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New Fleg Drama

  • 29-09-2014 7:59pm
    #1
    [Deleted User]
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    http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-29413245
    Police were called to investigate a complaint about a European flag flying in Rory McIlroy's home town in County Down during the Ryder Cup.

    ...

    In a post on Facebook, he said that the person who complained thought it was an Arabic flag.

    I dunno which bit is funniest or stupidest.


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  • #2
    El Weirdo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,647 ✭✭✭✭El Weirdo


    Deleted User wrote: »
    http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-29413245



    I dunno which bit is funniest or stupidest.
    The fact that the PSNI officers didn't seem to know what the flag was is slightly disconcerting.


  • #3
    Menas
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,318 ✭✭✭✭Menas


    Them northerners are very sensitive about their flegs.


  • #4
    biko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,220 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Fleg? Is that Northern dialect?


  • #5
    Ruu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,622 ✭✭✭Ruu


    So..nothing happened here then. Move along naw!


  • #6
    Mr. CooL ICE
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,708 ✭✭✭✭Mr. CooL ICE


    biko wrote: »
    Fleg? Is that Northern dialect?

    Aye


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  • #7
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 25,611 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    biko wrote: »
    Fleg? Is that Northern dialect?

    It's Ulster-Scots which really is a completely different language.


  • #8
    Jeju
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 620 ✭✭✭Jeju


    Simple solution would be to have some kind of flag with all the colours of the spectrum so noone would feel excluded or marginalised and be the only flag allowed.


  • #9
    fleet_admiral
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,750 ✭✭✭fleet_admiral


    Feckin apes them northies


  • #10
    Peregrine
    Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 26,403 Mod ✭✭✭✭Peregrine


    biko wrote: »
    Fleg? Is that Northern dialect?



  • #11
    Straylight
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 338 ✭✭Straylight


    Did the person reporting it think it was a Republican Arabic flag or a Unionist Arabic flag?


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  • #12
    Menas
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,318 ✭✭✭✭Menas


    Jeju wrote: »
    Simple solution would be to have some kind of flag with all the colours of the spectrum so noone would feel excluded or marginalised and be the only flag allowed.

    That would be the rainbow flag - right? Yup, the hard core christians up there would love that!


  • #13
    dan1895
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,597 ✭✭✭dan1895


    Jeju wrote: »
    Simple solution would be to have some kind of flag with all the colours of the spectrum so noone would feel excluded or marginalised and be the only flag allowed.

    Like this
    http://thumbs.dreamstime.com/x/gay-pride-flag-waving-man-rainbow-parade-33117608.jpg


  • #14
    Banjo String
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,380 ✭✭✭✭Banjo String


    Deleted User wrote: »
    It's Ulster-Scots which really is a completely different language.

    No, it's more a piss take on a Belfast accent.

    They pronounce loans of things with an 'eg' when it ends with an agy. Bag = beg flag =Fleg fag (cigarette) = few and so on. (that's what I assume anyway)

    Ulster Scots is more round the north Antrim Coast, Carnlough, Bushmills, Ballymoney, Ballycastle etc.


  • #15
    TheEnigma
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 41 ✭TheEnigma


    I have a yella ulster province fleg in my sock drawer, when I wake up it fills me with pride seeing it , that's the only bit of fleging I part take in


  • #16
    TheEnigma
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 41 ✭TheEnigma


    fleet_admiral wrote: »
    Feckin apes them northies

    We are surely hi, apes in the bedroom


  • #17
    anncoates
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,925 ✭✭✭✭anncoates


    They might have thought it was a flag from (Ira)n.


  • #18
    tomwaterford
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,768 ✭✭✭✭tomwaterford


    Banjo String wrote: »
    No, it's more a piss take on a Belfast accent.

    They pronounce loans of things with an 'eg' when it ends with an agy. Bag = beg flag =Fleg fag (cigarette) = few and so on. (that's what I assume anyway)

    Ulster Scots is more round the north Antrim Coast, Carnlough, Bushmills, Ballymoney, Ballycastle etc.


    is it not just a made up language...at the time of the GFA they didn't want to be seen to lose anything to nationlists so they made up a language to get the same grants that irish was to get under the GFA???


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