Wearing a white Poppy

Treppen

I for one think this is a good compromise.

frag420

Treppen wrote: »

I for one think this is a good compromise.

Compromise on what?

KaneToad

Treppen wrote: »

I for one think this is a good compromise.

I for one think it has nothing to do with Ireland.

KevRossi

Treppen wrote: »

I for one think this is a good compromise.

It’s a compromise to this new thinking in the UK that it seems to be obligatory to wear one.

The decision to not wear either poppy should also be respected.

antodeco

Can I just eat a packet of poppets instead?

ctrl-alt-delete

Black poppies matter

Feisar

KevRossi wrote: »

It’s a compromise to this new thinking in the UK that it seems to be obligatory to wear one.

The decision to not wear either poppy should also be respected.

It’s not though. I do be over a fair bit for work and while lots wear them plenty don’t

dzsfah2xoynme9

Just staple an onion to your coat. Twill be grand.

An Ri rua

What does a white poppy in September signify? That you're free to start incoherent threads and damn the consequences?

whisky_galore

Wearing no form of advertising is a good option.

KevRossi

Feisar wrote: »

It’s not though. I do be over a fair bit for work and while lots wear them plenty don’t

Try appearing on TV without one. Look at the shouting match around some players refusing to have one on their match shirts. I’m also aware of a couple of offices where people are ‘encouraged’ (ordered) to wear them.

It’s a very new fad, very few people wore them 20 years ago.

Mrsmum

What is the point of the poppy symbol if people feel forced to wear some colour of them.

Zebra3

KevRossi wrote: »

Try appearing on TV without one. Look at the shouting match around some players refusing to have one on their match shirts. I’m also aware of a couple of offices where people are ‘encouraged’ (ordered) to wear them.

It’s a very new fad, very few people wore them 20 years ago.

Think that's only a problem in Britain.

Timberrrrrrrr

Is it that time of the year already?

JustAThought

Timberrrrrrrr wrote: »

Is it that time of the year already?

Whatever about the red poppy and all the politics and shennanigans that goes with that -
especially here in Ireland - its a pity it cannot be left as a symbol of the forst two
world wars and hs now been appropriated to include ‘verterns’ of the ‘war’ in Iraq and Afghanistan. Really compromising for the symbol and morally dubious.


Wasn’t white in world war iconography for Britan a sign for a coward - very perplexing message adding white to the poppy.

corner of hells

I wear one , with a swastika background












I'm joking.

Zebra3

JustAThought wrote: »

Whatever about the red poppy and all the politics and shennanigans that goes with that -
especially here in Ireland - its a pity it cannot be left as a symbol of the forst two
world wars and hs now been appropriated to include ‘verterns’ of the ‘war’ in Iraq and Afghanistan. Really compromising for the symbol and morally dubious.


Wasn’t white in world war iconography for Britan a sign for a coward - very perplexing message adding white to the poppy.

So what if it was left as a symbol of WWI AND WWII?

An insult to those who lived under British occupation.

Hamsterchops

Treppen wrote: »

I for one think this is a good compromise.

Couldn't even wait for mid October :cool:

Poppies (the wearing of) is at least a month away). This thread will be dead & forgotten about by the time the 'for & against' Poppy brigades appear to wage war against each other, although I see the opening salvos have been fired

Timberrrrrrrr

Hamsterchops wrote: »

Couldn't even wait for mid October :cool:

Poppies (the wearing of) is at least a month away). This thread will be dead & forgotten about by the time the 'for & against' Poppy brigades appear to wage war against each other, although I see the opening salvos have been fired

T'is a yearly boards tradition.

Hamsterchops

....... premature.

Tuco88

A lump of turf is more suited.

Church on Tuesday

Ah, the annual Poppy thread.

deise08

I think of anyone would like to wear a poppy, maybe they might choose the purple poppy.
For all the animal heroes.

bobbyy gee

The Royal British Legion's Poppy Appeal caused some controversy, with some—including British Army veterans—who argued that the symbol was being used excessively to marshal support for British military campaigns and that public figures were pressured to wear the poppies.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remembrance_poppy

Graces7

KevRossi wrote: »

Try appearing on TV without one. Look at the shouting match around some players refusing to have one on their match shirts. I’m also aware of a couple of offices where people are ‘encouraged’ (ordered) to wear them.

It’s a very new fad, very few people wore them 20 years ago.

No it isn't; it was always de rigueur from my long ago UK childhood onwards …

and many Irish men served in the War.

StevenToast

Treppen wrote: »

I for one think this is a good compromise.

F*ck off with your poppy talk

Graces7

JustAThought wrote: »

Whatever about the red poppy and all the politics and shennanigans that goes with that -
especially here in Ireland - its a pity it cannot be left as a symbol of the forst two
world wars and hs now been appropriated to include ‘verterns’ of the ‘war’ in Iraq and Afghanistan. Really compromising for the symbol and morally dubious.


Wasn’t white in world war iconography for Britan a sign for a coward - very perplexing message adding white to the poppy.

Disagree. The remembering has been now given to all who died in all wars. There is no morality in death in war, and the white is simply for peace which the entire world aches for. Absence of war. Absence of blood.

Many of my generation lost close relatives in World War 2. The Memorial Services were deeply meaningful and moving.. Nationalism played a small role.

Del2005

Graces7 wrote: »

No it isn't; it was always de rigueur from my long ago UK childhood onwards …

and many Irish men served in the War.

Very few people have any issues with the Irish who died in the world wars. What people have an issue with is the Red poppy commemorates all UK soldiers from all their wars and they weren't the good guys in the majority of them.

Manach

Might I wearing an item in support of the The Organisation of National Ex-Servicemen and Women (former Irish soldiers). This is a chariatable organisation that supports service personal who have fallen on hard times.

Kylta

Do the make heroin out of poppies?
If so maybe it would be safe wearing one around dublin

Deebles McBeebles

Should we do a pool this year? How many death threats will James McClean get from Engerlish men in their 50's/60's with a whiff of Millwall and EDL off them?

Treppen

Treppen wrote: »

I for one think this is a good compromise.

This is Ireland. No compromise, no poppy.

Graces7

Graces7 wrote: »

No it isn't; it was always de rigueur from my long ago UK childhood onwards …

and many Irish men served in the War.

Each and every one of them a disgrace.

bobbyy gee

What about the easter lily

The Easter Lily (Irish: Lile na Cásca) is a badge in the shape of a calla lily flower, worn at Easter by Irish republicans as symbol of remembrance for Irish republican combatants who died during or were executed after the 1916 Easter Rising.

bobbyy gee

Graces7 wrote: »

Disagree. The remembering has been now given to all who died in all wars. There is no morality in death in war, and the white is simply for peace which the entire world aches for. Absence of war. Absence of blood.

Many of my generation lost close relatives in World War 2. The Memorial Services were deeply meaningful and moving.. Nationalism played a small role.

white would mean coward in the old days

bobbyy gee

bobbyy gee wrote: »

What about the easter lily

The Easter Lily (Irish: Lile na Cásca) is a badge in the shape of a calla lily flower, worn at Easter by Irish republicans as symbol of remembrance for Irish republican combatants who died during or were executed after the 1916 Easter Rising.

Definitely. Such a shame more don’t, but it’s just a reflection on modern life and what we’ve become.

indioblack

Del2005 wrote: »

Very few people have any issues with the Irish who died in the world wars. What people have an issue with is the Red poppy commemorates all UK soldiers from all their wars and they weren't the good guys in the majority of them.

The empire was still in being during both wars. It could be argued that those who served in the military were, indirectly, helping to maintain that system.

corner of hells

bobbyy gee wrote: »

What about the easter lily

The Easter Lily (Irish: Lile na Cásca) is a badge in the shape of a calla lily flower, worn at Easter by Irish republicans as symbol of remembrance for Irish republican combatants who died during or were executed after the 1916 Easter Rising.

What was the Easter Rising ? And why was it at quarter past 7 ?

Timberrrrrrrr

ReginaldSmythV wrote: »

This is Ireland. No compromise, no poppy.

You don't really get a choice in that.

Timberrrrrrrr

Timberrrrrrrr wrote: »

You don't really get a choice in that.

On a personal level I do as I won’t tolerate anyone sporting one.

Timberrrrrrrr

ReginaldSmythV wrote: »

On a personal level I do as I won’t tolerate anyone sporting one.

You see someone wearing one in a shop or on the Street, what are you going to do about it?

Treppen

ReginaldSmythV wrote: »

On a personal level I do as I won’t tolerate anyone sporting one.

When if it's not red?

Timberrrrrrrr

Timberrrrrrrr wrote: »

You see someone wearing one in a shop or on the Street, what are you going to do about it?

Remove it. They have no place in Ireland.

Timberrrrrrrr

ReginaldSmythV wrote: »

Remove it. They have no place in Ireland.

Yeah right :pac:

You would physically assault someone on the street for wearing a poppy?

Love you internet tough guys :pac:

Timberrrrrrrr

Timberrrrrrrr wrote: »

Yeah right :pac:

You would physically assault someone on the street for wearing a poppy?

Love you internet tough guys :pac:

OK, whatever.

They’re a filthy insulting thing to wear in this state so (whatever you’re prissily calling assault) would be warranted. The equivalent to handing out swastika badges in England.

Timberrrrrrrr

ReginaldSmythV wrote: »

OK, whatever.

They’re a filthy insulting thing to wear in this state so (whatever you’re prissily calling assault) would be warranted. The equivalent to handing out swastika badges in England.

I wore one every year in Ireland for over 30 years and never a word was said to me. You are definitely in the minority. Not a chance you would touch anyone, you might give them a dirty look or tut tut in disgust but not a chance would you approach anyone and try remove it.

0ph0rce0

Timberrrrrrrr

Timberrrrrrrr wrote: »

I wore one every year in Ireland for over 30 years and never a word was said to me. You are definitely in the minority. Not a chance you would touch anyone, you might give them a dirty look or tut tut in disgust but not a chance would you approach anyone and try remove it.

Grand so. You’re absolute scum for wearing one in this country, it’s a shame on people here that you were let.

Danzy

Treppen wrote: »

I for one think this is a good compromise.

It still has the nasty associations of the normal poppy.

Timberrrrrrrr

ReginaldSmythV wrote: »

Grand so. You’re absolute scum for wearing one in this country, it’s a shame on people here that you were let.

Thats your opinion, people like my grandfathers fought/got injured and died in wars so that people like you could have this opinion.

I have always worn one, I will always wear one and if people like you ever have an issue with that then please feel free to approach me about it, I know you never will but the options are always there.

Timberrrrrrrr

Timberrrrrrrr wrote: »

Thats your opinion, people like my grandfathers fought/got injured and died in wars so that people like you could have this opinion.

I have always worn one, I will always wear one and if people like you ever have an issue with that then please feel free to approach me about it, I know you never will but the options are always there.

Then go to wherever they fought for and wear the sign of the butcher. Don’t sport it around one of your victims.