Pub refuses to serve anyone not wearing poppy on Remembrance Day

[Konki]

And quite right too. As far as I'm concerned anyone not wearing a poppy shouldn't just be refused service of cold beverages but hanged from their testicales and beaten about their person. Especially if they're a raghead.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/remembrance-sunday-pub-poppy-refuse-drink-veterans-bristol-three-lions-a9197211.html

[BlodwynPig]

Another demanded "more of the same please", while the Islamophobic columnist Kate Hopkins thanked him, tweeting: "Absolute lad. Thank you

[imitationleather]

That looks like one classy joint.

Meanwhile... https://www.theargus.co.uk/news/18022535.students-blasted-poppy-cannons-coalition-remembrance/?fbclid=IwAR0E46ZvivWhNSJDsQk-oaYmQn9UfvfhW5BOCWDHpE3BQn_G3NAcDBDhfNA

[chocky909]

Just as long as there is another pub that refuses service to anyone wearing a poppy I'll be happy to partake in this apartheid.

[BritishHobo]

Fucking obsession. I'm in a fairly dormant Facebook group relating to a firm of enforcement officers hired by councils to hand out fines for littering. It's not been regularly posted in for months, if not a year, but today someone posted this image in there with a whole spiel in there about poppies and why they're so important and what they mean. What's driven that person to be so obsessed that they've posted it in there?

[sponk]

About as arsed about this as I was when those Muslim twats burned a few poppies years back. Why does anyone give a shit? It's just a tiny unrepresentative minority in both cases.

[Konki]

That looks like one classy joint.

Meanwhile... https://www.theargus.co.uk/news/18022535.students-blasted-poppy-cannons-coalition-remembrance/?fbclid=IwAR0E46ZvivWhNSJDsQk-oaYmQn9UfvfhW5BOCWDHpE3BQn_G3NAcDBDhfNA

"Trash Mondays will pay homage to this iconic moment"

[imitationleather]

"Trash Mondays will pay homage to this iconic moment"

My WW2-veteran grandad is unfortunately no longer with us, but he would have approved of the guestlist cut-off time of 11.11pm.

[BlodwynPig]

101 years ago. No-one remembers. Scrap it

[beanheadmcginty]

I highly recommend looking at @giantpoppywatch on Twitter. Full of some absolutely astonishing examples of this poppy madness.

[Twed]

The good thing about pub landlords is that it is never unexpected for them to just keel over and die.

[TheBrownBottle]

Imagine being the poor soul who just wants a have several pints at eleven in the morning on a weekday, has donated to the RBL, but happened to donate to the one old bloke who happened to have run out of poppies. 

Don't get me wrong, the kicking you'd receive in there would be justified, as you must be an IRA-supporting Mooslim poofta not to have a poppy - a sentiment with which you would no doubt agree - but the thought would cross your mind that this shoeing might be unfair, and that in future you'd do what most of the other patrons do - buy a poppy once, then keep it in a drawer for 12 months awaiting re-use.  After all, it's not the equivalent of a sticker showing you've donated to charity that day - it is a mark of your stance as a patriotic Britisher.

[Konki]

You've raised a good point. They should alter the poppy design frequently like Comic Relief alter the Red Nose every time, keep these cunts on their toes!

[chveik]

My WW2-veteran grandad is unfortunately no longer with us, but he would have approved of the guestlist cut-off time of 11.11pm.

thinking of all the poor fuckers that died between the time the armistice was actually signed (5 AM) and the time it came into effect (11AM), because "the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month" sounded really fancy for those psychopaths.

[Captain Z]

Lest we forget.

[TheBrownBottle]

Lest we forget.

The type of twats who also post drawings of SI-clad wankers, head bowed, picture backed by a giant football club badge which is in turn circled by a giant poppy wreath.

[Default to the negative]

When I was a kid, I got to know a WWI vet. He didn't care about poppies. He would prefer it if you bought him a beer instead, because he liked to forget it all. I sometimes asked him to tell me his war stories, but he wasn't too keen. Just wanted to put it behind him, I suppose.

[Konki]

I can't remember my grandad (a WWII vet) ever giving a shit about Remembrance Day and he would never talk about his time In North Africa. I got the impression he'd rather forget it ever happened.

Additionally my nan could never stomach the fetishisation of war, specifically WWII, which she lived through and during which, in her words, "saw too many good young men die". She saw a generation wasted and saw Remembrance Day as jingoism.

I don't need to wear a poppy to remember them. I commemorate their memory every day by living up to the standards they set.

[honeychile]

Almost as twatty as the pub are the sub-editors at the Independent:

"The poppy has become an object of bullying and commercialisation. That you ain't [sic] wearing one doesn't mean you ain't [sic] paying respect."

[idunnosomename]

Just over a month ago was the last time the three lions was in the bristol post

https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/man-arrested-after-bedminster-pub-3358862

[TheBrownBottle]

I never knew my great-grandfather who'd served on the western front.  But I do know from my grandfather that he refused to ever buy a poppy, given that they used to be stamped with the words 'Haig Fund'.  I imagine that buying anything adorned with the name of the psychopath who sent your mates to their unnecessary deaths might put you off.

If he was around today, the 'Three Lions' pub would refuse to serve him.

[Pink Gregory]

I *have* had the Three Lions pointed out to me as "that Brexity pub".

[Blumf]

I highly recommend looking at @giantpoppywatch on Twitter. Full of some absolutely astonishing examples of this poppy madness.

Via that:


https://twitter.com/barneyfarmer/status/1193439004194148352

[steve98]

I googled "Poppy tattoos" and some of them are absolutely gorgeous. This is about the only shit one I could see.

[flotemysost]

When I was a kid, I got to know a WWI vet. He didn't care about poppies. He would prefer it if you bought him a beer instead, because he liked to forget it all. I sometimes asked him to tell me his war stories, but he wasn't too keen. Just wanted to put it behind him, I suppose.

Yeah, I used to volunteer at a nursing home for widows of servicemen, some of whom had been land girls or worked in munitions factories during WWI, and generally they were far more interested in telling me about stuff like the time one of them rollerskated from London to Brighton, or another who'd been a concert pianist and cool stuff like that. The few times they did talk about their experiences of war were (understandably, of course) visibly very upsetting and difficult.

Obviously goes without saying it's hugely important to hear and preserve people's experiences of the war of course, but pompously appropriating traumatic narratives that have fucked up and stolen lives as a literal badge of Britishness and moral upstanding is just cunt's work.

[idunnosomename]

I never knew my great-grandfather who'd served on the western front.  But I do know from my grandfather that he refused to ever buy a poppy, given that they used to be stamped with the words 'Haig Fund'.  I imagine that buying anything adorned with the name of the psychopath who sent your mates to their unnecessary deaths might put you off.

If he was around today, the 'Three Lions' pub would refuse to serve him.

it's not clear if veterans need to be wearing a poppy to get a free drink to be fair

[honeychile]

I googled "Poppy tattoos" and some of them are absolutely gorgeous. This is about the only shit one I could see.

Like someone removed the hands from the goatse picture.

[Twed]

Is that one of those tattoos where they say "oh it's in the naval traditional style" or something to excuse why it looks like fucking shit. I swear there are entire tattoo shops that are staffed by people who can't do tattoos, so they just claim it's supposed to be that way.

[idunnosomename]

old school tattooing is characterised by simple colours and a limited stock of motifs. I'm no expert (no ink in me) but that's just like... not a very good design that doesnt really look like a poppy? The tattooing seems competent. Shit tattoos can be a lot shittier than that.

[Default to the negative]

Tattoos are for pornstars and rosy-cheeked pirates. There's no such thing as a good tattoo.