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Forum: The Sand Pit
Nov 9th 2017, 12:19 pm
Replies: 70
Views: 4,195
Posted By Miss Ann Thrope

Re: Remembrance Poppies

And hear endeth this thread because there is absolutely nothing else that needs to be said.
Forum: The Sand Pit
Nov 8th 2017, 11:27 am
Replies: 70
Views: 4,195
Posted By Miss Ann Thrope

Re: Remembrance Poppies

Er, is that what we could call a poppycock?
Forum: The Sand Pit
Nov 8th 2017, 11:16 am
Replies: 70
Views: 4,195
Posted By Miss Ann Thrope

Re: Remembrance Poppies

OK, big confession here: when I was typing a previous post in this thread I actually forgot John Terry's name for a while. I just couldn't bring it to mind though I could picture him in a million...
Forum: The Sand Pit
Nov 8th 2017, 11:00 am
Replies: 70
Views: 4,195
Posted By Miss Ann Thrope

Re: Remembrance Poppies

But it's in the Grauniad so of course it has to have clever references...
Forum: The Sand Pit
Nov 8th 2017, 10:45 am
Replies: 70
Views: 4,195
Posted By Miss Ann Thrope

Re: Remembrance Poppies

Push what?
Forum: The Sand Pit
Nov 8th 2017, 10:44 am
Replies: 70
Views: 4,195
Posted By Miss Ann Thrope

Re: Remembrance Poppies

Well he's known for his slightly obscure or non-obvious references - usually they are worth the effort to figure out but often require reading the comments below to pick up on them. It's hard to...
Forum: The Sand Pit
Nov 8th 2017, 7:36 am
Replies: 70
Views: 4,195
Posted By Miss Ann Thrope

Re: Remembrance Poppies

Aside from any well-founded concerns about the recent and not-so-recent behaviour of British armed services on the island of Ireland, even those who would have no truck with Irish nationalism may...
Forum: The Sand Pit
Nov 7th 2017, 11:23 am
Replies: 70
Views: 4,195
Posted By Miss Ann Thrope

Re: Remembrance Poppies

Note I don't do xmas cards: I prefer winter festival spiritual tokens, preferably woven of hemp and goat hair rather than destroying the environment with bleached pulp and pigments.
Forum: The Sand Pit
Nov 7th 2017, 11:19 am
Replies: 70
Views: 4,195
Posted By Miss Ann Thrope

Re: Remembrance Poppies

Don't worry Mission pet, you're welcome around ours for cocktails anytime. There'll be plenty of booze but just bear in mind we might be asleep by 10pm (unless there's something good on the National...
Forum: The Sand Pit
Nov 7th 2017, 10:06 am
Replies: 70
Views: 4,195
Posted By Miss Ann Thrope

Re: Remembrance Poppies

That was Scamp and D2D, keep up!
Forum: The Sand Pit
Nov 7th 2017, 10:03 am
Replies: 70
Views: 4,195
Posted By Miss Ann Thrope

Re: Remembrance Poppies

Only a few months late to figure that out - better than your VAT plan I guess!!
Forum: The Sand Pit
Nov 7th 2017, 9:52 am
Replies: 70
Views: 4,195
Posted By Miss Ann Thrope

Re: Remembrance Poppies

Frankfurt is Birmingham to Cologne's Manchester - anyone having that?

Cologne to me is very "West Germany" whereas Frankfurt is bland European. Aside from that unintelligible differentiation (to...
Forum: The Sand Pit
Nov 7th 2017, 8:24 am
Replies: 70
Views: 4,195
Posted By Miss Ann Thrope

Re: Remembrance Poppies

You took your cue!

I was going to send you a PM but realised I have nothing much interesting to say. Frankfurt is "nice", lacking the edge or energy of Berlin, Cologne, Hamburg or even Munich. ...
Forum: The Sand Pit
Nov 7th 2017, 8:04 am
Replies: 70
Views: 4,195
Posted By Miss Ann Thrope

Re: Remembrance Poppies

And, just to be completely contrarian, I am always glad to see people wearing poppies (unless it's some kind of stupid tribal badge) as I support the original underlying purpose.

Now, can we...
Forum: The Sand Pit
Nov 7th 2017, 7:29 am
Replies: 70
Views: 4,195
Posted By Miss Ann Thrope

Re: Remembrance Poppies

I genuinely apreciate your engagement with this subject because I've seen how ugly and emotive it can easily get (coins thrown at James McClean for not wearing a a poppy ffs).

Allow me to please...
Forum: The Sand Pit
Nov 7th 2017, 4:52 am
Replies: 70
Views: 4,195
Posted By Miss Ann Thrope

Re: Remembrance Poppies

The point is why would an ostensibly - well self-proclaimed - Irish pub be selling something that a great many Irish people might prefer not to support. This fundamentally undermines it's pretence...
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