There's no hope for the North, but they’ve got the environment hostage

Do Me Good

They say the hatred is as bad on one side as the other up there; but I’m not convinced. To me it seems as though it’s the only thing the Loyalists live for. The authorities are clearly trying to pass it off as if it didn’t get out of hand, but it clearly did. An MP hit in the head with a brick, and a car driven into a crowd of people!

It must be the only first world country that something like this would occur. Anywhere else in the world where events like this would happen, you’d presume that the population would be uneducated, or believe in medieval superstitions.

Can you imagine the amount of pollution from these bonfires? Apart from car tires, God only knows what they’d be throwing into it in the months prior to burning it; plastics, batteries, etc. It’s saddening when I think of all the things I do to help the environment, which ultimately are pointless in comparison to how much damage they can do.

In a way, I’d love to see a headline like “Bonfire Watchers Admitted to Hospital due to High Levels of lead in Lungs”, or if the bonfires fell on top of them. That would expose them for being as thick as they are.

And who is it exactly who funds the building of these bonfires? With how thick they seem to be up there, I wouldn’t be surprised if it came directly from the taxpayer! Haven’t Britain signed up for the Kyoto agreements? Does this mean they’ll have to pay fines?

I know for fact that if I was born a loyalist in the north (in a working class area), that after the age of least 18, I’d realise that that’s silly behaviour, and would no longer take part in it. But these guys are grown adults. It just goes to show how stupid and sheep-like most people are.

stimpson

Do Me Good wrote: »

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In a way, I’d love to see a headline like “Bonfire Watchers Admitted to Hospital due to High Levels of lead in Lungs”, or if the bonfires fell on top of them. That would expose them for being as thick as they are.

https://xkcd.com/750/

needhelpguy

Nuke the north, I say. :pac:

I've never seen a bonfire here...apart from every single time some local GAA club wins some competition.

Maybe thick Loyalists took over Gaelic games? After all, as you say, they are the only people in the world that build bonfires.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Bonfire nights every year in June around here. It's far from just a loyalist thing. But don't let that stop an attempt at a sectarian dig.

The Backwards Man

I can see two bonfires from my house right now, lovely clear evening. Granted one of them is in Islay, but there must be a tyre or two in it for the blackness of it.

Silas Ripe Lion

Silas Ripe Lion wrote: »

Bonfire nights every year in June around here. It's far from just a loyalist thing. But don't let that stop an attempt at a sectarian dig.

It's hilarious.

I was wrong about the GAA thing though, it's not just them, some local Irish dancing crowd won medals in competition recently, and the bonfires were lit.

Rotten loyalists, taking over our national games, now our dancing.

The Backwards Man

They have bonfires at every junction for weddings down the wesht too. Leastways they used to anyway.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Do Me Good wrote: »

They say the hatred is as bad on one side as the other up there; but I’m not convinced. To me it seems as though it’s the only thing the Loyalists live for. The authorities are clearly trying to pass it off as if it didn’t get out of hand, but it clearly did. An MP hit in the head with a brick, and a car driven into a crowd of people!
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Some bloke drove a car into a crowd of people in Austria a few weeks ago!

SEPT 23 1989

We used to have massive bonfires on Halloween night in certain parts of Dublin:(

Do Me Good

The Backwards Man wrote: »

I can see two bonfires from my house right now, lovely clear evening. Granted one of them is in Islay, but there must be a tyre or two in it for the blackness of it.

Yesterday was Wednesday. There shouldn't be any bonfires that day

What county is it you're from?

Turtyturd

Ned would have kept them in line.

JacquesDeLad

If only they'd amuse themselves with a Commercial activity like fuel laundering at least then there'd be a few jobs for all the damage caused. Obviously non-taxpaying ones but sure isn't that how little Greece or NI works?

riffmongous

Well better bonfires than stoning old folks homes OP.

http://m.rte.ie/news/2015/0716/715123-northern-ireland-riots/

No arrests either, as usual

OneOfThem

Fire is pretty, but sometimes ouchy.

Do Me Good

OneOfThem wrote: »

Fire is pretty, but sometimes ouchy.

Ah yeah