The DUP, eh? Welcome to your new lizard overlords

[mather]

the new chief whips are determined to keep Tory backbenchers in line .

Mind you, it would be pretty entertaining to see some Tory MPs get the whip, Ulster style.

 

[bimble]

That thing about chaining up swings so that you can't swing on Sundays.. what's the religious reasoning behind that?

 

[eoin_k]

Its a day of rest, innit, to be spent worship God. Quite a similar position on the Sabbath to that taken by orthodox jews.

 

[Casually Red]

That thing about chaining up swings so that you can't swing on Sundays.. what's the religious reasoning behind that?

They believe Sunday is a day of rest . Which means just that . Do absolutely nothing . No pub, no shop, no fuck all and no swings . Stay home and read the bible .

I went to a majority Protestant school and a number of my class mates parents used to unplug the telly on a Saturday evening and stick it in the attic so it wasn't there on a Sunday . Sunday's in the north of Ireland were seriously fucking bleak back in the day . Everything was shut . A Sunday afternoon walk through the centre of Belfast..or anywhere else..was like a scene from 28 days later . Completely deserted .

And just throw into the mix the fact Gaelic football..described by the DUP once as " The IRA at play " is traditionally played on a Sunday and you can imagine the fun it was going to games in a unionist controlled council area . Like completely forget about any council funding or assistance whatsoever for local sport that didn't conform to their bigotry . While the local councillors consorted with mass murderers who'd kill you for playing it . And the cops fucking hated you too .

Just try and imagine your world being run by the baddie parents from Footloose in partnship with the wing of UKIP Farage has nightmares about , except they had major armed back up and unofficial death squads too . That's what it was like .

Due to the fact most of the local laws still dated back to the period the north was under unionist rule at Stormont EVERYTHING was shut on a Sunday. By law . The DUP would put it back again in a heartbeat .
This is a song from a local group back in that period that summed it up. Needless to say they were feckless catholic types that knew nothing of scripture .

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Some DUP fella on the radio this morning told the world three times that he is British to his back teeth. Was well odd, he sounded Irish to me.

 

[bimble]

Its a day of rest, innit, to be spent worship God. Quite a similar position on the Sabbath to that taken by orthodox jews.

Far as I know Orthodox Jews' sabbath is all about doing no work but play is ok. So swings is ok. The definition of 'work' they use includes things like switching lights on or off and ripping one sheet of toilet paper from the next along the perforated line, admittedly, so they have special pre-ripped paper for Saturdays - but games are allowed far as i know.

 

[Casually Red]

Some DUP fella on the radio this morning told the world three times that he is British to his back teeth. Was well odd, he sounded Irish to me.

I'd seriously encourage everyone to keep pointing out how Irish they are . In every aspect . Accent, location..everything . And be as racist as fuck about it too..." coming over here " that sort of stuff . That's the buttons to push with these freaks . That's their soft underbelly..the fucking jugular . Text into any show they're on and do this stuff . They'll go mental..mentaller .

 

[Poi E]

My dad, who died last week, was a scots version of this lot.

They're like a little aggressive tribe. Literally. They hate the world.

Sorry to hear that, on both counts.

 

[Saul Goodman]

Far as I know Orthodox Jews' sabbath is all about doing no work but play is ok. So swings is ok. The definition of 'work' they use includes things like switching lights on or off and ripping one sheet of toilet paper from the next along the perforated line

Do they employ somebody to do the wiping?

 

[Fez909]

so they have special pre-ripped paper for Saturdays

Is that true? That's fucking hilarious

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Far as I know Orthodox Jews' sabbath is all about doing no work but play is ok. So swings is ok. The definition of 'work' they use includes things like switching lights on or off and ripping one sheet of toilet paper from the next along the perforated line, admittedly, so they have special pre-ripped paper for Saturdays - but games are allowed far as i know.

Pushing a swing would not be OK on the Jewish sabbath.

Unless within an eruv.

Ffs, if you want to make up some silly rules, that's fine and dandy. But seriously, eruv? If you don't want to adhere to the rules, just don't. It's batshitloonery of the very highest order.

 

[mrs quoad]

Guessing whoever organised the whole DUP thing wasn't the same brain behind Yorkshire conservatives having a stall at today's York Pride.

Which went down about as well as might be expected.

 

[gosub]

 

[Casually Red]

This is a great pic . The DUPs Rev Willie McRea and former Paisley enforcer Major Bunting assaulting a British soldier back in the 1970s in a nationalist town in south Derry they wanted to riot in . McCrea was convicted of riotous behaviour afterwards and got sent down for a few months .

The Rev Willie McRea is a hate preacher . He also has a long running association with notorious terrorists . His party has recently been caught out taking massive backhanders from the Saudis . So Theresa May is now politically beholden to a Saudi funded party that includes hate preachers who openly consort with known terrorists and who have convictions for violently attacking " our boys in uniform "

Unfit for office .

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

I'd seriously encourage everyone to keep pointing out how Irish they are . In every aspect . Accent, location..everything . And be as racist as fuck about it too..." coming over here " that sort of stuff . That's the buttons to push with these freaks . That's their soft underbelly..the fucking jugular . Text into any show they're on and do this stuff . They'll go mental..mentaller .

Staines folk are, as usual ahead of the game here:

 

[Casually Red]

Hmm..not sure whether this is totally kosher . But it'll be not far off in spirit .


EXCLUSIVE: The DUP wishlist in full…

 

[Calamity1971]

Some brilliant comments below the spoof article.
This guys profile looks genuine which is quite worrying.

Wesley Mcdowell
Prison Chaplain at Free Presbyterian Church of Ulster
All you smart asses cannot accept that there are people of principle who don't change at the whim of extremely intolerant left wingers, or, should I say, whingers.

This one made me smile

Sean Cassidy
If they called it the Iris Robinson tunnel, everybody would know where it is but no one would want to go there.
.

 

[dessiato]

My brother in law, who did three tours of NI from the mid seventies, thinks a coalition with the DUP is fine, "as long as it keeps Corbyn out."

 

[planetgeli]

I'd seriously encourage everyone to keep pointing out how Irish they are . In every aspect . Accent, location..everything . And be as racist as fuck about it too..." coming over here " that sort of stuff . That's the buttons to push with these freaks . That's their soft underbelly..the fucking jugular . Text into any show they're on and do this stuff . They'll go mental..mentaller .

Liked for 'mentaller'. Quoted for truth.

 

[Casually Red]

Stormont environment minister Sammy Wilson banned the UK governments pro green energy proposals from being broadcast in the north . Then went on telly to talk a load of old shite . This is all very brass eye...like he's actually pictured at the start standing right beside a completely flooded major arterial route in the centre of Belfast in the middle of August..there was dozens of submerged cars ..for fucks sake . But he banned the ads from being broadcast . And then tried to justify it Jon snow . Snow should have asked him about dinosaurs . Or breast feeding exhibitionists.

 

[mather]

read the bible

Thats not really resting, is it.

 

[Fez909]

 

[UnderOpenSky]

The Shame Game. A guide for British voters.

The Shame Game - who are the DUP? - Georgia Grainger

 

[dessiato]

If you feel like some clicktavism......(yeah i know another bloody epetition)

MAY OUT - NO COALITION WITH THE D.U.P!

I've signed it because I hope it will show some if the feeling that this situation has created.

 

[Nine Bob Note]

Some DUP fella on the radio this morning told the world three times that he is British to his back teeth. Was well odd, he sounded Irish to me.

That's him in the deer-stalker

 

[CrabbedOne]

Your completely superficial take on this is pretty appalling . The levels of chronic poverty and deprivation are there for anyone to see . The north is so reliant on public subsidy because as an artificial entity there's no other way to sustain it . It requires constant propping up . The existence of British rule here by its very nature ensures , and rewards, the sectarian bickering .

This is like listening to terry and fucking June . Brain dead, anecdotal bollocks . As usual obsessed by property values and a nice road .

Have you ever even popped over for a shandy or talked to a Prod without wearing safety equipment? The outdated Republican talking points and anti-Hun agitprop gets a bit tired after a while and doesn't suggest much real contact with the realities.

Those do tend to be rather mundane I'm afraid. Despite all the baggage the DUP is fairly boring day to day as are SF. The 6C is a fucked up polity run by extremists. It needs support to slowly (too fucking slowly) mend. Oddly people are concerned with things like how much your very nice Housing Executive home is worth (yes my horrible capitalistic, often unemployed brother, is sad his halved in value) the roads not being as fucked up as they used to be, DLA payments, pensions the NHS and care services. The same concerns that caused a lot of English folk to vote for Corbyn recently. They'd been treated far more shabbily by "British rule" than lavishly subsidised 6C dwellers.

It's not all obsessing on "flegs" and sectarian hatred. Though I'm afraid that still matters rather too much.

And that's down to the DUP and SF in Stormont occasionally doing the right thing for their constituents. That one side might argue was mostly a joint Irish effort if only to annoy the other. It's a low bar and I detest both parties but they deserve some credit for this asshole mud wrestling match producing at least some things for the Common Good. It's more than the US Congress does currently or Dáil Éireann ever has.

 

[Casually Red]

Have you ever even popped over for a shandy or talked to a Prod without wearing safety equipment? The outdated Republican talking points and anti-Hun agitprop gets a bit tired after a while and doesn't suggest much real contact with the realities.

Those do tend to be rather mundane I'm afraid. Despite all the baggage the DUP is fairly boring day to day as are SF. The 6C is a fucked up polity run by extremists. It needs support to slowly (too fucking slowly) mend. Oddly people are concerned with things like how much your very nice Housing Executive home is worth (yes my horrible capitalistic, often unemployed brother, is sad his halved in value) the roads not being as fucked up as they used to be, DLA payments, pensions the NHS and care services. The same concerns that caused a lot of English folk to vote for Corbyn recently. They'd been treated far more shabbily by "British rule" than lavishly subsidised 6C dwellers.

It's not all obsessing on "flegs" and sectarian hatred. Though I'm afraid that still matters rather too much.

And that's down to the DUP and SF in Stormont occasionally doing the right thing for their constituents. That one side might argue was mostly a joint Irish effort if only to annoy the other. It's a low bar and I detest both parties but they deserve some credit for this asshole mud wrestling match producing at least some things for the Common Good. It's more than the US Congress does currently or Dáil Éireann ever has.

Idiot . I went to a majority Protestant school . Grew up in a mixed housing estate , went to a mixed primary school. Played with prods, worked and work with prods , drank with prods , had prod girlfriends . My sister in law is a prod from staunchest truest blue east Belfast . You pull this stuff right out of your arse .

You're replying to my post about chronic abject poverty, which you've completely ignored as if it doesn't exist. And instead keep wittering on about house prices . The roads round here are a fucking disgrace, death traps now frankly . Cars are losing control with alarming regularity in my locality. The local hospitals on the verge of being closed . It's also just whooshed over your head that 17 years into the Belfast agreement for the first time the so called " centre ground " and " moderates " have been completely wiped out electorally . The society is now totally polarised along sectarian lines .

And you're saying it isn't all that bad thanks to a few trips through the centre of Belfast and chats with your property speculating in laws ? Like a great many others I don't own my house . My homes renovations were botched..deliberately out of sectarian spite..I forgot to take the proclamation down from the mantelpiece when the DUPs building firm did the contracting . They made a fortune and kept it . I got chronic dampness and a fortune in heating bills . After they also installed electric heaters nobody fucking wanted , but made millions from putting them in anyway .

Stormonts not doing a decent job . This is not a decent job . This is a fucking disgrace .

Child poverty in Derry: two out of three youngsters live below the breadline in deprived areas - BelfastTelegraph.co.uk

101,000 children living in poverty as income of Northern Ireland families falls - BelfastTelegraph.co.uk

West Belfast 'second highest in UK for child poverty' - BBC News

One in five people in Northern Ireland living in poverty

 

[tim]

The creationism in question though is the literal interpretation of the old testament in spite of proven scientific theory . That's what the fuss is about here . The denial of dinosaurs..or perhaps the belief man and brontosaurus coexisted happily . That's the commonly accepted definition . There's a huge gulf between someone who has a religious faith and happily accepts scientific reasoning as fact , and someone who abjectly refuses to accept scientific reasoning and proof as fact due to literal interpretation of religious scripture .
One is open minded and a recipient of logic and knowledge while the other is an opponent of logic and knowledge , elevating ignorance to a virtue despite a wealth of learning and science that contradicts their stance .

So wnen you say creationism, you actually mean Biblical literalism.

 

[Casually Red]

So wnen you say creationism, you actually mean Biblical literalism.

No I mean creationism as its commonly understood by everyone else except you . And it's not just me who says this is what creationism means . It's everyone else, pretty much .

 

[tim]

No I mean creationism as its commonly understood by everyone else except you . And it's not just me who says this is what creationism means . It's everyone else, pretty much .

I can't help it, if you all get it wrong.