Orange men Classic or dud?

Back to topic, I liked their ads for Pentium chips.

George Hamilton = Dale WIntonesque sunbed tan man as seen in 'Love At First Bite'.

But perhaps that was the gag, duh.

And what abt orange women, eg Geri Halliwell the world's pinkest pop star?

Of course it was some orangemen in bowler hats carrying a flag of st george, probably in Glasgow where she grew up at the beginning of the last century (ie 1901 not 1801 obv). She was protestant in an angrily divided city: i don't know if this was a statement — today the marches are widely considered a deiberate provocation — or just a nice picture that reminded her of her youth; she wasn't sectarian esp.tho she could be prejudiced (she had Catholic friends). In the 70s when she bought it it would have seemed deeply political to many: but maybe not to her, I don't know. She was very old-fashioned in lots of ways, but also very kind and very very funny. My mum and dad still have the picture, but it stands on its end on the attic floor. It's a pity in a way, because as a picture it is nice (colours, composition) but as an announcement of belief, it is far from anything I would like to be saying. I sort of hope one day it can go up again, when anyone can look at it and just thing, what a nice little picture.

hackney is brought to a halt several times a year by the marching of the turkish-kurdish communists, who still proudly carry a stalin banner, and mostly (OK actually not so many these days) all boast uncle joe tashes

there is a GRATE GRATE PIECE (two in fact) by tompaulin (the poet not the beat combo) on Paisley and revolutionary working class politics in his collections of essays whose name i haf forgotten

Mr S, when is this? I must see the next one.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/7110457.stm

Orange Order creates superhero
http://news.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/07/uk_enl_1195853085/img/1.jpg
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No it's... well he doesn't have a name yet, but the Orange Order hopes to win a new generation of fans with their own superhero.

The origins of the Orange Order may date from the 17th century battle for supremacy between Protestantism and Catholicism, but they have high hopes for this 21st century makeover.

King William has been an Orange icon for more than 300 years, but it seems the curly wig and pointed hat combo were not doing it for the kids any more.

While the unnamed character still sports a sash, the traditional bowler hat has been replaced by a trendy purple cape.

Modern nutrition has also made him a bit more muscular than the comparatively scrawny-looking King Billy.

'Less stuffy'

Orangeman David Hume says the idea is to make themselves more relevant to the young and "appear less stuffy".

"We usually have comic Christmas cards every year, so we decided to ask a graphic artist to come up with something new to represent the institution," he says.

"He features on the Christmas cards as Santa's little helper, but it also has a wider appeal so we've launched a competition for people to come up with a name for him.

"The institution covers such a wide spectrum age-wise, grandfathers and grandsons are both involved - there is the junior institution up until the age of 16 or 17, so it's something they can hopefully get involved with."

Any suggestions can be sent to the Orange Order's headquarters, but be warned, Orangeman has been deemed too obvious.

So ILX, what should he be named?

Orange Bastard Man wont be accepted either, Dadaismus.

They should all be made to dress in that get up for next year's marches. They'd look like fucking idiots, oh wait...

There's a place in Belize called Orange Walk. You can stay in Lodges. It looks lovely.

http://www.hottiegotti.com/media/wallpaper/family1-1024.jpg

dud dud classic dud, respectively

http://img522.imageshack.us/img522/8992/db5101775223vv4.jpg

Scary pic!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/7329007.stm
The "superheroes" name is revealed

Diamond Dan the Orangeman? Surely this story is 2 days too late?

Pic of nick griffin marching with em today is just lovely

Was through in Glasgow today and, wouldn't you know it, there was an Orange Walk on. The creatures who climb out from under their stones to follow these processions have to be seen to be believed. There's something profoundly fucked up about Scotland which makes me think it shouldn't be independent after all, these cunts have caused enough misery all over the world as it is.

But then, earlier in the day, in my oft derided (by me usually) hometown there was a different kind of procession commemorating something actually worthwhile .. even if arguably a product of the same kind of Scottish pig headedness and shit stirring:

https://www.paisley.org.uk/events/sma-shot-day/

The Burning of the Cork!

https://i.postimg.cc/T1QPm9vN/FB-IMG-1656794245392.jpg

"Most certainly not anti-Catholic"

That one is actually anti-capitalist.

I suppose the top hat was a dead giveaway.

I honestly didn't know there was any sort of orange movement in Scotland. A bit of Googling turned up that "certainly not" quote, which was from the head of the "Orange Order."

I blame Scotland for the Orange Order and the KKK btw.

The picture has nothing to do with the Orange Order - in case of confusion!