It's a holiday in SK depending who you work for. It makes it quiet enough to hear the 105s firing in salute throughout the core of the city. You have no choice but be reminded of the meaning of the day when your windows rattle 21 times.
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Because they should be free to do so.
It was kind of the whole point really.
Easy now, don't get all bent outta shape champ, I didn't mean to strike a nerve.
I was just going by the impression you give off.
I think it's ok for some to go shopping.Or it's about the general public standing up for those who gave lives for freedom and demonstrating what respect means for at least one morning in a year.
Just how I see it.
It's not so much to ask.
I think it's ok for me to go to the cenotaph.
It's the freedom that's the most important part.
Making things mandatory, strikes at the heart of the cause.
I don't disagree. I go to the legion in Redcliff quite often. But the fact remains, if the legion is having difficulties it's because it's not offering people what they want
I'd rather it not be mandatory as well. But I also can't help that I want to slap some of these ignorant fu*ckers upside the head. Freedom to be ignorant does not protect one from being chastised for it.
Like I said, there are enough shallow blingy chains for you already.
I don't disagree with that sentiment.
if you are a retailer you can't close unless the mall closes because you are fined up the whazoo so then you have to force staff to work and if you are staff, you are forced to work.
doesn't seem too free to me
now if the malls just close, it's all good
I'm not sure if it's still the same but it used to be that nothing opened until noon if at all in SK.
Don't let his off topic trolling derail this thread. There are plenty of threads for him to do that in, he's best ignored in this one.
See I completely get where you're coming from and why, you know I do. You feel a strong connection to those whom we remember, and the reasons for which we should remember them. I have nothing but respect for that, I really do.
At the same time I'm coming at this from a position where I haven't provided said service to my country and I feel, very strongly, that we all need to collectively, at least for these few moments once a year, forget about our own selfish wants and take a damned moment. And if that means grabbing the ignorant little pissants by their ears and dragging them into it, then so be it. The same way one would to a petulant child who's not being respectful. As a Canadian I want them to be disrupted for one damned minute, and to look around at those who don't find it a disruption, perhaps they may even learn a little humility.
Oh your point is not lost on me, I actually agree in small way, but...
Ski, makes a really valid point.
I can do a lot to make them feel really, really bad about it.
And I'm only half joking.
It's a strong feeling. Hell, people can protest it, it doesn't bother me half as much, or at all really.
It's not really about forcing someone to show respect, it's more about not allowing their disrespect to interfere with my own need to show it.
A November Holiday to Silently Rest and/or to Pay Respect to those who fought for Our / This Great Country!....Sounds good to me.
yeah okay
you are missing the irony of a whole piece here but most do when it comes to retailers in malls and their employees