Poppy Watch Watch

[Hardy]

If you think the Poppy Watch thread opens earlier and earlier every year, you're wrong. Last year it opened on the twenty-first of September! And went on until the twentieth of March.

[AQMP]

A sign people are "moving on"?

[Billys Boots]

I suppose the worry about parades started on March 20th. 

[magpie seanie]

There was less "in your face" collecting/selling outside the Wembley tube station when I was over for the NFL game last weekend than 2 years previous. There was a lot more poppy laden "here's Jonny, he got his leg blown off defending our freedom" interludes during the game itself.

[armaghniac]

[Jim_Murphy_74]

No Poppy Watch entries yet this year.

Lest we forget.

/Jim.

[SHEEDY]

No Poppy Watch entries yet this year.

Lest we forget.

/Jim.

bt sport presenters had them on last night during the celtic game. 1st i've seen this year.

[Jim_Murphy_74]

No Poppy Watch entries yet this year.

Lest we forget.

/Jim.

bt sport presenters had them on last night during the celtic game. 1st i've seen this year.

Wrong thread.  Hardy set this thread up to watch the "Poppy Watch" thread.  You need to register your indignation/pride/pity/weariness over there.

/Jim.

[Rossfan]

Ye're temporary First Minister had one Wednesday.

[rosnarun]

A man walks into a small local pub on the outskirts of Southampton.
He is wearing a long black coat, and a scarf wrapped tight around his neck.
He goes up to the bar, and in a very faint, rasping voice orders a pint of beer.
No one talks to him.
As the barman is pouring the pint he notices behind the scarf is a scar across the man's neck.
No one talks to him, as he drinks his pint in silence
but the barman is intrigued by the scar on his neck, so, just before the man finishes his pint, the barman asks where he got it. In the same faint, rasping voice that he had ordered his pint with, the man replies "Falklands War".
the Bar man Breaks open the poppy jar and gives him the Proceeds
.
The man smiled a broad smile, and as he finished his pint, he headed for the door, and as he did so, he turned to them all and said "mucho gracias", and left.

[Pub Bore]

Saw a couple in M&S at Sprucefield last night.  Those wee jewelly brooch types.

[BennyCake]

Saw a couple in M&S at Sprucefield last night.  Those wee jewelly brooch types.

Ah, the epicentre of bigotry and sectarianism in the North.

[general_lee]

Saw a couple in M&S at Sprucefield last night.  Those wee jewelly brooch types.

Ah, the epicentre of bigotry and sectarianism in the North.

How do you work that out?

[pullhard]

Some here

[red hander]

How much of the proceeds of that go to the glorious heroes of the colluding RUC/UDR or the murdering Para bastards of Bloody Sunday and Ballymurphy?