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Northern Ireland: Here we go again

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by NoOneLikesUs, Mar 8, 2009.

  1. NoOneLikesUs

    NoOneLikesUs Active Member

    What a weekend to have an Old Firm match.
     
  2. Inky_Wretch

    Inky_Wretch Well-Known Member

    Hopefully, the Bhoys and Bluenoses will focus on fitba and not a renewing of The Troubles.
     
  3. cranberry

    cranberry Well-Known Member

    The Real IRA has the ability, like any terrorist group, to cause lots of damage. But it doesn't have popular support among Republicans, so I don't think it can derail the power-sharing arrangement, as much as they might try.
     
  4. beardpuller

    beardpuller Active Member

    Another mother's breakin' heart
    Is taken over.
    When the vi'lence causes silence,
    We must be mistaken.

    It's the same old theme since nineteen-sixteen.
    In your head, in your head they're still fighting,
    With their tanks and their bombs,
    And their bombs and their guns.
    In your head, in your head, they are dying...

    In your head, in your head,
    Zombie, zombie, zombie,
    Hey, hey, hey. What's in your head,
    In your head,
    Zombie, zombie, zombie?
     
  5. writing irish

    writing irish Active Member

    Nice pull, beardpuller.


    (NSFW due to f-word)

    Wasted Life by Still Stiff Little Fingers

    I could be a soldier
    Go out there and fight to save this land
    Be a people's soldier
    Paramilitary, gun in hand
    I won't be no soldier
    I won't take no orders from no-one
    Stuff their fucking armies
    Killing isn't my idea of fun

    They wanna waste my life
    They wanna waste my time
    They wanna waste my life
    And they've stolen it away

    I could be a hero
    Live and die for their 'important' cause
    A united nation
    Or an independent state with laws
    And rules and regulations
    That merely cause disturbances and wars
    That is what I've got now
    All thanks to the freedom-seeking hordes

    They wanna waste my life
    They wanna waste my time
    They wanna waste my life
    And they've stolen it away

    I'm not gonna be taken in
    They said if I don't join I just can't win
    I've heard that story many times before
    And every time I threw it out the door

    Still they come up to me
    With a different name but the same old face
    I can see the connection
    With another time and a different place
    They ain't blonde-haired or blue-eyed
    But they think that they're the master race
    They're nothing but blind fascists
    Brought up to hate and given lives to waste

    They wanna waste my life
    They wanna waste my time
    They wanna waste my life
    And they've stolen it away
     
  6. STIFF Little Fingers, no?
     
  7. writing irish

    writing irish Active Member

    Yup, Stiff Little Fingers.

    Still Little Fingers is a Buddhist group that plays Tibetan singing bowls. Good catch, Fenian.
     
  8. If you recall "High Fidelity," Dick -- the nearly-mute clerk-- actually meets a woman by telling her that SLF were a progenitor of Green Day.
     
  9. zeke12

    zeke12 Guest

    The woman being Sara Gilbert of Roseanne fame.
     
  10. three_bags_full

    three_bags_full Well-Known Member

    Oh, fuck.

    http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/03/14/northern.ireland.violence.arrests/index.html
     
  11. deskslave

    deskslave Active Member

     
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