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Are you proud of the Irish flag....

  • 16-11-2013 01:02AM
    #1
    robertxxx
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,158 ✭✭✭


    Like the English are with theirs or like me you feel there is nothing to be proud about with all this corruption from politicians, cut backs in healthcare for the sick and dying, unemployment, extra taxes , property, water, bins, inflated gas, electricity, oil prices, overpriced healthcare, overpriced motor tax, bus and rail,
    Vat, Vrt, excise duty, wage cuts, everything has gone up or gone in the last few years this place is a f'ing kip to live in and I would proudly welcome back the Queen of England back to rule these shores.

    Are you proud?

    Are you proud of the Irish flag? 151 votes

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  • #2
    Vito Corleone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,753 ✭✭✭Vito Corleone


    Indifferent.


  • #3
    hfallada
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,179 ✭✭✭hfallada


    robertxxx wrote: »
    Like the English are with theirs or like me you feel there is nothing to be proud about with all this corruption from politicians, cut backs in healthcare for the sick and dying, unemployment, extra taxes , property, water, bins, inflated gas, electricity, oil prices, overpriced healthcare, overpriced motor tax, bus and rail,
    Vat, Vrt, excise duty, wage cuts, everything has gone up or gone in the last few years this place is a f'ing kip to live in and I would proudly welcome back the Queen of England back to rule these shores.

    Are you proud?

    I'm sorry have you every heard anything about the cost of living in the uk? Property taxes are the same regardless if you live in a mansion or a house council house. Income taxes are high to fund the health system. Yet the super rich pay nothing on income from abroad( that why half of Moscow now lives in the uk).

    You also pay for bins and water in the uk. They also have vrt and extremely high taxes on diesel. Their trains make ours look a bargain.

    The grass is 100% not greener on the other side of the Irish Sea.


  • #4
    Jimoslimos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,930 ✭✭✭Jimoslimos


    robertxxx wrote: »
    Like the English are with theirs or like me you feel there is nothing to be proud about with all this corruption from politicians, cut backs in healthcare for the sick and dying, unemployment, extra taxes , property, water, bins, inflated gas, electricity, oil prices, overpriced healthcare, overpriced motor tax, bus and rail,
    Vat, Vrt, excise duty, wage cuts, everything has gone up or gone in the last few years this place is a f'ing kip to live in and I would proudly welcome back the Queen of England back to rule these shores.

    Are you proud?
    Overpriced rail? You've not had the pleasure of travelling by train in the UK I see.


  • #5
    keith16
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,061 ✭✭✭keith16


    Roxette - a fantastically underrated duo who I am very proud of.


  • #6
    crockholm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,448 ✭✭✭crockholm


    Yes.Very proud,in fact, so proud that I'm going to punch the next Ivorian I see in the face for desecrating our flag.


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  • #7
    Witcher
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,521 ✭✭✭✭Witcher


    robertxxx wrote: »
    I would proudly welcome back the Queen of England back to rule these shores.

    Go and live on her shores and your problems will go away apparently.

    I hate this Anglophile 'I'd welcome them back' BS you know where to go if you love them.

    That's not just for the British either, if you love the US, Australia etc. do the same, don't like it, the door is open. Sick of listening to the people back from Aus. who've 'had their eyes open to how a country should be run'..go back then.


  • #8
    keith16
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,061 ✭✭✭keith16


    crockholm wrote: »
    Yes.Very proud,in fact, so proud that I'm going to punch the next Ivorian I see in the face for desecrating our flag.

    Let's hope for all concerned that it's Didier Drogba.


  • #9
    yizorselves
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 353 ✭✭yizorselves


    Am I proud of something I had nothing to do with the creating of?

    I dunno


  • #10
    humanji
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,976 ✭✭✭✭humanji


    I think it's terribly drab. It needs a tiger shooting tommy guns on it, or at least some swear words scrawled on to it, to make it edgy and cool.


  • #11
    seanie_c
    Closed Accounts Posts: 295 ✭✭seanie_c


    I'm proud of the people that gave their lives to secure some semblance of freedom for people on this Island but I'm saddened it was sold off for a corrupt minority that in the old days would have been shot dead.


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  • #12
    theblaqueguy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 401 ✭✭theblaqueguy


    crockholm wrote: »
    Yes.Very proud,in fact, so proud that I'm going to punch the next Ivorian I see in the face for desecrating our flag.

    You can punch me!
    I apologize for my country copying your flag and flying it backwards it brings me great shame


  • #13
    crockholm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,448 ✭✭✭crockholm


    keith16 wrote: »
    Let's hope for all concerned that it's Didier Drogba.
    I don't know,apparently he doesn't go down easily at all,at all.;)


  • #14
    angelfire9
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,226 ✭✭✭angelfire9


    I was abroad when Katie Taylor win her gold
    Nothing nicer than being in a pub abroad (not an Irish pub) watching the Tricolour being raised and the national anthem being sung with pride
    Yes, Ireland as a country is pretty f****d up right now, but its still our country, and our flag and while the Irish are apparently crap at Economics there are some things we are still good at, our flag represents both the good and the bad


  • #15
    dpofloinn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 744 ✭✭✭dpofloinn


    robertxxx wrote: »
    Like the English are with theirs or like me you feel there is nothing to be proud about with all this corruption from politicians, cut backs in healthcare for the sick and dying, unemployment, extra taxes , property, water, bins, inflated gas, electricity, oil prices, overpriced healthcare, overpriced motor tax, bus and rail,
    Vat, Vrt, excise duty, wage cuts, everything has gone up or gone in the last few years this place is a f'ing kip to live in and I would proudly welcome back the Queen of England back to rule these shores.

    Are you proud?


    Feel free to wrap yourself in the butchers appron but I dont recall the tri colour doing any of the above,I belive you may want to look at the the so called elite if you are going to blame any one or anything


  • #16
    humbert
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,238 ✭✭✭humbert


    I sure am proud to participate in such an original thread. *Wanders off humming Listen to your Heart.


  • #17
    GhostInTheRuins
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,035 ✭✭✭GhostInTheRuins


    Wouldn't be mad about the orange bit tbh


  • #18
    a fat guy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 800 ✭✭✭a fat guy


    Why be proud of something that I had no input for?

    I can understand a father being proud of his sons accomplishments, in an "You've made me happy" kind of way, but being proud of a flag or country just feels silly.

    Not to mention that political parties could easily use national pride as a tool to get you on board with their way of thinking. Much like how the Americans tend to.


  • #19
    Irish Guitarist
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,736 ✭✭✭Irish Guitarist


    No. I'm ashamed to be Irish because we have water rates, bin charges and unemployment. They don't have anything like that in the Utopian society that is Britain and the citizens have the privilege of their taxes going to the Windsors.


  • #20
    Karl Stein
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,687 ✭✭✭Karl Stein


    robertxxx wrote: »
    I would proudly welcome back the Queen of England back to rule these shores.

    Sycophancy has no loyalty. You're the type of person who'd compliment the naked king on his fine attire.
    GhostInTheRuins wrote: »
    Wouldn't be mad about the orange bit tbh

    Nor I. I like the harp on monochrome background or the four province flag.


  • #21
    zenno
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,377 ✭✭✭zenno


    Are you proud of the Irish flag

    No. It's just a material object covered in a specific colour of dye.

    However, I am proud of my Irish ancestors, but not a flag made of silk or linen to twilight the eyes.


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  • #22
    humbert
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,238 ✭✭✭humbert


    humanji wrote: »
    I think it's terribly drab. It needs a tiger shooting tommy guns on it, or at least some swear words scrawled on to it, to make it edgy and cool.
    I read that as tiger shooting tommy guns, now that would be a weapon.


  • #23
    P_1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,681 ✭✭✭✭P_1


    It's a bit of coloured cloth, meh


  • #24
    Pushtrak
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,640 ✭✭✭Pushtrak


    I'm neither proud nor ashamed. It's just a symbol.


  • #25
    HomelessMidge
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 334 ✭✭HomelessMidge


    Could do with more sparkle and fabulousness!


  • #26
    timthumbni
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,845 ✭✭✭timthumbni


    GhostInTheRuins wrote: »
    Wouldn't be mad about the orange bit tbh

    Don't worry. We unionists aren't big fans either. You should change it. Lol. Maybe green, white and green would look cool.


  • #27
    The Pheasant2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,699 ✭✭✭The Pheasant2


    Yes I am proud, and I'm also sick and tired of the constant whinging and Ireland bashing - if Britain's so great how about you leave and take your pessimism with you? I certainly won't miss you


  • #28
    crockholm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,448 ✭✭✭crockholm


    GhostInTheRuins wrote: »
    Wouldn't be mad about the orange bit tbh

    Well,what we could do is replace the orange with even more green,then get rid of amhrain na bhfiann and insert a catchy little number like "I chop your dollar".
    AFAIK...Bhutan have a cool flag with a dragon in it,and Rwanda have an "R" in theirs- sometimes I wish our flag looked more like a tatoo also.:(


  • #29
    Muise...
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,512 ✭✭✭Muise...


    I don't like the colour combination. It's neither properly contrasting nor harmonious; two mixed colours with a blank bit in between. I don't care about the symbollix, it's shoddy design!


  • #30
    looking_around
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,491 ✭✭✭looking_around


    Atari Jaguar.


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  • #31
    doolox
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,345 ✭✭✭doolox


    I recall a time when my uncle, a missionary priest, had the misfortune to be in China at the time of Mao's cultural revolution in the 1950's.
    All agents and symbols of "foreign influence" were subject to summary execution by the Communists. He recalled being very glad to see the British Union flag flying over Hong Kong when a Chinese man of goodwill smuggled him out of mainland china to Hong Kong and away from certain death.

    Several Columban priests were killed by the Chinese Communists at that time.

    Uncle Ned would not have been the most ardent Anglophile at any time but the British colony saved his bacon when needed.

    The English also provided a life, career and training to my mother and father and two of my uncles and aunts when this island couldn't or wouldn't so I find the term "Butchers Apron" more that a bit offensive.

    People should look at the flag that flies over the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland....the flag of saint Patrick, it is a red and white Saltire similar to that of Scotland and forms 1/3 of the Union Flag. I would not categorise the Irish or the Scots as Butchers although their national symbols form part of the union flag.


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