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Proposal to preserve old post boxes. Hitler is alive and well.

Gerrup Outta Dat!

I can understand keeping the old ones with free state emblems, but they want to also make the ones with British logos and crowns protected structures too.

Tell me this: would Germany consider a Swastika to be a heritage symbol? Don’t think so. Sand blast all symbols of Britishness and cleans this country of our brutal colonial past.

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[Deleted User]

Most of our protected buildings were built during British rule. Should all of these be knocked down?

mfceiling

Dope.

Etc

Now that the water protesters are at a loose end maybe Gerrup could rally them to boycott these imperialist relics.

Nabber

Ridiculous
Our past is our past. Keeping the old post boxes does what? We are less a republic with the old British emblems?

The old post boxes look a lot better than the square ones on poles.

I thought this anti British nonsense was done?

NickNickleby

Etc wrote: »

Now that the water protesters are at a loose end maybe Gerrup could rally them to boycott these imperialist relics.

O God!

Please, PLEASE ! don't tempt fate. We've already seen some clown in Cork going 'down that road' pun intended.

[Deleted User]

Nabber wrote: »

Our past is our past.

"Our past"? Ha - well indoctrinated by Harris/The Cruiser/Sunday Independent there, aren't you. Since when is glorifying a foreign, anti-Catholic British royalist colonial cult part of "our past". No amount of Kevin Myers-inspired revisionism will succeed in selling us the English/British royalist tradition as being our Irish tradition. None. Some of us are acutely aware of our own distinctive, ancient Irish tradition and will resist this West Brit attempt to portray the coloniser's tradition as our own tradition. It's not, it never was - and it never, ever will be. And there's no fúcking debate about that one, son. There's something decidedly snake-like and intellectually vacuous in these attempts to call British colonial cults "our past", an attempt to spread the blame, to normalise colonialism and to ultimately have Irish people embrace the myths of British nationalism by honouring the thugs and psychopaths of centuries of British colonial occupation in Ireland.

Nabber wrote: »

The old post boxes look a lot better than the square ones on poles.

Yeah, of course they do. Sure isn't everything British so much better than everything Irish. We'll see how superior Mother England is when Brexit hits...

Nabber wrote: »

I thought this anti British nonsense was done?

Yes, because it's anti-British to oppose these memorials to British colonial supremacy in Ireland. Or do you really think the British put their royalist symbols on everything they could find because they weren't political? Strange how they never put symbols of the native Irish resistance to their sectarian foreign monarchy on their post boxes....

Also, I trust you'd be over defending those statues in the southern US states which commemorate racist American generals, and would tell African-Americans that they should be left there on their pedestal because they're "part of African-American history"? Will African-Americans be "anti-American" for refusing to have memorials to that racist aspect of US history in their communities?

And, by your thinking, somebody should have told Tony Benn that opposing the anti-Irish Catholic sectarianism and racism that has symbolised the British monarchy for many centuries now made him "anti-British" also. Only a good old racist sectarian supremacist royalist can be "British", it seems.

Guy Sajer

OP you used a great and clear version of Google translate. Obviously you typed in Gaelic but it's showing as English.

I love Sean nos

Wait, Hitler's not alive and well after all?

FFS OP! :mad:

corner of hells

Gerrup Outta Dat! wrote: »

Marlowe Abundant Hose wrote: »

No.

Someone has to reply to nonsense with some perspective.

Are you trying to impose a police state on the thread now? Ironic.

You always think you’re better and more educated than everyone else. There is a stench of smugness and superiority off you. Back on your ivory tower.

You leave Marlowe Abundant Hose alone , he's the one the keeps us all inline around here and stops Mods bullying is.

SEPT 23 1989

We tore up those useless imperialist tram and train lines

That really showed 'em

Etc

Deleted User wrote: »

"Our past"? Ha - well indoctrinated by Harris/The Cruiser/Sunday Independent there, aren't you. Since when is glorifying a foreign, anti-Catholic British royalist colonial cult part of "our past". No amount of Kevin Myers-inspired revisionism will succeed in selling us the English/British royalist tradition as being our Irish tradition. None. Some of us are acutely aware of our own distinctive, ancient Irish tradition and will resist this West Brit attempt to portray the coloniser's tradition as our own tradition. It's not, it never was - and it never, ever will be. And there's no fúcking debate about that one, son. There's something decidedly snake-like and intellectually vacuous in these attempts to call British colonial cults "our past", an attempt to spread the blame, to normalise colonialism and to ultimately have Irish people embrace the myths of British nationalism by honouring the thugs and psychopaths of centuries of British colonial occupation in Ireland.

Yeah, of course they do. Sure isn't everything British so much better than everything Irish. We'll see how superior Mother England is when Brexit hits...

Yes, because it's anti-British to oppose these memorials to British colonial supremacy in Ireland. Or do you really think the British put their royalist symbols on everything they could find because they weren't political? Strange how they never put symbols of the native Irish resistance to their sectarian foreign monarchy on their post boxes....

Also, I trust you'd be over defending those statues in the southern US states which commemorate racist American generals, and would tell African-Americans that they should be left there on their pedestal because they're "part of African-American history"? Will African-Americans be "anti-American" for refusing to have memorials to that racist aspect of US history in their communities?

And, by your thinking, somebody should have told Tony Benn that opposing the anti-Irish Catholic sectarianism and racism that has symbolised the British monarchy for many centuries now made him "anti-British" also. Only a good old racist sectarian supremacist royalist can be "British", it seems.

Oh Chr1st ! it's a fcuking Post box, if your that put out why don't you go to insert your letter, pull it out and shout "that's for 700 years of oppression"

CFlat

Deleted User wrote: »

"Our past"? Ha - well indoctrinated by Harris/The Cruiser/Sunday Independent there, aren't you. Since when is glorifying a foreign, anti-Catholic British royalist colonial cult part of "our past". No amount of Kevin Myers-inspired revisionism will succeed in selling us the English/British royalist tradition as being our Irish tradition. None. Some of us are acutely aware of our own distinctive, ancient Irish tradition and will resist this West Brit attempt to portray the coloniser's tradition as our own tradition. It's not, it never was - and it never, ever will be. And there's no fúcking debate about that one, son. There's something decidedly snake-like and intellectually vacuous in these attempts to call British colonial cults "our past", an attempt to spread the blame, to normalise colonialism and to ultimately have Irish people embrace the myths of British nationalism by honouring the thugs and psychopaths of centuries of British colonial occupation in Ireland.

Yeah, of course they do. Sure isn't everything British so much better than everything Irish. We'll see how superior Mother England is when Brexit hits...

Yes, because it's anti-British to oppose these memorials to British colonial supremacy in Ireland. Or do you really think the British put their royalist symbols on everything they could find because they weren't political? Strange how they never put symbols of the native Irish resistance to their sectarian foreign monarchy on their post boxes....

Also, I trust you'd be over defending those statues in the southern US states which commemorate racist American generals, and would tell African-Americans that they should be left there on their pedestal because they're "part of African-American history"? Will African-Americans be "anti-American" for refusing to have memorials to that racist aspect of US history in their communities?

And, by your thinking, somebody should have told Tony Benn that opposing the anti-Irish Catholic sectarianism and racism that has symbolised the British monarchy for many centuries now made him "anti-British" also. Only a good old racist sectarian supremacist royalist can be "British", it seems.

Here's an old favourite for you Fuaranach, I hope you enjoy it, 'goes somethin' like....

God save our gracious Queen.
Long live our noble Queen
God save the Queen
Send her victorious
Happy and glorious
Long to reign over us
God save the Queen

O Lord our God arise
Scatter her enemies
And make them fall
Confound their politics
Frustrate their knavish tricks
On Thee our hopes we fix
God save us all

Thy choicest gifts in store
On her be pleased to pour
Long may she reign
May she defend our laws
And ever give us cause
To sing with heart and voice
God save the Queen

Not in this land alone
But be God's mercies known
From shore to shore
Lord make the nations see
That men should brothers be
And form one family
The wide world over

From every latent foe
From the assassins blow
God save the Queen
O'er her thine arm extend
For Britain's sake defend
Our mother, prince, and friend
God save the Queen

Lord grant that Marshal Wade
May by thy mighty aid
Victory bring
May he sedition hush
And like a torrent rush
Rebellious Scots to crush
God save the King

youreadthat

We could also burn down every building built in the 800 years prior to 1916. It could be like November 5th, but with billions of euros of property instead of a catholic terrorist looking scarecrow. That will show those damn Bake Off watching heretics.

Allinall

Re-build Nelson's Pillar.

O'Connell St. Has never been the same without it.

At least the British knew how to build ****.

[Deleted User]

All that racism and sectarianism in their anthem sounds even more pathetic than usual now that the idiots have decided to collectively throw themselves off a cliff. Goodbye UK.

Etc

Allinall wrote: »

Re-build Nelson's Pillar.

O'Connell St. Has never been the same without it.

At least the British knew how to build ****.

Not as good as the Roman's though, bloody Roman's what did they ever do for us....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7tvauOJMHo

Tom Mann Centuria

Nabber wrote: »

Ridiculous
Our past is our past. Keeping the old post boxes does what? We are less a republic with the old British emblems?

The old post boxes look a lot better than the square ones on poles.

I thought this anti British nonsense was done?

This is just a place holder thread to tide us over until this year's poppy thread gets up and running.

[Deleted User]

youreadthat wrote: »

We could also burn down every building built in the 800 years prior to 1916.

Of course, because that "Georgian" architecture built with the tithes and exploitation of the dispossessed Irish Catholics is not really Greco-Roman architecture with a wonderfully English name put on it to make it seem like the English came up with it...

youreadthat

Etc wrote: »

Not as good as the Roman's though, bloody Roman's what did they ever do for us....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7tvauOJMHo

Shhhh they were 'good' invaders cause all the killing and oppression happened a long time ago so isn't readily available material for the great Irish struggle tales.

youreadthat

Tom Mann Centuria wrote: »

Think is just a place holder thread to tide us over until this year's poppy thread gets up and running.

Poppy season is like Christmas, gets earlier every year!

[Deleted User]

youreadthat wrote: »

Shhhh they were 'good' invaders cause all the killing and oppression happened a long time ago

Er, the Roman Empire never stretched as far as Ireland. And, no, the Norman invasion of Ireland was not in 1066 either. Wrong country.

Carry on.

Etc

Deleted User wrote: »

Er, the Roman Empire never stretched as far as Ireland. And, no, the Norman invasion of Ireland was not in 1066 either. Wrong country.

Carry on.

No, they came over and looked at developing a complex system of aqueducts, but the local population objected to paying for water..........

For Forks Sake

Nabber wrote: »

Ridiculous
Our past is our past. Keeping the old post boxes does what? We are less a republic with the old British emblems?

The old post boxes look a lot better than the square ones on poles.

I thought this anti British nonsense was done?

I think our OP may be one of that bunch of langers who were going around painting over vandalizing street signs down in Cork.

Sue Pa Key Pa

I dropped and broke a mug earlier. Feckin' Brits......

Atoms for Peace

Hitler's alive and well? What, in Argentina?

buried

Atoms for Peace wrote: »

Hitler's alive and well? What, in Argentina?

Probably in one of them post boxes. Nobody ever think of looking for him in there. Nobody uses them anyways

Zebra3

I take it all those who love having post boxes with the symbols of our past foreign occupation on them as they consider them “part of our history”, wouldn’t mind the Butchers Apron being hoisted over the GPO and other public buildings?

“Part of our history” and all that, folks......

evolving_doors

Marlowe Abundant Hose wrote: »

That's it block out our history because a post box is inflammatory. You're really running out of topics to start threads on.

you'll never take our annual poppy thread.... neverrrrr

Ipso

I'm still fuming about the invasion of the Cessair, Nemed and Parthenon.

maryishere

Allinall wrote: »

Re-build Nelson's Pillar.

O'Connell St. Has never been the same without it.

The viewing platform at the top was a great tourist attraction. Pity it is not there now.