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Post by Ratae on Nov 2, 2015 16:24:01 GMT
However, it didn't escape my notice this morning that Gilmour was the only person on that show not wearing a poppy. Sorry ratarse but Remembrance Sunday was a week away and I think the BBC makes a mockery of it by everyone being offered a poppy to wear in the preceding fortnight. Don't lets make Remembrance Sunday like Xmas and start celebrating/remembering it earlier every year. Yes I think it is respectful of our fallen war dead to wear a poppy but wearing one only on remembrance weekend is showing all the respect necessary in my books. That's ok Smudger, your apology is accepted.  Personally, I wear a poppy from the first moment I spot some old fella wearing his medal ribbons, offering them. If they were standing there in the middle of June I'd still find it hard to walk past, just as I do when I see someone rattling a help for heroes bucket. Y'see Smudger, I assume that everyone who appears on the beeb at this time of the year is offered a poppy to wear, which obviously (to me) means that Gilmour must have refused to wear one, this also means (to me) that he is a total tosser. So, as lots of good men died fighting for both his right to be a tosser and my right to call him a tosser, then it's a tosser he is.  Fixed  |
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Post by nob on Nov 2, 2015 17:16:01 GMT
However, it didn't escape my notice this morning that Gilmour was the only person on that show not wearing a poppy. Sorry ratarse but Remembrance Sunday was a week away and I think the BBC makes a mockery of it by everyone being offered a poppy to wear in the preceding fortnight. Don't lets make Remembrance Sunday like Xmas and start celebrating/remembering it earlier every year. Yes I think it is respectful of our fallen war dead to wear a poppy but wearing one only on remembrance weekend is showing all the respect necessary in my books. So everyone dashes out on the 11th and buys a poppy.  Ive been wearing mine for a while now I get one as soon as they appeal is launched. |
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Post by Geoff on Nov 2, 2015 17:33:26 GMT
Sorry ratarse but Remembrance Sunday was a week away and I think the BBC makes a mockery of it by everyone being offered a poppy to wear in the preceding fortnight. Don't lets make Remembrance Sunday like Xmas and start celebrating/remembering it earlier every year. Yes I think it is respectful of our fallen war dead to wear a poppy but wearing one only on remembrance weekend is showing all the respect necessary in my books. So everyone dashes out on the 11th and buys a poppy. Ive been wearing mine for a while now I get one as soon as they appeal is launched. I bought an enamel one last year and it's worn all the time, also i get the paper ones for the missus and me. |
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Post by banjo on Nov 2, 2015 18:23:46 GMT
Do those enamelled ones have a date on? They should have. Collectors would have a field day and it would therefore generate yet more funds for RBL. I have one in a jewellery box upstairs somewhere so I'll check it out.
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Post by jal on Nov 2, 2015 18:34:28 GMT
We always buy 2 each because we usually lose one sometime during the period.
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Post by Geoff on Nov 3, 2015 6:31:39 GMT
Do those enamelled ones have a date on? They should have. Collectors would have a field day and it would therefore generate yet more funds for RBL. I have one in a jewellery box upstairs somewhere so I'll check it out. e&oe... There is no date on mine. |
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Post by banjo on Nov 3, 2015 7:15:32 GMT
Nor mine Geoff, at least it prompted me to dig mine out. Every year I lose at least one poppy.
We have a two minutes silence at work, but every year without fail, the trades unions representatives have to request it. Then again- they have to request fire drills too. Go figure.
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Post by egg on Nov 3, 2015 9:52:40 GMT
Do those enamelled ones have a date on? They should have. Collectors would have a field day and it would therefore generate yet more funds for RBL. I have one in a jewellery box upstairs somewhere so I'll check it out. e&oe... Mine has the date on...... www.amazon.co.uk/2015-Remembrance-Day-Poppy-Lapel/dp/B00V27NLOMIt's like this one but mine cost £2 from our local Co-op.  I've got one from last year as well and they'll both stay on my coat. This is one charity I don't mind donating to. G. |
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Post by jal on Nov 3, 2015 11:28:36 GMT
Well done G keep wearing them, be loud and proud |
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Post by nob on Nov 3, 2015 14:43:12 GMT
Well it looks like that Russkie plane was brought down by a bomb. The gaffer will not be best pleased, and a nuke might just be brought out to do the job once and for all.
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Post by Geoff on Nov 3, 2015 18:50:25 GMT
Hope Vlad uses more than one and flattens every one of the sh*t hole countries.
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Post by Geoff on Nov 3, 2015 18:52:45 GMT
Do those enamelled ones have a date on? They should have. Collectors would have a field day and it would therefore generate yet more funds for RBL. I have one in a jewellery box upstairs somewhere so I'll check it out. e&oe... Mine has the date on...... www.amazon.co.uk/2015-Remembrance-Day-Poppy-Lapel/dp/B00V27NLOMIt's like this one but mine cost £2 from our local Co-op. I've got one from last year as well and they'll both stay on my coat. This is one charity I don't mind donating to. G. Saw some enamel ones today with 1915 2015 on them. |
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Post by egg on Nov 4, 2015 7:25:51 GMT
Geoff, after I did my post I looked at my badges again and they have 1914 on the top and 2014/2015 on the bottom.  I shoulda gone to Specsavers......  G. |
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Post by jal on Nov 4, 2015 10:00:45 GMT
I didn't realise they came with personal data on them e.g date of birth Just getting my tin hat out for expected missiles approaching  |
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Post by banjo on Nov 4, 2015 10:28:29 GMT
Mine's gone already. Went to get another from the receptionist's desk (£2) but all the enamelled ones are gone. Now demoted to a poppy stuck through the zipper on coat. As said G, a worthy cause.
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Ive been wearing mine for a while now I get one as soon as they appeal is launched. 
Illegitimi non carborundum
