Sinn Fein - Populism and Partionism

[Bandage]

@Cheasty

Sinn Fein’s strategy of referring to the state of Ireland as “the 26 counties” and to Northern Ireland as" the North" reminds me a bit of when I used to refer to the Northern Ireland association football team as “Ireland” and Ireland as “Eire”.

Or how myself and @ChairmanDan still refer to The Dell, Burnden Park, Roker Park etc.

You knock a bit of craic out of it for a while but then you sort of pigeonhole yourself into having to keep it up, and it gets boring.

But at least it’s only the INTERNET.

Sinn Fein are out there in real politics doing the equivalent of calling St. Mary’s Stadium “The Dell”.

Along similar lines, I stopped using Sevco a good while ago (bar the very odd relapse or if I want to mix it up as I inavariably don’t want to start three paragraphs in a row with “Rangers” and/or “The huns”). I even refer to them as Rangers the odd time & I no longer use “British Occupied Ireland” unless I forget. Unlike Sinn Féin, I feel these relatively recent developments make me mature & ready for government.

[Bandage]

Did anyone hear Patrick O’Donovan on the radio this morning? Owen Byrne’s tweet sent a shiver down his spine apparently.

[Cheasty]

@Bandage

Along similar lines, I stopped using Sevco a good while ago (bar the very odd relapse or if I want to mix it up as I inavariably don’t want to start three paragraphs in a row with “Rangers” and/or “The huns”). I even refer to them as Rangers the odd time & I no longer use “British Occupied Ireland” unless I forget. Unlike Sinn Féin, I feel these relatively recent developments make me mature & ready for government.

The biggest conundrum I’m currently experiencing as a poster on this forum is whether to use “game” or “match” in reference to a sports game/match.

I have a terrible habit of interchanging the two terms, sometimes within the one sentence, which makes me look like a terrible writer.

To go all Chairman Dan on it:

“Tonight’s game between Lokomotiv Leipzig and Woolwich promises to be a fascinating match.”

[Bandage]

I don’t want to embarrass the poster in question so I won’t mention his username, but a Spurs supporting TFK member won a competition on the club website for away north London derby tickets a couple of seasons ago. He flew into London City Airport for handiness so he could access the DLR but was completely bewildered when he hopped off & emerged onto a sleepy & deserted Sunday morning Woolwich High Street less than an hour before kick off.

[Bandage]

You need a go to list. You need 5 options to be safe:

Game
Match
Clash
Contest
Fixture

Borrower
Company
Organisation
Firm
Group

[Biff_Egan]

A bunch of scruffy protestors occupying a building illegally, misappropriating funds, putting a sex offender amidst vulnerable people and worst of all, nodding along to Glen Hansard is akin to Rosa Parks

[Cheasty]

Northern Ireland
The North
The North Of Ireland
The Six Counties
The Wee Six
Up North
Ulster
Across The Border
North Of The Border
British Occupied Ireland
Enn Eye

[Thomas_Brady]

SF have rolled out their team for championship and look to be favouring a 4-2-3-1 formation

[Cheasty]

@Thomas_Brady

SF have rolled out their team for championship and look to be favouring a 4-2-3-1 formation

A bit like how the bodies at Kingsmills were laid out.

[Thomas_Brady]

The sliced pan formation.

[TheUlteriorMotive]

Sums up the woke left.

If you don’t agree with our values you’re a Nazi.

If we do something illegal in pursuit of our values we’re Rosa Parks.

Infantile reductionism. Social media has fucked lads good and proper.

[Cheasty]

@TheUlteriorMotive

Sums up the woke left.

If you don’t agree with our values you’re a Nazi.

If we do something illegal in pursuit of our values we’re Rosa Parks.

Infantile reductionism. Social media has fucked lads good and proper.

I haven’t seen such infantile reductionism since @glenshane’s last post. Social media has fucked this lad good and proper, without lubrication.

[glenshane]

In honour of Holy week sid is making a holy show of himself. A meltdown over a decade old newspaper article.

[artfoley]

@TheUlteriorMotive

Sums up the woke left.

If you don’t agree with our values you’re a Nazi.

If we do something illegal in pursuit of our values we’re Rosa Parks.

Infantile reductionism. Social media has fucked lads good and proper.

lads living in the virtual world thinking they know whats going on in the real world

[Cheasty]

@glenshane

In honour of Holy week sid is making a holy show of himself. A meltdown over a decade old newspaper article.

Well look who can’t take their clamping.

[Cheasty]

@artfoley

lads living in the virtual world thinking they know whats going on in the real world

A bit like an online Jeff Astle that head of yours has obviously taken a few too many slaps Art.

[artfoley]

@Cheasty

A bit like an online Jeff Astle that head of yours has obviously taken a few too many slaps Art.

but i can still carry a tune.

nonetheless, what i said is true.

[Cheasty]

Yes, the Gemma O’Doherty supporter is apparently the one living in the “real world”.

[Arthur]

I think cheasty is playing a blinder here. The first time I’ve seen a poster take a position based on what he actually believes rather than which ‘side’ he supports. Gilesy would be impressed as he’s taking each debate on its own merits bill.

[artfoley]

@Cheasty

Yes, the Gemma O’Doherty supporter is apparently the one living in the “real world”.

i suppose youll now trawl the archive to see if you can get anything that will remotely back what youre saying.

pity we cant do the same for your old usernames