Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
I've ordered one of these ones:
Not sure If I can wear it though.
Not sure If I can wear it though.
what no annual poppy bunfight thread?
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FridgeMagnet
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Can you get squirt poppies, I wonder?
FridgeMagnet
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I'm not really keen on all the support our troops bollocks being rammed down my throat whilst building a culture of war being something noble. I feel sorry for those fucked over by it though either through economic conscription or at the end of a barrel over something they do not want. I suppose the poppy covers all of the above. I probably won't wear one though. Not least because there's a societal pressure to do so.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
it feels like we've already had poppy season- wasn't there some other jingo stuff earlier in the year? to reflect this modern state of permanent war we should wear poppies all year round. Maybe get a poppy tattoo just to be on the safe side
dessiato
🇪🇸 my spirit is crying for leaving
Can't get a poppy here but if I could it would be red to remember all the fallen. I whole heartedly disagree with the current military actions and think that government should be the ones caring for service personnel. But they don't which leaves charities.
FridgeMagnet
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Sasaferrato
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They went with songs to the battle, they were young.
Straight of limb, true of eye, steady and aglow.
They were staunch to the end against odds uncounted,
They fell with their faces to the foe.
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.
They mingle not with their laughing comrades again;
They sit no more at familiar tables of home;
They have no lot in our labour of the day-time;
They sleep beyond England's foam.
Straight of limb, true of eye, steady and aglow.
They were staunch to the end against odds uncounted,
They fell with their faces to the foe.
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.
They mingle not with their laughing comrades again;
They sit no more at familiar tables of home;
They have no lot in our labour of the day-time;
They sleep beyond England's foam.
Geri
wasn't born to follow
I bought one of these from eBay:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/331342263047?_trksid=p2060778.m2749.l2649&ssPageName=STRK:MEBIDX:IT
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/331342263047?_trksid=p2060778.m2749.l2649&ssPageName=STRK:MEBIDX:IT
Bakunin
I am Noodle's bitch.
Lawrence Binyon, if I'm not mistaken. Written while staying on the North Cornwall coastline.
FridgeMagnet
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THE boys came back. Bands played and flags were flying,
And Yellow-Pressmen thronged the sunlit street
To cheer the soldiers who’d refrained from dying,
And hear the music of returning feet.
‘Of all the thrills and ardours War has brought,
This moment is the finest.’ (So they thought.)
Snapping their bayonets on to charge the mob,
Grim Fusiliers broke ranks with glint of steel,
At last the boys had found a cushy job.
. . . .
I heard the Yellow-Pressmen grunt and squeal
And with my trusty bombers turned and went
To clear those Junkers out of Parliament.
And Yellow-Pressmen thronged the sunlit street
To cheer the soldiers who’d refrained from dying,
And hear the music of returning feet.
‘Of all the thrills and ardours War has brought,
This moment is the finest.’ (So they thought.)
Snapping their bayonets on to charge the mob,
Grim Fusiliers broke ranks with glint of steel,
At last the boys had found a cushy job.
. . . .
I heard the Yellow-Pressmen grunt and squeal
And with my trusty bombers turned and went
To clear those Junkers out of Parliament.
coley
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So have I now
coley
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Got a link for that? Ta
FridgeMagnet
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coley
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Ta, hadn't heard it.
motsy
PISSHEAD OF THE YEAR
I'm refusing to kowtow to all this 'patriotic' duty to support Britain's involvement in the USA's current war (sorry, 'police action') on the Middle East as I'm sick of it all, especially as we're being constantly bombarded by people who 'fought so that I could' have opinions like this in a war that happened a hundred years ago.
In other words, sheepishly and mindlessy conform to the general concensus or keep your 'disrespectful;, unpatriotic and non-conformist bile to yourself.
In other words, sheepishly and mindlessy conform to the general concensus or keep your 'disrespectful;, unpatriotic and non-conformist bile to yourself.
FridgeMagnet
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For some reason it doesn't get quoted a lot, can't think why
coley
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Modern day version need to substitute "the met" for fusiliers.For some reason it doesn't get quoted a lot, can't think why
FridgeMagnet
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That part is the returning soldiers bayonetting journalists. If the Met were prepared to then move on to Parliament they might have a few more supporters.
coley
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Ta, for some reason I thought they were being used for strikebreaking.
coley
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No.
weltweit
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They were all wearing them on Question Time this week, I thought it was too early.
Mind you I usually only get around to wearing one on the 11th of the 11th!
Thimble Queen
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I don't wear a poppy but if I did then it would be a white one.
coley
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Your prerogative.
weltweit
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Why a white one?
I forget what they stand for..
Pretty much everyone I know who wears one wears a red one.
coley
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Same here, but some odd folks about
motsy
PISSHEAD OF THE YEAR
I agree entirely.
The shitbag politicians should ALL be called up at the start of a war and ordered to the very front if they want to play war games.
Thimble Queen
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