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20-11-2015 10:24 AM #61
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20-11-2015 11:52 AM #62This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
The backside of this Corporate Compulsory Compassionate Solidarity Syndrome is that when an expression of respect IS asked for in regard to a legitimate issue, some people will feel much less inclined to co-operate. So now in stead of a dignified silence (which is the right way to do things IMO) we have a crowd standing self-consciously applauding someone who's just died, and everyone watching everyone else to make sure they ARE standing applauding and not just sitting reading their newspaper. Like at a war memorial and someone comes over afterwards and wants to know why you weren't singing the Betty Windsor Lied.
You know the story of the first occasion Joe Stalin addressed the CPSU as General Secretary and Big Brother? He spoke for about three and a half hours, and when he finished everyone in the hall left to his or her feet applauding enthusiastically.
After about ten minutes people began to look anxious - sideways glances, hands getting sore, the applause becoming more and more laboured. But on they clapped. Nobody wanted to be the first to stop applauding the Boss.
Twenty minutes went by. Still they applauded. Still Stalin stood at the podium, looking over the audience, smiling that nasty evil smile of his.
Finally one of the party bosses behind him on the platform stopped clapping his hands. Everyone else sighed with relief and slowly the applause ceased.
Guess who was missing from the platform party the following morning?
A sudden heart attack, I understand.
The sort of thing that can so easily happen when a 9mm round violently enters the back of your skull and bounces around reducing your brain to mush.
Not there yet, of course, but we're getting there.
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20-11-2015 01:25 PM #63
Whatever happened to yon poster Doddie?
Was it a heart attack, right enough?
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20-11-2015 04:04 PM #64This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Utterly cringeworthy, but a sign of the times.
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20-11-2015 04:35 PM #65This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
So far off the mark, there was an Englishman, an Irishman and a Scotsman.......................................... ......
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21-11-2015 12:13 AM #66This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Why did Britain not declare war against Germany after they had invaded Poland?
or Denmark
or Norway
or the Netherlands?
maybe it's a cumulative effect
"stop invading countries or we might do something..."
Might just be a normal human reaction to decide after a number of attrocities to make a gesture. Doesn't necessarily mean you value one life less than another
I don't necessarily agree with the EPL's gesture, I'm referring to the wider media coverage the Paris incidents received over the Malaysia Airlines disaster.
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21-11-2015 12:39 AM #67
PL decides to do something and Rupert Murdoch's Sky as a main sponsor. Call me cynical but there's a connection. Problem is non compliance makes you as an individual out as an uncaring extremist sympathiser. It's up there with "When did you stop beating your wife?"
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22-11-2015 06:56 AM #69
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Didn't hear it at Alloa yesterday? Quietly shelved?
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22-11-2015 06:41 PM #70This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
I don't get it.Last edited by Canon Hannan; 22-11-2015 at 06:43 PM.
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22-11-2015 06:44 PM #71
What do you think of Hamilton AFC Today?
"There's class, there's first class and there's Hibs class" - Eddie Turnbull
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22-11-2015 06:49 PM #72This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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22-11-2015 07:00 PM #73
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Noticed that they played the French anthem at the Dumbarton Raith Rovers match
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22-11-2015 07:41 PM #75
Watching St Etienne Marseille, great atmosphere, St Ettienne have the Eiffel tower peace sign on the front of their strips, looks really good. Diarras first game since his cousins shooting.
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22-11-2015 07:52 PM #76hfc rdLeft by mutual consent!This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
I'm sure he played in the England friendly last week?
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22-11-2015 07:56 PM #77This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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22-11-2015 08:17 PM #78This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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22-11-2015 08:22 PM #79This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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22-11-2015 08:33 PM #80
Regardless, the shirts look extremely cool as well as being a nice tribute to the victims.
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23-11-2015 11:13 AM #81
Suicide bombers did try to attack a football match in Paris 12 days ago. Had they succeeded, and the bomb gone off in the crowd rather than outside the ground, I doubt many people would have been moaning about hearing the Marseillaise last weekend.
I get the sense of injustice, that some victims of terrorist atrocities get more attention than others. People on here citing various downed airliners but can't even name or count endless terrorist atrocities across ME and Africa in the past month alone.
It's not fair. But it seems to me that football had a direct link to the attack in Paris. I don't have a problem with football acknowledging that.
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23-11-2015 04:08 PM #82This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote"There's class, there's first class and there's Hibs class" - Eddie Turnbull
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