The person dressed in a giant poppy costume who was jumping side to side and waving their arms at me as I entered the supermarket was pretty funny and made me smile, so I’ll have more of that type of poppy mania please.
Some people get weirdly militant about wearing them and decorating with them in Facebook posts, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone behave like that on person.
One thing I do find nuts is that the poppys have only just moved to paper stems. Every year they’d be busy handing these things out only for the plastic stem and centre to end up in landfill. I bought one of the reusable metal brooch versions a while ago, and just wear that each year, but it’s sad that the disposable nature of them wasn’t taken into consideration when they were designed.
How do you go too far with images of poppies, especially when they represent remembrance for people who died fighting nazis?
You didn’t read the article, did you?
I’ve literally never been stopped for not wearing a poppy. People wearing them don’t say anything to me about not wearing one and I don’t say anything to them about wearing one. It’s like me commenting on someone’s jewellery. Why the fuck would I? People want to wear what they want to wear.
Is this really such a newsworthy issue?
Poppy mania had gone too far in the early 2000s. Now it’s just completely bonkers out of control madness.
