Wooderson Posted June 16, 2009 Report Share Posted June 16, 2009 While you are a self-loathing paddy by sounds of it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Shings Posted June 16, 2009 Report Share Posted June 16, 2009 Youre more of a Nordie than a Paddy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Shings Posted June 16, 2009 Report Share Posted June 16, 2009 I dunno if the point has been made, but St Georges cross's heavily out number any Ulster / Irish flags..... 1966 this, 1966 that.... yawn.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toilet Duck Posted June 16, 2009 Report Share Posted June 16, 2009 I quite like seeing Irish flags about when I travel. You often see them in the strangest of places, especially sporting events when nobody Irish has even qualified!...there's a time and place for flying the flag, I do like looking across the front of the pyramid and seeing all the different flags (the tricolour being one of them). I'm Irish, and insanely proud of it (can't explain why, I just am....and when I have lived abroad I feel even more strongly about it). Having said that, I'm not overly fond of seeing hordes of drunken, sunburnt, topless eejits in straw hats, draped in my national flag and stumbling around the place (I feel the same way about the flag being used as a sectarian symbol in Celtic Park too mind you, it betrays a misunderstanding of what the flag actually represents)....so, I'll agree with the sentiment expressed in this thread to a degree, but it's still nice to see something from home when you are away. It all depends on the context it's being used in. On a flag pole at the front of the pyramid = fine. On a drunken gombeen = Paddywhackery of the highest order... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wooderson Posted June 16, 2009 Report Share Posted June 16, 2009 Have you been spying on me? When we get over there we all get branded with the same "pot of gold and the end of the rainbow / wheres me lucky charms" stick. So I feel as if I have to back up my fellow irishmen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toilet Duck Posted June 16, 2009 Report Share Posted June 16, 2009 Unless you break out one of the tricolors with Amhran na Bhfiann's lyrics in English on it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wooderson Posted June 16, 2009 Report Share Posted June 16, 2009 I quite like seeing Irish flags about when I travel. You often see them in the strangest of places, especially sporting events when nobody Irish has even qualified!...there's a time and place for flying the flag, I do like looking across the front of the pyramid and seeing all the different flags (the tricolour being one of them). I'm Irish, and insanely proud of it (can't explain why, I just am....and when I have lived abroad I feel even more strongly about it). Having said that, I'm not overly fond of seeing hordes of drunken, sunburnt, topless eejits in straw hats, draped in my national flag and stumbling around the place (I feel the same way about the flag being used as a sectarian symbol in Celtic Park too mind you, it betrays a misunderstanding of what the flag actually represents)....so, I'll agree with the sentiment expressed in this thread to a degree, but it's still nice to see something from home when you are away. It all depends on the context it's being used in. On a flag pole at the front of the pyramid = fine. On a drunken gombeen = Paddywhackery of the highest order... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laid back in the sun Posted June 16, 2009 Report Share Posted June 16, 2009 may i add celtic shirts (or any football shirt for that matter) to list Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toilet Duck Posted June 16, 2009 Report Share Posted June 16, 2009 may i add celtic shirts (or any football shirt for that matter) to list Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pMagog Posted June 16, 2009 Report Share Posted June 16, 2009 I quite like seeing Irish flags about when I travel. You often see them in the strangest of places, especially sporting events when nobody Irish has even qualified!...there's a time and place for flying the flag, I do like looking across the front of the pyramid and seeing all the different flags (the tricolour being one of them). I'm Irish, and insanely proud of it (can't explain why, I just am....and when I have lived abroad I feel even more strongly about it). Having said that, I'm not overly fond of seeing hordes of drunken, sunburnt, topless eejits in straw hats, draped in my national flag and stumbling around the place (I feel the same way about the flag being used as a sectarian symbol in Celtic Park too mind you, it betrays a misunderstanding of what the flag actually represents)....so, I'll agree with the sentiment expressed in this thread to a degree, but it's still nice to see something from home when you are away. It all depends on the context it's being used in. On a flag pole at the front of the pyramid = fine. On a drunken gombeen = Paddywhackery of the highest order... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toilet Duck Posted June 16, 2009 Report Share Posted June 16, 2009 ...posted this in another thread a while ago...but since we're on the paddywhackery topic... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pMagog Posted June 16, 2009 Report Share Posted June 16, 2009 You'll always been one of my Northern Brothers mate. Unless you break out one of the tricolors with Amhran na Bhfiann's lyrics in English on it. Then we'll have issues. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Shings Posted June 16, 2009 Report Share Posted June 16, 2009 I wouldnt advise oxygen then...... if you a lil adverse to Celtic tops Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomThomDrum Posted June 16, 2009 Report Share Posted June 16, 2009 ..feck it, do ya mean I have to unpack me Dublin Jersey? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pMagog Posted June 16, 2009 Report Share Posted June 16, 2009 God oxegen is wild for celtic shirts and on other point usually taking place on 12th July weekend they can be rowdy to protestants and that is just bad and takes away from a festival atmos and gives off knacker mentality that is now met with mention of oxegen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomThomDrum Posted June 16, 2009 Report Share Posted June 16, 2009 I wouldnt advise oxygen then...... if you a lil adverse to Celtic tops Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rostalof Posted June 16, 2009 Report Share Posted June 16, 2009 ..feck it, do ya mean I have to unpack me Dublin Jersey? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robith Posted June 16, 2009 Report Share Posted June 16, 2009 You'll always been one of my Northern Brothers mate. Unless you break out one of the tricolors with Amhran na Bhfiann's lyrics in English on it. Then we'll have issues. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laid back in the sun Posted June 16, 2009 Report Share Posted June 16, 2009 I wouldnt advise oxygen then...... if you a lil adverse to Celtic tops Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wooderson Posted June 16, 2009 Report Share Posted June 16, 2009 You may aswell wear it to Glasto, cos your probably not gonna get much use out of it in croker this year! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rostalof Posted June 16, 2009 Report Share Posted June 16, 2009 Can you get the internet down where you are then? I had wondered. /joke Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GEH007 Posted June 16, 2009 Report Share Posted June 16, 2009 My little lad wanted to bring his Liverpool shirt. How am I going to break this to him! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rostalof Posted June 16, 2009 Report Share Posted June 16, 2009 PADDYWHACKERY. It's people like you that have held us back. Celebrating your Irishness. For what? What are you proud of exactly? Why do you want people at a festival in your own country to think youre Irish? When I go to Glasto I'd like it if my accent was all someone needs to know I'm Irish. The tricolor also has political overtones that makes some people feel uncomfortable (me included). Its ignorant and classless. I was born in Ireland and feel confident enough in my nationality to not broadcast it to the world. Flags are part of Glasto - I love them - but the overexposure and misplaced use of the tricolor gets my goat bigtime. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Nal Posted June 16, 2009 Report Share Posted June 16, 2009 My little lad wanted to bring his Liverpool shirt. How am I going to break this to him! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
solitaire Posted June 16, 2009 Report Share Posted June 16, 2009 Best flag I ever saw was red background and written in black was No Country,No Nation,One People ,One Tribe,with a heart Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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