wearing a poppy

Stompa

spend_or_save wrote: »

When on 2 separate occasions I was given a verbal dressing down for not wearing a poppy.

On several occasions I've walked down Whitehall past the Cenotaph on Remembrance Sunday without wearing a poppy, and I've never had the slightest reaction from anybody.

Unfortunately there are idiots in all walks of life, and it sounds like you encountered a couple of them. I'm certain that they are wholly unrepresentative of what Remembrance Sunday and the Poppy Appeal is all about, and quite frankly they should be ashamed of themselves.

Just forget it and move on.

Faith177

JReacher1 wrote: »

You brought this on yourself. Someone asked you where your poppy was and you made a statement of I don't wear a poppy. That led to someone giving you a verbal dressing down.

If you don't understand why that behaviour wasn't appropriate then I don't think we have much more to discuss on this thread!

But how was the behaviour of the person who gave him the dressing down appropriate?

spend_or_save

JReacher1 wrote: »

You brought this on yourself. Someone asked you where your poppy was and you made a statement of I don't wear a poppy. That led to someone giving you a verbal dressing down.

If you don't understand why that behaviour wasn't appropriate then I don't think we have much more to discuss on this thread!

you have yet to explain why "my behaviour" wasnt appropriate? From what i can gather you think wearing a poppy is a requirment of turning up at rememberance sunday services, as pointed out by many others, even the British legion disagree with this.

I brought it on myself? how do you work that out? just to paint the picture the conversation roughly went along these lines:

Idiot: wheres your Poppy?
Me : I havent got one on
Idiot: Why not
Me: I normally dont wear one
Idiot why the **** not
Me: im not explaining myself to you, im just here to pay my respects
Idiot - then goes into a rant of swear words, about how i must be a lover of ISIS or an IRA loving catholic.

idiot is then dragged away by one of his knuckle dragging pals who quite rightly points out this is not the place!!

in what way did i bring that on myself?

JReacher1

Faith177 wrote: »

But how was the behaviour of the person who gave him the dressing down appropriate?

It wasn't at all appropriate.

I just feel the OP deliberately antagonized the person by stating they don't wear a poppy by the sounds of it as soon as the 2 minutes silence had finished. For many people that is a very emotional time and to be told by the person next to you at that exact moment that they don't wear a poppy is in my opinion disrespectful.

I realise I am in the minority on this but I find that sort of behaviour disrespectful and completely unnecessary.

Pollycat

Faith177 wrote: »

But how was the behaviour of the person who gave him the dressing down appropriate?

It wasn't.
I'd have been damn furious if I'd attended the Cenotaph & and it was ruined by someone having a go at somebody else.

JReacher1 wrote: »

If you don't understand why that behaviour wasn't appropriate then I don't think we have much more to discuss on this thread!

That's hardly your call.
Leave the thread if you wish but if other posters wish to continue to comment, that's entirely up to them.

spend_or_save

JReacher1 wrote: »

It wasn't at all appropriate.

I just feel the OP deliberately antagonized the person by stating they don't wear a poppy by the sounds of it as soon as the 2 minutes silence had finished. For many people that is a very emotional time and to be told by the person next to you at that exact moment that they don't wear a poppy is in my opinion disrespectful.

I realise I am in the minority on this but I find that sort of behaviour disrespectful and completely unnecessary.

Jreacher

see my post above, your entilted to your opinion, but on the basis your opinion is i was being disrespectful by not wearing a poppy and i was deliberately antagonizing the person next to me. , your opinion is 100% wrong.

As i said before i was there to pay my respects, i was not wanting to get into a debate on poppy's or discuss anything with anybody, if anyone was deliberetly antagonizing anybody i can assur you it was not me.

JReacher1

spend_or_save wrote: »

you have yet to explain why "my behaviour" wasnt appropriate? From what i can gather you think wearing a poppy is a requirment of turning up at rememberance sunday services, as pointed out by many others, even the British legion disagree with this.

I brought it on myself? how do you work that out? just to paint the picture the conversation roughly went along these lines:

Idiot: wheres your Poppy?
Me : I havent got one on
Idiot: Why not
Me: I normally dont wear one
Idiot why the **** not
Me: im not explaining myself to you, im just here to pay my respects
Idiot - then goes into a rant of swear words, about how i must be a lover of ISIS or an IRA loving catholic.

idiot is then dragged away by one of his knuckle dragging pals who quite rightly points out this is not the place!!

in what way did i bring that on myself?

I sense you have a bad attitude and for that reason I think you did bring it on yourself. The reason for this is because his friend (who out of all of you seems to have behaved perfectly appropriately) is referred to by you as "Knuckle dragging". I don't see why this person deserves the description as being sub human.

You may be a bad seed.

Faith177

JReacher1 wrote: »

I sense you have a bad attitude and for that reason I think you did bring it on yourself. The reason for this is because his friend (who out of all of you seems to have behaved perfectly appropriately) is referred to by you as "Knuckle dragging". I don't see why this person deserves the description as being sub human.

You may be a bad seed.

Or maybe the "knuckle dragger" was the bad seed who had the attitude who are we to know and we shouldn't pass judgement on something that happened when we were not present.

Exile_geordie

JReacher1 wrote: »

I sense you have a bad attitude and for that reason I think you did bring it on yourself. The reason for this is because his friend (who out of all of you seems to have behaved perfectly appropriately) is referred to by you as "Knuckle dragging". I don't see why this person deserves the description as being sub human.

You may be a bad seed.

And that person also has no right to call anyone out for not wearing a poppy as do you.


You seem all Britain first, you do. Patriot. LOL

JReacher1

Faith177 wrote: »

Or maybe the "knuckle dragger" was the bad seed who had the attitude who are we to know and we shouldn't pass judgement on something that happened when we were not present.

I don't like the phrase Knuckle dragger in any context to be honest. Especially not to refer to someone at a remembrance day memorial service!