To lighten the mood. White men can’t jump was a great movie
1 Like
Have you recently? I’m serious.
I’d give that virtual thing with Sandra Bullock a shot.
Better than the abomination that was White Chicks
Woody beats the Wayans every minute of every day without even breaking into a sweat.
1 Like
Enjoyable nonsense. But I’m not going to cite it as a reason not to display basic curtesy.
1 Like
You didn’t answer the question. Have you seen it recently? Please.
I saw it when it came out. Possibly again a couple of years later. Good fun
Don’t hold it up as a stark premonition about society gone woke. Don’t do it to yourself.
Having said that, several members of the Woke Tofu eating oppressed people support knitting group that I volunteer with on a Wednesday night, have started insisting that we wipe our arses on three seashells. So there might be something in it.
hopefully some canna edibles, because gapping out whilst you’re trying to figure out how to wipe your arse with a seashell would be some quality entertainment for the rest of us.
Putting aside the fear of being accused of following you around.
Your choice obviously, but WTF?
Happy to answer the question.
Actually, I do wear a white poppy. It’s the red one I won’t wear.
I’ve come to find the militaristic tone of remembrance a bit unpleasant. It feels today less about remembering the people who lost their lives, but about celebrating the wars they died in, and celebrating the military as an institution.
The original pledge of ‘never again’ rings hollow when we’re rarely not at war, and the country has a multi-billion pound arms trade funnelling deadly weapons to questionable regimes around the world. How can we honestly take remembrance seriously when we export so much death around the world.
I no longer subscribe to the idea that the boys who fought in that dreadful war did so as a noble sacrifice. They were slaughtered by an incompetent and callous upper class officer class, who saw them as nothing more than fodder. A lot of them signed up without a clue what they were signing up for. There was nothing glorious or noble about their deaths. It was a human tragedy. They were failed by the military. The military should not lead their remembrance, and the military should certainly not be allowed to co-opt it for its own PR.
If you have the stomach for it watch 1917. A brutal, visceral examination of the horror of that conflict. I’d challenge anyone to still want to wear a poppy after seeing that.
4 Likes
Dug out this article from the late Harry Leslie Smith which I remember reading at the time.
1 Like
Fair enough.
I wear a poppy because wearing a poppy is a symbol of respect for those who lost their lives during the war.
I only ever buy an official British Legion one because the money is then used in the Legion Branches across the country who are responsible for helping those veterans and service men and women in need.
I never buy those fancy but tacky ceramic ones off Amazon where the proceeds to the unscrupulous trader.
My take is that the white one is ideology and proceeds go towards promoting that ideology.
Happy to be pointed in the direction of information to the contrary, where proceeds actually go towards helping people.
1 Like
And I wouldn’t want to stop you doing that. It’s your right. But in my opinion, it stopped being that a long time ago.
To be honest, I’ll usually put some money in the Legion collecting tin, as sad as I am that we need a bloody charity to look after servicemen who have been injured fighting the governments wars (post conflict care should be priced into the cost of conflict and paid for out of taxation).
2 Likes
Saw this and thought it was a good explanation of everything we end up falling out over in here.
1 Like
I can’t even. my fucking god. 
We dont fall out, you just haven’t learned to agree with me…yet.
Work in progress.
Don’t then. Keep it to yourself.
I’ve said why I take this position, if you disagree I’m fine with that. Each to their own.
I’ve never heard of someone trying to justify NOT wearing a poppy. Biggest snowflake move I’ve ever heard. Please say that in front of a cenotaph on Nov 11, I want to be there to watch it.
Poppy Fascism is another reason I don’t like to take part.
3 Likes