Protestants

[glenshane]

@Locke

Why do people link being Protestant to the orange order?

Orange order = Protestant
This is correct (afaik)

Protestant = Orange order
This is incorrect. There are too many people who are Protestant here in Ireland who aren’t even related to the Orange order. Linking both is just lazy. And Protestants here in the south don’t do lazy.

Look, you weighed in in support of the UVF. Now’s hardly the time to be doling out preachy lessons in tolerance.

[myboyblue]

I know of a Protestant who heads up north every 12th to celebrate his right to march. It’s probably best for us catholic’s to assume they’re all like this fella.

[TheUlteriorMotive]

I’m in Greystones

[PasqualePaoli]

They definitely sleep in the same bed

[Gary_Birtles_Lovechi]

@Fagan_ODowd

I thought the bit about making jam and baking and the Aldi cakes was a very pointed reference to the virtue of Protestant thrift and the dangers of Catholic sloth.

It’s a cliché about Protestants and baking but it also happens to be very true. Two of our three nearest neighbours are Church of Ireland and Methodist respectively. Both are big into baking, the COI one comes from a family that were massively into it, he also makes blackcurrant and gooseberry home-made jam. Both their lawns are also immaculate and both families have a big appreciation of gardening.

[Little_Lord_Fauntleroy]

The last line is contradictory mate

Sounds like they hate gardening and nature if they engage in ecoside

[Gary_Birtles_Lovechi]

@Little_Lord_Fauntleroy

Sounds like they hate gardening and nature if they engage in ecoside

I wouldn’t call maintaining the lawn and planting any number of pollenating shrubs “ecoside” but sure we all have our own views on that.

[TreatyStones]

@Juhniallio will probably know but I think that was the theme of poem on the irish syllabus back in the day. Was written by a peado though.

[Little_Lord_Fauntleroy]