A Minutes Silence Where Was The Respect?

[gordiescotland1]

I watched and observed the minutes silence while watching bbc news 24 with the sound turned down I was quite frankly taken a back with the number of people both in Tunisia and in the UK taking selfies on their phones during the 1 minute silence is it too much to ask people to refrain from using technology for 1 minute??

[Baldric]

///watching bbc news 24 with the sound turned///

Did the BBC News not observe the silence then, oh, you wouldn't know would you with the sound turned down!

[Canary42]

I was quite frankly taken aback by the number of people watching it live on TV - is it too much to ask people to refrain from using technology for 1 minute.

One man's meat is another man's poison.

[Gromit]

// ...is it too much to ask people to refrain from using technology for 1 minute?? //

You were using your television.

[Mamyalynne]

I never have the TV on in the daytime, I used my computer clock to observe the time.

I am dismayed that any TV station would give these people the publicity they crave by showing them taking selfies.

[ludwig]

Irrespective of whether it's disrespectful or not, it's pretty stupid. I suppose there's a load of photos now on twitbook of sombre looking people with the caption 'me observing a minutes silence in Lidl' or whatever.
If it wasn't so lame it'd actually be funny.

[Gromit]

// How would I have known when it started without big ben smart a*** //

Mobile phone?

[Baldric]

Watch / Clock ?

[DTCwordfan]

well how about this one for thoughtlessness - you would have thought an aspiring politician would know better.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/labour/11705198/Labour-candidate-sparks-fury-by-posing-for-selfie-at-scene-of-Tunisian-beach-massacre.html

[Canary42]

///How would I have known when it started without big ben smart a***///

You really need an answer dim b u m !

[youngmafbog]

Big difference between a TV and taking a selfie.

But then again the usual suspects ignore that.

[Old_Geezer]

Oh has that come and gone ?
Odd thing to want to do anyway. But I'm normally silent all day, except when I'm muttering to myself about the world and how awful things are.

[Prudie]

Were they taking selfies or just recording the event? Were the TV cameras actually in Tunisia at 1200?

[DTCwordfan]

such insults as have started on here do not convey the perpetrators in a good light when it comes to the topic of the thread....

[gordiescotland1]

Big ben is more accurate than my watch computer clock, clocks in the house or anything else I wanted to go by that. But I think it was the height of ignorance for people to take selfies during the silence

[Mamyalynne]

Perhaps the Tv companies could consider posting an image - a field of flowers maybe instead of people,who are by nature unpredictable.

[237SJ]

I saw someone (on the footage taken in Sousse) who was taking a photo during the silence. Is that the person you are referring to? It wasn`t possible to see if he was taking a picture or a selfie. Shame he couldn`t have put the camera down for a minute and just observed the silence. I guess he`ll be including the photo in his holiday shots!

[gordiescotland1]

Exactly my point 237SJ that was my original point, thank you that someone sensible has joined this discussion. !

[Gromit]

// it was the height of ignorance for people to take selfies during the silence //

It is a silent action so it complies with the silence. I saw people driving during that minute, were they being ignorant?

[Mamyalynne]

Well Gordie,sorry my answers weren't intelligent - I know where I stand now.