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Foreign neighbours with Irish flag in back garden

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  • #32
    Glenster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,626 ✭✭✭Glenster


    Where did they get the money for that flag???


    Benefit fraud. And Sharia Law. And smelly food.


  • #33
    Jack the Stripper
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    Extra entitlements maybe for flying the flag perhaps.


  • #34
    corner of hells
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,439 ✭✭✭corner of hells


    DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »
    More people should do it.

    I want to erect four flag poles on my front lawn, county, province, country and family coat of arms.

    They'll be raised every morning in a short ceremony.

    How short will this ceremony be and will you be playing with your bugle ?


  • #35
    Dr. Kenneth Noisewater
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,234 ✭✭✭Dr. Kenneth Noisewater


    Neighbours of mine of Asian origin have an Irish flag hanging on their clothesline constantly. I dunno whether they're drying themselves with it or what the story is.


  • #36
    Guffy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,529 ✭✭✭Guffy


    But, do they have planning permission for the flag pole?


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  • #37
    Harry Palmr
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    odyssey06 wrote: »
    Wouldn't you need planning permission for that? They seem to have adopted the ways of the locals in disgrearding such niceties...
    gufc21 wrote: »
    But, do they have planning permission for the flag pole?

    [something about loss of light, being overlooked]


  • #38
    [Deleted User]
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    Maybe they're Irish now. I know a few Brazilian and Asian colleagues who went 'full-blown Irish' when they had their naturalization ceremonies. I think it's super cute how one Korean girl practices the Luas stop announcements in Irish so when I say I'm getting off in Ranelagh, she'll say "Raghnallach!".

    They're really into Saint Patrick's Celebrations and during the 1916 commemorations, were asking the Irish workers to tell them about the history behind the Rising.

    Just like the Normans, the phrase 'more Irish than the Irish themselves', springs to mind.


  • #39
    KindOfIrish
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 454 ✭✭KindOfIrish


    HalloweenJack wrote: »
    With all the whingeing about people not integrating, its nice to see.

    Where have you seen Latvians who have not integrated???


  • #40
    Guffy
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    Harry Palmr wrote: »
    [something about loss of light, being overlooked]

    Nah if a 30 foot flag pole fell what would it land on.... is was taking the piss though


  • #41
    odyssey06
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 38,671 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    KindOfIrish wrote: »
    Where have you seen Latvians who have not integrated???

    When they are really Russians masquerading as Latvians...

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



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  • #42
    Jurgen Klopp
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,801 ✭✭✭Jurgen Klopp


    Excellent, just the type of immigrants you'd want, I'd even class it as going above and beyond to integrate, but it's very nice to see.

    Frankly, anyone that thinks it's something a lower class would do are people with the Irish self hating mentality. Like that UK Labor party councilor who posted a picture in Twitter of s house with the English flag flying from their house and tried to make off they were some sort of foaming at the mouth bigots, she and Labour weren't long grovelling from the back lash.

    As for the republican angle, I'm as far from a Sinn Fein supporter but can't say that's what I'd associate it with, but maybe it's a known thing in Dublin and that.


  • #43
    Beyondgone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,166 ✭✭✭Beyondgone


    I've a Latvian mate with four poles in his back garden.

    No idea how he gets away with renting them his shed as "accommodation" but they seem happy enough.


  • #44
    pickarooney
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    Leilak wrote: »
    Just wondering how unusual is this ? As far as I know they are Latvian family and since Paddys day they have put Irish Flag on 30 ft flag pole in back garden. Any thoughts :)

    Your lack of indefinite articles gives you away, Leila!


  • #45
    Chuchote
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,368 ✭✭✭Chuchote


    Strictly speaking, the national flag is only supposed to be flown by official bodies, not by private individuals. They'll catch on in a bit that this isn't usual, I'm sure.


  • #46
    LordSutch
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    Lucky its in the back garden & not in the back passage.


  • #47
    peckerhead
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    Lucky they're not communists. 'Cause that'd be a big red flag for me.


  • #48
    ...And Justice
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    The Irish do the same in the USA for 4th of July. American flags out everywhere.


  • #49
    Chuchote
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,368 ✭✭✭Chuchote


    ...And Justice wrote: »
    The Irish do the same in the USA for 4th of July. American flags out everywhere.

    Camouflage


  • #50
    Anongeneric
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    Leilak wrote: »
    Just wondering how unusual is this ? As far as I know they are Latvian family and since Paddys day they have put Irish Flag on 30 ft flag pole in back garden. Any thoughts :)


    Lost a bet?


  • #51
    harry Bailey esq
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,814 ✭✭✭harry Bailey esq


    DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »
    More people should do it.

    I want to erect four flag poles on my front lawn, county, province, country and family coat of arms.

    They'll be raised every morning in a short ceremony.
    I was thinking about that,there's a certain etiquette attached to hoisting the tricolour.Im not 100% certain about the full ins and outs of whole thing. Something I am sure of is though is that it must be raised at dawn lowered at dusk. So yeah if decking flags around the property is your wont,and if you were to do it properly then there would be a little ceremony involved.
    Op are the neighbours playing by the rules?


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  • #52
    MadYaker
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    Nice to see. A lot of the people who moved here in the last 10 - 15 years have put down deep roots, started having families etc and have no intention of returning to where they came from. Fair play to them, its as much their home as it is mine.


  • #53
    Capt'n Midnight
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    It's an old ham radio trick.

    In the US it's very difficult to get planning permission for antennas in some places. But if you stick a 50 foot flagpole in your front garden no one's going to ask you to remove the stars and stripes.


    So it's probably a fibreglass pole with a vertical antenna hidden in it.


  • #54
    Glenster
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    Capt'n Midnight wrote: »
    It's an old ham radio trick.

    In the US it's very difficult to get planning permission for antennas in some places. But if you stick a 50 foot flagpole in your front garden no one's going to ask you to remove the stars and stripes.


    So it's probably a fibreglass pole with a vertical antenna hidden in it.

    this isn't an episode of "The Americans"


  • #55
    donegaLroad
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    Leilak wrote: »
    Just wondering how unusual is this ? As far as I know they are Latvian family and since Paddys day they have put Irish Flag on 30 ft flag pole in back garden. Any thoughts :)

    'they have become more Irish than the Irish themselves'... (as was said of the Normans all those years ago)


  • #56
    Harry Palmr
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    Glenster wrote: »
    this isn't an episode of "The Americans"

    How do you know?


  • #57
    BrokenArrows
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    Leilak wrote: »
    Just wondering how unusual is this ? As far as I know they are Latvian family and since Paddys day they have put Irish Flag on 30 ft flag pole in back garden. Any thoughts :)

    Id say its unusual for anyone to have a irish flag on a 30ft flag pole in their back garden.

    Im proud to be irish but id never put a flag up (paddys day or football/rugby matches aside)


  • #58
    Gravelly
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    BrokenArrows wrote: »
    Id say its unusual for anyone to have a irish flag on a 30ft flag pole in their back garden.

    Im proud to be irish but id never put a flag up (paddys day or football/rugby matches aside)

    Why would you never put up a flag? Not asking to be contrary or critical, just wondering. I probably would be the same, just put one up for big matches, is it due to it being associated with republicanism, or do we just lack an appreciation for a healthy level of nationalism? I notice when I travel to other countries, many are big into flying their flag - especially the British, and, mostly outside big cities, in America. I've noticed eastern Europeans tend to be very proud of their flag also.


  • #59
    WoollyRedHat
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    Maybe they are pole dancers and they got a deal on the Irish flag. A means to an end.


  • #60
    Mrs OBumble
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    Gravelly wrote: »
    Why would you never put up a flag? Not asking to be contrary or critical, just wondering. I probably would be the same, just put one up for big matches, is it due to it being associated with republicanism, or do we just lack an appreciation for a healthy level of nationalism? I notice when I travel to other countries, many are big into flying their flag - especially the British, and, mostly outside big cities, in America. I've noticed eastern Europeans tend to be very proud of their flag also.

    Maybe we have a healthy scepticism of nationalism , which is really a flavour of racism.


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  • #61
    Gravelly
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    Mrs OBumble wrote: »
    Maybe we have a healthy scepticism of nationalism , which is really a flavour of racism.

    All nationalism is racism?


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