It's War Christmas!

[king_tubby]

Who is respecting the dead of war the hardest in the next few weeks? Let's start with this respectful tribute:

https://twitter.com/UKEssex1/status/1449709877589417986



I give this six respects out of ten.

[Fambo Number Mive]

Putting the poppy in the centre of the beret like some kind of military badge. And some kind of knitted poppy waistcoat. How can anyone have thought that was a good idea?

[dissolute ocelot]

Are they going to burn that on Nov 5?

[katzenjammer]

Who is respecting the dead of war the hardest in the next few weeks? Let's start with this respectful tribute:

https://twitter.com/UKEssex1/status/1449709877589417986



I give this six respects out of ten.

'Private Elephant Legs reporting for duty sah!'

[Johnny Yesno]

Who is respecting the dead of war the hardest in the next few weeks? Let's start with this respectful tribute:

https://twitter.com/UKEssex1/status/1449709877589417986



I give this six respects out of ten.

That's a hell of a lot of bullet wounds.

[Icehaven]

Fat bastard isn't he?

[Icehaven]

That's a hell of a lot of bullet wounds.

Also appears to have been shot up the bum.

[shiftwork2]

I buy a poppy each year as it used to be respectful remembrance.  'Never again'.  But this veteran hero shit has now almost completely replaced that rather good idea.

[bomb_dog]

A few years back at the NFL matches in that there London they have now, they replaced the usual hidden item in the cup-and-ball swap around game they play on the big screens - 'guess the cup the ball is under?'

Only they don't use cups, they use American Football helmets. And they hid a poppy underneath the CGI helmet swaparound.

Bonus chortle - they call it the 'helmet shuffle'.

[Shit Good Nose]

I bet captain Tom is hot in that, and I don't mean in a sexy way.

[buttgammon]

I buy a poppy each year as it used to be respectful remembrance.  'Never again'.  But this veteran hero shit has now almost completely replaced that rather good idea.

Sadly, yes. It didn't used to be like this, did it? I do actually mark Remembrance Sunday, in that I always think about the horrors of war and especially my great-uncle, who was killed in the Second World War, but the weird politicised event that turns the tragedies of the past into a patriotic wankathon is something I actively avoid.

[mothman]

I bet captain Tom is hot in that, and I don't mean in a sexy way.

He'll be fine. Veterans don't sweat, remember - be it in the heat of battle, on a park bench, or in the Woking branch of Pizza Express.

[KennyMonster]

Disappointed this isn't about celebrating christmas in Newcastle.

[SpiderChrist]

How fucked up is it that the Royal British Legion take money from BaE Systems, Lockheed Martin UK, and Sphinx Systems Limited?

[buttgammon]

How fucked up is it that the Royal British Legion take money from BaE Systems, Lockheed Martin UK, and Sphinx Systems Limited?

I recently heard something about how tobacco companies are hedging their bets by investing in smoking cessation products and inhalers.

[Jollity]

This year, the Poppy Shop is selling £699.99 cufflinks, amongst other things. I just imagined some wealthy politician or someone on TV getting bothered for not wearing a poppy, because nobody noticed how fancy his cufflinks were.

[touchingcloth]

A few years back at the NFL matches in that there London they have now, they replaced the usual hidden item in the cup-and-ball swap around game they play on the big screens - 'guess the cup the ball is under?'

That doesn't sound like how NFL is played.

[Jerzy Bondov]

Oh here we go another thread sneering at the good patriotic people of this proud country. Is it any wonder your lot keep losing elections?

[idunnosomename]

shame they burnt captain tom really. could have stuck a bunch of gears inside him and have him breakdance for the 11/11/11

[Jerzy Bondov]

I've painted my bum red

[flotemysost]

Putting the poppy in the centre of the beret like some kind of military badge gaping anus

That timid pigeon-toed, hands-in-pockets stance hardly gives off the staunch, no-nonsense brand of patriotic masculinity they're surely hoping to promote. Though I wonder if passers-by ever rearrange him into different positions. I think I'd try and bend him into a mid-Kozachok squat. Or something obscene, obvs.

[Butchers Blind]

Probably save some money this year and make my own poppy.

[Cerys]

Dame Thora Hird in spectacle loss caper.

[idunnosomename]

Probably save some money this year and make my own poppy.

YOU FUCKINFG XCUNT

[Glebe]

Mr. Soft has let himself go in a patriotic manner.

[GoblinAhFuckScary]

where's this cunt at

[katzenjammer]

Sadly, yes. It didn't used to be like this, did it?

I don't know when it changed (maybe early 2000s?) but I'm pretty sure it just used to be poppy sellers for a couple of weeks, a minute's silence and a ceremony on Remembrance Sunday.

[Buelligan]

Over here, we just literally have a wee thing at the memorial, if you want to go.  Literally, quite literally, all.

[madhair60]

Over here, we just literally have a wee thing at the memorial, if you want to go.  Literally, quite literally, all.

Sorry, are you saying you all piss on the memorial?

[Chedney Honks]

No surprise that on this forum people would have preferred Hitler to win.