Everyone else was - this is about respect for the dead, people who have been killed in every conflict, not just in the World Wars.
It wasn't good - and it was very noticeable.
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But I remember last year he was on the show around the 11th November. He kicked up a big fuss about why he was wearing a poppy when he didn't even know what it was about and that he wanted to be able to make the choice. I guess because he kicked up a fuss, they thought it would look hypocritical if he was wearing one.
Anyway, I think that people should be able to make that choice, not have it made for them. I agree that I don't know why anyone wouldn't want to wear a poppy, but it is up to him at the end of the day.
Well, I guess it's up to him but if he's saying he's no idea what it's all about that would seem to be suggesting a grand ignorance of history.
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Not necessarily. He wasn't being ignorant about the history behind it I don't think, he just didn't know that the poppy represented that in the UK.
Having said that, at the recording of the show he was on this series, Paul and Ian were joking about Obama visiting London and Paul joked "well I hope someone tells him not to go through Stockwell tube station" - it didn't come across as quite as innapropriate as it reads - and Reg had no idea what they were talking about!! Then he said "I go through whole periods of this show where I don't understand a *beep* word". I don't know if he lives in this country at all - I'd always assumed that he did because he works quite a lot here, but if he doesn't, it explains his lack of general knowledge about that sort of stuff I guess.
True. And they broadcast his comment about going through large stretches of the show without understanding any of it, so perhaps we'll let him off!
Just a painted face on a trip down suicide row
Problem is that for half the people who wear poppies, it isn't about respect for the dead - it's about worrying that others will critise you if you *don't* wear one. Either that or smugness.
I say good on him for not wearing one. I imagine there would have been a lot of pressure backstage for him to wear one (from the producers etc). Notice that on Rememberence day, even on programs that have been recorded months/weeks in advance the guests are always wearing poppies. That isn't about remembering the dead. It's about worrying what viewers will think
Problem is that for half the people who wear poppies, it isn't about respect for the dead - it's about worrying that others will critise you if you *don't* wear one. Either that or smugness.It actually reminds me of an episode from many many years ago, when Ian Hislop - in his own words, annoyed at being told he had to wear an AIDS ribbon "as though it were compulsory" - instead elected to wear a large white L-shaped on his lapel, in honour of leukaemia sufferers.