Nationwide Minute Silence For Tunisian Victims.

[Gromit]

Why?

[Bathsheba]

Baldric......did you really report this?

[ichkeria]

The good thing about a minute's silence is that you can use it for a quiet moment's reflection on whatever or whoever you choose.
Doesn't necessarily have to be for the official reason alone.
And I don't think that does any harm.

[-Talbot-]

Why are posters trying to compare it with anything. You are free to show respect, you are free to ignore it.

Gromit's OP should have contained a link but then he maybe would not have got the reaction he craved.

[Prudie]

It isn't what? They are all unspeakably awful events. If a silence hadn't been announced there would be those who would moan about nothing being done. It's not really the nicest of topics to argue about on here but hey-ho

[Baldric]

Gromit, you were showing your usual disrespect for anything/one British.

jno, issue with what?

Baths, why would I lie?

[bazwillrun]

Why not ?

nobody is forcing or asking anybody to do anything....but people like gromit jno and that ilk show themselves for what they really are....

[bazwillrun]

exactly baldric...i could so easily have got a nice little suspension for what Id really like to call anti british ***** (my own censoring) like him and jno and a few others on here.

[chaptazbru2]

^ Well said.

[Mamyalynne]

Let's not forget , you can also use that minute to inwardly contemplate yourself too, there are no rules, no coercion.

[Bathsheba]

@Baldric,...no I don't think you would lie, I just thought you were being tongue-in-cheek. I'm still surprised that you thought it warranted reporting.

[Retrochic]

This is in the same way people leave masses of flowers at scenes of tragedy even though they did not know the victim(s). Some people need to show sympathy for others suffering -the families of the victims. The minutes silence is surely for the families of those killed last Friday,a time to reflect on the sadness of each death and how that must impact on their family.

[Baldric]

To pose the question in the first place was an implied lack of respect which is something we have come to expect from the OPer, would have been better unsaid imo.

[Retrochic]

Baldric millions of people lost their lives in 2 world wars to uphold freedom of speech (and I'm sure asking Questions on AB).

[Bathsheba]

@ Baldric.....ah, I see now,....sorry, my brain must be a bit dehydrated today ;)

[Baldric]

Exactly, we are all entitled to voice our opinions and that is what I have done, I hope that's ok with you!

[Mamyalynne]

I don't liken a moments silence the same as laying masses of flowers - the nearest to that I have ever done is placing a cross at the Memorial on Remembrance Sunday.

[Baldric]

^^^^ @ Retrochic

[Old_Geezer]

For what it is worth, these minute silence things always seemed a bit odd to me. If one wishes to show respect in that manner for someone who has died, one could do it unofficially in one's quiet contemplation time, and avoid the, "we all must do this together, and you are under peer pressure to comply", thing.