No Jubilee decorations in Northern Ireland

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Preparing for a party this weekend and thought I would double up as a Jubilee party...but to my surprise when I went to three shops,-Asda, B and M bargains and Home Bargains there wasn't a single paper cup, plate or decoration for the Jubilee. I was expecting large displays when I walked in. AIBU to expect to have the choice to buy decorations in local shops like in the rest of Britain? Obviously (like in the rest of Britain) some people do not support the royal family and will choose not to celebrate. I was just a bit shocked shops were missing out on the profit from sales.

Our next door neighbours - she’s Irish (Republic) and he’s Egyptian - have covered their house with bunting, wreathes, etc. Everyone else on the street is highly amused.

No, she lives in Northern IReland, which is in the Uk. Ireland is a different country altogether. No queen.

HTH

Please don’t correct me and patronise me. I live in NI and use the same terminology as many others around me. Ireland may be an island but I‘m referring to Northern Ireland as part of the U.K. for the purposes of this discussion.

My DS lives in Belfast and uses the same terminology!

My husband was born in Belfast, he does too so do all his family.

Everyone uses that terminology! NI is part of the UK, a small part. There is very much a mainland. Ireland is a different country to NI.

NI is not part of Britain. It's part of the UK, but Britain is England, Scotland and Wales. Most of my friends in NI are pretty keen on that distinction.

The M&S in Newry usually has lots of Union Jack tat that no one in that area would touch with a barge pole. You'd think head office would eventually cop on, but apparently not. Maybe try there?

I'm in England and went on the hunt in 2 different High Streets over the last 2 weeks and haven't been able to find ANYTHING - bunting, paper plates, hats, flags. Nothing. Not a thing.
Seems really odd.
Seems like the 'tat makers' have missed a massive market.

The mainland thing is generally an identifier:
Mainland / province = Protestant
Six counties / the north of Ireland = nationalist

Sweeping generalisation!!

The Range had a rake of stuff a few weeks ago, in a mixed area. It’s all a load of balls anyway and will end up on landfill.do the planet a favour and decorate with red white and blue flowers, will look pretty and no more shite plastic.

Nobody said it was?

NI is not part of Britain. It's part of the UK, but Britain is England, Scotland and Wales. Most of my friends in NI are pretty keen on that distinction.

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Exactly

@CupidStunt22

AIBU to expect to have the choice to buy decorations in local shops like in the rest of Britain?

^ the op did in her original post

“The rest of Britain”? You mean ‘in Britain’. Northern Ireland isn’t part of Britain, it is part of the United Kingdom.

Did you try in Portadown and East Belfast (wink).

I’m an Irish catholic living in the Home Counties with a wee English fella. My mammy would go SPARE if she knew about the big bag of jubilee bunting and Union Jack flags I currently have sitting on my kitchen table, ready to party this weekend.

I was shocked to see some in an asda outside Glasgow yesterday. I thought we had more fucking sense. But there's always the knuckle draggers who love a union jack.

Those wee English fellas are dangerous so they are 😂

Only as tiny minority. I lived and went to college there and still go there for work and have done since 1996. Its a tiny minority using that term. Because, there is no manland. There is Ireland and England. The UK is trying to actively leave Northern Ireland to its own devices so it will eventually re-unite back to 32 counties as tyhe majority of people know. Bunting or lack of is the least of your issues.

Its not a different country - I drove into it last week - no border, same language just a minority a bit slow to grasp reality but that will come.

Where are you from @standoctor? Obviously not an English speaking country.

Only as tiny minority. I lived and went to college there and still go there for work and have done since 1996. Its a tiny minority using that term

And my bloke was born there in 1957, he, his family and his friends refer to the mainland. 🤷‍♀️

There's been nothing here for weeks, SE