The Org's Got Talent

[Vuk]

Do you have talent?
I was just thinking that it would be cool to have a song/dance competition where everyone puts there videos on Youtube and a panel of judges and Org. members vote on who they think is best. No contract waiting for whoever wins, but maybe a badge if we could sign Tosa on to it.
Of course that would hinge on Orga's actually having talent, which I am not sure any do. So how about it, do you have talent?

[Hooahguy]

No, we have no talent outside of video games.

[The Stranger]

-_- why only dancing and singing. how am i to show of my awesome talent in folding the tips of enveloppes. Im going to the olympic enveloppe folding games.

[Megas Methuselah]

Not gonna happen.

[Vuk]

Not gonna happen.

No, probably not, but why not try. Like I said, it will depend if any of us have any talent.
(I cannot sing or dance :P)

[Rhyfelwyr]

I'm technologically retarded, I tried getting a photo from my phone to my PC and I couldn't do it. I've only ever sent one text! I'm like an old man...

[gaelic cowboy]

No, probably not, but why not try. Like I said, it will depend if any of us have any talent.
(I cannot sing or dance :P)

last time I watched any got talent shows nobody actually had any you know talent, so on that basis alone we should be grand i'd say

[Rhyfelwyr]

last time I watched any got talent shows nobody actually had any you know talent, so on that basis alone we should be grand i'd say

I reckon I'll sing the old Rangers classic, "The Fields of Athenry".

[gaelic cowboy]

I reckon I'll sing the old Rangers classic, "The Fields of Athenry".

I cannot hear it is a skit on the Fields or something

ahem in the spirit of not descending into sectarianism I will refrain from responding

Oh whats this I accidently wrote in my post

1 Celtic 28 44 67
2 Rangers 26 35 62
3 Hearts 28 17 55
4 Kilmarnock 28 9 42

an I could be writing the rest


edit to be honest I only watched about 3 celtic games in me life so I have no clue if there winning or not (thank you bbc sport website)

[Rhyfelwyr]

I cannot hear it is a skit on the Fields or something

Aye. First time I heard it at Ibrox (damn, ages since I've been there now) I had no idea what it was, I was a bit confused, apparently it's about the 36th Ulster Division that went to the Somme. Chorus goes:

"Remember our fathers brave and bold
As they fought for Ulster's cause, in far off lands
Oh mah father said to me, I must join the YCV
With a rifle, or a pistol, in my hand".

We like to sing it before we pick random Portuguese homeless guys to beat up, or attack some coppers in Manchester.

Alternatively, I could give a solo on the flute, got to practice for the 12th.

What are you doing anyway? Riverdance or something...

[gaelic cowboy]

I shall of course sing me party piece "The Miracle at Knock"



The big laugh is the airport is doing fine now if only we had people like Monsignor Horan today we wouldnt have any unemployment at all at all, sure I only flew into birmingham last week for family wedding in gloucester fierce handy indeed.


edit you be Millenarian an all I am sure it will drive ye spare

[Rhyfelwyr]

Ha, that's a cool story, can't help but love old eccentric guys like that.

But you're not being controversial enough. I mean, you're Irish, you must sing the "Green, White and Gold" all the time?

"Give me the Irish Republican Army,
Give me the Green, White, and Gold every time.
Give me the three-leaved shamrock of Ireland,
A land I love that is so divine.
Send the English back where they came from,
To Hell
Give us our country back again.
Give me the Irish Republican Army,
To make our land a nation once again."

Lest I incur the wrath of the mods, you can consider that as referring to the historic organisation ala early 1920's, and not the more recent Provisionals.

[Rhyfelwyr]

edit you be Millenarian an all I am sure it will drive ye spare

Eh? You're a bit cryptic at times you know!

[gaelic cowboy]

I know plenty rebel songs but I have tended to discard the more musically challenged ones over the years

The Woodlands of Loughlynn
Admiral William Brown
The West's Asleep
The Boys from the County Mayo
James Connolly
Banna Strand


personal favorite is usually sung by me Aunt called Working for the Nuns (anti treaty song concerning me grandfather and other people we actually know)

[gaelic cowboy]

Eh? You're a bit cryptic at times you know!

Knock marian shrine an all that

[Rhyfelwyr]

I know plenty rebel songs but I have tended to discard the more musically challenged ones over the years

lol, you actually gonna fire up a video singing on of those? I'll do one if you do one...

Knock marian shrine an all that

Still being cryptic!

What's a shrine in Knock got to do with my millenarianism?

[gaelic cowboy]

Ha, that's a cool story, can't help but love old eccentric guys like that.

But you're not being controversial enough. I mean, you're Irish, you must sing the "Green, White and Gold" all the time?

You want controversial hows about hardcore anti treaty songs like

Take it down from the Mast

Although a favorite of mine but I dont sing it is

The Patriot Game it starts out you think you think like a typical anti brit polemic then shifts a bit to anti free state til at last the singer has brought to the cynical end of his inglorious death at the hands of the "men who bargained in souls" so much politics in a really short song

[Rhyfelwyr]

Cool, now get singing it on youtube!

Gotta love Irish politics. Never mind the songs, I heard the names of the main modern parties translated to "Soldiers of Destiny" and such like. And they're the moderates!

I thought I would try to keep my songs nice, so I tried to avoid all the more modern overtly paramilitary ones the young guys here since, and stick to the more historic ones. But when I looked the lyrics of them up... damn, they are 10 times more brutal. Dollie's Bray has a passage about the rebels praying to their "wafer god", so they gun them all down and "throw their carcasses" over the cliff. And all this played to some happy sounding upbeat accordion music! Damn, reading those songs really gives an insight into the minds of those times. Surreal stuff.

[gaelic cowboy]

I'll post one so Rhy then the Patriot Game by Dominic Behan although this is one of at least 4 versions I have heard.



What I like is the fact when you read any of the versions you seen Behan was basically bashing everyone for playing chess with us all British and Irish. The last verse is

And now as I lie here, my body all holes
I think of those traitors who bargained and sold.
I wish that my rifle had given the same
To those quislings who sold out the patriot game.

but the quislings are not neccessarily Free Staters or IRA as someone like Behan was prob a bit more cynical in his view after his earlier IRA involvement

Plus he detested the Clancy Brothers version of it which dropped an entire verse in order to sell records in the USA I suppose.

I always find if you must sing a rebel song thats fine there are times for it, but it must never be blatantly extremist like say Take it Down from the Mast, The West's Asleep is a rebel song which need not neccessarily alienate anyone as it's basically talking about how Ireland must rouse Connacht if she is to be free.

[Megas Methuselah]

I'm like an old man...

You know, it just struck me right now that if you dressed a bit like Justin Bieber, your sex appeal will probly hit the roof. Hell, even my style bears some similarities to that kid, and you know what a playa I am.

(maybe a mod should make a new thread out of this post)

[Rhyfelwyr]

Damn, listening to those republican songs makes me emotional. When you hear the story about some poor kid somewhere that feels betrayed by his own people and takes up his cause against impossible odds... doesn't matter if it was the IRA or the UVF, its the same tragedy.*

*Talking about the historic organisations of course, the kinds our grandparents fought on (I know I'm Scottish but most of my family are Ulsterfolk). The modern organisations that go by those names are mostly thugs and wannabe-gangsters.

[Rhyfelwyr]

You know, it just struck me right now that if you dressed a bit like Justin Bieber, your sex appeal will probly hit the roof. Hell, even my style bears some similarities to that kid, and you know what a playa I am.

(maybe a mod should make a new thread out of this post)

I have no idea what your post is all about, I'm sorry, I'm tired and I'm recovering from what is probably swine flu. It's like everything I read tonight is frickin cryptic, all the while with gaelic's republican songs putting tears in my eyes.

Why would having the technological-savvy of an old man, combined with dressing like Justin Bieber, somehow give me sex appeal? What?!?!

[gaelic cowboy]

Gotta love Irish politics. Never mind the songs, I heard the names of the main modern parties translated to "Soldiers of Destiny" and such like. And they're the moderates!

Fianna Fail = Soldier of Destiny (Lia Fail = Stone of Destiny)
Fine Gael = Tribe of the Gaels (loosely translated) it doest really have a word as such

funny thing is every party in Ireland except the Green party can be linked historically to Sinn Fein, they have all claimed to be the true heirs of the Republic during there turn at driving.

EDIT Oh and we just recycled the Greens to the ECO bin in the election just gone sure it's the way they want to go

[Megas Methuselah]

Why would having the technological-savvy of an old man, combined with dressing like Justin Bieber, somehow give me sex appeal? What?!?!

Girls like style. I've actually heard that the primary reason some guys buy an iphone over a blackberry is because an iphone simply has more sex appeal.

Try dressing in black for a day, see how it goes.

[gaelic cowboy]

*Talking about the historic organisations of course, the kinds our grandparents fought on (I know I'm Scottish but most of my family are Ulsterfolk). The modern organisations that go by those names are mostly thugs and wannabe-gangsters.

Both me Grandfathers were anti-treaty in beginning along with all the granduncles etc etc but they went into Fianna Fail when Dev left Sinn Fein after the civil war. It's all fine being ideologically pure if your a shinner but to be honest it doesnt fill the pot with spuds. Thankfully neither grandfather is alive today to see the mess Fianna Fail made of the country they tried to build.

Me paternal grandfather now he towards the end saw through Haughey, but he still would have voted FF every time and my maternal grandfather who was basically a wanted man said he couldnt understand any man who would not fight for his country and he was talking about the British there.

Rebels to the core but we were raised to be sensible, the fighting is done so it's time for work

[Rhyfelwyr]

It's all fine being ideologically pure if your a shinner but to be honest it doesnt fill the pot with spuds.

Aye. One funny consequence of that is that, from what I've seen, loyalists/republicans are on the whole more moderate in Norn Iron than here in the west coast of Scotland. Reality hit home in Norn Iron and both sides realised the need to negotiate. But here in my little hometown we have offices for Republican Sinn Fein, the political wing of the Continuity IRA. That's where all the young republicans here go... not the more mainstream Sinn Fein, its always the fring splinter groups. Same with loyalism, most of the young people don't bother with the Orange Order, they actually hate them and have their own flute bands etc. If you want to be cool, you don't talk about the Ulster Volunteer Force, its now the Loyalist Volunteer Force that are all the rage (some break off group from extremists in the Portadown area).

I checked out the facebook page for one of them, and its pretty scary. It really makes a break from traditional loyalism, its all "white power" stuff and guys standing round in balaclavas with guns, and they just post these things openly...

Rebels to the core but we were raised to be sensible, the fighting is done so it's time for work

Yeah, Ireland has been there and done that with the whole armed conflict thing. Still got a bit to go in the north. But I swear the opposite is happening in Scotland. You would barely see any Orange/Republican marches here a few decades ago, now there's more in Glasgow than in Belfast. It's because these old divisons have all being reignited by the Scottish nationalism issue, who knows where that will lead...

Girls like style. I've actually heard that the primary reason some guys buy an iphone over a blackberry is because an iphone simply has more sex appeal.

Try dressing in black for a day, see how it goes.

Eh... still don't see what its got to do with my post. You're making it sound like you know what I look like, for some reason in response to my post about not using how to use a phone? That ginger kid I posted in the photo thread wasn't me you know...

[gaelic cowboy]

Loyalist Volunteer Force

Billy's crowd oh there really hardcore them lot, are they even still a force in the North since he was topped.

EDIT I have heard a nasty song about them that must have been wrote by INLA lads to the tune of Winterwonderland I say ye get killed if ye sang it in Portadown

[Rhyfelwyr]

Billy's crowd oh there really hardcore them lot, are they even still a force in the North since he was topped.

Well according to wikipedia they fell apart and merged into the equally extreme renegade C Company of the UDA. But from what I heard elsewhere they never really destroyed their weapons, and continue under the covername of the Ulster Resistance, and are in fact more powerful than the UDA/UVF and are growing in the Armagh area. Portadown seems to be like the loyalist version of Lurgan in producing the new generation of dissidents.

EDIT I have heard a nasty song about them that must have been wrote by INLA lads to the tune of Winterwonderland I say ye get killed if ye sang it in Portadown

So is that your song for the talent contest?

[gaelic cowboy]

So is that your song for the talent contest?

Fortunately/Unfortunately I only know about a verse of it and I never sang it myself either, it's bad stuff and I have an aversion to the INLA anyway there bad bad people them.

[Strike For The South]

Well, that escalated quickly