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I don't watch the news so had only vaguely heard of this atrocity - the wife was up to high dough about it though, she is scared to go on holiday and has started to hate Islam with a passion.

Job done as far as the press and government is concerned. The more you fear, the easier you are to control.

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This kind of stuff has been the norm since Princess Diana died. We are almost becoming obsessive grief junkies thanks to the Government.

I lost a relative on Piper Alpha in 1988 but don't remember a clamour for national mourning then. And why should there have been? Best let people show respect in their own ways rather than being almost strongarmed into it.

I'll be en route to Spain on holiday but by all means if Glasgow Airport falls silent then of course I'll be one of those taking a minute of reflection. But I do feel it is over the top.

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Another example of the need to wear grief like a badge of honour. I sometimes feel like things like this are more about showing people you are grieving/respecting rather than the actual act itself. It's the same when they have minutes silences at football for things that have no place being there. Out of interest, was there a nationwide silence for the people tragically killed in George Square or the Clutha? Not trying to turn this in to a Scotland/England/Britain thing but these are the 2 biggest tragedies I can remember recently outwith Tunisia and I don't recall it happening then.

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Another example of the need to wear grief like a badge of honour. I sometimes feel like things like this are more about showing people you are grieving/respecting rather than the actual act itself.

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I'm not sure how big a role social media plays in this phenomenon? Or if it's just a vehicle for it?

The only ones worse than the grief junkies are the ones who make it all about themselves!

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This kind of stuff has been the norm since Princess Diana died. We are almost becoming obsessive grief junkies thanks to the Government.

I lost a relative on Piper Alpha in 1988 but don't remember a clamour for national mourning then. And why should there have been? Best let people show respect in their own ways rather than being almost strongarmed into it.

I'll be en route to Spain on holiday but by all means if Glasgow Airport falls silent then of course I'll be one of those taking a minute of reflection. But I do feel it is over the top.

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Another example of the need to wear grief like a badge of honour. I sometimes feel like things like this are more about showing people you are grieving/respecting rather than the actual act itself. It's the same when they have minutes silences at football for things that have no place being there. Out of interest, was there a nationwide silence for the people tragically killed in George Square or the Clutha? Not trying to turn this in to a Scotland/England/Britain thing but these are the 2 biggest tragedies I can remember recently outwith Tunisia and I don't recall it happening then.

The government and press don't have an agenda against police helicopter pilots / bin men, if anything they support them, but they are desperate to big up the fear factor from overseas terrorism. What happened in Tunisia is a tragedy, but the purpose of the national minutes silence is as much to stoke fear as to show respect, imho. Win-win for the government.

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I think its one of these cases where the government is damned if they do and damned if they don't.

As far as comparisons with the Clutha and George Square are concerned, I think the difference is the scale and the circumstances.

I'll give the UK government the big benefit of the doubt here and reckon they would defer to Holyrood in those cases and I don't think the clamor for national public mourning really isn't in the Scottish psyche - if such a thing exists - responses tend to be on a more personal and local level.

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with the majority on here, I just don't like synchronised mourning where people try and outdo each other to show how much they care. I will be playing football on Friday so doesn't matter to me and I would never intentionally disrupt a silence but the whole thing doesn't sit well with me.

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