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Is the UVF a registered charity, these days?

  • 18-06-2011 5:37pm
    #1
    Elliemental
    Closed Accounts Posts: 924 ✭✭✭


    Sorry if this is a seemingly random post, but this has troubled me. Coming back from town this afternoon, I was accosted in the street by a man draped in a union jack flag, waving a tin and shouting: "any spare change, luv." Disconcerted by the presence of the flag, I decided to sneak a glance at the label on the tin, and it was obviously some sort of loyalist cause he was collecting for. Now, several hours later, I'm looking out of my window, and there's even more of them out there! :eek: Seriously, WTF?! Needless to say, I didn't donate. :P Anyone else in and around Belfast seen this?


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  • #2
    Where To
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,455 ✭✭✭Where To


    Why didn't you ask him what he was collecting for?


  • #3
    Elliemental
    Closed Accounts Posts: 924 ✭✭✭Elliemental


    where do i go from here wrote: »
    Why didn't you ask him what he was collecting for?

    Because I'm chicken sh1t! This guy was scary looking.:p


  • #4
    mikemac
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19,986 ✭✭✭✭mikemac


    Makes a change from their usual tactic of taxing drug dealers for permission to work in "their" areas


  • #5
    Wolfe Tone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,670 ✭✭✭✭Wolfe Tone


    Can't say I've ever seen the likes of that in Dublin... You sure you saw this in town?


  • #6
    UrbanSea
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,335 ✭✭✭✭UrbanSea


    Elliemental wrote: »
    Sorry if this is a seemingly random post, but this has troubled me. Coming back from town this afternoon, I was accosted in the street by a man draped in a union jack flag, waving a tin and shouting: "any spare change, luv." Disconcerted by the presence of the flag, I decided to sneak a glance at the label on the tin, and it was obviously some sort of loyalist cause he was collecting for. Now, several hours later, I'm looking out of my window, and there's even more of them out there! :eek: Seriously, WTF?! Needless to say, I didn't donate. :P Anyone else in and around Belfast seen this?
    Wolfe Tone wrote: »
    Can't say I've ever seen the likes of that in Dublin... You sure you saw this in town?

    I'd assume not. Although the Pale is still under British rule,too.


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  • #7
    KeithAFC
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,239 ✭✭✭✭KeithAFC


    Gun runners..:eek:


  • #8
    Wolfe Tone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,670 ✭✭✭✭Wolfe Tone


    UrbanSea wrote: »
    I'd assume not. Although the Pale is still under British rule,too.
    It was longer than a sentence so I didn't read it all.

    Probably for a band anyways. Cost a lot to equip. Marching season is kicking off.


  • #9
    sollar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,007 ✭✭✭sollar


    Should have said ni raibh aon airgead agam


  • #10
    Ghandee
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,653 ✭✭✭Ghandee


    Wolfe Tone wrote: »
    It was longer than a sentence so I didn't read it all.

    Probably for a band anyways. Cost a lot to equip. Marching season is kicking off.

    Ulster Vegetable Farmers?

    Prob a Cavan man on the scrounge.

    Hit him on the head with a turnip, then shout up the Provos at him!


  • #11
    UrbanSea
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,335 ✭✭✭✭UrbanSea


    Wolfe Tone wrote: »
    It was longer than a sentence so I didn't read it all.

    Probably for a band anyways. Cost a lot to equip. Marching season is kicking off.

    Haha a short attention span


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  • #12
    superfish
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 900 ✭✭✭superfish


    sollar wrote: »
    Should have said ni raibh aon airgead agam

    no he should have said Is breá liom prátaí




    whilst running round and screaming like a crazy person whos scared now


  • #13
    UrbanSea
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,335 ✭✭✭✭UrbanSea


    sollar wrote: »
    Should have said ni raibh aon airgead agam

    That would be the past tense


  • #14
    sollar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,007 ✭✭✭sollar


    UrbanSea wrote: »
    That would be the past tense

    I failed the old irish in the leaving :)


  • #15
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 93,597 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    At present TV here on both the VHF and UHF bands

    after the digital changeover we'll only have UVF


  • #16
    Wolfe Tone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,670 ✭✭✭✭Wolfe Tone


    Capt'n Midnight wrote: »
    At present TV here on both the VHF and UHF bands

    after the digital changeover we'll only have UVF
    Its the IVF who are the big baddies, freezing and destroying peoples embryos


  • #17
    KeithAFC
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,239 ✭✭✭✭KeithAFC


    Wolfe, i will follow you on twitter.. for MI5.. :pac:


  • #18
    Wolfe Tone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,670 ✭✭✭✭Wolfe Tone


    KeithAFC wrote: »
    Wolfe, i will follow you on twitter.. for MI5.. :pac:
    You can if you want... The security forces will be more concerned about tackling online sectarianism than worrying about me tweeting about the disappointing lack of leaving cert weather.

    Do you reckon I am right in saying its for a band btw? Costs over 20 grand if I remember correctly?


  • #19
    KeithAFC
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,239 ✭✭✭✭KeithAFC


    Most likely. 5 grand a drum, some bands have 10-15 to 20 drummers. Then uniforms, then flutes, 15-20+ fluters. Base drum etc.


  • #20
    sollar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,007 ✭✭✭sollar


    He was saving up for a big lambeg drum


  • #21
    BOHtox
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,314 ✭✭✭BOHtox


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8NOxobB4ls


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  • #22
    jumbone
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 609 ✭✭✭jumbone


    I always thought it was very nice of the UVF and UDA to volunteer to defend Donegal, Monaghan and Cavan without being asked.


  • #23
    unbeat
    Closed Accounts Posts: 59 ✭✭unbeat


    if its for their flights out of ireland ill gladly donate. any destination.


  • #24
    Zebra3
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,008 ✭✭✭✭Zebra3


    Wolfe Tone wrote: »
    Marching season is kicking off.

    'Tis actually the rioting season that kicks off. :pac:


  • #25
    biko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,220 ✭✭✭✭biko


    It's for the bonnie on the 12th.


  • #26
    .SONIC.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 777 ✭✭✭.SONIC.


    if there still out there you should go out and shove a carrot up your bum, theyll never expect it and theyll probably pay you to leave them alone!


  • #27
    Mike 1972
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,018 ✭✭✭Mike 1972


    sollar wrote: »
    Should have said ni raibh aon airgead agam

    Or "Do you take Euros ?"


  • #28
    stevenmu
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 9,689 Mod ✭✭✭✭stevenmu


    Wolfe Tone wrote: »
    Its the IVF who are the big baddies, freezing and destroying peoples embryos

    No, your thinking of the IMF, the IVF are taking all the taxpayers money and giving it to the poor starving bankers.


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