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Post by Waverley on Jan 19, 2009 12:36:17 GMT 1
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Post by Waverley on Oct 29, 2009 0:28:02 GMT 1
I am not being cheeky or ignorant Patrick but if there is one thing that really gets on my tits when people learn of my interest in the Great War is the question. " Oh yes the Great War. What do you think of the War Poets". I just blank them and switch off. If ever there was a group of people who have been totally misunderstood by the 'anti-war brigade then it is the War Poets of the First World War...yes they were anti-war in their sentiment but it didn't stop them from going back to 'The Front' if and when they were discharged from hospital. In their writings they tried to explain Armageddon but the public didn't understand how they felt and how they tried to explain what was happening over there. And in the years after the war when the politicians realised that they and not the Generals were at fault for the endless slaughter the war poets became fashionable for all the wrong reasons...and it still continues until this day. I have hundreds of war poems written by the guys from the backstreets of Glasgow who were never recognised simply because they weren't allowed the chance to publish their works and were ignored entirely by the anti-war Brigade in the years after the ending of the war.
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Post by patrick on Oct 29, 2009 15:38:03 GMT 1
fairs fair charlie you are entitled to your own oppinion like everybody else, and I respect that so I hope you respect mine.
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Post by Waverley on Oct 29, 2009 17:02:35 GMT 1
Not a problem Patrick. However I must tell you that all the Great War boards are currently being worked on and most of the format as it is now will be done away with in due process. I just get annoyed with people who criticise and blame the British aristocracy as being bumbling buffoons as Officers and leading soldiers to their deaths...and in the very same breath they mention the War Poets. Where they not all of the same breed.
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Post by patrick on Oct 29, 2009 17:22:46 GMT 1
I don't blame you for feeling that way because its something you are passionate, about I have been there so know where you are coming from son.
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Post by patrick on Nov 7, 2009 13:34:57 GMT 1
I am feckin raging we haven't seen anybody selling poppies in the shopping centre we go to, we asked one or two of the stall's why and their reply was they were told they couldn't, sell any poppies or help for heroes bracelets that it would upset certain people, we had to go into an army shop to get the bracelets, they appologised for charging us £2 each for them I told them they needn't appologise we were more than willing to pay it, there is hardly anybody wearing poppie's in the area we liveI just can't believe it, its so sad I have one on 3coats I am using as does my wife, I also have one on my golf hat, I am proud to wear them the only people we see wearing them are people, like myself 60years of age and over what ,is this world coming to.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 7, 2009 13:57:56 GMT 1
On sale here in every Bank, Post Office and in all ASDA Stores and most Pubs , well the ones I go into !! Many small shops stock them but not many street sellers now ? Who the feck would be offended. When I was a child we used to sell them round the doors ! Changed days Eh !
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Post by patrick on Nov 7, 2009 15:29:19 GMT 1
changed days indeed andy
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Post by patrick on Nov 7, 2009 22:59:15 GMT 1
I live in london norrie, the most cosmopolitan city in the world, the pc brigade have gone mental down here the last few years, this isn't our country no more everything is geared up for the influx' of foreigner's not for people born and bred here, I read posts on here that some of my fellow keelies post about foreigners, and how they are ruining our country, the one's who live in glesga are nothing compared to the millions who live in london, if my fellow keelies lived down here for as long as I have then they would have something to complain about. Everywhere you look down here there is a new moske opening, you cant find a descent church down here its all gospel singing, anyway thats my rant over, thanks for listening, goodnight.
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