Tricolours at music gigs

zoobizoo

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?

The Moldy Gowl

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.

MonkeyTennis

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

OldMrBrennan83

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seamus

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

jayobray

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

biko

Is it a foreign or domestic festivals.

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

foggy_lad

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

qo2cj1dsne8y4k

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.

RomanKnows

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.

jamesbere

foggy_lad wrote: »

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

I've a thong myself

endacl

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...

NachoBusiness

zoobizoo wrote: »

Is it a uniquely Irish thing to do?

Hardly.

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

HandsomeDan

Cream crackers.

Casshern88

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.

rubadub

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.

Barely There

I quite like the practice.

Allows me to easily identify which people to avoid.

zoobizoo

rubadub wrote: »

Please, PLEASE tell me you are taking the fucking piss.

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

drake70

What to avoid when displaying the national flag:

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

seamus

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.

conorhal

jamesbere wrote: »

I've a thong myself

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

smash

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.

Boring username

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?

SEPT 23 1989

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

conorhal

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:

Buona Fortuna

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.

smash

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?

Samaris

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.

SEPT 23 1989

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

Streetwalker

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.

zoobizoo

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

Mesrine65

Jaysus if ever there was a streak of self loathing in a nationality, it has to be us Irish (myself not included I might add)...where's the 'Irish pride'?

FFS it's people enjoying themselves at a gig, what harm?

If you have that much loathing for all that is Irish, change you fúcking nationality :mad:

When I hear comments like 'scumbaggery, allows me to identify the people to avoid, morons etc.' just because someone is waving/wearing a flag at a concert, I truly despair...what a sad bunch of self loathing bastards we've become, sickens me

iDave

Is it really worth getting worked up about never mind starting a thread on it.
People need to calm down.

smash

Mesrine65 wrote: »

where's the 'Irish pride'?

It went bust, and then The Brits bought it

Badly Drunk Boy

smash wrote: »

Do you hang a Man City flag out your window when they play?

I'm not a flag person myself, but plenty of neighbours always fly the local GAA team's flag during the club Championship season, and the team's colours in their cars too.

And one Kilkenny neighbour has his Kilkenny flag flying all year round (although that might be because he's in his 70s now and probably can't climb up to take it down.)

6541

In the Mighty USA, if you have the stars and stripes outside your house more then likely you are ex or current military i.e There are guns in the house, do not fook with the occupiers.

eeguy

jamesbere wrote: »

I've a thong myself

Yeh, but that was only green when you bought it.

Time and use has resulted in the other two colours.

Barely There

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

Acceptable.

Streetwalker wrote: »

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

Idiotic.

Buona Fortuna

6541 wrote: »

In the Mighty USA, if you have the stars and stripes outside your house more then likely you are ex or current military i.e There are guns in the house, do not fook with the occupiers.

Sounds like a great reason to get one

Streetwalker

Mesrine65 wrote: »

Jaysus if ever there was a streak of self loathing in a nationality, it has to be us Irish (myself not included I might add)...where's the 'Irish pride'?

FFS it's people enjoying themselves at a gig, what harm?

If you have that much loathing for all that is Irish, change you fúcking nationality :mad:

When I hear comments like 'scumbaggery, allows me to identify the people to avoid, morons etc.' just because someone is waving/wearing a flag at a concert, I truly despair...what a sad bunch of self loathing bastards we've become, sickens me

It really is pathetic isn't it. Look at the Americans, hang their flag with pride outside their houses the length and breath of that country but do it in Ireland and your a scumbag according to the hipsters. What the feck is wrong with having pride in your national flag?

riffmongous

Mesrine65 wrote: »

Jaysus if ever there was a streak of self loathing in a nationality, it has to be us Irish (myself not included I might add)...where's the 'Irish pride'?

FFS it's people enjoying themselves at a gig, what harm?

If you have that much loathing for all that is Irish, change you fúcking nationality :mad:

When I hear comments like 'scumbaggery, allows me to identify the people to avoid, morons etc.' just because someone is waving/wearing a flag at a concert, I truly despair...what a sad bunch of self loathing bastards we've become, sickens me

A lot of the comments you read on boards nowadays remind of the sort of joyless ****es you'd meet in real life, who are too busy looking down on everyone to actually have a bit of a laugh

Streetwalker

Barely There wrote: »

Acceptable.




Idiotic.

If it annoys the likes of people like yourself who think it's idiotic it's a good thing in itself. Must be hard going around disliking those of us who love and display the flag with pride

c_man

Jesus Christ, people stressing over flags at concerts... Sorry Irish flags. I know ye wouldn't give a flying fuk if it was any other nation.

smash

c_man wrote: »

Jesus Christ, people stressing over flags at concerts... Sorry Irish flags. I know ye wouldn't give a flying fuk if it was any other nation.

Sure the American flag and Union Jack are pretty much just fashion brands now. The Irish flag is pretty ugly if I'm honest.

seamus

conorhal wrote: »

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

I agree.

MonkeyTennis

My neighbours have a tricolour flying in their garden the whole year round. Think of it what you will.

smash

MonkeyTennis wrote: »

My neighbours have a tricolour flying in their garden the whole year round. Think of it what you will.

All I can think of is Sinn Fein supporters / council estate.

c_man

MonkeyTennis wrote: »

My neighbours have a tricolour flying in their garden the whole year round. Think of it what you will.

Do you live beside Aras an Uachtarain by any chance? :P

Barely There

People who say they have 'pride' in a flag, which is essentially a bit of material with some colours painted on it, don't have very much else to be proud of I suspect.

Mesrine65

smash wrote: »

All I can think of is Sinn Fein supporters / council estate.

There's an elderly man in Tipperary, not far from my home, that raises his county flag & the national flag every morning on his own land & takes it down every night before sunset.

He is neither Sinn Fein or council estate, just proud of who & what he is & following a tradition passed down from his father before him.

smash

Mesrine65 wrote: »

There's an elderly man in Tipperary, not far from my home, that raises his county flag & the national flag every morning on his own land & takes it down every night before sunset.

He is neither Sinn Fein or council estate, just proud of who & what he is.

Who and what he is, doesn't have much to do with a flag. I'd hazard a guess that the majority of his neighbours are Irish and from his county yet they don't do it. Who's he trying to impress? It's not as if he moved abroad and wants to display his heritage.