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The glorious 12th

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  • #92
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Just looking on Snapchat and there was a machine taking pallets off the top. Snap from about 3 hrs ago.


  • #93
    El Weirdo
    Registered Users Posts: 11,646 ✭✭✭✭El Weirdo


    JupiterKid wrote: »
    There a times when I'm frankly ashamed to admit that I was born in Belfast.
    You shouldn't be, it's a great city.


  • #94
    citytillidie
    Registered Users Posts: 21,963 ✭✭✭✭citytillidie


    braidman wrote: »
    the knob heads on the other side will soon be building their bonfires to mark the anniversary of internment - one apes the other

    I think you will find very view now in August its more community parties and such but don't let facts get in the way of whataboutary

    ******



  • #95
    Junkyard Tom
    Registered Users Posts: 10,117 ✭✭✭✭Junkyard Tom


    https://twitter.com/SashaWylie/status/1149076874670354432

    Pesky buildings making the fire service keep them cool.


  • #96
    gctest50
    Registered Users Posts: 9,605 ✭✭✭gctest50


    I'm amazed no-one has set fire to the prepared bonfires a day or two early

    Extremists would have a meltdown


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  • #97
    El Weirdo
    Registered Users Posts: 11,646 ✭✭✭✭El Weirdo


    gctest50 wrote: »
    I'm amazed no-one has set fire to the prepared bonfires a day or two early

    Extremists would have a meltdown
    They're pretty well guarded.


  • #98
    Junkyard Tom
    Registered Users Posts: 10,117 ✭✭✭✭Junkyard Tom


    gctest50 wrote: »
    I'm amazed no-one has set fire to the prepared bonfires a day or two early

    It's a very dangerous thing to do. I think there were a couple of kids killed, back in the day, when bonfires were lit early as they'd been inside them in little lookouts and had fallen asleep.


  • #99
    joe40
    Registered Users Posts: 3,811 ✭✭✭joe40


    It really is just a hate filled celebration of bigotry, sectarianism and intimidation.
    Nothing cultural whatsoever with colossal bonfires burning tonnes of rubber tyres.
    Just imagine the environmental impact if nothing else.


  • #100
    dd973
    Registered Users Posts: 625 ✭✭✭dd973


    Hate Ireland and the Irish but want to live in Ireland, and as ethno-religious supremacists on top of it all, odd bunch. (Not all of them, just the extreme element)


  • #101
    citytillidie
    Registered Users Posts: 21,963 ✭✭✭✭citytillidie


    gctest50 wrote: »
    I'm amazed no-one has set fire to the prepared bonfires a day or two early

    Extremists would have a meltdown

    Good chance there is someone camping inside them to stop such things

    ******



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  • #102
    gctest50
    Registered Users Posts: 9,605 ✭✭✭gctest50


    citytillidie wrote: »
    Good chance there is someone camping inside them to stop such things


    That wouldn't be very wise, all those nails in the pallets - might be struck by lightning




  • #103
    kowloon
    Registered Users Posts: 13,276 ✭✭✭✭kowloon


    blinding wrote: »
    I don’t think Antifa would fancy their chances on the Loyalist 11th Night:eek:

    They're special guests as part of the burning torch relay that lights the bonfire.


  • #104
    igCorcaigh
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 11,073 Mod ✭✭✭✭igCorcaigh


    Some of the comments here tell me so much about how a new Ireland is not ready.

    Watch this doc.. Imagining ulster

    https://youtu.be/i4uPipGPvSw


  • #105
    J Mysterio
    Registered Users Posts: 11,035 ✭✭✭✭J Mysterio


    _blaaz wrote: »
    PSNI issue warning to not remove bonfire material for fear of UVF violence


    https://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/bonfires-psni-understood-to-have-issued-gun-violence-warning-to-belfast-councillors-936125.html

    That's bizarre. So the state police are saying 'dont disturb these mental fires, or the local thugs and killers will be after you'.

    How about.. police the community? Police dangerous bonfires on public land?


  • #106
    sjb25
    Registered Users Posts: 3,375 ✭✭✭sjb25


    No lift to derry

    https://youtu.be/NP-CEF_5tHw


  • #107
    janfebmar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,424 ✭✭✭janfebmar


    InTheShadows wrote: »
    The extremists on both sides who build these things are complete knack bags but unfortunately there seems to be a hell of a lot of that sort of people up North.

    Correct. In rural areas the day is more of just a family parade. Most areas do not have big bonfires. I cannot see the attraction in building bonfires. The Republicans do it too with anti internment anniversaries etc.
    One thing for sure, things are different up there, and there will never be a United Ireland in our lifetime, thank God.


  • #108
    The Black Oil
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 18,202 CMod ✭✭✭✭The Black Oil


    State of this prick confronting the police officer.

    https://twitter.com/dingo_1916/status/1147940461644058624

    Moderator: Television, Psychology and Dublin County North.

    CMod: Entertainment



  • #109
    suicide_circus
    Registered Users Posts: 19,802 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    The Black Oil wrote: »
    State of this prick confronting the police officer.

    https://twitter.com/dingo_1916/status/1147940461644058624
    we need to integrate these people into our society through unification and quick. not nearly enough maniac head-the-balls as it is.


  • #110
    blinding
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,466 ✭✭✭blinding


    The Black Oil wrote: »
    State of this prick confronting the police officer.

    https://twitter.com/dingo_1916/status/1147940461644058624
    Its as if they think they Own the Place . Westminster has a lot to answer for in creating That Northern Ireland . Its dying mind , slowly but surely .


  • #111
    cgcsb
    Registered Users Posts: 9,272 ✭✭✭cgcsb


    citytillidie wrote: »
    Good chance there is someone camping inside them to stop such things

    Darwinism


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  • #112
    cgcsb
    Registered Users Posts: 9,272 ✭✭✭cgcsb


    J Mysterio wrote: »
    That's bizarre. So the state police are saying 'dont disturb these mental fires, or the local thugs and killers will be after you'.

    How about.. police the community? Police dangerous bonfires on public land?

    They can't the state and the police are inherently pro loyalist, just more softly so than in the RUC days.


  • #113
    cgcsb
    Registered Users Posts: 9,272 ✭✭✭cgcsb


    The Black Oil wrote: »
    State of this prick confronting the police officer.

    https://twitter.com/dingo_1916/status/1147940461644058624

    :eek: and the police just tolerate it, walk along side them. I really couldn't see the gardaí allowing that carry on.


  • #114
    mloc123
    Registered Users Posts: 9,454 ✭✭✭mloc123


    cgcsb wrote: »
    :eek: and the police just tolerate it, walk along side them. I really couldn't see the gardaí allowing that carry on.

    The same Gardai that let a load of guys dressed up like the IRA march down O'Connell street?


  • #115
    FrancieBrady
    Registered Users Posts: 66,820 ✭✭✭✭FrancieBrady


    mloc123 wrote: »
    The same Gardai that let a load of guys dressed up like the IRA march down O'Connell street?

    The Gardai have no law to back them up on that though.

    There are plenty of laws governing what is going on up in northern Ireland. Incitement to hatred, environmental damage etc etc.


  • #116
    Graces7
    Registered Users Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    Reading news online...

    https://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/belfast-bonfire-organisers-urged-to-leave-leisure-centre-site-936182.html

    The sheer size and so near houses is terrifying. Ominous for tonight


  • #117
    Berserker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,046 ✭✭✭Berserker


    janfebmar wrote: »
    Correct. In rural areas the day is more of just a family parade. Most areas do not have big bonfires. I cannot see the attraction in building bonfires. The Republicans do it too with anti internment anniversaries etc.

    Belfast city centre is a great family day out also. People just sitting around, watching the bands going by and having a nice day out. A heck of a lot more civilised that St Patricks day, I can tell you that.


  • #118
    cgcsb
    Registered Users Posts: 9,272 ✭✭✭cgcsb


    mloc123 wrote: »
    The same Gardai that let a load of guys dressed up like the IRA march down O'Connell street?

    Everyone has a constitutional right to freedom of assembly, that doesn't mean that carry-on like in that video is allowed.


  • #119
    maccored
    Registered Users Posts: 10,660 ✭✭✭✭maccored


    Berserker wrote: »
    Belfast city centre is a great family day out also. People just sitting around, watching the bands going by and having a nice day out. A heck of a lot more civilised that St Patricks day, I can tell you that.

    go away with the family day out rubbish. family day out if you are of a certain persuasion. kick in the face if you arent


  • #120
    FrancieBrady
    Registered Users Posts: 66,820 ✭✭✭✭FrancieBrady


    Berserker wrote: »
    Belfast city centre is a great family day out also. People just sitting around, watching the bands going by and having a nice day out. A heck of a lot more civilised that St Patricks day, I can tell you that.

    I wonder if we compared the policing of the entire island celebration of St Patrick's day and the policing of 12th, how big the disparity would be.

    I am sure there were many in the US who enjoyed KKK days out and assemblies too, they had plenty of them before it was shown to them that the centre of what they were doing was rotten. Same with the Orange Order and the triumphalism of the 12th...at it's core it is rotten, and there is no getting away from that, as we see every single year.

    Nobody has a problem with lawful assembly or 'people watching bands going by' but to suggest that this is all that happens is a lie and misleading.


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  • #121
    J Mysterio
    Registered Users Posts: 11,035 ✭✭✭✭J Mysterio


    Berserker wrote: »
    Belfast city centre is a great family day out also. People just sitting around, watching the bands going by and having a nice day out. A heck of a lot more civilised that St Patricks day, I can tell you that.

    :D Yeah... We often burn effigies of our neighbours on St Patrick's Day.


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