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He thinks there is Poppy facism.

I think hes a disrespectfull attention seeking prick.

I haven't got a poppy yet myself. Usually I buy one every year. I also need to get off my lazy arse and donate to the prospect @ home and cancer research

Wearing a Poppy is quite clearly where its at for the cool kids.

I bought one but im wearing a pin at the moment cos it fell off.

Pins are even cooler though Yeovil, but only if you got one with your poppy

strange man.

my great-grandfather died on armistice day, so i always wear one. i've been the only person at college wearing one though.

If they are proper students they might have painted a poppy on thier doc martins  :D

my dad bought one tonight but couldnt quite figure how to put it on

old git

i didnt as i have no respect for anything that happend before i was born

Not even Desmond?

he has only exsisted to me since he took over countdown

People died to allow him his opinion on white poppies...so....
I agree!

i've got one, its  a bit dog eared and crappy and falls off my jacket daily. no other fucker has one either and someone asked why i was wearing a rose  :|

Did you beat them Stroooood?

no i didn't.

Lazy black cunt...!

To be fair he said he wears one in private but didn't like the way people on tv were expected to wear them whatever they believed in without question. He's got a point, if you have to wear one then surely it cheapens the point a bit.

No hes a cunt now shut it.

My inititial reaction was that he as a bit of a prick but then I actually read what he had said and I can see his point. He does actually wear a poppy when he's not presenting the news. This is what he said:

" I am begged to wear an Aids Ribbon, a breast cancer ribbon, a Marie Curie flower... You name it, from the Red Cross to the RNIB, they send me stuff to wear to raise awareness, and I don't. And in those terms, and those terms alone, I do not and will not wear a poppy.

Additionally there is a rather unpleasant breed of poppy fascism out there - 'he damned well must wear a poppy!' Well I do, in my private life, but I am not going to wear it or any other symbol on air."

I respect our armed forces, the sacrifice and the loss, and like others I remember them on Remembrance Sunday. That's the way it is."



It's a bit of a fuss about nothing really.

i don't really see why he has a problem then. i hope he forgets to take it off before he goes on air today, that'll learn him

I've had three so far this year - they usually last a morning before I start wearing my pin with pride. Wish they'd come up with a better way of attaching them