usual "anyone been to...?" thread, this time, Belfast

[User removed 4]

Why don't you pay the place a visit?
If you read properly you'll find I stated there were obnoxious people on both sides. If you actually knew anything about the REALITY of the place you might not be quite so opinionated. Some people on both sides aren't moving on but I was pointing out a specific group who make me chuckle with their steadfast refusal to move on & even join the 21st century. My politics are my own & I'll keep them to myself. I couldn't care less about what you think you "know" of the conditions in Belfast & the rights & wrongs of the past or present day but I'm willing to bet you don't know much at all otherwise you'd know that the incidents you refer to are not the only incidents that have or do occur even today in Northern Ireland. There are more incidents involving Loyalists than you might realise. But anyway this is a football forum & my previous post was my opinion on Belfast not on the politics of it all.

if your previous post was meant to be purely on belfast and not the politics of it, then don't make judgmental statements about loyalists .you didn't say that there were obnoxious people on both sides at all, you made a clear statement about loyalism and implied that there are 'probably' obnoxious people in republican bars, jolly old lovable rogue freedom fighters that they are,as for spending time in northern ireland and finding out for myself ?I've spent far too long there and seen 'republicans' for what they really are , not the sanitised propaganda put on show for the media and gullible american tourists or people like yourself, to ever want to go back.

 

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his opening line was "Born there so i'm biased," He admits it, so what's your angle? have you lived there? served there? or it just as the role of shit stirrer?


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I've served there, what's you're angle ? Chief swallower of bollocks stories about nasty loyalists in rangers shirts oppressing cheeky lovable irish kids ?

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Not been for a long long time but I spent an excellent new years there when I was a student. I'm a city person so it appeals to me, but there is also some great countryside and coast up on the north. Giants Causeway is incredible. There's an old gas lit pub, I think it is or was owned by the National Trust. Name escapes me, to lazy to google, but it is famous. Nice architecture and civic buildings....similar to Liverpool. People very friendly.

 

[house your seagull]

i had a vision, some time ago, that i would marry a girl called Stella from Northern Ireland.

as yet i've never met a Stella, but i always get nervous when i meet N.I. girls just in case. in the last couple of months i've met 2 really fit ulster girls, alas one was called Ashleigh, and the other Laura.

i had to check the latters passport at work - it was a British passport, she was born in Londonderry, but upon getting some information from her, she professed to being irish, and from Derry. this made me think it could get a bit awkward if we did get together and i went to meet the parents. but i suppose the town's name is actually Derry, and they are all ethnically irish, no?

why call it Londonderry still? It's like calling St. Petersburg Leningrad, i don' get it.

still, fingers crossed on the Stella front.

i have nothing to add to this thread regarding the city of Belfast.

 

[dougdeep]

i had a vision, some time ago, that i would marry a girl called Stella from Northern Ireland.

as yet i've never met a Stella, but i always get nervous when i meet N.I. girls just in case. in the last couple of months i've met 2 really fit ulster girls, alas one was called Ashleigh, and the other Laura.

i had to check the latters passport at work - it was a British passport, she was born in Londonderry, but upon getting some information from her, she professed to being irish, and from Derry. this made me think it could get a bit awkward if we did get together and i went to meet the parents. but i suppose the town's name is actually Derry, and they are all ethnically irish, no?

why call it Londonderry still? It's like calling St. Petersburg Leningrad, i don' get it.

still, fingers crossed on the Stella front.

i have nothing to add to this thread regarding the city of Belfast.

Perhaps she drinks Stella.

 

[Cian]

I've served there, what's you're angle ? Chief swallower of bollocks stories about nasty loyalists in rangers shirts oppressing cheeky lovable irish kids ?

I love how you can't connect serving there with "swalllor of bollocks stories about nasty unionists in celtic shirts opressing cheeky lovable kids", then.

Both sides are as bad as each other. You'll never, ever accept that the unionists are scum, though.

 

[Jamon Jamon]

I've served there, what's you're angle ? Chief swallower of bollocks stories about nasty loyalists in rangers shirts oppressing cheeky lovable irish kids ?

what's MY angle? suck a fart out of my arse and then read my posts again, not once have I made any comment towards any political situation in Northern Ireland

 

[cannedheat]

what's MY angle? suck a fart out of my arse and then read my posts again, not once have I made any comment towards any political situation in Northern Ireland

Take no notice of the negatives mate me and the girlfriend went and we had no problems at all, would we go again yes yes yes and we are going to, maybe I can win back what I lost at the dog track.

I don't know who said this but it is true, If you have any preconceptions about a place visit it.

 

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why call it Londonderry still?

Er, because to a lot of people that's still its name ?

 

[User removed 4]

I love how you can't connect serving there with "swalllor of bollocks stories about nasty unionists in celtic shirts opressing cheeky lovable kids", then.

Both sides are as bad as each other. You'll never, ever accept that the unionists are scum, though.

Of course i can accept that SOME unionists are scum, the same as SOME republicans are scum, i just feel compelled to challenge statements that seek to depict the situation as cheeky loveable rogue republicans with a glint in their eye enjoying the "craic" (as if there is something uniquely irish about getting pissed) as opposed to nasty stern faced bowler hatted orangemen oppressing all and sundry, maybe they dont like "moving on " because being part governed by a murdering bastard like mcguiness sticks in their throat

 

[User removed 4]

what's MY angle? suck a fart out of my arse and then read my posts again, not once have I made any comment towards any political situation in Northern Ireland[/QUOTEDont dish it out if you cant take it mate, dont start agressively asking "whats my angle" and asking if im just shit stirring if you dont want the question put back to you, tosser.