Two minute silence about to take place in the UK
 

I bought my poppy yesterday.

Where in London do you live?

we've already had our 1 minute :)

South East London..near Greenwich and the Prime Meridian.

Time zones are funny like that :P

IN FLANDERS FIELDS the poppies blow
Between the crosses row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.

Is the dome still there? I lived in london for ten years, My wife is from the east end of london.

Yup it is ...they are selling it but I have lost track of what it is suppose to be now. I think it is going to be a concert venue. I live in 'the hood' in a place called Thamesmead..three train stops from the Dome.

What does Ned Flanders have to do with heroin poppy fields?

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I cant believe they have not tore down that tent,The attempted robbery on that place was pretty ingenius, might of got away with it if some big mouth people had kept there traps shut.

I know theamsmead very well infact most of london, I lived in mile end when I was a teenager.

When it was open, I was one my way to work one day and thought 'fuck it, can't be arsed', called in sick and caught a train down London instead and went to the Dome. Really enjoyed it. Seems that most of the people who moan about the Dome never actually went there.

I stood next to Alan Bennett in the queue for the Body Zone :)

I was in it too when it was open. thought it was pretty cool.

I felt like a big kid wandering about the place, wide-eyed staring at stuff :D

That elevator going up into the human body was funky lol

I got to go for free because my parents were over and took me and my husband. I also enjoyed it. The problem was only having it open for one year. Just when they were getting the feel for how to run the place they had to shut it down. Also, on that year it was the most visited tourist attraction in the UK.

Plus, as somene that lives in this area I like the Dome simply because it totally transformed that Peninsula. It was a wasteland before hand and now it has a tube station, yuppie housing (that is ugly but dont tell them that) and a major entertainment and shopping venue. I am sure the money earned and paid in taxes from those buisnesses over the last five years has paid for more than a bit of the Dome.

The only thing I remember thinking was odd was having 'crabs' in the pubic area of the human body. As that was the entrance that made it even the more odd.

That was a awareness ploy, put there by the gov :1orglaugh . just curious how long have you been in the UK Sarah? you seem very Passionate about the country and the workings of it.

Since June of 1996. I like London a great deal. I also like the States as it is where I come from but I have been here since I was 19, got married here, got my degree here, etc. I am a politics junkie so I am always interested in the workings of whatever country I am in :)

Thats fair enough, I am from Dublin so you can imagine I have a decent grasp on how things operate over there.

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While youre thinking about the end of WW1 you might take a walk down to Fleet St and take a gander at that statue of Arthur Harris and remember his famous quote from around 1921 - "The Arab and Kurd now know what real bombing means within 45 minutes a full-sized village can be practically wiped out, and a third of its inhabitants killed or injured, by four or five machines which offer them no real target, no opportunity for glory as warriors, no effective means of escape."

Churchill added his comments - on chemical weapons, suggesting they be used "against recalcitrant Arabs as an experiment". He dismissed objections as "unreasonable". "I am strongly in favour of using poisoned gas against uncivilised tribes _ [to] spread a lively terror _"

And on went the campaign to control the Iraq "tribal people" with chemicals and poison gas killing

So you might want to add remembrances of all the unruly civilians killed in Iraq up till the 1950s to make sure England could control the oil fields. After all if it werent for them the RAF wouldnt have had anything to do for years

Canada has our two minutes of silence in 1.5 hours I believe....
stat holiday today..

Girls in the flag always make me horny.

It's Geri Halliwell's fault...

im ready to observe the silence at 11am...but no one told me it was a holiday.


to linkster...in war you should honour your enemies as well.

but lets not forget they were the enemy.

if the battlefront hit your hometown, youd probably be volunteering down at the weapons depot to help them make better and stronger gas.

Is this a veterans day thing? Educate a stupid yank.

Remembernce Day...like Vetrans day is on Armistice Day which took place on the 11th day of the 11th month at 11 o'clock.

What are British people we wish would be silent for 100, Alex?

I like def leppard :upsidedow

I'm ready as well for the 11am moment of silence. There were poppy-wearers all over Montreal's downtown these last few days. It's a federal holiday, Phoenix -- all the banks, government departments, and postal service have the day off.

I'm sorry, but for those of us over on the other side of the pond who are clueless, can we at least buy a vowel? What's going on, please?

When you go home,
tell them of us and say:
'For your tomorrow
we gave our today'

As I said, it is Rememberence Day which is on Armistice Day and at 11am there is always a two minute silence.

it is rememberanbce day here as well

you dont have to look across the pond for answers...you guys must learn nothing of what happens outside your borders

Today in the UK is November 11th, known as 'Remembrance Day' or Armistace Day' when we remember the dead from all the wars. At the 11th hour on the 11th day of the 11th month.

We buy poppys which are sold by the Royal British Legion, the money goes to charities to help provide for the families of those killed or injured serving the country.

Okay, wasn't sure. It's Veteran's Day here, which is why I was wondering.

Gimme a break, I"m lucky to know my name at this point. :(

Guess it is too early. Thought you said you bought a puppy, and I wasn't getting it.

Well, I have been known to bark.

#1. Don't judge all Americans by those you meet on GFY.
#2. It is called Veterans Day here.
#3. I bet she can at least spell remembrance.
#4. Didn't you just say "no one told me it was a holiday."

God bless.

spelling error..lame

and yeah i didnt know it was a holiday..thus i am at work

here only the banks and the government gets the day off

Happy Veterans day

i had my silence, but it was during a nap.

Country Mobilized Killed Wounded Total Casualties
Africa1 55,000 10,000 unknown unknown -
Australia 330,000 59,000 152,000 211,000 64%
Austria-Hungary* 6,500,000 1,200,000 3,620,000 4,820,000 74%
Belgium* 207,000 13,000 44,000 57,000 28%
Bulgaria* 400,000 101,000 153,000 254,000 64%
Canada 620,000 67,000 173,000 241,000 39%
The Caribbean2 21,000 1,000 3,000 4,000 19%
French Empire* 7,500,000 1,385,000 4,266,000 5,651,000 75%
Germany* 11,000,000 1,718,000 4,234,000 5,952,000 54%
Great Britain* 5,397,000 703,000 1,663,000 2,367,000 44%
Greece* 230,000 5,000 21,000 26,000 11%
India3 1,500,000 43,000 65,000 108,000 7%
Italy* 5,500,000 60,000 947,000 1,407,000 26%
Japan* 800,000 250 1,000 1,250 0.2%
Montenegro* 50,000 3,000 10,000 13,000 26%
New Zealand 110,000 18,000 55,000 73,000 66%
Portugal* 100,000 7,000 15,000 22,000 22%
Romania* 750,000 200,000 120,000 320,000 43%
Russia* 12,000,000 1,700,000 4,950,000 6,650,000 55%
Serbia* 707,000 128,000 133,000 261,000 37%
South Africa 149,000 7,000 12,000 19,000 13%
Turkey* 1,600,000 336,000 400,000 736,000 46%
USA* 4,272,500 117,000 204,000 321,000 8%

You are the one that came up with the "you guys must learn nothing of what happens outside your borders" comment.

Uhmmmm - you might wanna do a little reading in the history books - England at the end of WW1 decided they wanted the oil in Iraq - so they took Iraq as a war spoils(all of the "allies" used to do that kinda stuff) - and took possession by bombing the heck out of all of the towns and cities - the people of Iraq didnt really like the fact that they had just been occupied by England and decided to revolt against the British. England responded by torturing, bombing, poisoning and gassing hundreds of thousands of Iraq civilians for the first 10 years after WW1 - then when they had made their point, occupied and controlled the oil in Iraq into the 1950s.

And in answer to your point about the gas - I believe it was made illegal to use the stuff in the US some time back - although Im sure the stockpiles are still available in Maryland :)
We did happen to export some to a friend of ours named Saddam back some 20 or 30 years ago to help out with his battle against the Iranians (who were backed by Russians) which is where all of this nonsense about him poisoning his own people came from - it wasnt his own people - it was the Kurds who were fighting with the Iranian side - they just happened to live and fight in Iraq. But yeah I know we do have some pretty strong stuff and when we gave it Saddam he made good use of it :) Same as the chemical weapons we gave him