Like Fly, the tricolour represents me fine. I enjoyed this submission though:Originally Posted by ArdeeBhoy
And these two are kind of compelling, for some reason:
"A white and golden cross of Saint Brigit's placed over a blue field of Saint Patrick." - Rodney Tyson Jr
"A white and blue cross of Saint Bridget placed over a field of Irish green." - Rodney Tyson Jr
Ah, "gethsemane", like the garden?... Doesn't that refer to a moment of suffering? Link me up, Crosby; I can't find the scene and I've never seen the movie.
A "fleg" is a flag in Belfast-speak.
And, no, I don't have a tablet, although I have a Galaxy S4, if that's of any consequence...
'Spide-man'
Oh you!
Given the descriptions, the thing I find most compelling about those is that they were submitted by someone called Rodney Tyson Jr.Like Fly, the tricolour represents me fine. I enjoyed this submission though:
And these two are kind of compelling, for some reason:
"A white and golden cross of Saint Brigit's placed over a blue field of Saint Patrick." - Rodney Tyson Jr
"A white and blue cross of Saint Bridget placed over a field of Irish green." - Rodney Tyson Jr
Last edited by The Fly; 10/08/2014 at 9:26 PM.
Good reference, Crosby - worth a thanks. It was all the more poignant for being Richard Jordan's (Armistead) last film.
Danny, you need to take four hours away from your keyboard and watch it (8 hours if you include the later prequel, Gods and Generals).
Hello, hello? What's going on? What's all this shouting, we'll have no trouble here!
- E Tattsyrup.
Am I allowed to say ha ha, Fly/DI??
As for GR...
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=U1xLCnzsvfw
Danny its a great scene. Armistead was a souther gnl whilst his best bud Winfield Scott Hancock,
Who survived the war and later ran for president, was a northern gnl who was in command of the union army that day... Tom Berringer is playing Lee's right hand man, Gnl James Longstreet.
Eminence I agree Richard Jordan was a great actor. He was also in red october...
It was the history and social reality of the region bubbling to the surface, verbalised through an unwitting servant?
Sorry, I don't buy that. The thoughts may indeed have been in his head, but he chose to speak the words he spoke.
No. I saw it as a silly, petty dig. Nothing to celebrate. Digs are insulting by design, so I can't agree that there was nothing to take offence about. I'd guess that your opinion of 'the symbolism concerned, no doubt, coloured [your] pleasantly-surprised reaction' as to how to offensive it was.It might even have made you chuckle?
Last edited by osarusan; 11/08/2014 at 12:50 AM.
Shoot 'em all and let god sort them out. That's what I say.
Nothing to do with ye Fly or even GR, but that is the most unrepresentive fleg of the latter ever...
What the hell are those? One's a map of Brazil, which is in, er, South America...and the other some sort of Blockbusters 'meme'?
It's just a guess, but this may be related: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IFA_Pre...and_runners-up
It's a stylised map of NI election constituencies, showing the Nationalist vote percentage for each in 2010.
Hmm, surely a pie chart would have been more relevant...
Not to mention the wrong colours! Or is this a more oblique comment on political leanings there.
Ironically which could help form 'eligibility', before anyone goes off on one.
Good grief Ardee, you really know how the suck the fun out of a simple joke.
Hehe, I'll have to get working on my beard!
And I'll be sure to set some time aside, EG.
He did choose to utter the words but, unlike you, I don't think he was explicitly intending or going out of his way to cause offence in verbalising his thought. Are you implying that the thought ("this isn't my anthem") is an offensive thought to hold?
Just to be clear, because you keep using it as if to insinuate I was on the verge of popping champagne corks, I never used the word "celebrate". I saw humour in the incident and an allusion to a wider socio-cultural issue in which I happen to have an interest.No. I saw it as a silly, petty dig. Nothing to celebrate. Digs are insulting by design, so I can't agree that there was nothing to take offence about.
There's no reason to guess; I've already outlined perfectly clearly as to how I came to a judgment regarding its potential (non-)offensiveness. Whilst challenging the possible presumption that nationalists might feel represented by such contentious and out-dated symbolism, it was harmless, trampled upon nobody's culture and was not a pre-meditated insult.I'd guess that your opinion of 'the symbolism concerned, no doubt, coloured [your] pleasantly-surprised reaction' as to how to offensive it was.
When, where, how??
And presumably you're being ironic...
Fair enough, I'd say he was. Let's leave it there.
No of course not. But even if that thought was on his mind, he did have the capacity not to say it.
Not 'celebrate' as in popping champagne corks, but 'celebrate' as in see as a positive thing.
I can see how some people might take offence. Again, let's just leave it there, shall we?
Well, if that is equivalent to being humoured by something and seeing a broader social implication in it...
C'mon, I'm sure we could get at least three more pages out of this!Again, let's just leave it there, shall we?
The former must be a reference to the old Windsor favourite 'We're Not Brazil...'.
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