Blue Cat

me too

The Dean

It's now 11.00am in UK.

Remembrance starts now............

commander

sssssssssssshhhhhhhhhh

commander

Madam Medusa

...and here's one of the simulteneously funniest and most poignant sketches i've seen...blackadder goes forth...



MM, xx

Blue Cat

bumping this up

commander

i expect BE to shut down for 2 mins at 15:00UAE time. I have brought it poppies for the troops today, and we will observe in a dignified silence.

(Celtic FC take note, a minutes applause is neither appropriate nor dignified.)

Blue Cat

yes sir (salutes)

Charismatic

I think that should be "Sir, yes, sir" .

I was thinking the other day that my generation will be the first in my family not to take up military service for about 100 years. I hope we are the first of many generations to live in peaceful times .

The Dean

Agreed - and here in the office I will be accompanied by two South African colleagues as we step outside for two minutes of respectful silence.

The Dean

It's not to be trivialised BC............

ctfc

They shall grow not old,
As we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them,
Nor the years condemn,
At the going down of the sun
And in the morning
We will remember them.

commander

Pipe the still..........

commander

carry on........

The Dean

Beautifully observed here............

There we were, myself and a fellow Englishman, and SA and Filipino colleagues, standing/waiting outside the main entrance of the bank at about 10.58GMT when two Saudi colleagues walked by, and asked what we were doing.

I told them, and they said "May we join you?".

Of course they could.......... not sure if they fully understood the significance of it, but it struck me as the sort of gesture that, if about 6 billion people could emulate it, would make the world a better place.