Junkyard Tom wrote: » Do you think the Cookie Monster should have worn a Poppy or not?
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.
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:
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.
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.
tipptom wrote: » No more cookies for him if he doesn't.
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.
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.
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.
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!!
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.
steddyeddy wrote: » I would certainly be up for a symbol to remember Irish who died in WW1 and 2.
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.
PopePalpatine wrote: » To cap it off, it's UKIP's Raheem Kassan he was admonishing:
Broxi_Bear_Eire wrote: » Yeah because that will happen. If people want to remember the many killed needlessly then so be it
Dirty Dingus McGee wrote: » And yet people who needlessly died before WW1 don't seem to be deemed worthy of the same respect.
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
sondagefaux wrote: » Where do you live? I live in England. Hardly anyone wears a poppy. Maybe one in a hundred if that.
[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.
![Photo of [Deleted User]](https://wf.vanillicon.com/v2/f0fd26a34d4ac2a9eff521bc9eaed40a.svg)