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Are you proud of the Irish flag....

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  • #62
    robertxxx
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,158 ✭✭✭robertxxx


    JonEBGud wrote: »
    Yes.
    Why should you ask?

    Why shouldn't i ?


  • #63
    Vito Corleone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,753 ✭✭✭Vito Corleone


    JonEBGud wrote: »
    Where you from boy?

    Ireland.


  • #64
    Pushtrak
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,640 ✭✭✭Pushtrak


    JonEBGud wrote: »
    Yes.
    Why should you ask?
    Why should you ask why should he ask? Why should I ask why you should ask why he should ask?

    It's a forum, questions come up as topics of discussion. There you go.


  • #65
    Cycling Dumbasses
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 417 ✭✭Cycling Dumbasses


    Does it matter who rules the roost or who rules the shores im irish and proud, if the queen of England tomo rules Ireland she would be more than welcome, totally respect and admire her, she came to the city near me in 2011 and what a lady, whether enda kenny or queen elizabeth rules it wont bother me.


  • #66
    The Diabolical Monocle
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,618 ✭✭✭The Diabolical Monocle


    Cycling Dumbasses wrote: »
    Does it matter who rules the roost or who rules the shores im irish and proud, if the queen of England tomo rules Ireland she would be more than welcome, totally respect and admire her, she came to the city near me in 2011 and what a lady, whether enda kenny or queen elizabeth rules it wont bother me.

    Yeah, booo meritocracy.

    Vagina roulette ftw.


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  • #67
    JonEBGud
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 220 ✭✭JonEBGud


    Pushtrak wrote: »
    Why should you ask why should he ask? Why should I ask why you should ask why he should ask?

    It's a forum, questions come up as topics of discussion. There you go.

    It's about our flag.
    Irish.
    Why not ask?


  • #68
    timthumbni
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,845 ✭✭✭timthumbni


    Cycling Dumbasses wrote: »
    Does it matter who rules the roost or who rules the shores im irish and proud, if the queen of England tomo rules Ireland she would be more than welcome, totally respect and admire her, she came to the city near me in 2011 and what a lady, whether enda kenny or queen elizabeth rules it wont bother me.

    Aye, you cyclists always were a bit nuts. Youse in your ladies tights and emergency energy gels. I knows all about ye. Lol


  • #69
    SweepTheLeg
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 712 ✭✭✭SweepTheLeg


    timthumbni wrote: »
    Maybe green, white and green would look cool.

    The Nigerians would feel right at home then.


  • #70
    Cycling Dumbasses
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 417 ✭✭Cycling Dumbasses


    timthumbni wrote: »
    Aye, you cyclists always were a bit nuts. Youse in your ladies tights and emergency energy gels. I knows all about ye. Lol
    I admire to be Lance Armstrong


  • #71
    hatrickpatrick
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,798 ✭✭✭✭hatrickpatrick


    F*ck it, Ireland is a nation which is being run absolutely horrendously (like most alleged "democracies" it must be said) but I'm going to stand and fight for this beautiful country I grew up in rather than denouncing it. Much as one can despise US government policy without being Anti-American, one does not have to denounce the nation itself or its symbols in order to voice one's disgust about how it's run or those responsible for running it.

    As long as the tricolour represents my country, then f*ck yeah I'm proud of it.


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  • #72
    timthumbni
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,845 ✭✭✭timthumbni


    SweepTheLeg wrote: »
    The Nigerians would feel right at home then.

    Aye, im from Northern Ireland but to be honest in an aesthetic way I'm not a fan of the 3 colours type flags. They are all a bit boring, just using different colours.

    I like the Brazil flag. Probably from football but they seem to be effortlessly cool.


  • #73
    timthumbni
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,845 ✭✭✭timthumbni


    Cycling Dumbasses wrote: »
    I admire to be Lance Armstrong

    I can get you those drugs. Pm me for further details. Lol.


  • #74
    Cycling Dumbasses
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 417 ✭✭Cycling Dumbasses


    timthumbni wrote: »
    I can get you those drugs. Pm me for further details. Lol.
    I just want to do it once though no major stuff, dont want to be getting any awards from Enda.


  • #75
    timthumbni
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,845 ✭✭✭timthumbni


    Cycling Dumbasses wrote: »
    I just want to do it once though no major stuff, dont want to be getting any awards from Enda.

    Do you actually ride? I've a mate who rides big style. (Bikes) 3000 pounds sterling for that yoke. Madness I say. My car is less that that.


  • #76
    Cycling Dumbasses
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 417 ✭✭Cycling Dumbasses


    timthumbni wrote: »
    Do you actually ride? I've a mate who rides big style. (Bikes) 3000 pounds sterling for that yoke. Madness I say. My car is less that that.
    I ride big style, the wife once and the receptionist twice tonite, have a bike too parked up last 2 years cant be riding everything.


  • #77
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    timthumbni wrote: »
    As a Northern Irish unionist I find it pretty odd that other Irish people refer to my flag still nowadays as the butchers apron. When younger I always saw the tricolour draped across ira mens coffins for example who had just killed numerous innocent men, woman and children in a bomb.

    For a while I hated that flag. Then I realised that was the flag of my neighbours. Nothing to do with the ira at all. I think a lot of others on here need to similarly grow up regarding the union flag. Otherwise it just makes them look like weans who shouldn't be allowed internet access.

    I think the difference is that the ira use our flag but do not represent it officially, while a lot of bad things were actually done officially in the name of the union flag


  • #78
    The Golden Miller
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,785 ✭✭✭The Golden Miller


    all these miserable, partistionist, revisionist, unpatriotic moan bags should just do the rest of us a favour and fcuk off out of the country and go to hell or to ballymena


  • #79
    Cycling Dumbasses
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 417 ✭✭Cycling Dumbasses


    The Golden Miller wrote: »
    all these miserable, partistionist, revisionist, unpatriotic moan bags should just do the rest of us a favour and fcuk off out of the country and go to hell or to ballymena
    Or go to bed.


  • #80
    statesaver
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,084 ✭✭✭statesaver


    It's alright nothing special.

    Would like a flag where people would not be able to write shít on it like " Davy Keogh says Hello ".

    Saw one last weekend on Sky Sports with " Everton FC " on it. :confused:
    F##k sake


  • #81
    Irish Guitarist
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,736 ✭✭✭Irish Guitarist


    The "Queen of England ruling these shores" would really sort out our financial woes alright.
    http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2013/apr/02/queen-gets-5m-payrise-taxpayer


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  • #82
    Galwayguy35
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,184 ✭✭✭✭Galwayguy35


    Sure am, have a flag outside my house.


  • #83
    dobman88
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,766 ✭✭✭dobman88


    How can you be proud of something you can't control? Like proud to be Irish? You don't have a choice where your born, we don't have a choice of what the flag is so no I am not proud of it. Do I respect it, yes, do I love Ireland? Yes. Proud? No.


  • #84
    zenno
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,377 ✭✭✭zenno


    Mint Aero wrote: »
    This is a sad thread tbf. It's akin to the SF & Gerry Adams lambasting nonsense of other posters on AH.

    This is an incredible country with loads to be proud of. To say otherwise suggests a disconnect with your motherland and that is very sad.

    Please Op, don't fall into a feigned PC existence of hating your motherland just because we can't translate our road signs into every language in the world in the hope of being seen to be the bestest best boys in the class.

    Indeed. I concur.


  • #85
    DEFTLEFTHAND
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,499 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    I suppose when you break it right down we are humans so we will have natural affection with which position on this planet we entered existence from. Remember then whether we like it or not we are subjected to an amount of indoctrination, obviously this was and still is a big issue on this island. A reflective Johnny Adair said during his Mcintyre doc that if he was born a bit down the way on the Falls he more than likely would have been an IRA man.

    Even somebody as dense as Adair could see how ridiculous the whole situation is when you step back and look at it and gauge the worth of your short life here.


  • #86
    .jacksparrow.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,428 ✭✭✭.jacksparrow.


    dobman88 wrote: »
    How can you be proud of something you can't control? Like proud to be Irish? You don't have a choice where your born, we don't have a choice of what the flag is so no I am not proud of it. Do I respect it, yes, do I love Ireland? Yes. Proud? No.

    That like saying how can you be proud of yourself? You had no choice in been born, or who you were born too or whether.you were born male or female!

    That's life you can't control these things, doesn't mean you can't be proud of them!


  • #87
    ectoraige
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,103 ✭✭✭ectoraige


    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.

    Perhaps "Elmo is a rat"?


  • #88
    MRnotlob606
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,642 ✭✭✭MRnotlob606


    the queen doesn't represent democracy,have no idea why someone would welcome her back


  • #89
    nxbyveromdwjpg
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,402 ✭✭✭nxbyveromdwjpg


    hfallada wrote: »
    They also have vrt and extremely high taxes on diesel.

    They don't pay VRT. Even with the sterling conversion it's still better value to buy a car in the uk.


  • #90
    zenno
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,377 ✭✭✭zenno


    When I look at any flag, I see colours that wave with the wind and do nothing else. When I see good weather of sky-blue, I see a location of Home, Ireland. Who needs a flag when you know where you come from. It's better to have a real good internal feeling of your Island than to preach and whinge about what colour you like.

    Sky-blue all the way...

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luE8nHy7CRU


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  • #91
    Eight Ball
    Closed Accounts Posts: 906 ✭✭✭Eight Ball


    No


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