I'm well f'in angry

[Sippo]

Weren't they from Brizzle anyhow?

Prob excluded.

[pauld]

Even worse in my opinion is that I hear that the Holocaust is being dropped from the ciriculum because it may "offend muslim sensibilities" s they deby it ever happened. If true that is an absolute disgrace.

Yeah, fortunately it's not though. I think that was one the Mail made up, or may have been the Beeb, but like most of these "Oooh, it's PC gone maaddd" stories it is utter bullshit.

And anyone who talks through the 2 mins silence should be stabbed in the eye with a poppy pin.

[Sippo]

Google didn't even show their respect. They can change for other 'holidays and events though!'

http://www.google.com/holidaylogos.html

[Samdy Gray]

We were having a meeting about next year's holiday. The fire alarm went off to signal the start of the two minutes silence, I'm sat there in silence but the stupid old wenches in our team kept on bickering about "I want this week" and "I want that week". They kept on going until someone finally shouted "It's 11 o'clock!" when they finally twigged and sat down and shut up.

[sonic youth]

i guess it depends on how you were bought up. i've always observed a minute's silence without fail on remebrance sunday and the 11th itself, my great grandfather died on armistice day in 1918 after the war was effectively over. as a result he never saw his son and his son never saw his father.

i recall working in tesco on rembrance day once and being utterly bemused yet remarkably angry at people who carried on doing their shopping, clearly aware of what was going on as they were almsot trying to sneak around.

teenagers use the war memorial in my village as a hangout. i do wonder how aware they are of what it means.

[ghanimah]

I was talking to a Irishman the other day (a staunch republican) and he was giving me a bit of hassle for wearing a poppy (especially as I am more pro republican than unionist as it were - but that's another story), anyway I disagreed with his take on it, as to me wearing a poppy is about the millions upon millions of lads who were slaughtered in WWI, and for the fallen in WWII.  I know the poppy represents others who have fallen in other conflicts but to me it's mostly about WWI and WWII. 

You should remind him of the tens of thousands of Republican Irishman who volunteered to fight and die for the British Army despite Ireland being technically neutral in WWII

[leefer]

To be fair to the young people of today,if they are not taught about the past,they aint going to understand....did anyone see the Dan Snow documentary ware his great grandad was a general in ww1 and basicly he was a disaster and his actions led to thousands of deaths....he was really shocked and looked really sad.

[janaage]

You should remind him of the tens of thousands of Republican Irishman who volunteered to fight and die for the British Army despite Ireland being technically neutral in WWII

I'm not going to preach to him regarding Ireland, he's entitled to his opinion, anyway, I wouldn't think he would be that bothered about the Irishmen who fought for the British Empire.  Whether they survived or not, which is his choice.  I'm not bothered about his opinion, just glad I think differently.

[Bob's Orange]

I'm not going to preach to him regarding Ireland, he's entitled to his opinion, anyway, I wouldn't think he would be that bothered about the Irishmen who fought for the British Empire.  Whether they survived or not, which is his choice.  I'm not bothered about his opinion, just glad I think differently.

Apparently at all the Football grounds in England and Scotland there was a minutes silence bar 1, which did a minutes applause (They have to be fucking different), presumably so their idiot fans couldn't ruin the silence.

3 guesses which club?

[Arriba]

you cannot blame kids for not being silent,most wont understand.
my work mate had to take his son to brize norton yesterday to be flown out to afghanistan.
at least the world wars were worth fighting.the shit going on now is crazy,and hardly gets reported.

[Samdy Gray]

Apparently at all the Football grounds in England and Scotland there was a minutes silence bar 1, which did a minutes applause (They have to be fucking different), presumably so their idiot fans couldn't ruin the silence.

3 guesses which club?

Celtic.

[Bob's Orange]

Celtic.

correct.

[ghanimah]

Bolton fans at Hull chanted during the minutes silence, apparently

[Sippo]

you cannot blame kids for not being silent,most wont understand.

See thats where I don't agree. Most kids do know what its about they just don't respect the situation. They still get taught it in school - in my school here its been in assembly, its been all over the news etc. Kids nowadays have to be taught respect. You get some kids who do care, but the majority don't care about the past.

[Fred Elliot]

I sat Jenna down when she was about 8 and made her watch Schindlers List

We sat through a 2 1/2 hr film in complete silence