Gestures for the the Queen before West Ham game

[WA Toffee]

Just why.

to illustrate that whether you respect people or not, it's still not hard to respect those around you.

Probably not the best example in hindsight

 

[Mikey_Fitzgerald]

Ladies and gentlemen, the Queen thread.

 

[kev]

to illustrate that whether you respect people or not, it's still not hard to respect those around you.
Probably not the best example in hindsight

Not a great example, but I respect you for trying.

 

[windymiller]

Surely this is Ale House now. Let's just draw a line under the whole affair and move on, eh? The 10 days are over now, ffs.

 

[windymiller]

Total coincidence, but I was in a meeting today at work. A lot of meetings in Australia start with acknowledgement of country which basically recognises that aboriginal people are the traditional owners of the land. Quite often, and was the case today, this will be followed by a minutes silence for all those who died back in the colonial days.

No doubt some of those would have been rapists, murderers, thieves etc, but I stayed silent for a minute. Because it is polite, and respectfull to all others in the meeting.

It's really not that hard.

Wowsers "rapists, murderers, thieves"!

We've surely jumped the shark now mods, can we lock the thread or move it to the Ale House, please?

 

[Rita_Poon]

to illustrate that whether you respect people or not, it's still not hard to respect those around you.

Probably not the best example in hindsight

The bit in bold is quite some going. The underlined, yes, 'probably'.
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Got quite murky in this thread eventually, so many different spins and additions, the laughs dried up double-quick, and now somehow after our first win of the season we've blue on blue, (which isn't as sexy as it sounds). There's an old saying about respect being earned, and only fools mistaking being feared for being respected. Like everything now older values and ideals have been shattered and splintered elements pick up pieces of what they can use and ignore what they dont like.

Twas ever thus.

 

[Papa Shango]

Once again a small minority of moronic thugs have dragged our great club’s illustrious name through the mud.

No they have not. Grow up.

 

[davek]

Surely this is Ale House now. Let's just draw a line under the whole affair and move on, eh? The 10 days are over now, ffs.

We have to have a 10 day mourning period for the forelock tuggers.

 

[davek]

Once again a small minority of moronic thugs have dragged our great club’s illustrious name through the mud.

I’m not a Royalist, but the Queen was a 96-year-old woman who served this country as a mechanic during the war and then as Head of State for over seventy years. By all means disrespect Truss or Starmer or Davey, but why her on the eve of her funeral?

This has made us look terrible nationally.

As an aside, she was the head of the Armed Forces so it was seen by many as a direct attack on our brave forces veterans.

...right on cue.


lol

 

[Glasshalffull]

No they have not. Grow up.

Oh, yes they have (he said, neatly shifting the subject to the only slightly less contentious issue of Christmas panto). ?

 

[davek]

Jesus, it's the middle of September and he's dressed like he's off to Alaska for a backwoods snowboarding trip.

It's up norf though, innit? He probably goes home and tells his kids there's still cobble stone streets here.

 

[Connor]

It’s how they were brought up with that famous scouse chip on the shoulder no doubt.

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

 

[Oddball]

Once again a small minority of moronic thugs have dragged our great club’s illustrious name through the mud.

I’m not a Royalist, but the Queen was a 96-year-old woman who served this country as a mechanic during the war and then as Head of State for over seventy years. By all means disrespect Truss or Starmer or Davey, but why her on the eve of her funeral?

This has made us look terrible nationally.

As an aside, she was the head of the Armed Forces so it was seen by many as a direct attack on our brave forces veterans.

Yeah mate, and she fiddled my Grandad by claiming she put a new dizzy-cap on his Wolsey when she only changed the spark-plugs.
She wasn`t 96 at the time either so don`t go making that excuse.

 

[Cameron Manning]

See this is what amazes me. You admit that you are indifferent to them, yet you think that you would be letting yourself down by not showing respect for them. Utterly baffling.

Yes think I would be letting myself down by shouting out at a mark of respect when 36,000 other fans kept their thoughts to themselves.

 

[andydgg]

Yes think I would be letting myself down by shouting out at a mark of respect when 36,000 other fans kept their thoughts to themselves.

Or, you you could be proud that you made a statement for freedom from fascism, while 36000 other fans wondered what the hell was going on and why they were all quiet because not many people want a monarchy and it's only that the royalists are so violent and so good at brainwashing most are scared to speak out against them.