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AIBU?

Loyalists in Belfast missing a trick.?

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Stoneinwelly · 09/01/2013 20:21

Watching the news on the rioting in N.I. Aibu in thinking the loyalists could turn the whole flag raising and lowering business to their advantage?
Nobody really notices a flag up everyday iykwim but one hoisted for special occasions would get more attention. They could get the bugle out ,like Ypres,
and have a cake and pictures for really special days like Earl of Essex' B.D.

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squoosh · 10/01/2013 01:51

It tells me you don't know how to spell Ballina.

bureni · 10/01/2013 01:52

squoosh ref famine scotland

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highland_Potato_Famine

bureni · 10/01/2013 01:52

oops yer right it was the wrong spelling, lovely place though.

holidaysarenice · 10/01/2013 01:53

Can I pop over and put the German flag up in Westminster, or across London??

Then you might see how ridiculous the suggestion of a tricolour across NI is!! Do you want full scale mayhem?

And some people on here really do not know a lot about NI.

squoosh · 10/01/2013 01:53

Wikipedia is your source????

I meant an academic source.

KobayashiMaru · 10/01/2013 01:54

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bureni · 10/01/2013 01:54

whats wrong with wilki, do you not agree with it

KobayashiMaru · 10/01/2013 01:55

There is no suggestion of a tricolour across NI, yet again . And what has Germany got to do with it? I think you have your metaphor rather backwards.

bureni · 10/01/2013 01:58

because the ticolour is the most common flag in Belfast, that might have something to do with the problem

holidaysarenice · 10/01/2013 02:01

I am a protestant, I have a catholic friend. Together we make amzing decisions.....

May we please be the new government of NI??

We promise to beat the daylights out of any nonsense the other spouts....all discussions will be settled with the excellent common sense approach.

So come now all votes for holidays as first minister...!!

squoosh · 10/01/2013 02:02

Wikipedia tells me their was a Highland famine, hardly news, everyone knows that. I was asking for sources to support your statement

'there were more Scottish people displaced than Irish during the famine which was a European famine not just an Irish famine like the history books (biased) like to record.'

bureni · 10/01/2013 02:02

yer in there mate, do you have any cheap fegs like

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holidaysarenice · 10/01/2013 02:04

No bureni it wasn't, kobayas it was a few pages back where they suggested flying both beside each other as a compromise. I used the example of a german flag beside a union jack in london to show how inflammatory it would be. I can imagine the riot there wud be if it was tried.

squoosh · 10/01/2013 02:05

And more importantly I'd just love to see evidence of your reports of Dubliners 'flag waving and joy' at the collapse of the Twin Towers.

AllYoursBabooshka · 10/01/2013 02:05

I think it depends where you live. I don't see many tricolour flags and I'm in West Belfast.

I do see a lot of red white and blue when traveling about though.

Lot's of murals all around from both side, which I hate.

KobayashiMaru · 10/01/2013 02:06

I think thats because Britain went to war with Germany when they were invading countries and committing genocide. Since it would be the union flag that represented invasion and genocide next to the tricolour, it would be inflammatory for reasons that you don't seem to grasp.

bureni · 10/01/2013 02:08

Squoosh, there were as many people displaced from Scotland as there was Ireland during the famine and the bulk of the people displaced from Ireland was down to irish landlords, methinks we are singing from the same sheet but have different options as to the source. Either way what happened was bad for all concerned.

holidaysarenice · 10/01/2013 02:10

Really koba,
I think your missing the point entirely but never mind. I was pointing out that the compromise suggested, far from improving the current situation in northern ireland it would only make it work.

Personally I see no reason why a ni flag cannot be recreated. Just like wales have the dragon etc. Wud suit all sides

holidaysarenice · 10/01/2013 02:10

Worse not work! That shud have said.

Its late so night night.

bureni · 10/01/2013 02:12

kobaya , I do live in N.I and am not lying, anyone on this planet can get any Irish passport, they are ten pence a dozen fgs

squoosh · 10/01/2013 02:14

If you have such disdain for Ireland and Irish people I've really got to ask, why inflict yourself on the people of Mayo?

bureni · 10/01/2013 02:16

because I lived there most of my life, does that count ? but then again I forgot you cannot be a protestant and Irish so my mistake.

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squoosh · 10/01/2013 02:19

'I forgot you cannot be a protestant and Irish so my mistake'

Pretty sure no one has said that. As that would be obtuse, wouldn't it Bureni?

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