Please forgive me if this has come up before but there are so many posts about flags that life is too short to read them all.
I enjoy the comedy show The Big Bang Theory & one of the principle characters does a web cast called Fun With Flags ( I kid you not). In it he talks of the uniqueness of the Oregon flag as it has two different sides. How about we adopt this idea & have a flag with one side being the Union flag & the other the Irish tricolour or the Ulster flag. The flag would be neither of course but a new flag in its own right.
Depending on which way the wind is blowing your flag of choice would be on display.
Simples.
And no I have not been drinking a lot of green beer
This flag protesting is doing Unionism no good but they need a get out strategy which blames the usual enemies
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I predict either a so called “dissident republican” outrage which justifies loyalist reprisal & all shades of unionism can hug & make up.
Or failing that a foreign flag/ contrived republican attack on innocent salt of the earth Protestants that justifies reprisal..
There have been attempts recently to engage the Short Strand communities in the protests in east Belfast.
Failing that a PSNI officer or protester may end up dead as a result of the continued unrest
Either way innocent blood will be spilt so that the protests can be stood down without appearing to surrender.
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Comment on #Flegs: They haven’t gone away you know…
on 17 March 2013 at 9:10 pm
Please forgive me if this has come up before but there are so many posts about flags that life is too short to read them all.
I enjoy the comedy show The Big Bang Theory & one of the principle characters does a web cast called Fun With Flags ( I kid you not). In it he talks of the uniqueness of the Oregon flag as it has two different sides. How about we adopt this idea & have a flag with one side being the Union flag & the other the Irish tricolour or the Ulster flag. The flag would be neither of course but a new flag in its own right.
Depending on which way the wind is blowing your flag of choice would be on display.
Simples.
And no I have not been drinking a lot of green beer
link here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xl12Sp1KiEk
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Comment on Just saying: “Any crack? No. Youse all f***ed off”
on 2 February 2013 at 1:24 pm
One mans b*****ks is anothers poetry.
Rat Trap for the 21st century.
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Comment on Caption Competition
on 8 January 2013 at 10:16 pm
Britains Got Talent Semi Finals. The finals to be held in Port Stanley, who needs a Task Force with Big Sammy & the east Belfast crew
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Comment on Caption Competition
on 8 January 2013 at 10:05 pm
Scarper Lads, here comes the Litter Warden
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Comment on Caption Competition
on 8 January 2013 at 9:28 pm
You can’t touch me I’m part of the Union
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Comment on What remains valuable about the middle ground in Northern Ireland?
on 6 January 2013 at 9:24 pm
“tears at bedtime” DC?
Is that loyalist speak to describe the reaction of a house holder to having their house shot up.
Come on DC this is well below your usual level.
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Comment on Loyalist Flag Protests: Meet the Leadership
on 5 January 2013 at 1:48 pm
Endgame
This flag protesting is doing Unionism no good but they need a get out strategy which blames the usual enemies
.
I predict either a so called “dissident republican” outrage which justifies loyalist reprisal & all shades of unionism can hug & make up.
Or failing that a foreign flag/ contrived republican attack on innocent salt of the earth Protestants that justifies reprisal..
There have been attempts recently to engage the Short Strand communities in the protests in east Belfast.
Failing that a PSNI officer or protester may end up dead as a result of the continued unrest
Either way innocent blood will be spilt so that the protests can be stood down without appearing to surrender.
Surrender is not an option
Gloomy I know but this is how it usually ends.
Have a nice day
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Comment on PSNI officer’s car targeted with ‘viable device’ in East Belfast
on 2 January 2013 at 7:12 pm
You are watching the Conspiracy Channel. Mean while on the Discovery Channel a large rock is heading for the earth & the burning question is was it themuns or usums wot threw it:
http://sluggerotoole.com/2013/01/01/comets-are-like-cats-they-have-tails-and-do-whatever-they-want-to-do/
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Comment on After “closure,” the reopening of Bloody Sunday for at least four more years
on 1 January 2013 at 5:34 pm
So call their bluff:
Unionists asking for a truth & reconciliation process which the shinners refuse to tolerate will make the unionists look good.
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Comment on “I will work tirelessly with all parties to build a truly shared future for Northern Ireland”
on 1 January 2013 at 5:02 pm
Billy Hutchison an athiest & socialist & perhaps wannabe David Irvine. Cannot see that going down well in unionist circles.
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