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Just watched an article about dodgy donations to the DUP to fund the pro Brexit campaign, picture cuts to massive bonfires ready to be lit to celebrate bigotry made with pallets and tyres, hundreds of them FFS.


 
Posted : 10/07/2017 7:22 pm
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It is a strange wee province indeed, in many ways.


 
Posted : 10/07/2017 7:23 pm
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Massive bonfires ready to be lit in a celebration of a rich and vibrant culture ?

How very dare they ?


 
Posted : 10/07/2017 7:28 pm
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Burning tyres is illegal and for a good reason.


 
Posted : 10/07/2017 7:41 pm
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Aye, we should stick to burning catholics


 
Posted : 10/07/2017 7:42 pm
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[i]in a celebration of a rich and vibrant culture ?[/i]

what's rich and cultural about the Battle of the Boyne?


 
Posted : 10/07/2017 7:50 pm
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12 pages, more biscuits than the mcvities factory, abortion, gay cakes and a kneecapping.


 
Posted : 10/07/2017 8:03 pm
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Is that a prediction or an itinerary?


 
Posted : 10/07/2017 8:24 pm
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😆


 
Posted : 10/07/2017 8:26 pm
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Is that a prediction or an itinerary?

Its the next Guy Ritchie film isn't it?


 
Posted : 10/07/2017 8:28 pm
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Burning tyres is illegal and for a good reason.

One of them is usually very close to the petrol tank.


 
Posted : 10/07/2017 8:31 pm
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I think it's you that's on fire tonight Cougar.


 
Posted : 10/07/2017 8:34 pm
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massive bonfires ready to be lit to celebrate bigotry made with pallets and tyres, hundreds of them FFS.

Exactly the same as every other year then. Quite a few near, or even on roads which obviously destroys them requiring yearly resurfacing. House window frames, oil tanks and guttering regularly melt due to the heat, to say nothing of the giant sprawling piles of crap that lie around all through June which go toward the bonefire. Yes it's wonderful.

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Massive bonfires ready to be lit in a celebration of a rich and vibrant culture ?

Getting pissed and listening to scooter while burning Irish flags and effigies of catholics is rich and vibrant culture now? 😆


 
Posted : 10/07/2017 8:35 pm
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Doesnt the same thing happen in england every november, a huge waste of resourses and a high pollution risk


 
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Doesnt the same thing happen in england every november, a huge waste of resourses and a high pollution risk

Well, unless all of the bonfires involve use pressure treated timber, it's unlikely they'll come close to what's produced by stacks of burning tyres, which produce all sorts of carcinogens.
Still, breathing that crap in might result in an appropriate Darwinism among those responsible.


 
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Massive bonfires ready to be lit in a celebration of a rich and vibrant culture ?

I see that rich and vibrant culture is truly worth celebrating

& definitely not an excuse for sectarian shitstirring
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My posters have been placed on top of a bonfire. I have reported this hate crime & theft to PSNI to allow them to act urgently
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We should have been playing Linfield tonight, but wasn't allowed on the 12th, so it's on Friday at 5pm. We've not taken any tickets.


 
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Build giant bonefires on public land, destroy property and infrastructure, endanger life, call for the murder of a group of people. Hard to imagine the police and councils not just tolerating, but actively facilitating this "vibrant culture" anywhere else in the uk.


 
Posted : 12/07/2017 8:37 pm
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The close proximity to property is mind boggling


 
Posted : 12/07/2017 8:45 pm
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Such a strange place


 
Posted : 12/07/2017 8:48 pm
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I emigrated.


 
Posted : 12/07/2017 8:55 pm
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I got caught up in the "marching season stupidity" on my way into work this morning.

I did point out to the police motorcycle rider that tried to stop me turning into our site we were trying to run a business that relied on distribution & if I got together with a few mates and blocked the road with our bikes we would be forcibly removed in no time at all.

Oh Liverpool BTW


 
Posted : 12/07/2017 9:11 pm
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Pity we don't have flying boat water bombers for fighting forest fires...
Just imagine:

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Posted : 12/07/2017 9:21 pm
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Bizarre human behaviour. Can't see any sensible justification for it at all.


 
Posted : 12/07/2017 9:22 pm
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I agree with everything you say in your last post jimjam, but you have to admit they put the effort in, those bonfires are ****ing HUGE.


 
Posted : 12/07/2017 9:28 pm
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Like all minor criminals if they put as much effort into doing something constructive, they'd be quite successful in life.


 
Posted : 12/07/2017 9:41 pm
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Huge waste of expensive blue chep pallets and other un branded pallets, have they never heard of the Grenfell fire and the proximity of some of those pallet stacks could easily start another one, thankfully therressa has promised them billions in aid for replacement pallets and fire lighters as well


 
Posted : 12/07/2017 9:50 pm
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-40567967


 
Posted : 12/07/2017 9:52 pm
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Ok not NI

But for realz?

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Posted : 15/07/2017 11:03 pm
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OO.

Colour me shocked.


 
Posted : 15/07/2017 11:09 pm
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I really hate the idea of banning things, but....

All that shit, from both sides. Needs to be reigned in. Grow up people.


 
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Indeed, its a ****ing embarrassment however you know as well as I do that the west coast (dickhead) mentality would never let it go without a fight, never mind in NI.


 
Posted : 16/07/2017 10:48 am
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I am from Ayr. Half of my family are Protestant, half are Catholic. I was a child in the 60s and 70s brought up not to give a toss which denomination or faith you adhered to. Never appreciated what forward looking free thinkers my parents were.


 
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I am from Ayr. Half of my family are Protestant, half are Catholic. I was a child in the 60s and 70s brought up not to give a toss which denomination or faith you adhered to. Never appreciated what forward looking free thinkers my parents were.

That must have been hard. In Scotland.


 
Posted : 16/07/2017 12:15 pm
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Build giant bonefires on public land, destroy property and infrastructure, endanger life, call for the murder of a group of people. Hard to imagine the police and councils not just tolerating, but actively facilitating this "vibrant culture" anywhere else in the uk.

Best you avoid certain parts of Sussex around the 5th November, and whatever you do don't holiday anywhere near Valencia between 15th and 19th March. 😉


 
Posted : 16/07/2017 12:25 pm
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Didn't really impinge on me till my mid teens. I grew up a protestant Celtic fan. Went to mass with my cousins who lived nearby as my parents knew I would skip the church (just like they did)if left on my own. Meantime my uncle and cousins on the other side would be at Ibrox as often as they could. It's long past time we left all the sectarian bollocks behind but unfortunately it seems to be growing at this moment. I hope that's not a long term trend


 
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this is what happens when people are brought up by certain traits. never travel , never aspire and integrate. i'm from n.ireland myself, we have been brought up with no religion or colours. i have friends from all walks and different countries.our family have all got a profession and our lives don't depend on a week in july every year. theres also the other side as well i won't argue that. but the 12th seems to bring out the real racist, bigot, neanderthals.

there's a saying here that you book your holiday abroad so you're away for the 12th as the whole country grounds to a halt for 'tradition'.


 
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Build giant bonefires on public land, destroy property and infrastructure, endanger life, call for the murder of a group of people. Hard to imagine the police and councils not just tolerating, but actively facilitating this "vibrant culture" anywhere else in the uk.

Best you avoid certain parts of Sussex around the 5th November, and whatever you do don't holiday anywhere near Valencia between 15th and 19th March.

If you think that there is anything remotely analogous between bonefires in Northern Ireland and Guy Fawkes, other than something being set alight, then I'm afraid you have absolutely no insight or no clue as to what goes on in Northern Ireland or the implications.

Perhaps if all Guy Fawkes bonefires were built by the EDL using stolen materials, positioned on major roads, car parks or in close proximity to houses and then effigies of racial minorities and slogans along the lines of "kill all immigrants" or "death to non whites" were emblazoned on them, and this was all done in full view of, and indeed with the co-opertaion of the police and local councils, then you might have a point.


 
Posted : 16/07/2017 12:44 pm
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Giant bonfires on public land? Check.
Destroy property and infrastructure? Check.
Endanger life? Check.
Call for the murder of a group of people? Check.

I'm not trying to downplay the implications of what goes on in Northern Ireland, merely pointing out that shenanigans still exist on the mainland.

No Popery! 😀


 
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The cultural imperialists on here who imagine that they can suggest that one culture is less valid or of less worth than another really do need to receive a re-education in multiculturalism.

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How did they get that back to being straight again at the top ? What marvellous arts and crafts the locals manage to create with the most primitive of materials.


 
Posted : 16/07/2017 2:42 pm
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Think cranberry might have been standing a bit close and inhaled too much burning tyre?


 
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Posted : 16/07/2017 4:10 pm
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lol, that video pretty much sums up their ghettos and mentally.


 
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How did they get that back to being straight again at the top ? What marvellous arts and crafts the locals manage to create with the most primitive of materials.

Just goes to show you what can be done by a primitive culture, albeit with modern tools such as a stacker.....


 
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Tidy work, dumb ideas.


 
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