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10 years ago @ http://www.belfasttele... - Dissident republicans ... · 0 replies · +9 points

So what if people from NI weren't conscripted? What does that have to do with anything? I think the point being made by yer man is that fascists are fascists and those who use violence and coercion are fascists by default. Therefore like Hitler - a man who lost. Not really rocket science.

Even if more men and women from the south fought against Hitler - Northern Irish people weren't neutral, didn't send condolences to the German's on Hitler's death, didn't send more men to fight for Franco in Spain than went to the International Brigades (the war that was a prelude to ww2).

Hell, the Norn Irish are pretty bad off when looking at ww2. We were offered up as booty to the Republic if only they would renege on neutrality and actually join the war. But still, for all that historical need for a united Ireland, the Irish didn't want to fight fascists enough that it wanted Northern Ireland back too.

10 years ago @ http://www.belfasttele... - Sinn Fein will foot &p... · 0 replies · +12 points

Very droll. Very good.

I hear the SF council leader told the person responsible: "Ur-in-a-lot of bother"

10 years ago @ http://www.belfasttele... - Storm of protest sinks... · 0 replies · +8 points

I heard there were a plague of giant cannibal rats on the ship and that was the reason it was actually cancelled.

10 years ago @ http://www.belfasttele... - Sinn Fein will foot &p... · 1 reply · +2 points

Politicians pissing more money away. Least it wasn't a dirty protest I guess. Pretty funny for the DUP to criticise. I mean, it's not like there have been masked rioters running about Belfast tearing shit up ever in the recent past.

What was the policing cost of this incident that's what I want to know. And was the plumber Protestant or Catholic? Isn't that what all our news seems to boil down to?

10 years ago @ http://www.belfasttele... - Neknomination girl who... · 0 replies · +1 points

Yes, justifying your own wicked behavior by pointing out the unjustifiable behaviour of someone else. And this girl's apparently a trainee solicitor? She'll go far.

But your Lordliness, my client didn't behead their victim, they just swallowed them whole after quickly poisoning them. Have you not seen what some people do to other people in other countries? It's, like, not that bad when you think about it your wig-ship. And now that people have told my client how absolutely heinous their action was they now feel depressed! The humanity! Having to feel bad for doing something wrong is just not on your holiness. My client should receive ample compensation and be allowed to change their name.

Your majesty my client may have been wearing a hat at the time that said they "heart haters" but in actual fact they don't really love people hating them, and it was just a fashion statement and they shouldn't be judged as hypocritical for being a hypocrite.

I rest my case. Buuuuuurrrrpp. My client should not be fed to the sharks. Chippie anyone?

10 years ago @ http://www.belfasttele... - PSNI Chief Constable M... · 1 reply · -3 points

You can see other police forces doing the same? And, start calling themselves services? Fair enough. I'm not disagreeing with that, I'm disagreeing with the fact you can't put police force in print.

I just don't see what the major issue with a sentence written by someone in the Press Association (probably) who used the word force instead of service. I know what they mean. Maybe in a century the word force will ever be heard again. Unless someone watches Dirty Harry or reads a historical document about police forces. But I'd hardly put it up there with all the other words we don't say now.

I have an American Newspaper dated August 15, 1945 in my room. The abbreviation of Japanese is there in print. But that's newspapers. They use words that are of the time. Police force is still a phrase used today. So what if someone uses it?

The funny thing I think about Patten (yeah) is that where it says "To a fresh start". The Royal Irish Constabulary was essentially the genesis of all modern policing. Taking practice from elsewhere essentially leads straight back to this island, historically.

10 years ago @ http://www.belfasttele... - PSNI Chief Constable M... · 0 replies · +5 points

I think you could safely put a bet on that that isn't what's going to happen, given the rules involved in who can and cannot become a chief constable under UK rules.

Is the North/South ministerial council anti-Irish?

10 years ago @ http://www.belfasttele... - PSNI Chief Constable M... · 0 replies · -4 points

I would posit that the word force, which appears once as far as I can tell, is more useful in the sentence compared to service. His force, or his service. Also, if you read the bottom of the piece it says additional reporting by PA.

I'd suggest that anything below the first bold header is from the Press Association. I don't believe it is "pre-patton". The Garda are called a force as well, the Met are, and the term police force is a well known phrase. I think your picking holes in something that doesn't really matter in the slightest.

As I write I just heard a BBC reporter say "any other police force outside of northern Ireland". You might want to write to Points of View as well.

10 years ago @ http://www.belfasttele... - Stop unholy play that ... · 1 reply · +14 points

Ha ha! So we can't agree. Class. Well, I'm an atheist (probably an anti-theist) myself and I have only respect for individuals religious beliefs and not the religions themselves. I like studying them but I think they've caused numerous problems for humanity.

I don't think I was whatabouterying much. I'm not picking out one side, I'm just pointing out they're all at it.

Have a nice day.

10 years ago @ http://www.belfasttele... - Richard Haass: Norther... · 1 reply · -7 points

What about compromise from a party that's name means "Ourselves Alone"?

I think SF are playing a smarter game than the DUP but that doesn't take away from the fact that it's a game they're playing to help out their own single-minded agenda. If you take anything any political party does at face-value, you're pretty naive in my book.

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