World gone mad...

[Dr Stevil]

I bought myself a remembrance day poppy yesterday from my local shop, I bought one and took a pin, as you do, to fix it on. The assistant said that they weren't actually supposed to supply the pins anymore. Why? in case someone pricks their finger and sues the shop. While I was discussing this with her, some kids came in and made comments about the pins and said "you shouldn't be selling them cos we could hurt ourselves with them..."

WTF!!!

[Gavin Yates]

<font color='#000F22'>...and to think of the brave men and women who lost their lives in the pursuit of freedom has brought us to a stage when the loathsome whelps of a generation who forgot the sacrifice of others now dominate.

indeed Stevil FFS

[aclivity]

<font color='#810541'>I suppose they COULD give them away if they could fit the disclaimer on them .....

&quot;Warning, pin may have a sharp point that makes you say ouch if you stick it into yourself&quot;

[Mr T.]

Or the shop owner who 'shoo'd away' a WW2 veteran (replete in medals and regimental beret) from outside her shop for the heinous crime of 'selling poppies', on the grounds that &quot;It's tantamount to having a beggar outside the shop tapping people up for money and I don't want it....&quot; &nbsp;Head-fucked, or what?? &nbsp;

Of course the irony of the fact that the service personnel and civvies who died in the two wars so that this stupid bitch could run a shop in peace and quiet was completely lost on her.

Infelix ego homo.......sic transit gloria mundi

[Lou]

So are collectors for Marie Curie &quot;selling doffodils&quot;, or the Sally Army &quot;selling stickers&quot;?

Silly cow. &nbsp;I really wish I could see these things happening so I could have informed her of the error of her ways.

We had a voluntary 2 min silence here today. &nbsp;The person who came up to me and spoke to me in the middle of it got a full-scale, Paddington Bear &quot;Hard Stare&quot;.

Lou

[MATTBIN]

I saw a bit of the programme last night, the old boy mentioned he didnt think he was brave.

The commentator then added that his unit lost (?) 500 guys on day one of the offensive (WW2 in Sicily).
Dont know what you'd call it, but I think brave is pretty good shot. Its a violation of those guys that we now have a society ready to sue for stabbing oneself with a pin. Get real.

Matt

[aclivity]

<font color='#810541'>I would challenge anyone who thinks that observing  / respecting armistice day on the 11th of November is a waste of time, to take a walk around any of the WW1 cemetries in northern France, or the Thiepval memorial, or the Canadian war memorial where they have maintained a section of the trenches, or the WW2 cemetries, where little white crosses stretch far into the distance. &nbsp;Then tell me we shouldn't observe a couple of minutes silence once a year?

Andy

[Dr Stevil]

I took the precaution of &quot;just happening to mention&quot; to my fellow lab people &quot;You do observe the two minutes silence don't you...&quot; so we mamaged the appropriate respect. Kudos to the diver(s) who put the poppy on the Thistlegorm, fair brought a lump to my throat when we saw that.

[Lou]

With you 100%, Andy.

I'm going to take a weekend, maybe in the spring, and visit the Belgian war-fields.  My granddad has a cartoon, drawn on toilet-roll, by his uncle that shows the digging under the German trenches they were doing.  It was in his last letter home.  Neither he, nor his brother survived.  It really touches me and I feel some need to go and see where it all happened, and to *not* forget.

Lou

[Mr T.]

Agreed Lou,


And, not to put too fine a point on it:

&quot;They gave all their tomorrows, for all our todays&quot;

As selfless acts go, I figure that their 'ultimate sacrifice' has got to be worth at least two sodding minutes (a year!) of mine and everyone else's time.