Today's "What Gets My Goat" - NO POLITICS!

[Frosties]

Aparently a number of Irish football players in the English premier league have been booed.  Such behaviour is replusive.  It just the same stupid patriotic mob mentally that leads to war in the first place. 

I buy a poppy but don't wear it all the time. Actually I have some problems with WW1. Empire vs Empire, shell shocked soldiers shot at dawn, public schoolboys blowing whistles so that poor devils could run at machine guns. Lions led by donkeys. Not our greatest moments.

Indeed, I used to wear a Red Poppy.  Some of the stuff you mention there is why I now wear a white poppy.  Though no I don’t wear it all the time.  Just now and again in the lead up to remembrance, simply because the white poppy is very much mis-understood. 



And as for those who refused to fight.  Well I also have a great respect for them.  Those who objected during the first world war were treated appallingly.  And there were many who didn’t want to go, but you could say it was easier to go than to say no.


Aye and spare me the ultimate sacrifice pish when it comes to ww1, most were simply and needlessly slaughtered, even told to walk towards the enemy machine guns.


Aye soldiers shot at dawn.  And for a variety of reasons.  Some picked at random and shot just as an example to the troops.  Gee then up a bit with a random execution.  What what.

Well said sir