Once, wearing a poppy was something we did voluntarily to remember the dead of two world wars and to support those veterans relying on the Royal British Legion. So far, so good. Certainly when growing up, I do not recall anyone getting upset if someone didn’t wear a poppy. Now, it seems, this is a thing.
Strictly Come Dancing star Saffron Barker has explained why she wasn’t wearing a poppy on this weekend’s show after a backlash from viewers.
Excuse me? Why should she have to explain anything? Why does anyone think that her wearing one or not is any of their concern? If you want to wear a poppy, then do so. If you do not, then again, so be it. If liberty is to mean anything, then it means the right not to wear a poppy and the dead of two world wars doubtless wouldn’t have cared overmuch either way – being somewhat more mature than their descendants.
Eagle-eyed fans of the BBC One show were left outraged when they spotted the YouTube star didn’t have a commemorative pin on her costume during her appearance on Saturday night.
Outraged? Fucking Hellski! If you are outraged by this then you have a skin so thin you can see light though it. Get over yourselves. If someone is not wearing a poppy, that is their business and not yours. It does not indicate some perceived disrespect for the fallen and they are not obliged to justify themselves to you or anyone else.
Many tweeted Saffron, 19, to ask why she didn’t have a poppy on…
Ah, yeah, tweeted. Might have guessed. Once again, Twitter demonstrating that it is the home of the mob minded, the venal, facile, fuckwitted and the hard-of-thinking. At least it serves a purpose in that we know where they are.
One viewer wrote: “Someone’s going to have to help me… have the BBC allowed saffron and AJ to get away with NOT WEARING POPPIES??!!
There is only one response to this half-witted twattery and that is “GFY”.
“Not that I’m offended it’s just very out of character for the BBC.”
If you aren’t, then why bother to raise it?
After Saffron and AJ performed without their poppies on Saturday night’s show, they were bombarded with messages from outraged viewers.
One wrote: “How come Saffron and Aj are the only ones not wearing poppies on their outfits? It is because everyone has a choice?”
Heaven forfend that anyone should have a choice!
Fucking Hellski!
Since she spent the whole of the dance flashing her knickers, I can’t say that I noticed the absence of poppies. Anyway, today’s Dilbert cartoon explains a lot.
https://Dilbert.com
You watched it? Really?
I used to watch strictly come attention whoring to see some rather fit ladies gyrating around.
Haven’t for few years though. When they get all “woke” they become extraordinarily unattractive and no amount of surface packaging can compensate.
Twatter, facefuck etc. Just stay off. Who gives a fuck about the drooling shite that’s on there anyway?
Mark,
You may be watching the wrong channel
https://youtu.be/TcfPeR8oQk4
Outrageous gender stereotypes!
Wife likes it and I tag along for the fit girls in skimpy outfits. Actually, if you overlook the utterly dumbed down presentation, the celebs are doing something that is genuinely difficult and challenging and I sort of get that.
That must be why Kier Starmer was wearing TWO on a BBC show this morning!
Probably one for each face.
Everyone seems to be offended about everything these days.
And they need to be told to fuck off on a regular basis in order to toughen them up.
Slightly concerned that Poppy Day is getting longer. Surely it is the weekend of 9/10 November that they should be worn not last weekend? And of course on the 11 November!
Then again, bonfire night now takes a week, Halloween is getting the same way, Easter eggs appear after Christmas and in a few years time every day will be Christmas Day!
I still follow what was drilled into me at school (which was established as a war memorial, and took this kind of thing Very Seriously): you wear a poppy during the week before Rememberance Sunday, and until the 11th if it falls afterwards.
If I’d been on TV before last Monday and some behind-the-scenes plonker had said I had to wear one, I’d have told him to get stuffed.
A bit of this post has been quoted over at Samizdata.
I had another thought about the Strictly show. That dancing has the GNIs in the same way that motorcycling has. In the early stages there is usually at least one contestant that will never make a dancer no matter how many weeks of intensive training they are put through.