2 minutes silence

[cailin maith]

In your sheep following opinion.

So the fact that I have a sense of "Respect", that makes me a sheep?

[sasguru]

Careful Moose will put you on his Ignore list and what a disaster that will be

[sasguru]

Tripe, why not have a minutes silence for all the people the British Armies have killed throughout history. .

The fuzzy-wuzzies don't deserve any silences.

HTH

[EternalOptimist]

There are some countries and peoples that have a lot they want to forget, eh Diestl ? and some countries that are proud to remember

[RichardCranium]

OK, I'll bite.

Its a load of crap, I dont even know what WWI was about and dont care, its ancient history, get over it.

That's part of the reason The Great War warrants being remembered. It began because of a bunch of treaties that had evolved over centures that had become meaningless. It began because the Austro-Hungarian Empire had got too powerful but only an alliance could be big enough to break it and nobody could see a way to do so other than the traditional one: war. It began because the state had the power of life and death over its subjects in most (all?) of Europe.

It began for no real good reason.

Yet killed millions.

And achieved nothing much constructive.

It was an important war because it set the scene for the huge transformation of the 20th century: the masses would no longer allow the state to determine whether they lived or died en masse.

Tripe, why not have a minutes silence for all the people the British Armies have killed throughout history.

We do. It occurs on Remembrance Sunday. It is a period of quiet for us all to think of those we have lost, those who made sacrifices for us, those who went when we didn't, those who went so that we didn't have to, whatever else you want to think about. That can include dead foreign people too.

I'm sure plenty think about their lunch, work or the legs of that bint in front. But they do it quietly.

Waste of 2 minutes, anyone stupid enough to sign up to the Army are either morons or nutjobs.

Hmm.

What about the others who do dangerous work? Miners? Firemen? Lifeboat volunteers? Merchant navy? Trawlermen? Are they all morons and nutjobs too?


If you don't know what the silence is for, you could use it the way many people do: as a way of showing you are glad you don't have to do what others have gone and done.

[sasguru]

We do. It occurs on Remembrance Sunday. It is a period of quiet for us all to think of those we have lost, those who made sacrifices for us, those who went when we didn't, those who went so that we didn't have to, whatever else you want to think about. That can include dead foreign people too.

.

Aren't you missing Diestl's point? He said why don't we have a silence for all those who have been killed by those you mention above.

[sasguru]

Personally I think we should have a silence to remember everyone who has been killed/damaged/injured by the futility of war - because most wars don't change anything much in the long run.

[OrangeHopper]

There is a memorial on the downs above Brighton - very out of the way - that was the site where the Indians who died in Brighton hospitals, of the injuries they sustain during WWI, were cremated.

[Moscow Mule]

Great argument.

It's all you deserve.

[TimberWolf]

I can easily go without talking for two minutes, but it must be murder for women.