Poppy Day bingo

Malcolm Armsteen · **Posted:** Wed Nov 09, 2011 6:40 pm

So, Fifa caves in. The poppy will be embroidered on a black armband.

Why?

We know, I suppose. The tabloid agenda-setting is now so pervasive that even heirs to the throne bow to it

Got this on Facebook today:

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So fifa want to ban poppys well well u look at that body of men who male up this shit and u relise they will do anything to stop england wining how can we let these wankers do this i say all england players wear your poppy with pride as a nation we domt have much left to b proud of what a desgusting thing to do but then again the leader of fifa is italian and they fought on the side of the germans iwhat i say is fly a huge poppy over wembley by helicopter or kust fuck em and waer it with pridel

Followed by

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well said chris, no fucka would stop me wearin one m8, if they say 1 word im gonna nut em!! CRAACK!!!

I despair, I truly do. That isn't ironic...

ezinra · **Posted:** Wed Nov 09, 2011 6:52 pm

Another one who's mixing up his world wars.

It reminds me what a beautiful thing punctuation is. Mmmm, full stops and semi-colons — they wouldn't exist if Hitler had won the war, you know. Everyone would be typing in commaless grunts like these witless imbeciles.

Malcolm Armsteen · **Posted:** Wed Nov 09, 2011 6:56 pm

He's an ex-pupil, and one of our most challenged. But even so, that's rubbish.
He has a very hard life, there's no real place for people like him in the modern economy, so he ends up sweeping roads. But the council employs him as 'agency', so no sick pay or holidays...

ezinra · **Posted:** Wed Nov 09, 2011 7:04 pm

Sorry, I should know better.

Malcolm Armsteen · **Posted:** Wed Nov 09, 2011 7:07 pm

I'm agreeing with you! We spent 5 years drumming punctuation into him, and he's never used a feckin full-stop since he left.

smod · **Posted:** Wed Nov 09, 2011 7:08 pm

Political symbols are banned on kits. Well no, you can simply put them on your armband now.

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A St James's Palace spokesman said tonight: 'The Duke has written to Fifa in his capacity as president of the FA to express his dismay at their decision.
'The Duke's strong view is that the poppy is a universal symbol of remembrance, which has no political, religious or commercial connotations. The Duke has asked FIFA to apply an exception in this special circumstance.'

Might want to ask some Iraqi's, Afghani's and victims of Dresden if the poppy isn't the least bit political. What if, Spain decided to they wanted to wear a symbol of remembrance for the victims of Franco's regime? Would that now be a political symbol? This will potentially open the flood gates.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... z1dETO9ry0

jguazu · **Joined:** Wed Jul 14, 2010 6:09 pm **Posts:** 458

Yeah, "fly a huge poppy over wembley by helicopter" - what a nice, dignified way of marking Rememberence Day that would be. Just had someone post this on their wall:

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Full Time:
Remembrance United 1 / FIFA 0

'Cos it's all just a competition, innit!

ezinra · **Posted:** Wed Nov 09, 2011 7:24 pm

Malcolm Armsteen wrote:

I'm agreeing with you! We spent 5 years drumming punctuation into him, and he's never used a feckin full-stop since he left.

A propos of your point about your ex-pupil and the economy, I've just finished reading Paul Willis's Learning to labour, a sociological study of a group of very anti-authority working-class boys at a Midlands school in the mid-1970s. A lot of it is interviews and observation, and it's absolutely fascinating. But the most gobsmacking thing of all, for someone of my generation, is that despite doing literally no schoolwork, being endlessly disruptive in class, and in many cases leaving school with a police record, every single one of the boys walked straight into a job or an apprenticeship.

It's a different world.

Malcolm Armsteen · **Posted:** Wed Nov 09, 2011 7:30 pm

I left school in 1966 with 3 O Levels and I was offered 3 jobs the next day...

Killer Whale · **Posted:** Wed Nov 09, 2011 7:35 pm

Seriously: http://www.express.co.uk/ourcomments/vi ... r-a-poppy-

Malcolm Armsteen · **Posted:** Wed Nov 09, 2011 7:37 pm

Killer Whale wrote:

Seriously: http://www.express.co.uk/ourcomments/vi ... r-a-poppy-

Kill me now. Fuck.

Tubby Isaacs · **Posted:** Wed Nov 09, 2011 7:47 pm

This is the most preposterous row ever. The people leading it seem to be the free market right. Who like to bang on about contracts. Well, contracts are negotiated over shirts, on the basis that there won't be symbols appearing on them. Just like the way advertisers negotiate with newspapers and don't expect a poppy to be stuck over there adverts.

Even if they just about understand the business implications, they'll then chuck in a bit of British exceptionalism. Just this once! The poppy! As if nowhere else might have symbols that politicians might want to stick on their shirts.

Tom_UK · **Joined:** Tue Oct 27, 2009 3:14 pm **Posts:** 3168

Killer Whale wrote:

Seriously: http://www.express.co.uk/ourcomments/vi ... r-a-poppy-

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SHOULD IT BE COMPULSORY TO WEAR A POPPY?

No, says Douglas Murray, Associate director of The Henry Jackson Society think tank

Oh Jeebus, I agree with Douglas Murray. :evil:

Abernathy · **Posted:** Wed Nov 09, 2011 8:06 pm

Compulsory poppy-wearing? Fucking idiocy of the first water.

If we're having compulsory poppy-wearing, I think I'd like to insist that we also bring in at the same time compulsory voting and presumed consent for organ donation - since the fuckwits at the Mail and the Express are coming round to the idea.

smod · **Posted:** Wed Nov 09, 2011 8:30 pm

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In many cases the young are pathetically ignorant of why poppies are worn due to the failure of schools to teach history correctly. (Not to mention the political agendas of some teachers).

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And not just those global conflicts. It is also a reminder of other wars – Korea, Iraq, the Falklands and now the murderous hills and valleys of Afghanistan. There are also those young servicemen slain closer to home on the lethal streets of Belfast.

Fucking hell.

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