Rocko and I were standing outside Glasgow International Airport having a couple of victory cigars at about 9pm last night and the place was busy enough with people arriving at the airport and many others getting off flights.
Anyway, this lad in army uniform walked past and seeing our scarves enquired about the score of the game. â3-2 Celticâ, we replied and he rolled his eyes and made a gesture with his hand.
There was a few other Celtic supporters there smoking and one of the bhoys shouted over at him, âFook off back to Iraq ya cooontâ and yer man stopped, turned around and went, âI was in Afghanistan actually.â
This prompted our esteemed administrator to burst into a âThereâs only one Talibanâ chant and about 10 seconds later there was 10 or so of us belting it out raucously and yer man was still standing there giving us the finger.
It was probably a âyou had to be there momentâ but loads of other randomers and tourists were walking in and out of the airport and theyâre met by the sight of 10 pissed Irish fooks jumping, singing and dancing in praise of the Taliban while some British Army fook is standing there giving us the finger.
'Twas fooking funny stuff.
There was also a quality incident in Juryâs Inn after the Munster game at about 5.30pm. A big Celtic contingent were there having a few pinits in the hotel bar and next thing a bus pulled up outside at the traffic lights with an assortment of huns on board. So everyone promptly started jumping and dancing around, waving and smiling at the fooks and giving them the finger including auld wans and stuff too. The big solemn heads on the huns were hilarious but the auld wans really getting into it and joining in the âget it right fooking up you ya cooontsâ message was fairly funny too.
It was extremely funny alright Bandage. Fair play to the other lads for joining in and your man really had no answer but the passers by were the best part - the looks of utter comtempt from those of a hun persuasion were reward in themselves.
Hotel incident funny, airport incident not a bit funny. Itâs an insult to all the brave soldiers who have given their lives in the fight against terrorism. Itâs also an insult to one of your own people, a Catholic Irishman named Ian Malone, a Ballyfermot resident who joined the British Army to fight against terrorism, sadly he died during battle in Iraq.
While you might have thought this chant was funny after a few pints, itâs not. Thereâs no banter whatsoever in chanting in support of a terrorist organisation responsible for the deaths and suffering of innocent punters, be it the IRA, ETA or the Taliban. Iâm sure the randomers in the airport now hold the Irish people in high regard!!
This thread has reconfirmed my belief that Celtic supporters are absolute scum, no better or no worse than Rangers supporters. In fact both Glasgow Rangers and Celtic support should be made extinct, hatred and sectarianism is at the core of their so called banter and frankly thereâs no room for it in an Ireland and Britain that are at peace with each other.
Do you seriously think I should feel sorry for an Irish man who died fighting for the British Army? Are you insane? Maybe if he hadnât decided to take the blood money to join an occupying and murdering force he wouldnât have paid the ultimate price. The fact that he did means I have no sympathy whatsoever for him or any other mercenary like him.
I agree with Bandage on the Irish man in the British Army. He shouldnt have joined in the first place no sympathy at all for him, traitor is a label Iâd assign to him. But the Taliban are are total scum. Praising the Taliban is abhorrent and it disgusts me.
Thatâs the thing Flano. Iâm not what youâd call an ardent Taliban supporter. It was a simply a get it right fooking up you to a British soldier prick who had given us the âwankyâ gesture with his hand. Benâs point about supporting the British army because an Irish guy died fighting for them is still making me laugh. If thereâs Irish guys in an other despicable regimes should we support them too? And Ben, I donât go to Glasgow on behalf of Brd Filte, I go to support Celtic. As HBK said to Dave Batista lately, and I paraphrase, âIf some British army fook wants some, then letâs see if wants to come get some.â
Agreed. Youâre wrong in your even less than ardent support of the Taliban Bandage. Actually your stance is ridiculous - and so is your opinion on this. Boom boom.
I look at things primarily from an Irish perspective. Maybe if the Taliban had inflicted the same level of murder, enslavement, torture, rape, pillaging etc. as the British Army did in this country then Iâd have greater disdain for them. Alas, they didnât and so I donât. Looking on things on a global scale, the oppression and colonialisation of Britain is vast and, in comparison, the Taliban would barely register on their scale. Thatâs not to say the Taliban arenât a terrible regime themselves but Iâm firmly up for them in their bouts with the British Army. My only hope is Ross Kemp doesnât get killed in the crossfire as I like his documentaries.
Why do you call the British army in Afghanistan âmurderersâ?
Do you not think that they are correct in their solidarity with the USA on the War on Terror and particularly in the pursuit of Bin Laden, the man primarily responsible for heinous crimes against the West and who is/was sheltered to some extent by the Taliban?
Not saying you are wrong - just genuinely interestedâŚ
Sherminâs post is so wrong it is actually funny.
Like Flango and Bandage I couldnât give a shite about your man from Ballyfermot. What the fuck did he join the British Army for? He joined to âsee some actionâ no doubt and thatâs what he got.
Iâm no ardent fan of the Taliban either - but I donât think theyâve committed more atrocities against Ireland than the Brits have so donât see why my loyalties would be to the crown. Thereâs a general effort on behalf of the US to paint this war as âwestâ (i.e. civilization) against the religious fanatics. The truth is that the religious fanatics never attacked anyone except the US until the recent wars started - theyâve since attacked Spain and Britain who also participated in the war. Until then all theyâd done was attack the US - the one occupying force in their region. And weâre told it was an attack on western values! It was in its hole - it was an attack on an imperialist force.
That was exactly Ball Oxâs argument - he used to say to me âWhich is the biggest threat to you - USA or Al Qaeda?â Therefore I should support USA on the grounds that they do not directly threaten meâŚ
A completely stupid and irrelevant questionâŚ
Al Qaeda would not be a threat was not for the USAâŚ
And just because USA may not be a threat to Ireland does not make what they did, in Iraq in particular, rightâŚ
PS Flano maybe come up with your own argument just for onceâŚ
Busy this afternoon but just a quick one on Farmerâs question and Iâll come back to it later or tomorrow, I donât accept under any circumstances that thereâs a âWar On Terrorâ. Therefore, I donât approve of or support the British Armyâs âworkâ in Afghanistan. They also have a history of indiscrimate killing in any of the countries they invade (as well we know given their proven collusion with loyalist forces here) so I regard the people they kill as victims of murder.