Popel Vooje
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Edited Jul 31, 2009, 13:20
Re: Blasphemy made illegal in Ireland
Jul 31, 2009, 13:19
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CraigR wrote:
Please consider the undertones of your comments.
Now, now - surely you mean please consider the boomtown rats of your comments?
I've already got me coat - and yours, and everybody else's on this forum. And I've already swept away the tumbleweeds. In fact I've already killed myself.
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CraigR
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Re: Blasphemy made illegal in Ireland
Jul 31, 2009, 13:42
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Do you have splinters under your finger nails?!!
Thats a very deep barrel you are scrapping the bottom of PV!
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postyesterdayman
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Re: Blasphemy made illegal in Ireland
Aug 02, 2009, 03:05
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No, I thought that quite witty, in a music geek kind of way....heh...undertones...heh...
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postyesterdayman
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Re: Blasphemy made illegal in Ireland
Aug 02, 2009, 03:10
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Lord, Stevo, way to take it into left field (sorry, purely American reference). But, I must say, love Flipper, wish I had the damn shirt! Amen.
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Stevo
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Re: Blasphemy made illegal in Ireland
Aug 02, 2009, 08:54
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do think that that might be the one area that the law gets any application, giving police an excuse to pick on punks/metalheads with blasphemous tshirts. Or causing people not to be as extreme in poster design. Or it could be ignored.
Flipper probably had the tshirt designed to press certain buttons knowing that Ireland was 90% Catholic, even if 90% of them are lapsed to certain degrees.
Hadn't heard about the law coming in over here until Runic's post.
Stevo
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Popel Vooje
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Re: Blasphemy made illegal in Ireland
Aug 02, 2009, 20:00
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'Tis ye olde north/south divide humour manifesting itself ... ie a lame joke the about the Irish not wanting to be associated with bands from Northern Ireland (like the Undertones).
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grufty jim
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Re: Blasphemy made illegal in Ireland
Aug 02, 2009, 21:09
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Popel Vooje wrote: 'Tis ye olde north/south divide humour manifesting itself ... ie a lame joke the about the Irish not wanting to be associated with bands from Northern Ireland (like the Undertones).
There was certainly a time when that was the case, but even that's died out now. I saw Stiff Little Fingers last summer (supporting The Stooges) and not only were they bloody marvellous, but they got a great reception from the Dublin crowd.
I left Ireland in 1983 and returned in 2006. Few places can have changed so much in so short a time. Many (most?) of those changes have not been for the better in my opinion, but the peace process and the loosening of the Church's hold have been positive.
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bladup
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Re: Blasphemy made illegal in Ireland
Aug 04, 2009, 14:54
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fucking cathlics!!!!!!!!!
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grufty jim
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Re: Blasphemy made illegal in Ireland
Aug 04, 2009, 17:07
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bladup wrote: fucking cathlics!!!!!!!!!
Except, as has already been discussed ad nauseam on this thread, this law has sod all to do with Catholicism. The "fucking cathlics" you mention already had legislation protecting them in Ireland. This law is deliberately crafted to ensure that all religions are on an equal footing under Irish law as per our Constitution.
Catholics won't get any more protection from this law that they already had. This just means that Moslems, Jews, Hindus and Odinists get exactly the same protection.
And given that there are "get out clauses" for any utterance with artistic, scientific or academic merit, it's a pretty low level of protection.
I hate giving the impression that I'm defending this law, or defending the punishment of "blasphemy". But I'm a strong believer in fighting the right battles, and in getting your facts straight before lashing out at any person or group.
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cHARLIE
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Edited Aug 18, 2009, 09:09
Re: Blasphemy made illegal in Ireland
Aug 05, 2009, 10:45
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My mum is Irish and I have always found the Irish to be lovely people.
I find your post http://www.headheritage.co.uk/headtohead/u_know/topic/53970/threaded/671977 woefully ill-informed and borderline racism has no place here dude.
Your medieval opinion of the Irish is simply nasty and is the kind of remark that conjures up evil caste systems that have crippled the human race since the Romans and earlier! Very sad that you feel it is ok to post such dribble. The Irish are a fine race of people who like many, many cultures have been hoodwinked by the grand delusions of religion, which has held humanity and indeed the Irish back from forming a proper philosophical debate about the great unknown. Do you see yourself as a higher form of human? You never know somewhere down your family tree there *may* be a few drops of Irish blood running through your veins. (grin)
Careful now.
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