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The messages on our flags at the Euros...

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...some will evidently be crude, offensive and misogynistic...

http://www.independent.ie/sport/soccer/euro-2016/comment-do-ireland-fans-really-want-to-be-known-as-the-gob****es-making-a-mockery-of-their-national-flag-34784043.html

Some appalling and ugly efforts in there. Oh for the simple times of Davie Keogh Says Hello.

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Lovely Bloke

Oh dear, more flegwarriors.

Why, why are you outraged at people scrawling on a piece of cloth?

[Deleted User]

Baldy Conscience wrote: »

it's none of your business, really

I'd also say you're a brave man on the internet, but would shít your cacks at the thoughts of actually questioning one of these lads who's trip you are "supporting".

If the messages are displayed in public, and on our flag, then of course people have the right to comment.

It's not as if this is some intervention on a private moment.

As for the "shít your cacks" line, seriously? On a thread about the puerile and crude? Is that parody?

Canis Lupus

Baldy Conscience wrote: »

it's none of your business, really

I'd also say you're a brave man on the internet, but would shít your cacks at the thoughts of actually questioning one of these lads who's trip you are "supporting".

Yep, the big internet talker.

Spare me the supercilious bullcrap.

Who p*ssed in your cornflakes.

The Backwards Man

Baldy Conscience wrote: »

it's none of your business, really

I'd also say you're a brave man on the internet, but would shít your cacks at the thoughts of actually questioning one of these lads who's trip you are "supporting".

Yep, the big internet talker.

Spare me the supercilious bullcrap.

You don't know me too well then so!

It's not hard to make a banner if you want to send a message home, writing anything on your national flag just shows you up as an ignorant dickhead, as I have told many and will continue to do so.

andekwarhola

Wouldn't be too precious about the flag at football myself. I think the name of your town or city on a tricolour is OK. Or maybe an Irish football club crest. But even I find most of the wacky ones linked horrible.

That said, we're talking about Irish supporters here. I've seen a English premier league crest on a triclour held up at an Irish league ground. The mind boggles.

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andekwarhola wrote: »

That said, we're talking about Irish supporters here. I've seen a English premier league crest on a triclour held up at an Irish league ground. The mind boggles.

From what I can tell, Irish people don't really understand how to really "support" football. It's all about the piss up abroad.

[Deleted User]

andekwarhola wrote: »

Wouldn't be too precious about the flag at football myself. I think the name of your town or city on a tricolour is OK. Or maybe an Irish football club crest. But even I find most of the wacky ones linked horrible...

Oh I agree, and I find some of the messages based ones pretty funny.

It's the association of the flag with sex, destroying women or whatever, or swearing. I suspect some of them are from the 20 something generation that think dick pics are the height of humour.

andekwarhola

Ayden Nutritious Backspace wrote: »

From what I can tell, Irish people don't really understand how to really "support" football. It's all about the piss up abroad.

It's terrible, so it is. Terrible.

jcd5971

The Backwards Man wrote:

I have every right to question how they treat the flag of MY country.

How they treat the flag of OUR country, who made you supreme overlord, that's my job I have the stamp, stationary, and
And official headed letters...do you have official head letters...no I thought not

The Backwards Man wrote:

Aren't I over here working to support the trips of a hell of a whole lot of them?

I doubt there's many now, going to euros on 188 euro a week,
I'm on more than double that and had to scrap plans.

The Backwards Man

Ayden Nutritious Backspace wrote: »

From what I can tell, Irish people don't really understand how to really "support" football. It's all about the piss up abroad.

An interesting fun fact about Irish football fans and the Euros. Irish football fans will spend more money on prostitutes in two weeks in France than it would take to run every League Of Ireland club for a year.

But arra let them scrawl whatever rubbish they want on our flag, aren't they great lads altogether?

beach_walker

It's some craic being in a pub watching a match and seeing a flag with the name of the pub written on it by some of the locals travelling.

Mint Sauce

kneemos wrote: »

Better than just the name of their local in fairness.

Mentioning the local, the supporters club, village is what its all about though. Where people have travelled from to support their team. Some of the others are funny, but are mostly very meh and just to get attention.

Soft Boiled wrote: »

The 'Angela Merkel Thinks We're Working Flag' at the last Euros was good.

The ones in that article are puerile in the extreme - have they been designed by 14 year old boys?

I did quite like that one. Think it showed, that despite our current situation at the the time, we were still going to have a good time.

kneemos

The Irish are white trash.
The yanks won't rent to us.The Aussies see us coming.The continentals see us as a good laugh,but go away now please.

Saipanne

[Deleted User] wrote: »

...some will evidently be crude, offensive and misogynistic...

http://www.independent.ie/sport/soccer/euro-2016/comment-do-ireland-fans-really-want-to-be-known-as-the-gob****es-making-a-mockery-of-their-national-flag-34784043.html

Some appalling and ugly efforts in there. Oh for the simple times of Davie Keogh Says Hello.

Please add me to the list of the offended and outraged...

kfallon

Ayden Nutritious Backspace wrote: »

From what I can tell, Irish people don't really understand how to really "support" football. It's all about the piss up abroad.

Enlighten us so!

razorblunt

Deleted User wrote: »

But that's a political statement, and meant to be offensive and provocative.

Not sure the supporters who write about dicks doing damage and destroying women are really engaging in political statement. They think it's funny. It's not.

I don't think they said women, they just said damage.
Equality and all that, a great bunch of lads.

Story Bud?

Which one of them is misogynistic?

The Backwards Man

Doctor Jimbob wrote: »

I see people say this a lot, but no one seems to be able to actually explain why, they just repeat "because it's out flag" or some variation thereof.

I could understand if people were trying to get some tacky message displayed on the flag at government buildings and so on, but getting so wound up on a few lads writing something on a flag at a football match and calling them dickheads seems to me to be on the level of the 'fleg' carry on a few years ago that we were so quick to make fun of.

A national flag is the symbol of the country. O'Malleys Bar or the Athy Army or Davy Bastarding Keogh are not.

The respect you have for your country is directly represented in the respect you have for its flag. How anyone can claim to support their country whilst destroying their flag is beyond me.

fryup

as long as there's nothing IRA'ish i don't mind

[Deleted User]

Story Bud? wrote: »

Which one of them is misogynistic?

I think references to hard dicks doing damage and destroying are misogynistic, in that I believe it is invoking heterosexual sex and associating it with violence.

Story Bud?

Deleted User wrote: »

I think references to hard dicks doing damage and destroying are misogynistic, in that I believe it is invoking heterosexual sex and associating it with violence.

Ooookey dokey then.

Debil

Ayden Nutritious Backspace wrote: »

From what I can tell, Irish people don't really understand how to really "support" football. It's all about the piss up abroad.

How do we "really support" football then?

The Backwards Man wrote: »

An interesting fun fact about Irish football fans and the Euros. Irish football fans will spend more money on prostitutes in two weeks in France than it would take to run every League Of Ireland club for a year.

But arra let them scrawl whatever rubbish they want on our flag, aren't they great lads altogether?

Haha, sensational stuff.

osarusan

Putting that stuff on flags is silly.

Getting wound up over that stuff being put on flags is silly too.

The Backwards Man

Doctor Jimbob wrote: »

They're not destroying the flag in any meaningful sense though, they're destroying a cheap imitation flag that they probably bought for a euro in one of those euro shops of whatever they're called. They're not exactly drawing a big willy on a flag outside Áras an Uachtaráin.

If you have a problem with people doing it fair enough, but projecting your own perception of things onto others by claiming something you see as disrespectful means they don't respect their country seems harsh to me.

The flag IS the country. Doesn't matter if it was bought in a pound shop or you made it yourself from a continental quilt, you write on that bit of cloth and you're letting the country down, you're letting me down, and most of all, you're letting yourself down.

kneemos

osarusan wrote: »

Putting that stuff on flags is silly.

Getting wound up over that stuff being put on flags is silly too.

I spy with my little eye a contradiction.

The Backwards Man

osarusan wrote: »

Putting that stuff on flags is silly.

Getting wound up over that stuff being put on flags is silly too.

It's not worth losing any sleep over as I've said, but it does no harm to remind people what they are actually doing.

andekwarhola

The Backwards Man wrote: »

An interesting fun fact about Irish football fans and the Euros. Irish football fans will spend more money on prostitutes in two weeks in France than it would take to run every League Of Ireland club for a year.

And that would be only counting hand-jobs.

Winterlong

andekwarhola wrote: »

And that would be only counting hand-jobs.

Lets not mention the french and handballs.

Soft Boiled

The Backwards Man wrote: »

The flag IS the country. Doesn't matter if it was bought in a pound shop or you made it yourself from a continental quilt, you write on that bit of cloth and you're letting the country down, you're letting me down, and most of all, you're letting yourself down.

What if your 5 year old used some green marker on edge side of a piece of paper and some orange on the other and there was a bit of white left in between - is that a flag?

Or am I ok to throw it in the recycle bin?

kfallon

The Backwards Man wrote: »

An interesting fun fact about Irish football fans and the Euros. Irish football fans will spend more money on prostitutes in two weeks in France than it would take to run every League Of Ireland club for a year.

You a Finn Harps regular, yeah?