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Cork soicalists prove themselves fools

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Tuesday August 10, 2004 14:57

by The Cork langer

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SWP continue their march of stupidity

It may have escaped the notice of some, but during the past week, the boys from the Cork SWP have called for the 'stars and bars' to be banned from Cork GAA matches.

Given the fact that most socialist have never atteneded a plebian match such as Hurling or Gaelic Football, Cork fans have a tendency to wave red flags to indicate their support of the 'rebel' county. These flags are often plain red, or ferrai, the japanese rising sun or the confederate stars and bars flags.

For the fools in the SWP, this does not mean that the Cork fans have racist sympathies on account of waving the confederate flag, nor does waving the red flag mean their communists or waving the rising sun mean that they support the bombing of pearl harbour. All it means is they support Cork.

This is quite comfortably the stupidest thing the SWP have done in quite a while. Congratulations on reaching a new level of political correctness and stupidity. Truely Trotsky would be proud!

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Comments (31 of 31)

#	Title	Author	Date
1	punctuate	puntcutate	Tue Aug 10, 2004 15:00
2	would the Langer be as good to explain why Corkonians believe themselves to be a "rebel county"?	puzzled	Tue Aug 10, 2004 15:14
3	the 'rebel' county	langer	Tue Aug 10, 2004 15:22
4	I agree	Corkhead	Tue Aug 10, 2004 15:34
5	People having the crack	tony cliff	Tue Aug 10, 2004 15:55
6	Down the rebels	Lord Cardigan	Tue Aug 10, 2004 18:36
7	But the British army would have banned from GAA sports.	baron headscarf	Tue Aug 10, 2004 21:00
8	swp	dube	Tue Aug 10, 2004 21:16
9	D'oh!	Fergal	Tue Aug 10, 2004 21:55
10	Stick a barbers pole up yer arse Cork!	Noel O'Flynns arse	Wed Aug 11, 2004 11:24
11	up the rebels	unrepentant fenian bastard.	Wed Aug 11, 2004 11:41
12	Rebels???	Yellabelly	Wed Aug 11, 2004 12:09
13	Ah jaysus	jm - cork leftie type	Wed Aug 11, 2004 13:06
14	by de way langer	jm - cork leftie type	Wed Aug 11, 2004 13:12
15	Flags	apolitical	Wed Aug 11, 2004 13:35
16	Yes it is actually	Behemoth	Wed Aug 11, 2004 13:42
17	The Source	Archivist	Wed Aug 11, 2004 16:48
18	Too Late	Fergal	Wed Aug 11, 2004 17:30
19	link	jm	Wed Aug 11, 2004 17:31
20	Thanks JM	Archivist	Wed Aug 11, 2004 18:44
21	Lack of seriousness	Silly Season	Thu Aug 12, 2004 18:17
22	Silly Season	pat c	Thu Aug 12, 2004 18:24
23	Lighten up everyone	G Murphy	Thu Aug 12, 2004 20:57
24	Joe Moore's a good man and he's started a debate in Cork!	underground railroad	Fri Aug 13, 2004 19:28
25	racism isn't just a southern thing	paul c	Fri Aug 13, 2004 22:30
26	Confederate Celtic movement	Edward Sebesta	Sat Aug 14, 2004 18:41
27	Offensive and ignorant	laura	Mon Sep 20, 2004 17:10
28	And while you are at it	Amused	Mon Sep 20, 2004 17:18
29	Lets just ban the SWP	Rebel	Tue Sep 21, 2004 13:03
30	about rebel county	dal	Sun Sep 25, 2005 17:57
31	But Cork was asleep for 100's of years..	Record	Mon Sep 26, 2005 12:22

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