Can't wait! OrangeFest is almost here!!

[N_igma]

"Bus services will operate a 'Holiday Timetable' on Wednesday, July 12 and Thursday, July 13. Rail services will run a Saturday service." Are these Bank Holidays? or do they all bunk off work or take annual leave or what? Lots of kids in the pictures, are schools closed?

I've never known why calendars mention the Battle of the Boyne as though it's of interest, although the one on my phone doesn't label either day as a BH.

12th is a bank holiday here but not observed elsewhere in the UK as far as I know.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

12th is a bank holiday here but not observed elsewhere in the UK as far as I know.

No, much to my sister's annoyance, it's her birthday.

Is it raining in Northern Ireland today?

 

[N_igma]

No, much to my sister's annoyance, it's her birthday.

Is it raining in Northern Ireland today?

On and off today. They normally get a great day on the 12th itself and looking at the forecast it looks like it'll be the same again this year.

 

[unrepentant85]

For those that don't know him, Scott is a black English footballer that plays for Celtic.

 

[William of Walworth]

Fucks sake .

I thought all this Orange stuff was bad enough already , even before I saw the above disgusting shite

(I knew about Scott Sinclair from his Swansea days)

 

[LiamO]

 

[LiamO]

Council-funded banners with UDA terror motto to be taken down after complaints - BelfastTelegraph.co.uk

Yes. You read that right. COUNCIL FUNDED

 

[cupid_stunt]

I know there's some competition to build the biggest fire, but is there a competition to find the most stupid places to build them?

Look, there's a narrow road between those two buildings, that'll do...

Clearly such a stupid location that no one seems to have stayed around to watch it burn, there's a video of the dousing down on this link - Watch: Fire crews at scene of Eleventh night bonfire in East Belfast

And, this is the one built across the road from the petrol station, it was set alight prematurely by someone, at 4.35am on Tuesday morning, and there was a rush to rebuild in time for Tuesday night -

Blimey, look at this one, I wouldn't fancy parking my car next to it!

 

[Celyn]

I suppose they wouldn't consider buggering off to a remote beach somewhere, and competing about the size of their sandcastles? Or go somewhere nice and snowy and compete about the size of their snowmen? Or stay at home and peaceably build Lego towers?

 

[flypanam]

Council-funded banners with UDA terror motto to be taken down after complaints - BelfastTelegraph.co.uk

Yes. You read that right. COUNCIL FUNDED

I'm half expecting to hear "Orangeism is a religion of peace" at some point today.

 

[Doctor Carrot]

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For those that don't know him, Scott is a black English footballer that plays for Celtic.

It's still a constant source of bewilderment that people still think like this in the 21st century.

'he's black so he must eat Bananas, ya know like a monkey eh? Eh? Hur hur hur'

Aside from the obvious racism it's just unbelievably pathetic, and they expect the world to respect their customs? Get to fuck!

 

[Casually Red]

I really really hate those cunts . Like...aaaaarrrggghhh...I fucking hate them .

Sorry but it needs said .

 

[Idris2002]

 

[skyscraper101]

There's a gallery of photos on the Belfast Live site from last night. Some are good...

 

[skyscraper101]

Some are a bit wtf...

 

[Idris2002]

Where's the pic with the facepaint from? That building on the rear left looks familiar.

 

[DaveCinzano]

The Tell of the Great Pallet Shortage and How The Poxyclips Came

Everything marked, everything membered...

“Time counts and keeps countin', and we knows now finding the trick of what's been and lost ain't no easy ride. But that's our trek, we gotta' travel it. And there ain't nobody knows where it's gonna' lead. Still in all, every night we does The Tell, so that we 'member who we was and where we came from... but most of all we 'members the man that finded us, him that came the salvage. And we lights the city, not just for him, but for all of them that are still out there. 'Cause we knows there come a night, when they sees the distant light, and they'll be comin' home...”

 

[skyscraper101]

Where's the pic with the facepaint from? That building on the rear left looks familiar.

They're all from here: Pictures of Eleventh Night bonfires across Belfast

 

[Poi E]

Or stay at home and peaceably build Lego towers?

Bricks are for throwing, silly, not playing with

 

[DaveCinzano]

Bricks are for throwing, silly, not playing with

Cultural sporting event

 

[Poi E]

Morterflying display from that lad.

 

[eoin_k]

They'd do well in the US... 100 years from now someone will be making a horror movie about some poor hitchhikers who stumble across the lost valley of Ulster, deep in the Montana backcountry.

The possible etymology of Hillbilly suggest that this might not be a complete coincidence.

 

[DaveCinzano]

 

[Idris2002]

Some are a bit wtf...

You'd think a 'kid's street party' would be able to provide photos of happy, smiling children, but apparently not in Nornia.

 

[DaveCinzano]

 

[likesfish]

Posion minded feckwits.
They'd regualrly call one of our black soldiers the n word to his face and seem shocked when he decked them . When they recovered bloke was a big bastard and in the boxing team so why anyone thought provoking while in punching distance was a good idea god only knows?
they then look around for somebody to complain to strangely not even th RUC was intrested.

 

[Idris2002]

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Worthy of the Scarfolk blog at its best.

 

[N_igma]

Top marks for that one Dave

 

[petee]

Fellow Countrymen and Women,

It is a long call from the ranks of the Irish Republican Army to the marching throngs that hold the 12thJuly Celebrations in North East Ulster. Across the space we have sometimes exchanged shots, or missiles or hard words, but never forgetting that on occasions our ancestors have stood shoulder to shoulder. Some day we will again exchange ideas and then the distance which now separates us will shorten. For we of the Irish Republican Army believe that inevitably the small farmers and wage-earners in the Six County area will make common cause with those of the rest of Ireland, for the common good of the mass of the people in a Free United Irish Republic. Such a conviction is forming itself in an ever increasing number of minds in North East Ulster.

The Irish Republican Army – within North East Ulster as well as in the rest of Ireland – believe that the mass of the Working-Farmers and Wage-earners must organise behind revolutionary leadership if they are to rescue themselves from a system within they the few prosper and the many are impoverished.

It is our opinion, a conviction driven in on our mind by the facts of life around us, that capitalism and imperialism constitute a system of exploitation and injustice within which the mass of the people can know no freedom.

IRA appeal to the Orange Order

 

[LiamO]

New Indian restaurant targeted by arsonists just hours after opening

Obviously, these were Taigy-looking Indians