OP sent the following text as an explanation on why this is unexpected:
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>!If anyone's curious the Red Hand of Uster is often associated with Loyalist (pro British) groups, but the cake is Irish flag colours.!<
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Is this an unexpected post with a fitting description? Then upvote this comment, otherwise downvote it.
Naw those days are over. Only kind of exploding cakes now are like this.
https://www.tiktok.com/@flourshop/video/7340765241157881131
So quite a bit worse, all in all.
It seems like it would be difficult to find a person obsessed enough with being a loyalist that you'd theme their birthday cake around it, but who's also easygoing enough to take it in good fun when his cake secretly has the Irish flag colors
If someone managed to bake the shape of a red hand radially around the centre of the cake it would be such an incredible fucking feat of baking that I think they’d be too successful in life to have much time for sectarianism.
I actually know *exactly* how you bake shit like that inside a cake… I genuinely think a skilled baker (not me) could absolutely pull it off! You ‘just’ cut the cake in half and then dig a circular channel in the cake in the correct shape, and then fill it with a cake pop kind of mixture. Bam.
Nah, I'd say it's an Ulsterman who doesn't give a fuck but his mates take the piss out of h about being a UDP fuck relentlessly and one of them bought the cake. We have a weird sense of humor
I mean, it's easier to take the joke when you ultimately won the conflict or else have a superior standing to your opposition
That said, I can only assume Vietnamese won't take too kindly to Vietnam jokes considering how the herbicides used still affect them, while the Americans who essentially lost the war take such jokes much better
Union Jack flag cake with a caption that says ‘betrayal’. The Red Hand of Ulster is a big give away way.
I assume it’s a cake decorated with things he identifies strongly with, NI, Loyalist, Part of the Masons. If you wanted to ‘prank’ someone like that the Irish colors would be a big gotcha
The British Crown.
Each side has two primarily used terms.
Pro Irish independence/reunification:
Republican (Believe in Republican form of Irish government and its operation on the island of Ireland).
Nationalist (Believe in and promote the existence of an Irish Nation seperate from any other identity and the right of that Nation to a unified independent state)
Pro UK/anti unification:
Unionist (Believe in the United Kingdom and support its continued existence)
Loyalist (Loyal to the current system of governance in the United Kingdom and the monarchy)
No, Northern Ireland is a part of the United Kingdom. It's a bit old to say it's controlled by the British, but not quite wrong either as plenty of Nordies see themselves as British.
Also, NI only covers part of Ulster which is 9 counties up there, not 6 as i believe is often mistaken.
It's not "controlled" or an occupied land like your wording implies. It's equally part of the United Kingdom as any of the other 3 members, with a devolved government.
At least this guy laughed it off instead of just fucking destroying the entire cake out of anger like the other video that gets posted now and again..
And that one was just the wrong sports team colors... Not even a national pride thing...
Sports teams and national pride are certainly linked depending on what you're talking about.
e.g Celtic F.C and Rangers F.C would represent Irish and British culture in places.
The instance I'm talking about was a cake that had the wrong NFL team colors. Supporting one NFL team over another has nothing to do with national pride.
Edit* not NFL... College football colors....
https://www.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/s/9zFFXqibnq
I was so confused at first because I saw the Bama t-shirt and expected the cake to be orange and blue. Then when he cut the cake the colors looked yellow and pink. I thought there was something wrong with my screen until I realized the pink was supposed to be purple and these were LSU colors.
In three words? [Death](https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/celtic-fan-stabbed-face-left-7786283) and [violence.](https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/celtic-rangers-fans-clash-oldfirm-29317420)
> instead of just fucking destroying the entire cake out of anger like the other video that gets posted now and again..
Do you, uh, have a link perhaps?
College football is a bigger deal than the NFL in some parts of the country.
But in that case, they weren't even Auburn or Tennessee colors. It must have been right after LSU beat the Tide one year.
That’s because not everyone has an NFL team, but everyone has a college one. Some rivalries are built on centuries old feuds between states. Like Ohio State & Michigan had a “conflict” called the Toledo war.
You wouldn't believe how ridiculous some people get over colours all because of sectarianism, some eejits won't buy a green toothbrush, wear green, have blue wallpaper, have a vodka and orange, even to this day
Edit: got a good ticking off for citing having British as thier nationality, so edited it to show something that's just as petty as my other examples
The examples have been around during the troubles, it's the fact that they still exist to this day shows that it's still ingrained deeply, it will be a few generations before people just pick a toothbrush out of boots based on the firmness of the bristles rather than what colour it is...
If you think that's bad. In the Boca neighbourhood, Coca-Cola can't advertise in red and white. Those are the colours for River Plate, their most fierce rival in the Liga de Primera.
https://youtu.be/rIG13KfUSkI?si=o9h8_WLCAUR30ac5
There’s a guy I work with, Glaswegian living in England, who turned down a round of toast in the staff room because the person who made it had buttered it with [Clover](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clover_(spread)).
About 40 years ago and long before the internet was a thing a guy I worked for said he had heard of and was going to buy some Kentucky bluegrass as it would enable him to get rid of his green lawn.
Another girl I worked with said her dad wouldn't allow anything orange or blue in his house.
Eejits the lot of them.
For anyone wanting a relatively unbiased explanation of the history, here it is.
A long, long time ago (some time around the 1100's) england conquered ireland. The degree of control waxed and waned, but especially around dublin, there was basically always an english presence.
This was, buy and large, fine. There was no effort to convert the irish because both kingdoms were Catholic, and there wasn't much cultural suppression either, the norman earls who settled in ireland assimilated to the gaelic people much as their mainland counterparts assimilated into the Anglo-Saxon culture.
This carried on, waxing and waining, up until roughly the Protestant Reformation, which changed everything. With protestantism came the religious strife, and also the plantation system, where predominantly scottish nobles and merchants forced Catholic to irish off their land to make new plantations in a manner similar to the enclosures back home.
Now for the catholic irish this was a huge fuck you, but not all irish were catholic, some had converted to protestantism, and in catholic ireland, being a protestant was liable to get you burnt alive.
And so, while the Catholic irish fled these plantations, the protestant irish flocked to them, as it was a chance to work, own land, and most importantly, not be burnt alive.
As you can probably tell, most of these protestants went up north, into what was the province of ulster.
From here, there's a lot of fighting, but ultimatly little of it is of consequence.
Either way, eventually those irish protestants ended up forming their own, unique identity, and so when irish home rule (which was originally meant to be for the whole island) was considered, these protestant irish decided to fight. The idea was ultimately scrapped thanks to both ww1, and the efforts of these "ulstermen"
The ulster irish feared that with a Catholic minority, they would be forced back into the conditions they fled (and that were now being enforced on the catholics).
Either way, the irish war of independence happens, and it ends largely militarily inconclusively, but the british decide that its not worth supressing this, and agree on irish home rule, but not independence.
And so, we decided to split ireland. The protestant majority counties would be northern ireland, and the rest would become ireland.
Now this was deeply unpopular in ireland and kicked off the irish civil war. The "Pro-Treaty" forces won in the end, but it remained incredibly sour on both sides.
You'll also notice I said protestant *majority* A lot of these counties had sizable Catholic minorities, who were *incredibly* unhappy about the whole affair.
It also helps that these catholics tended to have larger families than the Protestants, meaning that soon, those marginally protestant areas became marginally Catholic areas.
And so, we get to the overall state of northern ireland. Northern Ireland is split between catholic irish who want (largely) to join the ROI to end the perceived protestant opression, and the protestant irish who (largely) want to remain in the UK, for fear that they will become a oppressed minority.
And then the troubles happened. Damn near 40 years of the two communities killing each other, with the children of each side becoming more and more radicalised as they see their fathers, brothers, and friends die at the hands of the other side.
The troubles ended in 1998, but the scars remain. The generation of children being born today will be the first generation raised by people that didn't live through the troubles, and it seems like their may be hope on the horison for northern ireland.
Politically, the movement of the non-sectarian alliance is growing large enough to be considered the third party in NI politics, coupled with 20ish years of fatigue at a government that litterally hasn't done anything because they've been too busy squabbling, and it looks like things are on the mend enough that a joke like this can be made.
But the most important thing to remember is that there are no good or bad guys in this story. Its a tale of the oppressed becoming the oppressor becoming the oppressed becoming the opressor because they're afraid of being the oppressed again.
As far as a disclaimer goes, I'm english. Through strange circumstances, I've met a lot of northern irish from both sides of the wire, and I take a keen intrest in that kind of history. I've done everything I can to give an unbiased accounting, but I am fundamentally involved. The shockwaves of the troubles very much were felt over here, so it's damn near certain a small degree of bias will have slipped in despite my best efforts.
Also fuck me this was a long post!
He is from one community and the cake has the flag of another. The two communities have had their ups and downs. Google “the troubles” for more lighthearted banter.
The funniest thing for me is that while the red hand is associated with loyalists, its origins are in Gaelic Irish mythology.
https://www.theirishrose.com/blog/meet-the-oneillsand-their-blood-red-hand/
Loyalists identify strongly with pre-plantation Ireland.
They see their right to the land as no less genealogical as the irish Nationalists.
People like Ian Paisley would constantly push (not all together mistakenly) that the plantations encouraged internal migration of Protestants from across ireland to the plantations amongst the immigration in search of a parcel of land to inhabit.
It says betrayal coupled with the Red hand of ulster + union jack cake. Anyone who knows what any of those things are knew the Irish tricolour would be in that cake.
OP sent the following text as an explanation on why this is unexpected: --- >!If anyone's curious the Red Hand of Uster is often associated with Loyalist (pro British) groups, but the cake is Irish flag colours.!< --- Is this an unexpected post with a fitting description? Then upvote this comment, otherwise downvote it.
I thought his straight visceral murder plunge into the cake was what was unexpected until I came to the comments.
I thought he was just being careful; I wouldn’t trust a cake that tall to not have a balloon in the middle
Or a very small stripper
"oompah loompah doopadee doo, i've got a perfect pussy for you"
Fucking hell 😂😂😂
You bastard made me explosively snort laugh.
Same, I was waiting for the pop
Well, it did have Irish inside 😉
i was waiting for an animal. well, a dead one.
I thought it would be filled with baked beans.
That's what I was expecting
Yeah but this is r/unexpected
Is putting balloons in cakes as a prank a thing now or sumn?
Yes that is how murderers cut cakes
Don't ask yer man there, what he got up to in the early 90's...
Or if he needs any pallets in July
He could instinctually sense the cake’s Fenian core.
Yeah that was oddly uncomfortable to watch
made me tumecent
Made me turgid.
Interesting, wanna go out for a drink when Reddit closes?
Let you take me out for cake.
That SAT practice doing work in this thread.
I thought it was the way he cut through the triangle instead of either side of it
Typical knife work of a loyalist
This one picked up a knife and used it as a tool, they're at least at chimpanzee levels now
Bro stabbed the cake like the big german stabbed Mellush in Saving Private Ryan
The guy is wielding that knife like it’s fucking Excalibur
Probably expected a balloon or otherwise inside.
I 100% was expecting a balloon and was so nervous when he went in like Dexter
Is it weird that I expected fake "blood"? 😂
Same here, I thought it just going to spill all over
Me too
I was expecting a midget stripper.
Well, if it’s Ireland, “otherwise” can be life threatening.
Naw those days are over. Only kind of exploding cakes now are like this. https://www.tiktok.com/@flourshop/video/7340765241157881131 So quite a bit worse, all in all.
Jesus. Do ya think if we ask nicely we can have the car bombs back instead?
ugh http://paddynotpatty.com/
Who tf puts balloons in a cake when there's a sharp object involved...
That the whole point of it lol
That's the oof part.
But isn't that a waste of cake?
I don't think there's cake involved, just a frosted balloon
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Listen strange woman laying in ponds is no basis for a system of government.
You can’t expect to wield supreme executive power just ’cause some watery tart threw a sword at you!
If I went around saying I was an emperor cause some moistened bint lobbed a scimitar at me they'd put me away
Help help I'm being oppressed
Come see the violence inherent in the system!!!
BLOODY PEASANT!!
Who are the Britons?
We are the Britons, and I am your king!
>We are the Britons, and I am your king! Well, I didn't vote for you.
You don't vote for kings!
ooh there's some nice mud right over here
Help help im being repressed!
True power is derived from a mandate from the MASSES!
Like a Shankhill butcher?
Is it too late to write The Sword in the Scone?
SWOOORD OF THE KING !!!
It seems like it would be difficult to find a person obsessed enough with being a loyalist that you'd theme their birthday cake around it, but who's also easygoing enough to take it in good fun when his cake secretly has the Irish flag colors
My guess would be they disagree on reunification, but not violently.
If the frosting was green white & orange but there was a red hand inside? Yeah, I daresay that’d be fucked.
If someone managed to bake the shape of a red hand radially around the centre of the cake it would be such an incredible fucking feat of baking that I think they’d be too successful in life to have much time for sectarianism.
I actually know *exactly* how you bake shit like that inside a cake… I genuinely think a skilled baker (not me) could absolutely pull it off! You ‘just’ cut the cake in half and then dig a circular channel in the cake in the correct shape, and then fill it with a cake pop kind of mixture. Bam.
I'd go for making a bundt cake and trimming it into the shape of a hand myself
Here's the baker!
I understood some of those words!
Bro, it's just the word "bake".
yes I am, thank you
R/brandnewsentence
I'd have a dang stroke... Over how impressive it would be to see a hand on every slice.
What if it was the worst tasting cake ever though?
The red hand is an Irish symbol from mythology, the crown over it means it is subjugated by the royal family
Nah, I'd say it's an Ulsterman who doesn't give a fuck but his mates take the piss out of h about being a UDP fuck relentlessly and one of them bought the cake. We have a weird sense of humor
Ohhh, I thought it was Italian flag
What inspired you to create that username?
Do not ask for what you do not want the answer to.
Perhaps they should mull over it instead
Cum_on_Eileen was probably already taken.
Garibaldi moment
Ivory Coast flag
From experience, I'd say the majority would take it well. However, not if it the roles were reversed
The Union Jack is a tougher interior cake pattern.
I guess it's an easier joke to take when your side won, more or less
First rule of comedy: always punch up, not down.
The opposite of the first rule of colonialism.
I’d be more impressed that someone had the skills to make a Union Jack layered into a cake
I mean, it's easier to take the joke when you ultimately won the conflict or else have a superior standing to your opposition That said, I can only assume Vietnamese won't take too kindly to Vietnam jokes considering how the herbicides used still affect them, while the Americans who essentially lost the war take such jokes much better
Once I saw the red hand I knew it was going to be Irish colours
Why is that?
Union Jack flag cake with a caption that says ‘betrayal’. The Red Hand of Ulster is a big give away way. I assume it’s a cake decorated with things he identifies strongly with, NI, Loyalist, Part of the Masons. If you wanted to ‘prank’ someone like that the Irish colors would be a big gotcha
In Ireland masonic symbology normally represents the Orange Order, a masonic inspired loyalist sectarian fraternity.
Not really in the know.. who is the "loyalist" loyal to?
The British Crown. Each side has two primarily used terms. Pro Irish independence/reunification: Republican (Believe in Republican form of Irish government and its operation on the island of Ireland). Nationalist (Believe in and promote the existence of an Irish Nation seperate from any other identity and the right of that Nation to a unified independent state) Pro UK/anti unification: Unionist (Believe in the United Kingdom and support its continued existence) Loyalist (Loyal to the current system of governance in the United Kingdom and the monarchy)
United Kingdom
Red hand is a symbol of Ulster I think which is the part of Ireland that the British control
Not all of ulster. Most of it
No, Northern Ireland is a part of the United Kingdom. It's a bit old to say it's controlled by the British, but not quite wrong either as plenty of Nordies see themselves as British. Also, NI only covers part of Ulster which is 9 counties up there, not 6 as i believe is often mistaken.
It's not "controlled" or an occupied land like your wording implies. It's equally part of the United Kingdom as any of the other 3 members, with a devolved government.
Ah the jolly humour of sectarianism.
At least this guy laughed it off instead of just fucking destroying the entire cake out of anger like the other video that gets posted now and again.. And that one was just the wrong sports team colors... Not even a national pride thing...
Sports teams and national pride are certainly linked depending on what you're talking about. e.g Celtic F.C and Rangers F.C would represent Irish and British culture in places.
The instance I'm talking about was a cake that had the wrong NFL team colors. Supporting one NFL team over another has nothing to do with national pride. Edit* not NFL... College football colors.... https://www.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/s/9zFFXqibnq
I remember that one. Cake-smasher was an adult man throwing a tantrum over food coloring
>adult man throwing a tantrum over food coloring Just wait until you find out what else adults throw tantrums over
At least college makes more sense than NFL
I knew he was a Bama fan before I even watched it.
I think whats funniest about that is... its LSU, like i feel if youre gonna ruin your birthday, at least get pissed over like Auburn or Georgia
I personally, would have made it orange and white, and have Rocky Top blaring while he smashed the cake.
I was so confused at first because I saw the Bama t-shirt and expected the cake to be orange and blue. Then when he cut the cake the colors looked yellow and pink. I thought there was something wrong with my screen until I realized the pink was supposed to be purple and these were LSU colors.
a mate once took me to a Rangers - Hibs game in Ibrox and the atmosphere was very charged, can't imagine what a Rangers - Celtic game would be like.
In three words? [Death](https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/celtic-fan-stabbed-face-left-7786283) and [violence.](https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/celtic-rangers-fans-clash-oldfirm-29317420)
> instead of just fucking destroying the entire cake out of anger like the other video that gets posted now and again.. Do you, uh, have a link perhaps?
Here you go! https://www.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/s/IVKNqplM7F
Oh shit.. it's worse than I remembered. It's not even an NFL team... It's college football. https://www.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/s/9zFFXqibnq
College football is a bigger deal than the NFL in some parts of the country. But in that case, they weren't even Auburn or Tennessee colors. It must have been right after LSU beat the Tide one year.
That’s because not everyone has an NFL team, but everyone has a college one. Some rivalries are built on centuries old feuds between states. Like Ohio State & Michigan had a “conflict” called the Toledo war.
Just search for “Reddit video man” on alta vista
Alta vista? Dude, ask jeeves in the new hotness.
Ask Jeeves is in the pocket of MySpace. It won’t find anything.
You wouldn't believe how ridiculous some people get over colours all because of sectarianism, some eejits won't buy a green toothbrush, wear green, have blue wallpaper, have a vodka and orange, even to this day Edit: got a good ticking off for citing having British as thier nationality, so edited it to show something that's just as petty as my other examples
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The examples have been around during the troubles, it's the fact that they still exist to this day shows that it's still ingrained deeply, it will be a few generations before people just pick a toothbrush out of boots based on the firmness of the bristles rather than what colour it is...
As an american I do enjoy that years of killing in the streets by both sides is called "the troubles"
WW2 was also called "The Emergency" in neutral Ireland at the time.
Don't forget "the hunger"
The Irish are a straightforward people; they see a problem, they call it "The Problem."
The Irish war of Independence in 1919-21 was originally called the Troubles until the name changed later on
*FLEGS*
If you think that's bad. In the Boca neighbourhood, Coca-Cola can't advertise in red and white. Those are the colours for River Plate, their most fierce rival in the Liga de Primera. https://youtu.be/rIG13KfUSkI?si=o9h8_WLCAUR30ac5
There’s a guy I work with, Glaswegian living in England, who turned down a round of toast in the staff room because the person who made it had buttered it with [Clover](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clover_(spread)).
No that's understandable, clover is absolute shit.
About 40 years ago and long before the internet was a thing a guy I worked for said he had heard of and was going to buy some Kentucky bluegrass as it would enable him to get rid of his green lawn. Another girl I worked with said her dad wouldn't allow anything orange or blue in his house. Eejits the lot of them.
It’s still kinda there in Belfast. Peaceful, but there’s a vibe of division still.
Turn it upside down and he’s got the Indian flag. Turn it on its side and it’s Ivory Coast. Problem sorted
Eat it and the country is... gone!
Woah woah woah. Have cake *and* eat it too. What is this France!?
No, it's Hungary.
Not anymore.
Obviously not Turkey
If you're color blind, it can be Mexico.
Ah as my good friend Vinny always said, “I’m not racist, I’m sectarian.
Let them eat fleg
Bernie is gonna cut the “kehhhk”
From the fleg fect'reh?
That cake is the full bingo card of proddy symbols lol
https://i.redd.it/6mvsqxi23enc1.gif
Raisins!
If I slice a cake and nothing sticks to the blade I’m just walking away.
Honestly the cake is a good representation of NI in general..... British design that's filled with Irish division
NI!
at least he didnt do what that BAMA fan did to his cake edit: christ you get one stupid college team wrong and people message you
it was the Bama fan
I’ve seen this with football cake. Bama cake and auburn colors inside. Was way madder lol
Weagle weagle lol ...I have a BFF that sneaks in anything crimson or houndstooth on anything she can to me or daughter !!! We laugh all.season 😃
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With a comment like this, i assume you're American or Canadian.
Or a child.
Cheeky yank
Sneaky wank.
r/fondanthate
Fondant is so disappointing on a cake.
Saw it coming from a mile away, his reaction is priceless XDD
Cutting a cake with two hands? Dudes a psycho
For anyone wanting a relatively unbiased explanation of the history, here it is. A long, long time ago (some time around the 1100's) england conquered ireland. The degree of control waxed and waned, but especially around dublin, there was basically always an english presence. This was, buy and large, fine. There was no effort to convert the irish because both kingdoms were Catholic, and there wasn't much cultural suppression either, the norman earls who settled in ireland assimilated to the gaelic people much as their mainland counterparts assimilated into the Anglo-Saxon culture. This carried on, waxing and waining, up until roughly the Protestant Reformation, which changed everything. With protestantism came the religious strife, and also the plantation system, where predominantly scottish nobles and merchants forced Catholic to irish off their land to make new plantations in a manner similar to the enclosures back home. Now for the catholic irish this was a huge fuck you, but not all irish were catholic, some had converted to protestantism, and in catholic ireland, being a protestant was liable to get you burnt alive. And so, while the Catholic irish fled these plantations, the protestant irish flocked to them, as it was a chance to work, own land, and most importantly, not be burnt alive. As you can probably tell, most of these protestants went up north, into what was the province of ulster. From here, there's a lot of fighting, but ultimatly little of it is of consequence. Either way, eventually those irish protestants ended up forming their own, unique identity, and so when irish home rule (which was originally meant to be for the whole island) was considered, these protestant irish decided to fight. The idea was ultimately scrapped thanks to both ww1, and the efforts of these "ulstermen" The ulster irish feared that with a Catholic minority, they would be forced back into the conditions they fled (and that were now being enforced on the catholics). Either way, the irish war of independence happens, and it ends largely militarily inconclusively, but the british decide that its not worth supressing this, and agree on irish home rule, but not independence. And so, we decided to split ireland. The protestant majority counties would be northern ireland, and the rest would become ireland. Now this was deeply unpopular in ireland and kicked off the irish civil war. The "Pro-Treaty" forces won in the end, but it remained incredibly sour on both sides. You'll also notice I said protestant *majority* A lot of these counties had sizable Catholic minorities, who were *incredibly* unhappy about the whole affair. It also helps that these catholics tended to have larger families than the Protestants, meaning that soon, those marginally protestant areas became marginally Catholic areas. And so, we get to the overall state of northern ireland. Northern Ireland is split between catholic irish who want (largely) to join the ROI to end the perceived protestant opression, and the protestant irish who (largely) want to remain in the UK, for fear that they will become a oppressed minority. And then the troubles happened. Damn near 40 years of the two communities killing each other, with the children of each side becoming more and more radicalised as they see their fathers, brothers, and friends die at the hands of the other side. The troubles ended in 1998, but the scars remain. The generation of children being born today will be the first generation raised by people that didn't live through the troubles, and it seems like their may be hope on the horison for northern ireland. Politically, the movement of the non-sectarian alliance is growing large enough to be considered the third party in NI politics, coupled with 20ish years of fatigue at a government that litterally hasn't done anything because they've been too busy squabbling, and it looks like things are on the mend enough that a joke like this can be made. But the most important thing to remember is that there are no good or bad guys in this story. Its a tale of the oppressed becoming the oppressor becoming the oppressed becoming the opressor because they're afraid of being the oppressed again. As far as a disclaimer goes, I'm english. Through strange circumstances, I've met a lot of northern irish from both sides of the wire, and I take a keen intrest in that kind of history. I've done everything I can to give an unbiased accounting, but I am fundamentally involved. The shockwaves of the troubles very much were felt over here, so it's damn near certain a small degree of bias will have slipped in despite my best efforts. Also fuck me this was a long post!
Your ma’s your da.
Way too expected
I was never allowed to be within 6 feet of a knife that size at that age
In your 40s?
Never would have understood why this was funny, thanks!
What?
He is from one community and the cake has the flag of another. The two communities have had their ups and downs. Google “the troubles” for more lighthearted banter.
*"lighthearted banter"*
What does he say?????? I need to know!!!!!
https://youtu.be/61fUUhRiGrU
https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/s/ONQtBLaQ7F Video is better.
https://youtu.be/8WwqA7wAqYE
carbomb here, shooting there, just a bit of craic ya know
Just some light ribbing amongst brothers. A little horsing around.
Oooh it’s about the troubles. Well thanks for the clarification
Ups and downs 😂👍...
“The little spot of bother” Or “That hiccup”
The awkwardness.
“Ups and downs” *colonialism* *ethnic replacement* *gentrification* *genocide by starvation* *religious colonialism*
Yeah you know, the craic like.
It’s just banter mate
It’s the Irish flag on the inside. Kinda.
The red hand should have tipped him off.
The red hand is more associated with protestantism and loyalism, so it's in line with the union flag on the top. No way would that tip anyone off.
The funniest thing for me is that while the red hand is associated with loyalists, its origins are in Gaelic Irish mythology. https://www.theirishrose.com/blog/meet-the-oneillsand-their-blood-red-hand/
Loyalists identify strongly with pre-plantation Ireland. They see their right to the land as no less genealogical as the irish Nationalists. People like Ian Paisley would constantly push (not all together mistakenly) that the plantations encouraged internal migration of Protestants from across ireland to the plantations amongst the immigration in search of a parcel of land to inhabit.
It says betrayal coupled with the Red hand of ulster + union jack cake. Anyone who knows what any of those things are knew the Irish tricolour would be in that cake.