General Chat

I must admit i felt a bit cross today, i was outside the Forum when it was time, as i had just been in the city hall, the city went deadly quiet, cars and buses stopped in the road and everyone got out of their cars, people came out of their workplacesand stood head bowed, it was very moving.... and then it was spoilt by 2 people walking past talking on their mobiles, 1 french and the other an Englishman in his 50's!! I was disappointed that they felt so unaffected by it all, that they could be dismissive of what was going on around them, surely they could have stopped and considered the feelings of those around??? Is it really so much to ask??

I have to apologise to all concerned....... I forgot all about it. I'll do it by myself, in honour of the bereaved, the dead, and the injured. God Bless. Deanna

Diana - it is the same on 11th November - we have the solidarity as much as possible, but still a few ignore it. Joy

Yvette - I would have snatched their mobiles off them and placed them somewhere more suitable! Then I would have smacked them in the head!

I would like to hope that those that couldn't stop ( and i was one of them) at least 'thought' , as i did. Jess

I'm not sure that anyone has a CAN'T stop excuse unless they are performing emergency surgery!! But I do undertstand that some people may not have known about it but surely some of the people should take more notice of what's going on around them..... a street comes to a standstill and they keep going????

Bec i was very tempted!!! however there were a couple of very upset girls nearby - i assumed due to the bombings,and i felt it was better to mark the event correctly and just quietly condemn them!

couldn`t believe it `phone rang so i left it and the answerphone cut in to take the message-it was a person with a foreign accent. R.B. x

One guy came into our office, totally oblivious of the 2min silence, despite the PA announcement. It wasn't done out of contempt or whatever but from having worked with him, he ain't the most observant person in the world. What does annoy me is those that do seem to deliberately place whatever they are doing as being of higher value than life itself.

Sorry Diana, that hurts I did have ligitimate 'can't stop' actually and am sure i am not alone in that fact. Please dont condem me for that , in my case, at that very moment the living person to whom i was attending was more important that those that had gone AT THAT PARTICULAR MOMENT IN TIME.12 noon. It doesn't men that i didn't think about the dead and the attrociity of the bombing. jess

Jess, I am not codemning you I am just giving my opinion and my opinion is that EVERYTHING should stop at that moment.... I understand that the living are important but our dead are too and I don't think 2 minutes is much to ask unless its a life or death situation!!

As it happens , it was a life and death situation. was a glad i carried on ?- yes i am Am i sorry those people died in London and their families grieve? yes i am. But if my 'carrying on' has saved an elderly gentlesmans life then i shall be very glad that i did carry on. jess

Jess then I don't see why my comments have upset you.... if you know what you did in that time couldn't be stopped because someone needed you to continue their life then my comments shouldn't have a single affect and you should be agreeing with me rather than say I have no right to my opinion. And in fact my opinion is just backing you up not condemning you!

I guess i am only reading bits, the way i feel at the moment... You did say, after i said i couldn't have stopped that no-one had an excuse . As it is the whole exercise was pointless, have just heard he died on his way to the hospital . Jess

I haven't amended my comments and i said everything should stop unless your doing emergency surgery.... and yes i would class what you did as emergency surgery. Sorry if I didn't put it right and i am also sorry your gentleman lost his fight, I am sure you did all you could to help him!

It was a wonderful gesture that production lines were closed in Italy to mark the silence. Those minutes will have cost thousands in lost revenue but they did it anyway. Thank you Italy.

Dawn.... me giggling now as I have visions of you chatting in your sleep and breaking the silence!! :O) Daft mare you were SLEEPING!! :O)

Sorry if it offends anyone, but I carried on working through the two minutes silence. I work with the elderly and it was our dinner time, when everyone was eating. Most of our residents and deaf and some in the early stages of demetia and it would have been a mammoth task to explain to them all about the silence. Just because I carried on working it does not make me disrespectful and I did stop for a while to remember all the dead and injured from last week, with a tear in my eye. Maggy

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I've been in Cambridge all day today and just before 12 they began a small service outside the Guildhall. That part of the City came to a standstill and the 2 minutes silence was observed by almost everyone, tourists and residents alike. It was very moving. Daisy