Do you wear a poppy?

It doesn't have to be red, although obviously that would make you despicable. And probably a communist.

no...felt weird when i was offered one last year in work, was the first time since i've moved here that that happened. i felt a bit conflicted and hadn't really thought about it enough to say yes or no, so i said no.

wear one every year for my grandfather who served Canada in WWII.

Usually yeah except I always lose it after a couple of days but tbh the shenanigans of Help for Heroes etc has put me right off doing this now.

Any particular shenanigans? There was some internet gossip about what they do with the huge amounts of money they raise but I've never seen anything official. Or is just their whole modus operandi?

yes, but not this year (lol deutschland)

No. I've occasionally gave money though.

Have the Daily Mail started bullying the Premier League teams into wearing them yet?

yes, they ran something a few days ago. everyone's caved in except man utd. they're having their own green and gold poppy presumably.

white poppy people are kinda pricks

Looks like Man Utd are joining in after all.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1325026/A-set-Manchester-United-join-proud-poppy-club.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

I've never worn one. My dad was in the RAF and the militarism of the remembrance services I went to as a kid was just such an oppressive, ugly thing, and I guess I really associate them with that. Maybe it would have been different if I'd had any relatives killed in the war?

maybe you had some distant ones in the first world war? i only just found out recently about my great grandmothers brother who fought for a highland division who were nicknamed "the ladies from hell" by the germans. i'm assuming that's cos they wore kilts!

I could be wrong, but I feel like Remembrance Sunday is a bigger deal in the U.K. than Veterans Day is in the U.S.

I'd never even heard of the poppy tradition until I had to write something about Remembrance Sunday for work recently.

No on account of every time I have ever worn one in the past it has fallen off after five minutes. May drop some shrapnel in the collection tin though.

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as a newcomer to Canada, this is my first Remembrance Day. Now that Halloween's over all old ladies are sporting poppies.
jaymc, here's where the poppy tradition comes from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Flander%27s_Fields

^Oh, I know that now.

I won't surrender to 'poppy fascism' says Channel 4 News host Jon Snow

he is a bit of a cunt

I disagree. I'm meeting the fellow in a couple of weeks so I hope he isn't anyway.

Nah he's alright. Am v. bored of the military endlessly spinning themselves as fucking "Heroes". I can totally relate to guys who fought in two World Wars, mostly under conscription, but there aren't many of them left any more. If modern day soldiers feel so hard done by then they wanna get themselves unionized quick sharp.

he does this every year, he is the challop king

he is also a bit of a cunt

Never forget.
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Is Cameron pooping on a grave, there?

In a very real sense, yes...

OB vans make such an attractive addition to the local scenery

I used to, then I moved to Quebec. Impossible to find them here.

When she first came to England a Polish friend of my ex complained about the cheap men wearing the paper flowers.

I'll wear a poppy. Keeping losing them tho. Ends up being quite expensive paradoxically.

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In Ireland (Republic of) if you wear a poppy it is a sign of eccentricity or of digging with the other foot.

I must salute Snow for not wearing the poppy. Regardless of whether you think the wearing of it is a good or bad idea, it is a bit creepy how everyone on British TV seems to feel obliged to wear it. That kind of enforced conformity turns something that is meant to be a salute to fallen soldiers into an empty signifier.

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h8 u ilx

The other day in one of those shitty free subway papers, the lead story was WHY ARE NOT THAT MANY PEOPLE WEARING POPPIES, in which some 'reporter' went to a busy intersection in Toronto and counted people who were wearing them and it came out to like only 10% or something. And they ran a photo of two poppyless pedestrians with the caption "Pedestrians not wearing poppies". I mean it was fucking ridiculous.

That said, I happily wear a poppy.

it's the 11th and i've still not seen anywhere that has them. same last year.

the poppies on the royals at the cenotaph are interesting. all fancy schmancy except for phillip and one of the princes, keeping it real.

and yes, btw

Celtic fans are not wearing poppies.
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/11/09/article-1327826-0BF387EC000005DC-61_468x245.jpg

SOME Celtic fans are not wearing poppies. I'm wearing one right now. Note these Celtic fans are so stupid they can't even spell bloodstained, the morans :-)

Does anyone wear an Easter lily?

Well, not me.

Is there some flower our Orange friends wear? Maybe I could start wearing that all the time and get my face punched in.

I don't think I've ever seen anyone wear a lily in real life to be honest.

Of course Ailsa, I should have said 'some'. Celtic are saying they are going to ban the banner holders for life. Can't see that actually happening though?

These guys don't :(
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1328703/Remembrance-Day-Poppy-burning-Muslim-protesters-mar-Armistice-Day.html

tut tut

Don't know, there's a bit of an issue between the group with the banner and the board anyway, I wouldn't be surprised if some of them do get banned. It's too complex to go into here, tbh, but suffice to say they're not representative of as many Celtic supporters as they like to think, and they certainly aren't popular with the powers that be.

Banning "for life" always seems a ridiculous thing to threaten. You get less for murder, etc...

Aye, and then you just get your mate to rock up at the ticket office and buy you a ticket with cash and away you go. No-one will recognise any identikit wee bawbag from another, tbh. Is a gesture, and one Celtic were forced into due to general outrage at the horror and shame of it all.

The Great Silence.

Good read, btw.

I can't countenance the base ant colony instincts the red poppy represents. But I am one of these space cadet peacenik cloud dweller types who loathes anything military. If my type prevailed we'd be reduced to the Putin Isles obv.

There used to be a white poppy that commemorated the whole death count, including civilians killed by soldiers.

white poppy still exists.

I just heard something on R4 about it, never seen one once in my life though. Barely see any red poppies where I live though tbh

I've also never seen one

Bought one just 20 minutes ago, bending the pin double so it'll stay on. Both of my grandpas were in WWII though neither saw combat

I used to sell white poppies when I was at school. (Confessions of an adolescent contrarian)

white poppy still exists.

In fact I just ordered some.

'Thanks lads' is p succinct.

both my grandpas were in the second world war one in africa and one in singapore

My great granddad got shot at Gallopili and then had to dodge more bullets on the hospital ship. I think both my non-serving Irish granddads might have been harbouring Nazi sympathies, there was a lot of that about back then but it was verboten to mention it afterwards.

my paternal grandfather fought during the second world war*

*as an amateur boxer in the non-involved chilean military during his national service

my maternal grandfather put himself in harms way during the second world war*

*he was a roofer and in those days health and safety standards were non-existent

All grandfathers are shit

i love my grandad

Teresa May making a solid case today that the poppy is an apolitical symbol.

verily did i lol at the poppy sheningans on this account

https://twitter.com/StreathamRovers/status/793781721183420416

Bizarrely Streatham Rovers are a great bunch of lads.

How small is a poppy allowed to be? Wear poppies small enough for anyone to actually notice.

https://twitter.com/giantpoppywatch/status/793718893151911936

Hope they throw the book at them.

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Too right.

I was thinking the other day about a very prescient Billy The Fish cartoon in Viz from 10-15 years where it looks like a game is never going to kick off because they keep adding extra minute's silences on. Like this one is for victims of Jack The Ripper in Whitechapel, and now another for those that perished on rms Titanic etc..

Gordon Smith just on Skynews defending the FA/SFA on the grounds that FIFA's Say No to Racism campaign could be considered political too. Fucking idiot.

Christ alive, suddenly that utter tool Danny Mills doesn't seem so bad.

Do u wear a poppy

nah

I think, for two weeks a year, it's appropriate to have a reminder of the brave boys out in Afghanistan.

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im in this picture thinking "that's a pretty poor spelling mistake"

was debating whether to post this on the facebook meme thread but I think it's better here:

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War Christmas kicking off in South Woodham Ferrers, Essex. pic.twitter.com/dYNIR03wj0

— Tim Burrows (@timburrows) November 1, 2018

the lengths some people go to keep the tv license inspector out is ridic.

Still wear a white poppy, though tbh having to explain it on a near-daily basis is an irritant

going to put a collapsable war memorial up in the parking space outside my house

I've still never seen a white poppy irl.

me putting you all to shame:
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ive avoided it as a rule

white poopies are best avoided.

https://i.imgur.com/GkC6jVV.jpg

poppies are good...

for me to poop on

One of the local libraries had an ongoing project to knit poppies, and someone gave my grandma supplies who then gave them to me, but I never did it.

yeah i'm not into this, just happy we get that monday off

Nothing underlines the apolitical nature of the poppy more than the relentless stream of "if you don't wear a poppy gtfo of our country" memes as their numbers swell year on year

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DrfLuoCWwAAnQhU.jpg

talk about putting the poop into poopy!

very topical, as loads died of typhus whilst shitting in holes in the ground, to defend our freedom to shit onto the fatberg!

love how the buses here say "LEST WE FORGET SORRY NOT IN SERVICE"

it's already poppy season on bbc politics live (oh, it's only the one guest, tory mp?)

Kind of ironic to commemorate a war caused by nationalism in order to reinforce nationalism

lol exactly

soldier f cannot be found guilty, in related news