MegaSack DRAW - This year's winner is user - rgwb
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of making issues where there don't have to be any?
I am amazed at the big deal people have been making around poppies since (I am guessing) Jon Snow of Channel 4 News said something a few years back about the tyranny of poppy culture.
Whether he was right or not, I don't get it. I grew up in Canada, where traditions surrounding things like Remembrance Day, the monarchy, parliament, etc., are almost identical to those here in the UK. But I can honestly say that I don't think a Canadian would give a second thought to whether a news presenter or a celebrity wore a poppy for an interview. You certainly wouldn't have politicians failing to bow, and making their desire for a less militarised society known at a ceremony.
In any case, I just don't get it. Can't people here just live and let live? Or just shrug, accept that there are certain structures that just are the way they are, and get on with things? Good lord. I mean the mystery of why M6 traffic is so awful has NEVER BEEN SOLVED, and that has a direct bearing on millions of people's live, but no one ever turns that into an issue.
We have a constitutional system that - however imperfect - has allowed us to get on with our lives relatively unhindered, and some traditions that may or may not be to people's taste, and every time they come up, people go on and on, and the press have a heyday.
Please explain.
I can't believe you posted a new thread rather than commenting on the other poppy thread, what's wrong with you?
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Do Canadians ever bother reading existing threads?
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No idea but I did notice a Calgary Flames player had a poppy painted on the back of his lid.
He was in a fight at the time. 😆
I love hockey me, & I'm a Canadaphile!
Don't confuse what the media say/do with what Joe Public actually think.
I don't get it. I grew up in Canada
et voilà 😉
turn off the telly/ internet and talk to some people about it and you'll find that unless they're mindless drones heavily influenced by what they read/ heard/ saw on the telly then they don't have an issue.
It's not the British public, it's the British [i]media [/i]
This week's hero will be next week's antichrist, and vice versa. Especially the Daily Wail, Daily Excess and the currant bun.
Possibly due to personal space and the lack and amount thereof.
Canada has a land area of something like 3.8 million square miles and a population of 35 million people.
The U.K. OTOH, has a land area of 97,000 square miles and a population of nearly double that of Canada.
Which is why the Canadians are lovely, laid back and generally all rather wonderful and residents of the U.K. can be rather fractious.
You could have chose to ignore it OP, but instead you made a choice to come on here an rant about it, either becuase you made the choice for it to be important to you, or by default.
If you want to live and let live as you say, choose to ignore it, do so and teach others to do the same.
I think you're mixing up what the news media g.a.s about and what the general public g.a.s about. The news media have to fill columns and air time so they have to talk about something, even if it is nonsense.
g.a.s = give a shit 😀
Don't confuse what the media say/do with what Joe Public actually think.
And that's that.