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

If you are unable or refuse to observe the silence at 11am today or tomorrow, please don’t be in a public place.

To nit-pick for a moment, a shop isn't a public place, it's a building that's open to the public, with the right to refuse or limit entry. I agree that people who choose not to observe the silence when there has been an announcement that it will happen in that building should leave it. In a public place, e.g. the street or the park, I guess they can carry on not being silent, but indoors you should comply with what the establishment owners/management chooses to happen.

I don't care what you think, but of course I wasn't.

Absolutely. We always observe the silence wherever we are.
Mostly at home now. DH raises a tot of whisky to the fallen.

In Sainsbury's observing the 2mins silence..everyone stopped still...tills were quiet yet one elderly couple continued to argue about wether they should buy digestives of malted milk

It's clear from the context of the post that she meant people talking, not making noise through SNs/disabilities.

Might be worth mentioning that on the Conflict in the Middle East threads because Israel has been using that as an excuse for over a year now.
Apologies for the derail, couldn’t resist

Nope. I hope you weren't reading MN.

Bloody typical... There I am, reading an entertaining thread about the recent performativeness of the 2 minute silence in a garden centre café, chomping away at a nice vegan fry up, enjoying the ping ponging of arguments, and realising suddenly that the Muzak had stopped, everyone had frozen whatever they were doing, forks halfway up, gentlemen mid pushing chairs under their partners' bottom, gentlemen's partners' bottoms half seated, someone paused in the doorway letting the fricking cold air in .... and unpause, the fallen sufficiently honoured, forks in mouths, bottoms on seats and doors finally closed, my breakfast half cold as I was right next to the entrance....

I was completely still and silent for the 2 mins - according to the timing of your posting you weren't.

Yes, of course.

Our borders weren't in danger in 1998 any more than they were through all the years that the IRA were active. Acts of terrorism don't equate to invasion.

I was born at a time and in a place when the threat of war and the potential loss of liberty was probably at it's lowest.

I’m sure you understand that’s not what @Mokel meant. She means those who are flagrantly breaking the silence that is important to the vast majority.

I am so sorry for what your son and you are going through, no-one would expect him to be silent in any circumstances.

Although lots on here might be.
Im thinking the Irish, for example.

Is talking on the internet allowed?

I like that it happens everywhere, even the supermarket or the airport. Its transcendent.

The gun has been fired. 🤐🤫

I'm assuming you were born before 1998?

This.

It may be nonsense to some people but it's nice appreciative gesture for all those who have lost their lives for the country. Why would you not respect that?

Less than a minute to go.
Let's just respect the silence.
Pleass

Thought you were going 🤣

Agreed 100%.

How disgusting and disrespectful if anyone was to continue talking and ignored it

Except nobody has said anything of the sort. 🫣

I've always wanted to ask- how does that work exactly (the not believing in war)? If, for example, your country is invaded you think it shouldn't be defended?

Not believing in war is different to not agreeing with war. I know wars happen, I don’t think war is a good thing and dislike the concept of the “glorious dead”. I don’t think there is any glory in death. I do take part in acts of remembrance because it is important, for me, to remember lives lost and ruined on all sides by acts of war.

Most of us are definitely speaking from the luxury of not being alive at a time when our liberty or our country's borders are under threat.