The DUP thread

[thewobbler]

After the flagpole nonsense and a few days of pretty equal whataboutery tallies from both sides, the loyalist bully boy has handed team Nationalism a serious advantage on Twitter.

And by f**k are our lot playing the violins.

I've muted and unfollowed a hefty number of political threads and people the past week, in a hope of never seeing six county shit again, but my timeline is still overflowing with outrage and angst.

Everyone, on both sides, just needs to take a breath and say nothing .

[RedHand88]

Police not call the flagpole removal a hate crime.

It can be described as a hate crime, but it can't be charged as a hate crime (I think).

[CK_Redhand]

One man's hate crime is another man's burning effigies on bonfires. Culture.

[general_lee]

After the flagpole nonsense and a few days of pretty equal whataboutery tallies from both sides, the loyalist bully boy has handed team Nationalism a serious advantage on Twitter.

And by f**k are our lot playing the violins.

I've muted and unfollowed a hefty number of political threads and people the past week, in a hope of never seeing six county shit again, but my timeline is still overflowing with outrage and angst.

Everyone, on both sides, just needs to take a breath and say nothing .

Aye, ignore it, that will make it go away.
Only a couple of weeks ago a few teenagers were battered in Belfast city by a couple of bigots (including an ex squaddie) for the audacity of wearing a GAA jersey. I'm sure if it was one of your Ballyholland minors you'd have a different outlook. God knows what those rats would have done on Sunday had that girl answered her door.

[Milltown Row2]

He probably done her windows, noticed when looking through them she had some catholic paraphernalia about!

[Aristo 60]

Like copies of the RTE guide and so on and so forth?

[Saffrongael]

He's only 34 ffs 

[Milltown Row2]

Like copies of the RTE guide and so on and so forth?

Who da f**k buys a tv mag 

Probably a Copy of the Wolfe Tones greatest hits

[RedHand88]

Like copies of the RTE guide and so on and so forth?

Ireland's own
Jam in the press
Padre Pio on the wall

[Wildweasel74]

Wouldn't need go in my dad's house with the Maze altar they used to do, some hunger strike calendar, plus a few hunger strike items. Beginning to wonder should I mention to him it's 40years ago.

[AustinPowers]

Like copies of the RTE guide and so on and so forth?

Ireland's own
Jam in the press
Padre Pio on the wall

Sacred heart picture
JFK  picture
Jack Charlton  and Maurice Setters picture
Ludo  trophy

I think I  need to take a break from watching  Father Ted 

[thewobbler]

After the flagpole nonsense and a few days of pretty equal whataboutery tallies from both sides, the loyalist bully boy has handed team Nationalism a serious advantage on Twitter.

And by f**k are our lot playing the violins.

I've muted and unfollowed a hefty number of political threads and people the past week, in a hope of never seeing six county shit again, but my timeline is still overflowing with outrage and angst.

Everyone, on both sides, just needs to take a breath and say nothing .

Aye, ignore it, that will make it go away.
Only a couple of weeks ago a few teenagers were battered in Belfast city by a couple of bigots (including an ex squaddie) for the audacity of wearing a GAA jersey. I'm sure if it was one of your Ballyholland minors you'd have a different outlook. God knows what those rats would have done on Sunday had that girl answered her door.

Point is.

Every town, village and city across the world this past weekend would have been witness to vile and repugnant acts of bullying and brutality. It's just, unfortunately, how humans are prone to treating each other.

The two sides of the six county spectrum jumping on every incident, no matter how trivial (and I'm not describing this particular one as trivial by the way) with over the top horror and disgust, mixed together with a king sized dollop of whataboutery, is helping nobody. It's just pumping more and more unnecessary air into sectarian ways of living.

f**k that. We don't need it. Just accept that there's c***ts of humans in every town, village and city. The colours they're wearing is a disguise, not a uniform.

[Dougal Maguire]

Like copies of the RTE guide and so on and so forth?

Who da f**k buys a tv mag 

Probably a Copy of the Wolfe Tones greatest hits

Obviously someone must be buying them if they keep printing them

[gallsman]

After the flagpole nonsense and a few days of pretty equal whataboutery tallies from both sides, the loyalist bully boy has handed team Nationalism a serious advantage on Twitter.

And by f**k are our lot playing the violins.

I've muted and unfollowed a hefty number of political threads and people the past week, in a hope of never seeing six county shit again, but my timeline is still overflowing with outrage and angst.

Everyone, on both sides, just needs to take a breath and say nothing .

Aye, ignore it, that will make it go away.
Only a couple of weeks ago a few teenagers were battered in Belfast city by a couple of bigots (including an ex squaddie) for the audacity of wearing a GAA jersey. I'm sure if it was one of your Ballyholland minors you'd have a different outlook. God knows what those rats would have done on Sunday had that girl answered her door.

Point is.

Every town, village and city across the world this past weekend would have been witness to vile and repugnant acts of bullying and brutality. It's just, unfortunately, how humans are prone to treating each other.

The two sides of the six county spectrum jumping on every incident, no matter how trivial (and I'm not describing this particular one as trivial by the way) with over the top horror and disgust, mixed together with a king sized dollop of whataboutery, is helping nobody. It's just pumping more and more unnecessary air into sectarian ways of living.

f**k that. We don't need it. Just accept that there's c***ts of humans in every town, village and city. The colours they're wearing is a disguise, not a uniform.

Breathtaking ignorance, naiveté or stupidity. Take your pick. You didn't mean to trivialise the incident yet fluked it anyway.

Bothsidesing is every bit as bad as whataboutery.

[Milltown Row2]

Like copies of the RTE guide and so on and so forth?

Who da f**k buys a tv mag 

Probably a Copy of the Wolfe Tones greatest hits

Obviously someone must be buying them if they keep printing them

I suppose the older generation buy it but huge drop recently with things online

43,000 from last period of being recorded. No figures since 2018

Drop from 260,000 in 2002