Originally posted by SueEllen
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Minutes silence etiquette.
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Originally posted by PurpleGorilla View Post#unexpectediteminthebaggingarea #fail"You’re just a bad memory who doesn’t know when to go away" JRComment
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Originally posted by PurpleGorilla View Post#unexpectediteminthebaggingarea #fail
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Originally posted by SueEllen View PostThere are too many silences.
The only time I'm actually silent AND still is on 11th November.What happens in General, stays in General.You know what they say about assumptions!Comment
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Originally posted by Mordac View PostNo. I'm completely with you. Anyone who can't spare a single poxy minute to show respect for a large but as yet unknown number of men, women and children who died in truly awful and horrific circumstances, has their sense of priorities all wrong.
Yes it's sad, but in a way it's disrespectful to pretend that a minute's silence in any way makes up for what happened. And as much as this was a terrible single event, people die all the time, many in a fire in Portugal yesterday. So who is deciding which people are worthy of a minute's silence and which people aren't?
Plus they're always a bit painfully awkward. Sometimes in football or whatever they do a minute's applause for someone who's died, and I think that is a much better idea; both practically and in terms of what it's trying to achieve.
But each to their own. If someone was wanting to observe the silence I wouldn't go and start talking to them or whatever, but equally you shouldn't complain about other people not choosing to take part. In fact I'd bet the majority don't.Will work inside IR35. Or for food.Comment
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Originally posted by VectraMan View PostOr it's virtue signalling at its worst.Comment
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Originally posted by northernladyuk View PostIt's hardly the worst virtue signalling in the world.Will work inside IR35. Or for food.Comment
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Originally posted by VectraMan View PostOr it's virtue signalling at its worst.
Yes it's sad, but in a way it's disrespectful to pretend that a minute's silence in any way makes up for what happened. And as much as this was a terrible single event, people die all the time, many in a fire in Portugal yesterday. So who is deciding which people are worthy of a minute's silence and which people aren't?
Plus they're always a bit painfully awkward. Sometimes in football or whatever they do a minute's applause for someone who's died, and I think that is a much better idea; both practically and in terms of what it's trying to achieve.
But each to their own. If someone was wanting to observe the silence I wouldn't go and start talking to them or whatever, but equally you shouldn't complain about other people not choosing to take part. In fact I'd bet the majority don't.
A minutes silence
Update your Facebook profile
Say a prayer at your local place of worship.
All are relevant things to do but none will actually make a difference or bring back the dead.Comment
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Originally posted by northernladyuk View PostIt's hardly the worst virtue signalling in the world.Comment
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Originally posted by woohoo View PostExactly, I often say the same when I'm helping out with the homeless, disabled, non-binary veterans at the local Charity shop that I part fund with my expenses from contracting.Comment
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