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evad_lhorg · 13-09-2004 4:33pm #1

hahahaha some guy is standing on the doorway to buckingham palace dressed in a batman suit!

mang87 · 13-09-2004 4:35pm

FFS the TVcable just wnt :eek:

bizmark · 13-09-2004 4:39pm

For fathers rights fair play to him

mike65 · 13-09-2004 4:41pm

Tosser! The cause is a good one but the campaign renders it a joke.

Mike.

Blisterman · 13-09-2004 4:45pm

He's been there 4 hours now.

bizmark · 13-09-2004 4:55pm

mike65 wrote:

Tosser! The cause is a good one but the campaign renders it a joke.

Mike.

He's getting uk/ireland maybe even world coverage for his cause well done to him (could of done with out the batman suit though)

ChipZilla · 13-09-2004 4:59pm

chewy · 13-09-2004 5:01pm

there's a funny thread on urban75... asking who's more hardcore? anarchists, trucking drivers or Fs4J?

Hello Kitty · 13-09-2004 5:33pm

I noticed it while i was looking through the channels... I dont know what and why is he doing it?? :eek:

Crash · 13-09-2004 5:34pm

Well in fairness if he wasnt dressed up as batman the very first news reports would've been "OMFG TERRORIST AAAAAGH" so it at least makes that point.

OfflerCrocGod · 13-09-2004 5:49pm

LOL I can't help but think of Only Fools and Horses! Delboy and Rodney coming out of the mist....Dananana DADA DADA

Jim · 13-09-2004 6:02pm

mike65 wrote:

Tosser! The cause is a good one but the campaign renders it a joke.

Mike.

Tbh the campaign was / is never taken seriously by anyone. Noone, press or governemt give a toss about Parental Equality. At least this puts them on the map, so to speak.

AdMMM · 13-09-2004 6:08pm

Cant belive not many people have replied to this... and not even a spark of discussion about it in the #boards.ie chan.

Fair play to him tbh!

Gordon · 13-09-2004 8:53pm

Here's robin.

bug · 13-09-2004 9:40pm

mike65 wrote:

Tosser! The cause is a good one but the campaign renders it a joke.

Mike.

actually mike if you think about it...its a good campaign.
recently Michael Howard took note in one of his speeches granted he's looking for votes, but the batman, superhero thing they have going on makes them easily identifiable as fathers for justice and very non-threatening in their cause, what I mean by that if if some normally dressed guy got up on buckingham palace today then he'd be taken as a nutcase or "deluded" "disturbed" individual rather than taking the whole thing lightly but realising that the cause is a serious one. They have made their mark with the media and will be easily recognisable for any future campaign's, which according to a member of their group today, won't involve costumes or climbing.

woosaysdan · 13-09-2004 9:43pm

imo its the batman suit that is getting him all the coverage!!!

chewy · 13-09-2004 11:41pm

why has batman got the 60's tv series costume and robin the slick naughties version?

Mercury_Tilt · 14-09-2004 1:14am

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robbie1876 · 14-09-2004 1:32am

How did they get him down in the end? I presume he's still not up there, right? He'll be freezing his little bat droppings off.

Victor · 14-09-2004 1:49am

Well I suppose Liam Lawlor has to do his best at paying his tribunal fees.

Valentia · 14-09-2004 2:03am

Imagine that you get married. She seems sane. Then the babby comes along. She wont let you touch him. She disappears with your kid. You catch up. Goes to court. She says you're mad, a danger. The judge agrees. Bring it to the family court. Suddenly you realise Fathers have NO rights.

Sounds weird I know but that's the F'up system we live in.

Luckily that's not my life story but the story of a friend of mine.

Put yourself in that situation and ask yourself is there any outfit you wouldn't wear to see your kid, or any ledge you wouldn't stand on.

Easy to make fun, terrible hard to put yoursel in that position, I suppose.

It's easy to make a joke of someones elses plight.

Ireland of the welcomes ;(*

Victor · 14-09-2004 2:08am

Hmmm.

"My dad is Batman. Look at him there on TV."

Being arrested. Fly batman. FLY!

Valentia · 14-09-2004 2:12am

Sick!

seamus · 14-09-2004 7:53am

I think the danger was there Mike, that this would be seen to undermine the cause. But as usual, Sky News actually helped them out by providing constant coverage and bringing on nutjobs to make wild statements and side everyone with the cause. For example, they had one wacko on, trying to argue the logic that a breach of security is an attack, and an attack on Buckingham Palace is terrorism, ergo he's a terrorist.

Definitely a much better strategy than their last one. Remember when someone threw purple dust over the UK parliament? That was them. It put them on the map, but made people wary of their tactics.

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