Sloop John B Posted July 22, 2015 Share Posted July 22, 2015 Apologies, I wasn't there, it was mate who was bowling in Coatbridge that told me about it, although bowling is almost as offensive. What action? Seam Or Spin? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Audaces Fortuna Juvat Posted July 22, 2015 Share Posted July 22, 2015 Not cricket - old man's bowling? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheCelt67 Posted July 22, 2015 Share Posted July 22, 2015 Apologies, I wasn't there, it was mate who was bowling in Coatbridge that told me about it, although bowling is almost as offensive. I can see why your mate would get confused, they do tend to attract the same clowns. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The OP Posted July 22, 2015 Share Posted July 22, 2015 Nobody wanting to comment on the other side of Scotland's shame, the AOH march in Coatbridge last weekend? Or perhaps they aren't bigoted? It's possible that a trip to Coatbridge isn't the way most people spent the Fair weekend and so nobody knows it happened.But aye the RFBs are irritating troglodyte c***s too. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LongTimeLurker Posted July 22, 2015 Share Posted July 22, 2015 Don't think RFB and AoH parades are the same? Bit like how the more extreme Loyalist type flute bands are not welcome at mainstream Orange walks in Scotland. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The OP Posted July 22, 2015 Share Posted July 22, 2015 Don't think RFB and AoH parades are the same? Bit like how the more extreme Loyalist type flute bands are not welcome at mainstream Orange walks in Scotland.After AFJ's post was made and before mine it was established that it was a RFB walk rather than AOH. I personally don't know too much about the distinction, nor do I care - fannies to a man. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheCelt67 Posted July 22, 2015 Share Posted July 22, 2015 Don't think RFB and AoH parades are the same? Bit like how the more extreme Loyalist type flute bands are not welcome at mainstream Orange walks in Scotland. You're supposed to be practicing Catholic to join the AOH, the RFB's claim they are not in anyway swayed by religion and they tend to be more militant. The AOH's stance on the Hunger Strikes pretty much finished them off and saw a rise in RFB's throughout Scotland and in Ireland. Slight differences, similar arseholes. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Audaces Fortuna Juvat Posted July 23, 2015 Share Posted July 23, 2015 The posters who have posted to condemn the AOH/RFB so far are pretty much as I would have expected; the ones that I might sometimes disagree with, but ones who come across as rounded decent posters/people. It was never "whataboutery" on my part, just an attempt to see if there is a consistency of opposition to the bigotry that some posters are very vehemently "opposed" to. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacksgranda Posted July 23, 2015 Share Posted July 23, 2015 The AOH and RFBs are perfectly at liberty to parade. I have no problem with them parading, I don't like RFBs and their ideology (not so much perhaps their ideology, republicanism is a perfectly honourable aspiration, more the way they go/went about trying to impose their ideology) I wouldn't condemn their right to march or ban them. I certainly wouldn't go out of my way to watch them, I would probably go out of my way not to watch them. Displays of paramilitirasim associated with RFBs (and loyalist bands, too, on occasion) are another matter. As an aside, a few years back on St Patricks Day, I went into our local town in the evening, just in time to witness the local Hibs band form up outside the Orange Hall before parading the town. Not a word was said, nor an eye batted. If the local Orange band formed up outside the chapel before parading the town, there would be a riot. -1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Audaces Fortuna Juvat Posted July 23, 2015 Share Posted July 23, 2015 I also agree with their right to parade, much as I don't like them either, I was only questioning the veracity of a few poster's true opposition to bigotry. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The OP Posted July 23, 2015 Share Posted July 23, 2015 The AOH and RFBs are perfectly at liberty to parade. I have no problem with them parading, I don't like RFBs and their ideology (not so much perhaps their ideology, republicanism is a perfectly honourable aspiration, more the way they go/went about trying to impose their ideology) I wouldn't condemn their right to march or ban them. I certainly wouldn't go out of my way to watch them, I would probably go out of my way not to watch them. Displays of paramilitirasim associated with RFBs (and loyalist bands, too, on occasion) are another matter. As an aside, a few years back on St Patricks Day, I went into our local town in the evening, just in time to witness the local Hibs band form up outside the Orange Hall before parading the town. Not a word was said, nor an eye batted. If the local Orange band formed up outside the chapel before parading the town, there would be a riot. God bless the anecdotal Orange Lodge and god damn the hypothetical chapel. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
topcat(The most tip top) Posted July 23, 2015 Share Posted July 23, 2015 You're supposed to be practicing Catholic to join the AOH, the RFB's claim they are not in anyway swayed by religion and they tend to be more militant. The AOH's stance on the Hunger Strikes pretty much finished them off and saw a rise in RFB's throughout Scotland and in Ireland. Slight differences, similar arseholes. Seems to me as if broadly speaking the RFB are counterparts of the Apprentice Boys while the AOH are counterparts of the LOL. Or have I picked this up all wrong? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacksgranda Posted July 23, 2015 Share Posted July 23, 2015 Seems to me as if broadly speaking the RFB are counterparts of the Apprentice Boys while the AOH are counterparts of the LOL. Or have I picked this up all wrong? Yes (You have picked it up wrong.) AOH = LOL RFB = Loyalst flute band 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacksgranda Posted July 23, 2015 Share Posted July 23, 2015 I also agree with their right to parade, much as I don't like them either, I was only questioning the veracity of a few poster's true opposition to bigotry. That was established long ago. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheCelt67 Posted July 23, 2015 Share Posted July 23, 2015 Seems to me as if broadly speaking the RFB are counterparts of the Apprentice Boys while the AOH are counterparts of the LOL. Or have I picked this up all wrong? Some people might disagree, or point out that it's perhaps not quite as black and white as that, but in my opinion, classing the AOH as some sort of 'Green' Orange Order wouldn't be far from the mark. With, admittedly, limited knowledge on the Apprentice Boys, I would have thought they would be closer to the OO/AOH than they would be to a RFB. Loyalist flute bands on the other hand, whilst there will be some who will say they are nothing alike, I think most sane folk see the similarities. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
topcat(The most tip top) Posted July 23, 2015 Share Posted July 23, 2015 Yes (You have picked it up wrong.) AOH = LOL RFB = Loyalst flute band It's good to have an Aberdonian correspondent on the ground to keep me right. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
topcat(The most tip top) Posted July 23, 2015 Share Posted July 23, 2015 more importantly Oman and Afghanistan have defeated Namibia and PNG and taken the final places for India 2016 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SlipperyP Posted July 24, 2015 Share Posted July 24, 2015 Afgan national cricket ground...in UAE? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
topcat(The most tip top) Posted July 24, 2015 Share Posted July 24, 2015 (edited) Afgan national cricket ground...in UAE? Pakistan has also got rough enough that they can no longer stage home fixtures in their own country.Staging large parts of the tournament in NI during marching season seems perfectly sensible in this context Edited July 24, 2015 by topcat(The most tip top) 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Half Rice Half Chips Posted July 24, 2015 Share Posted July 24, 2015 If an Orangeman was batting and disagreed with an umpire calling him "out", would he refuse to walk? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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