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Discussion in 'General Chat' started by Ciaran, Apr 20, 2020.

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  1. Ciaran

    Ciaran Going for 55

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    If I was locked up in my own pish and ****e for 5 years with no end in sight? Maybe.

    Millions of men and women ditch their kids so they can live a life 'free' of them. Mostly men right enough.
     
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    Yeah, a lot blokes do that. And others get ****ed off out the family home because the wife wants to find herself, or some ****. Life's a **** sandwich sometimes.

    Turning a suicide into a hero is pretty ****ed on a different level though, imo. Bobby Sands or those ****s who blow themselves up in the name of Allah, what's the difference? It's not noble or heroic, it's desperate and sad.
     
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    The point, if there is meant to be one, is that The Troubles threw up atrocities on both sides of the divide only nowadays pricks like the Young Labour twerp think they are being down with The Mick because hoofing out the British from Northern Ireland is a noble cause because any republic is a good republic.

    Kind of pricks that are sorry for being British, sorry for being white, sorry for being cis-gendered, sorry for everything and anything at the same time as being utterly powerless to do anything about it.

    The point is that if somebody right wing posted similar praise for British Paratroopers the left would sh.it their dungarees. UK Parliament has released IRA murderers, why not absolve the soldiers too? It's all part of the healing process.
     
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  4. Ciaran

    Ciaran Going for 55

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    You're either telling blatant lies or don't look at the internet/news ever.

    Thousands of Republicans were locked up over the 30 years, no British soldiers were. Do you think British Soldiers should be exempt from the law? If they are found guilty they will only serve 2 years max due to the GFA.

    An IRA guy who killed a few horses was arrested recently so it's not just British soldiers getting chased up.
     
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    Another Anglo without a clue.

    Hunger striking for justice is an old Gaelic custom practiced for hundreds of years. If you were wronged by someone you would go to their property and starve until the wrong is righted. It isn't something Bobby Sands dreamt up.

    Fasting was used as a method of protesting injustice in pre-Christian Ireland, where it was known as Troscadh or Cealachan.[1] It was detailed in the contemporary civic codes, and had specific rules by which it could be used. The fast was often carried out on the doorstep of the home of the offender.[2] Scholars speculate this was due to the high importance the culture placed on hospitality. Allowing a person to die at one's doorstep, for a wrong of which one was accused, was considered a great dishonor.[3] Others say that the practice was to fast for one whole night, as there is no evidence of people fasting to death in pre-Christian Ireland. The fasts were primarily undertaken to recover debts or get justice for a perceived wrong. There are legends of St. Patrick, the patron saint of


    If only they taught the Anglos history that brought us to where we are but empire great Irish savages etc.
     
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    How ****ed up is that for a threat? You've offended me, so I'm going to stand here and not eat. <diva> :emoticon-0102-bigsm:emoticon-0102-bigsm

    It'd be quicker to do like spoiled kids do, and threaten to hold your breath. <ok>
     
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    You can’t even go 24 hours without getting ****faced, so spare us the sanctimonious lectures about heroic Gaelic fasting ffs.
     
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    Ciaran Going for 55

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    Why do you resort to personal attacks when you can't answer or give a viewpoint on something? It reeks of a lack of critical thinking.
     
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  9. Ciaran

    Ciaran Going for 55

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    Your patter is horrific
     
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    Cerzoo throwing pipe bombs and molatov cocktails ...
     
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    He needs to add some more smilies to show how funny his joke was
     
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    Right, I'm offended. I'm not going to eat until teatime. :emoticon-0121-angry
     
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    It wasn't a lecture by the way, it was a copy and paste.
     
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  14. Ciaran

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    I doubt you could manage that,
     
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    The Irish slag the Brits off, when all we were doing was respecting their culture with the spud famine.
     
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    If you think the extent of the IRA terror campaign in both Ireland and on the mainland UK only amounted to a few horses being killed then I suggest you yourself have been negligent in checking the news.

    British troops acting on legitimate Government orders vs Irish "freedom fighters" putting bombs in pubs. I don't speak for the British Government and as such I don't turn a blind eye to what some soldiers did to the Irish but you'd have to be a blinkered fool to think nothing bad ever came from the Irish contingent. And as far as traditions go we all used to burn witches at the stake so that guff about hunger strikes being something cultural doesn't hold any water either.

    Why can't we all just get along? I'd like to teach the world to sing. In perfect harmony too.
     
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    I'm a woman so I'll take your word for it.
     
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  18. pud

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    eye for an eye ...

    go to another country and act the **** , expect the locals to act the **** back
     
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    There is, and never has been, legitimate orders from Britain with regards to Ireland so the whole premise of your post is bullshit. Every Irish Republican action against Britain was legitimate. Britain has no right in Ireland and never has.
     
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    I dunno. It’s just my nature I guess. Plus, I’m surrounded by ****s, so of course I’m going to **** people off occasionally.
     
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