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Eh?

What children would you like me to think about for this pre-determined 60 seconds?

Are you talking about the Russian siege?

I assumed that's what photo-taker was referring to.

Presonally, I'll have nothing to do with these public shows of hollow emotion. They're meaningless, empty and pathetic.

I remember last year being in Tesco on Sept 11 - two years after the 'event' and shoppers were asked to observe a two-minute silence (oh yes, they were going for the full 120 seconds).

Why? What exactly is the point of these silences?

It's the Diana effect. Communal grief is the new thing and it's pathetic.

Pathetic people asking others to join in with their public shows of empty emotion and crocodile tears.

Agreed...

It has been observed before that these minutes of silences are becoming increasingly epidemic. Two minutes for Henman getting thrashed by Federer, anyone?

I think you deserve two minute,s silence for going into Tesco,s.

When something bad happens to a lot of people or individuals like Diana, a minute or two of silence is about the only collective way of marking the untimely passing of human beings really and thus when looked at like that I dont really see the problem

Why does there need to be a collective way of remembering dead people?

Is it not enough to think about things on our own and deal with it in our own way?

And please don't get me started on Diana's funeral - the most shockingly pathetic display of public grief England has ever seen.

The foot-high sea of flowers left at the Palace and elsewhere, what exactly what was the point of spending five pounds on a bunch of flowers for a dead woman you'd never met? It's pathetic.

Shame those buying flowers for Diana didn't spend the money on something worthwhile (like donating it to charity for example) instead of following the rest of the sheep and jumping on the next available train to London to wail and sob in public along with thousands of other morons.

Come on, I was in London while all the flowers were being laid.

It smelled lovely!

And how well I remember the chavs who were arrested for stealing flowers from those left for Diana. Ah, human beings. We're great.

Let's publicly remember those who laid down their lives for their country (seems the least those who still live on those countries can do) with a respectful silence, and by all means mourn in private for innocent victims of atrocity. But there are too many moments of rememberance, and we run the risk of missing the whole point of why we're having them in the first place.

I blame America for many of these things. I note that there's now talk of Grandparents Day in the USA... probably sponsored by Hallmark.

the Diana stuff was amazing, seeing grown men blubbing in public over a women whose only link to them was the media, she could just as easliy been a fake cartoon character.
God help them if someone they actually knew died