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  • I'm no fan of militaries or unnecessarily loud motorbikes but it's hard to get annoyed about people meeting up and raising money for a essentially a big place to remember those who have, probably needlessly, died for this stupid country.

  • It’s not that. It’s that there’s a type of biker who loves to dress up in mock Hells Angel kit with patches and cut offs and fake Americana and ride their immaculate American motorcycle to go to places like this to fulfil their fetish about the military. They give bikers a bad name. The last pic with the “proud to serve veteran” patch I find nauseating. You were a hired killer, a paid mercenary, not a hero.

  • I'm sure there's a fair bit of that but it seems like organisers are ex soldier cunts with what's left of their hearts in the right place, mass events always turn up some outlier dickheads, angry shouty cunts on CM or pervy nudists on WNBR etc. Whilst I share some of the hired killer sentiment there's 15 years between the end of WW2 and 1960, and after that there's been plenty of poor kids offered promises of a better life in the military and then trained to be shits, I don't agree with it but remembering those who've died, even if they do so in shitty circumstance being sent to kill people that should also be remembered isn't a bad thing, glorifying it is. Remembering the loss of life and horror of war, and hopefully at some point the arseholes the British have been whilst at it should be encouraged to avoid more of it happening in the future. I'm not supporting the bunch of ex squaddy bikers but I'm not against them doing this.

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