Poppy watch 2022

[Connor]

 

[WA Toffee]

Are we not allowed to wear poppies now? Have the wokes cancelled them? Is it offensive to remember war heroes who died for their country?

No
No
No

 

[Kurt.]

This is true. I know him, he doesn't live in the house anymore but sleeps in a trench he dug in the back garden.

He recently changed his name to Somme in memory of the fallen.

Here is Somme doing his weekly shop.

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Somme mothers do ave them !!

 

[Lanolin]

That guy has his house like that all the time. Its not an attention seeking thing that lasts for the duration of the appeal then gets forgotten for a year. Its fair enough to knock the idiots who do stuff like that once a year purely for the attention and then forget about the subject but this guy is obviously very passionate about it.

I mean, I know you're trying to defend him, but that really just makes him sound even more mental.

 

[Gwladysstreetlad]

I mean, I know you're trying to defend him, but that really just makes him sound even more mental.

Meh. If he's mental then whatever. So long as he's not harming anyone I don't see what the problem is. Loads of people think that being as arsed as everyone (myself obviously included) on here is about a team full of multi-millionaires playing football is as mental as you can get.

 

[Gwladysstreetlad]

We as a society spend far to much time worrying about other people, what they do and what makes them happy ect. Wear the poppy. Don't wear the poppy. Buy all the garish decorations you want. Or totally ignore them. Just get on with your life and leave others to do the same. Unless someone's behaviour is having a negative impact on your life what does it even matter?

 

[Littlesue]

Dudley Castle

 

[LEONARD]

Are we not allowed to wear poppies now? Have the wokes cancelled them? Is it offensive to remember war heroes who died for their country?

I wear my poppy every year with pride, and in remembrance to an uncle who helped liberate Bergan-Belsen in April 1945.

Sadly, and I think this is the gist of this thread, it has now become a case of 'one-upmanship' and tasteless tat merchandise.

Despite this, I will buy and proudly wear one every year (discarding it after remembrance Sunday ends)

The middle class left despise any perceived manifestation of patriotism, and they find traditional working class exhibitions of this as embarrassing.

 

[tommye]

Sadly, and I think this is the gist of this thread, it has now become a case of 'one-upmanship' and tasteless tat merchandise

This really.
A lot of said tat is distasteful and ghoulish


I will buy one, as always, and stick it up in my van.

I look awful in red.
Soz

 

[Mikey_Fitzgerald]

Nothing against anyone who wants to wear a poppy

I just tend to donate the money these days and don't wear the poppy itself

I think it's become an overly politicised symbol and the original ideal behind it has been cheapened as consequence, and as a result I don't really feel comfortable wearing one anymore

 

[Cels]

Everything in that picture is offensive. Anybody who chooses to drink in there MUST be on a register somewhere.

More or less offensive than this tweet from a couple of years back? ?

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[Stevie Nicks Bootleg]

Are we not allowed to wear poppies now? Have the wokes cancelled them? Is it offensive to remember war heroes who died for their country?

Yes, disgraceful. And from January 2023, repeats of classic shows like Blackadder and Fawlty Towers can only be shown if they're dubbed into Albanian with Somali subtitles.

 

[Moomin]

What is a 'woke'?

@BluePaul86 Have you answered this?

 

[Brett Angell Delight]

Nothing against anyone who wants to wear a poppy

I just tend to donate the money these days and don't wear the poppy itself

I think it's become an overly politicised symbol and the original ideal behind it has been cheapened as consequence, and as a result I don't really feel comfortable wearing one anymore

Similar here.

I donate money every year but not bothered about pinning a cheap bit of crap to myself to tell other people I have done it. Bought a nice AVI-8 watch last year that was remembrance themed, and part of their proceeds went to the RBL. I'll just wear that.

 

[LEONARD]

What is a 'woke'?

The left used to refer to this as being 'right on'.

Basically taking the non-conservative-traditional viewpoint to societal norms and values.