Would a Republican drown?

danbohan · 07-08-2010 10:15AM

falan wrote: »

Let me get this straight! There are 5 people here who would rather drown than be rescued by an organisation with the word 'royal' in it????Or have i read the poll wrong???:rolleyes::rolleyes:...What sad pathetic people they are.

ogh ignore them , they would be first in the boat .

Banjo Fella · 07-08-2010 10:37AM

Somehow I read the title as "would a replicant drown?" ...I had high expectations for this thread.

Kev_ps3 · 07-08-2010 10:54AM

Wish the hardcore Loyalists would stop trolling. This is an Irish forum.

Kev_ps3 · 07-08-2010 11:00AM

falan wrote: »

Let me get this straight! There are 5 people here who would rather drown than be rescued by an organisation with the word 'royal' in it????Or have i read the poll wrong???:rolleyes::rolleyes:...What sad pathetic people they are.

Just lol.. Love the way the loyalists/ anglo-Irish / west-brits on here phrase things. Instead of calling the thread 'Why does our lifeguard have Royal in it' they twist it to 'Would a republican drown'. You lot are the real sad pathetic people.

Winty · 07-08-2010 11:19AM

Kev_ps3 wrote: »

Wish the hardcore Loyalists would stop trolling. This is an Irish forum.

***** And the Winner of Last Night Thread is Kev ps3 ******

Your answer is why I put the thread up, yes this is an Irish forum. The brave man who died in 1916 did so for the Irish to be free online.

Did not see the Joke in their Kev ?

the_syco · 07-08-2010 11:21AM

Winty wrote: »

Republican

Are we talking about the sensible ones, or the ones that hate the english, but support english football teams?

bnt · 07-08-2010 11:39AM

I thought this was going to be about putting Republicans through the old "witch test" with a dunking stool. You know - dunk them in the river for a few minutes and watch what happens: if they drown, they're innocent, but if they dont drown, you can burn them at the stake. :cool:

moonpurple · 07-08-2010 12:08PM

Winty wrote: »

My question for today is,
If found in trouble off the Irish Coast would a Republican refuse help from the Royal National Lifeboat Institution as it’s a wing of the imperial oppressor.

Many on boards don’t like the anglicising of Irish culture via television, sport and high street shops, does this include the RNLI. Should they be replaced with just NLI and drop the “Royal”.

I have nothing but respect for the brave men and woman who volunteer to help others. They are heroes and the RNLI name has a long and proud history.

irish culture is not 'anglisized'
Irish culture is americanised, movies, simpsons, microsoft, rap, pop, etc etc

and thank Goodness for it
the British model has been eclipsed by the american model
and thank god for it

anybody in trouble at sea will take rescue from any1:pac:

when i was surrounded by a house high swell on the bay of biscay i would have crawled up satans rusty bullethole to get out of there

Mike 1972 · 07-08-2010 01:19PM

bnt wrote: »

I thought this was going to be about putting Republicans through the old "witch test" with a dunking stool. You know - dunk them in the river for a few minutes and watch what happens: if they drown, they're innocent, but if they dont drown, you can burn them at the stake. :cool:

You Loyalist/West Brit/Whateveryerhavinyerself troll you :pac:

moonpurple wrote: »

when i was surrounded by a house high swell on the bay of biscay i would have crawled up satans rusty butthole to get out of there

FYP!

120_Minutes · 07-08-2010 02:37PM

Christ, Ireland really is at it's " Kevin the teenager angsty phase" of it's history isn't it?

Sometimes I wish I could fast forward 100 years or so to a country with a bit of cop on...

Einhard · 07-08-2010 02:45PM

Kev_ps3 wrote: »

Wish the hardcore Loyalists would stop trolling. This is an Irish forum.

It's not an exclusively Irish forum. Plenty of Americans and Australians and other nationalities post here too. Even if it were Irish, it'd be defined as the whole island of Irish, and Loyalosts would have every right to post. Is this the enlightened view of Loyalists that you're going to use to ease their fears of a 32 county Republic? That they should STFU when expressing sentiments that nationalists mightn't like? With people like you about, it's no wonder that many of them view the prospect of re-unification with horror.

LordSutch · 07-08-2010 03:05PM

Winty wrote: »

Sorry Lordsutch, I think you got the wrong end of the stick, I put this in Afterhours as a joke, The RNLI crews are nothing only Heroes as I said in the OP

You old prankster you, I didn't realise this whole thread was a joke, you had me going there

dlofnep · 07-08-2010 03:13PM

That pot must be well stirred by now Winty.

One wonders how quickly this thread would be locked if it stated "Would a Unionist drown?"

As for the lifeboat service, I'm not bothered about the name. It's another episode of "Who gives a shit?"

Dostoevsky · 07-08-2010 04:17PM

Winty wrote: »

Would a Republican drown?

Winty wrote: »

We have some great Republicans on boards ... we have some who cant take a joke and tar all Republicans as thugs, what team do you play on?

Mike 1972 wrote: »

^^ And they say Republicans cant take a joke ??????Although If they were true Republicans they would never holiday In Spain, Denmark, The Netherlands, Belgium, Sweden.......

Mike 1972 wrote: »

It started out as a joke about the possibility that there might Republicans..............

This "joke" appears to have gone down like a lead balloon. Unsurprisingly a quick history check of the same people who think it's funny reveals they are:

a) politically unionist/loyalist/anti-Irish/pro-British, and

b) have atrocious grammar. To take one of many examples, the (very basic) difference between a proper noun and a common noun still eludes them: it's republican, not "Republican". It's nationalist, not "Nationalist". Ad infinitum.

Common vs Proper nouns

At any rate, this is a stupid thread, even as stupid threads here go.

Dostoevsky · 07-08-2010 04:23PM

fonecrusher1 wrote: »

Its a grade A sh!te thread.

Anyone want to talk about cheese? Whats your favourite? Currently my fave is the simple red cheddar. Its addictive.

Excellent idea. I like Brie de Meaux and sometimes Camembert but no doubt our eurosceptic unionist posters above will accuse anybody who chooses a French cheese of being "anti-British".:rolleyes:

jimmycrackcorm · 07-08-2010 04:23PM

Unemployed republicans in the north accept the british dole so I don't think life saving by the rnli is that much of an issue to debate....

Amazotheamazing · 07-08-2010 04:35PM

Iirc, part of the reason they still use the "royal" is because a lot of the funding comes from charity drives in the UK. A (nationalist) lifeguard from Donegal who served in the RNLI told me charity collections in places like Birmingham in England actually raise a lot of money for them. I can only hope the republican fantasists on here have some plan as to how we would fund the organisation in the absence of that money, rob another NI bank?

Dionysus · 07-08-2010 04:45PM

Amazotheamazing wrote: »

Iirc, part of the reason they still use the "royal" is because a lot of the funding comes from charity drives in the UK. A (nationalist) lifeguard from Donegal who served in the RNLI told me charity collections in places like Birmingham in England actually raise a lot of money for them. I can only hope the republican fantasists on here have some plan as to how we would fund the organisation in the absence of that money, rob another NI bank?

That makes no sense - except perhaps in some British nationalist fantasy land. You actually believe we would have no lifeboat service unless we have the 'royal' in the title? :rolleyes:

That entire line of reasoning - if that's not giving it too much credit - is obtuse.

Blackjack · 07-08-2010 04:48PM

The Royal National Lifeboat Institution is a charity registered in England and Wales (209603) and Scotland (SC037736). Charity number CHY 2678 in the Republic of Ireland.

07-08-2010 04:58PM

Amazotheamazing wrote: »

Iirc, part of the reason they still use the "royal" is because a lot of the funding comes from charity drives in the UK. A (nationalist) lifeguard from Donegal who served in the RNLI told me charity collections in places like Birmingham in England actually raise a lot of money for them. I can only hope the republican fantasists on here have some plan as to how we would fund the organisation in the absence of that money, rob another NI bank?

According to Wikipedia

Since the RNLI was founded, its lifeboats have saved over 137,000 lives (as of November 2006).

So a charity well worth supporting, the fact that they do so well fundraising as far inland as Birmingham shows how widely respected they are.

jurgenscarl · 07-08-2010 05:01PM

I once read in a book by Stephen Ambrose called Citizen Soldiers that after the Americans crossed the Rhine and advanced into Germany in 1945 toward the end of WW2, they kept running into ambushes with a few German Waffen SS with an anti-tank gun or a Tiger tank who would retreat and attack them at the next bridge or wood or hill.

Anyways a German SS soldier straight out of a Nazi recruitment poster was carried wounded to an American aid post.

He asked the doctor who was going to give him a transfusion to save his life, if he could garantee that none of the blood was Jewish.

The doctor said he couldn't and the German refused the transfusion and bled to death.

120_Minutes · 07-08-2010 05:55PM

jurgenscarl wrote: »

I once read in a book by Stephen Ambrose called Citizen Soldiers that after the Americans crossed the Rhine and advanced into Germany in 1945 toward the end of WW2, they kept running into ambushes with a few German Waffen SS with an anti-tank gun or a Tiger tank who would retreat and attack them at the next bridge or wood or hill.

Anyways a German SS soldier straight out of a Nazi recruitment poster was carried wounded to an American aid post.

He asked the doctor who was going to give him a transfusion to save his life, if he could garantee that none of the blood was Jewish.

The doctor said he couldn't and the German refused the transfusion and bled to death.

One less idiot... I see your point. Let em drown/bleed/whatever...

Winty · 07-08-2010 05:56PM

dlofnep wrote: »

That pot must be well stirred by now Winty.

Just a bit of criac, some took the bait hook line and sinker

Amazotheamazing · 07-08-2010 06:17PM

Dionysus wrote: »

That makes no sense - except perhaps in some British nationalist fantasy land. You actually believe we would have no lifeboat service unless we have the 'royal' in the title? :rolleyes:

That entire line of reasoning - if that's not giving it too much credit - is obtuse.

Hmm, unless you can prove otherwise I'll go with what the guy in the RNLI told me.

I'm sure we'd have a lifeboat service, just a less well funded and probably less effective one.

Mr Benevolent · 07-08-2010 06:19PM

What the hell's a Republican? A born-again pub owner??

07-08-2010 06:28PM

Confab wrote: »

What the hell's a Republican? A born-again pub owner??

One thing for sure, he's not the landlord of the Kings head or the Royal Oak

Wolfe Tone · 07-08-2010 07:00PM

I didnt laugh. Crap joke is crap. At least make it funny.

I dont think a "would a unionist drown" thread would last long.

Einhard · 07-08-2010 07:12PM

Dostoevsky wrote: »

b) have atrocious grammar. To take one of many examples, the (very basic) difference between a proper noun and a common noun still eludes them: it's republican, not "Republican". It's nationalist, not "Nationalist". Ad infinitum.
Common vs Proper nouns

The question is, would a grammar Nazi refuse aid because there is no period after the letters forming the acronym RNLI?

Dionysus · 07-08-2010 08:18PM

Amazotheamazing wrote: »

Hmm, unless you can prove otherwise I'll go with what the guy in the RNLI told me.

I'm sure we'd have a lifeboat service, just a less well funded and probably less effective one.

Surely to God you're not suggesting that British people would give less money to an organisation which saves people at sea if they removed the word 'royal' from the name? Hello?

But...but...but I thought this thread was all about how "nationalistic" Irish people are, so "nationalistic" in fact they apparently wouldn't allow themselves to be saved by an organisation with 'royal' in the title. Now, it seems, the British wouldn't allow themselves to be saved by (or at least they wouldn't given money to) an organisation which hadn't the 'royal' in the title! The irony, the irony.

Jesus, this already fairly thick thread just gets worse/more revealing in terms of political bias.

Fratton Fred · 07-08-2010 08:28PM

Some posters are in serious need of a sense of humour Implant

Would a Republican drown?

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