm Irish.

which countries did we take over under her watch?

 

[GETEM]

How about turn around during moment of silence, still showing respect to the dead by not booing, but also sending a message that we do not support the royal family and their noncey ways?

 

[anton66]

My silence would be just because some mates take comfort in the monarchy so for the sake of a minute either being quiet or staying on the concourse it’s no thing really.

The media and West Ham fans will be dying to trip us up over this but we’ve got nothing to prove to either of them.

Throw in some pyro and a pitch invasion just to get their attention.

 

[Joey66]

If you truly wasnt bothered then you would have no interest in the poll results Joseph my friend. That you do means I have, yet again, created a thread of interest and value. Thank you.

Just hope Everton get those three points lads.

Yawn.......

 

[Deleted member 50501]

you boo Norway, Sweden and Denmark then I assume?

If I was being forced to pay respect to their monarchy then ye I would

 

[Oddball]

All that can be claimed from something like this is a mixed-bag record. It doesn't answer the charges any more than, say, claiming that defeating Nazi Germany and the Marshall Plan justify what the United States did to Native Americans in the 19th Century (or afterward, for that matter).

yes it`s a mixed bag record, as it is with most Empire building.

but Britain going out on a limb to end international slavery on its own and the outlawing of barbarism in its colonies instead of perpetrating worse crimes against populations should at least be recognised

 

[Deleted member 50501]

which countries did we take over under her watch?

Well for one, you still occupy my country.

 

[Martin Alvito]

yes it`s a mixed bag record, as it is with most Empire building.

but Britain going out on a limb to end international slavery on its own and the outlawing of barbarism in its colonies instead of perpetrating worse crimes against populations should at least be recognised

I would say that propping up the second-largest local power all across the globe in order to guarantee substantial influence is a fairly cynical strategy, myself.

 

[Deleted member 50501]

the British Monarchy outlawed Sati, thousands of deaths will have been saved and loads of women in India will be grateful to this day that such a barbaric custom was pretty much ended.

Britain robbed India of 1.5 trillion and 1.8 billion Indians died of deprivation. You are just brainwashed.