What is the world coming to?

IcarusGreen

Do I really need to say anything?

ddraver

I take it you ve not had internet access for a while icarus?

Can someone fill in the uneducated on why poppies are insensitive to the irish? I thought they were a WW1 thing...?

chedabob

ddraver wrote:

I take it you ve not had internet access for a while icarus?

Can someone fill in the uneducated on why poppies are insensitive to the irish? I thought they were a WW1 thing...?

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/commen ... 504242.ece

Anonymous

if collections arent made for anything else at the ground, i dont see why they should be made for the poppy appeal.

if the ban has been made to satisfy the irish fan contingent, i wonder why it is acceptable to consider the opinion of those people yet disregard the opinions of everyone else.

i could understand irish folk being upset by the poppy when in ireland, i dont see how they can be bothered by a symbol they have chosen to make fit their own opinion in a country that isnt theirs.

Cferg

Because;

1) It's parkhead.
2) It's parkhead.
3) It's parkhead
4) they are so badly educated that they think everything to do with the british millitary is an attack on 'their' I highlight "their" country, say those that have lived in Scotland all their lives?


Don't get me started. Follow follow.

Razer_MTB

sheepsteeth wrote:

if collections arent made for anything else at the ground, i dont see why they should be made for the poppy appeal.

+1

IcarusGreen

ddraver wrote:

I take it you ve not had internet access for a while icarus?

Can someone fill in the uneducated on why poppies are insensitive to the irish? I thought they were a WW1 thing...?

I know why the Irish are against Poppies! I havn't made myself clear but i am well aware of the links between Celtic and Ireland but......

Celtic is in Glasgow, which is in Scotland, which is part of Great Britain. Therefore they should be supporting what is a great cause for people who have died for these countries.

THIS
V

sheepsteeth wrote:

if the ban has been made to satisfy the irish fan contingent, i wonder why it is acceptable to consider the opinion of those people yet disregard the opinions of everyone else.

i could understand irish folk being upset by the poppy when in ireland, i dont see how they can be bothered by a symbol they have chosen to make fit their own opinion in a country that isnt theirs.

spongtastic

If they hate it that much how do they cope with going to the shops? Or do they have special Irish ghettos fenced off for Irish people only?

Bred2shred

chedabob wrote:

ddraver wrote:

I take it you ve not had internet access for a while icarus?

Can someone fill in the uneducated on why poppies are insensitive to the irish? I thought they were a WW1 thing...?

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/commen ... 504242.ece

I'm sorry but this really boils my piss, thats like saying i wont wear a poppy because the taliban grow poppies for heroin to fund terrorism.
The vast majority of people walking through the gates of parkhead are scottish allbeit with a misguided loyalty to a flag thats not their own, and will more than likely have had older relatives that were directly involved in the conflict that rememberance day is about. This should be about charity end of, but as all to often in glasgow it's been twisted to suit the bigotry of the green and blue divide

Pull down parkhead and ibrox and be done with it.

Aetheism rules.

ddraver

chedabob wrote:

ddraver wrote:

I take it you ve not had internet access for a while icarus?

Can someone fill in the uneducated on why poppies are insensitive to the irish? I thought they were a WW1 thing...?

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/commen ... 504242.ece

thankyou - incidently and off topic, It;s that kind of well written and interesting peice (whichever point of view you take) that makes me sad the times went behind a paywall. Can't find another online paper that does nt contain aload of partisan party politics b*ll*cks!!

Stevo_666

They're a bit tetchy about that sort of thing at Celtic. The joke that the club was the sporting wing of the IRA was probably only half a joke.

Remember the reaction when Gascoigne played for Rangers, scored a goal at Parkhead and did his little flute playing impression in front of the home crowd?

Anonymous

i cant find it but there was a completely webbo photo of a tatto someone had of gazza doing the flute ting which was completely hilarious!!.

IcarusGreen

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kk_uoMvJqP4&NR=1

montevideoguy

spongtastic wrote:

If they hate it that much how do they cope with going to the shops? Or do they have special Irish ghettos fenced off for Irish people only?

special irish ghetto where they try not to do anything for rememberance but spend a shit load on St Patricks day?


Why that would be Coatbridge of course