3 Mins silence - why ?

[rev-erend]

3 Mins silence - why ?

Can anyone answer why it's now 3 mins and not 1 min ..

not that I begrudge it .. but why has all these silences suddenly changed from 1 to 3 mins..:

[Marki]

inflation

[rev-erend]

Marki said:

inflation

Would sure be true if Ken Livingstone had organised it .. (9% rise on tubes in London (3 * inflation))

[maxf]

I equally don't begrudge it.

However, I seem to remember standing for 2 minutes in November to remember the war dead. So does 3 minutes mean that this natural disaster is more 'important'?

Also,

Is 3 minutes silence actually going to achieve anything. 'Remebering' to me means thinking of and reflecting on something which is in the past. This is still going on, and hundreds of thousands of people still need 'real' help.

[pdavison]

I was thinking that this morning when I heard it on the radio.

I still believe 1 minutes silence is appropriate.

[alexkp]

3 minutes is too long IMHO. The two world wars only get two minutes...

[Julian64]

I think its because we have to show how much we care, and 3 mins shows that better than 1 min?

Collective grief is a strange study in social interaction even at funerals, even more so when conducted at a state level

[mrmaggit]

1 min OK for single people that we know/knew. Also disasters in foreign lands.

2 minutes for the war dead, OK.

3 minutes for natural disaster? Don't think so. IMHO

[birdbrain]

FFS, what does it matter if it's 1 minute or 3 minutes? It's not a sliding scale of how seriously it's taken you know!

[forever_driving]

Well, I'll be observing a 1 minutes silence and then I'll get back on with my job.

[Podie]

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[maxf]

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[stumartin]

Seems far too long. Whatever it might or might not say about it's relative importance, I just can't sit still and 'reflect' for 3mins - I'll end up thinking about what I'm having for tea and scratching my arse. I'd rather spend my time finding out where I can donate some money without it being siphoned off.

[alexkp]

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[shadowninja]

you miserable ers. I'm gonna do a 50 minutes silence to make up for your lack of goodwill.

*puts his feet on the desk and opens a beer*

[Buffalo]

I just posted a thread, but then saw this one, so thought i would post my comment here instead:

>>>I am absolutely positive that the company i work for at the moment did not observe the two minutes silence for rememberance day this year...

...yet they want us to observe *3* minutes of silence for the tsunami victims...

I am actually so cross about the mixed priorities here, i am considering not observing it at all.

Thoughts..? <<<

[anonymous-user]

Because it's another great example of EU bullshit.

The EU are not so keen to remember the war because most of them were either with the Nazis or hiding behind the shed waiting for us and the yanks to rescue them.

Much more appropriate to have 3 minutes silence now. (The EU will probably propose a "general" day of rememberance to replace 11th November next).

The tsunami was a terrible thing (as is war, famine and the brutal tyranny of Mugabe & Co) and we should all do what we can to help. 3 minutes silence though helps nobody and is inappropriate. (IMO)

[alexkp]

Buffalo said:

I just posted a thread, but then saw this one, so thought i would post my comment here instead: >>>I am absolutely positive that the company i work for at the moment did not observe the two minutes silence for rememberance day this year... ...yet they want us to observe *3* minutes of silence for the tsunami victims... I am actually so cross about the mixed priorities here, i am considering not observing it at all. Thoughts..? <<<

Observe it. It has nothing to do with your company's skewed priorities, it is simply a reflection and statement of grief.

Do insist that they observe Rememberance though as they have observed this.

[billb]

a good point - 1 minutes is easily enough why the extra two? is it to make ourselves feel better that its taken so long to help them or are the extra 2 minutes to remember the 20,000 people that die in africa every day that we dont care about because we dont holiday there?

( no disrespect intended to the asia victims it was indeed absoultely terrible )

[tricky69]

only had a 1 minute silence at stamford bridge last night..... does that mean that chelsea players/fans don't care as much as they should ?