To be annoyed at how someone was wearing a poppy

[lovemylittlefamily]

Aibu I went shopping to the supermarket this morning and one of the staff was wearing a poppy in her hair as a fashion accessory. I think it's great that young people wear poppys to show respect but I found this disrespectful wearing it as a fashion accessory

aibu?

Does it matter where you wear it?

every single sleb you see on TV this week is wearng one as a fashion accessory.

How do you know that she does not have a good reason for wearing her poppy like this? Loved one in Afghanistan? Maybe.
Would that seem disrespectful?
Lots of young women have boyfriends,family or friends serving abroad.
Who are you to judge?

Know what you mean OP, but I think I'm just pleased that people are wearing them.

how is it disrespectful?

she bought the poppy to support the RBL. her money is already supporting them whether she wears it in her hair or her chest. what difference does it make? is it disrespectful to buy one and keep it in yoru pocket?

She paid for it, she can do what she likes with it ffs

oh yes YABU

I bought 3 - DD's eaten them all - that's disrespect!

yabu

Maybe her uniform policy says she can't wear one, so she was being inventive?

I cant bear the amount of competative poppy wearing that has become the norm.

Only a few years ago it wasnt an issue,you bought one you wore it, you did the two minutes silence and paid your respects.

Now there is all this rightious indignation stirred up in no small part by the media. They like to spread it about that no one cares anymore, specially them immigrants . People have to have the biggest and bestest poppys to prove just how wonderful they are. All those bloody stupid FB statuses daring people not to be 'patriotic'

We are not allowed to just get on with it in our own way anymore.

Why is it disrespectful to wear a poppy in your hair?

On whose behalf are you offended?

YABU - doesn't matter where you wear it. I pinned DS's poppy onto his sleeve, as he didn't want to wear it on his chest.

yabu

yabu. I decline to wear one. Others can chose to. Wherever they like.

She's wearing one - that's good enough for me.

YABU I am just pleased she's wearing one!

Have you nothing else to be annoyed about?.
YABU

They don't have pins any more - you have to do something with it!

Ooh this is interesting. Dp and I had a v similar conversation with dd1 yesterday. She wanted to wear a poppy in her hair and we both felt that to do so would be using a symbol as a fashion accessory rather than as a symbol - and thus we felt it was inapproriate for her to do so at school, as she had wanted to. So I sort of think yanbu.

YABU.

I've seen celebs on TV wearing them on their wrists like a corsage.

I agree with the poster above who said that it's a competative thing to wear a poppy now, esp on TV.

I personally don't wear one cuz a) I always forget to buy one, b) when I do buy one they always fall off.

But in my own heart I remember those who fought and fell (including some of my family members) and I feel that that is sufficient.

so what if she is using a poppy as a fashion accessory, at least she had bought it and that money however little is going to help.

i have a poppy on my car, is that disrespectful.

as long as she's wearing it knowing WHAT and WHY they are then YABU

if she's wearing it as a fashion accessory only because it's pretty and cute then YANBU

on the Xfactor the other night one of them was wearing it on their belt buckle

yabu, I've put one in my hat, I can't see how buying one and wearing is being disrespectful. They don't have pins now either, couldn't get it to stay on my coat

what really pisses me off is the box on paypal which wants donations to the RBL poppy appeal 'To support our soldiers'

I assumed the poppies were to demonstrate remembrance