Things that make you go What the F**k?

[Truthsayer]

Or perhaps more relevantly, Holy Cross. Primary school kids having piss hurled at them by a mob.

That too... they've no qualms bout targeting children or Mass goers as in Harryville.. 

[tbrick18]

Almost certainly to spare the kids from the whole event becoming a circus ffs. Do you think they should have just bulled ahead and risked having some f**king gammon in a bowler hat standing outside the gates screaming at a group of kids?

https://northdowncricketclub.co.uk/kids-camp/

Read their statement there. Plenty of staunchness from all concerned and I don't think anyone needs to worry about a few fenian kids becoming a fifth column inside the club any time soon but the idea of engaging other clubs, including East Belfast GAA, to have their kids come and give cricket a go came from them.

They were trying to do something positive FFS.

I'd agree with that. NDCC should be commended for trying to build connections - at the end of the day sport is just sport.
From what I've heard the organisers were coming under serious pressure from the OO and other individuals. So I can understand them cancelling it. A case of damned if you do, damned if you don't for them I think.

Absolute low life scum in OO though. Bigots. Racists. Knuckledraggers.
At the end of the day they are afraid. Afraid that those pesky taigs are going to take over and a UI will be happen and all of a sudden they'd be 2nd class citizens - as they judge us by their own standards.

[general_lee]

Does anyone here actually know anyone in the Orange Order? I don't. But I can't begin to imagine having any sort of acquaintance that was a member and being able to take them serious.

[naka]

Does anyone here actually know anyone in the Orange Order? I don't. But I can't begin to imagine having any sort of acquaintance that was a member and being able to take them serious.

know plenty
everyone will say ooh thats not us
every organisation has nutters
i don`t get it at all


on a side note fair play to NDCC, rather than withdraw the invitation from the gaa they just cancelled the camp impacting all  which reflects badly on the OO

[johnnycool]

Does anyone here actually know anyone in the Orange Order? I don't. But I can't begin to imagine having any sort of acquaintance that was a member and being able to take them serious.

know plenty
everyone will say ooh thats not us
every organisation has nutters
i don`t get it at all


on a side note fair play to NDCC, rather than withdraw the invitation from the gaa they just cancelled the camp impacting all  which reflects badly on the OO

Some of the comments on the Comber OO's facebook page are unreal.

The Pan Nationalist Front is about to take Comber over. 

You can stick Comber up yer hole, we don't want it.

Ironically enough I was talking to a lad from the other community from the Ballygowan direction, not far from Comber who's wee girl started camogie a few years back with Darragh Cross and is on an U14 Development squad with a daughter of mine.

He was telling me that it was a bit of a shock when she declared she wanted to try camogie as his family in his own words were steeped in RUC tradition, he's a brother in the PSNI and during the RUC days, his Da was in the RUC as well and he now says the Granda and Grandma take great pleasure going to watch her play camogie.

Just adding a bit of balance.

[tbrick18]

Does anyone here actually know anyone in the Orange Order? I don't. But I can't begin to imagine having any sort of acquaintance that was a member and being able to take them serious.

Yeah I know plenty.
But it's always someone else that comes out with the nonsense, not them.
We have neighbors, nice people, would help out at the drop of a hat, as would we. They have a wee girl who plays with my youngest. Nice kid.
Then this time of year comes around and they put an orange lily plant at the front door. Kids out playing with batons.
The dad plays in a flute band. And they went to the moygashel bonfire (and invited my daughter to go with them - but she was "busy"), and go to Scarva every year.
It's really difficult to reconcile one persona with the other.

They're a weird outfit.

But here's the kicker - that same family I would almost swear would vote for a UI IF they were to make more money out of it. Money is the first love there and everything else is 2nd to that.

[general_lee]

I don't know anyone in the Orange Order. They are weird people alright. How obsessed does someone have to be that they'd oppose kids playing cricket?

Lurgan is very segregated, including  the middleclass housing estates, but even the GAA clubs and rugby clubs in Lurgan and Portadown from time to time will run stuff like this and no one bats an eyelid. Most young GAA players will play mid-Ulster soccer with and against young fellas that are probably orange men and in flute bands.

I'm sure it's the same for young people in Comber. They're going to come across young footballers, hurlers and camogs at some stage. I just can't get my head round the blatant bigotry aimed against f**king children. 

[Last Man]

Its only human nature, we all take comfort from being part of a tribe or community. Plenty of us are able to laugh off the bigots on " our side" and it only takes a few to stir the shite.
So nobody breaks ranks for fear of being labelled this, that or the other and be cast to the wilderness. 
Pathetic really, and very well curated by our political advocates as it is the mainstay of their survival.

[armaghniac]

Plenty of us are able to laugh off the bigots on " our side" and it only takes a few to stir the shite.

So what are the examples of this type of thing in the opposite direction?

[Milltown Row2]

Plenty of us are able to laugh off the bigots on " our side" and it only takes a few to stir the shite.

So what are the examples of this type of thing in the opposite direction?

Burning down orange halls?

[johnnycool]

Plenty of us are able to laugh off the bigots on " our side" and it only takes a few to stir the shite.

So what are the examples of this type of thing in the opposite direction?

Burning down orange halls?

Yeah, not good.

Leave them to fall down in their own time or really confuse the natives by erecting a wooden cross in the grounds and setting fire to it.
They'll struggle to work out if it was a friend or foe to did it.

[93-DY-SAM]

Fair enough, maybe I was a bit quick to jump the gun on judgment of NDCC.

[SaffronSports]

Orange Order are dying out. I was at the shop in Carnlough when they were passing by and not one of them had hair that wasn't grey. Also, noticed a sign in Ballymena saying something about don't just watch the orange order or something. Basically, a recruitment drive. The bands that go along with them are younger but the actual OO is definitely dying out.

[johnnycool]

Orange Order are dying out. I was at the shop in Carnlough when they were passing by and not one of them had hair that wasn't grey. Also, noticed a sign in Ballymena saying something about don't just watch the orange order or something. Basically, a recruitment drive. The bands that go along with them are younger but the actual OO is definitely dying out.

Is the progression in this Kulture, young fellas start off it the bands, drinking, drugging, fornication, then they find God, join the OO and become respectable to the wider "community"?

The posher ones will maybe jump to joining the Black

[AustinPowers]

What's these Black  fellas all about?

Do they have their  own lodges?

Can one be an  Orangeman and one of the black fellas?

Do they argue with  each other  about who marches where?

What about their initiation ceremony?  Maybe they have to  ride two goats?