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Tandorini

Geregistreerd op: 11-6-2007 Berichten: 6946
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Geplaatst: 02 Nov 2017 21:13 Onderwerp: The poppy has lost its original meaning – time to ditch it |
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With each year, the run up to Remembrance Sunday seems to become less about paying tribute to the fallen and more a litmus test for a particular sort of nauseating pub bore nationalism.
The Poppy Appeal launched last week and with it the now traditional blood-sport of hounding anyone in public life who appears without one. Within days, England cricketer Moeen Ali had been “caught” not wearing one on his lapel in an official team photo. Before he could get his apology out the social media Nazis were off – “rancid c***” barked one. “Come on @MoeenAli and @ECB_cricket why wasn’t you wearing a poppy?” demanded another.
Pictures swiftly emerged of Ali sporting a poppy earlier in the day – but his explanation that it had simply fallen off didn’t wash and a barrage of odium tinged with Islamophobia was directed at the player.
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http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/poppy-wear-why-not-remembrance-wars-soldiers-veterans-poppies-moeen-ali-a8031746.html |
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shabu Cheffin

Geregistreerd op: 7-2-2006 Berichten: 3096 Woonplaats: Hoek van Holland
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Percy Toplis

Geregistreerd op: 9-5-2009 Berichten: 15569 Woonplaats: Suindrecht
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Geplaatst: 03 Nov 2017 10:02 Onderwerp: |
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Quote: | Reproduced posters, plastered on office walls, tell us to “Keep Calm and Carry On” as if a jammed photocopier could in any way be associated with a Heinkel bombing raid. (...) This isn’t unhealthy – it’s unhinged. |
Goed artikel, en een legitiem artikel. _________________
"A grand canyon has opened up in our world, the fissure, the crack, grows wider every day. Neither on each side can hear a word that the other shrieks and nor do they want to."
-Stephen Fry on political correctness.
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Eric '14-'18

Geregistreerd op: 19-11-2010 Berichten: 2592 Woonplaats: in een oude Hanzestad
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Geplaatst: 25 Okt 2018 7:54 Onderwerp: |
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Dit artikel kan er ook bij, gaat over het dragen van anders gekleurde (witte) poppies.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-45971456 _________________ In a foreign field he lay. Lonely soldier, unknown grave. On his dying words he prays. Tell the world of Paschendale.
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