Here comes the forced 2 mins silence BS

[d000hg]

As has been pointed out, many of those who fought in conditions too awful for us to even begin to contemplate sacrificed their lives defending the freedoms that apes like you take for granted.

There's a slight irony about the fact that many of those you speak of were conscripted.

[NotAllThere]

My first 11.11 abroad, 9 years ago, and at 11:00am... fire drill!

I don't wear a poppy anymore. I've got bored of explaining to foreigners the purpose of it. Definitely would wear one and honour the fallen if I was in the UK.

[malvolio]

Actually it's not a forced silence, people are only asked to respect it. Which implies you understand respect. Heigh ho...

Perhaps the OP should have been in the City at midday on the week after the 7/7 bombings. Close to half a million people stood in total silence, not even an engine running. Only noise was the birds.

You don't have to make a noise to be heard.

[d000hg]

Actually it's not a forced silence, people are only asked to respect it.

It is practically forced in many workplaces though... tremendous peer pressure to comply regardless if you agree or not. That aspect I don't like, I think many regard it as "the done thing" and get cross with those who don't simply for not respecting tradition, rather than because they have strong feelings about the fallen soldiers.

[malvolio]

It is practically forced in many workplaces though... tremendous peer pressure to comply regardless if you agree or not. That aspect I don't like, I think many regard it as "the done thing" and get cross with those who don't simply for not respecting tradition, rather than because they have strong feelings about the fallen soldiers.

Don't get it, do you? It's not about being silent. If you don't want to keep the silence for your own expression of respect and a moment of reflection, you could at least respect other people's desire to do so. It's not like 2 minutes is going to spoil your whole day - but you may well have spoiled someone else's.

Too much of this country is damaged by people's blind insistence on their right to do as they damn well please and sod everyone else. The OP's atitude is just one more expression of it.

[russell]

Too much of this country is damaged by people's blind insistence on that everyone do as they say and sod everyone else. My atitude is just one more expression of it.

FTFY

[NotAllThere]

Oh Russell, your brave stand against the forces of oppressions makes me want to puke voluminously over your head.

[russell]

Oh Russell, your brave stand against the forces of oppressions makes me want to puke voluminously over your head.

That's errr good to errr know...

[malvolio]

FTFY

And a bloody awful job you did of it as well. Go read it again.

[russell]

And a bloody awful job you did of it as well. Go read it again.

I can only work with whats in front of me