Remembrance Day

[halewood pete]

On 05/11/2023 at 23:07, halewood pete said:

My dad fought in WW2 in North africa and Italy and luckily came home.he died when I was seven,so I always wear a poppy in remembrance of him and those who didn't come back

My dad on the right in a photo he sent to my mum during the war.

[Fowlers God]

Much Like others in the thread; I am more than happy to donate to worthy causes if I have spare change in my pocket. 

 

But I wont wear the rubbery/plastic bracelets to say I donated to Bowel Cancer etc and therefore I dont wear poppies. For me the poppy no longer symbolises what it was meant to represent. It now represents everything the poppy was meant to stand against and for that reason I am out. 

[TheHowieLama]

18 hours ago, Section_31 said:

Freaks me out sometimes to think that when I was growing up in the early 80s there would have still been WWII veterans in the workforce. Imagine that. Bus drivers, accountants, teachers who'd been through that shit. 

 

Vietnam vets though.

[Section_31]

7 minutes ago, TheHowieLama said:

 

Vietnam vets though.

 

How many Viet Nam veterans does it take to change a light bulb?

 

You don't know man. You weren't there.

[Arniepie]

stephen christopher yaxxley lennon calling to arms all the fat carling drinking scruffs to defend the cenotaph on sat.

Presumable there will be widespread calls for that to be banned?

[M_B]

The march route goes nowhere near the cenotaph, so there will be a lot of sad gammons twiddling their thumbs and trying to keep warm.

 

Pigs in blankets.

 

[Strontium]

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/nov/07/police-guard-rochdale-cenotaph-after-graffiti-and-damage-to-wreaths-reported

Police guard Rochdale cenotaph after graffiti and damage to wreaths reported

Two teenagers being charged with public nuisance offences and in another incident ‘Free Palestine’ has been sprayed on monument
 

Police officers are guarding Rochdale’s cenotaph after two incidents at the war memorial, Greater Manchester police (GMP) has said.
 

Police community support officers have been stationed by the cenotaph, which the force said is “currently a crime scene”.
 

Two teenagers, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, are being charged with intentionally or recklessly causing public nuisance following an incident on Monday.
 

Rochdale borough council said on X, formerly Twitter, that it “removed and replaced a number of damaged poppy wreaths” after the incident.
 

The council also referenced a second incident at the cenotaph, which it said occurred on Tuesday afternoon and involved graffiti being sprayed on the war memorial. The local authority described the incident as “totally unacceptable”.
 

The response to the second incident, which was reported shortly after 4pm on Tuesday, is under way, police said. They did not give any further details but social media posts showed “Free Palestine” sprayed on the monument.

 

[an tha]

10 hours ago, Arniepie said:

stephen christopher yaxxley lennon calling to arms all the fat carling drinking scruffs to defend the cenotaph on sat.

Presumable there will be widespread calls for that to be banned?

"You're country needs you"

 

What a cunt. What an absolute fucking cunt.

 

It is exactly that sort of hijacking of the whole thing around rememrance day/ the poppy appeal etc that desperately needs breaking, but that sadly the tories love to use and stir.

[halewood pete]

11 hours ago, Arniepie said:

stephen christopher yaxxley lennon calling to arms all the fat carling drinking scruffs to defend the cenotaph on sat.

Presumable there will be widespread calls for that to be banned?

 

[Kepler-186]

Liverpool’s war memorial by St George’s Hall reads: 

 

“Out of the north parts came a great company and a mighty army.”
 

Now it’s bolshy, scrounging, whingeing Scousers again like in 1911. 
 

Beware the march of nationalism and revisionist history.  

[Section_31]

This poppy/cenotaph stuff wouldn't have been on anyone's radar until Braverman pulled it out her arse. The tories are so, so dangerous.

[AngryOfTuebrook]

8 hours ago, an tha said:

"You're country needs you"

 

What a cunt. What an absolute fucking cunt.

 

It is exactly that sort of hijacking of the whole thing around rememrance day/ the poppy appeal etc that desperately needs breaking, but that sadly the tories love to use and stir.

Yeah, but calling for a ceasefire on the anniversary of history's most famous ceasefire is "disrespectful" and "provocative".

[AngryOfTuebrook]

2 hours ago, Section_31 said:

This poppy/cenotaph stuff wouldn't have been on anyone's radar until Braverman pulled it out her arse. The tories are so, so dangerous.

100% this.

[Creator Supreme]

9 hours ago, Strontium said:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/nov/07/police-guard-rochdale-cenotaph-after-graffiti-and-damage-to-wreaths-reported

Police guard Rochdale cenotaph after graffiti and damage to wreaths reported

Two teenagers being charged with public nuisance offences and in another incident ‘Free Palestine’ has been sprayed on monument
 

Police officers are guarding Rochdale’s cenotaph after two incidents at the war memorial, Greater Manchester police (GMP) has said.
 

Police community support officers have been stationed by the cenotaph, which the force said is “currently a crime scene”.
 

Two teenagers, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, are being charged with intentionally or recklessly causing public nuisance following an incident on Monday.
 

Rochdale borough council said on X, formerly Twitter, that it “removed and replaced a number of damaged poppy wreaths” after the incident.
 

The council also referenced a second incident at the cenotaph, which it said occurred on Tuesday afternoon and involved graffiti being sprayed on the war memorial. The local authority described the incident as “totally unacceptable”.
 

The response to the second incident, which was reported shortly after 4pm on Tuesday, is under way, police said. They did not give any further details but social media posts showed “Free Palestine” sprayed on the monument.

 

Thoroughly unhelpful, whether it was well meant or not.

 

There are better ways to show support for innocents dying in the middle east than graffitiing monuments to the lost.

[Creator Supreme]

7 hours ago, halewood pete said:

 

I did not give permission for my image to be copied and used in this manner.

[halewood pete]

Guess what the Mail would really like to happen ?

[Arniepie]

8 hours ago, an tha said:

"You're country needs you"

 

What a cunt. What an absolute fucking cunt.

 

It is exactly that sort of hijacking of the whole thing around rememrance day/ the poppy appeal etc that desperately needs breaking, but that sadly the tories love to use and stir.

be surprised if the slack jawed simpletons make it out of wethies.

[Section_31]

[Arniepie]

14 minutes ago, Creator Supreme said:

Thoroughly unhelpful, whether it was well meant or not.

 

There are better ways to show support for innocents dying in the middle east than graffitiing monuments to the lost.

it doesn’t but in any other year, this probably wouldnt make it onto the news.

a poppy seller was allegedly attacked at the weekend. Didn’t go the police off Course, just the daily mail.

the agenda behind this is utterly transparent.

Braverman calling it a hate march, Sunak saying its an attack on British decency and the flag shagging morons don’t seem to grasp the concept that saturday and Sunday are 2 seperate days.

Every knuckle dragging simpleton will crawl down there on sat to "protect the cenotaph",draped in the flag swigging carling

absolute nap there will be some sort of kick off,gb news and the mail will blame the hate march and that evil cunt will bring in some draconian law.

see it a mile off  

[redinblack]

Have we had the annual "Muslims Dont Like Poppies" memes yet, shortly before the annual "Muslims dont like Christmas" one?

[Bjornebye]

25 minutes ago, redinblack said:

Have we had the annual "Muslims Dont Like Poppies" memes yet, shortly before the annual "Muslims dont like Christmas" one?

It won’t be long before singing Christmas songs has been banned again and taxi drivers can’t put tinsel

up etc. 

[Anubis]

Suella? Suella?

 

[Section_31]

Someone should do a pop quiz of how many of these lifestyle homeless fellas in tents were ex military, I reckon at least a quarter if not more, and see how that jives with all her bollocks. 

[Gnasher]

Tory controlled Dorset from a few months ago. The old fella should have cancelled the Netflix and stopped spending all his money at Starbucks.

 

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/jul/14/d-day-veteran-98-put-up-in-hostel-after-eviction-from-dorset-home

 

 

 

[Creator Supreme]

1 hour ago, Bjornebye said:

It won’t be long before singing Christmas songs has been banned again and taxi drivers can’t put tinsel

up etc. 

Where can I sign up to make this happen?