Another pointless thread

Off to India on holiday on Monday. Just discovered I managed to short a battery so it is now ruined. Had to pay Amazon for a replacement with express shipping.

I'm off to India a couple of weeks after you. Don't eat all the curry....

I support Birmingham City. I know nothing about football.

I'm not off to India (or even Colombia ) at all. I am jealous .

Can you PM me whenever there's a match on so I can avoid going into the city via Bordesley Green!

Off to the Dentists, a bit like watching football

You'll be Ok in and around Bordesley Green, there won't be much traffic. While they are playing in Europe they play the next few league games on Sundays. Well, "play" is probably a bit too far fetched, they'll be there.

Poppies have absolutely nothing to do with football - however to be TOLD in no uncertain terms that individuals CANNOT show respect and support on such a sensitive occasion by some pompous inflated and allegedly corrupt leader of an overblown and self important organisation beggars belief and as proven has pricked the conscience of the majority of the country.
I`m saddened that you can equate Poppies with Red Noses ( an admirable venture however ).Since the football kit of an English player is his working uniform it should be treated no differently than that of a police officer,a politician or any other person who wishes to show respect.
Shame the FA are as spineless as the rest of our so called leaders and bend the knee at the first sign of a conflict - may we give thanks that they were not at Passchendale or Ypres or running the War Office in 1914.

Tony

I stopped buying a poppy when we surrendered to Brussels and someone mentioned V.A.T

Politics is not allowed.

Tony - they get to wear their poppies, on a black armband.

I do sometimes wonder about this poppy fetish though. As a child we bought our poppies and wore them in the week of Remembrance Day and that was it. Some people wore them, others, such as my father(who had fought in WW2) and a neighbour (who fought in WW1) didn't. Footballers certainly never wore them on the field of play.

No one was made to feel a pariah for not wearing one. Now it seems to almost be compulsory - and the bigger the poppy, and the earlier you start wearing it the better.

I have been to the UK in early October and been glared at for not wearing a poppy. I have had rude comments made to my face in late October for not wearing a poppy.

Incidentally I really object to the glitzy poppies they insist on everyone wearing on Strictly.

Before "All Day Opening" in the local pub, at closing time the manageress always came around rattling a collection tin and pushing a tray of poppies it the faces of the hopefully well lubricated customers. A mate of mine caused a mini riot when, for the hell of it, stood up and declared he would not be buying a poppy, as he had one at home from last year.

Pretty soon you're going to be crossing the line of good taste.

No politics is the rule here at PU, so please move on to something else.

Since when has it been bad taste to voice an opinion?

Sorry John - I thougt football and respect for the dead were above politics.

Tony

Watched a documentary last night about Scotland's gold mine, one of the main campaigners was a chap wearing glasses called John Riley, could he be related to "our" JR