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Originally Posted by Plastic Paddy
;) We have not got that nice Belgian gargle this time PP to calm us all down. ;) . Next time we meet up we won't talk about Gateshead's answer to James Galway. ;)
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Originally Posted by Plastic Paddy
;) We have not got that nice Belgian gargle this time PP to calm us all down. ;) . Next time we meet up we won't talk about Gateshead's answer to James Galway. ;)
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Originally Posted by Plastic Paddy
Sorry-just using my youth to get it all out so if I make any mess up's people can always use "young hot-head". When I'm older i'm sure people will be a lot less tolerant of any intolerance so i'll get it all out now.......if that makes sense ;)
I think g*asgcoine is a subject that people find it hard to be tolerant about considering he was such an animal...
DG-re. Aldershot I was just going on what i've head ;) only time I've been up there before has been for martial arts tournies so obviously no Erin jersey there...;)
EH? :confused:Quote:
Originally Posted by Conor74
Using the word 'if'! I was saying what g*asgcoine did was a disgrace and not just because he played for the huns. IF a Celtic player performed a secaterian celebration it would still be disgraceful! (just so happens that none of ours ever have :D :rolleyes: )
Could you really class that as sectarian Conor?Quote:
Originally Posted by Conor74
I mean I suppose it would be if Rangers fans didn't believe in God at all but that's not the case.
No need for the lecture on those incident's bud, Keane was a pr**t and ended up f**king himself up for a year, and deserved more of a punishment then what he got for his next attack on Haaland which Haaland has not got over .Quote:
Originally Posted by Conor74
Your next point please Conner. :rolleyes:
[QUOTE=Duncan Gardner]
and runs into a barrage of self-righteous abuse from Lopez and exaggeration (Messrs Sylvo and Liam),
Check out the amount of arrests against the Irish community under the PTA since 1974 and the amount of convictions that have been made from those arrests, and we'll see about exaggerations.
No; Players make the sign of the cross when they take corners, penalties etc. all the time!Quote:
Originally Posted by Conor74
You can't honestly say the gas*coine was miming an instrument and it just so happend to be the flute and could have just as easily been the French horn!
The sign of the cross is associated with Christianity; the flute is associated with an anti-Catholic group with links to lo*alist paramilatery groups; slight difference?
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Am going to take your word for it......... ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by davros
[QUOTE=Conor74]
Irish people get so excited about Gazza and his private life. Yet, say, if someone's mentions Keane or McGrath and their drinking people get very defensive and go on about judging a player on the pitch and not off it.
Get excited, more sick to death of it and the over exposure the media gave him and his hysterical antics :rolleyes: which now thankfully they don't find to funny. I don't think I ever heard Keane or McGrath blaming anyone else but themselves about their drinking, unlike Gascoigne. Keane got his act together on that subject I hope McGrath one day fully will also.
Patsh-congratulations on starting the most heated debate round these parts for a while :DQuote:
Originally Posted by patsh
It's all good craic-hope no one is taking anything personally; better to get it all out in the open now so we don't spend our Christmas party discussing the flutemaster; though admittidly after an hour or so can see any conversation becoming difficult ;)...
Self-righteous? Exaggeration? Well I'll leave Sylvo to tell you the story of his schoolboy experience with a highly excited SB officer while on his way to Ireland, next time you, Paul, Balti and the rest of your mates are down in Kilburn...just to ruin the evening. But then I suppose that's par for the course, occupational hazard, etc. etc. And what do you expect in a country that fits up a pre-pubescent boy as an international terrorist.Quote:
Originally Posted by Duncan Gardner
There's someone else here who needs to 'get real.' Sylvo makes an excellent point, unlike FPB, who doesn't understand what he's talking about. OK, he tars all the Scum as scum (as I've just done) - which is about as accurate or inaccurate as branding all Sinn Fein members as bombers (even the DUP recognised this with one member referring to Mitchell McLaughlin as 'the draft dodger') - but he adds that the Irish were all tarred as terrorists (he needed to also add 'thick' too) in the good ole 70s and 80s. While we are just stereotyping one part of a minority of a country, who incidentally were far from well behaved on their last visit to Ireland (did the IRA ceasefire have a bearing on this?), if people like the w*nkers who run the FSA and the Scum's other self-appointed 'spokesmen' spent more time on condemning their fellow countrymen hooligans rather than every police force in Europe, we might have a bit more respect.
But what did the Irish get? No it wasn't just the Shinners who were blanketly categorised. It was all of us. And not from a few tosspot magistrates and police but the neighbours and work 'mates' (sic.). The cartoonist Jak in the Evening Standard 1982, draws a cartoon describing as 'the latest in psychopathic horror', not the Provos or SF, but 'The Irish.' Two years later, John Junor (I won't grace this tit with the suffix that he received from Brenda) claimed in a MoS article that 'wouldn't you rather admit to being a pig than Irish?' not a Provo or a member of SF. Getting back to Master Maguire, and his Tory loving mother. I don't know what you made of this piece of 'justice' but with hindsight I'd say the message was clear. No Paddy was safe, not even the most Anglophilic. No wonder people sh*t themselves if their father was picked up by the police on the PTA. Next time they might see them is awaiting trial.
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Originally Posted by Plastic Paddy
i think someone else has started to suffer from a mental illness :D ;)
Didnt hear about that. What happend to him ?Quote:
Originally Posted by davros
For displaying a little compassion? I know, it's not exactly de rigeur in these parts, but there you go...Quote:
Originally Posted by max power
:) PP
Christy was detained in Holyhead and seriously grilled by anti-terrorist police for a couple of hours. Christy foung this demeaning, and insulting for anyone to have considered him to be an ally of terrorism. Perhaps Christy should recant back to the good old days when he penned songs about the British Army, hatred for Thatcher and support for the 'cause' before he starts to wonder why people might think he's a sympathiser. :mad:Quote:
Originally Posted by cfdh_edmundo
Agreed, but in Christys case, he's not a gentle personality. He has written songs about the British Establishment, condemning them and supporting revenge and retribution against them. Don't get me wrong, I'm not knocking him, actually really enjoy him, but he can't expect to not get hassle or interrogation when he goes over there as a result of some of his lyrics.Quote:
Originally Posted by davros
I think I answer to that description, reatively speaking, in these parts. As the veteran of over ten years' continuous stop-and-search or questioning when entering and leaving Holyhead/Fishguard in my teens and twenties (and being forced to miss several connecting trains in the process, in each case causing long and sometimes overnight waits in the middle of nowhere :mad: ), yes, I have to agree.Quote:
Originally Posted by davros
Some of the "welcoming committee" did their best to antagonise and provoke, questioning my choice of Irish citizenship and my political views, my reasons for travelling and other irrelevances. It's easy to see why otherwise mild-mannered people would become very angry. I know there's a part of me that still is angry at the treatment I received. :(
But we have to try and move on, don't we? Life's too short and we are better than that.
:) PP
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Originally Posted by Plastic Paddy
Exactly, PP.
Hopefully things have improved and will continue to improve.
Onwards and upwards.
The Fishguard route could be hassley, especially if you were hoping to get a nightboat. I always assumed that sounding very English would get me through without a grilling, but if you were a young man, then they'd want to know your business. And if you had musical intruments in your luggage, then you may as well had had a Stinger over your shoulder!Quote:
Originally Posted by davros
Heathrow could be as bad. Anyone notice how you have to walk about 2 miles down all those corridors, round the baggage, down to the holding area if you're going to Ireland? It's so they've got plenty of time to have a good look at who's getting on, and plenty of time to decide to pull you over.
Yeah. Have to agree with this, discussed it at length recently with friends. it smacks of penning us togeher in the farthest reaches of the airport where we're easily contained. :(Quote:
Originally Posted by green goblin