Poppy Watch

[Tony Baloney]

Lads, I work in the BBC, on the 11th there was a 2 minute silence in the office, I simply logged myself out of the computer and went to the toilet for 2 minutes, there was about 4 people in my office out of 20 or so wearing a poppy...on Easter I wear my Lilly for the whole week of Easter, I had only one complaint about that last year, i refused to remove it due to the poppy issue and no more was said, I have no problem with the ordinary working class unionist or Stoops (as they know no better) people wearing a poppy, I do get annoyed tho when I see the likes of Colin Farrell, Frank Mitchell (big Down GAA man, yeah rite) and the other so-called Irish celebrities who wear the poppy just because they are told to.

You of course have evidence that these people are told to wear poppies? Colin Farrell isn't an employee of the BBC so I doubt if they would have cancelled his appearance on The Graham Norton show if he said he wasn't wearing a poppy. Try again.

[spanner]

Mary Byrne & the young lad from west meath were wearing them on the xfactor. Shame on them

Good to see free choice is alive and well. If they want to wear them, so what and yes i know symbolisim etc. Plenty of Irish men in the ranks of the British Army over the years.

Money talks, all those Irish working in england wear them, its more a symbol of the irish licking the holes of brits, pandering for votes or money. I see it as selling your soul. Do they realise there supporting the comfortable retirement of all those brit soldiers who killed innocent people up North.
Is it complusary on brit tv to wear one?

My bold above.

Not forgetting that it wasn't only Brits and Loyalist Death Squads who killed innocent people up north?

As for wearing a Poppy.  I imagine that most people who do choose to wear it, would probably  do so in remembrance of those men and women ( Yes - including many Irish volunteers who didn't want to be ruled by a Fascist regime) who died in two World Wars so that most of Western Europe including Ireland, wouldn't be speaking German today.

The discussion is about poppies. Hence the relevance of brits murdering in Ireland.

If you are trying to stir sh1t, at least do so in terms relevant to the discussion ffs.

If you check above, you will see that it was Sligonian, who first mentioned "brit soldiers who killed innocent people up North".  Why didn't you have a pop at him?

[Orior]

Someone forgot to pin a poppy to Eddie Jordan today. Heads will roll.

[spanner]

Someone forgot to pin a poppy to Eddie Jordan today. Heads will roll.

Especially if it was being televised on the BBC.

[pintsofguinness]

Lads, I work in the BBC, on the 11th there was a 2 minute silence in the office, I simply logged myself out of the computer and went to the toilet for 2 minutes, there was about 4 people in my office out of 20 or so wearing a poppy...on Easter I wear my Lilly for the whole week of Easter, I had only one complaint about that last year, i refused to remove it due to the poppy issue and no more was said, I have no problem with the ordinary working class unionist or Stoops (as they know no better) people wearing a poppy, I do get annoyed tho when I see the likes of Colin Farrell, Frank Mitchell (big Down GAA man, yeah rite) and the other so-called Irish celebrities who wear the poppy just because they are told to.

You of course have evidence that these people are told to wear poppies? Colin Farrell isn't an employee of the BBC so I doubt if they would have cancelled his appearance on The Graham Norton show if he said he wasn't wearing a poppy. Try again.

You think it's a coincidence they're all wearing one?

[ONeill]

Lads, I work in the BBC, on the 11th there was a 2 minute silence in the office, I simply logged myself out of the computer and went to the toilet for 2 minutes, there was about 4 people in my office out of 20 or so wearing a poppy...on Easter I wear my Lilly for the whole week of Easter, I had only one complaint about that last year, i refused to remove it due to the poppy issue and no more was said, I have no problem with the ordinary working class unionist or Stoops (as they know no better) people wearing a poppy, I do get annoyed tho when I see the likes of Colin Farrell, Frank Mitchell (big Down GAA man, yeah rite) and the other so-called Irish celebrities who wear the poppy just because they are told to.

I'm nearly sure Frank Mitchill's grandfather fought in WW2.

[Rossfan]

died in two World Wars so that most of Western Europe including Ireland, wouldn't be speaking German today.

So it's alright to have fcukin English Béarla bet into us over 400 years but God forbid we might have to speak its first cousin Deutsch.
Anyway we might as well take up the Deutsch as they'll be paying our wages ,pensions etc for the next 20 years. 

[Milltown Row2]

Sidebottom wearing Poppy at Casement!!

[ONeill]

Sorry, it's actually Sidebottom, not Frank Mitchell, whose grandfather was a war veteran.

[Minder]

Sorry, it's actually Sidebottom, not Frank Mitchell, whose grandfather was a war veteran.

Correct, his oul feller is English.

[Tony Baloney]

Lads, I work in the BBC, on the 11th there was a 2 minute silence in the office, I simply logged myself out of the computer and went to the toilet for 2 minutes, there was about 4 people in my office out of 20 or so wearing a poppy...on Easter I wear my Lilly for the whole week of Easter, I had only one complaint about that last year, i refused to remove it due to the poppy issue and no more was said, I have no problem with the ordinary working class unionist or Stoops (as they know no better) people wearing a poppy, I do get annoyed tho when I see the likes of Colin Farrell, Frank Mitchell (big Down GAA man, yeah rite) and the other so-called Irish celebrities who wear the poppy just because they are told to.

You of course have evidence that these people are told to wear poppies? Colin Farrell isn't an employee of the BBC so I doubt if they would have cancelled his appearance on The Graham Norton show if he said he wasn't wearing a poppy. Try again.

You think it's a coincidence they're all wearing one?

There is a huge difference between being asked to wear one and being told/forced to wear one. I have no doubt they were asked to wear one. I can't imagine they would have been sanctioned if they refused the offer.

[ziggysego]

Asked or "asked".

I've no problem anyone wearing Poppies, Unionist or Nationalist. I just don't think they should feel pressured into wearing one.

Just look at the shite Alan Sugar got into on Twitter during the week, maddness.

[Sandino]

If yoiu looked at Eddie Jordan today you could see that he was indeed wearing a small metal poppy pin. This was visible on the one occasion that his arm dropped to reveal the pin. Me thinks Eddie was not wearing it by choice.

[ziggysego]

If yoiu looked at Eddie Jordan today you could see that he was indeed wearing a small metal poppy pin. This was visible on the one occasion that his arm dropped to revel the pin. Me thinks Eddie was not wearing it by choice.

He seemed to be doing his damnest to keep it covered.

[Hoof Hearted]

celtic had them on their jerseys today, but sunderland hadn't