Poppy Watch

Started by Orior, November 04, 2010, 12:36:05 PM

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tiempo

Quote from: APM on October 29, 2018, 08:50:31 AM
Worse than that - it is an embarrassment that the GAA discussion board has 140 odd pages of posts on this since 2010.  Have we nothing better to talk about.

Invictus games? Sweet f**k have they no shame? Clearly not.

Think your doll Alex Jones from the One Show was anchor at one point in proceedings, literally caught 3 seconds when switching channel and she said "the event brings out the very best in humanity"... right... and what did it take to get there?

Fair few quislings from the demilitarised zone glued to it I'd say.

Orior

I cannot understand why Sky made the yanks covering the American football wear poppies.
Cover me in chocolate and feed me to the lesbians

Walter Cronc

Plastic poppies on the lamp posts of Bristol this weekend.

Saw 6-8 cadets in one shopping centre selling them.

Theres no way this happened 10-15 years ago. What has caused the upturn? Fund the army??

tiempo

Quote from: Walter Cronc on October 29, 2018, 11:05:27 AM
Plastic poppies on the lamp posts of Bristol this weekend.

Saw 6-8 cadets in one shopping centre selling them.

Theres no way this happened 10-15 years ago. What has caused the upturn? Fund the army??

Propoganda, nationalism, normalisation, preparation and yes to plug a hole in the cost of nursing these broken meat suits when they irritatingly come back mamed.

Hardy

English Nationalism.

seafoid

I was in Malta recently and saw Royal Legion collection boxes.
The Brits saved Malta so I could see the point. Ireland is much more complex

The country was hijacked from 1607 and nothing would ever be the same again
eg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Breifne
"f**k it, just score"- Donaghy   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbxG2WwVRjU

marty34

Quote from: Walter Cronc on October 29, 2018, 11:05:27 AM
Plastic poppies on the lamp posts of Bristol this weekend.

Saw 6-8 cadets in one shopping centre selling them.

Theres no way this happened 10-15 years ago. What has caused the upturn? Fund the army??

Brexit!!!

BennyCake

Quote from: tiempo on October 29, 2018, 11:14:18 AM
Quote from: Walter Cronc on October 29, 2018, 11:05:27 AM
Plastic poppies on the lamp posts of Bristol this weekend.

Saw 6-8 cadets in one shopping centre selling them.

Theres no way this happened 10-15 years ago. What has caused the upturn? Fund the army??

Propoganda, nationalism, normalisation, preparation and yes to plug a hole in the cost of nursing these broken meat suits when they irritatingly come back mamed.
.

Thts exactly what it's about

general_lee

What's the earliest acceptable date to wear a poppy? Saw a few at the weekend  ???

Insane Bolt

Quote from: Walter Cronc on October 29, 2018, 11:05:27 AM
Plastic poppies on the lamp posts of Bristol this weekend.

Saw 6-8 cadets in one shopping centre selling them.

Theres no way this happened 10-15 years ago. What has caused the upturn? Fund the army??

Most English families would have some former or current serving member in the forces. Bristol has over 9000 staff at its MOD. The poppy is not perceived here the same as in N.Ireland, where it has been hijacked by bitter Unionism as a stick to beat the 'dirty fenians'. The irony is that outside of the English, the Irish have received the most VIctoria Crosses.

Gabriel_Hurl

Quote from: general_lee on October 29, 2018, 12:23:07 PM
What's the earliest acceptable date to wear a poppy? Saw a few at the weekend  ???

Here in Canada - it's the last Friday of October until Nov 11th

http://www.legion.ca/remembrance/the-poppy/how-to-wear-a-poppy

Hardy

Jazes that's worse than the North, where it's been the 12th of July 1690 since .... 1690.

seafoid

Quote from: Hardy on October 29, 2018, 03:17:11 PM
Jazes that's worse than the North, where it's been the 12th of July 1690 since .... 1690.
The world is funny. King Billy stood for the rule of law and the end of royal despotism when he overthrew the Stuarts. He stood for reason and against mystical shite.
Now the Unionists are the superstitious crowd who can't say yes to anything.
"f**k it, just score"- Donaghy   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbxG2WwVRjU

armaghniac

Quote from: Gabriel_Hurl on October 29, 2018, 03:14:27 PM
Quote from: general_lee on October 29, 2018, 12:23:07 PM
What's the earliest acceptable date to wear a poppy? Saw a few at the weekend  ???

Here in Canada - it's the last Friday of October until Nov 11th

http://www.legion.ca/remembrance/the-poppy/how-to-wear-a-poppy

The Canadian started all this craic, their major damage before Celine Dion.
If at first you don't succeed, then goto Plan B

Tony Baloney

Quote from: Walter Cronc on October 29, 2018, 11:05:27 AM
Plastic poppies on the lamp posts of Bristol this weekend.

Saw 6-8 cadets in one shopping centre selling them.

Theres no way this happened 10-15 years ago. What has caused the upturn? Fund the army??
Been in London for a long weekend and hardly a poppy about the place.