Poppies

[briantrumpet]

If you've got a few minutes, this is worth a read, and sums up both the complex thoughts about Remembrance and the turning of the simple poppy into a weapon by those who don't understand what freedom is or how we can best avoid wars.

https://www.invisibleworks.co.uk/join-hands/

We all have our reasons to do things the way we do and why shouldn’t we be allowed to do it, do we really have to conform so exactly to not offend a newly discovered government and media line. How absurd is this? And the type of people who come up with this fatuous reasoning obviously think nothing of the personal story, the why and wherefore of how we all individually remember, of who we are remembering or how we do it. In fact even if we choose not to, why so much angst? There are reasons. The argument will usually come from the same people who turn out weary lines about people fighting for our freedom, yet want to remove the choice about how we should only express it unless it conforms to how they think we should.

 

[AndyRM]

I went to a wee parade thing on the street over from mine earlier, for the cadet armed forces. Didn't mind that at all and there was no grandstanding, it was just about remembrance.

I was surprised though, given my location, that there weren't more sea cadets!

 

[bobzmyunkle]

Lest we forget, Polanski is a 'former amateur hynotherapist'.
https://www.gbnews.com/politics/remembrance-sunday-2026-zack-polanski-white-poppy-cenotaph

 

[briantrumpet]

Only three? Is she a communist?

 

[Ian H]

We managed to get through the town before the parade, and spent the afternoon having lunch at one of our favourite pubs.

 

[C R]

Lest we forget, Polanski is a 'former amateur hynotherapist'.
https://www.gbnews.com/politics/remembrance-sunday-2026-zack-polanski-white-poppy-cenotaph

White poppy you say? Supporting peace during this poignant moment? What is he, some kind of tree hugging, peace loving pinko commie?

 

[Ian H]

White poppy you say? Supporting peace during this poignant moment? What is he, some kind of tree hugging, peace loving pinko commie?

You'd hope so.

 

[matticus]

Lest we forget, Polanski is a 'former amateur hynotherapist'.
https://www.gbnews.com/politics/remembrance-sunday-2026-zack-polanski-white-poppy-cenotaph

They really are a heap of turds, aren't they?

"Zack Polanski has been spotted wearing a white poppy as the leader of the Greens overlooked the Cenotaph during this year's Remembrance Sunday service."
...as if he was trying to do it unobserved. The cunning draft-dodging bastard even hid it behind a red one:

 

[UglyWithaSidePart]

I think wearing the red poppy accompanied by a white one is quite acceptable, noble even. I served 17 years and I don't have a single problem with it (though I have gone off Polanski and I was a green party member).

 

[matticus]

 

[briantrumpet]