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A slow cooked turkey is as tender and succulent as any other meat. I am a big fan of food and almost find it offensive to Christmas dinners that the pate be sullied with non-traditional meats.

This should maybe be in the Christmas thread but anyway...

Why do people have weird stuff for their Christmas dinner? Seen someone talk about steak along with their turkey! Another on twitter was going on about having lamb, with turkey and chicken... and saw a picture posted up by a certain Cross player of beans on the plate. What is the world coming to !?

Banter. Poor man's craic.

Does anyone else think peep show is brilliant?

"Shalom Belfast" about to start in 10 minutes on BBC 1 NI.

For anyone outside NI, click on the following link to watch from anywhere in the world

http://www.filmon.com/#BBC-1-North-Ireland

Wow. There are some loons out there. Did you ever encounter that gentleman McKnight? 

Lisburn's a shit hole, nothing to see there, they'll be reviewing the size of their UDR statue next, cos there's a chance it might not be big enough to reflect how British they are.

Well Laoislad. Yes or no?

Yep, the dregs and scummery of loyalism are out again over their fleg... I'm sure their, ahem, fellow Britons on the, ahem, mainland are extremely proud of them and wish deeply to be associated with them ... keep banging the nails into your own coffin, you stupid w**kers 

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One got mowed down by a jeep in Portadown tonight. Apparently they're now trying to get down the G Rd!

And to read that a WPC had a petrol bomb thrown in her car...  there was a time not many moons ago when a nationalist child only had to go out to the local shop for a loaf of bread and a pint of milk to be murdered by "security" forces.  Hmmmmmm.  Wonder why she never drew her weapon and shot the wannabe murderer.

Thats some hyperbole.

Exaggerated to an extent, yes, but it's very noticeable how these rioters are being treated with kid gloves as opposed to what would happen up in Ardoyne or the likes, do you not think so?

+1 - they can do what they want, how many arrests has there been, how many of these will come to anything!!!!

34 arrested over the weekend, 26 charged.
this is pretty much in line with recent riots of both sides ars far as i can see.

Can't criticise police too much, for a start the protesters are claiming 'heavy handedness' when in reality cops have done fa other than soak the c***ts with the water cannons. I think the idea is to try and sit it out, not give them any excuse to really kick off and hope that they remember Christmas is only two weeks away and forget what they're gurning about. Pragmatic as you can get in this situation.

My only criticism would be of the police being AWOL and letting protesters attack the bar in Armagh last night and to a lesser extent standing by and watching them erect a union flag on a bar in Lurgan.

Who is behind it all ? Who is pulling the strings?

I think it's all more or less social media. I was in Belfast on Saturday, they basically closed down city hall for about an hour or so, had a speech or two that no one could hear, burnt a Tricolour, looked at each other and ended up sporadically walking off to their respective areas to begin the non-peaceful segment of their protests.

From twitter:
'Catholic community' up 1.2% since 2000.
'Protestant community' down 5.1%.

In what other place in the world are the army, the police and a flag considered culture?!.

That would be North Korea!

The very Rev William 'Singing Wullie' McCrea has dubbed it ethnic cleansing by SF. 

Anyone know what's going on in Armagh? Heard it's kicked off there. The underclass responsible, surprise surprise...

Smashed the windows in on a pub and threw fireworks into the bar

Was protesters knocked down by a car or something? Fair play to the driver.

Anyone know what's going on in Armagh? Heard it's kicked off there. The underclass responsible, surprise surprise...