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Adam Brown
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 Posted: Wed Nov 05, 2008 9:46 am Post subject: This year's Earl haig Fund poppy |
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Is it just me or is anyone else having problems pinning their poppy to their jacket this year? 
I think I'll have a root around at home to see if I can find an old poppy pin.
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kinnethmont
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| Posted: Wed Nov 05, 2008 10:36 am Post subject: Poppies |
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It is the same story as last year.
The pin type have had to be abandoned for "Health & Safety " reasons as far as I know. PC gone mad because someone could " jab " themselves with it. The Fallen would find it laughable after all that they suffered.
They are now plastic stalk or the stick on ( fall of straight away) variety.
Oddly enough the display boxes have a card full of pins so you can pin them on.
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anne park
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| Posted: Wed Nov 05, 2008 5:36 pm Post subject: Poppies |
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| The Legion mag has an ad and you can get a bespoke one or there is a box of jewellery on page 40. It's mainly for women but in the box there is a lapel badge for men. Anne |
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Roxy
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| Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2008 7:00 pm Post subject: |
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You can still get a pin with your poppy in England!
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Jim
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| Posted: Fri Nov 07, 2008 10:03 am Post subject: |
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| Roxy wrote: | You can still get a pin with your poppy in England!
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You also get fewer petals although you do get a green leaf. I can't imagine how much extra money that costs. |
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kinnethmont
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| Posted: Fri Nov 07, 2008 10:40 am Post subject: Poppies |
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Jim
| Quote: | | You also get fewer petals although you do get a green leaf. |
The green leaf is botanically incorrect, the poppy has no leaf.
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spoons
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| Posted: Fri Nov 07, 2008 5:43 pm Post subject: Re: Poppies |
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| kinnethmont wrote: |
The green leaf is botanically incorrect, the poppy has no leaf. |
Not quite right, the poppy DOES have a leaf only low down away from the flowers but I concede that it doesn't look anything like the one used on the poppies you wear.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corn_poppy
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DerekR
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| Posted: Fri Nov 07, 2008 6:27 pm Post subject: |
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I was delighted to hear Jeremy Vine on his Radio 2 show this morning ridiculing this latest piece of Health & Safety nonsense regarding the pins on the poppies.
He suggested, tongue very much in cheek, that next year the poppies should be manufactured with a velcro fixing on the back so that they stick without somone being impailed by a pin.
Just think, if the HSE had been around in 1914 there would have been no barbed wire.
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kinnethmont
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| Posted: Sat Nov 08, 2008 10:35 am Post subject: Poppies |
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Paul
That was my intended meaning. Maybe I should have written that the English remembrance poppy was botanically incorrect.
DerekR
Obviously Jeremy is not reading this thread, otherwise he would known we have " stick on " poppies in Scotland already. They appeared last year when the Health & Safety " concerns " arose.
| Quote: | | Just think, if the HSE had been around in 1914 there would have been no barbed wire. |
And imagine what they would have made of the noise, low temperature and the men's working conditions.
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gourdongirl
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| Posted: Sat Nov 08, 2008 8:39 pm Post subject: |
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| DerekR wrote: | He suggested, tongue very much in cheek, that next year the poppies should be manufactured with a velcro fixing on the back so that they stick without somone being impailed by a pin.
Just think, if the HSE had been around in 1914 there would have been no barbed wire. |
My husband bought a poppy in Musselburgh the other day and it had a peel-off sticky on the back so it can be "stuck" on your clothes. Needless to say it doesn't work very well!!!! |
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