Turned Out Nice Again Posted November 11, 2014 Share Posted November 11, 2014 The question is, what on Earth made them really believe they should go to the front.... propaganda ... and this kind of thing: http://www.firstworldwar.com/audio/yourkingandcountrywantyou.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yellerkat Posted November 11, 2014 Share Posted November 11, 2014 "Your King and Country Want You"...well some of the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skrillex Posted November 12, 2014 Share Posted November 12, 2014 Tower of London poppies obliterated by machine guns In a moving tribute to British soldiers who died in WWI, all 888,246 hand-made poppies at the Tower of London exhibition have been mowed down by machine gun fire. Tourists looked on, horrified, as a row of specially restored Maschinengewehr 08 machine guns were rolled into place along the embankments and started to obliterate the fragile ceramic flowers. “This was always the plan,” explained artist Tom Piper who helped to devise the exhibition. “Otherwise it would have just been some sort of mawkish display of nationalism.” “No, this is the true side of war,” he added, as he drove a tank over the beautiful ceramic flowers, grinding the shards into the mud. “Perhaps I went a bit far by getting German veterans to operate the guns, but that’s art for you.” “I came here to celebrate poppies and feel vaguely patriotic,” said one stunned onlooker watching the clouds of mustard gas spread across the exhibition. “This is so distasteful…Remembrance Day isn’t about remembering the true horror of war, it’s about the Last Post, our boys, and the nice old men on their scooters. How are we meant to feel positive about the deaths of millions now?” “Every poppy represents a life lost and a family shattered,” said Piper. “Why, that one over there could be little Wilfred Owen. BLAM! And that one over there could be Field Marshal Haig! Oh wait, no, of course not, he was just the guy who sent 400,000 men to their deaths to gain ten miles of ground at the Somme. Silly me.” The Tower also revealed a previously hidden side-exhibit of white flowers representing the 306 British soldiers who were executed for desertion. The white flowers were ceremonially shot by trained marksmen and dumped in unmarked graves. “It’s important we remember what a spectacle war can be,” said David Cameron. “But we mustn’t forget that every death is a tragic loss, particularly when it’s one of the good guys.” “Just look at them,” he said, picking up some broken petals and holding them gently in the palm of his hand. “So fragile, so innocent, and so ineffective against bullets. If we couldn’t be sure of the fact that none of them died in vain, this would be unbearably sad, wouldn’t it?” SOLDIERS PATROL THE PERIMETER TO ENSURE NO POPPIES ATTEMPT RETREAT http://undergroundmgzn.com/2014/11/11/tower-london-poppies-obliterated-machine-guns/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ccc Posted November 12, 2014 Share Posted November 12, 2014 Dark and very funny. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Eagle Posted November 14, 2014 Share Posted November 14, 2014 They should have just filled the moat with blood. I actually have a theory that the artist's intent was to convey this for some reason. Why would they be depicted in this way if it were not trying to point the finger ? Especially when you look at stuff like the 'blood' pouring from the tower and 'splashing' over the entrance: I'm surprised the Windsors' agreed to this, it makes them look really bad, to me (and I'm sure to other too) this looks like a symbolic representation of all the blood spilled by the royals in their name in senseless wars of conquest all over the world... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nuggets Mahoney Posted November 14, 2014 Share Posted November 14, 2014 I think they've been naive. And much of the media and the visitors too. I haven't seen any intelligent comment along these lines apart from on here. The Land and the King are One, indivisible. The blood that flowed was the life blood of The Nation. Yadi yadi yada. It would have been a straightforward sell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goat Posted November 14, 2014 Share Posted November 14, 2014 Dark and very funny. +1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Byron Posted November 14, 2014 Share Posted November 14, 2014 I took my cousin's poppy to Ypres this year. He was a FEPOW, came home but never regained his health, died 1947, only 22 years old Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geezer466 Posted November 14, 2014 Share Posted November 14, 2014 Sainsbury's New Xmas Advert portrays the 1914 Xmas truce and football match.... Also the follow up video (on the same page) goes into a little bit of history about the truce and how far up and down the line it spread. Apparently the Military commanders on both sides were horrified something like that could be instigated at trench level and sanctioned by local commanders. Word came on high it was never to occur again under severe penalty of fraternising with the enemy (both sides) and it didn't, the guns never fell silent again n Dec 25th. Worth a watch.. http://youtu.be/Jx3pQWbysmM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SarahBell Posted November 14, 2014 Share Posted November 14, 2014 Sainsbury's New Xmas Advert portrays the 1914 Xmas truce and football match.... What next? A re-enactment of the battle of Hastings sponsored by Tesco? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SNACR Posted November 14, 2014 Share Posted November 14, 2014 Was the advert an allegory on Aldi invading these shores? Sainsbury staff will be shot for shopping at Aldi under the orders of the management. (The major UK supermarkets may care to research their minimum wage, tax credit/housing benefit collecting staff to find out where they shop. If their own staff cannot afford to shop there (sans incentives), they should know something is wrong.) I'm not really certain why employees being customers, of their employer's business, is ever seen as any sort of desirable or meaningful metric. No-one that works at Rolls-Royce on the shop floor can afford a jet engine but I don't see it means anything. Staff discount take-up at Sainsburys was notoriously low decades ago and will inevitably be the case with any service industry business aimed at a higher income demographic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ccc Posted November 14, 2014 Share Posted November 14, 2014 When I worked at M and S they gave staff 20% discount on everything. That's pretty decent and you also got a second card you could give to someone else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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