Was It For This?

45 thoughts on “Was It For This?”

1. martinm August 18, 2015 at 8:49 am

   Yep. We should have left the bloodstains from 1916 there for future generations to muse on whilst chowing on a panini.
   1. Bobby August 18, 2015 at 9:04 am

      Gas..
   2. Mister Mister August 18, 2015 at 9:57 am

      And not a mention of the winos who basically live along that particular bank, leaving behind their mess of empty cans, bottles and piss and shit.

      But no, it’s the market that’s disrespecting history.
2. New Person A August 18, 2015 at 8:53 am

   canal is banal
   clickbait gold
   twitchy bank bitch
   never gets old
   1. fluffybiscuits August 18, 2015 at 9:01 am

      Miaow miaow
      Miaow
      Miaow Miaow Miaow
      1. ABM's Bloodied Underwear August 18, 2015 at 2:33 pm

         Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!
         Boom! Boom! Boom!
         BOOM! BOOM!
         BOOM! BOOM!
         Boom! Boom! Boom!
         – S.O. Baldrik
3. Bobby August 18, 2015 at 9:03 am

   The authorities ignored you! How could this happen?
4. Sheila August 18, 2015 at 9:05 am

   Trust me when I say there are rats nearby. They are always nearby the canal, regardless of the amount of people nearby.
   1. fluffybiscuits August 18, 2015 at 9:05 am

      Was it a Labour party Conference?
      1. Just sayin' August 18, 2015 at 9:24 am

         You’re getting quite tedious now.
         1. Djizandapus August 18, 2015 at 9:49 am

            +1
         2. fluffybiscuits August 18, 2015 at 9:49 am

            Who is tedious, do I know him? Is he a bear?
         3. Fergus the magic postman August 18, 2015 at 10:23 am

            A long way to go before reaching Joan Burton levels of tedium.
      2. Robert August 18, 2015 at 9:33 am

         BOOM BOOM!
      3. italia'90 August 18, 2015 at 11:28 am

         +1 actually they were just having a lie in.
5. Parochial Central August 18, 2015 at 9:05 am

   To be fair: It is a bit sh!t thanks to the food stalls and tubby #nom merchants who attend. Most of whom are from startups and the public sector.
   1. Skeptik August 18, 2015 at 9:11 am

      And Bankers.. Never forget the Bankers..
      1. Cormac August 18, 2015 at 9:21 am

         And sure isn’t FF HQ only down the road! They ruined this country, and its pristine canal banks.
   2. Medium Sized C August 18, 2015 at 2:14 pm

      Startups?

      You mean Google?
      1. Medium Sized C August 18, 2015 at 2:15 pm

         Entitled tech workers gotta eat too.
6. Posho Dubo August 18, 2015 at 9:06 am

   I wish I was rich enough to live in Percy place and buy green paper and waste brass tacks
7. Jimmee August 18, 2015 at 9:06 am

   Wildlife = rats, homeless drunken bums, nasty swans?
   1. fluffybiscuits August 18, 2015 at 9:09 am

      Quick send in Donal Moloney
8. Skeptik August 18, 2015 at 9:12 am

   It’s looking pretty grotty up around Portobello too. Mostly down to weeds.
   It’s called Summer.
9. Joe835 August 18, 2015 at 9:15 am

   Pretty sure they’re having a go at the fact that the organisation overseeing all canals on the island of Ireland is based outside the Republic, where there could be people of a unionist background working to undermine the sacred ground upon which 1916 nutter hero blood was spilled.
   1. classter August 18, 2015 at 2:12 pm

      Wasn’t that the great dream of Easter 1916 – that Irishmen & women of all creeds could come together within the unifying matrix of petty bureaucracy?
      1. Joe835 August 18, 2015 at 3:55 pm

         Exactly, that what I think is ironic about the message in the first place. Small-minded armchair republicans have smaller minds than even they themselves know!
10. Clampers Outside! August 18, 2015 at 9:19 am

    All I can say is fupp off for referencing 1916 as part of your gripe.

    Twit
    1. Clampers Outside! August 18, 2015 at 9:38 am

       Silly moderator, I didn’t say ‘twit’, I used an ‘a’ not an ‘i’ :)
       1. fluffybiscuits August 18, 2015 at 9:48 am

          Was funny, I giggled a little
       2. munkifisht August 18, 2015 at 9:51 am

          tuu@t… gotcha…
          1. HappyDub August 18, 2015 at 10:23 am

             2@

             For brevity
       3. Tidy Dave August 18, 2015 at 11:21 am

          What?! We can’t say tw@ now?
          1. Clampers Outside! August 18, 2015 at 1:00 pm

             Of course, that’s how to do it ! :)
    2. Odis August 18, 2015 at 10:07 am

       It looks like the Somme in 1916. When will they do something about it?
       1. The Old Boy August 18, 2015 at 10:50 am

          Presumably when a million heavily-armed Germans pour over La Touche bridge.
    3. Doolally August 18, 2015 at 8:21 pm

       To be fair, it’s relevant because of the 1916 memorial located there.
       http://www.irishwarmemorials.ie/Memorials-Detail?memoId=158.

       Those notices have been around for a while (there was a a laminated one up at the start of the year), though the sunny weather seems to have brought the posterer out with a fresh crop.
11. H August 18, 2015 at 9:47 am

    All that and some looney littering the area with green posters…
12. Zarathustra August 18, 2015 at 12:22 pm

    Put a roof on then fence it off, all 1, 776 km’s of it – that’ll learn ’em.
13. btbarhum August 18, 2015 at 1:25 pm

    The casualties 240 were overwhelmingly British .. Using the same insane tactics used at the Somme . The IRA commander tried to communicate with the British Commanding Officer to stop marching his men into their guns .General Lowe ordering Mount St Bridge to taken at all costs and could easily flanked Republican positions by using Baggot St Bridge .
14. Bingo August 18, 2015 at 3:20 pm

    I bumped into a lady putting up these posters a few weeks ago.
    Her main gripe was with the “North taking over our canals”.
    She was “mature” lady with obviously little else to be bothering her.
    1. Mikeyfex August 18, 2015 at 3:23 pm

       o.O

       You saw something unusual and you asked the person doing it a direct question about what was going on and you found out what it was about?

       What was that like?
       1. Bingo August 18, 2015 at 5:45 pm

          Terrifying.
          Next time I’ll keep the head down and briskly walk on by.
          1. Zarathustra August 18, 2015 at 5:54 pm

             I think Mikey’s point is that you had the common sense to enquire, as opposed to taking a sneaky photo and then sending it to BS for an explanation?
             1. Bingo August 18, 2015 at 7:27 pm

                Yeah, I got that impression too.
                I wasn’t being too serious with my reply!

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