The DUP, eh? Welcome to your new lizard overlords

[likesfish]

There must be at least a fraction of the Protestant community who are at best uneasy with all this pallet collecting, surely? I once had a student in Queen's tell me about how her Da, a lifelong Orangeman had resigned in disgust over the 'criminal element' who had come into the order at the time of Drumcree and after.

violence or the threat of violence is pretty good at silencing descent

 

[likesfish]

Got to think positively. As England enters the existential crisis of identity and self recrimination that starts wirh Brexit, and when the DUP votes are no longer needed, NI will be asked to fuck off. Or paid to do so.

my favorite was too gift it too argentina

 

[Casually Red]

Got to think positively. As England enters the existential crisis of identity and self recrimination that starts wirh Brexit, and when the DUP votes are no longer needed, NI will be asked to fuck off. Or paid to do so.

Dont ask them , just tell them to fuck off . As rudely as possible so the lesson sinks home .

In all seriousness I think you mightn't be too far off the mark . The DUP...unionism in general.. has been shaken by the British reaction to them propping up may and the spotlight generally shone on what they're about . And it's only started . This could turn out to be the worst card they've ever played . They were much better off skulking in the shadows . They're hated in England now, even by many Tories . Despised pretty much . That's not good when you're utterly dependent upon the British to prop you up, in every way .

 

[maomao]

A language is a dialect with an army.

And a navy. Army alone not enough apparently.

I don't remember the details because it's been a very long time but it's the syntax of Ulster Scots that has been of particular interest to linguists however objectionable the behaviour or politics of a sizable proportion of its speakers.

 

[flypanam]

2017 - Catholics are told to move of the Cantrell development, they lose their rehousing points and the DUP say 'Nothing to see here'
Because we are Catholic: Resident speaks out after UVF force him and pregnant wife to leave home - BelfastTelegraph.co.uk

and

DUP's Pengelly slammed over 'let it be' attitude to terrorist flags in mixed estate - BelfastTelegraph.co.uk

 

[Pickman's model]

And a navy. Army alone not enough apparently.

I don't remember the details because it's been a very long time but it's the syntax of Ulster Scots that has been of particular interest to linguists however objectionable the behaviour or politics of a sizable proportion of its speakers.

it's the only language to consist of variations on 'no'

 

[maomao]

it's the only language to consist of variations on 'no'

I don't get it.

 

[Pickman's model]

I don't get it.

no, i didn't suppose you would

 

[maomao]

no, i didn't suppose you would

Well to be fair your post doesn't make sense, what little sense it might appear to make isn't true and I'm not familiar with Ulster Scots anyway so I was never going to get it.

 

[Poi E]

2017 - Catholics are told to move of the Cantrell development, they lose their rehousing points and the DUP say 'Nothing to see here'
Because we are Catholic: Resident speaks out after UVF force him and pregnant wife to leave home - BelfastTelegraph.co.uk

and

DUP's Pengelly slammed over 'let it be' attitude to terrorist flags in mixed estate - BelfastTelegraph.co.uk

Pengelly's old man founded the Ulster Resistance paras and got very lenient treatment after getting nicked in Paris getting guns for the cause. No surprise she is doing FA.

 

[Pickman's model]

Well to be fair your post doesn't make sense, what little sense it might appear to make isn't true and I'm not familiar with Ulster Scots anyway so I was never going to get it.

yeh because you're something of an uberpedant and unable to think outside the box.

 

[Poi E]

Hope its hot down there, Rev.

 

[likesfish]

why do you hate satan so much

 

[eoin_k]

Well to be fair your post doesn't make sense, what little sense it might appear to make isn't true and I'm not familiar with Ulster Scots anyway so I was never going to get it.

To be fair, his post made perfect sense if you had any awareness of the context.

(and he's an Orangeman).

And last but not least, Yukon Street says... No

 

[maomao]

To be fair, his post made perfect sense if you had any awareness of the context.

(and he's an Orangeman).

And last but not least, Yukon Street says... No

I actually misread his post on a phone in a hospital while thinking about something else. I can now confirm that Pickman's model's post did make sense and that I did 'get' the joke.

 

[Celyn]

I often thought the whole thing could be sorted out easily if someone asked Ian Paisley if he had any objections to a united Ireland and an end to UK rule. He's say "no", then it would just have been a matter of sorting out a few details.

 

[flypanam]

Not quite the DUP but John Taylor late of the UUP has been trying to talk Donegal back into the UK. Oi, John what the fuck is the matter with Cavan and Monaghan. Take us back then we can have a border poll.

Lord Kilclooney claims Donegal would be better off in UK

 

[Streathamite]

I don't get it.

the famous line has it that the entire history of the DUP is of them finding a new way to say 'NO!!!' to every new proposal or idea that's ever been aired in NI.

 

[Idris2002]

 

[LiamO]

Fundamentalist 'Christians' demanding the removal of a Christmas tree.

Loyalists demand the removal of Co Derry Christmas tree

"A LOYALIST group involved in a bitter row over the removal of a Union flag from the centre of a Co Derry town has demanded that a Christmas tree put up nearby be taken down...
...Forum chairman William Lennox said there are “Muslims in the town and a lot of non Christians” who may be offended by the festive tree."

 

[Poi E]

A close friend of the Muslim communities, then.

 

[LiamO]

Can't wait for all his previous 'Muslim supporting' tweets and fb posts to be posted by those who will, inevitably, want to share his consistency.

 

[flypanam]

Oh dear Arlene's tough on crime, but not the causes of crime. No pardons for suffragettes cries Arlene.
DUP's Arlene Foster against pardon for suffragettes who broke law

Could Arlene love Rees Mogg

 

[NoXion]

Oh dear Arlene's tough on crime, but not the causes of crime. No pardons for suffragettes cries Arlene.
DUP's Arlene Foster against pardon for suffragettes who broke law

Could Arlene love Rees Mogg

I wonder where Arlene would be if it weren't for the suffragettes?

 

[krtek a houby]

I wonder where Arlene would be if it weren't for the suffragettes?

She'd be grand, didn't god choose her, after all?

 

[Teaboy]

A crime is still a crime

I can't begin to think of an ulterior motive in her thinking here.

 

[Idris2002]

I'll just leave this here:

 

[Poi E]

Just in case you missed the DUP and their tawdry shite Love cheat DUP MP sent woman 11,000 texts - and his firm sacked her husband - BelfastTelegraph.co.uk

 

[Rob Ray]

DUP leader Jeffrey Donaldson’s Twitter and other social media accounts unavailable

The DUP has been contacted for a response after party leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson appears to have deleted all his social media accounts.

www.irishnews.com

How interesting. I wonder if anything else has happened to a 61-year-old Co Down man recently?

 

[Idris2002]

I feel like I'm taking crazy pills - or soda farls, which are pretty much the same thing really.