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Poppy Middle Class Death Cult

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  • #422
    Del.Monte
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,363 ✭✭✭✭Del.Monte


    The poppy fascists are in good company with anti-poppy brigade, and in the meantime those of us who support the wearing of the poppy will continue to quietly do so for a myriad of different reasons.

    ****



  • #423
    Fratton Fred
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,566 ✭✭✭✭Fratton Fred


    Junkyard Tom wrote: »
    Do you think the Cookie Monster should have worn a Poppy or not?

    Only if he wanted to.


  • #424
    citytillidie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,210 ✭✭✭✭citytillidie


    Only 2 more days and it is over for another year

    ******



  • #425
    beach_walker
    Users Awaiting Email Confirmation Posts: 976 ✭✭✭beach_walker


    "The Poppy is just about remembering the dead and their sacrifice"... yeah sure. Then surely it wouldn't matter which one you wore, right?
    Shoppers buying poppies in Sainsbury’s stores north of the border have been sold the English version - rather than the Scottish poppy made by veterans in Edinburgh.

    The retailer said an unspecified number of its branches had been affected by a delivery error which meant English poppies - which have just two petals and a green leaf in contrast to the four-petal version sold in Scotland by Poppyscotland - were sent out to Scottish stores.

    Scottish poppies have been manufactured in the Lady Haig factory since the 1920s. Although Scottish charity Poppyscotland merged with the Royal British Legion - which operates in England, Wales and Northern Ireland - five years ago, the money raised remains separate and the £2 million raised in Scotland is spent on supporting war veterans north of the border.

    http://www.scotsman.com/news/odd/blunder-sees-english-poppies-on-sale-in-scottish-sainsbury-s-stores-1-4280139

    Some people around here have been really bent out of shape over this cock up :pac:


  • #426
    Fratton Fred
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,566 ✭✭✭✭Fratton Fred


    beach_walker wrote: »
    "The Poppy is just about remembering the dead and their sacrifice"... yeah sure. Then surely it wouldn't matter which one you wore, right?



    http://www.scotsman.com/news/odd/blunder-sees-english-poppies-on-sale-in-scottish-sainsbury-s-stores-1-4280139

    Some people around here have been really bent out of shape over this cock up :pac:

    You can take our poppies, but yer cannae take our freeeeedooooommm


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  • #427
    tipptom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,219 ✭✭✭tipptom


    Timberrrrrrrr wrote: »
    Did you ever find a post of mine that condemned Mclean over his poppy wearing?

    It seems you tend to disappear a lot when called out on your lies.
    Stopped looking after the first 20 pages full of your bile backing and eulogising the likes of Ian Paisley,scumbags burning effigys of anything connected to Ireland or its religion and the general run of the mill anti Irish mantra from people like you.

    Mod: Banned for personal abuse


  • #428
    Mortpourvelo
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 393 ✭✭Mortpourvelo


    tipptom wrote: »
    Stopped looking after the first 20 pages full of your bile backing and eulogising the likes of Ian Paisley,scumbags burning effigys of anything connected to Ireland or its religion and the general run of the mill anti Irish mantra from people like you.

    Read that as "euthanised" for a minute there, what a damn good idea!!!

    As you were.


  • #429
    tipptom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,219 ✭✭✭tipptom


    Junkyard Tom wrote: »
    Do you think the Cookie Monster should have worn a Poppy or not?
    No more cookies for him if he doesn't.


  • #430
    Mortpourvelo
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 393 ✭✭Mortpourvelo


    tipptom wrote: »
    No more cookies for him if he doesn't.

    Is it quite wrong that I am now saying "POPPPYYYY" in Cookie Monster's voice ?


  • #431
    sondagefaux
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,443 ✭✭✭sondagefaux


    NIMAN wrote: »
    I was watching MOTD last weekend, and considering how much grief James McClean gets from the British football fan, was shocked to see next to no poppies being worn by 99% of fans everytime there was a crowd shot.
    That's about the same percentage of people you see without poppies if you walk around any British town or city. The media, especially TV, likes to give the impression that most people wear poppies. They don't - it's just a tiny minority.


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  • #432
    steddyeddy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,565 ✭✭✭✭steddyeddy


    If the poppy represented WW1 and 2 then I would have no problem wearing it . However it seems to be only associated with the British sacrifice and therefore it's a bit too political for me.


  • #433
    Del.Monte
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,363 ✭✭✭✭Del.Monte


    sondagefaux wrote: »
    That's about the same percentage of people you see without poppies if you walk around any British town or city. The media, especially TV, likes to give the impression that most people wear poppies. They don't - it's just a tiny minority.

    Can you not leave it alone for another year. The Telegraph reports that the RBL expect to sell 40 million poppies this year - obviously everybody keeps them hidden at home. :rolleyes:

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/defence/3401165/Record-number-of-poppies-sold-by-Royal-British-Legion.html

    ****



  • #434
    LordSutch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,069 ✭✭✭✭LordSutch


    steddyeddy wrote: »
    If the poppy represented WW1 and 2 then I would have no problem wearing it . However it seems to be only associated with the British sacrifice and therefore it's a bit too political for me.

    Was surrounded by people wearing poppies in church on Sunday the 13th (in Dublin).

    Anyway, my final word this year on the subject would be to say that personally speaking, the poppy represents those young thrill seekers who embarked on the Kingstown to Holyhead ferry in their thousands, many of whom died on the poppy fields & never came back on the return journey to Dun Laoghaire. I remember the dead, not the reason or the regiment, just the fact that you or I might have been one of them who was mown down by machine gun fire while going over the top! I'll keep wearing mine every remembrance week, and I'll keep hoping that such a sacrifice on such an industrial scale will never happen again. They deserve to he remembered, (specially after being airbrushed out of Irish history for so many decades).

    Adios on the subject, for this year.


  • #435
    weldoninhio
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,311 ✭✭✭✭weldoninhio


    I'm on my mobile but can't link it. Has anyone seen Dermot Murnaghan ripping into a lad live on Sky News for not wearing his poppy?? WTF like!!


  • #436
    PopePalpatine
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,222 ✭✭✭✭PopePalpatine


    weldoninhio wrote: »
    I'm on my mobile but can't link it. Has anyone seen Dermot Murnaghan ripping into a lad live on Sky News for not wearing his poppy?? WTF like!!

    To cap it off, it's UKIP's Raheem Kassan he was admonishing:


  • #437
    Del.Monte
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,363 ✭✭✭✭Del.Monte


    One arse interviewing another.

    ****



  • #438
    steddyeddy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,565 ✭✭✭✭steddyeddy


    LordSutch wrote: »
    Was surrounded by people wearing poppies in church on Sunday the 13th (in Dublin).

    Anyway, my final word this year on the subject would be to say that personally speaking, the poppy represents those young thrill seekers who embarked on the Kingstown to Holyhead ferry in their thousands, many of whom died on the poppy fields & never came back on the return journey to Dun Laoghaire. I remember the dead, not the reason or the regiment, just the fact that you or I might have been one of them who was mown down by machine gun fire while going over the top! I'll keep wearing mine every remembrance week, and I'll keep hoping that such a sacrifice on such an industrial scale will never happen again. They deserve to he remembered, (specially after being airbrushed out of Irish history for so many decades).

    Adios on the subject, for this year.

    I would certainly be up for a symbol to remember Irish who died in WW1 and 2.


  • #439
    Dirty Dingus McGee
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,631 ✭✭✭Dirty Dingus McGee


    steddyeddy wrote: »
    I would certainly be up for a symbol to remember Irish who died in WW1 and 2.

    What difference does it make though?

    The whole idea of symbols remembering anything is really daft in the first place.

    You can remember something without having to advertise it to the whole world.


  • #440
    Dick phelan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,062 ✭✭✭Dick phelan


    At what point do we stop commemorating things, i really think after 2018 we should stop with the commemorating of world war 1, time to move on imo.


  • #441
    Broxi_Bear_Eire
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,704 ✭✭✭Broxi_Bear_Eire


    Dick phelan wrote: »
    At what point do we stop commemorating things, i really think after 2018 we should stop with the commemorating of world war 1, time to move on imo.

    Yeah because that will happen. If people want to remember the many killed needlessly then so be it


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  • #442
    basillarkin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,762 ✭✭✭basillarkin


    PopePalpatine wrote: »
    To cap it off, it's UKIP's Raheem Kassan he was admonishing:

    Cringe stuff that, 10 years ago there were **** all wearing of the poopies on shirts at football and rugby games, even less on national tv, banging the nationalist drum and somehow if you dont conform you are showing disrespect.


  • #443
    Dirty Dingus McGee
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,631 ✭✭✭Dirty Dingus McGee


    Broxi_Bear_Eire wrote: »
    Yeah because that will happen. If people want to remember the many killed needlessly then so be it

    And yet people who needlessly died before WW1 don't seem to be deemed worthy of the same respect.


  • #444
    basillarkin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,762 ✭✭✭basillarkin


    Dirty Dingus McGee wrote: »
    And yet people who needlessly died before WW1 don't seem to be deemed worthy of the same respect.

    Ah sure "they" the british only kept the boers in concentration camps


  • #445
    Fratton Fred
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,566 ✭✭✭✭Fratton Fred


    weldoninhio wrote: »
    I'm on my mobile but can't link it. Has anyone seen Dermot Murnaghan ripping into a lad live on Sky News for not wearing his poppy?? WTF like!!
    PopePalpatine wrote: »
    To cap it off, it's UKIP's Raheem Kassan he was admonishing:

    Sounds to me as though he is taking the piss out of Kassan, which is a perfectly reasonable thing to do.


  • #446
    Broxi_Bear_Eire
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,704 ✭✭✭Broxi_Bear_Eire


    Dirty Dingus McGee wrote: »
    And yet people who needlessly died before WW1 don't seem to be deemed worthy of the same respect.

    Pretty sure no one is stopping any remembrance of people that died in conflict before WW1. As far as I know this thread was about the poppy now it has moved to when people can and cannot remember the dead aye very good


  • #447
    sondagefaux
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,443 ✭✭✭sondagefaux


    Del.Monte wrote: »
    sondagefaux wrote: »
    That's about the same percentage of people you see without poppies if you walk around any British town or city. The media, especially TV, likes to give the impression that most people wear poppies. They don't - it's just a tiny minority.

    Can you not leave it alone for another year. The Telegraph reports that the RBL expect to sell 40 million poppies this year - obviously everybody keeps them hidden at home. :rolleyes:

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/defence/3401165/Record-number-of-poppies-sold-by-Royal-British-Legion.html
    Where do you live? I live in England. Hardly anyone wears a poppy. Maybe one in a hundred if that.


  • #448
    Del.Monte
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,363 ✭✭✭✭Del.Monte


    sondagefaux wrote: »
    Where do you live? I live in England. Hardly anyone wears a poppy. Maybe one in a hundred if that.

    So how do explain the Royal British Legion figure?

    ****



  • #449
    steddyeddy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,565 ✭✭✭✭steddyeddy


    A lot of people around me wear a poppy but not one mentioned my lack of a poppy.


  • #450
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 5,094 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Dirty Dingus McGee wrote: »
    And yet people who needlessly died before WW1 don't seem to be deemed worthy of the same respect.

    Especially, of course, if they were the native victims of the same British Empire these little tribal minds want us to rehabilitate by wearing their British poppy.


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  • #451
    Fratton Fred
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,566 ✭✭✭✭Fratton Fred


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    Especially, of course, if they were the native victims of the same British Empire these little tribal minds want us to rehabilitate by wearing their British poppy.

    Who wants you to wear a poppy?


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