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Will you wear a poppy 2013?

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    #2342
    wazky
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,516 ✭✭✭wazky


    moxin wrote: »
    You might spot the odd one or two in a city wearing one, they are usually British tourists visiting here or British workers who immigrated and have not assimilated yet.

    The vast majority of the Irish people don't wear one as they don't support the British military, they support the Irish military instead and simply put, they ain't Unionists.

    Well I was looking for a little more than "I never see anyone wearing one, except the English lad in the shop" sorta thing. Any actual figures from RBL or whoever is over the sale of poppys here?


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    #2343
    tipptom
    Registered Users Posts: 4,219 ✭✭✭tipptom


    Was sitting in my machine in London one day waiting for the burst watermain crew to turn up(could take days) with my feet up on the steering wheel when I saw 3 little f*ckers hassling an auld fella walking home from the pub,bit wary but couldn't stand back and watch this(while many did)and got out and it must have been my dirty unkempt appearance and Lee Strasberg method acting bravado but they scattered.

    Auld boy was very thankful,trying to offer me a few quid and assumed my name was Pat:P,told me how he had fought in the war and I thought what stuff he could have gone through and seen and the way these little f*uckers treated him.

    Bought a poppy that year(didn't wear it)and assumed that the money went to these veteran's but would not be happy with the thought of it going to soldiers who served in NI.


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    #2344
    bumper234
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    tipptom wrote: »
    Was sitting in my machine in London one day waiting for the burst watermain crew to turn up(could take days) with my feet up on the steering wheel when I saw 3 little f*ckers hassling an auld fella walking home from the pub,bit wary but couldn't stand back and watch this(while many did)and got out and it must have been my dirty unkempt appearance and Lee Strasberg method acting bravado but they scattered.

    Auld boy was very thankful,trying to offer me a few quid !and assumed my name was Pat:P,told me how he had fought in the war and I thought what stuff he could have gone through and seen and the way these little f*uckers treated him.

    Bought a poppy that year(didn't wear it)and assumed that the money went to these veteran's but would not be happy with the thought of it going to soldiers who served in NI.

    In before one of our more extremist republican posters tries to convince you that he was actually being "racist" for saying that.


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    #2345
    harryr711
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 222 ✭✭harryr711


    bumper234 wrote: »
    And your point is?
    No point, just admiring the guy wearing the poppy doing a Nazi salute with his friends holding the union flag behind him.


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    #2346
    wazky
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,516 ✭✭✭wazky


    bumper234 wrote: »
    In before one of our more extremist republican posters tries to convince you that he was actually being "racist" for saying that.

    The only one here mentioning racism is yourself.


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    #2347
    moxin
    Registered Users Posts: 1,203 ✭✭✭moxin


    bumper234 wrote: »
    I saw 7 today while I was in Dublin city center this was in the space of 20 minutes.

    Must of being in your secret RBL club :D


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    #2348
    bumper234
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,250 ✭✭✭✭bumper234


    harryr711 wrote: »
    No point, just admiring the guy wearing the poppy doing a Nazi salute with his friends holding the union flag behind him.

    Ah cool so


    http://www.indymedia.ie/attachments/sep2009/joseph.jpg


    http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kvofwvha1X1qanglz.jpg


    http://www.indymedia.ie/attachments/sep2009/josephmckenna_salute1.jpg


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    #2349
    bumper234
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    moxin wrote: »
    Must of being in your secret RBL club :D

    3 on Henry street 2 outside the GPO of all places and 2 as I walked back from Grafton street. I purposely looked out for them because of this thread. If I wasn't looking for them I more than likely wouldn't have even noticed them.


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    #2350
    wazky
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    bumper234 wrote: »
    http://www.indymedia.ie/attachments/sep2009/josephmckenna_salute1.jpg

    We must of broke through the bottom of that barrel now with pictures of schoolboys doing silly salutes, oh dear.


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    #2351
    bumper234
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    wazky wrote: »
    We must of broke through the bottom of that barrel now with pictures of schoolboys doing silly salutes, oh dear.

    Maybe you should look them up. They are Irish soldiers.


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    #2352
    wazky
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,516 ✭✭✭wazky


    bumper234 wrote: »
    Maybe you should look them up. They are Irish soldiers.

    And what relevance does that have to the discussion?, I know we have strayed off topic a few times but come off it, if you want to talk about "Nazi" Irish soldiers open up a thread on them.

    The childish attacks are really getting boring now.


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    #2353
    A Dub in Glasgo
    Registered Users Posts: 17,189 ✭✭✭✭A Dub in Glasgo


    bumper234 wrote: »
    I saw 7 today while I was in Dublin city center this was in the space of 20 minutes.

    I seen about 12 in the centre of Glasgow today, space of about 15 minutes


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    #2354
    bumper234
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    wazky wrote: »
    And what relevance does that have to the discussion?, I know we have strayed off topic a few times but come off it, if you want to talk about "Nazi" Irish soldiers open up a thread on them.

    The childish attacks are really getting boring now.
    harryr711 wrote: »
    http://d3j5vwomefv46c.cloudfront.net/photos/large/447048515.jpg?1321277188
    bumper234 wrote: »
    And your point is?
    harryr711 wrote: »
    No point, just admiring the guy wearing the poppy doing a Nazi salute with his friends holding the union flag behind him.

    I was replying to his posts not yours, also maybe you should read the forum charter...especially the rule about back seat modding.


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    #2355
    Happyman42
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    Sadder than Sad Jack McSad....


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    #2356
    wazky
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,516 ✭✭✭wazky


    bumper234 wrote: »
    I was replying to his posts not yours, also maybe you should read the forum charter...especially the rule about back seat modding.

    Still applies that "Nazi" Irish soldiers have no relevance to the discussion so why bring them up?


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    #2357
    bumper234
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    Happyman42 wrote: »
    Sadder than Sad Jack McSad....

    So point out someone from Britain doing a Nazi salute and it's shocking. Point out that young Irish men can be idiots too and it's sad. The double standards that the so called Republicans on these forums revert to are laughable at best.


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    #2358
    wazky
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,516 ✭✭✭wazky


    bumper234 wrote: »
    So point out someone from Britain doing a Nazi salute and it's shocking. Point out that young Irish men can be idiots too and it's sad. The double standards that the so called Republicans on these forums revert to are laughable at best.

    Can you point out where Irish soldiers and their Nazi fetishes have any impact on the Poppy?, thanks.


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    #2359
    Happyman42
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    bumper234 wrote: »
    So point out someone from Britain doing a Nazi salute and it's shocking. Point out that young Irish men can be idiots too and it's sad. The double standards that the so called Republicans on these forums revert to are laughable at best.

    :confused:
    I get the strong feeling that I am wasting my time on a young teenager here but, for what it is worth;

    you are aware that the EDL are now selling the poppy? That part of the problems with the growth in the display of poppy and poppy fascism are related to it's use by people like this? I say part, because you also have the problem that it is being hijacked to garner support for what Britain's army is doing today.

    Pictures of Irish army neo nazis is not a counter to the above as nobody has suggested that they don't exist.


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    #2360
    bumper234
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    wazky wrote: »
    Can you point out where Irish soldiers and their Nazi fetishes have any impact on the Poppy?, thanks.

    They have the same impact as some random picture of EDL idiots doing the same.


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    #2361
    SoulandForm
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    bumper234 wrote: »
    http://www.indymedia.ie/attachments/sep2009/josephmckenna_salute1.jpg

    I hate to say it but he is EXTREMELY hot! :o


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    #2362
    wazky
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,516 ✭✭✭wazky


    bumper234 wrote: »
    They have the same impact as some random picture of EDL idiots doing the same.

    So none then?, thanks for clearing that up.

    Still no idea why you would post it.


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    #2363
    Happyman42
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    SoulandForm wrote: »
    I hate to say it but he is EXTREMELY hot! :o

    He should take the hoodie off then. ;)


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    #2364
    Seaneh
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,300 ✭✭✭✭Seaneh


    SoulandForm wrote: »
    I hate to say it but he is EXTREMELY hot! :o

    He looks about 12.

    You're a weirdo.


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    #2365
    bumper234
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    wazky wrote: »
    So none then?, thanks for clearing that up.

    Still no idea why you would post it.

    To point out the fact that ALL nations have idiots amongst their young population.


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    #2366
    wazky
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,516 ✭✭✭wazky


    bumper234 wrote: »
    To point out the fact that ALL nations have idiots amongst their young population.

    No one said they didn't?


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    #2367
    bumper234
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    wazky wrote: »
    No one said they didn't?

    Ok


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    #2368
    Nodin
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    SoulandForm wrote: »
    I hate to say it but he is EXTREMELY hot! :o


    Do you want to go out with him or adopt him?


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    #2369
    Seaneh
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,300 ✭✭✭✭Seaneh


    Nodin wrote: »
    Do you want to go out with him or adopt him?

    I'm actually 99% sure he's wearing a school uniform there!

    His mate beside him is anyway!


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    #2370
    Happyman42
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    Seaneh wrote: »
    I'm actually 99% sure he's wearing a school uniform there!

    His mate beside him is anyway!


    Which would be important if it had any relevance, which it doesn't, just another blocking tactic to avoid answering on the issues raised.


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    #2371
    SoulandForm
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,096 ✭✭✭SoulandForm


    Nodin wrote: »
    Do you want to go out with him or adopt him?

    He is in his early 20s.


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