:kicks firefox:

[burntcopper]

You know, when I have to forcible crash you when you stop responding, could you please be *consistent* about being cranky on re-start?

So far, I am used to you :

Losing all the tabs.
ignoring some and coming up with blank pages.
re-setting to the tabs of 3 days ago.

...coming up with only one window's worth is a new one, though.

(to make this clear : I normally have about 3-4 windows with multiple tabs - one for 'groups',one for 'muppets' (individual journals) and one with my email stuff in. This time? just the groups. which is the biggest. WTF?)

In other news, I'm pondering what other charity induces as much automatic guilt if you aren't wearing a badge/ribbon/rubber chicken pinned to you as poppies do. Seriously. I'm on my fifth. Due to going out this morning in just my hoodie (poppy is on coat - coat is on its fourth) and passing the british legion guys (who had army trucks on the pier) and got guilt-spasm. Poppy sellers out in force today in Falmouth. Every shop had a box and every other shop had a seller standing outside it.

You could see those not wearing poppies getting this 'oh god social faux-pas mortification' expression when they got near them and fishing out their spare change. They'd been passing them by for the last 2 weeks and now it's saturday before Remembrance. Not to mention people feel this urge to *replace* them if they get lost. (I think the flimsy pin is on purpose)

Also, is it me, or has the whole social faux pas thing gotten a lot bigger in recent years? Everyone I've seen on tv as a presenter of some sort is wearing one. Everyone at a public occasion if they were a performer is wearing one, unless it clashes with their outfit as part of a show. I'm sure it was only the Blue Peter presenters and the newsreaders when I was younger. Not all politicians wore them, I know that.

Merlin : please keep upping the morally complex stuff and Arthur being forced to look at his own opinions, please.

Comments

[gmh.livejournal.com]

For some reason, that doesn't seem to apply if you habitually wear a white poppy; if there's any social reaction, it seems to be offence that you are wearing one.

[silly-swordsman.livejournal.com]

I don't do poppies. I don't mind others wearing them, and I appreciate the importance of remembering those who lost their lives to human folly, but it's not a symbol for me. Wrong cultural background.

[burntcopper.livejournal.com]

yeah, that I get without a problem. I'm just amused and pondering when the cultural shift of 'social faux-pas' came in here. I know that fifteen years ago, it certainly wasn't a big thing.

[gmh.livejournal.com]

It has been orchestrated over the last few years by certain sections of the tabloid press; notably the Daily Mail and the Sun - here's an example of the Sun going around commercial workplaces and reporting if employees weren't choosing to wear them.

Jon Snow got a lot of flak a couple of years ago for refusing to wear one on air; since which it's only gotten worse.

*sigh* - Remembrance Sunday - the Government conscripted millions, packed them off to get shot at or blown up in various hellholes in France and Belgium, and people talk about the 'sacrifice' of the glorious dead - as if they had much choice in the matter.