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[Dr Gloom 21802]

Sketchy  

[Monkeys Fist 42006]

Just a quick note to @Renton, these terrible puns from Gloomy are 100% more entertaining than Keswick fucking Pencil Museum. 

[Isegrim 9719]

 

[RobinRobin 11113]

5 hours ago, Monkeys Fist said:

I asked David Blunkett what he thought of the place and he said he couldn’t see the point. 

 

[Sonatine 11306]

 

I wonder who bankrolls the TPA.... 

[Alex 34787]

I’ll take a wild guess and say there’s some funding from Russia 

[Sonatine 11306]

 

[Gemmill 44273]

 

 

 

[Meenzer 15372]

Poppy cock.

[Sonatine 11306]

It's getting like Christmas, seems to start earlier every year.

[Renton 21234]

I won't wear a poppy any more.  Talk about virtue signalling. The generation who this stands for are nearly all dead, and the lessons we should have learnt have been consigned to the bin. 

[Alex 34787]

Wearing a poppy gives you exemption from wearing a mask 

[Alex 34787]

17 minutes ago, Sonatine said:

It's getting like Christmas, seems to start earlier every year.

It is the gammon Xmas 

[Howmanheyman 32715]

I'm sure he puts his poppy on in front of the mirror in the style of a lass putting on her suspenders in front of her bloke when it's time to buy a new fridge sexy time.

[Tom 14011]

Why don’t we have two minutes of silence on our doorsteps every single day of the year?

Why do we hate the troops? Shameful & a sad indictment of the leftists that are running this country into the ground. 

[Toonpack 9171]

1 hour ago, Renton said:

I won't wear a poppy any more.  Talk about virtue signalling. The generation who this stands for are nearly all dead, and the lessons we should have learnt have been consigned to the bin. 

Isn't that the point, i.e. the dead, I am not a poppy fascist, but I do and will always wear one (not this fucking early though) and hate how it's been weaponised by the cunts.

I wear mine in memory of my great uncle Gordon, who was killed in September 2015, at the battle of Loos, we have all his letters home from when he joined up right through to the telegrams of when he went missing, missing presumed killed and then letters from his mates describing how he supposedly died, both say he died painlessly/instantly, one said he was shot through the heart and one says he was shot in the head, the contradiction makes you wonder ! there's also letters from the mother of his young Lieutenant who was with him/went missing at same time asking my great grandmother if she's heard anything.

They're an emotional read, goes from "we'll give the Hun a bloody nose, can't wait until Charlie (my grandfather) can get out here and help" rhetoric - Charlie was 14 but had joined up"  through to descriptions of them having to help sort casualties out in shelled villages through to a completely different tone "I really hope Charlie doesn't have to come" and the letters are replaced by small cards with pre-printed "delete which not applicable" choices, I am fine, I have been wounded etc etc.

So I'll wear my poppy in the spirit in which it was intended.

Gordon has no known grave.

Postscript, Charlie never did have to go, when Gordon was killed his mam told the army he was under age and he was discharged because they "officially" knew he was too young, we have photo's of him with his platoon, he's a fucking bairn.

Edited October 19, 2020 by Toonpack

[Kevin Carr's Gloves 3809]

I wear on in the week of rememberance day.

 

[Tom 14011]

My mate in the army says he finds anything else disrespectful and I’m inclined to agree.

Especially when you see a faded pink poppy adorning an old transit van. 

[Toonpack 9171]

10 minutes ago, Tom said:

My mate in the army says he finds anything else disrespectful and I’m inclined to agree.

Especially when you see a faded pink poppy adorning an old transit van. 

As a further aside, other grandfather "went through" as they called it (active service right from 1914 to 1918) was at the Somme and god know what else, wounded a couple of times and he HATED remembrance day, used to bring it back I guess, he would never ever talk about the war all I remember is him coming into the room one time when I was a nipper and the cenotaph thing was on the telly, he spun round and left and I heard him mutter, "I don't need this shit to remember my friends".

[Howmanheyman 32715]

47 minutes ago, Toonpack said:

As a further aside, other grandfather "went through" as they called it (active service right from 1914 to 1918) was at the Somme and god know what else, wounded a couple of times and he HATED remembrance day, used to bring it back I guess, he would never ever talk about the war all I remember is him coming into the room one time when I was a nipper and the cenotaph thing was on the telly, he spun round and left and I heard him mutter, "I don't need this shit to remember my friends".

I'm glad I've never been in that situation that your granda was in but I think that be my default position as well. 

[Toonpack 9171]

3 minutes ago, Howmanheyman said:

I'm glad I've never been in that situation that your granda was in but I think that be my default position as well. 

I remember when I was a kid we went to Edinburgh castle and in the chapel there, there are (or were) books of remembrance, never forget looking over at him and he was stood over a book tears streaming down his face, I'm guessing it was his regiments book, mam just ushered me away sort of "come and see some this over here".

Strange how memories come back to me, god knows what his memories were

[Renton 21234]

4 hours ago, Toonpack said:

Isn't that the point, i.e. the dead, I am not a poppy fascist, but I do and will always wear one (not this fucking early though) and hate how it's been weaponised by the cunts.

I wear mine in memory of my great uncle Gordon, who was killed in September 2015, at the battle of Loos, we have all his letters home from when he joined up right through to the telegrams of when he went missing, missing presumed killed and then letters from his mates describing how he supposedly died, both say he died painlessly/instantly, one said he was shot through the heart and one says he was shot in the head, the contradiction makes you wonder ! there's also letters from the mother of his young Lieutenant who was with him/went missing at same time asking my great grandmother if she's heard anything.

They're an emotional read, goes from "we'll give the Hun a bloody nose, can't wait until Charlie (my grandfather) can get out here and help" rhetoric - Charlie was 14 but had joined up"  through to descriptions of them having to help sort casualties out in shelled villages through to a completely different tone "I really hope Charlie doesn't have to come" and the letters are replaced by small cards with pre-printed "delete which not applicable" choices, I am fine, I have been wounded etc etc.

So I'll wear my poppy in the spirit in which it was intended.

Gordon has no known grave.

Postscript, Charlie never did have to go, when Gordon was killed his mam told the army he was under age and he was discharged because they "officially" knew he was too young, we have photo's of him with his platoon, he's a fucking bairn.

 

Fair point and good post. My great grandfather was killed at Gallipoli. Blown up arse over tit by a Turkish shell, as in that great pogues song. As it happens I do attend a remembrance Sunday service to.show my respect and take my kids and explain it to them.From now on though I  do not wish to wear a poppy thanks to wankers who have hijacked it. Its a free country thanks to the men and women who died for it, in some ways not wearing one is therefore a sign of respect.

 

[Renton 21234]

1 minute ago, Toonpack said:

I remember when I was a kid we went to Edinburgh castle and in the chapel there, there are (or were) books of remembrance, never forget looking over at him and he was stood over a book tears streaming down his face, I'm guessing it was his regiments book, mam just ushered me away sort of "come and see some this over here".

Strange how memories come back to me, god knows what his memories were

 

I did the same for my great grandfather last year as it happens. Amazing place. 

[PaddockLad 17070]

35 minutes ago, Renton said:

 

I did the same for my great grandfather last year as it happens. Amazing place. 

Was your GGF with the KOSB’s at Gallipoli? 
 

 

[Alex 34787]

45 minutes ago, Renton said:

 

Fair point and good post. My great grandfather was killed at Gallipoli. Blown up arse over tit by a Turkish shell, as in that great pogues song. As it happens I do attend a remembrance Sunday service to.show my respect and take my kids and explain it to them.From now on though I  do not wish to wear a poppy thanks to wankers who have hijacked it. Its a free country thanks to the men and women who died for it, in some ways not wearing one is therefore a sign of respect.

 

The people who go mad for it often don’t have a clue about history. Then you have knobs like that Tory mp who are patriotic in the jingoistic sense but wouldn’t go near military service. They love a good war so long as it doesn’t involve anyone they care about. It’s pretty much the opposite of respect for the people who serve in the military because, like most politicians that jump on the land of hope and glory bandwagon, they view them as  expendable rather than actual people doing a tough job. But as long as he’s got his poppy on first