I admire the patience of some of you. Calmly responding to each ignorant buffoon who staggers into the thread, doesn't bother to read the few pages before and vomits out the same bollocks wisdom he feels nobody has thought to mention before him.
I have some sympathy for the likes of
@InLevyITrust or
@Can7onA who just don' know or care enough to educate themselves better. But
@RUCK4444 comes in here every day, has read all the comments, the nonsense and the clear, calm explanations as to why these arguments are bollocks, and he still feels the need to repeat the same shite day in, day out.
A couple of days ago I said that some must struggle with the cognitive dissonance of their opinions regarding Ireland and the troubles, but Ruck I don't think you grasp enough for it to even register. The fact you belittle the idea that McClean might want to "make a point of the poppy representing all conflicts", while at the same time demanding that everyone else accept the balaclava as the symbol of the bad guys in the troubles says a lot. The fact that you with a straight face and genuine confidence in your beliefs, tell us all that it is the IRA who were the Nazis of the Britain/Ireland situation says it all.
These are the type of people who think that Raheem Sterling deserves to be racially abused because he has a tattoo of a gun and guns have been used to kill people in gang violence. The type of people who think rape victims deserved to be raped because the skirt they were wearing proved they were asking for it. Only they don't share those opinions in public because enough education of those issues has permeated their skulls for them to know it's unacceptable. The education they received regarding the history of Britain and Ireland was a very different story.