Posted: 9/10/2005 1:16:39 PM EDT
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Oh my god.. The BBC has some good coverage but nothing on the website yet.... |
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I was. Back now. We left pretty early as London is expensive to drink and we all felt ill after all the food. I'm not ashamed to admit it, I don't drink much anymore, geordie meanness wins every time! I do have pics from when we were drinking though, but my phone ran out. Pics to follow monday as my charger is at work.... |
Those stupid twats in the Bowler hats with umbrella's and orange sashes were prevented from marching through a gap in the peace wall and through a catholic area, so they started rioting. One man was shot and blast bombs were thrown at police. One person has serious injuries. Theere was a lot of automatic gunfire too. They're upset that they're not getting their way anymore  Mark |
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I realise that but I was just making the point both sides need to be wary about sparking things off again. Let's just say someone went and topped Adams or McGuiness Imagine the backlash We'd be back to square one Now offing someone aint quite the same as marching but it could end up with the same result  Taffy |
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They're not getting their way anymore and are behaving like spoilt little children, albeit with deadly weapons. Did you know there were 32 policemen injured last night and over 50rds fired at the police. Any aimed shot is designed to kill. What people fail to realise is they have always behaved like this, that is why the republican movement gained strength. At least this time they didn't get the chance to attack catholic homes, and because the police, "Their Police" prevented them from doing so, they get branded as traitors. Where is Paisley today??Conspicuous by his silence  After all he fully supports them.Paisley was the best recruting tool the IRA ever had. (Echelon, if you're intercepting this, you can Fuck Off  )Wally, if you read this, hopefully you will realise why I compare them to the settlers in Gaza. Mark |
Mark Your Wrong...................  Just kidding. I do see what you are talking about now. |
Ah, the good old days of the B Specials… ANdy |
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Want to REALLY piss off a Protestant? Ask him… "Did your Grand Daddy fight in the war? or was he another one of Ulsters Loyal Orangemen who let the Catholics fight for him" For those of you who do not get this one, (Mark will), more Catholics volunteered to fight in the British Armed Forces from both the Neutral South (70,000) and the North (50,000) than did Protestants. There was no conscription in the North, (another concession to the Loyalists), a lot of Ulsters Loyal Orangemen chose to sit WWII out rather than fight for the flag and Crown they bang on so loudly about. ANdy |
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As you were away on holiday, you'll have missed the fact that N.Ireland played England in Football last week (N.Ireland won 1-0 btw), but there was only one Anthem played. God Save the Queen. I've never heard it sang with so much gusto  At least the Jocks and the Taff's have their own Anthems and identities. Rather sad for the Ulstermen really. They could at least sing Danny Boy or something. I was pretty sure that if England had won, the N.Irish would've cheered the loudest. Oh and BTW, if they really do feel that marginalised nowadays, there's always plenty of room back home in Scotland I still don't understand why they retain such loyalty to a Nation that really doesn't give a shit about them Mark |
I watched a very interesting documentary a few years back about the marching season. The reporter was asking a group of teenagers why they were still so obsessed with something that happened so long ago… " we're keeping Britaisn Protestent traditions alive for yous" intoned this lad who was able to name EVERY Officer in King Billies Army. When the reporter tried explaining to him that nobody in Britain cared about the Battle of the Boyne or even had a clue of the names of who was fighting there he was dumbfounded. His whole life revolved about that one incident… sad really to see these teenagers stuck in a 310 year old timewarp. It's inbred to an astounding degree and they can't seem to let it go even when they leave. Many years ago I was working at a yard building a rig. This guy from Derry was working there, he was a good enough sort, got on well with me and no problems. One day the boss put out a tannoy for me and as I went to go he said, "did I catch your surname right"? I was a bit blank and and repeated it for him. He had assumed by my accent I was English. Well! He went into a screaming fit! "You're a fucking Teague!" and started damning me into hell and back again. Needless to say I went ballistic but the boss got to us before the fists flew. "Whats all this about" asked the boss. Matey then went into another rant about how all catholics should be shot and started recounting every atrocity carried out since the year dot against Protestants by them as if I had carried them out personally. From that day on he never spoke another word to me and would not even be in the same part of the yard as me. Absolute undying and murderous hatred triggered purely by my surname… sad. ANdy |
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My dad worked for Harland & Wolff, he was one of only about 400 catholics in a workforce of over 10,000. The only reason he excelled was because he knew his stuff. It was particularly difficult for "Fenians" to progress in those days, even up to recent times. Because he was so good at his job, he was asked to go to Qatar in 1955 to help build a power station. He went along with some of the others, but even 4000 miles from home, the other fuckers took their bigotry with them. But he was a big strong man and never took any shit from any of them. He was the only one of them who ever succeeded in life. I was talking to my mum yesterday about the protestant's hatred towards catholics and she recounted the story when Joe Cahill's second-hand shop in Belfast was beseiged by Paisley and his followers because there was a Irish Tricolour in the window that had been there for years and they demanded that it be removed. In the '60's, N.Ireland had a Governor, Wakefield was his name. He was the Queens uncle. The Queen was going on a visit to Rome to meet the Pope. Paisley disagreed with this and tried to board a plane to Rome wearing a Union Jack waistcoat. He was prevented from doing so and marched on Stormount where Gov Wakefield was in residence. They caused so much trouble that Wakefield's sick wife had a heart attack. Wakefield resigned shortly afterwards. Now, back in those days the Police force was the B-Specials, a totally protestant police force and completely sectarian. When the civil rights movement started, the B-Specials were used aainst the catholics and this is why the British Army were brought in to keep the peace and protect the catholics. Of course, what nobody realised was that the Army fell under the control of the N.Ireland PM, Brian Faulkener who then decided to use the Army against the catholics. If the army had stayed uder the control of Westminster, circumstances might have been entirely different. This is where the modern IRA was born.. Those fuckers (Paisley's loyalists) have a lot to answer for and these days are getting exactly what they deserve. Mark |
I'm not bigotted, and really have no problem whether people are Catholic, Protestant or Church of Wheelbarrow, but the day Ian 'Ulster say's NO!' Paisley dies I will cheer the roof off. Ever since I was a kid all I can remember is that clown yelling 'Ulster says NO!'… ANdy |