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Dark Overlord said

AppleScruffJunior said

I’m okay-ish with the term British Isles but I wouldn’t actually recommend saying to an Irish people that they live in the British Isles. You will get effed and blinded at, and depending on who you say it to, you might get a punch in the gob. A lot of people take it to apply that Ireland is still part of the UK, when as we all know, we’re a beautiful Republic 😉

It’s a shame people feel that way because the British Isles is a geographical term, as opposed to a political one.

Ireland’s relationship with Britain for hundreds of years has been tense, leading to violence many, many times. Thousands of Irish people have been killed by Britons (and vice versa, of course) because of that tense relationship, so you can understand why, now that the Republic is a free country that many people don’t like the term ‘British Isles’, it implies Britain still owns us (which a lot of people still think the ROI is a part of the UK, I’ve had to explain this in practically every European country I’ve gone to). 

For Norn Iron, another stereotype is “backwards”- which isn’t a stereotype ’cause it’s actually true ahahahaha, I’m sorry Norn Ironers please don’t hit me. They also OBSESS over flags or as it’s said in a Nordie accent “fleg”. Flags are bloody everywhere, must be a sad life if your personality is built on the Union Flag or the Irish Republic flag.

Ironic considering they don’t have an official flag.

  

They have their own flag of sorts, you see the Ulster Banner quite a bit, which was the NI’s governement’s flag from 1953-1973. They also have their addition to the Union Flag, the Saint Patrick’s Saltire. 

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Hating Northern Irish people: I hate stupid Unionist Northern Irish, I hate Republican Northern Irish, the majority of Nordies are neither. All of the ones I have met have been nice people, the only thing is they talk funny, with their sing-song accents.

I’m glad the tensions between the 2 countries are loosening up.

  

The vast, vast majority of people don’t give two tosses about the idea of ‘us’ and ‘them’. They think the IRA are idiots and Unionists are idiots. I’ve never heard anybody say anti-Norn Iron comments or pro-IRA comments in earnest, they’ve all been in jokey, comical manner. 

The New IRA have been raising their filthy heads again, setting a bomb off yesterday with what appears to have been intent to kill the police and Anti-Terrorism Officers. They killed Lyra McKee earlier this year which RN detailed in the news thread. I haven’t seen any approval online or amongst the people I know.

Everyone is fed up with violence, Northern Ireland has been destroyed enough and especially as tourists are now trusting it as a ‘safe place’ to go to again, for these asses to go and flare-up violence yet again, could destroy the only sector that NI has; tourism. No one has time or respect for those sad losers and if they could just feck off and go get a life, that would be great, rather than trying to blow up innocent men and women just going around doing their job.

The Provo IRA was “fighting” for almost 30 years during The Troubles and achieved nothing, 3,500 people on both sides were killed- 52% of them civilians, and yet these fools in the New IRA think they can actually achieve something and “win back the six”.