If you don’t want to observe two minute silence- don’t be out

This woman and those who choose to ignore the silence should definitely not be out, I agree.

But disabled people shouldn’t be frowned upon for making a noise.

I have a severely disabled DD I avoid going out until 11 on remembrance Sunday knowing she won't be able to be quiet for 2 minutes. She can't help it and doesn't understand what it's for. Those that do and can't be quiet for two minutes are disrespectful.

If your store is open, then people have the right to observe the 2mins silence or not. Whilst the lady was rude, perhaps she simply didn't care.

As the wife of a veteran, we are kind of feeling the same way as @ReignOfError . Remembrance Day has become performative.

If the government and Royals really cared all year round and not only on 11th November, they would be giving £millions to house the estimated
300-400 Veterans to give them homes that aren’t shop doorways.
The RBL wouldn’t be mismanaging poppy funds given to them by the public instead of helping Veterans…including paying very high salaries to a high number of employees.

The irony is mind boggling with this one!

People died for your freedom!! You must do x,y,z !

In response to someone who was hopeful that a chap with the nerve to rev his engine would be "getting a visit" from a copper it seems pretty accurate. 😂

Pretty sure that is not at all what OP was trying to convey

Sorry to hear about your son's epilepsy

Imagine honouring people who died fighting for our right to be free from dictatorship by dictating to others what they should or shouldn't be doing.

In my experience, most of the people talking during the 2 minute silences held in shops/businesses etc... are doing so because for whatever reason they're completely unaware as to whats going on.

I forgot that its today, because I have AuDHD, I've been busy, my sleep pattern is fucked and my regular work shifts have altered, totally throwing me off as to what day it actually is (I genuinely feel like its Friday!)... so IF I were out and about, I might well be thoroughly fucking confused as to why everyones just stopped and gone quiet and if I am a bit spaced out and overwhelmed at being out, I might well not even notice until I need to speak, THEN i realise everyone else is totally silent.

I don't think theres many out there who would wilfully try to wreck it (excusing the under 5s..) but plenty who would, for various perfectly fair reasons, be oblivious.

And no it isn't possible to determine if someone is wilfully being disrespectful, by simply looking at them.

It is also possible for someone to be oblivious AND also be a generally rude person, so that when they open their mouth, they're rude.. because they're always rude, not because they're trying to be specifically disrespectful in this particular moment.

"Public place"
You can do as you please!!
Respect the people to find take part if you expect them to respect the ones that do.
Obviously shouting is a bit OTT but whispering it talking low is fine!

LOL 😂 "slightly accusatory memes", that's exactly what they are.

"I didn't die fighting the Nazis so you could chat in Tesco " .

@Coconutter24 actually she said if you are unable or refuse to observe the silence then stay home.The second implies a choice which is what you're on about. The first, literally doesn't.

I’ve just come on here after being on Facebook where lots of people are changing their profile pictures to fields of poppies and sharing slightly accusatory memes along the lines of “remember they died for you, you ungrateful bastard.” Well, I know they don’t literally say that, but it’s kind of implied.

Don’t be silly. I have personal reasons for observing it. Many don’t. Why should that bother me?

The shop wasn't observing it. Nobody was back in the early 90s. That's why everyone else was confused. It wasn't the done thing back then.

Why did your employer not prevent customers from doing this? There are so many ways that this could have been achieved.

Answer: Not that important to commerce.

That’s no what OP has said and it’s very clear they mean people who are unable to keep their mouth shut not someone who is physically unable

The hyperbole is off the charts today.

'Hey, pipe down for two minutes so you don't disturb people observing a shared remembrance'.

Cue: Where's my freedom of movement? Why do people want to live in a police state?

If it ever really happened...

These threads are always the same, full of righteousness and pompousness. Apologies to the poster concerned as I'm not referencing them other than generally but, as if drinking a tot at 11am means anything other than wanting a drink at 11am. It's no more respectful than not doing that.

Many people (myself included) think of lost lives at various points of our normal lives. I don't need an arbitrary remembrance for that, it's always there. If anybody needs to remember, it's our blasted government and world leaders who force wars, the financing of them, loss of lives and blank futures.

I have no issue with people wanting to participate in remembrance, that's their freedom right there. The performance leaves me cold and, as other posters have said, why are those people away from their homes at said time if it's so vitally important to them?

Times move on but what doesn't is the consistent war-mongering and pointless loss of lives. The people we elect/pay through the nose for have learned absolutely nothing. I deplore their posturing at 'Remembrance'.

Live and let live. We have been given the freedom to do that.

Well said. And I reckon every serving soldier would agree with you.

Yes we should all do our best to be respectful and grateful for those who fought on our behalf, and are prepared to do so again if necessary, but not at the expense of taking away the very liberties they fought for in the first place!

When I worked in retail customers would stop you observing the two minutes silence by asking me questions and expecting an answer right away. So yes they were stopping me.
It's sad people don't show respect for the soldiers who died for them.

People really do want to live in a police state, don't they?

I thought that was made pretty obvious during Covid. There were dozens of threads demanding the Army to be on the streets and reinforce the rules.

Exactly!!!

A persons opinions about a minutes silence should not be inflicted onto others who it means nothing

We had a knobhead on a motorbike revving at the front of the queue of traffic as we were observing the 2 min silence at a cenotaph service. Unfortunately for him, the silence didn’t stop the police office next to me from noting down his reg. I suspect he’ll be getting a visit later.

eh? For what reason? This isn’t a bloody police state