Off Topic Pointless point-scoring thread

I think the rage over St Paddie's Day is in part down to jealousy - over the notion that it is quite harmless for people around the planet to dance around like drunken idiots for a day, and it is not bound up with religion or politics. The Unionist's equivalent day of celebrating their nationality is the 12th of July - which consists of an exclusively Protestant organisation marching up and down roads to celebrate their previous victory over Catholics. By its very nature it is sectarian - I am not allowed to join this organisation because I was baptised a Catholic, it can't therefore be described as anything other than sectarian. So if I was a mature and sensible Unionist I would be embarrassed that I had no other way to celebrate my nationality, a way that wasn't bound up with religion and which doesn't exclude any of my sensible Catholic neighbours from ever taking part.

The Unionist needs to find a place for himself in the modern secular world - a whole identity and political philosophy which is bound up with Religion and demands that everything stays the same forever more, is bound to fail - change will always happen even without your Nationalist neighbours driving it.

 

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It would be more rational engaging with a man on the terms he outlines here. Whatever else about him, he was a man who could be dealt with.

I've mentioned it before but if Ervine had lived, there would be no way this nonsensical fleg bollocks would have happened.

 

lucky replacing fiesta.

 

She sure was.... I'm going to miss her

A Large Responsible Family-car <boooooooo>

 

Vauxhall Zafira... The fiesta doesn't know yet. It will break my heart to get rid of it. I felt guilty enough when I bought my own car.

I am going to try and give it to my old man. Just to make sure I can still go and see it occasionally.

 

I doubt it. He'll have to come and get it.

 

I can't watch the ones I have already seen, so I am keeping an eye on when they catch up to where I left it off.

I don't know what it is, i just cant watch things twice.

 

Taigs being outwardly Taigy in shopping centers is a worrying trend.

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I'm away to Sainsburys later to collect for the sporting wing of the IRA/Catholic Church.