Ban the military and flood all the poppy growing fields in the world
And we all lived happily ever after
And we all lived happily ever after
Current Affairs Poppy season crassness
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Lest we forget or summit
summerisle
The rain, it raineth every day
Arrives 18-24 November, perfect for the target audience.
summerisle
The rain, it raineth every day
UKIP believing the First World War started in 1911, featuring American troops.
summerisle
The rain, it raineth every day
The bottom has finally been reached.
woodsyni
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Genuinely shocking!!! Just sat here shaking my head.
My issues with the buying and wearing of a poppy are complex. I find it despicable that a government can laud it’s ex soldiers and hold parades etc. for them but leave aspects of their welfare to charity. I also find it incomprehensible that we say that these ex soldiers sacrificed so much for our freedoms and then vent our anger on those who choose to express that freedom by not buying or wearing a poppy.
Is that dog having a poo?
TN Toffee
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Agree completely. It’s same way in the US regarding the whole standing for the flag controversy. People get so outraged over someone not participating in what is really just a token gesture, yet then turn around and continually vote to elect politicians who send them to fight endless wars and underfund their care once they return home. Also, as you said, if we don’t even have the basic freedom to choose to wear/not wear a poppy, or stand/sit for the flag and national anthem, what was their sacrifice even for in the first place?
Yarrgh
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I know what my next year's poppymas scene will be.
That heroic little poohing dog.
Aye, the whole complaint of people not wearing poppies goes against the principle of freedom (or our sense of freedom) and the right to choose.
These are the things that so many fought and died for and the rights that people cherish - it's almost an oxymoron to bemoan when people display them.
There's a huge difference between making decisions, like you have rightfully done, and showing actual disrespect to the poppy campaign and those who died.
For me, it's worrying that, like so many other issues, it's becoming a polarised debate: those who'll laugh at poppies and for those who it's like fashion.
Live and let live.
Can’t have been easy getting into that trench wearing a skort.
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