[DecentBee]

The twelfth of July is like St. Patricks day for people who hate Ireland. The main difference is that instead of being a fun holiday that everyone likes, it's a scary day where the city has to be shut down and everyone leaves because they're terrified of beatings. Also, people wear Glasgow Rangers jerseys and wave union jacks to show how proud they are to not be Irish (in spite of being born and raised in Ireland).

Basically fuck today because our labs are closed and we had to bring our work computers home in order to avoid missing two days of dev time. Also, the shops are all closed and all I have to eat is nutella.

[wackodave]

Belfast was completely empty last night.

[DecentBee]

Belfast is completely empty a lot of the time. Everywhere closes by 1am.

[wackodave]

What a crappy place we live in. There isn't even a good place to bowl anymore.

[DecentBee]

What about the Odyssey? Not that I've bowled there, but I was in pizza hut there last week and my knife was magnetised. That was pretty good.

I hope it starts pissing rain on these fuckers. They march right past the nearest tesco and I really need to do some shopping. I've practised saying "I'm from norn iron" just in case any cunt asks me where I'm from today. As I've learned, the correct answer to that question is now "DUBLIN, WOOOOOO". The correct answer is to run.

[Maztorre]

I'm pretty glad I don't live in Belfast anymore.

Also guys thanks to this event the buses changed schedules resulting in me meeting a gorgeous lady who works in an art gallery, sharing a taxi with her, and me going over there at lunch today for shenanigans.

[wackodave]

The Odyssey lanes constantly break and it's nearly always full. The Superbowl was the closest thing we had to a traditional bowling alley. Plus Odyssey is really hard to spell.

Edit: Gotta remember how to pronounce your Hs as well. A bunch of guys stopped me and asked me to spell hospital a while back and I was so confused by the situation I spelt it wrong.

[DecentBee]

Yeah well, an old man in a Rangers jersey swore at me this morning.

[DecentBee]

And another thing, why do all old people have tattoos on their hands/arms up here? Have they all been to prison?

The odyssey should be renamed the Oddysey and Abe should be its new mascot.

[DecentBee]

I have heard about this H thing but I'm really unsure about it. Do prods pronounce it with an A and catholics with a H?

[wackodave]

That's the theory.

[DecentBee]

So, out of morbid curiosity I decided to go have a look at this march dealie. Looks like I cursed myself, since it actually did start pissing rain while I was standing there. I, like pretty much anyone who knows anything about football, have learned to equate people draped in union jacks, english flags and drinking cans of Tennants lager with football hooliganism. That describes basically everyone I saw lining the streets.

The marchers themselves were wearing dumb bowler hats and white gloves. Oh, and holding umbrellas. I had to restrain a chuckle when I realised their orange sashes all had 'LOL' embroidered on them. A lot of people in the bands looked like outright thugs, with gross tattoos and shaved heads. I'd been told there's a large cross-over between members of the orange order and the british national front, I have no trouble believing that now. Luckily the rain meant I could put my hood up which probably saved me any suspicious glances.

Six weeks spent working on a computer in a basement for 14 hours a day has given me a passing resemblance to an IRA hunger striker. I can still hear the drumming in the distance, I just hope they haven't followed me home.

[WilkesInJail]

europe lol
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perish winker perish

[RobotRocker]

Didn't know you were stuck in Norn Iron lately juice. I had to get an early train from Newry because my Grandfather(Who is 82 and has live through all the troubles) was worried I would be in trouble if I left too late. Not too worried though. Ive been in worse places *coughESSEXendcough*
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