I don't think  anyone should dictate whether a person wears a poppy.

My view is that no one should be forced to wear one if they don't want to however, those that do should be allowed to 

Yeah that's the kinda thing that'd make me swear!

We owe everything to the folk we remember by wearing poppies, and it's f-ing outrageous, wrong and damn rude to try to stop anyone wearing them!!



Where is this store? We should go in there wearing 50 poppies each!!!!

It's the Southampton branch of the Abercrombie & Fitch.

Make Giant Poppies and flash mob them 

Good on the young girl though. She had some guts to stand up for what she believed in. I wonder if she is still working there.

They've relented, have they not?

They have but only slightly. Yesterday's BBC article now says:
Hollister, which is owned by US giant Abercrombie and Fitch, said it had reviewed its policy and staff may now wear a poppy on Remembrance Day itself.
The article then says:

"However, as an American company that has been in existence since 1892, we very much appreciate the sacrifices of both British and American servicemen and women in the World Wars and in military conflicts that continue to this day.

"Our company policy is currently to permit associates to wear a poppy as a token of this appreciation on Remembrance Day.

"In the future, we will revisit, in light of local custom, whether to extend the policy to the days or weeks leading up to Remembrance Day."

But that's not much of a relaxation of their policy.

they can stick their policies up their asses

They shouldn't have a policy about personell wearing a poppy, but at the same time I totally disagree with the wearing of it 3 weeks before Armistice Day. What is the point of that? Everybody on TV gets one of these things stuck onto them just before they go on air and the whole point of is lost.

Don't forget health and safety - what if she accidently tripped over a hanger on the floor whilst wearing one and it stabbed her - health and safety must always come first you know!!

Do they not have some of  the press stud jobbies instead of the pins this year?

I've already stabbed myself about 4 times with mine They should really think of a better way of doing it

I agree with this, I don't think that anyone should be made to remove a poppy, however on the flip side I don't anyone should be made wear on either which is common practice the media.

There is other poppy-wearing protocol I found interesting. Replacing the pin on a poppy is considered defacing it. A poppy should never be reused; the disposal of it, however, is left up to the individual's discretion. Any poppies found lying on the ground are best placed at the foot of a war monument or local cemetery.

If you want to get the children involved.

 

Does making your own poppy not defeat the purpose?

no,its about rememberance.

I guess it comes down to a company's position on its uniform. 


Perhaps the concern is, if one person demands the right to wear a poppy, what right does the company have to refuse others' desire to wear the multitude of ribbons for various causes?  None that I can see.  My feelings towards wearing a yellow or pink ribbon may be stronger than my relation to the poppies for example.  And no less valid?

Then we drift into all the wrist bands for this that and the other.


A company cannot, surely, have officially sanctioned "worthy" causes that they will allow their staff to visibly support whilst rejecting others.


Perhaps that's what they were thinking.

In Flanders' Fields

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.

John McCrae, 1915

I guess as well that if you are employed somewhere you should remain impartial and shouldn't be displaying any of your personal beliefs on your person regardless of what they are.