Two minute silence at 11am

Winty · 11-11-2014 11:57AM #1

Will you be observing a two minute silence at 11am to mark armistice day

11-11-2014 11:58AM

If a tree falls down and theres no one around does it make a sound?

NIMAN · 11-11-2014 11:59AM

No.

Donkey Oaty · 11-11-2014 11:59AM

Shhhh!

solomafioso · 11-11-2014 11:59AM

LALALALALALALALALALALALALALALALALALA!

SEPT 23 1989 · 11-11-2014 11:59AM

I will

solomafioso · 11-11-2014 12:01PM

NANANA-NANA-HEY!-NANA-NANA.

The Backwards Man · 11-11-2014 12:02PM

You're an hour late.

11am Paris time

Notorious97 · 11-11-2014 12:03PM

Stupid fúcking sky 1 just cut to sky news, i am missing a masterpiece of tv that is hawaii 5-0 lol

Winty · 11-11-2014 12:03PM

Thank you

ArmaniJeanss · 11-11-2014 12:04PM

Politics aside this verse always causes me a tear.

"They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning,
We will remember them."

Hermy · 11-11-2014 12:05PM

If the message was 'War is Wrong' then maybe.
But as it's more about portraying the millions of deaths as some noble cause then no.

Birneybau · 11-11-2014 12:10PM

Have the radio on, in the office on my own so...inadvertently.

AudreyHepburn · 11-11-2014 12:10PM

ArmaniJeanss wrote: »

Politics aside this verse always causes me a tear.

"They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning,
We will remember them."

A lovely verse, that always puts a lump in my throat, and a fitting reminder of what Remembrance should always and was really always all about.

I don't understand why people insist on bringing politics into it all the time. It's not about that, it's about the millions of young lives that have lost in battle from all over the world, not just Britain.

Donkey Oaty · 11-11-2014 12:13PM

I send my very best wishes to everyone commemorating Armistice Day, and say "Happy Nigel Tufnel Day" to all those who are not.

cloud493 · 11-11-2014 01:00PM

I did. Still wearing my poppy.

topper75 · 11-11-2014 01:05PM

AudreyHepburn wrote: »

, it's about the millions of young lives that have lost in battle from all over the world, not just Britain.

They didn't die by accident. Let's not paint this war as something that befell them. They were sent out to die by born-again bastards whose collective egos had run amok.

If there is a meaningful legacy - it is that we must question authority.

Question it always.

Question it at every turn.

Dravokivich · 11-11-2014 01:06PM

There's such a thing as a 2 minutes silence?

FTA69 · 11-11-2014 01:09PM

cloud493 wrote: »

I did. Still wearing my poppy.

Fair play lad. Wear your poppy with pride. :rolleyes:

AudreyHepburn · 11-11-2014 01:10PM

topper75 wrote: »

They didn't die by accident. Let's not paint this war as something that befell them. They were sent out to die by born-again bastards whose collective egos had run amok.

If there is a meaningful legacy - it is that we must question authority.

Question it always.

Question it at every turn.

I never said they did.

I'm not trying to paint their loss as anything other than what it is....a tragic loss of young lives, taken in the most horrid ways possible for wars that none of them had anything to do with in the first place and that very few of them would actually have wanted to be involved in.

cloud493 · 11-11-2014 01:12PM

FTA69 wrote: »

Fair play lad. Wear your poppy with pride. :rolleyes:

I will, thanks.

Tokyo · 11-11-2014 01:14PM

topper75 wrote: »

They didn't die by accident. Let's not paint this war as something that befell them. They were sent out to die by born-again bastards whose collective egos had run amok.

If there is a meaningful legacy - it is that we must question authority.

Question it always.

Question it at every turn.

Is it so hard to have two minutes silence in respect for the dead, irrespective of how/where/why they died and without turning it into some sort of lesson in morality??

There's another 1438 minutes left in the day for those questions, surely?

teddy_303 · 11-11-2014 01:19PM

AudreyHepburn wrote: »

A lovely verse, that always puts a lump in my throat, and a fitting reminder of what Remembrance should always and was really always all about.

I don't understand why people insist on bringing politics into it all the time. It's not about that, it's about the millions of young lives that have lost in battle from all over the world, not just Britain.

why is it only central bankers wars that have a rememberance for? those dirty pricks funding both sides while they cheered both sides on from the sidelines, while the friends of the bankers from the industrial military complex makes a ton of cash arming both sides, just like Libya, Afghanistan, Iraq, Gaza and Syria today. Yeah, lets make a day to remember the bankers wars alright..

cloud493 · 11-11-2014 01:20PM

People can and have refused to be conscripted. That doesn't dilute the incredible brave those boys must have had. I know I can't even comprehend what it must have felt like it, sheltering in a trench, dirty, probably not got enough food, scared out of my mind, and expected to climb over the top into a hail of bullets and artillery fire. Incredible bravery, whatever the cause.

teddy_303 · 11-11-2014 01:22PM

they funded both sides and cheered both sides on..

11-11-2014 01:24PM

AudreyHepburn wrote: »

A lovely verse, that always puts a lump in my throat, and a fitting reminder of what Remembrance should always and was really always all about.

I don't understand why people insist on bringing politics into it all the time. It's not about that, it's about the millions of young lives that have lost in battle from all over the world, not just Britain.

Not a mention of it in Austria and I daresay Germany too..

topper75 · 11-11-2014 01:26PM

AudreyHepburn wrote: »

I never said they did.

I don't mean to be contradictory towards the general sentiments in your post but your grammar wasn't the best if I may say so and implied something passive about their deaths. That's what I wanted to refute. People sent them to their deaths. Actively.

mike_ie wrote: »

Is ti so hard to have two minutes silence in respect for the dead, irrespective of how/where/why they died and without turning it into some sort of lesson in morality??

There's another 1438 minutes left in the day for those questions, surely?

Do you not like people asking why generally, or just in relation to this issue?

OSI wrote: »

You are of course aware of what conscription is, yes?

I am. You are aware it was not applicable in Ireland, yes?

cloud493 · 11-11-2014 01:26PM

riffmongous wrote: »

Not a mention of it in Austria and I daresay Germany too..

The verse in question doesn't mention any country, even if the poem as a whole does.

Sufa · 11-11-2014 01:28PM

FTA69 wrote: »

Fair play lad. Wear your poppy with pride. :rolleyes:

Bordering on "anti poppy-facism" there. What unbelievably hypocrisy. Who are you to try and make people feel ashamed of making a very personal decision and supporting a charity of their choice?

FTA69 · 11-11-2014 01:39PM

Sufa wrote: »

Bordering on "anti poppy-facism" there. What unbelievably hypocrisy. Who are you to try and make people feel ashamed of making a very personal decision and supporting a charity of their choice?

I'm highlighting the fact that the poppy is not a commemorative symbol of those who died in WW1/WW2. It is a symbol advocating support for the Crown Forces and all of the campaigns they participated in, regardless of the fact that the majority of these were imperialist adventures abroad that resulted in untold misery for the people whose countries were looted or subjugated.

When you put on a poppy, you are weighing in behind the jingoistic notion that "Our Boys" should be supported whether they were murdering civilians in Derry or beating the sh*t out of prisoners in Iraq. The even sillier notion at play here, is that the British Army is not even our military and our country suffered hugely at the hands of that very organisation but yet every year we get muppets out wearing symbols that glorify them and either couldn't give a sh*t about what they did in Ireland or else stick their fingers in their ears and pretend that the Poppy is simply about WW1 when it's anything but.

I have no problem commemorating Irish people who died in the World Wars, I just don't see why we can't have our own take on it without piggybacking on symbols and events that conform to a wider narrative of British imperialism.

AudreyHepburn · 11-11-2014 01:41PM

teddy_303 wrote: »

why is it only central bankers wars that have a rememberance for? those dirty pricks funding both sides while they cheered both sides on from the sidelines, while the friends of the bankers from the industrial military complex makes a ton of cash arming both sides, just like Libya, Afghanistan, Iraq, Gaza and Syria today. Yeah, lets make a day to remember the bankers wars alright..

Bankers?

Two minute silence at 11am

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