Norn Irish solution to speed camera

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/3176906.stm

 

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I can't help thinking that Ulster is wrong place to be investing in
speed cameras. Like, "duuuuh".

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Curiously all three, including the one just out there--> have been done
over.

 

What a civilised, enlightened place it is. I'd be tempted to move back,
except for the fact that SWMBO would never entertain it.

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I just spent the day in Enniskillen. Nice little town. Very high standard of
tottie, unexpectedly slim mean average. Then again I can see the Falls Road
from my attic window here....

 

Hog wrote:

I remember being lost[1] in the Falls Road. I went into to a shop to
politely enquire, in my best Oxford accent, the best route back to the
city center.

"If I were you I'd call a Taxi from here".

Fair point...

[1] Temporarily unsure of my position,

 

If you weren't wearing a bowler hat and an orange collar or a
Rangers/Linfield shirt or a PSNI or Army uniform then you were safe enough.
In fact, you were a darn sight safer there then in many inner city areas on
the mainland.

Oh, if you were a traffic warden or TV licence detector person or speed
camera installer or other looser type job then you might well have been
fucked ;o).

 

Not my experience in a Chippy up there. Took one look at my UK reg, the crew
cut (no beard on the day) and as soon as I spoke I was asked several
*pertinant* questions (1).
Part of my retort was that T&S was giving birth (locally) so I was over for
the event which immediately prompted the next question: is she local to here
and have you chosen a name. Yes and Aaron (1) satisfied them.
I like living somewhere a bit edgy mind.

(1) neatly the small Scottish island town of origin meant SFA to them
(2) Ok middle name but Robert didn't sound very Provo I decided.

 

Tell that to Bobby Sands[1]

[1] # Can you eat a chicken supper, Bobby Sands?

 

<snip>

I guess I am just used to that scenario and it's what I consider to be
normal ). Being friendly to someone and trying to suss them out is all
kind of the same thing here ;o). You would get similar questions from
anywhere else in the country if you're not a local regardless of your accent
and registration. You're right that it can be very uncomfortable if you're
in a place where you feel you shouldn't be, but that just takes practice!

 

I used to work for a small IT firm that supplied networks and IT
support to Solicitors all over NI, including a few up the Falls. I
only got hassled /at gunpoint/[1] once. Mind you, they soon left me
alone when they found out that I was the one fixing the problem at
their local - dodgy, bent - solicitors - I was practically viewed as
performing a humanitarian service.

[1] never great fun, but it's a /lot/ worse when you're sober, I'm
here to tell you.

 

LOL. That's the Rt. Hon. Mr Sands MP to you. FWIW, Robert is a perfectly
neutral name, as is Darren but more so ;o).

 

he's dead, you daft fucker.

<fx: mode=not being patronised>

Yes, I know.

 

Sorry, I forgot. (OK, I lied. I'll never forget that as it was the worst
period of my life as far as sectarian abuse is concerned). I have no idea
how a dead ex terrorist MP should be addressed but I'm sure many others do
;o).

LOL. Sorry again, I was supposed to be talking to Hog but couldn't be arsed
to make another post in the correct part of the thread.

 

well, according to the song, "you dirty fenian fucker".

 

When, exactly, did Bobby Sands become a Privy Councillor, then?

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well, exactly, but he *was* elected as MP for the constituency of
Fermanagh and South Tyrone in 1981, whilst on hunger strike, in The
Maze.

 

Indeed.

That would make him Bobby Sands MP, then.

Somehow I couldn't imagine Maggie being dead keen on having him in the
cabinet.

As it were.

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Prolly something to do with the "dirty" protest thing.

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