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Originally Posted by kitkat
must have been, going by the poor spelling, in the many posts on this thread.
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Your grammar is atrocious
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Originally Posted by hovis
because he has been in the army (&fought for it)does not give anyone the right to ignore this mark of respect
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If it's forced on you, it's not a mark of respect. But my grandad would have told you that if he fought for anything, he fought for freedom for his country and his family, and that forcing people to observe a minute's silence they didn't believe in is the sort of thing that "the other feller" was fighting for, and that he fought against.
My uncle, on the other hand, was more offended by people who paid lip service to the minute's silence than by people who ignored it entirely. Standing there thinking about your shopping list in silence for a minute isn't respectful, it's blatant hypocrisy.
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Originally Posted by BigApe
It all seems a bit of "I kept quite for a couple of minutes so I've done my bit" and then everyone carries on again without a second thought. I've seen them all do it at work. Mid joke, two minute silence, finish joke as though the two minutes never happened.
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Couldn't agree more. You show respect by your actions and words the rest of the year, not by keeping quiet for 2 minutes then forgetting about it.