Why celebrate or remember anything in public ? Weddings, christenings, birthday parties, funerals, You were complaining a while ago that nobody could make it to your birthday party. Well perhaps they were thinking about you in the privacy of their own home and didn't feel it was necessary to actually show you.
It's bad enough in the run-up to Remembrance Day when all the numpties come out "tut-tut! Not wearing a poppy! Sacriledge!". No they want us to sit in the dark over a war that happened a hundred years ago!! They'll want you to immolate yourself over the Battle of Waterloo next!!
I bet the poppy fascists can't believe their luck, two opportunities in a year to dictate to everyone else.
You think people are better just because they are going to sit with lights off and a candle
Bull shit! Since when do you need to do that to remember, they are the sad ones not me!
I think the tone that has been adopted is that rather than simply a commemoration, people from all sides are joining together in a show of mutual sadness at the futility of such a wasteful war.
It's a pity that many other countries are incapable of such a reconciliation and continue to slaughter each other for no possible gain.
Oh I dunno, you're the one who's near bragging about not doing it but you ain't gonna get to hero rebel status if that's what your game is.
And neither are the people that turned their lights off going to get memorials.
Your logic cuts both ways. People choose to do what they want because they want to, not because they feel it is to be memorialised. Do you honestly think the people that signed up for WW1 were thinking "Well, I sure do hope 100 years from now some people turn their lights off for me if I die on duty in service to my country!"?
Pull the other one, it's got bells on it. But not the other other one, or I'll scream "sexual assault!"
Yeah you do. It's called
'The Many Ways to Antagonise people without Leaving Home while Massively Attention Seeking.'
You start first with a thread, usually a topic you've chosen on a hundred other forums and it always goes the same way. You bait enough to provoke a certain response in order to justify your rudeness, then it escalates as people respond.All identical patterns wherever you post online. Then when you get found out, you get very defensive, try to deflect it onto the poster who dares to say this, then after a bit,you join a different forum.
Yeah you do. It's called
'The Many Ways to Antagonise people without Leaving Home while Massively Attention Seeking.'
You start first with a thread, usually a topic you've chosen on a hundred other forums and it always goes the same way. You bait enough to provoke a certain response in order to justify your rudeness, then it escalates as people respond.All identical patterns wherever you post online. Then when you get found out, you get very defensive, try to deflect it onto the poster who dares to say this, then after a bit,you join a different forum.
Yeah you do. It's called
'The Many Ways to Antagonise people without Leaving Home while Massively Attention Seeking.'
You start first with a thread, usually a topic you've chosen on a hundred other forums and it always goes the same way. You bait enough to provoke a certain response in order to justify your rudeness, then it escalates as people respond.All identical patterns wherever you post online. Then when you get found out, you get very defensive, try to deflect it onto the poster who dares to say this, then after a bit,you join a different forum.
You're dead right. It is a pattern common with certain people. Probably the only attention they get.
Do you ever think of others or is it just me me, did you have family that went out to fight for your freedom, so sad really.:(:(:(:(>:(
Just because you did it, does not mean others have to. I did not do it. If you want to remember fallen soldiers you would not only do that on one day and turn your lights off. It makes no sense. Its the same as remembering any family member that has passed away.
No problem with turning the lights out at 10pm last night, every problem with people on Facebook ordering me to do so and posting pictures of their candles to show how caring they are.
Theres a lot of nastiness on here and FB towards people who chose not to and a lot of smugness by those who did, I did by the way but that was my personal choice and I didn't gloat about it
Kind of missing the point, it is peoples choice to remember in their own way, ironic that there are people still dictating what people do 100 years on!!
Theres a lot of nastiness on here and FB towards people who chose not to and a lot of smugness by those who did, I did by the way but that was my personal choice and I didn't gloat about it
Kind of missing the point, it is peoples choice to remember in their own way, ironic that there are people still dictating what people do 100 years on!!
Yeah, just goes to show that the more things change, the more they stay the same.
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We aren't all sheep
It wasn't a party
i am doing it but i have no problem with those who have the freedom not to, no one should be pounced on because they don't want to
(btw yes i am on my laptop so that is the only light i have on)
More wholly inappropriate rudeness.
Well whatever it was, the principle is there. You weren't happy that they were not there to share with you and show you how much they cared for you.
Not at all
I wasn't about that tbh
Who's behind it?
I bet the poppy fascists can't believe their luck, two opportunities in a year to dictate to everyone else.
It's a pity that many other countries are incapable of such a reconciliation and continue to slaughter each other for no possible gain.
Oh I dunno, you're the one who's near bragging about not doing it but you ain't gonna get to hero rebel status if that's what your game is.
And neither are the people that turned their lights off going to get memorials.
Your logic cuts both ways. People choose to do what they want because they want to, not because they feel it is to be memorialised. Do you honestly think the people that signed up for WW1 were thinking "Well, I sure do hope 100 years from now some people turn their lights off for me if I die on duty in service to my country!"?
Pull the other one, it's got bells on it. But not the other other one, or I'll scream "sexual assault!"
1) I wasn't bragging
2) I don't have a game
Yeah you do. It's called
'The Many Ways to Antagonise people without Leaving Home while Massively Attention Seeking.'
You start first with a thread, usually a topic you've chosen on a hundred other forums and it always goes the same way. You bait enough to provoke a certain response in order to justify your rudeness, then it escalates as people respond.All identical patterns wherever you post online. Then when you get found out, you get very defensive, try to deflect it onto the poster who dares to say this, then after a bit,you join a different forum.
Spot on.
It's pathetic.
We need to be told.
You're dead right. It is a pattern common with certain people. Probably the only attention they get.
Don't no where you live but it was 11.00pm in the UK
Just because you did it, does not mean others have to. I did not do it. If you want to remember fallen soldiers you would not only do that on one day and turn your lights off. It makes no sense. Its the same as remembering any family member that has passed away.
Oh get over yourself.
Kind of missing the point, it is peoples choice to remember in their own way, ironic that there are people still dictating what people do 100 years on!!
No, the OP is correct. It was between 10pm and 11pm.
http://www.britishlegion.org.uk/remembrance/ww1-centenary/lights-out
Yeah, just goes to show that the more things change, the more they stay the same.