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Would you wear clothing with the British Flag on it?

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  • #392
    Pin_Cushion
    Closed Accounts Posts: 120 ✭✭Pin_Cushion


    LordSutch wrote: »
    So to all you anti-British Republicans (and you Nodin), "what do you do when you are down the local Tesco and you see a nice succulent chicken breast in the reduced section 'with a British flag on it" :eek: can you bring yourself to buy it (and eat it), or might you gag?

    1. Tesco meat is the worst quality of all of the supermarkets.
    2. Wouldn't want to eat meat sourced abroad especially when local options are available.
    3. Combining 1 & 2 and then taking into consideration that it's reduced, I wouldn't touch it with a bargpole.

    I would certainly gag, and I'm not a staunch republican by any means.


  • #393
    LordSutch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,069 ✭✭✭✭LordSutch


    KeithAFC wrote: »
    Would you buy Irish stew or Irish chicken?

    Yes.

    I actually have a lovely lump of cheese in my fridge with a Tricolour on it :eek:


  • #394
    gurramok
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,992 ✭✭✭✭gurramok


    LordSutch wrote: »
    So to all you anti-British Republicans (and you Nodin), "what do you do when you are down the local Tesco and you see a nice succulent chicken breast in the reduced section 'with a British flag on it" :eek: can you bring yourself to buy it (and eat it), or might you gag?

    I'd eat and kill it...kill 'em all i say, its in my blood. Chicken that is by the way ;):D


  • #395
    seanybiker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,898 ✭✭✭✭seanybiker


    Couldn't give a shyte. If its a nice top then why not


  • #396
    KeithAFC
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,239 ✭✭✭✭KeithAFC


    LordSutch wrote: »
    Yes.

    I actually have a lovely lump of cheese in my fridge with a Tricolour on it :eek:
    :pac:

    My christmas turkey package had one on. I panicked. :o


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  • #397
    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    LordSutch wrote: »
    So to all you anti-British Republicans (and you Nodin), "what do you do when you are down the local Tesco and you see a nice succulent chicken breast in the reduced section 'with a British flag on it" :eek: can you bring yourself to buy it (and eat it), or might you gag?

    Personally I think you republican minded folk need to get out more, you need more British beef in your freezer, you need more British ladies in your beds, you need more British flags on your groceries, and you really need to stop hating . . . . . :)

    Its 2012 for God's sake, so what harm will a little British flag do on your Reebok trainers?

    Why is it it that in most pronouncements from one side of the issue, we have the other set up as rabid xenophobes in the preamble?


  • #398
    fryup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,067 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    Cú Giobach wrote: »
    An Ulster Unionist saying (to paraphrase) "well that's in the past, lets forget it".
    Holy crap :eek: It's the end of the world!!!!!!!

    you could direct the same sarcastic comment for irish republicans:cool:

    (as most of them still live in the past going by the evidence on this thread)


  • #399
    bwatson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 630 ✭✭✭bwatson


    gurramok wrote: »
    You sure about that?

    A bombing campaign perpetrated by people in the UK on other people in the UK!:D

    Nice to see you see the humour in that side of it.

    Remembering the crude nature of your posts in the past and the obvious hatred you have of Britain, I wonder do you dismiss what you percieve to be as injustices against catholics in Northern Ireland as "a campaign perpetrated by people in the UK on other people in the UK" and end it with a little green laughter smiley? " :D ".


  • #400
    LordSutch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,069 ✭✭✭✭LordSutch


    Nodin wrote: »
    Why is it it that in most pronouncements from one side of the issue, we have the other set up as rabid xenophobes in the preamble?

    Come on Nodin, a little British flag on your carton of soup, would you buy it & sip it?


  • #401
    Chuck Stone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,029 ✭✭✭✭Chuck Stone


    LordSutch wrote: »
    So to all you anti-British Republicans (and you Nodin), "what do you do when you are down the local Tesco and you see a nice succulent chicken breast in the reduced section 'with a British flag on it" :eek: can you bring yourself to buy it (and eat it), or might you gag?

    Personally I think you republican minded folk need to get out more, you need more British beef in your freezer, you need more British ladies in your beds, you need more British flags on your groceries, and you really need to stop hating . . . . . :)


    I didn't know that farm animals could be taught to be British but I guess it's not beyond the bounds of imagination.


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  • #402
    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    LordSutch wrote: »
    Come on Nodin, a little British flag on your carton of soup, would you buy it & sip it?

    ....possibly. Doubtless I have on previous occassions and never noticed. That would be (fairly fucking obviously I would have thought) because its a rather different thing to having it on clothing as a symbol/decoration.


  • #403
    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    Chuck Stone wrote: »
    I didn't know that farm animals could be taught to be British but I guess it's not beyond the bounds of imagination.

    You cull the troublesome ones and give the compliant ones more feed.


  • #404
    gurramok
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,992 ✭✭✭✭gurramok


    bwatson wrote: »
    Nice to see you see the humour in that side of it.

    Remembering the crude nature of your posts in the past and the obvious hatred you have of Britain, I wonder do you dismiss what you percieve to be as injustices against catholics in Northern Ireland as "a campaign perpetrated by people in the UK on other people in the UK" and end it with a little green laughter smiley? " :D ".

    I love Britain, i was born there!

    What have you got against the colour green? :D Perhaps petition the site to have the smiley's colour changed to red white and blue?


  • #405
    Morlar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,273 ✭✭✭Morlar


    The phrase 'burn everything british except their coal' springs to mind :

    To be honest when I am shopping I tend to buy Irish.

    This has nothing to do with Nationalism, more to do with a social conscience.

    I prefer to support Irish jobs in Ireland.

    That goes for all other countries too not just refusing to buy British.

    I'd rather buy Irish vegetables than spanish or mexican or israeli.

    I'd rather buy Irish meat products than British or French or whatever.

    It's got nothing to do with a hatred or any of that shíte, it's more to do with supporting Irish jobs.

    Unemployment in Ireland at the moment is sky high and it all helps. Also, from an ecological point of view it is more enviornmentally friendly to buy local produce than something shipped by air freight or container ship.


  • #406
    LordSutch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,069 ✭✭✭✭LordSutch


    Nodin wrote: »
    Doubtless I have on previous occassions and never noticed. That would be (fairly fucking obviously I would have thought) because its a rather different thing to having it on clothing as a symbol/decoration.

    Well done, we'd be lost without your contributions.

    I wonder are they still doing those Tricolour/IRA T-shirts on the SF website? that's clothing of a kind isnt it?


  • #407
    Clareboy
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 536 ✭✭✭Clareboy


    The British flag is a Christian symbol as it incorporates the flag of St. George, the flag of St. Andrew and the flag of St. Patrick. It symbolises the common Christian heritage of England, Ireland and Scotland, so I cannot understand why anyone would object to or be offended by someone wearing a British flag on their clothing.


  • #408
    Johnny Foreigner
    Closed Accounts Posts: 923 ✭✭✭Johnny Foreigner


    realies wrote: »
    No I wonder wear it either, Yet I often wore a Parker jacket (yeras ago)with a german flag on it ???? strange but true.

    I think you mean Parka jacket.
    Parker make very good fountain pens.


  • #409
    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    LordSutch wrote: »
    Well done, we'd be lost without your contributions.

    I wonder are they still doing those Tricolour/IRA T-shirts on the SF website? that's clothing of a kind isnt it?

    It is indeed. I presume you don't wear one?


  • #410
    Agricola
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,547 ✭✭✭Agricola


    Im about as far from a hardline republican as you'd find, but I wouldnt wear clothes with a Union Jack. I might make an exception for runners when they have to show the UK shoesize on a little label inside the tongue, but thats about it!
    Its weird because I completely get where people are coming from when they say, "FFS its just a little image on a tshirt or whatever, get over it!" but I just couldnt do it. Its something primal and deep-rooted! :pac: Its too loaded, a symbol of an entity which caused so much pain and suffering on this island.
    No way.


  • #411
    the_syco
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,310 ✭✭✭✭the_syco


    KeithAFC wrote: »
    All this stuff is in the past. I wish people would move on.
    Ah, it's fun. It's like how some backward people call Derry "London Derry"...


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  • #412
    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    Clareboy wrote: »
    The British flag is a Christian symbol as it incorporates the flag of St. George, the flag of St. Andrew and the flag of St. Patrick. It symbolises the common Christian heritage of England, Ireland and Scotland, so I cannot understand why anyone would object to or be offended by someone wearing a British flag on their clothing.

    You could start here....
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jul/21/mau-mau-torture-kenyans-compensation


  • #413
    KeithAFC
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,239 ✭✭✭✭KeithAFC


    the_syco wrote: »
    Ah, it's fun. It's like how some backward people call Derry "London Derry"...
    I think that is what it is called on a map. So you can't blame people using Londonderry.


  • #414
    Johnny Foreigner
    Closed Accounts Posts: 923 ✭✭✭Johnny Foreigner


    Washout wrote: »
    SO my wife is Indian...and was over there on a trip home.

    she brought me back a jumper with a little patch of the British flag about 2cm by 1cm.

    I said to her, I cant wear that with the flag on it ill get a different patch to cover it. (you cant just simply remove it).

    The argument that ensued was unreal.

    Just wondering if there is Irish ppl out there who would wear it and am I just being totally pedantic.

    I am London-Irish, born in London to Irish parents.
    I would never wear anything with the Union Jack flag on it (in Britain or Ireland).
    My advice is to divorce your wife.
    I find the concept of a wife buying her Irish husband and item of clothing with the Union Jack on it an insult.
    I remember as a teenager my London-Irish cousin bought a t-shirt with all the flags of the world embroidered into the front of it. When my Uncle saw it had the Union Jack on it he threw it straight in the bin. He was right.
    An Irish man should never wear the Union Jack in any form. We are Irish. Wearing the Irish tricolour flag is acceptable, but no other flag.


  • #415
    Johnny Foreigner
    Closed Accounts Posts: 923 ✭✭✭Johnny Foreigner


    KeithAFC wrote: »
    I think that is what it is called on a map. So you can't blame people using Londonderry.

    Peter Robinson calls it Derry.
    He is a member of Derry Flute Band and for that reason has said publicly that he has no problem with it being called Derry.


  • #416
    Kotek Besar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,597 ✭✭✭Kotek Besar


    Johnny Foreigner wrote: »
    I am London-Irish

    Do you mean you're from London-Derry?


  • #417
    LordSutch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,069 ✭✭✭✭LordSutch


    Oh my God, I've just discovered a very small British flag/label on the inside of my M&S suit jacket :eek:

    Looks for scissors . . . .


  • #418
    KeithAFC
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,239 ✭✭✭✭KeithAFC


    Johnny Foreigner wrote: »
    Peter Robinson calls it Derry.
    He is a member of Derry Flute Band and for that reason has said publicly that he has no problem with it being called Derry.
    Neither do I. But I don't care what people call it to be honest.


  • #419
    bwatson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 630 ✭✭✭bwatson


    Johnny Foreigner wrote: »
    I am London-Irish, born in London to Irish parents.

    Is this line really necessary as an introduction for every second post you make?

    Stating that a man should divorce his wife because she brought him back a jumper which he didn't really like also seems a bit extreme. You really come out with some odd things.


  • #420
    Pride Fighter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,727 ✭✭✭Pride Fighter


    EarlERizer wrote: »
    I've always wondered where the 'Welsh' representation is on the British flag? I know the Georges cross & scottish flag is there but I dont see any green or dragon :confused: is it more subtle that it goes unnoticed.

    It was united with England so there flag is the St. George's Cross. If it was not united with England the flag would be ruined. The Welsh flag was the flag of St. David and not the Dragon. The Flag of St. David is a gold cross with a black background.


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  • #421
    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    LordSutch wrote: »
    Oh my God, I've just discovered a very small British flag/label on the inside of my M&S suit jacket :eek:

    Looks for scissors . . . .

    Don't run back to the keyboard with the scissors to answer this, but, in your own time....
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=76592513&postcount=412


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