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Aug 2014
8:17pm, 4 Aug 2014
2,631 posts
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Hohum
This commemorating the first world war.
To commemorate the first world war stop producing arms, bombs, guns, warships, stop selling them to other warmongers.
It is not fine to produce a gun/bomb/helicopter that will kill an innocent child, or any other human being far from your front door.
Society has not and will not learn the tragedy of war and will continue to repeat it while political and religious leaders send young men to fight people with a different point of view.
The first Christmas of the first world war soldiers on on opposing sides talked and enjoyed each others company, then dickhead officers told them to carry on killing each other, did they really want to?
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Aug 2014
9:12pm, 4 Aug 2014
3,230 posts
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Doctor K
I blogged the same sentiment yesterday, I don't think there is anything to commemorate. I'm happy to hear stories of people who were treated as deserters because they suffered trauma, of people who enlisted lying about their age (why did no one check?) largely because they thought it would all be over by Christmas. I cannot however commemorate the start of a war.
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Aug 2014
9:05pm, 5 Aug 2014
3,420 posts
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CStar
In some defence, I don't think anyone is 'commemorating' the start of WW1, which to me implies some form of celebration. They/we are 'remembering' it and hopefully raising awareness amongst a population that has widely forgotten, especially amongst the young, the utter pointlessnes of the whole thing.
I'm taking my kids to N France in September to go to the grave of my Great Grandfather who was killed in 1914 aged 27, leaving a pregnant wife. It's an act of thanks and remembrance , not celebration in any way.
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Aug 2014
5:33pm, 6 Aug 2014
23,242 posts
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idio
Wiggle, sent shorts back Friday with e-mail saying they were to small to be sent an e-mail today 6 days later to say they no longer have the size I want.
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Aug 2014
5:35pm, 6 Aug 2014
30,443 posts
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Velociraptor
Diet and weight loss articles on ultramarathon sites.
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Aug 2014
6:46pm, 6 Aug 2014
11,926 posts
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Derby Tup
Ignore them and have a pie 
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Aug 2014
7:59pm, 6 Aug 2014
12,274 posts
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McGoohan
People who equate 'having meetings' with 'doing productive work'
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Aug 2014
8:12pm, 6 Aug 2014
7,161 posts
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Diogenes
People using mug as bins, putting things like apple cores and tissues in them.
Similarly, people who leave an inch of drink in their cups.
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Aug 2014
8:30pm, 6 Aug 2014
4,742 posts
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paul the builder
Having your route and photo in pride of place on the Fetch home page. And a big typo in it.
(I assume ;-))
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Aug 2014
10:03pm, 6 Aug 2014
1,294 posts
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mr d
ptb, I was wondering about that.
McG, they also think they are 'important' too, fwits. My fave meeting ever was travelling all 70 miles to London to attend a meeting with two other people in my dept. The opening line from the other attendee was 'I haven't had time to read your document', the one outline what we wanted to achieve from the project he was going to specify the requirements for. FMB.
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