absolutely fuck the queen.a few weeks ago I was ambivalent about this visit, altho dreading the inevitable horseshit from RTE/the Irish Times about maturity etc.
i'm now actively annoyed - first off by the ludicrously OTT security operation - there are snipers on the roof of the Spar on the corner by my work. FFS. if they're actually that worried maybe it's not actually the right time for her to visit? not to mention the fact that we didn't have any of this crap for 30 years of troubles when people were being shot/blown up every day, 100 miles down the road.
second off, it's annoying but far from surprising how quickly we switch into police state mode. obv eirigi are headcases but the complete quashing of dissent, including ripping down every one of their cheap little posters, is thoroughly depressing.
― Volvo Twilight (p-dog), Tuesday, 17 May 2011 11:55 (thirteen years ago) link
Independent editorial yesterday:http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/leading-articles/leading-article-a-visit-that-will-test-how-far-two-countries-have-come-2284676.html
Our relations could still be better, and would be, if in this country we paid more heed to the horrors visited on Ireland in Britain's name, and if everyone in Ireland was willing to let go of the past.
Incoherent sentiment overall, but the scale of that last clause is fantastic.
― the pinefox, Tuesday, 17 May 2011 12:18 (thirteen years ago) link
That sentence is up there with Tony Blair's "Now is not the time for cheap cliches - I feel the hand of history on my shoulder".
― The New Dirty Vicar, Tuesday, 17 May 2011 12:20 (thirteen years ago) link
I'd be worrying more about relations with Scotland, if I was Her Majesty's Government
― Tom D has taken many months to run this thread to ground (Tom D.), Tuesday, 17 May 2011 12:27 (thirteen years ago) link
i'd say she'll be done before the trip's over. Are paddy power doing odds?
― Britain, the 51sb State (darraghmac), Tuesday, 17 May 2011 12:42 (thirteen years ago) link
cmere has big phil said anything good about us yet
― Britain, the 51sb State (darraghmac), Tuesday, 17 May 2011 21:56 (thirteen years ago) link
fyi media, these
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/images/2011/0517/274160_1.jpg?ts=1305681415?ts=1305681415
aren't 'dissidents', they're cunteógs
― ♪♫ hey there lamp post, feelin' whiney ♪♫ (darraghmac), Wednesday, 18 May 2011 01:27 (thirteen years ago) link
gurriers
brats
that Vulcan in the white hoodie looks happy enough
― taking ilxers out with a flurry of butthurt (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 18 May 2011 01:27 (thirteen years ago) link
just actin the prick
― plax (ico), Wednesday, 18 May 2011 01:29 (thirteen years ago) link
that is illogical
― taking ilxers out with a flurry of butthurt (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 18 May 2011 01:30 (thirteen years ago) link
plax <3
they're some gásúri so they are
― ♪♫ hey there lamp post, feelin' whiney ♪♫ (darraghmac), Wednesday, 18 May 2011 01:31 (thirteen years ago) link
ey nv he is a little alright
omen vibe off the little bollix, entirely too comfortable striding through those flames imo
he looks like Lescott's little brother tho but
― taking ilxers out with a flurry of butthurt (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 18 May 2011 01:33 (thirteen years ago) link
eh i've been marked with that card in my day tbh, had the same wild eyebrows
― ♪♫ hey there lamp post, feelin' whiney ♪♫ (darraghmac), Wednesday, 18 May 2011 01:34 (thirteen years ago) link
kid on the right is scarily old/young
I've met him at close of day coming with Red Bull faces
― taking ilxers out with a flurry of butthurt (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 18 May 2011 01:36 (thirteen years ago) link
and yet mol an oige agus tiocfaidh siad
― ♪♫ hey there lamp post, feelin' whiney ♪♫ (darraghmac), Wednesday, 18 May 2011 01:38 (thirteen years ago) link
musha and what's strange is often wonderful what
nobody ever told the buckeens that is fear rith maith ná drochsheasamh
― ♪♫ hey there lamp post, feelin' whiney ♪♫ (darraghmac), Wednesday, 18 May 2011 01:40 (thirteen years ago) link
I am loving that picture above. Eeeeee eeee eeee.
― The New Dirty Vicar, Wednesday, 18 May 2011 09:35 (thirteen years ago) link
surprised wayne rooney came over to ireland just for that
― Phelan Nulty (Local Garda), Wednesday, 18 May 2011 09:40 (thirteen years ago) link
it's always something other than is reported, is what annoys. I remember the love ulster riots, that was nothing to do with ulster, it was ugly crowd reaction to keisha cole's woeful support slot for kanye at the rds the night before
― ♪♫ hey there lamp post, feelin' whiney ♪♫ (darraghmac), Wednesday, 18 May 2011 09:44 (thirteen years ago) link
you could kick a dog in the street and he'd tell you that sure
― ♪♫ hey there lamp post, feelin' whiney ♪♫ (darraghmac), Wednesday, 18 May 2011 09:45 (thirteen years ago) link
nah real talk those guys look like card-carrying Marxist to me
― taking ilxers out with a flurry of butthurt (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 18 May 2011 09:45 (thirteen years ago) link
that's the problem with ur side, the splitting, infighting, etc. It's like y'all believe that ideology matters.
― ♪♫ hey there lamp post, feelin' whiney ♪♫ (darraghmac), Wednesday, 18 May 2011 10:07 (thirteen years ago) link
(adds this thread to mental list of reasons to learn Irish, along with "The Best of Myles" and the hope of sounding less of a tit when faced with an unfamiliar Irish name and guessing wildly at which letters not to pronounce)
― russ conway's game of life (a passing spacecadet), Wednesday, 18 May 2011 10:11 (thirteen years ago) link
lol
― ♪♫ hey there lamp post, feelin' whiney ♪♫ (darraghmac), Wednesday, 18 May 2011 10:23 (thirteen years ago) link
i copied and pasted all of it
what did the chislers do with the fire?
― the pinefox, Wednesday, 18 May 2011 10:26 (thirteen years ago) link
i highly doubt they were there to honour it
Looks to me like they're about to vernacular it at some vernacular vernaculars, the wheels are the giveaway
― ♪♫ hey there lamp post, feelin' whiney ♪♫ (darraghmac), Wednesday, 18 May 2011 10:29 (thirteen years ago) link
taking it to replenish the tomb of the unknown gurrier?
― the pinefox, Wednesday, 18 May 2011 10:39 (thirteen years ago) link
a nice thought, certainly
― ♪♫ hey there lamp post, feelin' whiney ♪♫ (darraghmac), Wednesday, 18 May 2011 10:43 (thirteen years ago) link
the irish for "gurriers" is "gaginí"
― Phelan Nulty (Local Garda), Wednesday, 18 May 2011 10:49 (thirteen years ago) link
a mate asked me what "fuck off" was in irish. i told him there wasnt a term like that in irish. "oh youre very civilised arent you" "eeeeh i wouldnt go that far"....
― Michael B, Wednesday, 18 May 2011 12:33 (thirteen years ago) link
isn't there some variation of "fuck off"...thought there was but maybe I'm mistaken.
― Phelan Nulty (Local Garda), Wednesday, 18 May 2011 12:45 (thirteen years ago) link
feic as
a feican me a feican tu and thats the truth says i to you
― Michael B, Wednesday, 18 May 2011 12:46 (thirteen years ago) link
lan ar aghaidh leat you cunt
― ♪♫ hey there lamp post, feelin' whiney ♪♫ (darraghmac), Wednesday, 18 May 2011 12:50 (thirteen years ago) link
picture taken in Dublin when he heard I was English, http://completelyinthedark.com/main.php?g2_itemId=11444
Actually he just didn't like Nikons
― Proger, Wednesday, 18 May 2011 16:34 (thirteen years ago) link
giant haystacks lookin p good imo
― ♪♫ hey there lamp post, feelin' whiney ♪♫ (darraghmac), Wednesday, 18 May 2011 16:35 (thirteen years ago) link
thought this was pretty spot-on: http://circumlimina.wordpress.com/2011/05/18/the-day-eirigi-saved-dublin
― Volvo Twilight (p-dog), Wednesday, 18 May 2011 17:57 (thirteen years ago) link
Channel Five
Rosenthal in Temple Bar and TrinityCollymore talking about 'half measures of the black stuff'Nevin on 'the friendly final'
the real Irish story.
― the pinefox, Wednesday, 18 May 2011 18:24 (thirteen years ago) link
wait
Garret died?
RIP
Ireland much the worse for taking the other path, always the other path.
― ♪♫ hey there lamp post, feelin' whiney ♪♫ (darraghmac), Thursday, 19 May 2011 15:32 (thirteen years ago) link
You've only just heard? It was on the news over here yesterday!
― Tom D has taken many months to run this thread to ground (Tom D.), Thursday, 19 May 2011 15:52 (thirteen years ago) link
i've been holed up somewhat this week tbh
― ♪♫ hey there lamp post, feelin' whiney ♪♫ (darraghmac), Thursday, 19 May 2011 16:03 (thirteen years ago) link
"Wait a minute - the Queen was here????"
― The New Dirty Vicar, Thursday, 19 May 2011 16:36 (thirteen years ago) link
ha no not quite that bad
― ♪♫ hey there lamp post, feelin' whiney ♪♫ (darraghmac), Thursday, 19 May 2011 16:56 (thirteen years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/bU38T.jpghttp://i.imgur.com/bU38T.jpghttp://i.imgur.com/bU38T.jpg
― nakhchivan, Monday, 23 May 2011 18:02 (thirteen years ago) link