Poppy seller in England assaulted, robbed

[Capt.Ridley_s_Shooting_Party]

There are more working class with pretensions. Many of them live in towns built after WW2 to house people from the slums of East London and they still carry this folk memory of their original background .

Good God? Working class? Scum!

[GorillaMan]

@Dominic Mulligan

Good God? Working class? Scum!

Plus they form a large part of West Ham’s fanbase.

[jjimm]

@GorillaMan

How does an Essex girl fake an orgasm?

She drops her handbag.

How do you know when a Sloane is having an orgasm?

She drops her accent.

[Kyla]

@Kal

In other news; yeah, I was away for about 18 months, Mal’. You can blame jjimm for my returning.

[complete hijack]Kal! It is so good to see you about…I have a number of Roma students and often think of you and what you would think of what goes on in my classroom…and the teacher’s lounge. Lovely to spend your break listening to your colleagues complaining about those damned Gypsies. sigh[/complete hijack]

Anyway, yes. Knocking down old men, very very bad. Any news on whether the culprit has been aprehended?

[Malacandra]

Update via today’s mail:

@Roy Terry

Dear <Malacandra>,
I would like to thank you for your kind donation and <someone else cloaked by anonymity>. As a result of donations such as this we managed to recover way above what we believe to have been stolen.

Once again on behalf of the British Legion and myself, thank you for your generosity.

Nothing about the scummy tea-leaf, but apart from that, all’s well that ends well.

[Shirley_Ujest]

A little late on this thread…

1. Poppies are sold by Veterans of WW1. Background Story

The red poppy worn around the world in remembrance of battlefield deaths has nothing to do with the blood shed in the brutal clashes of World War I.

Instead it symbolises the wild flowers that were the first plants to grow in the churned-up soil of soldiers’ graves in Belgium and northern France. Little else could grow in the blasted soil that became rich in lime from the rubble.

Their paper-thin red petals were the first signs of life and renewal.

Also, poppies are a pistol to establish and can lay dormant for years. The significance of these beautiful flowers springing about after such carnage was not missed on the survivors of a bloody battle and are such a poignant reminder for all the sacrficies made for freedom.
2. Kal! Where the heck have you been? We need updates on yours and Washte’s lives and that little one ( who’s name I’ve plum forgotten sorry!

3. I thought most of England had the CCTV everywhere. Were the perps caught on tape. I hope they are caught and face the public humiliation of such a lowly crime ( and punished too.)