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Is it a bit common to have Irish flags

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  • #272
    newport2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,621 ✭✭✭newport2


    borzaboy wrote: »
    The people in blackrock should start showing a bit of support for there country!

    They are supporting their country. Who do you think pays for all the council estates with all the flags adorning them? ;)


  • #273
    Wibbs
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,291 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    Monty Burnz wrote: »
    The irony is that a lot of the people who bedeck themselves with Irish flags around this time are the same people who make a career of drawing the dole and petty crime. They 'love' 'their country', but spend their lives making it miserable for the rest of us.

    Odd.
    "A lot"? Really? Way to tar many thousands of people with the same brush.

    Many worry about Artificial Intelligence. I worry far more about Organic Idiocy.



  • #274
    Pandora2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 937 ✭✭✭Pandora2


    SMASH THE UNIONS wrote: »
    Do they still have murals glorifying dead knackers in West Belfast? Last time I was there I couldn't wait to get out of the place...what a kip. Tricolours everywhere like dogs píssing to mark their terrority.


    I gather you mean their public support for a United Ireland & their modern art salutes to their heroes?? ;) Chill the feck out, we're talking football here!!


  • #275
    Pandora2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 937 ✭✭✭Pandora2


    Sorry, Double Post ><


  • #276
    Mr. Loverman
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    I actually don't know what the word "common" means. Does it mean "common man" as in someone who probably didn't go to university and lives in a working class area? Or is it an insult?

    Genuinely don't know.


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  • #277
    Monty Burnz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,455 ✭✭✭✭Monty Burnz


    Wibbs wrote: »
    "A lot"? Really? Way to tar many thousands of people with the same brush.
    "A lot" is deliberately vague as I don't have an exact figure or percentage - but I believe 'thousands' certainly fit the bill.


  • #278
    DoesNotCompute
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,375 ✭✭✭DoesNotCompute


    Yeah, they're slightly tacky and somewhat common, but I can't help but caught up in the fervour of it all.

    Besides, the country needs a boost in morale at the moment, and seeing flags being erected is nothing but a good thing in that regard.


  • #279
    [Deleted User]
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    Flags & buntings don't boost my morale.
    A good ride would though. :pac:

    Coming into work this morning i saw a car with four flags (one on each window) and the mirror socks too.
    Common as ****!


  • #280
    jack presley
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    RVP 11 wrote: »
    Flags & buntings don't boost my morale.
    A good ride would though. :pac:

    Coming into work this morning i saw a car with four flags (one on each window) and the mirror socks too.
    Common as ****!

    I bet the driver's getting a good ride too though (though hopefully not while driving)


  • #281
    kfallon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,775 ✭✭✭✭kfallon


    The more flags the better imo!!!


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  • #282
    phasers
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    nlgbbbblth wrote: »
    Surely a St George's Cross rather than a Union Jack?
    Whatever

    Oh and there's been a new addition to the estate, someone painted their car green white and orange. I assume it's off the road because they painted the windshield but God only knows...


  • #283
    flutterflye
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    Mr. Loverman wrote: »
    I actually don't know what the word "common" means. Does it mean "common man" as in someone who probably didn't go to university and lives in a working class area? Or is it an insult?

    Genuinely don't know.

    You know those houses with a million gnomes and things in their garden? - That's common!
    Tacky basically.


  • #284
    Show Time
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,637 ✭✭✭Show Time


    Tri-colour(Green white and gold) out my bedroom window and the Southern Cross flag hanging from my study room in honour of the Cork footballers winning yesterday. For some strange reason the only neighbours of mine who seem any bit upset are the black lads over the road but as they are only renting their views mean nothing to me.


  • #285
    Meauldsegosha
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,683 ✭✭✭Meauldsegosha


    phasers wrote: »
    nlgbbbblth wrote: »
    Surely a St George's Cross rather than a Union Jack?
    Whatever

    Oh and there's been a new addition to the estate, someone painted their car green white and orange. I assume it's off the road because they painted the windshield but God only knows...

    I saw a car yesterday with those wing mirror covers on backwards. Made me smile : )


  • #286
    Meauldsegosha
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,683 ✭✭✭Meauldsegosha


    Show Time wrote: »
    Tri-colour(Green white and gold) out my bedroom window and the Southern Cross flag hanging from my study room in honour of the Cork footballers winning yesterday. For some strange reason the only neighbours of mine who seem any bit upset are the black lads over the road but as they are only renting their views mean nothing to me.

    The Irish tricolour is green, white and orange. What flag are you flying?


  • #287
    Pherekydes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,252 ✭✭✭✭Pherekydes


    Meauldsegosha wrote: »
    The Irish tricolour is green, white and orange. What flag are you flying?

    The Offaly flag, which he does as a proud Corkonian.


  • #288
    Show Time
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    Meauldsegosha wrote: »
    The Irish tricolour is green, white and orange. What flag are you flying?
    I don't go for the orange in my Irish flag as all the lads who follow the orange would rather live under a union jack.


  • #289
    Show Time
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,637 ✭✭✭Show Time


    Pherekydes wrote: »
    The Offaly flag, which he does as a proud Corkonian.
    The Southern Cross flag represents my love of Cork and all that the real capital brings to the country.


  • #290
    Meauldsegosha
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,683 ✭✭✭Meauldsegosha


    Show Time wrote: »
    Meauldsegosha wrote: »
    The Irish tricolour is green, white and orange. What flag are you flying?
    I don't go for the orange in my Irish flag as all the lads who follow the orange would rather live under a union jack.

    But its not an Irish flag then as article 7 of the Irish constitution clearly states the colours are green, white and orange.


  • #291
    LostInLM
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 105 ✭✭LostInLM


    Show Time wrote: »
    Meauldsegosha wrote: »
    The Irish tricolour is green, white and orange. What flag are you flying?
    I don't go for the orange in my Irish flag as all the lads who follow the orange would rather live under a union jack.

    Not your choice! It written into our constitution. See earlier threads.


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  • #292
    Show Time
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    LostInLM wrote: »
    Not your choice! It written into our constitution. See earlier threads.
    That constitution will be changed at a later date.:D


  • #293
    LostInLM
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 105 ✭✭LostInLM


    Show Time wrote: »
    LostInLM wrote: »
    Not your choice! It written into our constitution. See earlier threads.
    That constitution will be changed at a later date.:D


    Above this Chamber flies the flag of this nation - all Thirty-two counties - the flag of green, white and orange.

    Deputy Gerry Adams -Dail Eireann 2011.
    Vol.728 No. 1 p.8 c.52


  • #294
    Meauldsegosha
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,683 ✭✭✭Meauldsegosha


    Show Time wrote: »
    LostInLM wrote: »
    Not your choice! It written into our constitution. See earlier threads.
    That constitution will be changed at a later date.:D

    You can append it in to the next Euro referendum. Nobody reads those things anyway : )


  • #295
    newport2
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    Show Time wrote: »
    The Southern Cross flag represents my love of Cork and all that the real capital brings to the country.

    Great minds,eh? I love Cork and feel that Dublin brings a lot to the country too ;)


  • #296
    Show Time
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    newport2 wrote: »
    Great minds,eh? I love Cork and feel that Dublin brings a lot to the country too ;)
    I have not read the thread fully but would i be right in guessing that a few of the more PC heads on here are claiming that even flying the tricolour is racist.


  • #297
    dmcronin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 267 ✭✭dmcronin


    LostInLM wrote: »
    Above this Chamber flies the flag of this nation - all Thirty-two counties - the flag of green, white and orange.

    Deputy Gerry Adams -Dail Eireann 2011.
    Vol.728 No. 1 p.8 c.52

    Only 'come all ye' ballad singers call it gold. Hard to find something to rhyme with orange.


  • #298
    Peetrik
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,672 ✭✭✭Peetrik


    Pride in the national flag should be very common amongst Irish people.

    That aside, it's interesting how the people being asked to bear the brunt of sacrifice/austerity are perceived as having more pride in the national flag, as opposed to the more affluent members of our fine country who seem to distain or consider it "common as muck" to display the national flag.

    No real point to make, just find it interesting is all.


  • #299
    SEPT 23 1989
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    I loves me flags i does


  • #300
    newport2
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    Peetrik wrote: »
    Pride in the national flag should be very common amongst Irish people.

    That aside, it's interesting how the people being asked to bear the brunt of sacrifice/austerity are perceived as having more pride in the national flag, as opposed to the more affluent members of our fine country who seem to distain or consider it "common as muck" to display the national flag.

    No real point to make, just find it interesting is all.

    Just because covering your house/car/self in Irish flags doesn't appeal to you doesn't mean you disdain it or consider it common as muck. My neighbours know I'm Irish and support Ireland, I don't see the need to advertise it. If the Irish team could see my house from the pitch then maybe I would do it to show them my support, but they can't. Each to their own.


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  • #301
    DEFTLEFTHAND
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    I don't like when people write on the flag, I think its disrespectful.


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