Remembrance Day

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1 minute ago, Mark Bolam said:

I know what you mean Alex.

 

The ‘War to end all Wars’ should have been just that.

 

Makes me so ****************ing angry, having walked around the Sanctuary Wood trenches and the incredible tiny museum next to it once every year for about a decade (plus the Last Post at the Menin Gate and the museum at the ghost of the Cloth Hall, plus whatever cemetaries would be on the itinerary that year, one British, one German) that there is still the spectre of war in Europe. Outrageous. 

 

Hill 62 Sanctuary Wood Museum

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The Hill 62 Sanctuary Wood Museum near Ypres in Belgium contains an impressive partially restored British...

 

 

 

 

 

[Mike Hill]

10 hours ago, AHPP said:

People treat it as a celebration of sacrifice, not a recognition of waste. War is unspeakably shit. Just about every day of the year, I see some warry thing and think to myself, yeah, new CoD game looks good but how glamorous is actually having to bayonet another human being before he bayonets you. I turn conversations with strangers to how their tax loot goes to blowing up brown people who've never done them any harm. I write songs about how industrial militarism and nation state conflict is a tragedy. Pretty much daily, I'm thinking to myself in spare moments, how can we break this stupid system of getting kids to kill each other when they could be growing strawberries and going sailing instead?

 

So if, on 1 day out of 364, some shop staff gives me a haughty look at 11:01 because I'm not standing there with my basket like a lemon, I couldn't care less. I've been advocating for peace for the last decade or so. You'll get to 11:02 and five seconds and be back to thinking about Love Island, you vacuous bint.

 

Please post some of your songs.

 

What are their titles?

[Steve Bullman]

Take it you won’t be going to our local gym then @Mick Dempsey

 

 

[AHPP]

Facebook clearly thinks I need to be a bit more patriotic. 
 

[Whoppa Choppa]

On 10/11/2024 at 18:14, Mick Dempsey said:

Unpopular opinion.

 

The whole things got a bit too much, too performative.

Every year it gets more and more all encompassing.

It has now become obligatory to be/do/show something.

God forbid if you don’t join in.

They gave their tomorrow for your today. 

[AHPP]

 

Anyway. Now war’s over for another year we can get back to important matters.