Trelliz wrote:Moggy wrote:I hope you've all got your decorations up.
I genuinely wonder how we got here; did people do this themselves with DIY options enough for someone to spot a market (and I strongly doubt if much/any of the sales of such garbage has gone to a good cause) or someone decided this should be a thing to market to the SPORT ARE TROPS demographic as a filler "holiday" between Halloween and Christmas.
I can't stand the way something like this gets taken over by a certain group of people, then all the meaning gets drained out of it and replaced with their shite forever more. I'd have always worn a poppy years ago, no question of not doing it, but now I'd be wary of people thinking I'm one of these lunatics so I just put money in the collection pot but don't take the poppy.
It's like the union flag, in the 90s (
) we had things like this which were cool as strawberry float (well to me anyway):
If someone appeared with a union flag guitar like that now though, I'd assume they're some flag shagging racist banana split. Any split I see with a union flag ANYTHING now just makes me assume they're some BOOTIFUL BRITISH twat.