Two minutes silence and refusing to serve customer

Yes- I asked what the something more tangible is but you seem
Intent on keeping it secret

I already explained up the thread worst kept secret in history.

I met the local leader of the RBL branch through work. I spent a number of hours speaking to them about getting their message out as they were struggling. I created a website for them. I promoted both the organisation as a whole through social media and e-mail mail out.

On my own community website I have promoted through links, publicity and my social media accounts which have thousands of followers. I am also in the process of initiating a project in conjunction with the local branch to help veterans in the area with no family.

@Mishappening

You should have served her - no question. You have no right to impose your view on someone else. We all remember in our own way.

Every shop has a right to NOT serve anyone they choose to not serve!. You do not have a right to be served. Too many entitled bloody special snowflakes around these days who thinks the world revolves around them, and their wants, and needs, and desires.

I would not have served the woman, and she would have been give a short shrift from me if she had been making demands in MY shop.

Can you speak with your manager and ask next year that it is announce over the tannoy that the store will be observing the silence and tills with be closed during this time?

Christ, PeiPeiPing, coiled spring or what?

Yes- I asked what the something more tangible is but you seem
Intent on keeping it secret. Mind you plenty of people manage to combine their tangible acts with respecting the 2 min silence

So? That's 17 years. How long does it have to go on before it can be called a tradition then?

You should have served her - no question. You have no right to impose your view on someone else. We all remember in our own way.

I never wear a poppy as my father refused to - he served in Singapore and I cannot imagine what he saw and suffered. His view was that remembrance has never changed anything or stopped more wars, so forgetting and getting on with a peaceful life is the way to go. I do not wear it as a mark of respect to him.

No you wouldn't. Because you're disrespecting an established important British tradition.

Someone earlier in the thread indicated it had only been around since the year 2000 and was a governmental imposition.

From what I can see on this thread, all name-calling is from observing posters who are denigrating those who don't, or who haven't said they do. It's not very respectful either is it?

What's the point? Live and let live and be glad that we have the freedom (at the moment) to do that.

I missed yesterday's observance, didn't today but I think of the service men and women every time I pick up my car keys as there's a plastic poppy keyring on there. Not intrusive or noisy, just there.

Nobody on this thread knows really what other posters do or think about this subject and it's not really important that they do know - just that they know what they themselves think.

But just because you don’t observe the two minute silence doesn’t mean you don’t understand the historical context or don’t care it just means you’ve drawn you’re own conclusion.
I have not seen a single poster say that they would either disrupt a silence or that they think people shouldn’t do it, but I have seen people who don’t observe the silence called ‘bellends’, ‘scum’ and ‘as bad as holocaust deniers’.

Why does it matter so much to you? Do you enjoy trying to be different?

How would anybody know if I am unobtrusive.

I object because I don't believe we should remember on one day. I object because rather than an enforced and token moment of "respect" I prefer to show my respect by doing something tangible.

I just think about all the thousand and thousand of young people, young boys mostly, who went, and either never returned, or returned damaged in one way or another. It's about compassion for the horror they saw.

@Strangelookingparasite

I do agree with you, but I do also believe they died for our freedom.

Why does it matter so much to you? Do you enjoy trying to be different?

Because you're disrespecting an established important British tradition

And like sheep we all HAVE to follow traditions blindly without question?

When I used to be at work I would quietly work through the silence. I wouldn't go out of my way to ruin it for others but I choose not to participate.

Where is the problem? Because if it is prescribed that we all have to do something that hard fought for freedom is rather made a mockery of

Elephantsandtigers, I agree, that's what I think of too.

Strange, we all post from our own reference and perspective. My grandfather fought in WW1 (and I think in WW2 also) and I often think about what that was like. These men were so young and must have been terrified. The numbers lost seem 'matter of fact' when you hear them in millions, but each one was a whole and meaningful life lost.

LastPersonStanding, I would have been proud too. That's a powerful piece.

Jacques, here we go again, grow up.

No you wouldn't. Because you're disrespecting an established important British tradition.

Not that hard to understand is it?

I don't even buy into the whole 'died for your freedom' line especially - I just think about all the thousand and thousand of young people, young boys mostly, who went, and either never returned, or returned damaged in one way or another. It's about compassion for the horror they saw.

I don't really subscribe to the 'died for our freedom' part. War is too complicated for that.

asking me if I need things explaining to me

You seemed to be having difficulty

Because I think you're just full of flannel posting on a forum trying to make well meaning people feel shit about themselves because that makes you feel good

You couldn't have missed the point more.

I don't CARE whether other people choose to observe a silence or wear a poppy. I expect the same courtesy and as is evidenced by this thread I wouldn't receive that

LyingWitchin, no Jacques was just trying to be personally rude to me. Trying to insult my apparent lack of intellect, asking me if I need things explaining to me and if I was stupid. Really uncalled for, the levels some will sink to.

Because I think you're just full of flannel posting on a forum trying to make well meaning people feel shit about themselves because that makes you feel good

I think people who refuse to observe the 2 minutes silence are utter bell ends. It wouldn't take much to just STFU and sit still for 2 minutes.

It's rude, ignorant, and arrogant. Thing is, I bet this woman who was rushing for the train and demanded to be served, (and ignored the 2 min silence,) is the same type who would beep at a funeral procession and get arsey because she can't get past, and she would demand to go in front of you at a checkout because she only has 3 items and you have 10. (Not wait to be offered/asked to go first, but expect it,) and she probably complains profusely and stamps her feet when she is a minute late for the bus or train and the conductor/driver goes off without her, because she is so much of a special snowflake that the bus or train should be delayed for everyone else that day - for HER.

I know this type well, and they always think the world revolves around them,. And what kind of massive arsehole goes to the shop for something when their train is due to leave in 120 seconds? And then bitches and rants when they are delayed?

Stupid bloody woman.

YANBU. I would not have served her either. Entitled bint.

And it's so pathetic to accuse people who want to observe the 2 minutes silence as 'war mongers.' All people are doing is respecting the war dead. You know, the ones who gave their lives so you could have the freedom to sit there - in your country - bitching at people who want to show their respect!