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Didnt do it...(didn't know about it!) ...cant understand these pointless token gestures.

Should we recalibrate Nov 11 to 4 mins? Perhaps the silence time should be related to number of deaths....

all these silences are getting out of hand.should we have a minutes silence for the 100,000 killed by tony blair in iraq?what about a ten minute silence for the oap's who fought in the war and died in britain of hypothermia.what about a minutes silence for the hundreds of Britons killed over the years by illegal immigrants and asylum seekers.the list goes on

I agree. I dont need to perform some ritual thought up by some official to show I care. And its usually the people least likely to actually pitch in and help when needed that are the first to critcise those not ' being silent ' enough.

I agree - its seems to be the fashionable thing to do these days. Never happened years ago.

I agree ABSOLUTELY!

It's getting out of hand - if we're going to have minutes silence at , say, a football game, it should only happen when: 1) Someone connected with the club (eg, Emlyn Hughes at Liverpool, Bill Nicholson at Spurs, Cloughy) has died or 2) when there has been some local disaster...

I can't remember how many "silences" we've had this season alone.

It's endemic of the insincere times we live, every week there's something/ someone else to "mourn" - the one connection they all have is the media telling their fickle public who they should "feel" for that week.

If we're going to have silence everytime something regrettable happens and lives are lost, why don't we all just stay at home and cry at the state of the world? An enforced minutes' silence squeezed between a pre-match 4 pints of lager and a pie, and chanting "WHO ARE YA?" at the rival supporter's in the ground is complete and utter bollocks.
It's all a result of 8 years of dictatorship by a bullshitter, when will it end?

True - and the problem with dictating how we feel that it sidesteps how we actually feel, something you would've thought concerned Blair since Iraq (I notice he waited until the public had responded to Sri Lanka before responding himself mind).

BTW - Good point about football grounds, RD, though there's a ninety-minute silence at Old Trafford most weekends (boom-tish!).