Minutes SIlence

[surefire]

I know there is still Sunday, but did anyone have a minutes silence today?

I noticed pretty much noone in the office and town where I am working did.
Especially bad as the office is right next to the town square, so you can hear the trumpet, and then the guns to mark the start and end of the slience.

Is this just a sign of the times, that loads of people just do not care anymore?

 

[USER1999]

We did at my work, but then I wasn't talking anyway. Got the hump today.

 

[forefortheday]

We did!

Apart from one guy who carried on typing

I "asked" him if he had any family that have served, his reply was "Oops i forgot".

The fact that the entire sales office had put down the phone and stopped working 5 minutes prior and two managers shouting "2 miuntes silence" twice might have given it away!

 

[StuartD]

Had 2 mins silence at my work today as usual

We were well notified in advance. Fire alarm signals the start/end of the silence.

It always amazes me the amount of people put their coat on and head for the fire exits every year

 

[bobmac]

We did at my work, but then I wasn't talking anyway. Got the hump today.

What's up Chris?

 

[USER1999]

Pretty much everything. Customers, suppliers, idiots I work with not giving a monkeys, it goes on. My usual sunny disposition will return tomorrow. At half one, when I go home for the weekend. forecast for Monday looks gloomy though.

 

[bobmac]

Pretty much everything. Customers, suppliers, idiots I work with not giving a monkeys, it goes on. My usual sunny disposition will return tomorrow. At half one, when I go home for the weekend. forecast for Monday looks gloomy though.

Do a Reggie Perrin

 

[Robobum]

Working from home, I had my own 2 minutes.

Went to pick up my daughter from school just now and was really pleased to hear that they had the silence observed there too. The teacher got my daughter up to the front of the class as she was wearing her poppy and gave a basic explanation of what the day is about.

Warmed my little heart this afternoon.

 

[Steve79]

Had a minutes silence at work, the fire alarm went off at 11am and again a minute later.

How one fella did not hear the fire alarm is beyond me.

 

[viscount17]

it was observed but 11 am wasn't signalled so there were a number of different starting times (pc time is different to the clocks). It did average about three minutes though.

 

[znuffzz]

hmm we had nothing...and we have bloomberg tv going 24/7 as well so its not like no one knew what time it was.

in hindsight this irrates me, my grandfather was an ambulance driver in the war and suffered his whole life from flashbacks and nightamres as a consequence of what he saw.

 

[Fyldewhite]

Went to the Somme and Thiepval Memorial last year. Very humbling. Lest we forget.....

 

[Paul_Stewart]

Some [****] started asking me a question during the silence a couple of years back. I just ignored him and he even repeated the question. When it was over, everyone got in his face about his lack of respect.

"Doesn't bother me" was his arrogant reply.

Amazingly the next day, someone slashed his tyres and put paint over his windscreen.

Wasn't me but I wanted to buy the person who did it a beer.

 

[stef92]

I was really pleased to see that this year at school, the whole school stopped lessons at 11am and there was even a mini service for those who were free too.

It was very well done indeed!

Plus the silence was for 2 minutes, which I think is an excellent idea rather than 1. One minute resembling the two world wars.

 

[DMC]

We had the minutes silence,and pleased to say so did both my daughter's schools. Not much to ask really is it??

 

[Del]

Was in a local shop at 11 and it came on the radio, the whole shop stopped apart from two worker behind the tills, the young girl who was serving a lady at the time, look round and called out the price to hear, the lady was standing there with her head down, the girl then repeated her self twice more saying "do you want to buy this or not"

After the two minutes were up the lady gave the girl the money and asked her why she didn't stop for the two minutes. Her reply was, and I kid you not, "I stopped for the two minutes last year, so I've done my bit" !!!

Not a lot you can say to that.

Del

 

[Matty]

We stopped. Always have and I always will.

There are always people out there who don't want to or who don't care. That's their problem - I sincerely hope they never have a relative in the forces or are in desperate need of their aid at anytime!

 

[Ethan]

Some [****] started asking me a question during the silence a couple of years back. I just ignored him and he even repeated the question. When it was over, everyone got in his face about his lack of respect.

"Doesn't bother me" was his arrogant reply.

Amazingly the next day, someone slashed his tyres and put paint over his windscreen.

Wasn't me but I wanted to buy the person who did it a beer.

Do you buy beers for criminal vandals often?

 

[HomerJSimpson]

The hospital stopped and for the most part it was well observed. Strangely enough it's always the chavvy mums with 36 kids who want everything for nothing that ruin it every year. Same again this year with one delightful size 22 tattooed delight shouting at her kids running around in the middle. You could see everyone getting the rats and I decided to beat a hasty retreat as I could tell our receptionist (would have given Atilla the Hun a run) was ready to unload both barrels.

 

[Deleted member 1418]

We had a two-minutes silence in my Gov't department. Impeccably observed by everyone, including all the attendees of the meeting I was in.

Came home today and my 6 y-o son took great delight in telling me that they had a minutes silence at school. My wife and I asked him if he knew what it was for and he said "yes, it's to remember all the soldiers who died in the war". We asked him which war and he said "the first and we wear poppies as poppies grew on the battlefields afterwards". Made us even more proud of him as it was parents evening earlier and he's doing brilliantly at school!