I really dislike that shit. Your average person on/presenting X Factor have been showing them off for years. Can't quite put my finger on why it winds me up so much.
what no annual poppy bunfight thread?
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I saw someone on the train with some plastic poppy attachment on the zip of their hoody. 
Which to me is totally bullshit as the whole point of the shitty paper poppy is a recognition that you've made a charitable donation. In fact shouldn't these private companies cashing in on a charitable cause be exposed?
Which to me is totally bullshit as the whole point of the shitty paper poppy is a recognition that you've made a charitable donation. In fact shouldn't these private companies cashing in on a charitable cause be exposed?
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
The paper poppies are made by a private company too and they only give 10% of the profits to Royal British Legion.
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
That's not what I understood to be the case - you got a source for that?
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Can't remember. Will have to Google. Hang on.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
OK, one of the two companies, Kleshna, that makes them donates just 10%, the other gives 100%
Via Wiki:
The great poppy con: How one company selling the little red flowers only gives 10% to the British Legion
They also make those horrid crystal ones.
Via Wiki:
The great poppy con: How one company selling the little red flowers only gives 10% to the British Legion
They also make those horrid crystal ones.
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
From what I can tell, Kleshna don't make the paper poppies at all...?Orang Utan; post: 14194685 said:
In fact, that article you linked to is pure Daily Mail, in that it is what it doesn't say that is significant. From the headline and subheads, you would think - as I briefly did - that the Kleshna poppies were in some way comparable, either in terms of the numbers sold, or type.
But that's not the case: Kleshna make small quantities of jewelled and "designer" poppies, in small numbers, and have nothing to do with the paper poppy production.
It's a deliberately misleading article, in my view, and I'm somewhat surprised at an Urbanite quoting such a piece of drivel!
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Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Apologies, Wiki was misleading
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
It does that, sometimes.
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
Remploy were closed down by the Coalition government, but so far as I know have never made the poppies, which have always been manufactured at a factory (and with outworkers) operated by the Royal British Legion, currently in Richmond, Surrey.
You're probably being confused by the fact that the poppy factories employ disabled ex-servicemen (and, I think, family members) to work in it.
Plumdaff
joy in people
Remploy technically still exists, but certainly locally they only support people who already are in employment to retain that employment when suffering health problems and/or disabilities. The previous role of the organisation as a provider of jobs for people with disabilities is completely defunct.
J Ed
Follow Back Pro Expropriation
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
Britain First will start going round in their second hand MoD landrovers and weirdly tudor fascist uniforms stoning the unwearers before long. And don't think that will get the cunts off facebook. They have smartphones.
ItWillNeverWork
Messy Crimbobs, fellow humans.
NoXion
Craicy the Squirrel
Well I have bought a poppy now, but I ain't wearing it because I almost injured myself with the pin!!
Impromptu nipple piercing?
weltweit
Well-Known Member
No, thumb damage ..
My poppy now resides in my coat pocket .. where it will probably stay !!
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
unless you need to whip it out and show that you also love britain and hate terrorism
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
I was always told that poppies were made by people using their feet cos they had no arms, in that big building up Richmond Hill. Have I been sold a lie on the poppy issue?
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weltweit
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I don't anticipate many moments when that will be necessary !
dylanredefined
Not a house elf a tiger
brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
A emblem symbolising the state's willingness to wage war, its refusal to meet its employer's obligation to those harmed, its refusal to allow its employees the right to independent association and its desire to inculcate militaristic, chauvinistic sentiment. An emblem of a state-sanctioned body born of the reactionary fear of the de-mobilised workers and their independent, autonomous organisations.
What's not to like?
What's not to like?
brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
coley
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Aye, but they are losing the plot, have been a subscriber for many years,but this latest load of Shyte through the post! win a car or £20,000 is the last straw, before a penny goes to ex servicemen( and women) god know show much is being spent on this raffle and the slick media types who are going to be paid for organising it
coley
Well-Known Member
An awful lot of 'ex servicemen' suffered because of the states 'unwillingness' to wage war on an emergent Nazi Germany, mebbes a lot of grief could have been avoided?
I use the term "states" as an understanding you mean the UK?
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