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

@StandingSideBySide - I do think that you are making a good point - personally I respect other people's choice to not observe the silence, if they don't want to. I can also understand why some people want to protest about what happened - but would argue that they could protest outwith the Remembrance commemorations.

But I also respect the sacrifices that were made, which stopped Hitler in his tracks. I am very glad he didn't win WW2 - I can't imagine our lives would have been beds of roses, if he had.

You're not being asked to show respect to the armed forces, you're being asked to show respect for the people around you who want to observe the two minutes' silence.

Why is this so hard to understand?

You're not being asked to show respect to the armed forces, you're being asked to show respect for the people around you who want to observe the two minutes' silence.

Why is this so hard to understand?

They're not exercising anything, they're just being twats.

Like I said
I personally wouldn’t make noise and don’t think it’s appropriate I just don’t think everyone has to stand still as well.

For those who do make noise…..we don’t know their lives……
Name calling is disrespectful.

You're not being asked to show respect to the armed forces, you're being asked to show respect for the people around you who want to observe the two minutes' silence.

Why is this so hard to understand?

That’s bollocks! Watch
that halo you’re wearing doesn’t choke you!
you don’t do remembrance! It’s in your heart always. Don’t make assumptions about me you don’t know anything about my family or military connections love!

I agree it’s respectful to others to stay quiet (excepting people who can’t owing to age or disability etc).

However, some pp have mentioned they’ve been thrown filthy looks for quietly continuing about their business while others stand still to reflect, and I don’t think that’s fair at all.

To be clear, I’m talking about people continuing to walk about a supermarket quietly, scanning and choosing something from shelves etc, NOT throwing tins noisily into baskets. So being quiet but on the move. Do people object to this too - because it seems like some might?

It’s not about making a protest it’s about being expected to show respect to the British Armed Forces who , for some people, have suffered at their hands.

Im repeating myself here and it seems pointless if some can’t appreciate that the British Armed Forces have been the aggressors in many cases.

If everyone has a right to remember them, as you say, then equally everyone has a right not to. It’s called equality and whilst personally I think it’s not OK to shout or disrupt during the period of silence it’s understandable why some people may chose to ignore it. We don’t know their lives, we don’t know what’s happened to them or their families.
Would you really call a person a twat after they kick off because their family members were killed by the British Armed Forces. I find even thinking that insensitive

Theres clearly no point explaining again. Sometimes if people haven’t experienced it personally they don’t appreciate it. Luckily some on here do understand

I'd respect other people's right to remember those who gave their lives for their country (which may indeed include their own family members) and make my protest some other time.

So you'd be swivelling your eyes around instead of actually observing the silence and thinking. I expect you think you're doing 'remembrance' better but you're just the same as those being disruptive. Shame on you.

But you can give them a filthy look though! ( I would ) but also I know my 7 year old autistic grandson wouldn’t manage it. And some people that have disabilities would maybe struggle and that’s fine. There is a difference between not keeping silent because you can’t or just choosing to not do so and trying to deliberately make someone who is observing it talk ( in a shop for instance) that winds the hell out of me!

So you would happily respect your families aggressors and invaders who shot them in cold blood and subsequently got away with it.

Every Remembrance Sunday and Nov 11th, when I worked at retail, we did a tannoy announcement with 5 min, 2 min before to inform customers that the store will be observing the 2 min silence. Then another to start it.

Every time there were customers who kept talking. Plus one time a woman in her 50s shouted “why can’t anyone serve me some fucking fags?” Everyone just looked at her. Some had the courage to say how disrespectful she was once the silence ended.

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

If you're making a noise because you have Tourettes or you don't have the necessary cognitive understanding to appreciate why other people are staying quiet, then no, you're not a twat.

But most people are perfectly capable of staying quiet for a very short window of time to allow other people to observe the silence, and if you desperately feel the need to make a scene right at that moment to show how much you don't care, then yes, sorry but you're a twat.

Why would anyone who doesn't want to observe a minutes silence choose to stay home rather than disturb it? They don't care about it, so they're obviously not going to stop living their lives for it.

I agree it's incredibly disrespectful but you don't get to demand people follow it, and obviously for a wide variety of reasons not everybody can observe it.

I wasn’t saying I think it’s ok to shout during that time
I was simply trying to point out that calling people twats when you have no idea of their lives isn’t OK either.

They're free to share their thoughts about the armed forced with the rest of the class during any of the other 525,598 minutes in the year, but doing it during the two minutes' silence is not respecting those who choose to observe it.

Or have been negatively affected by the British Armed Forces.
We don’t know what sort of a life a random person next to us has lead.

Respect for all.

They're not exercising anything, they're just being twats.

That they don’t winge if other people exercise their fought for freedom of choice and not maintain the silence.

Complete rubbish. I've been going to our local football club matches for 40 years. It's ALWAYS been marked at the nearest home game to Remembrance Sunday by a small armed forces parade, playing of the bugle and 2 minutes silence.

It was also observed at UK airports. We twice went on holiday in the 90s on Remembrance day, and the whole airport stopped and went silent at 11am. I know it was the 90s because we've never been on a foreign winter holiday since our son was born in 2002!

I also remember it being held in shopping centres and supermarkets virtually continuously back as far as I remember.

To say it was "barely marked" until 2014 simply isn't true.