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what no annual poppy bunfight thread?

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likesfish said:
Nope don't really care about football.
But most country's do this sort of stuff at national sporting events.

Although McLean doesn't have to worry about that seeing as he will never play at one.
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Well he's played for the Irish national team quite a few times
 
DotCommunist said:
one that always riles me. We're told the people of the place welcomed uncle adolf with open arms and a big parade. Some did for sure. But there was a lot of people thrown to the nazi wolves
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My mate Stuart's mum was Sudeten German, or as she saw herself, Bohemian. She was 12-13 when Hitler marched in, and was politically-aware enough that she remarked that it was the burghers (aldermen and councillors and the like) and the mayors who welcomed the Nazis - the petit bourgeois, in other words.
She survived a circuitous march to Germany, met a London-Irish soldier, and married him. She also made sure she gave up info on her town's local politicians and prominent Nazis to the authorities. A sweet woman with a cool motto: "the only good fascist is a dead fascist".
 
likesfish said:
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so he's no problem with irish displays of patrotism
just english ones buts not to principled to take english pounds to play in the english league?:hmm:
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Well the Irish army hasn't ransacked Derry and killed civilians, has it? Also Amhrán na bhFiann is just a better song.

I'm a Republican and I get paid in 'English pounds' with the Queen's face, it's not like I can opt out is it? Black people in the US can't opt out of using currency with slaver owners' faces on it.
 
You don't and never will get it, poor you

likesfish said:
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so he's no problem with irish displays of patrotism
just english ones buts not to principled to take english pounds to play in the english league?:hmm:

of course your be wearing an easter lily next year:hmm:?
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never
 
likesfish said:
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so he's no problem with irish displays of patrotism
just english ones buts not to principled to take english pounds to play in the english league?:hmm:
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You really are a silly billy aren't you?

Like most people from Derry, McLean has no problem whatsoever with english people.

He does however have an issue with represenatives of the British state coming into his hometown and murdering 14 civilians, including neighbours of his own family, in broad daylight.

He does have an issue with then being pressurised into wearing an emblem that he perceives as commemorating that event.

That's not hard to understand is it? Even for you.
 
likesfish said:
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of course your be wearing an easter lily next year:hmm:?
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I certainly will. Same as I do every year.

Many thousands of Irish people won't though. Because they are in a bit of a moral quandary.

You see, for many, the Easter Lily has come to be associated with the IRA's campaign of the last 40 years - rather than just commemorating the Easter Rising, when a small group of brave young men took on the might of an Empire. So many Irish people are wary of wearing them. Lest people think they were in favour of the IRA's armed campaign.

Just like the Poppy, which isa supposed to represent the fallen of WW1 and WW2 - but for many also represents every sordid Colonial campaign that the BA was involved in - and continues to be involved in. So many british people, as well as Irish ones like McLean, are also uneasy about wearing Poppies. Lest people think they are endorsing BA atrocities in Ireland Kenya, Cyprus, Aden etc etc.

That simple enough for you?
 
so no fa cup final then
and unlikely to see the world cup final:D
but at least he won't make a complete prat of himself on the world stage unlike the england team :oops::(
not that bothered about the poppy thing the turning the back on the national anthem though was a deliberate snub and the mark of a pratt.
 
I assume you'd see the famous black power olympic salute as 'the mark of a pratt' sic

having the platform and using it to make a statement isn't wankerish, its to be given a fist-bump imho. Or should he just have cast aside all personal integrity and upbringing to sing a shit song at non-league football opening?
 
Someone came into the supermarket today and got angry at us because we only had one size of poppy, she already had one on she just wanted a bigger one.
 
J Ed said:
Someone came into the supermarket today and got angry at us because we only had one size of poppy, she already had one on she just wanted a bigger one.
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don't they have massive ones to put on cars? she could wear one of those to shows she cares more about dead soldiers than anyone else
 
I saw someone on the train today wearing a pin badge of three poppies. Not three badges, one badge, three poppies.

I just found it... odd. Are they becoming a fashion item?
 
Orang Utan said:
don't they have massive ones to put on cars? she could wear one of those to shows she cares more about dead soldiers than anyone else
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I personally think that she should take a couple of the ones that they seem to put on the front of the supermarket lorries (to show that the supermarket doesn't hate Britain, which it obviously would otherwise) and then she could make herself a sort of poppy-niqab by putting them together. Then surely no one could question her credentials as the person who hates Britain the least and loves soldiers the most.
 
DotCommunist said:
I assume you'd see the famous black power olympic salute as 'the mark of a pratt' sic

having the platform and using it to make a statement isn't wankerish, its to be given a fist-bump imho. Or should he just have cast aside all personal integrity and upbringing to sing a shit song at non-league football opening?
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no because what statement was he making in the states he just looks like a wanker which he is
 
Lord Camomile said:
I saw someone on the train today wearing a pin badge of three poppies. Not three badges, one badge, three poppies.

I just found it... odd. Are they becoming a fashion item?
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NEVER FORGET LEE RIGBY POPPY BADGE - LIMITED EDITION - TRY BURNING THIS ONE!!!!

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Etc

100% of proffits go one coke or something.
 
JimW said:
I thought our army used to burn poppies all across Afghanistan. Oh the ironing, etc
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the bonus with that is you got paid to have them burned then you could just grow more when the annoying army men had fucked off. A double payday effectively
 
JimW said:
Maybe it was even a good way to prep the soil for next year's bumper crop :D
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and they burned them for them! You didn't even have to get out of bed, just let these mad fucking brits flame the fields up. No worries, they are perrenial!
 
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no they weren't allowed to:hmm:.
canadians got into trouble for using local camouflage on a tank high command didn't appreciate the reefer tank.
were ordered to burn the field even though people pointing burning a vast field of dope possibly wasn't a good idea:D
 
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