VERY CONTROVERSIAL NEW £2 COIN

Entirely predictable some of the responses in this thread.

"Yawn"

"Offended"

"Brigade"

You would think people would take 5 minutes to read through it before jumping in feet first.

All they see is certain posters posting and jump to conclusions.

Why anyone would feel the need to post anything other than concern that images like this are deemed acceptable is beyond me.

 

I'm all for a poppy coin.

A recruiting poster as currency just doesnt make much sense to be honest.

 

* me its windy outside.

 

Only on here can a thread about a 2 pound coin turn into a thread about sexual practices I've never heard of, and giving spellcheck his weekly kick in

Kitchener was a *, but shouldn't really generate this level of response

 

:smiley-laughing002:

 

I think murdering woman and children and slaughtering thousands merits a slightly harsher description than '*'

 

:smiley-laughing002:

 

Anyone on here who doesnt want em, can send them up to me.............and go...uhm...home or something.

 

Exactly i think we should set up a postage address, say my address, and anytime someone gets one of these "unwanted" two pound coins just send em north. They will be put to good use!

 

you on about the £2 coin or the deviant?

 

I had to read that a couple of times as well before I realised he meant.














The deviant.

 

Just send me * money. Don't know expensive English words like deviant. :icon_mrgreen:

 

He lives in Amsterdam for christ sake! We send them sexual deviants by the plane load

 

TBF he doesn't live in Amsterdam.He just visits looking for....... £2 coins.

 

Horrible coin representing a war where the Brits threw the Irish onto the front line to get slaughtered for a start.
The most pointless war of them all, solely for imperialism and power.

 

They threw everyone they could into that * slaughter....mostly the poor.
Even 100 years later the poor are still getting * over.
Time to cut off some heads.:icon_mrgreen:

 

Time for someone to invade England if you ask me, give them a taste of their own medicine.
Another Hitler or Wallace would do nicely. :smiley-laughing002:

 

You know if scotland ireland and wales just get free engerland will be a rather * little country.
Can't * wait.

 

I disagree, for me It's not representing the war, it's remembering the war. Of course this was just one propaganda poster albeit the most famous one which were used to inspire men to sign up but it's still an important piece of history which helps to show the naivety of Europe in 1914, it shows to me that nobody at the time could have possibly predicted that it would become a trench war in which a whole generation of youth would die from the working classes to the privileged.
It's a valuable note from a dark point in history and one in which we should never forget.

 

There is plenty of images on the futility of war that could have been used, but it doesn't fit into contemporary narrative and the move towards jingoism and glorification of illegal wars that we see today.