2 minutes silence

[EternalOptimist]

They have this big brass bell up in Fort William. I thought 'great, Bonnie Prince Carlie, Wiliam Wallace, Culloden. Maybe a great writer. it looks very old, hundreds of years at least'

Its a monument to the people of Hiroshima from the people of Scotland.

[Diestl]

Waste of time! Why not have minutes silence to all those who died of cancer or black death

[TimberWolf]

Waste of time! Why not have minutes silence to all those who died of cancer or black death

Or flu - a lot died of that in the First World War. Allegedly.

[sasguru]

Waste of time! Why not have minutes silence to all those who died of cancer or black death

If you are saying war is an unavoidable part of the human condition then that is true I suppose.

[Xenophon]

A classic CUK thread.

[RichardCranium]

Sorry but it does. it reserves the right to conscription.

I know. Terrifying, isn't it?

Thank feck the secretly Catholic warmonger Bliar didn't get the chance to use it against the Moslem Arabs.

I had a horrific fear after 2001 we were going to repeat events of 1,000 years ago.

[Moscow Mule]

Waste of time! Why not have minutes silence to all those who died of cancer or black death

Because those deaths were not caused by man's inhumanity to man.

[RichardCranium]

Waste of time! Why not have minutes silence to all those who died of cancer or black death

You're not a church goer, are you? That occurs every Sunday in every church.

[sasguru]

Because those deaths were not caused by man's inhumanity to man.

Rubbish.
It is precisely man's humanity that causes him to kill.
Humans have been killing each other since they evolved and there is not one scrap of evidence to suggest they will ever stop.

[Zippy]

A classic CUK thread.

Depressing?