Gene_Clark 12 Posted November 23, 2011 Share Posted November 23, 2011 How many of those who make such a conspicuous show of wearing red poppies each year will also commemorate Holocaust Memorial Day? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest alex Posted November 23, 2011 Share Posted November 23, 2011 Not as many would be my guess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gene_Clark 12 Posted November 23, 2011 Author Share Posted November 23, 2011 I wonder why that is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest alex Posted November 23, 2011 Share Posted November 23, 2011 It's just less of a fun event really. They should revamp it a bit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ewerk 29588 Posted November 23, 2011 Share Posted November 23, 2011 Because not as many British died in the Holocaust? Doesn't seem hypocritical to me. Â Â Â Â Plus it never happened. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gene_Clark 12 Posted November 23, 2011 Author Share Posted November 23, 2011 Is it because most red poppy wearers are sympathetic to the Holocaust? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ewerk 29588 Posted November 23, 2011 Share Posted November 23, 2011 In solidarity with Holocaust victims I will not be showering on Holocaust Memorial Day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gene_Clark 12 Posted November 23, 2011 Author Share Posted November 23, 2011 I will attend the Holocaust Memorial Day gathering as I do every year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest alex Posted November 23, 2011 Share Posted November 23, 2011 Not only fascinating but topical too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gene_Clark 12 Posted November 23, 2011 Author Share Posted November 23, 2011 I think the Holocaust is something we should never forget. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holden McGroin 6326 Posted November 23, 2011 Share Posted November 23, 2011 Greatest. Thread. Ever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest alex Posted November 23, 2011 Share Posted November 23, 2011 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gene_Clark 12 Posted November 23, 2011 Author Share Posted November 23, 2011 Greatest. Thread. Ever. Â An important one though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkeys Fist 41420 Posted November 23, 2011 Share Posted November 23, 2011 On a local level, I'd say it's down to parental influence. Everyone's Dad will have bought a ropey suit from Jackson the Tailors, and still be seething about it. Â Â Â Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest alex Posted November 23, 2011 Share Posted November 23, 2011 My uncle worked for Isaac Walton's btw. There's another connection. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkeys Fist 41420 Posted November 23, 2011 Share Posted November 23, 2011 My uncle was married to Lionel Jacobson's daughter, who owned Jacksons  Put that in your connection pipe and smoke it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kid Dynamite 6857 Posted November 23, 2011 Share Posted November 23, 2011 His point is a good one though. The poppy is becoming an excuse for far right dickheads to have a pop at immigrants in the UK. They don't get the irony that the Nazi's also had a hatred for all people not born and bred in Germany. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ayatollah Hermione 13625 Posted November 23, 2011 Share Posted November 23, 2011 Thank you for alerting me to the horrors of the holocaust. I had no idea. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest alex Posted November 23, 2011 Share Posted November 23, 2011 Oy vey! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gene_Clark 12 Posted November 23, 2011 Author Share Posted November 23, 2011 When I visited Auschwitz / Birkenau, I saw the room full of children's shoes, taken from Holocaust victims. Â Unspeakably sad; a profound & life changing, humbling experience I have to say. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkeys Fist 41420 Posted November 23, 2011 Share Posted November 23, 2011 (edited) Part of the problem Holocaust Memorial Day suffers from is the ridiculous political bickering around it. The MCB have boycotted/supported/boycotted it off and on since it's inception over Palestine, Gay holocaust victims, Armenia etc etc. Â All dilutes the point of it, which no same person can really dispute. Edited November 23, 2011 by Monkeys Fist Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest alex Posted November 23, 2011 Share Posted November 23, 2011 Aye. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McFaul 35 Posted November 23, 2011 Share Posted November 23, 2011 His point is a good one though. The poppy is becoming an excuse for far right dickheads to have a pop at immigrants in the UK. They don't get the irony that the Nazi's also had a hatred for all people not born and bred in Germany. So the nazi's hated Hitler too? He wasn't born in Germany. Absolute bollocks anyway. Hitler respected Britain massively. He was shagging a lass from Bognor Regis even after the war started ffs, if you knew your history. Â The poppy has become a symbol of the far right??!?!?!?! Fucking hell this is your worst post ever, and that's saying something after your Tottenham crack yesterday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest alex Posted November 23, 2011 Share Posted November 23, 2011 Can't wait until Parky sees this btw. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McFaul 35 Posted November 23, 2011 Share Posted November 23, 2011 FWIW no film had an effect on me like Schindlers List did, I was like Gazza in Turin for half an hour after the first time I saw it. Hitler's hatred was borne out of jealousy, and that jealousy of jews exists today. Yes they're bullies, there's 13m of them worldwide, and they control an unbelievable amount of the power and wealth in the world, but so what at least they're intelligent enough to do it. Hitler was jealous of their wealth, and money and wealth remain the core reasons evil prospers even to this day. Having said all that they should fuck off out of Palestine and give the muslims more land though the cunts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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