r3nu4l wrote: / hands flak jacket and helmet to dlofnep
DaveMcG wrote: 800 years of oppression....!!!!!!! :mad:
dlofnep wrote: The others? Too busy, Eastenders in on the box - No time for those what-ya-macall-its up North.
country was ripped in half right in front of our eyes
vomit out of my eyes.
InFront wrote: If everyone took that attitute the world would be a much safer place. Hopefully there will soon be a day when everyone is too busy with their own lives to get wrapped up in silly political, tribal and extreme nationalistic meanderings.
InFront wrote: You say it like it's a living being. Hundreds of years ago ireland was invaded, then it gained back independence, and now the democratic majority of one province, including many of those whose ancestors would have been the displaced landowners, want to remain in that union. March all you want, democracy is very simple.
Saruman wrote: WTF? Ripped in two? split?? When was there ever a united Ireland in the past...
oh yes.. during British rule!! NEVER before British rule was there ever anythign even approaching a country called Ireland with one people and history/culture.
Britain United the island and brought some sort of order.. so they oppressed the people... And left. So what? It was a long time before most of us still living were born.
The vast MAJORITY of people living in the North want to be part of the UK!! The republicans are a minority!
As for not caring! I dont for sure... Britain did not oppress me, they did not do anything to me.. or to anyone who is left alive in my family!!! Get over yourself and move on.
Oh, wait, that's right, because if you posted such a load of vitriolic nonsense in one of them you'd probably get a ban for flaming.
dlofnep wrote: Countries could also be colonised at will. It's people like me who stand against it. It's the people who sit on their arse who do nothing to prevent it.
Originally posted by dlofnep I'm sure your aware of our history, but choose to ignore it.
Jeff_Lebowski wrote: This thread title made me laugh. Then I read it. And I had another bit of a laugh. Vomit out my eyes. Classic. Shouldn't this be on the politics forum?
Boston wrote: Which friends are those, the bomb planting murdering scum friends is it or the kneecapping violent drunken drug dealing arsehole friends?
Hill Billy wrote: I can understand where the OP is coming from, but a balance needs to be achieved. I'm all for remembering the past & honouring those heroes of the past. However, I don't think that living in the past will achieve much. I prefer to live for the future.Cliché-ridden, but there ya go.
dlofnep wrote: Why can't someone be passionate about their country without having to be tied to murder? Nice ad hominem.
Face the facts. Our country was ripped in half right in front of our eyes, our very own countryment and women brutalised, murdered, raped, mistreated, had their rights and voting ability removed for time. We were colonised by a brutal and vicious sect who are known the world over for mistreatment of the native people. it is our downright duty to maintain our history. We are Irish, not British. I think it's time some of us acted like it.
r3nu4l wrote: That about sums it up for me I understand what the OP is saying and I think we should publicly celebrate 1916 but I don't think there should be any hate involved.
Boston wrote: It's the killing thats makes them murderers, nothing else.
dlofnep wrote: Also, I'd like to note - I apologise for lack of videos of this eye vomiting.
humanji wrote: Well until the advent of time travel there really is nothing you or anyone else can do about it. Why hate people who realise that dwelling on the past does absolutely no good? And why assume because people don't go around campaigning for a united Ireland that they don't care about what happened before? What happened in our history was terrible, but isn't it better to try and make a better future, you know, something you actually can do something about?
stooge wrote: DLOFNEP, Its true that a lot of people in the republic nowadays don't care one bit about the north and the years of opression/bias/murders and collusion. In the past (30/40 years ago), it could be said that the south was at the very least, interested in the wellbeing of northern catholics, most likely due to the fact that neither was much better off than the other. The recent boom in the economy, Celtic Tiger etc, has led to the standard of living/availability of jobs in the south being significantly better than that in the north. As a result, southeners have become fixated with wealth, too wrapped up in this to care about the divide. Its a prime example of how power and wealth matter more to a lot of people than principles, courage and honour. Just in case you think I'd advocating a mass invasion of the north by the south, I'm not...I'm merely saying that a change of attitude is needed by the broad majority of people in the republic. Theres more to life than wealth and cowardness. After all - the south sold the north out in the first place....
dlofnep wrote: It's people like me who stand against it. It's the people who sit on their arse who do nothing to prevent it.