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Will you wear a poppy 2013?

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    #2462
    bumper234
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,250 ✭✭✭✭bumper234


    dirtyden wrote: »
    But these alleged events were not state sanctioned? Did you miss that whole part of this history. There was something called the Arms trial.

    Neither was bloody Sunday but that doesn't stop the republican factions from making the accusation.


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    #2463
    Fukuoka Eagle
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 14 ✭Fukuoka Eagle


    timthumbni wrote: »
    I'm amazed at how strong a man the queen's hubby Phil looks at 92. I know he's coming to end of his innings but he certainly doesn't look that age. What a bloke. And indeed the queen herself is looking fit for 87.

    He's certainly back. Just the other day he joked to a soldier with prosthetic legs that he could fit wheels to them. Brilliant stuff. It helps to break the ice for those who are terrified when they meet his wife. I will miss him when he's gone.


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    #2464
    Karl Stein
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,689 ✭✭✭Karl Stein


    timthumbni wrote: »
    I'm amazed at how strong a man the queen's hubby Phil looks at 92. I know he's coming to end of his innings but he certainly doesn't look that age. What a bloke. And indeed the queen herself is looking fit for 87.

    You have a lot of admiration for those privileged Germans don't you wee fella?


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    #2465
    timthumbni
    Registered Users Posts: 4,845 ✭✭✭timthumbni


    Fukuoka Eagle wrote: »
    He's certainly back. Just the other day he joked to a soldier with prosthetic legs that he could fit wheels to them. Brilliant stuff. It helps to break the ice for those who are terrified when they meet his wife. I will miss him when he's gone.

    You could probably start a thread on things he has said or was reported to have said. He is certainly an old rascal. I suspect he quite likes the image he gets and plays up to it just for the craic.

    I too think the world would be slightly less bright when he's gone. A living legend and rightly so. I know a few ones who are very anti royalists but still love mad Phil.


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    #2466
    wazky
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,516 ✭✭✭wazky


    Carlos Roca wrote: »
    You have a lot of admiration for those privileged Germans don't you wee fella?

    Sure isn't he a Greek though?


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    #2467
    dirtyden
    Registered Users Posts: 1,734 ✭✭✭dirtyden


    bumper234 wrote: »
    Neither was bloody Sunday but that doesn't stop the republican factions from making the accusation.

    But you called them state sanctioned in an earlier post to support your argument? Do you agree now that they were not state sanctioned?


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    #2468
    Karl Stein
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,689 ✭✭✭Karl Stein


    Feckin' Greeks and Germans coming over here and making British people worship them.


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    #2469
    DEFTLEFTHAND
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    wazky wrote: »
    Sure isn't he a Greek though?

    Phil 'the Greek'.

    Sounds like a gangster.


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    #2470
    timthumbni
    Registered Users Posts: 4,845 ✭✭✭timthumbni


    Carlos Roca wrote: »
    You have a lot of admiration for those privileged Germans don't you wee fella?

    Phil a German??? I think you are wrong sir. I think he may have actually fought them in ww2 though. You should google him for some interesting reading.

    Anyway you live in the irish republic. The British royal family has no direct effect on you surely??? Why the hostility?


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    #2471
    wazky
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,516 ✭✭✭wazky


    timthumbni wrote: »

    Anyway you live in the irish republic. The British royal family has no direct effect on you surely??? Why the hostility?

    What's British about them bar them actually living there?


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    #2472
    Karl Stein
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,689 ✭✭✭Karl Stein


    timthumbni wrote: »
    Phil a German??? I think you are wrong sir. I think he may have actually fought them in ww2 though. You should google him for some interesting reading.

    Yeah I got that wrong. It's hard to keep track of all the inbreeding.
    Anyway you live in the irish republic.

    I live in Ireland. So do you.
    The British royal family has no direct effect on you surely???

    They're about as British as you are my fellow Irishman.


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    #2473
    Fukuoka Eagle
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 14 ✭Fukuoka Eagle


    Prince Philip is a WWII vet. He deserves our respect.


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    #2474
    Sir Humphrey Appleby
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    Fukuoka Eagle wrote: »
    Prince Philip is a WWII vet. He deserves our respect.

    Why would he deserve my respect?:confused:


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    #2475
    wazky
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,516 ✭✭✭wazky


    Fukuoka Eagle wrote: »
    Prince Philip is a WWII vet. He deserves our respect.

    Hitler fought in WWI, is it ok with you if we respect him too?


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    #2476
    timthumbni
    Registered Users Posts: 4,845 ✭✭✭timthumbni


    Carlos Roca wrote: »
    Yeah I got that wrong. It's hard to keep track of all the inbreeding.

    inbreeding? That reminds me of the time I was a party and a south armagh republican type introduced me to his wife and sister. I turned to find only one woman standing there. Lol.


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    #2477
    SoulandForm
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    wazky wrote: »
    Sure isn't he a Greek though?

    The Greek Royals arent really Greek as such though; King Otto came from Bavaria though was effectively under massive western Protestant influence and did what he could to destroy actual Greek (or maybe it would be better to say Eastern Roman/Rum culture as the "Greeks" regarded themselves until the late 18 th and early 19 th centuries) culture. General Makriyannis's Memoirs really go into this process and are a total master piece of literature.


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    #2478
    dundalkfc10
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    http://pbs.twimg.com/media/BX-Ijw8IMAA56o4.jpg:large


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    #2479
    Karl Stein
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,689 ✭✭✭Karl Stein


    Sir Humphrey Appleby wrote: »
    Why would he deserve my respect?:confused:

    I don't think you understand how being a servile dupe works.


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    #2480
    Jimoslimos
    Registered Users Posts: 4,930 ✭✭✭Jimoslimos


    timthumbni wrote: »
    inbreeding? That reminds me of the time I was a party and a south armagh republican type introduced me to his wife and sister. I turned to find only one woman standing there. Lol.
    Hmmm.....subtle as a sledgehammer.


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    #2481
    Sir Humphrey Appleby
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,465 ✭✭✭Sir Humphrey Appleby


    timthumbni wrote: »
    inbreeding? That reminds me of the time I was a party and a south armagh republican type introduced me to his wife and sister. I turned to find only one woman standing there. Lol.
    A member of the House of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, Prince Philip was born in Greece into the Greek and Danish royal families, but his family was exiled from Greece when he was a child. After being educated in France, England, Germany, and Scotland, he joined the British Royal Navy in 1939, at the age of 18. From July 1939, he began corresponding with the 13-year-old Princess Elizabeth (his third cousin through Queen Victoria and the elder daughter and heiress presumptive of King George VI)

    Yup, inbreeding!


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    #2482
    wazky
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,516 ✭✭✭wazky


    SoulandForm wrote: »
    The Greek Royals arent really Greek as such though; King Otto came from Bavaria though was effectively under massive western Protestant influence and did what he could to destroy actual Greek (or maybe it would be better to say Eastern Roman/Rum culture as the "Greeks" regarded themselves until the late 18 th and early 19 th centuries) culture. General Makriyannis's Memoirs really go into this process and are a total master piece of literature.

    So he is of a German decent too?, imagine if someone told the EDL and their cronies how multicultural their own monarchy is?


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    #2483
    Fukuoka Eagle
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 14 ✭Fukuoka Eagle


    wazky wrote: »
    Hitler fought in WWI, is it ok with you if we respect him too?

    You can do what you like..... thanks to men like the Duke of Edinburgh and all those other brave men we have just seen marching past the Cenotaph.


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    #2484
    SoulandForm
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,096 ✭✭✭SoulandForm


    Jimoslimos wrote: »
    Hmmm.....subtle as a sledgehammer.

    Its a really ugly Ulster habit to accuse themuns of inbreeding (nationalists do it to sometimes); but I guess there are those who see this costum as culture and therefore should be defended?


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    #2485
    Sir Humphrey Appleby
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,465 ✭✭✭Sir Humphrey Appleby


    Fukuoka Eagle wrote: »
    You can do what you like..... thanks to men like the Duke of Edinburgh and all those other brave men we have just seen marching past the Cenotaph.

    Lol, that's funny, highly inaccurate but funny.:D


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    #2486
    citytillidie
    Registered Users Posts: 22,095 ✭✭✭✭citytillidie


    LordSutch wrote: »
    How many times do people have to be told. The Poppy is about the commemoration of the war dead, and in many cases the Irish War dead from the Great War and WWII.

    The poppy is a sombre and reflective symbol, so there is no glorification (as you put it) to be had in commemorating the senseless sloughter and waste of life. I'm thinking of WWI in particular where so many tens of thousands of Irish men died . . . . . .

    That's what it used to be, now it has changed and people just wear it to say look at me.

    All you have to do is look at the treatment of James McClean last year for not wearing one on his football top

    ******



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    #2487
    wazky
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,516 ✭✭✭wazky


    Fukuoka Eagle wrote: »
    You can do what you like..... thanks to men like the Duke of Edinburgh and all those other brave men we have just seen marching past the Cenotaph.

    Don't forget Harry!, he is protecting Western oil freedom from some shepards in the Middle East with his gunship.


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    #2488
    Sir Humphrey Appleby
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,465 ✭✭✭Sir Humphrey Appleby


    wazky wrote: »
    Don't forget Harry!, he is protecting Western oil freedom from some shepards in the Middle East with his gunship.

    Why are you bringing James Hewitt's son into this?:D


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    #2489
    Fukuoka Eagle
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 14 ✭Fukuoka Eagle


    Sir Humphrey Appleby wrote: »
    A member of the House of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, Prince Philip was born in Greece into the Greek and Danish royal families, but his family was exiled from Greece when he was a child. After being educated in France, England, Germany, and Scotland, he joined the British Royal Navy in 1939, at the age of 18. From July 1939, he began corresponding with the 13-year-old Princess Elizabeth (his third cousin through Queen Victoria and the elder daughter and heiress presumptive of King George VI)

    Yup, inbreeding!

    They are hardly inbreeding if they are third cousins. Lot's of people have probably married their third cousins without realising it.


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    #2490
    Fukuoka Eagle
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 14 ✭Fukuoka Eagle


    Sir Humphrey Appleby wrote: »
    Lol, that's funny, highly inaccurate but funny.:D

    They are braver than you. If you were called up to fight WWIII you'll try to get out of it by pretending you are 15.


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    #2491
    tipptom
    Registered Users Posts: 4,219 ✭✭✭tipptom


    Tom Mcgurk had a good suggestion,why not have a green poppy as a compromise for some people.


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