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Hour Silence for the 40,000 dead in Iraq

chegrimandi

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I'd like an hour long silence for the 40,000 (conservative estimate) killed in Iraq tmw at noon. Please could someone email our betters and masters at the BBC, 10 Downing Street, the House of Commons and Buckingham Palace to ensure this happens or I won't be able to think about them properly.

Ta.
 
Pickman's model said:
if the going rate's about a minute for 25 dead, then you're looking at a considerably longer silence than an hour.

Call it a minute per 40 (70-80 dead and it's easy to divide by 40,000) and your looking at 16 hours plus.

Good idea, I'm with you.
 
Pickman's model said:
if the going rate's about a minute for 25 dead, then you're looking at a considerably longer silence than an hour.

Surely Princess Di set the mark for silence lengths with 2 minutes per person ! I don't think I could be silent for 80,000 minutes :eek: :(
 
Savage Henry said:
Surely Princess Di set the mark for silence lengths with 2 minutes per person ! I don't think I could be silent for 80,000 minutes :eek: :(

shame on you :mad: she was da kween of arts she was
 
chegrimandi said:
I'd like an hour long silence for the 40,000 (conservative estimate) killed in Iraq tmw at noon. Please could someone email our betters and masters at the BBC, 10 Downing Street, the House of Commons and Buckingham Palace to ensure this happens or I won't be able to think about them properly.
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What about all the other people dying in wars and conflict around the globe?

Why are you being selective?

Don't you care about those dying in Africa etc etc?
 
editor said:
What about all the other people dying in wars and conflict around the globe?

Why are you being selective?

Don't you care about those dying in Africa etc etc?

could you be a bit more exact about where people are dying in Africa please I think saying 'people are dying in Africa' is pandering to stereotypes of Africa as a sick continent....
 
editor said:
What about all the other people dying in wars and conflict around the globe?

Why are you being selective?

Don't you care about those dying in Africa etc etc?
perhaps you might like to start threads for silences for those other worthy causes.

it's probably a good idea not to muddy the waters too much on this thread.
 
chegrimandi said:
I'd like an hour long silence for the 40,000 (conservative estimate) killed in Iraq tmw at noon. Please could someone email our betters and masters at the BBC, 10 Downing Street, the House of Commons and Buckingham Palace to ensure this happens or I won't be able to think about them properly.

Ta.

Source for the figure please.
 
Sorry if this pisses anyone off:

but the logical conclusion of this thread is that we should just ban 'silences' (or whatever you want to all them).

I observe them and pay respect to them but they're a stupid idea.

People die in awful ways across the globe everyday...

Etc.

Etc.
 
T.M.A.-1 said:
I've seen lots of figures banded about on this.

I think he's used the lowest generally touted figure in order to avoid the thread turning into this exact argument.
 
AFAIK, the minutes silence began in 1918 as a time for reflection and to try and understand/comprehend the catastrophe of WW1 and the almost unimagineable(for then) industrial scale carnage of that event. I think such minutes silences should be respected and limited. However, while i think that today's silence was a justified one, overall it has been devalued by the state sponsored cry-athons we seem to have all the time


'the minute's been devalued since 1997.'
 
anyway so my point being why do we not have a silence for these dead? Innocent victims most of them. Some of them our soldiers - some of them children, mothers, fathers, grandparents.

Why would we not mourn the passing of these innocents? Is it because we would have to look at who has killed them and why?
 
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