Wearing poppies

White poppies? Don't think so.

Wear one every year. This year has been different, worn about three at separate times. Damned stickies keep falling off, give us back our pins!

Poppies can smoke my pole. So can all the nationalist psychos who insist that everyone else should follow their delusional dreams.

The sticky ones are just pants

Yeah, taking the pins away completely (I think they first did that last year) was ridiculous - you don't see nearly so many people wearing them now.

And, for God's sake, we never stop for 2 mins to reflect on all the people whe have slaughtered over the years, I saw a graph today with just the civilian casualties in Iraq. Which made me feel sick, in all honesty.

I'm going to be a bit contentious now. But seeing as I've already been negged, I don't care.
Yes, I donate to the poppy appeal, about a fiver each year, and yes, I have the upmost respect for those who fight or have done to give us the life we have today.
But still, there's this voice in my head that says the cash goes here: http://www.poppy.org.uk/index.php/where-your-money-goes.html which is fair enough, but I'd much rather give my cash to a disability charity (which I do, too) that does not discriminate and only help war vetrans.
And, for God's sake, we never stop for 2 mins to reflect on all the people whe have slaughtered over the years, I saw a graph today with just the civilian casualties in Iraq. Which made me feel sick, in all honesty.
Even that Harry dude, the oldest war vetran said something like: 'They all go on about remembering, but I'd rather we just forget it all.'
I'm aware that the British Legion were against the Iraq war, and I would never dispute that they do work, or state that people who wear poppies condone war. I just want to state my preference, by wearing a white poppy, that I will be a pacifist always, and that I wish the Poppy Appeal was not needed. Ever.


I'll finish from a quote from the White Poppy appeal, which I think everyone will agree on.

'But the question lingers: if the dead are said to have 'sacrificed' their lives, then why weren't the living, who came out of the same danger, being suitably honoured and cared for by the state that sent them into it? The language of Remembrance, in the light of that, looks more like propaganda than passion.'

Your ilk would be the first to disappear if we had lost the war, just remember that.

I've had mine for about two weeks now, been wearing it most of the time just its so windy here you really have to watch that you don't loose it. A thing that annoyed me was the selling of those animal poppies, bloody disgusting some people are. I did my minutes silence in lecture today, everyone else but this boy and a girl were silent I felt like slapping them both, *****.