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Tricolours at music gigs

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  • 29-07-2015 9:25am
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    zoobizoo
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    Who wakes up and thinks, I need to have a tricolour cape to wear to that gig I'm off to?

    Why would you bother - what are you trying to say / do / achieve ?

    Is it a uniquely Irish thing to do?


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    The Moldy Gowl
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    It's a great way to spot gob****es.

    This also applies to people hanging flags on their apartments in Spain and playing rebel songs on st.patricks day.

    Mostly, they are full time mad bastards.


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    MonkeyTennis
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    I always assumed these folks were Irish superheroes having a well deserved day off.


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    OldMrBrennan83
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    seamus
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    zoobizoo wrote: »
    Is it a uniquely Irish thing to do?
    It's really, really, not.

    https://triviallyyours.files.wordpress.com/2010/06/img_3919.jpg


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    jayobray
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    Not uniquely Irish, just look at Glastonbury or any large music festival and you'll see people with flags from many countries there.


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    biko
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    Is it a foreign or domestic festivals.

    At foreign festivals it's a way to pick up chicks :D


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    foggy_lad
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    I'm proud to be irish wearing my tricolour y-fronts:D


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    qo2cj1dsne8y4k
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    Why the shame of anything Irish? Anytime I've been to America, I've noticed most houses would have the Stars and Stripes flying outside the house. Someone did that over here they'd be completely ridiculed.


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    RomanKnows
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    When I was in college I used to do agency bar work. A stand out moment was working the bar at a Wolfe Tones gig. Mother of jaysus, the state of most of the fans there. Tricolours strewn around their shoulders, Bobby Sands t-shirts, medallion rings, those really faded and cheap looking tattoos on the arms.

    For all their misty eyed love of Ireland they didn't seem to mind having the tricolour soaked in beer as they threw it up on the bar when ordering pints. Never saw such a bunch of mouth-breathing, knuckle-dragging Neanderthals gather in one place in all my time. That includes the band. Stupid jingoistic nonsense.


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    jamesbere
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    foggy_lad wrote: »
    I'm proud to be irish wearing my tricolour y-fronts:D

    I've a thong myself


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    endacl
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    foggy_lad wrote: »
    I'm proud to be irish wearing my tricolour y-fronts:D

    Were they tricolour when you bought them? If not, one of the colours is wrong...


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    NachoBusiness
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    zoobizoo wrote: »
    Is it a uniquely Irish thing to do?

    Hardly.


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XktDFiO9Z9w


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    HandsomeDan
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    Cream crackers.


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    Casshern88
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    If at a music festival abroad it could be a good way to spot fellow Irish folks / English speaking people. props are great at events like that as they provoke a lot of reactions from random strangers you might never talk to other wise.

    I'll admit flag wearing im not fully sold on as something about it seems a bit scumbag ish.


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    rubadub
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    zoobizoo wrote: »
    Is it a uniquely Irish thing to do?
    Please, tell me you are taking the fucking piss.

    Fucking sick of this shite in every second thread.


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    Barely There
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    I quite like the practice.

    Allows me to easily identify which people to avoid.


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    zoobizoo
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    rubadub wrote: »
    Please, PLEASE tell me you are taking the fucking piss.

    May I should clairfy - at domestic gigs......


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    drake70
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    What to avoid when displaying the national flag:

    http://www.taoiseach.gov.ie/upload/publications/1104.pdf


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    seamus
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    LexieOnRale wrote: »
    Why the shame of anything Irish? Anytime I've been to America, I've noticed most houses would have the Stars and Stripes flying outside the house. Someone did that over here they'd be completely ridiculed.
    Because it's incredibly cringey. Wearing your nationality as a badge of pride is what morons do.


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    conorhal
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    jamesbere wrote: »
    I've a thong myself

    Sporting the the 'ol Green white and brown with pride are we?


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    smash
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    LexieOnRale wrote: »
    Why the shame of anything Irish? Anytime I've been to America, I've noticed most houses would have the Stars and Stripes flying outside the house. Someone did that over here they'd be completely ridiculed.
    You're comparing apples and oranges. They're brainwashed from a young age. The first thing they do every day in school is pledge allegiance to the flag.


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    Boring username
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    Gowlasauras Rex wrote: »
    It's a great way to spot gob****es.

    This also applies to people hanging flags on their apartments in Spain and playing rebel songs on st.patricks day.

    Mostly, they are full time mad bastards.

    Unsurprisingly, most of them see nothing wrong with defacing the flag with slogans and tacky images too. From the national flag publication:
    17 The National Flag should never be
    defaced by placing slogans, logos, lettering
    or pictures of any kind on it, for example
    at sporting events

    http://www.taoiseach.gov.ie/upload/publications/1104.pdf

    They're patriots, don't you know?


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    SEPT 23 1989
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    I always hang the tricolour out the window when Ireland are playing in a World Cup or European championship finals as do hundreds of thousands of others in the country


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    conorhal
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    seamus wrote: »
    Because it's incredibly cringey. Wearing your nationality as a badge of pride is what morons do.

    Give me the morons any day over some sad hipster sneering from behind his half-cafe latte. :rolleyes:


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    Buona Fortuna
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    SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »
    I always hang the tricolour out the window when Ireland are playing in a World Cup or European championship finals as do hundreds of thousands of others in the country

    Me too.


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    smash
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    SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »
    I always hang the tricolour out the window when Ireland are playing in a World Cup or European championship finals as do hundreds of thousands of others in the country
    Do you hang a Man City flag out your window when they play?


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    Samaris
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    smash wrote: »
    Do you hang a Man City flag out your window when they play?

    Does it matter?


    I think it's been fairly well concluded that this is not a uniquely Irish thing to do, and we don't really need to add to our national breast-beating and hair-tearing about our awful backward ways over it.


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    SEPT 23 1989
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    smash wrote: »
    Do you hang a Man City flag out your window when they play?

    no the Sergio Aguero mural on the gable end is enough


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    Streetwalker
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    Bring the flag away on holidays and hang it from the balcony with pride. Feck the begrudgers.

    If it winds up the hipsters all the better.


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    zoobizoo
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    SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »
    I always hang the tricolour out the window when Ireland are playing in a World Cup or European championship finals as do hundreds of thousands of others in the country

    No problem with that at all as it's the national team playing.

    Different to wearing a flag to a gig though


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