Remembrance Sunday - Nov 10th 2024 Lest We Forget

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Originally Posted by WTF11

Do you live here, or are your pronouncements based on accounts on Tik-tok, Instagram?

This country is NOT being overrun by anyone. It has challenges in terms of dealing with immigration, so do all "prosperous" nations given the fractious state of international relations. I and others are well able to express our opposition to government policy on a wide range of issues, including immigration, if you think otherwise spend a few grand and visit us here to see how it really is.

The problems you refer to are NOT experienced here. We don't have perfection but to compare what we have to what you describe is nonesense.

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Ohh ok.

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Originally Posted by Billyni

Can we not, for once, have some respect for the title of the thread.

Start another 1 if yous want to sort out world peace.

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I know and remember. Family members served to deliver some semblance of world peace as you put it, about time their descendants REALLY honoured their memory by actually making that more of a reality, instead of enrolling in the "entitled" generation.

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Originally Posted by ozleeds

Ohh ok.

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Don't be so dismissive, come visit, see if I'm telling porkies (I'll make up the spare room!)

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Originally Posted by bathlad61

Having lost a son only 23 yrs old, in combat overseas, today always a difficult day. Memories of him growing up etc, etc, flood back. Miss him each day, a massive lost, but proud of him and many others who wanted to do their bit.

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Sorry for your loss Bathlad - can’t imagine what it must be like to lose a child but you must be very proud.

May they all rest in peace.

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Originally Posted by hopelesslyoptimistic

Sorry for your loss Bathlad - can’t imagine what it must be like to lose a child but you must be very proud.

May they all rest in peace.

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Amen to that.

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Originally Posted by bathlad61

Having lost a son only 23 yrs old, in combat overseas, today always a difficult day. Memories of him growing up etc, etc, flood back. Miss him each day, a massive lost, but proud of him and many others who wanted to do their bit.

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Can't imagine how hard it must be at this time of year particularly. I can only hope that the sentiments of all those who commemorate those who have fallen in the service of their country is some small crumb of comfort to you and yours.

Meanwhile, across the pond....

https://nypost.com/2024/11/10/us-new...s-war-machine/

For those that aren't aware. Columbia is an "ivy league school". One of the most difficult to get accepted and expensive schools in the US.

Glad my dad and other family veterans aren't alive to see this garbage.

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Originally Posted by spaldy

Meanwhile, across the pond....
Glad my dad and other family veterans aren't alive to see this garbage.

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Very disappointing that kinda behaviour on such a special day being hijacked by students.
https://i.postimg.cc/zv4NGBSs/20240923-200651.jpg

Bayeux in France celebrated the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings & the Battle of Normandy in 2024 with a variety of events & ceremonies throughout the year.

I had the pleasure meeting a female Aussie turbo-rock singer at a memorial Service in Bayeux, Normandy France who Mum does PR tour work for, she'd explained to me the Aussie terminology within her musical style being bogun, larrikin & ocker. So I found myself into understanding a new language of some "Aussie strine" words which would aptly describe the student behaviour in your link.

The singer was also developing her own political consciousness, turning to books by the likes of Malcolm Gladwell who writes some great stuff with his main argument being that success results from a complicated mix of factors which requires taking a closer look at why certain people & even entire groups of people thrive while others fail.
Gladwell's Tipping Point book helps making you see the world in a different way of that little-understood phenomenon, the "social trends epidemic".

Weird how folks minds can be pre-wired by genetics & heritable characteristics which often predetermine certain physiological & psychological factors, Spaldy.
As you cannot think about what you don't know (linguistically) so the ability to express ideas will be limited as would appear to be the case in your link for those demonstrating.

A valued lesson i learned into beating my own illness was how thoughts & their expression in language had a limit likened to the rules of any game - but the capacity to think & extend this thinking into speech or writing is beyond measure when you finally grasp the disciplined concept of re-wiring your brain & how to do it, as my brain certainly needed a re-wire job with it's constant interruption from a diagnosed issue & it would appear quite a few students to need to grasp such a concept, imo.

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Originally Posted by spaldy

Meanwhile, across the pond....

https://nypost.com/2024/11/10/us-new...s-war-machine/

For those that aren't aware. Columbia is an "ivy league school". One of the most difficult to get accepted and expensive schools in the US.

Glad my dad and other family veterans aren't alive to see this garbage.

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Unfortunately, although unsurprisingly, this kind of affront to the memory of those who made the ultimate sacrifice in order that those who came after could live in liberty isn't confined to the US;

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknew...321db81d&ei=13

Would that those who wish to benefit from the liberties available today paid some semblance of due regard to those who died to deliver the freedoms they take so much for granted. Fat chance.

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Originally Posted by Monaco_Totty

Very disappointing that kinda behaviour on such a special day being hijacked by students.
https://i.postimg.cc/zv4NGBSs/20240923-200651.jpg

Bayeux in France celebrated the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings & the Battle of Normandy in 2024 with a variety of events & ceremonies throughout the year.

I had the pleasure meeting a female Aussie turbo-rock singer at a memorial Service in Bayeux, Normandy France who Mum does PR tour work for, she'd explained to me the Aussie terminology within her musical style being bogun, larrikin & ocker. So I found myself into understanding a new language of some "Aussie strine" words which would aptly describe the student behaviour in your link.

The singer was also developing her own political consciousness, turning to books by the likes of Malcolm Gladwell who writes some great stuff with his main argument being that success results from a complicated mix of factors which requires taking a closer look at why certain people & even entire groups of people thrive while others fail.
Gladwell's Tipping Point book helps making you see the world in a different way of that little-understood phenomenon, the "social trends epidemic".

Weird how folks minds can be pre-wired by genetics & heritable characteristics which often predetermine certain physiological & psychological factors, Spaldy.
As you cannot think about what you don't know (linguistically) so the ability to express ideas will be limited as would appear to be the case in your link for those demonstrating.

A valued lesson i learned into beating my own illness was how thoughts & their expression in language had a limit likened to the rules of any game - but the capacity to think & extend this thinking into speech or writing is beyond measure when you finally grasp the disciplined concept of re-wiring your brain & how to do it, as my brain certainly needed a re-wire job with it's constant interruption from a diagnosed issue & it would appear quite a few students to need to grasp such a concept, imo.

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Agree with all of what you say, but would observe that the Columbia "experience" and that of many here in the UK, regarding their attitude towards Veterans/Rememberance day would call into question the statement that "you cannot think about what you don't know". They can and the paucity of their arguments would suggest they do!