Three minute silence

[Gunfleet]

silence inflation

There's hardly ever a football match where the players aren't wearing black armbands and the whole shebang preceded by a silence. It's silence inflation.

 

[snowleopard]

the next thing the media are latching onto is TB not cutting short his holiday. every time there's a problem anywhere in the world this cry goes up. he has a phone, he's not expected to get in there with a shovel and dig people out, so why does he have to come home?

(and i'm most certainly not a labour supporter)

 

[Robin]

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the next thing the media are latching onto is TB not cutting short his holiday. every time there's a problem anywhere in the world this cry goes up. he has a phone, he's not expected to get in there with a shovel and dig people out, so why does he have to come home?

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For the same reason most employers would not understand their employees working from their boat via mobile phone, whilst sitting in the caribbean sun with a rum punch.

 

[raven]

Re: silence inflation

Grief is a very personal thing and there isnt a day gone by since Boxing Day when I havent though about the terrible events in the Indian Ocean. However I could not bring myself to observe three minutes silence at a time allotted by some bunch of beaurocrats.

The tsunami was an act of god and we were powerless to do much about it.

We stand in silence on Remembrance Sunday to honour those who gave their lives in the name of freedom and to ponder the futility of war - a violent and destructive act over which we do have some control.

For me, therein lies the difference.

 

[jenku]

Re: silence inflation

When the Swedish foreign minister Anna Lind was killed we had only one minute's silence. Now we had three. However, I don't think the actual number of minutes is really the point. It's not like this is the stock market or something where higher numbers are better. It's all about the idea behind, is it not?

 

[aitchw]

Re: silence inflation

Yes!!!