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Ironic it's a world war two game he's playing, given that Remembrance Day is for the end of the first world war...

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wyrdrune.livejournal.com

After World War II the Australian Government agreed to the United Kingdom's proposal that Armistice Day be renamed Remembrance Day to commemorate those who were killed in both World Wars.

http://www.dva.gov.au/commem/rememb/rem_origin.htm

Through this annual event, the nation pays homage to those who died in two world wars and in many other lesser conflicts from the twentieth century to the present.

http://www.royal.gov.uk/output/Page372.asp

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Remembrance day doesn't have anywhere near the significance to Australians that Anzac Day has, alas. April 25th is the full ceremonial day for us. Remembrance day is still very much commemorating the ending of the Great War.

And the comic was posted on what's actually the 12th of November down here - it's no longer rememberance day. Timezones are a wonderful thing :P

http://www.awm.gov.au/commemoration/anzac/

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Interesting reading.

Timezones can indeed make life a little amusing. Especially with topical webcomics.

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Anzac day is probably the closest thing Australia has to a unified religion. Even more than football :P

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And it wasn't yet November 11th here when you started Remembrance Day. Nyeah! ;)

East Coast USA, here, plus it's an American comic. I was up pretty early this morning. Sue me. :) Like I said, one day doesn't really do this justice. The very least we can do is span all timezones. In the US we call this holiday Veteran's Day to honor all who have served, past and present.

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compwizrd.livejournal.com

Canadian comic, actually!

I'll have my lawyers forward the papers to your lawyers?

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Sorry, that should have read *North* American...again with the coffee...

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I will also freely admit that sometimes, before I've finished my first cup of coffee, I forget that people on the other side of the International Date Line also have internet access. ;)

*yawn*sluuuurp*AHHHHHHHhhhhh...mmmm...coffee

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They do? You mean they're not all sitting on rocks, wearing furs, ripping pieces of meat from raw animal joints and using smoke signals to communicate?

(White puff of smoke for 1, black smoke for 0. You can use it to try to send pictures, but it usually takes a couple of weeks to let the recipient know whether it's a .jpg or .gif)

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White puff of smoke for 1, black smoke for 0

Binary smoke signals! I love it! ROFL! That would make online gaming a real bitch, though.

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"Dammit, that smoke was white, not black! I wanted to shock combo you, not rocket jump into the lava!"

"Shut up - you're cheating anyway. Damned smokemachine-hackers..."

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Well, damn, no wonder my arms are sore. Flapping my fur rug at the fire at 1.5Mbps is pretty tiring.

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I don't agree - everywhere Ive worked (Melb person here) has stopped and been silent at 11.11 am each year, and this year even the vets were outnumbered by schoolkids at the Shrine, according to the news.

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I'm not knocking Rememberance Day by any stretch. But one minute of silence...compare that to ANZAC day. Especially this years (I go every year) ANZAC day is massively imprinted on the Australian consciousness - especially in Melbourne.

I had the incredible honour once of seeing the Illumination of the Remembrance Stone in the Melbourne Shrine once - in person. I'm not sure if you're from Melbourne, but the Shrine here is deliberately designed. The stone is embedded in the floor, and bears the inscription "GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN"

At 11am exactly, on the 11th of November, a single ray of light pierces the Shrine and illuminates the word LOVE.

I consider actually seeing that in person to be one of the greatest, most honoured moments of my life.

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ack, you ARE in melbourne, sorry, didn't read it properly. I beg coming off a graveyard shift for the brain malfunction *wince*

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In New Zealand, I don`t ever remember commemorating Remembrance Day. Anzac Day, on the other hand, is as you say - massively imprinted on the NZ consciousness as well as Australian.
(We probably -do- have Remembrance Day - I haven`t been in NZ for a bit and am beginning to lose a few of these details. But Anzac Day will always be strong in my mind, especially since I`ve been to a few dawn services.)

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Apparently it happens twice on the day: once at 11am when all the officials are there, and once at either 10am or 12noon. Something to do with daylight savings and a mirror.

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Midday. The shrine was built in the 1930's, before Daylight Savings Time was introduced. The mirror was included to correct the fact that we'd placed the current time artificially forward an hour :)

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True enough. Although it does also make you think "You're still an asshat - why can't you be more like your father/mother/husbands/wives/sons/daughter/brother/sister?"

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Hah! Seriously..."People are dying to defend your right to be an asshole. Why not honor them by taking a freakin' break from it for a day?"

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I've had relatives fight and die in both world wars...and I'm not an asshat! (much) Why do they get an excuse!

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(much)
See? You take breaks...;)

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Why yes. Raging Bitch != Asshat.

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When Cthulu rises, I'll see you to be the LAST one devoured, you insignificant gnat!

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That means so much to me. I love you, man.

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