Poppy Day bingo

satnav · **Posted:** Mon Nov 07, 2011 2:33 pm

I'm surprised someone hasn't invented a fire proof poppy designed to stop protesters from setting them a light.

bluebellnutter · **Posted:** Mon Nov 07, 2011 2:47 pm

What, and lose out on all the free publicity it causes?

Bails · **Joined:** Tue Jun 08, 2010 10:16 am **Posts:** 957

I'm suprised someone hasn't pointed out that if MAC are burning poppies then they're at least putting some money in the poppy appeal coffers :wink:

dailyheil · **Joined:** Mon Dec 06, 2010 7:39 pm **Posts:** 1017

It's funny round here at the university few people actually were wearing poppies

Bails · **Joined:** Tue Jun 08, 2010 10:16 am **Posts:** 957

dailyheil wrote:

It's funny round here at the university few people actually were poppies

Eh?

bluebellnutter · **Posted:** Mon Nov 07, 2011 4:16 pm

It's obvious. Not many of them were poppies. Indeed it ws the same with me, most of them at my university were people.

dailyheil · **Joined:** Mon Dec 06, 2010 7:39 pm **Posts:** 1017

I mean wearing poppies

Abernathy · **Posted:** Mon Nov 07, 2011 5:12 pm

At my university at least 8 of my fellow students actually were poppies.

Malcolm Armsteen · **Posted:** Mon Nov 07, 2011 6:36 pm

I was wary because I was weary.

Andy McDandy · **Posted:** Mon Nov 07, 2011 7:06 pm

Was discussing the enamel poppies with our school's CCF instructor today. He didn't approve, as he said it encouraged people to give once and then keep the badge year after year. He also said that one of the great things about the paper poppy is it's egalitarian nature - everyone wears the same symbol. His views on X Factor-style bling poppies were very harsh indeed.

oboogie · **Posted:** Mon Nov 07, 2011 7:16 pm

Abernathy wrote:

At my university at least 8 of my fellow students actually were poppies.

Some of mine were poppets. :oops:

Bones McCoy · **Joined:** Mon Aug 16, 2010 9:08 am **Posts:** 7326

oboogie wrote:

Thanks Malcolm.
I notice it is described as an "authentic eleven o'clock poppy lapel pin".
Do you think it self destructs at two minutes past eleven?

That's not how the armistice is supposed to work.

Bones McCoy · **Joined:** Mon Aug 16, 2010 9:08 am **Posts:** 7326

Malcolm Armsteen wrote:

I was wary because I was weary.

Wearing that same old dress ...

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

I'm so fed up the whole dick measuring "who can be the first to wear a poppy" contest, and the way the poppy has been hijacked by the tabloids and the far-right to push their agendas, that I'm almost tempted not to wear one at all. However, I think that is just letting them win, so I'm going to wear one from Armistice Day to Remembrance Sunday.

Killer Whale · **Posted:** Tue Nov 08, 2011 10:57 am

The FAW is getting in on the act now.

http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales ... -29734176/

I'm now utterly sick of this poppy one-upmanship. Utterly.

To me a poppy has always been something to wear in quiet contemplation and commemoration, a simple, democratic, one-size-fits-all piece of cheap plastic and paper. I suppose as we move away from the time when it was common to come across people who had lived through mass slaughter and who would rather forget than remember, it's inevitable that people should change the way they regard Remembrance Day. But I'm reminded of the Christian parables about the worthlessness of ostentatious charity. If you're doing it for your own benefit, then you're not really doing it at all.

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