Wearing a white Poppy

Treppen · 27-09-2020 10:26am #1

I for one think this is a good compromise.

frag420 · 27-09-2020 10:28am

Treppen wrote: »

I for one think this is a good compromise.

Compromise on what?

KaneToad · 27-09-2020 10:28am

Treppen wrote: »

I for one think this is a good compromise.

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

KevRossi · 27-09-2020 10:33am

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 · 27-09-2020 10:35am

Can I just eat a packet of poppets instead?

ctrl-alt-delete · 27-09-2020 10:37am

Black poppies matter

Feisar · 27-09-2020 10:38am

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 · 27-09-2020 10:41am

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

An Ri rua · 27-09-2020 10:43am

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

whisky_galore · 27-09-2020 10:44am

Wearing no form of advertising is a good option.

KevRossi · 27-09-2020 10:47am

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 · 27-09-2020 10:47am

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

Zebra3 · 27-09-2020 10:56am

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 · 27-09-2020 10:57am

Is it that time of the year already?

JustAThought · 27-09-2020 11:06am

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 · 27-09-2020 11:36am

I wear one , with a swastika background

I'm joking.

Zebra3 · 27-09-2020 12:09pm

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 · 27-09-2020 1:31pm

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 · 27-09-2020 1:44pm

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 · 27-09-2020 1:46pm

....... premature.

Tuco88 · 27-09-2020 4:42pm

A lump of turf is more suited.

Church on Tuesday · 27-09-2020 4:52pm

Ah, the annual Poppy thread.

deise08 · 27-09-2020 4:56pm

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

bobbyy gee · 27-09-2020 5:22pm

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 · 27-09-2020 5:23pm

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 · 27-09-2020 5:24pm

Treppen wrote: »

I for one think this is a good compromise.

F*ck off with your poppy talk

Graces7 · 27-09-2020 5:27pm

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 · 27-09-2020 5:33pm

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 · 27-09-2020 5:36pm

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 · 27-09-2020 6:18pm

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

Deebles McBeebles · 27-09-2020 6:27pm

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?

Wearing a white Poppy

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