No but it has changed a bit in recent years to a bit of an undertone of

being a military display.

So much focus on the current "wars" which we started or allowed ourselves to be dragged into by the yanks. I think that is where the backlash has come from.

That's a personal observation by the way. I can imagine you have a different view on that.

But what would you prefer ? Somebody wears no poppy or wears a white poppy ?

Posted By: Steve in Holland on November 8th 2011 at 17:06:13

Message Thread

Fifa pricks (NCFC) - Dave ncfc davies, Nov 8, 16:36:36
- I'll stick to me white poppy thanks (n/m) (NCFC) - Only1Doherty, Nov 8, 16:50:54
  - seems a bit rebellious tho (NCFC) - 1 5CC, Nov 8, 16:57:37
    - I dunno. For me it's saying (NCFC) - Only1Doherty, Nov 8, 17:00:16
      - Indeed. That is how I see it. (n/m) (NCFC) - Steve in Holland, Nov 8, 17:04:14
      - yeah i'm sure we all agree on that tbf (n/m) (NCFC) - 1 5CC, Nov 8, 17:01:04
        
        True. I'm not very good with words so there's some more info here if anyones bothered (NCFC) - Only1Doherty, Nov 8, 17:03:17
    - Yep - not sure I like it (NCFC) - norway, Nov 8, 16:58:53
      - No but it has changed a bit in recent years to a bit of an undertone of (NCFC) - Steve in Holland, Nov 8, 17:06:13
- You could not make it up it's PC gone mad. This, no I mean that, no I mean those countries (NCFC) - jafski, Nov 8, 16:41:18
  - Get ready to duck. The poppy gets on my tits a bit. It is almost as though if you (NCFC) - Steve in Holland, Nov 8, 16:47:10
    - yes, i'm with the Dutchess on this (NCFC) - Ralf Scrampton, Nov 8, 16:50:14
    - Agreed. (n/m) (NCFC) - jafski, Nov 8, 16:49:43
    - excellent, us patriots can burn you atop some war memorial as a warning to other (NCFC) - Worzel Scrimmage, Nov 8, 16:49:27
      - lol (n/m) (NCFC) - Steve in Holland, Nov 8, 16:51:06
    - jon snow wouldn't wear a poppy on the news would he? (n/m) (NCFC) - 1 5CC, Nov 8, 16:49:02
      - Something like that. The white poppy sparking outrage too. FFS. (n/m) (NCFC) - Steve in Holland, Nov 8, 16:49:25
        
        Poet chap on Question Time was wearing one of them. (n/m) (NCFC) - DrDublin, Nov 8, 16:50:26
        
        white poppies? I think I've seen them. What do they mean? (n/m) (NCFC) - Worzel Scrimmage, Nov 8, 16:50:09
        
        Could do something to remember the lives taken from people (NCFC) - pants, Nov 8, 16:54:18
        
        and a small potato for the Irish victims of the potato famine (n/m) (NCFC) - Ralf Scrampton, Nov 8, 16:56:57
        
        ha ha (NCFC) - Tombs, Nov 8, 17:21:45
        
        If you're going to be a fussy eater, I'm not sure you deserve the title of victim. (n/m) (NCFC) - tudders, Nov 8, 17:00:07
        
        rofl (n/m) (NCFC) - Worzel Scrimmage, Nov 8, 16:59:22
        
        I guess British history likes to gloss over the bad bits (n/m) (NCFC) - pants, Nov 8, 16:58:15
        
        Do you know the story of the potato famine ? (NCFC) - Steve in Holland, Nov 8, 17:09:30
        
        that's more of a human trait than being a particularly British one (NCFC) - Ralf Scrampton, Nov 8, 17:01:13
        
        Yep. (n/m) (NCFC) - DrDublin, Nov 8, 17:00:01
        
        hare gew (NCFC) - Steve in Holland, Nov 8, 16:52:39
        
        Hmmm (NCFC) - norway, Nov 8, 16:58:21
        
        What about a t-shirt saying (NCFC) - duke of york, Nov 8, 16:59:50
        
        or CHAMPIONS! (n/m) (NCFC) - 1 5CC, Nov 8, 17:05:40
        
        yes seems fair enough to me (NCFC) - Worzel Scrimmage, Nov 8, 16:54:48
        
        Something like that, yes ! (n/m) (NCFC) - Steve in Holland, Nov 8, 16:56:08
        
        remembering the other side? (n/m) (NCFC) - 1 5CC, Nov 8, 16:51:07
        
        lol you little minx (n/m) (NCFC) - Steve in Holland, Nov 8, 16:52:51
        
        that can't be right. White=good, black=bad (n/m) (NCFC) - Worzel Scrimmage, Nov 8, 16:52:28
        
        one good thing about poppies (NCFC) - 1 5CC, Nov 8, 16:53:16
        
        And you can make opium from them (n/m) (NCFC) - Steve in Holland, Nov 8, 16:54:48
        
        brilliant yes, we shoudl do more of that. It's what the empire was built on (NCFC) - Worzel Scrimmage, Nov 8, 17:00:59
        
        Remember all wars and all that died would be my guess. (n/m) (NCFC) - DrDublin, Nov 8, 16:50:54
- Yeah! Like all those other Novembers when England have worn the poppy! (NCFC) - norway, Nov 8, 16:40:38
  - is it an anniversary or something this year? (n/m) (NCFC) - 1 5CC, Nov 8, 16:41:14
    - surely the poppy used to be just for Remembrance sunday anyway didn't it? (NCFC) - Worzel Scrimmage, Nov 8, 16:44:48
      - Someone needs to come up with a decent poppy attachment thing too, they always fall off. (n/m) (NCFC) - DrDublin, Nov 8, 16:48:18
        
        Cheap muck. Should get foreigners to make them. (n/m) (NCFC) - Steve in Holland, Nov 8, 16:49:05
        
        They're made in China aren't they? (NCFC) - Worzel Scrimmage, Nov 8, 16:50:53
        
        No, Surrey, by ex-services people. (NCFC) - Arizona Bay, Nov 8, 16:53:54
        
        I only know that, by the way, becuase I heard a trail for a programme about the factory on (NCFC) - Arizona Bay, Nov 8, 16:54:34
        
        but I bet they buy the plastic bits from China (n/m) (NCFC) - Worzel Scrimmage, Nov 8, 17:03:14
        
        Oh, more than likely. (n/m) (NCFC) - Arizona Bay, Nov 8, 17:06:01
        
        Japanese would be best, brilliant engineers. (n/m) (NCFC) - DrDublin, Nov 8, 16:49:52
        
        Yeah. Have them outsource to prisoners. (n/m) (NCFC) - Steve in Holland, Nov 8, 16:55:12
        
        Like Wrath heads. (n/m) (NCFC) - DrDublin, Nov 8, 16:48:54
      - i think it's always been for the few weeks leading up (NCFC) - 1 5CC, Nov 8, 16:45:42
        
        It is getting more and more like Christmas to be fair. Will start in June soon (n/m) (NCFC) - Steve in Holland, Nov 8, 16:48:04
        
        LOL (n/m) (NCFC) - 1 5CC, Nov 8, 16:49:16
        
        only so's people could ensure they'd have a poppy on the sunday (NCFC) - Worzel Scrimmage, Nov 8, 16:46:54
        
        but they all wear it in the weeks before (NCFC) - 1 5CC, Nov 8, 16:48:15
    - It's an anniversary every year. (n/m) (NCFC) - norway, Nov 8, 16:42:47
      - lol i mean significant anniversary (n/m) (NCFC) - 1 5CC, Nov 8, 16:44:30
        
        I think any anniversary of commemorating our glorious dead is significant. Don't you? Hmm. (n/m) (NCFC) - jafski, Nov 8, 16:45:40
        
        yes but why have we not asked previous times? (NCFC) - 1 5CC, Nov 8, 16:47:07
        
        Exactly (n/m) (NCFC) - Steve in Holland, Nov 8, 16:48:25
- Can't understand why this hasn't caused more noise really. (NCFC) - tudders, Nov 8, 16:38:01
  - i think i can answer that (NCFC) - Ralf Scrampton, Nov 8, 16:40:47
- . , . , . , . , . , . , . , . , . , . , . , . (NCFC) - Arizona Bay, Nov 8, 16:37:57
  - I did read, it's to do with design and if a shirt is changed the sponsers have to be asked (NCFC) - DrDublin, Nov 8, 16:41:10
    - there isn't any sponsorship on international shirts (NCFC) - Ralf Scrampton, Nov 8, 16:42:15
      - *yet* (n/m) (NCFC) - Worzel Scrimmage, Nov 8, 16:47:30
      - That will teach me for reading the News of the World in the surgery. (n/m) (NCFC) - DrDublin, Nov 8, 16:46:40

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