Tuesday, September 25, 2007
Northern Ireland excluded from ‘national’ Monopoly board..!
THE new UK-wide version of Monopoly - with locations voted for by the public - is now out. Perhaps unsurprisingly, Northern Ireland is NOT represented - unless you count the obvious tokenism of including ‘Belfast Airport’ (it’s not even clear if this refers to Belfast International or the George Best City Airport). Rumours that the NIO sponsored the ‘Get out of jail free’ cards remain unconfirmed. Meanwhile, the Daily Mail reports that: “The people of Northern Ireland opted to be represented on a separate All-Ireland board.” So was this the first time the people of Norn Irn expressly asked to be included in a united Ireland setting? Or was Hasbro just trying to make us feel better about not being able to get onto the UK board? And how many hours will it take a Unionist politician to issue a strongly-worded statement?
Belfast Gonzo @ 09:50 AM
I think unionists should be a little bit more concerned about Gordon Brown referring to his country as “this little island” in his recent speech than what’s on the latest UK edition of Monopoly. Then again most unionists on this website seem to regard NI as their country (OWC) rather than the UK so it works both ways.
Posted by on Sep 26, 2007 @ 12:48 AMHow dare Belfast be included !!! :o)
How many votes for Belleek ?
Posted by on Sep 26, 2007 @ 02:36 AMBrief points:
You couldn’t vote for an airport - they were already on the board. So ‘Belfast Airport’ wasn’t chosen by people, just Hasbro. Hence the headline. You may disagree, you may even have reasons, but that is why.
Since the vote was always going to be heavily biased towards English locations, you wonder why they even bothered with this edition.
There is no such thing as ‘Belfast Airport’.
Posted by on Sep 26, 2007 @ 09:14 AMYou couldn’t vote for an airport - they were already on the board. So ‘Belfast Airport’ wasn’t chosen by people, just Hasbro. Hence the headline.
Er, the headline is “Northern Ireland excluded from ‘national’ Monopoly board..!” … but it’s not excluded since ‘Belfast Airport’ is included! Whether the airport was included as a result of a vote or by the decision of Hasbro is irrelevant.
Posted by on Sep 26, 2007 @ 11:31 AMNorthern Ireland is excluded as no place in Donegal is included!
Posted by on Sep 26, 2007 @ 12:06 PMI hear Northern Ireland is actually at the forefront of the new game. To add a little bit of authenicity in the new game the old monopoly notes have been replaced by approximately 26 million old Northern Bank ones ...
Posted by on Sep 26, 2007 @ 12:21 PMThey should have chosen “Derry” or “Londonderry”, just to provoke a fight.
Posted by on Sep 27, 2007 @ 03:32 AM“They should have chosen “Derry” or “Londonderry”, just to provoke a fight.”
Must pass go if you’re a Prod.
Posted by on Sep 27, 2007 @ 07:09 AMWhy are they always bringing out “new versions” of Monopoly. The original is just fine. North Down was never going to replace Mayfair nor the Ardoyne Old Kent Road. It was down to a vote and as someone else said it was bound to have a heavy English bias (there’s more of them). Frankly we should consider it fortunate they even gave us an airport.
Posted by on Sep 27, 2007 @ 12:08 PMActually, Dessertspoon, the original Monopoly was based on Philadelphia.
But I agree - the classic London edition is just fine. No need for these ridiculous new versions.
Posted by on Sep 27, 2007 @ 01:21 PMI wonder how many of our republican commentators here played the London version and prefered it. For me Star Wars Monopoly FTW!
Posted by on Sep 27, 2007 @ 01:39 PM
