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11th Night Bonfires. Maybe they just dont like Celtic.

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  • #122
    getzls
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 806 ✭✭✭getzls


    mickydoomsux wrote: »
    It's the best we can all hope for for another few generations until all the sectarian knuckle-draggers and their spawn die off and Northern Ireland becomes a proper country.

    What we are going to see now that the Republicans threats have succeeded is more of them being offended.

    They know that bringing 2000 people out and firing machine guns at the Police works.

    They won't need to do that too often as the threat of it will be enough.


  • #123
    philstar
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,985 ✭✭✭philstar


    wazky wrote: »
    What I find is the worst is the line 'both sides are as bad as eachother', it's like some PC throwaway comment to try and diffuse the situation.

    What other 'culture' in the world celebrates the slaughter of another in such a crass and gaudy fashion?, and is basically just accepted as part of life by all the major politicians and government organisations?

    are we any better ?

    what about the irish national anthem doesn't that celebrate the killing of the saxon foe

    and you got your wolfe tone and irish brigade concerts filled to the rafters with people chanting "ooh ah up the ra" and all that, don't you think that celebrates the slaughter of another in such a crass and gaudy fashion???


  • #124
    mickydoomsux
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    philstar wrote: »
    are we any better ?

    what about the irish national anthem doesn't that celebrate the killing of the saxon foe

    and you got your wolfe tone and irish brigade concerts filled to the rafters with people chanting "ooh ah up the ra" and all that, don't you think that celebrates the slaughter of another in such a crass and gaudy fashion???

    To be fair, that's the exact same brand of inbred moron, just south of the border in this case.

    They are (thankfully) a minority.


  • #125
    P_1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,681 ✭✭✭✭P_1


    R P McMurphy wrote: »
    Why did you put 'from both sides' in there. What had that yo do with your depressing picture

    Because there are lunatics on both sides.


  • #126
    Jim Rockford
    Closed Accounts Posts: 285 ✭✭Jim Rockford


    Broxi_Bear_Eire wrote: »
    The word Hun is despised my 98% of Rangers fans as it is a derogatory term for Protestants and it in Scotland against the law

    Oh And I am not Protestant either :p

    Do you know what a hun is and its history ? 99% of Rangers fans don't


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  • #127
    R P McMurphy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,129 ✭✭✭R P McMurphy


    P_1 wrote: »
    Because there are lunatics on both sides.

    Well that has very little to do with the picture you posted or the thread in general.


  • #128
    wazky
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,516 ✭✭✭wazky


    Jim Rockford wrote: »
    Do you know what a hun is and it's history ? 99% of Rangers fans don't

    I would bet they do know what it stands for but don't like to be reminded of their sordid history so have decided to try and make it a religious slur, but anyone with half a brain can see through the lies.


  • #129
    CrabRevolution
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,159 ✭✭✭CrabRevolution


    philstar wrote: »
    are we any better ?

    what about the irish national anthem doesn't that celebrate the killing of the saxon foe

    and you got your wolfe tone and irish brigade concerts filled to the rafters with people chanting "ooh ah up the ra" and all that, don't you think that celebrates the slaughter of another in such a crass and gaudy fashion???

    Nowhere in our national anthem are Saxons mentioned. Our national anthem consists of the chorus only of Amhrán na bhFiann. The verses (which arent our anthem and I have never heard anyone sing) mention a "saxon foe" but nothing about killing them.

    But we cant let the facts get in the way of your "we Irish are just the worst and should hate ourselves" ideas.


  • #130
    getzls
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    CrabRevolution wrote: »
    Nowhere in our national anthem are Saxons mentioned. Our national anthem consists of the chorus only of Amhrán na bhFiann. The verses (which arent our anthem and I have never heard anyone sing) mention a "saxon foe" but nothing about killing them.

    But we cant let the facts get in the way of your "we Irish are just the worst and should hate ourselves" ideas.

    Do the Irish have a History of tickling their Foe? :p
    Saxon or other?


  • #131
    Broxi_Bear_Eire
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    wazky wrote: »
    I would bet they do know what it stands for but don't like to be reminded of their sordid history so have decided to try and make it a religious slur, but anyone with half a brain can see through the lies.


    LOL A Celtic fan having the cheek to talk about sordid history


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  • #132
    Broxi_Bear_Eire
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,704 ✭✭✭Broxi_Bear_Eire


    Jim Rockford wrote: »
    Do you know what a hun is and its history ? 99% of Rangers fans don't

    Nonsense many do know but if your happy believing in stereotypes.

    As for the word itself you could have a couple of options the main one being from the rampaging hordes of Attila or another one is from the use of the word against German troops from both world wars


  • #133
    glaswegian
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,105 ✭✭✭glaswegian


    Broxi_Bear_Eire wrote: »
    Nonsense many do know but if your happy believing in stereotypes.

    As for the word itself you could have a couple of options the main one being from the rampaging hordes of Attila or another one is from the use of the word against German troops from both world wars

    the word hun was attached to rangers fans in the early sixties by an english journalist after they ran amok in birmingham following a match against wolves.
    he described them as like a hoarde of marauding huns.


  • #134
    wazky
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,516 ✭✭✭wazky


    Broxi_Bear_Eire wrote: »
    LOL A Celtic fan having the cheek to talk about sordid history

    LOL, assuming I'm a Celtic fan because I'm telling the truth about Sevco. Hilarious haha.


  • #135
    flemishgael
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 199 ✭✭flemishgael


    wazky wrote: »
    LOL, assuming I'm a Celtic fan because I'm telling the truth about Sevco. Hilarious haha.
    Ah Celtic fans. Fans supporting a team whose name is mispronounced (seltik instead of keltik), think they're all Irish (though it is a Glaswegian club), and most of them works as keyboard warriors on the side spreading the gospel of the rah to everyone that doesn't care.


  • #136
    Grayson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,442 ✭✭✭✭Grayson


    philstar wrote: »
    are we any better ?

    what about the irish national anthem doesn't that celebrate the killing of the saxon foe

    and you got your wolfe tone and irish brigade concerts filled to the rafters with people chanting "ooh ah up the ra" and all that, don't you think that celebrates the slaughter of another in such a crass and gaudy fashion???

    To be fair a tremendous number of Irish people have absolutely no idea what's in the Irish national anthem. Relatively few can sing it in Irish and a lot of those that can have just memorised it by rote and have no idea what the translation is.
    I don't think I know a single person who could sing it in English.


  • #137
    wazky
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,516 ✭✭✭wazky


    flemishgael wrote: »
    Ah Celtic fans. Fans supporting a team whose name is mispronounced (seltik instead of keltik), think they're all Irish (though it is a Glaswegian club), and most of them works as keyboard warriors on the side spreading the gospel of the rah to everyone that doesn't care.

    Ah, someone who has no clue what their talking about.


  • #138
    flemishgael
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 199 ✭✭flemishgael


    Grayson wrote: »
    To be fair a tremendous number of Irish people have absolutely no idea what's in the Irish national anthem. Relatively few can sing it in Irish and a lot of those that can have just memorised it by rote and have no idea what the translation is.
    I don't think I know a single person who could sing it in English.
    That's because the English version isn't taught. Though the original is in English only the Irish version is the national anthem.
    Correct me if I'm wrong but don't all school children get taught the anthem and the translation of it?
    I wasn't born in Ireland and was taught the version in Irish, can sing it in Irish and know what the words mean.


  • #139
    dundalkfc10
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    Broxi_Bear_Eire wrote: »
    No idea most presume it has to with the German link to the royal family. But it really makes no difference. Celtic fans managed to get the word fenian made sectarian though it is not.

    And no I don't use the term

    Celtic fans sang Paddy Mc Courts Fenian Army for years so your talking ****e about them getting it made secterian


  • #140
    flemishgael
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 199 ✭✭flemishgael


    wazky wrote: »
    Ah, someone who has no clue what their talking about.
    True, I know very little about soccer. Even less about soccer clubs.
    Just know that Celtic shouldn't be pronounced seltik and that the majority of Celtic fans in the world associate Glasgow Celtic with Ireland and republicanism.
    Gives me a good laugh to see whole internet forums full of Chilean and Thai and Greek Celtic fans going on about the rah and Wolfe Tone and so on.


  • #141
    h2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,428 ✭✭✭h2005


    flemishgael wrote: »
    That's because the English version isn't taught. Though the original is in English only the Irish version is the national anthem.
    Correct me if I'm wrong but don't all school children get taught the anthem and the translation of it?
    I wasn't born in Ireland and was taught the version in Irish, can sing it in Irish and know what the words mean.

    I was never taught it in school.


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  • #142
    wazky
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,516 ✭✭✭wazky


    flemishgael wrote: »
    True, I know very little about soccer. Even less about soccer clubs.

    You probably should have just left it there.

    'Better to be thought a fool rather than open your mouth and confirm it'


  • #143
    flemishgael
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 199 ✭✭flemishgael


    Strange in a way though that we celebrate the Battle of the Boyne, but not the battle of Aughrim even though that battle was way more decisive.


  • #144
    h2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,428 ✭✭✭h2005


    flemishgael wrote: »
    True, I know very little about soccer. Even less about soccer clubs.
    Just know that Celtic shouldn't be pronounced seltik and that the majority of Celtic fans in the world associate Glasgow Celtic with Ireland and republicanism.
    Gives me a good laugh to see whole internet forums full of Chilean and Thai and Greek Celtic fans going on about the rah and Wolfe Tone and so on.

    The Boston Seltiks need a name change too.


  • #145
    flemishgael
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 199 ✭✭flemishgael


    wazky wrote: »
    You probably should have just left it there.

    'Better to be thought a fool rather than open your mouth and confirm it'
    I typed my comment so didn't have to open my mouth.
    This isn't in the soccer section though so I don't think I need to know anything about soccer to comment.


  • #146
    flemishgael
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 199 ✭✭flemishgael


    h2005 wrote: »
    The Boston Seltiks need a name change too.
    They would need to change the name, just pronounce it correctly.


  • #147
    wazky
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,516 ✭✭✭wazky


    flemishgael wrote: »
    I typed my comment so didn't have to open my mouth.
    This isn't in the soccer section though so I don't think I need to know anything about soccer to comment.

    I didn't say you couldn't comment.


  • #148
    Grayson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,442 ✭✭✭✭Grayson


    flemishgael wrote: »
    That's because the English version isn't taught. Though the original is in English only the Irish version is the national anthem.
    Correct me if I'm wrong but don't all school children get taught the anthem and the translation of it?
    I wasn't born in Ireland and was taught the version in Irish, can sing it in Irish and know what the words mean.

    We were taught in 5th class. We'd forgotten by the time we reached 6th class. After that the only time i ever had to sing it was when it was played at the end of the night in a nightclub. Yes, that used to happen a lot. You'd end up with a load of drunk people lip syncing to the national anthem.


  • #149
    flemishgael
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 199 ✭✭flemishgael


    wazky wrote: »
    I didn't say you couldn't comment.
    You suggested though that I probably shouldn't have.
    Merely voicing the opinion that I have on Celtic fans.
    A vast majority of them will happily join in sectarian chants without even knowing what they are chanting.


  • #150
    wazky
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,516 ✭✭✭wazky


    flemishgael wrote: »
    You suggested though that I probably shouldn't have.
    Merely voicing the opinion that I have on Celtic fans.
    A vast majority of them will happily join in sectarian chants without even knowing what they are chanting.

    It wasnt an opinion you posted, you posted in manner that suggested it was fact.

    And also stating that everyone has been pronouncing it wrong for the past 100 odd years.


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  • #151
    flemishgael
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 199 ✭✭flemishgael


    Grayson wrote: »
    We were taught in 5th class. We'd forgotten by the time we reached 6th class. After that the only time i ever had to sing it was when it was played at the end of the night in a nightclub. Yes, that used to happen a lot. You'd end up with a load of drunk people lip syncing to the national anthem.
    I take the anthem a lot more seriously. To me the words have meaning though I haven't pledged my life to Ireland nor did any of my forefathers as far as I know.
    Like with every anthem, I bow my head with respect and sing it out loud, also at the end of the night in clubs and at games.
    I sing the UK, German, French, Belgian, Dutch, South African and Scottish anthem with the same respect.


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