Me. There is no way anyone else would churn out this repitive bollocks day in day out without reaching for a rope.
You avoided that last question pretty well. He doesn't but you can see the severity of the comment when he says "we can’t have people throwing bananas on the pitch, we can’t have people abusing black players, we can’t have people being called huns, we can’t have people being called orange bastard’s." That indicates that he too thinks this is a serious issue
I know, I CAN read. So you admit then that he does not state that "Hun" is sectarian, just offensive? And that his comments are perhaps a warning that measures are being considered that "May" outlaw the use of the word under Anti Sectarian legislation?
I know you always have a response. That is not what I said. I said that you avoid every question....which you do. As for correcting me, please let me know when you do this with any accuracy. answer please.
Do you want to read the article again; “All the talk in parliament about what is a reasonable person or what is offensive behaviour is all puff and smoke- we all know what is offensive. “I think that using the expression hun is now offensive. I don’t think that we’ll be seeing at Parkhead next season signs saying ‘No Huns in Europe’ or ‘Huns get out of here’. We have to accept that if we are going to have one side behaving in a certain way we have to make sure that our own side, the Celtic family, don’t act in an unacceptable way. “That’s not taking the fun out of the game, you’ll never take swearing out of football, you’ll probably get abuse and all the rest of it but we can’t have people throwing bananas on the pitch, we can’t have people abusing black players, we can’t have people being called h**s, we can’t have people being called orange b’s. “Those days have to go in the same way that we want the Rangers family not to sing The Famine Song, we don’t want them to sing ‘upto our knees in fenian blood’. “We have to look at our own side as well, we can still enjoy ourselves at Parkhead without singing about the IRA, without singing about huns go home and without singing about orange b’s - I don’t think any of that behaviour is acceptable and it has to apply across the board or we’ll never get rid of it.'' McBride’s views are bound to spark plenty of controversy with the QC very clear in his views that any songs relating to the IRA must end despite the British Queen’s decision to lay a wreath at Dublin’s Garden of Remembrance during a visit to Ireland."
Medro, are you avoiding the question again? I've already humoured you and you know I can read so humour me this one time, does McBride say "Hun" is sectarian or merely "Offensive"? I know you can read so what does he say...exactly?
Here's a clue Medro “I think that using the expression hun is now offensive". The interesting thing is his use of the word "Now". In other words it was not offensive at sometime in the past? I personally suspect that the campaign by an element of the Rangers support has led to this, it seems the Gers fans have decided they don't like being "O'Fended" by a word that has been in common usage in Scotland for donkey's years. As I explained, in Scotland it means Gers fan, no more no less. Dundee Utd Fans, Aberdeen Fans, Hibs fans will back me up.
Weeeeellllllllllll, you are from Norn Iron (no secret and it's on your location) There are numerous ways to prove that you are protestant and loyalist. I'll just ask: Who invented the telephone?
Med Dug hates inferences. He doesn't like the inference that he is an Ulster Protestant....but is happy to make inferences on what I and other posters have said. He is now happy to make inferences on what a Paul McBride has to say. A man whose job it is to define points of law. A man who has left no ambiguity at all with regards to his personal opinion on what is offensive....yet somehow Med Dug can still infer something that isn't there. It is a skill, I'll give him that. Perhaps he could represent Ireland in the world point missing championships?
Nope - no inferences - he said he was a Protestant on 606. Not only that, but he mistakenly and aggressively claimed that a Protestant invented the telephone
I was doing some digging and I found this. If anyone can be bothered to read it they will see for themselves what the truth of the matter is on the "hun" debate. As far as I know it was penned in a newspaper the day after Rangers fans had rioted at Wolves. The quote went something like "Rangers fans rampaging through the city like marauding huns" and the name stuck. Nothing at all to do with the Queen. Little known fact, she's more Scottish blood in her than german. Her mum's side is entirely Scottish. Fathers side half German and English. ----------------- Cheers geo didnt know about the wolves rampage, will have to look it up....any idea when this was roughly? ------------------ We all know - well should know - that our Queen is of Hanovarian descent, however as Geo correctly pointed out, there is Scots descent in her blood line also. Such definition of the word: "Hun", can be described as being........... 1. A member of a nomadic pastoralist people who invaded Europe in the fourth and fifth centuries A.D. and were defeated in 455. 2. A barbarous or destructive person. 3. Used as a disparaging term for a German, especially a German soldier in World War I. Are we anyone of these above? -------------------------------- Just read a thing called wikianswers and its a similar story to what you have said but some tim must have edited that because it said at the cup winners cup match against wolves, TRUE TO FORM, the rangers fans rioted, and also that the word hun is a funny and accurate way to describe a gers man, and also that its non sectarian. ---------------------------- I still dont see where the word 'hun' becomes sectarian? Gving away my North of Scotland roots here, but to me Hun has always been a description of a Rangers supporter, but has never had and religious overtones. Certainly never heard a protestant Aberdeen fan (or Sheep Shagger) refered to as a Hun. Maybe its just my upbringing and I'm sure some will call me niave but I've never had a problem being called a Hun. -------------------------------- So just to clarify......nobody really knows lol Im in the dark again! --------------------------- I recall the early 60's when we used to chant "go home ya huns go home" that chant drifted away through time then surprise surprise they started singing it to us..another original like their walk on ----------------------------- So nobody knows where it came from, why its an insult, and why its sectarian? --------------------------------- Sorry Melb, but just saying from my point of view i have never had a problem with being called a hun. In my opinion its nothing to do with the War. Yes it has started as an insult but its just a name for us so i'm not actually bothered, we have names for everyone else after all. --------------------- just a name ,that's why the scum get away with feckin murder because people like you say a just a name.she'll be right no worries.that's why the scum run the country.don't know how old you are albertz but you have a lot to learn -------------------------- Learning fast Melb. As I said earlier, was brought up in North of Scotland, but now live West coast and there is a lot of stuff that makes me think, bloody hell, stuff that was never an issue where i grew up suddenly is. For me the word Hun is just part of the banter, along with Tim or sheep shagger. But dont think i'm turning a blind eye. I find the banner at Parkhead totally unacceptable. Although I dont find the 'Huns FC' perticularly insulting, the image of Lennon instigating Ibrox being burned is shocking. ---------------------- Ok guys, will refrain from using it to describe my fellow Bears. But, why are we not all offended by the 52 relpies to the "Hun in the sun" thread? --------------------------------------- if nothing else this forum has been an education to this thick taffy. i have enjoyed reading this thread coz when my local plastic paddies started calling me hun i just took it on the chin and took it for queen and country. (they have only been using it for 10 years) it will give me great pleasure to tell them rangers used to call them huns due to irelands and the vaticans collaberation with hitler --------------------------- http://www.thebluenose.co.uk/forum/8-the-bluenose-bootroom-lounge/65411-origin-of-the-word-qhunq ---------------------------------------------------------------- Feel free to follow the link and you will see what the truth is, straight from Rangers fans own mouths.
