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Two Minutes Silence
What were you doing at 11:00 today, and if you didn't respect the silence, why didn't you?
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I did 59 secondsA Challenge wrote:What were you doing at 11:00 today, and if you didn't respect the silence, why didn't you?
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Why did you do less than one minute, and why not two minutes?Tube Geek wrote:I did 59 secondsA Challenge wrote:What were you doing at 11:00 today, and if you didn't respect the silence, why didn't you?
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Re: Two Minutes Silence
I was listening to the two minutes' silence broadcast live from Trafalgar Square. (Although at times it felt more like two minutes' coughing.)A Challenge wrote:What were you doing at 11:00 today, and if you didn't respect the silence, why didn't you?
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a) it was only meant to be 1A Challenge wrote:Why did you do less than one minute, and why not two minutes?Tube Geek wrote:I did 59 secondsA Challenge wrote:What were you doing at 11:00 today, and if you didn't respect the silence, why didn't you?
b) I timed it and the bells that went were slightly out
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Re: Two Minutes Silence
(a) The norm is for two minutes silence
(b) The bells don't preclude you from personally observing a minute (or two minutes) silence.
(b) The bells don't preclude you from personally observing a minute (or two minutes) silence.
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Also, no one is under any obligation to observe any length of silence.
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Don't go saying that Neil - the moral police will be hunting you down!!tubeguru wrote:Also, no one is under any obligation to observe any length of silence.
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I've already asked AC why he seems to think people owe him an explanation for not observing silences today in another thread.Steeevooo wrote:Don't go saying that Neil - the moral police will be hunting you down!!tubeguru wrote:Also, no one is under any obligation to observe any length of silence.
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But if you don't want to, but the school forces you to, you kind of choose to do the shortest possibleSteeevooo wrote:(a) The norm is for two minutes silence
(b) The bells don't preclude you from personally observing a minute (or two minutes) silence.
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When I was a child, we only had the two minutes' silence on Remembrance Sunday - the nearest Sunday to November 11th. Now we have it both on the 11th itself and on the Sunday. Why has it become four minutes' silence?
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5 in CroydonGuyBarry wrote:When I was a child, we only had the two minutes' silence on Remembrance Sunday - the nearest Sunday to November 11th. Now we have it both on the 11th itself and on the Sunday. Why has it become four minutes' silence?
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I was going to ask why, and then I remembered the speeding tram incident last week, to think that I have been around there (on the New Addington branch) very recently...Tube Geek wrote:5 in CroydonGuyBarry wrote:When I was a child, we only had the two minutes' silence on Remembrance Sunday - the nearest Sunday to November 11th. Now we have it both on the 11th itself and on the Sunday. Why has it become four minutes' silence?
It was supposed to be two minutes at 11:00 on the 11th November, but then as it is a working day, it moves to Sunday (it will probably next year anyway when it is Saturday), then you can just wait for two years for when it is a Sunday!
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I think at the end of the day a few minutes silence per year to remember those who gave lives so we have the freedom today is the point. perhaps in future Josh being record holder of trams can lead a fund raising event in honour of 7 lives lost.
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Or someone could organise Tram Relief.....palkanetoijala31 wrote:I think at the end of the day a few minutes silence per year to remember those who gave lives so we have the freedom today is the point. perhaps in future Josh being record holder of trams can lead a fund raising event in honour of 7 lives lost.
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