Reply to: Here comes the forced 2 mins silence BS

[Stan]

I kept typing. I don't include "silence" to mean total lack of activity. A few people were still on conf calls talking. If the office were so quiet that my typing could be heard then I wouldn't even have typed.

[Taita]

Because when I was a lad, the sentiment was chiefly around remembering the folly of war (WW1) and to a lesser extent remembering the sacrifice of those who died fighting for freedom (WW2). The sentiment is now increasingly hitched towards supporting our boys fighting current wars, which in turn is related to a kind of political correctness whereby you have to support our boys fighting abroad.

The argument broadly goes that even if you think wars is Afghanistan and Iraq are /were illegal / immoral, you should still support those soldiers who are fighting them, which just seems nuts to me.

The Royal British Legion has a poppy poster this year with the strap-line something like, 'Standing shoulder to shoulder with those who serve'. I just don't want to do that.

But as I said, I respect those who feel differently as it's an event that people can mark with all kinds of sentiments, and it seems rather mean-spirited to spoil it for others.

Not just mean spirited but bad mannered to boot. A bit like blowing rasberries during the playing of another country's National Anthem.

[Taita]

Well they wanted you to do the other half of your working day.

Ouch!! A direct hit I think........:

[Doggy Styles]

You mean the freedoms that all those soldiers died to protect?

me! me! me! me! me! me! me! me! me! me! me! me!

All that matters is me.

[Old Greg]

"With freedom comes responsibility". A line that far too many people choose to ignore.

Responsibility exists in the absence of freedom and vice versa.

[d000hg]

I was asked to stay two minutes later at the end of the day to make up for it.

Well they wanted you to do the other half of your working day.

[MarillionFan]

Then don't bill for the two minutes and honour is satisfied!

I was asked to stay two minutes later at the end of the day to make up for it.

[Taita]

No I observed the silence, I would prefer to do it in my own time than forced into it during my working day.

Then don't bill for the two minutes and honour is satisfied!

[d000hg]

"With freedom comes responsibility". A line that far too many people choose to ignore.

"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it"

[malvolio]

Speaking seriously, isn't that precisely what they were protecting?

"With freedom comes responsibility". A line that far too many people choose to ignore.

[mudskipper]

Because when I was a lad, the sentiment was chiefly around remembering the folly of war (WW1) and to a lesser extent remembering the sacrifice of those who died fighting for freedom (WW2). The sentiment is now increasingly hitched towards supporting our boys fighting current wars, which in turn is related to a kind of political correctness whereby you have to support our boys fighting abroad.

The argument broadly goes that even if you think wars is Afghanistan and Iraq are /were illegal / immoral, you should still support those soldiers who are fighting them, which just seems nuts to me.

The Royal British Legion has a poppy poster this year with the strap-line something like, 'Standing shoulder to shoulder with those who serve'. I just don't want to do that.

But as I said, I respect those who feel differently as it's an event that people can mark with all kinds of sentiments, and it seems rather mean-spirited to spoil it for others.

WHS. I do wear a poppy, but it doesn't feel like we've learned from the past.

[d000hg]

I don't think they were protecting the right for people to be bumholes.

Speaking seriously, isn't that precisely what they were protecting?

[GreenLabel]

You mean the freedoms that all those soldiers died to protect?

Freedoms, yes. Infringing on the rights of others while exercising your "Hooman Rights" and acting like a chav, not so much.

[Old Greg]

Why do you dislike it?

Because when I was a lad, the sentiment was chiefly around remembering the folly of war (WW1) and to a lesser extent remembering the sacrifice of those who died fighting for freedom (WW2). The sentiment is now increasingly hitched towards supporting our boys fighting current wars, which in turn is related to a kind of political correctness whereby you have to support our boys fighting abroad.

The argument broadly goes that even if you think wars is Afghanistan and Iraq are /were illegal / immoral, you should still support those soldiers who are fighting them, which just seems nuts to me.

The Royal British Legion has a poppy poster this year with the strap-line something like, 'Standing shoulder to shoulder with those who serve'. I just don't want to do that.

But as I said, I respect those who feel differently as it's an event that people can mark with all kinds of sentiments, and it seems rather mean-spirited to spoil it for others.

[MaryPoppins]

You mean the freedoms that all those soldiers died to protect?

I don't think they were protecting the right for people to be bumholes.