Currys deface Irish flag

obriend · 30-04-2009 3:41pm #1

Hi,

Did anyone see Currys disgraceful add in Metro this morning. Page 15 to 17 is an add for currys but they put an English flag in the Irish colours. This has to be some sort of crime against the history of Ireland and its people as they outright deface our flag in a well populated paper. I for one will never buy from curry’s. :mad: Below is the link, if it asks for an e-mail address just enter any letters and it will let you in.

http://img.e-metro.ie/e-edition-ie/A17fo7/Metroire20090430/resources/index.htm?referrerUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.e-metro.ie%2Fe-metro-ie

jimmycrackcorm · 30-04-2009 3:45pm

They didn't deface our flag. They defaced the union jack using other colours.

Unless you think we own those colours.

muletide · 30-04-2009 3:46pm

You obviously have very little to get irate about OP - relax you will live longer

obriend · 30-04-2009 3:46pm

Thats a better one but still doesn't take away from the fact that they are merged.

Owen · 30-04-2009 3:46pm

People still get worked up about the english flag in this day and age? Thought we'd progressed passed that as a nation.

Robbo · 30-04-2009 3:47pm

Our flag hasn't been defaced, it's the Union Flag that has been corrupted if anything.

obriend · 30-04-2009 3:47pm

Whos OP ?????

Paulw · 30-04-2009 3:47pm

jimmycrackcorm wrote: »

They didn't deface our flag. They defaced the union jack using other colours.

I have to agree with this view. Looks more like they're defacing the Union Jack.

wintear · 30-04-2009 3:47pm

I thought it was more a hybrid. At least in my copy it looked like it was red, white and Green.

If they had done the other way with the Tricolour in the UK colours would it not have just been the French Flag?

dmigsy · 30-04-2009 3:48pm

You're overreacting there a bit I think. If any flag is being "defaced" it's the British one.

"A crime against the history of Ireland" ; How?

anthony4335 · 30-04-2009 3:50pm

Aren't they the India flags colours.

JanneG · 30-04-2009 3:50pm

OP = Original Poster

muletide · 30-04-2009 3:52pm

"A crime against the history of Ireland " - that gave me a chuckle

Carroller16 · 30-04-2009 3:52pm

obriend wrote: »

Whos OP ?????

OP= Original Poster

UK flag being defaced here. That is all.

aidan_walsh · 30-04-2009 3:53pm

anthony4335 wrote: »

Aren't they the India flags colours.

Two thirds of Italy is also outraged.

dmigsy · 30-04-2009 3:53pm

aidan_walsh wrote: »

Two thirds of Italy is also outraged.

The Ivory Coast is furious:pac:

Jip · 30-04-2009 3:55pm

Boycott this corporate beast, now we know what they really think of Ireland, SHAME ON THEM, Brits out out out !

just thought I'd get in there before are resident torch carriers do

Carroller16 · 30-04-2009 3:56pm

As is NIGER

KTRIC · 30-04-2009 3:59pm

It not our flag, whats the issue.

Marketing people in Curry's need to get a slap though. Bad form defacing anyones flag.

BJC · 30-04-2009 3:59pm

OP stands for overreacting poster.

Happy to help.

smokingman · 30-04-2009 4:00pm

Sure is a lot of brand new posters putting up crap threads lately....
Hmmm....you'd swear we were being targeted

silverside · 30-04-2009 4:01pm

free publicity for a british-owned electrical goods store with middling prices, fair play to the original poster

loz · 30-04-2009 4:02pm

Carroller16 wrote: »

NIGER

tut tut

Cabaal · 30-04-2009 4:05pm

Its not our flag.....Ireland does not own copyright to the colours green white and gold/yellow

OP you need to relax and get out more

Jame$ · 30-04-2009 4:07pm

Agreed - Free Publicity!

Very clever marketing ploy.

They haven't defaced the Irish flag, they have defaced the British Flag [not the English Flag btw]

Carroller16 · 30-04-2009 4:09pm

loz wrote: »

tut tut

I was careful

muletide · 30-04-2009 4:14pm

Cabaal wrote: »

Its not our flag.....Ireland does not own copyright to the colours green white and gold/yellow

OP you need to relax and get out more

Orange
Orange
Orange

Not yellow or gold

Jame$ · 30-04-2009 4:14pm

Wow, just noticed it is a 4 page spread!

I love the last caption "God Save a Fortune"

he he! That's too funny to be mad at!

Jip · 30-04-2009 4:16pm

Why is this in Consumer Issues, should it not be moved to the Provos-are-us forum or whatever the nationalist equivalent of Stormfront is.

BJC · 30-04-2009 4:18pm

"God save a fortune"!?
With that and the "defaced" union jack it's clear to see that's it's the Brits who are being slagged! Some might say it's and insult to the history of their country!

Huzzah!

CutzEr · 30-04-2009 4:18pm

I think it is quite clever actually.

O'Coonassa · 30-04-2009 4:25pm

obriend wrote: »

they outright deface our flag in a well populated paper

The Union Flag is not our flag anymore...

And curiously neither is the Irish Flag

Instead we're left with some green white and gold (sic) Shinner flag circa 1916 which pruports to be the Young Irelanders flag but actually isn't on account of the fact that it flies the wrong way round and had the orange segment widely and liberally altered to Vatican Yellow. Curry's never went near it.

Paulw · 30-04-2009 4:31pm

The Irish flag (as per the Irish Constitution, Article 7) is green white and orange.

http://www.taoiseach.gov.ie/index.asp?docID=242

The green flag with the harp was never the national Irish flag.

Just FYI, of course.

aidan_walsh · 30-04-2009 4:43pm

How much for a camera? Inflation once again.

Jame$ · 30-04-2009 4:50pm

The original Irish Flag was the harp on a Blue background, not green.

O'Coonassa · 30-04-2009 4:52pm

Paulw wrote: »

The Irish flag (as per the Irish Constitution, Article 7) is green white and orange.

http://www.taoiseach.gov.ie/index.asp?docID=242

The green flag with the harp was never the national Irish flag.

Just FYI, of course.

Of course you're right but.....The Society of United Irishmen, a republican movement which emerged in the 1790s, used a gold harp on a green field (the 'Green Flag'). This flag was carried in the rebellions of 1798 and 1803 and it quickly achieved popular acceptance as the national flag. The flag was used during the widespread peaceful agitations for 'Repeal' of the act of union in the 1830s and 1840s but was viewed as a seditious emblem by the British authorities. In 1848 the Repeal movement split and the radical wing (known as 'Young Ireland') adopted both republican ideas and a tricolour inspired by that of the second French republic. The Young Ireland rebellion of 1848 was quite a small affair and the tricolour flag was largely forgotten until the twentieth century. The next revolutionary movement, the Irish Republican Brotherhood (or 'Fenians') of the 1860s, was much more formidable and it reverted to using the Green Flag. That flag was also used by all the nationalist politicians who campaigned for 'Home Rule' (devolved government within the United Kingdom). By about 1880 or so the Green Flag had become officially tolerated to the extent that one was no longer likely to be arrested for displaying it, but it never had any official status and was always seen as a nationalist emblem.(lifted for convenience sake from http://flagspot.net/flags/ie-green.html)

As far as I care the Green Flag is the Irish Flag and the other yoke is a Shinner imposter.

O'Coonassa · 30-04-2009 4:53pm

Jame$ wrote: »

The original Irish Flag was the harp on a Blue background, not green.

Indeed but that was a Royalist flag and not a Republican one.

Jame$ · 30-04-2009 4:56pm

O'Coonassa wrote: »

Indeed but that was a Royalist flag and not a Republican one.

So I'm right then!

O'Coonassa · 30-04-2009 4:58pm

Jame$ wrote: »

So I'm right then!

I'd daresay you nearly always are

nedoo · 30-04-2009 5:04pm

And the brilliant marketing dept in Currys has just achieved what it set out to do!!!!!!

jimmycrackcorm · 30-04-2009 5:06pm

Will someone please think of the prices.

foxinsox · 30-04-2009 5:15pm

I wouldn't be offended by it..just think times have changed when the union jack is changed to try and incorporate Irish colours..

Think it looks tacky, cheap and bad.. nothing to do with the Irish flag it just looks cheap..

:eek:

darc · 30-04-2009 5:19pm

Thread of the year so far - starts with a moan about an electrical shop's advert and finishes with discussion about 1798 rebellion & royalism.

jor el · 30-04-2009 5:48pm

I'm glad they didn't deface our flag with the Union Jack colours. That would have been the worst thing that could every possibly happen in the history of the whole world...

Sacré bleu!

dogeyknees · 30-04-2009 7:46pm

Have to say that i was kind of annoyed by it.. i just thought whoever came up with this idea was a bit of a doughnut. Currys are a UK company and it came across as condescending - now that times are bad we'll give you the same prices as we give our UK customers.

Why couldn't they have done that from the start? Why is it the stg price is always a LOT less than the euro price? Its not down to overheads - yes it may cost more to operate in certain areas in Ireland, but its also cheaper in the rural areas - you cannot tell me that its dearer to run a store in Carlow than in London?! The same applies to most of the mainstream UK companies who have seriously cheaper stg prices. What i don't get is when people travel North, they go into these same UK chains that are ripping us off and hand their money over - maybe im stubborn but i refuse to do this as it won't solve the problem because they are getting their money anyhow.

Darksaga87 · 30-04-2009 8:00pm

Hi everyone. I work in currys. i was in work today, helping put up these posters. when the store opened we got some very bemused and *tut tut* looks from passer's by.
My oppinion is that it is in some was offensive, both to British and Irish, "God save a fortune". Im sure the Queen wouldnt like that. Plus, God should be left out of business.

Just want to know your oppinons and views. any negative and positve feedback will be posted to Head Office in the morning and i will report back.

CMpunked · 30-04-2009 8:01pm

dogeyknees wrote: »

Have to say that i was kind of annoyed by it.. i just thought whoever came up with this idea was a bit of a doughnut. Currys are a UK company and it came across as condescending - now that times are bad we'll give you the same prices as we give our UK customers.

Why couldn't they have done that from the start? Why is it the stg price is always a LOT less than the euro price? Its not down to overheads - yes it may cost more to operate in certain areas in Ireland, but its also cheaper in the rural areas - you cannot tell me that its dearer to run a store in Carlow than in London?! The same applies to most of the mainstream UK companies who have seriously cheaper stg prices. What i don't get is when people travel North, they go into these same UK chains that are ripping us off and hand their money over - maybe im stubborn but i refuse to do this as it won't solve the problem because they are getting their money anyhow.

Its as simple as this:

Currys ireand buy their stock from the uk.

So, lets say you own a shop that sells toothbrushes, and you get your stock in from the UK.

So you see the Brushmatic 3000" to buy in bulk at 4 euros a brush.
You do.

To make a profit on each brush you sell each one at 6 Euro.

Thus making €2.

So in the process of selling them at that price the toothbrush economy goes up in the UK and all the prices come down.

So you can now buy your new stock in at 3.50each.

You still need to sell through your stock and make enough money to buy in more at cheaper and be able to sell it off cheaper too.

Just think of this on a bigger scale and there you have Currys today.

They are getting around to being able to buy in their products now at british prices which means they will be able to sell them off now as cheap as the north/UK.

Bout frickin time, maybe now the irish economy cycle will pick up at last.

ch750536 · 30-04-2009 8:02pm

Jame$ wrote: »

Agreed - Free Publicity!

Very clever marketing ploy.

They haven't defaced the Irish flag, they have defaced the British Flag [not the English Flag btw]

No such thing as a British Flag, its a Jack!

ceegee · 30-04-2009 8:07pm

Personally I find John Dalys fashion choices (pg28) more offensive to my eyes than the flag.

return guide · 30-04-2009 8:10pm

ch750536 wrote: »

No such thing as a British Flag, its a Jack!

Union Flag, nick named Union Jack

Gran Hermano · 30-04-2009 8:14pm

nedoo wrote: »

And the brilliant marketing dept in Currys has just achieved what it set out to do!!!!!!

The only thing they've achieved is I could murder a ruby right now after reading this thread.

Currys deface Irish flag

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