basque separatists - a picture thread

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i don't mean to be glib, but these guys kinda crack me up with their hoods and flags and shit. real throwbacks imo.

http://www.barcelonareporter.com/img_uploads/ETA_Basque_terrorists_jailed_for_515_years.jpg

http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcS44W47Bp5MLyuUCSN_aB_D4b93QOK69nSONCXBhHaa7c-zL_ls

they went for cobra commander and came out elephant man

http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:HJUISSc0rWCfiM:http://www.typicallyspanish.com/spain/uploads/3/etagauekoandargi.jpg&t=1

i really want to know where this blue room is

they went for cobra commander and came out elephant man
― goole, Tuesday, January 11, 2011 5:03 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

lol + otm

The acronym,logo and slogan 'Bietan jarrai' all p good. The sheet over face with beret thing a bit funny. Ira used to rock the balaclava and beret,also somewhat unintentionally humorous.

the flag in the back has a charming, handpainted look--wonder who came up with that

http://si.wsj.net/public/resources/images/OB-LN706_eta122_G_20101228041645.jpg

kinda look like they've read the menu and are waiting to order

Yeah, it's like almost a badass aesthetic, they just don't quite execute it right. Oh shit, distasteful pun unintentional.

they went for cobra commander and came out elephant man
― goole, Tuesday, January 11, 2011 5:03 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

And this is genius. Hope you don't mind if I do...

http://www.euronews.net/images_old/09/W300px_120409-eta.jpg

Grrrr!

OT but i'd really like to go to this basque joint in bakersfield

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2267/1822452157_5dabde4c82.jpg

yeah nickb that's the best one!

so many of these guys live near me, they are hella annoying, they all have crappy halfassed dreadlocks under those hoods btw

there is only one other basque thread on ilx! so we can use this to discuss anything basque-related, as long as we post this every so often:

http://www.euronews.net/images_old/09/W300px_120409-eta.jpg

Man I went to the Basque region and all I got was delicious cake and some cool woven goods. I didn't see none of these motherfuckers. :(

good! they will try and sell you shitty weed!

don't buy it!

lol plax

gotta fund the struggle somehow i guess

basque separatists live near you in ireland? how so?

ok i'm dumb

lol plax

Basque tapas places are the best.

dunno about any kind of ethnic separatism but the basque thing is fascinating as hell -- the last non-indo-european people in europe. i mean, that's old shit right there. these are the people the gauls displaced.

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"wanna buy some weed?"

seriously though this stuff is so so amazing although the ones I had did not come in a somewhat alarmingly swastika-like formation

http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSYZJLroaI8fMAWY4Wvbk5WC3QhLBXwONpkdKbFT-jzuaqk5GBX

so many basque ppl live in galway bc it was invaded by the spanish and ppl from countries w/ separatist groups always think that because of "the struggle" we will "get" them. you see them hanging out in bars that have trad sessions wearing badly fitting khakis.

im actually being serious btw!

Here we see ETA members at a signing for their popular children's book "Españar Faszimoaz":

http://www.tvperu.gob.pe/noticias/images/stories/internacionales/eta100111.jpg

i think ppl dont really get how "terrorist organisations" r usually p. accessible and hard to take srsly. everybody in ireland has some dumbass cousin in the "IRA"

Goole - it's totally fascinating! I was in the French Basque Country for a couple days and then took the train for a day trip to San Sebastian (Donostia) in Spain for a day trip. I really wish I'd been there longer. The whole thing is really interesting to me historically/culturally etc. and it's amazingly beautiful.

xxp looool

I bought some shitty hash from some dirty basque hippies once in San Sebastian.

I have a picture of me standing on this bridge

http://www.jcolen.com/Biarritz%202.jpg

I did not buy any hash in San Sebastian.

the language is not related to anything anywhere on earth? i'd be pissed too, but i don't think i'd be mad at the spanish government. like, you can't even blame the romans or anything, it was all over even then.

The language is insane looking/sounding.

the worst part is that spain is a V good place to buy weed

you sure know a lot about weed

it is fun asking where the basque country is. "idk i cant see it on this map???"

hahahaha

you guys are the bomb!

They were playing with those hippie sticks, you know, like this:
http://www.mochiandcolleen.com/vermont/hippiesticks.JPG

oh god I hate ppl who play those things

what is worse is poy

San Sebastian really is an amazingly beautiful city though. Bilbao, not so much.

well those kids are probably ok

I should say that most adults who play with those things are annoying jerks.

San Sebastian is GORGEOUS. It's seriously one of the most beautiful places I've ever been. I was all hey watch I'm gonna use my HS Spanish here. That plan didn't work out so well but we managed anyway.

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btw I would like to make it clear that I support a certain degree of autonomy but I do not think that absolute separation is necessarily the answer - I am internationalist rather than nationalist and I think that as long as the language, customs and preferred methods of governance are preserved and respected by the Spanish authorities, a system similar to the United Kingdom is perfectly viable - indeed, a system where borders don't even matter, but that the collective will is in charge.

Thing is, as things stand, these customs are not being respected.

It is a tricky situation, but I want to stress that there is a people being oppressed here, and a people who would rather resolve their situation non-violently.

'Separatism' will move away from borders and flags, and towards regions of autonomy and self-governance.

bernard snowy, that kinda shit is what the country (and the world) needs

louis if you develop a halfway decent knowledge of spoken basque within the next year i will pledge one hundred us dollars to the l0u1s jagg3r endowment for the arts

deal, bookmarked, etc

:)

i remember reading somewhere that ppl are speculating the language dates all the way back to the stone age since the words for "stone" "knife" "axe" & stuff are related

lol we read the same book.

Also, the Basques have a sword dance that has key similarities to the Scottish style! Scholars suspect a common origin blah blah.

Ha, I saw a pic of these jokers in the paper the other day and thought 'A+ terrorist outfits.'

http://www.euronews.net/images_old/09/W300px_120409-eta.jpg

YO

http://photos1.blogger.com/img/247/1596/1024/8newbychurchmonk.jpg

Which electronic outfit is that?

Yesterday the Vuelta organizers announced that the course will return to the Basque Country for the first time in 33 years!

It is an A+ terrorist outfit, it's true. A timeless classic, any of those pictures could have been taken at any time since 1970 or probably even earlier.

if the desire for a traditionally socialist state (indeed, the state with the oldest language in Europe) to escape the oppressive and exploitative rule of the Spanish (not least under the practically neofascist People's Party) is a half-baked left-wing idea, maybe you'd like to tell that to the hundreds of youths imprisoned and tortured for belonging to nonviolent political think-tanks, maybe you'd like to tell it to the people whose parties have been banned from competing in elections and whose language was outlawed until as late as the 1970s

― legerndrymayne (acoleuthic), Tuesday, January 11, 2011 9:24 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

this post may be almost as funny as some of the pictures of these guys on this thread.

Catalonian nationalism/separatism is even worse though, that's just trolling.

not really worse, more pacific and more succesful (in that catalan language is thriving compared to basque).

basques want to be ireland, catalans want to be quebec

ugh basques are the worst

basquetcases

basques want to be ireland, catalans want to be quebec

― max, Wednesday, January 12, 2011 4:28 PM (19 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Galicians want to be Cleveland.

i wonder what the jokes about basques are. gallego jokes are about them being stupid, britain's equivalent would be irish jokes. jokes about catalanes are about them being stingy with their money, britain's equivalent would be jokes about scots. i suppose you don't really get welsh jokes, so maybe the basques are the welsh of spain. #boringmusings

apt hashtag

aye that's why i used it ¬_¬

i feel there are no jokes of any kind, look at those masks, you know they are serious

lol u think silly masks are a mark of their credibility?

OT but i'd really like to go to this basque joint in bakersfield

I've been there. Great food - garlicky and very filling.

thanks, sounds awesome!

This thread is woefully incomplete without Fermin Muguruza's "Big Beñat" - a song about the Basque national sandwich

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJxxIhQ8gw8

Bourdain's quote about San Sebastian being "Belfast, only with a three star restaurant on every corner" comes to mind. Arrr... want to go back.

Can't mention the basques without mentioning Kepa Junquera, although that is far from the best track

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vrnia3S5dpE

this video uses an excerpt from one of my favourites, Piti & Iturrigorri

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rXAOXB6yW8

Ibon Koteron is great too, this is a pretty crappy recording of Odolaren Boza

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQZGVndHwUU

take it easy, masked dudes:

http://www.reuters.com/resources/r/?m=02&d=20111020&t=2&i=519845306&w=&fh=&fw=&ll=700&pl=300&r=BTRE79J1DD900

still the best

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"we'll just have the two prawn cocktails to start please. oh and a diet coke,ta"

might (?) be more funny if you said "pulpo pintxos" and "kalimotxo", actually not funny at all.

is there a basque travel recommendations thread? i haven't been back in about 8 years, maybe some of you less xenophobic types have recommendations?

i guess someone had to pick up louis's cross of disliking this thread

denok kritikari

haha i forgot about louis on this thread, maybe him and shasta can learn euskadi together

the fratty "yo sully, don't these dudes look funny" cracks when there's a very good reason that they are cloaked and that it serves a purpose to them as plenty of war and anger and frustration and marginalization has gone on in such a tiny part of the world:

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_S-krpzUuA50/S9scyi6JAtI/AAAAAAAABLY/GYrJFh9TTkw/s1600/arte_guernica_2.jpg

OP: "i don't mean to be glib BUT..."

ehhh.

oh great, here's max to the rescue! whew

picasso, qed

it's possible to acknowledge both that there are excellent reasons for them to be masked and that they are funny looking at the same time.

trying to remember the other ILX poster jokester who poked fun of the immigration of political refugees... sorry, it's been a while.

i dont get what im supposed to do if i have respect for the oppression faced by basque people, pretend i think the hoods and berets look cool?

louis if you develop a halfway decent knowledge of spoken basque within the next year i will pledge one hundred us dollars to the l0u1s jagg3r endowment for the arts

― call all destroyer, Wednesday, January 12, 2011 9:38 AM (9 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

deal, bookmarked, etc

― legerndrymayne (acoleuthic), Wednesday, January 12, 2011 9:39 AM (9 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

too bad he self-banned because i totally would have paid up

A) It is not a beret, it is a txapela.
B) I don't know, i'm guess I'm a little more sensitive to people who have had to deal with political assassinations for standing up for what they believe in (nb: i don't endorse terrorism by the ETA).

If only they had a more relevant disguise that tapped into the North American brand of rebellion. Something like... a V for Vendetta mask, aye that could be a real gamechanger in S/S 2012.

http://www.reuters.com/resources/r/?m=02&d=20111020&t=2&i=519845306&w=&fh=&fw=&ll=700&pl=300&r=BTRE79J1DD900

"right so that's three chicken biryani..."

yeah, no one around here was making fun of the v for vendetta mask

but i guess you get the "sensitivity to people who have had to deal with political assassinations for standing up for what they believe in" award

thanks guy. thanks for chiming in.

i don't mean to be glib

shoulda gone "Call me politically incorrect but..."

Surprised this wasn't revived for the big news.

pay the man, jagger

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