They’ve made a ‘poppy tree’ in Salisbury and these 13 takedowns are very funny and totally on point

To be filed under ‘it probably seemed like a good idea at the time’ the good people of Salisbury have done something different with their poppy display this year in the run-up to Remembrance Day on 11 November.

They’ve done this with it.

Poppy Tree display in Salisbury pic.twitter.com/kpWwb828Z0

— BBC Wiltshire (@BBCWiltshire) October 23, 2018

And these 13 takedowns are exactly the response it deserved.

1.

November 11th to be rebranded as War Christmas https://t.co/D6yWglKrSi

— Marina Hyde (@MarinaHyde) October 23, 2018

2.

"He's been! He's been!" the children cry, racing downstairs to see what The Grim Spectre of Death has brought them this year. https://t.co/AoYdZFES0o

— Pros fix bone horns (@Brainmage) October 23, 2018

3.

Poppy outrage season comes earlier and earlier each year https://t.co/MwZ6ygjwUv

— hussein kesvani (@HKesvani) October 23, 2018

4.

If you’ve all been patriotic boys and girls this year, the ghost of forgetting what remembrance Sunday is about will leave the bones of more dead soldiers sent to die for nothing under the poppy tree for you to open

— Cletus the Slack-jawed Yōkai (@PrototypeCube) October 23, 2018

5.

for all those who died in the war against christmas https://t.co/M5EQmDxmiI

— ~ (@daniel_barker) October 23, 2018

6.

"Hello, I am here in Salisbury to visit the famous 123-meter poppy tree" https://t.co/HPWF4yRTFr

— Leonardo Carella (@leonardocarella) October 23, 2018

7.

https://twitter.com/karlminns/status/1054681955638407169