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jawafour wrote:

Moggy wrote:When (on more than one occasion) you get some meathead coming up to you demanding to know “where’s your strawberry floating Poppy”, it’s hard to stop it having an impact on your thoughts and actions...

It’s a real shame that you don’t feel that you can wear a poppy because of your experiences and abusive cases that you have read about, Moggy. I am genuinely surprised that you have faced so much vitriol about wearing and not wearing a poppy. In my neck of the woods (south London) I have found these instances (both for and against) to be fairly rare - albeit one case is still too many - and people appear to be pretty free to make a choice either way. I am not suggesting that things aren’t different elsewhere, of course. I’d hate to think that extremists - at either end - could stop people from doing what they wanted to do.

jawafour wrote:

Errkal wrote:What they do is good and I agree entirely with the actual meaning behind and the good it does.

However I think the symbol has been highjacked and continues to be by racist banana splits that see it as meaning "I luv my cuntry!" Patriotism isn't inheriantly bad but it is used to justify a lot of gooseberry fool by these pricks and they see wearing a poppy and patriotism as one and the same.

A relatively small proportion of stupid people do indeed try to hijack the poppy appeal and twist it to project their own racist beliefs. But it’s just that... relatively small. Why let them impact your own thoughts and actions? The majority of folk aren’t wearing a poppy to promote war or glorify government decisions to enter war.

Glowy69 wrote:

jawafour wrote:

Errkal wrote:What they do is good and I agree entirely with the actual meaning behind and the good it does.

However I think the symbol has been highjacked and continues to be by racist banana splits that see it as meaning "I luv my cuntry!" Patriotism isn't inheriantly bad but it is used to justify a lot of gooseberry fool by these pricks and they see wearing a poppy and patriotism as one and the same.

A relatively small proportion of stupid people do indeed try to hijack the poppy appeal and twist it to project their own racist beliefs. But it’s just that... relatively small. Why let them impact your own thoughts and actions? The majority of folk aren’t wearing a poppy to promote war or glorify government decisions to enter war.

You sure Jawa? have you seen the amount of people that hang on the every word of Tommy Robinson, Hopkins, farage etc?

Preezy wrote:If you want to wear a poppy - go for it, I don’t care.
If you don’t want to wear a poppy - go for it, I don’t care.

Somebody Else's Problem wrote:I wear one, but if people choose not to, then that's absolutely fine.

Knoyleo wrote:

Glowy69 wrote:You sure Jawa? have you seen the amount of people that hang on the every word of Tommy Robinson, Hopkins, farage etc?

Relatively, that is a small group.

Preezy wrote:If you want to wear a poppy - go for it, I don’t care.
If you don’t want to wear a poppy - go for it, I don’t care.

Drumstick wrote:

Preezy wrote:If you want to wear a poppy - go for it, I don’t care.
If you don’t want to wear a poppy - go for it, I don’t care.

This is, in a nutshell, how I feel.

Very sad to read all the bile thrown at Moeen Ali. You can clearly see he was wearing a poppy when the team landed in Australia so he clearly doesn't object to it like the SPORT OUR TROOPS brigade would like everyone to believe.

twitter.com/mariacaulfield/status/929388871061852160

Moggy wrote:The poppy stuff is starting again.

Winckle wrote: