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Why are Sky newsreaders ALREADY wearing poppies?

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CatAndMice · 25/10/2018 11:19

Not because they want to or because it means something to them...

But obviously because they’ve been told to.

This makes them meaningless.

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AnonaMouse1 · 25/10/2018 12:41

So you have no information? No proof they have been forced to wear them?

You made it up?

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CatAndMice · 25/10/2018 12:42

I know this because I’ve seen it happen at work where people have not wanted to wear one (more than one institution). People also forget that other countries don’t have them and I’ve seen outrage that someone is not wearing them.

I used to wear one. I no longer do. I hate the pressure to wear them. I thought October was very early to be seeing them on TV. I don’t believe that every presenter decided to wear one from today out of free choice.

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CatAndMice · 25/10/2018 12:44

No proof? How long to you expect me to sit on here and trawl the net? Do your own research. I’m going to work soon. You’ll be saying I’ve posted and disappeared next!

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Parker231 · 25/10/2018 12:45

I’ve started wearing mine today - a white poppy.

AnonaMouse1 · 25/10/2018 12:46

But op.... you say it as a fact

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CatAndMice · 25/10/2018 12:48

It is a fact. Evidence is all around. Do your own research.

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PortiaCastis · 25/10/2018 12:51

I'm going to buy one as soon as I see a seller because I have respect for lost family members

StormCloudsDoClear · 25/10/2018 12:53

Oh do calm down dear...

I'm sure they weren't held at gunpoint to comply, unlike Jews in 1943.

Many presenters have declined in the past. Nobody has really cared, maybe the odd loon shouting about not wearing one/wearing one but that's about it.

Calm down Linda and go to work.

AaahhwoooooOOOOooOOOOo1 · 25/10/2018 12:54

I’ve started wearing mine today - a white poppy

Do you wear it on 21st September as a matter of interest?

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CatAndMice · 25/10/2018 12:57

Oh do calm down dear...

Here come the misogynistic comments that attempt to squash the freedom of speech that you say your ancestors faught and died for. Shame on you for that and the rest of your post. It may not be gunpoint, but there is more than one way to force people to comply.

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AnonaMouse1 · 25/10/2018 12:58

Its not 'fact' you are assuming

AnonaMouse1 · 25/10/2018 13:00

Not because they want to or because it means something to them.But obviously because they’ve been told to

Lol at op!

Assuming
Making it up
Got no facts

Why 'obviously' ?

OnceUponATimeInAmerica · 25/10/2018 13:02

I started wearing mine last week. It is one the ones commemorating the women who gave their lives. I buy a different one each year, before I am accused of undermining the annual appeal.

www.poppyshop.org.uk/women-of-the-first-world-war-brooch.html?C1

StormCloudsDoClear · 25/10/2018 13:02

Cat you are being hysterical and I'm mocking it....that's all.

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CheeseTheDay · 25/10/2018 13:06

Bloody hell, couldn't even get through The Poppy Appeal launch day, before the first 'poppy pressure' thread.

Don't wear a poppy, if you don't want to, but don't assume people who wear one, do so out of pressure.

I wear one every year, with immense pride and gratitude, as it was British soldiers who liberated the concentration camp that my grandmother was held in. She and many others were very ill, and thousands of the prisoners died, but obviously my grandmother was one of those who survived. All thanks to British soldiers. As a family, we even managed to track down and meet some of the few surviving soldiers that liberated the camp, several years ago. So it isn't pressure that leads me to wear my poppy, which I do from the first moment I see a seller somewhere. Rather it's the fact that it's very likely, I wouldn't be here, without British soldiers. I will NEVER forget that, or take that for granted.

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CatAndMice · 25/10/2018 13:09

Oh yes... 'hysterical'...

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Female_hysteria

I’m being attacked for asking a question about why they are wearing poppies so soon. I’m hysterical. 'Calm down dear'. Its been implied I’m a troll.

Look at yourselves. You ARE the pressure. You ARE why people feel they can’t say know. Yet you can’t see it.

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CatAndMice · 25/10/2018 13:09

Say 'no'.

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PortiaCastis · 25/10/2018 13:10

Cheese well said

CheeseTheDay · 25/10/2018 13:11

But it isn't too soon.

Poppy Appeal launch day is the earliest they should be worn.

It may be 'too soon' in your eyes, but you're wrong.

AnonaMouse1 · 25/10/2018 13:12

It's normal at this time of year

Is it not a bit later than previous years though? I'm sure our tills had them out before half term last year

AnonaMouse1 · 25/10/2018 13:13

If people feel they can't say no then that's their own individual problem, not mine

I don't wear one

I've never had anyone ask why not or push one on me

StormCloudsDoClear · 25/10/2018 13:15

But you've been told it's the launch of the Poppy appeal today so that's probably why they have them on "so soon". It's your refusal to believe that they may not have been forced to wear one that is absurd.

Many of us here have said, nobody cares if someone wears one or not, but in your hysterical whirlwind of ideology that they must have been forced, you've refused to believe they may have wanted to wear one.

Do you honestly think every presenter has been forced, and it is a fact?

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CatAndMice · 25/10/2018 13:18

Do you honestly think every presenter has been forced, and it is a fact?

No, not every presenter. But I don’t believe they all (on one channel only) decided spontaneously to wear one from that particular day.

Had one or two worn one, and not others, I wouldn’t have asked the question. I don’t know why you find that so difficult to comprehend.

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AaahhwoooooOOOOooOOOOo1 · 25/10/2018 13:21

Why don’t you tweet Sky, Cat? Ask them?

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