Ve Day Celebrations

[diddlydo]

At the risk of encouraging TTT to employ all his usual acronyms etc etc and accustaions of "anti-British" I urge you to read the following:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/may/06/ve-day-heroes-patriotic-multicultural-britain

BTW - I'm very patriotic and in no way "anti-British" but I won't be singing on my doorstep tomorrow.

[Spicerack]

Zoe Williams. Another beauty. No problem celebrating left wing scum violence.
https://order-order.com/2015/10/09/zoe-williams-i-really-dont-have-a-problem-with-protesters-spitting-at-journalists/

[diddlydo]

Spicerack - you seem to have missed the point. Try re-reading.

[Mozz71]

I wonder if she'd have felt the same if she had got a faceful of phlegm?

[TheWholeTruth]

@ 22:28

isnt amazing how everybody else misses the point of everything...except you that is !?

[New Judge]

The point of Ms Williams's article is to pour scorn on to those seeking to celebrate the UK's part in the victory over Nazi Germany in 1945 and to suggest that many people are making just the same sort of sacrifices today as that generation did then. But she suggests that nobody is shouting from the rooftops about them because many of today's heroes are not white British.

She's wrong on two counts: (1) Today's heroes, as noble as their actions are, are not making anything like the same sacrifices or in the same quantities as in WW2 and (2) People are shouting from the rooftops (well at least from their front doors and windows on Thursday evenings) about them anyway.

She's also wrong on another point:

//Last year it was announced that the traditional first bank holiday of May 2020 – the starting gun of Day Off season – would be moved from the Monday to the Friday...//

Yesterday was not the starting gun of the "Day Off" season. There have already been two Bank Holidays (January 1st and 13th April) and one Public Holiday (10th April) in 2020.

[Spicerack]

I just clicked on this to see what Diddly had to say and it's gone already. It can't have been too bad. She's super intelligent and a nice sort usually. Oh well.

[Spicerack]

Repeat it in a different way.

[diddlydo]

I implied that some people fail to understand the truth.

[Peter Pedant]

\\ The Whole Truth - you wouldn't know the meaning of truth if it came and smacked you in the face.\\

shouldnt this be - having thought deeply about it:
"The Whole Truth - you wouldn't know the meaning of the whole truth or even part of the truth !"

some one is going to g screaming to the mods

now who was that dumb cluck who said VE Day was a uniquely white british celebration and the neo nazis and aryans were just gonna have to accept it?

Times to day - child what did you do on VE mummy?
Nothing
child: why not mummy
Mama - because Sammy (other son) would not be coming home
Sammy was buried in the sands of North Africa

headline:" we led the war effort say the British - (others disagree)

The US France and Germany are united in the their view. America's efforts were the most aignificant in achieving Victory in Europe.
.......( Times p 5) Hey readers I never got this far .....
"In a conversation with Mr Putin yesterday Boris Johnson marked the partnership of British and Russian forces during the war. Asked whether Mr Johnson had raised recent cyberattacks against the NHS, No 10 replied -the primary purpose is to mark Victory in Europe day."

blimey The Times does not pull its punches whilst we whites are sitting on our haunches sipping dry while wine !

[Peter Pedant]

oh god you lot
someone went screaming to the mods
wasnt there a free speech movet here ?

[Spicerack]

I always feel that Mz Williams could do with a good scrub when I see her. Anyone agree?