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Sunday Bloody sunday

A rock song by Irish Band U2, in protest of British presense in N. Ireland.

Also, a title given for an incident when 29 people in an apparent peace rally were killed by British paratroopers.
Guy 1: Man, that song 'Sunday Bloody Sunday' really strikes a chord!
Guy 2: Yeah, that song is U2's protest against stuck-up Britons.

bloody sunday 

On 30th January 1972, a vast amount of Roman Catholics in Derry, Northern Ireland, demonstrated a Civil Rights march due to the fact the Catholics were being denied their human rights in most parts of Northern Ireland. The marchers were soon confronted by a blockade of heavily-armed British soldiers who refused to let them continue marching.Lets be realistic here, if you were firstly being denied your Civil Rights, and then prevented from continuing a peaceful march for your rights, you would be more than incensced. So the marchers began throwing sticks and bricks at the soldiers, who were armed with very lethal firearms. Why couldn't they just let them keep on marching? isn't it a bit fascist to deny someone the right to march in favour of their own rights? So then the troops, who knew full-well the effect of their weaponry, opened fire on the marchers, hitting 27 people and killing 13. The troops had lethal weaponry and protective gear on. And they murdered civilians with melee weapons, who were only trying to convince people that they were human beings with rights too.
Don't give me that 'paras are heros' crap. I am half-Irish and some of my family members died in that incident. The military are trained to handle situations professionally, and none of them were injured or killed on that day. Just goes to show that you can't start off something reasonable without some gung-ho arsehole angering you and breaching your rights.
bloody sunday by BadLieutenant September 1, 2004

bloody sunday 

The act that caused the Russian population to turn against the Czar in the early 20th Century. Over 2000 people went to the palace in a peaceful way to ask for more bread from their loving Czar Nicholas II, but the royal guard shot at them, killing between 200 and 1000.
"Bloody Sunday was why the Russian Revolution was inevitable."
bloody sunday by Elia July 18, 2005

bloody sunday 

There were two Bloody Sundays in Ireland. The first happened in 1920, when an IRA group murdered some British agents because they were ordered to by Michael Colins. The British were pissed, so, they decided to get their revenge by starting a shoot-out at a football match. They killed about 15 Irish Civilians, and in the prisons elsewhere, a couple of IRA members were beaten to death.
The next happened in 1972, when Ireland was split in two, North was held by the British, and south by the Irish (like it is today) and the Irish Catholics in the North were discriminated very heavily, both in public, and in parliament. So, they staged a civil rights march through Derry, which annoyed the British, who murdered a majority of these protestors, all unarmed. This caused a bit of controversey which not a lot of people are happy about to this day.
Guy 1: Bloody Sunday sure wasn't very cool.
Guy 2: Which one?
Guy 1: Both.
bloody sunday by That Fancy Chap January 16, 2010

Bloody Sundae

A metaphor, popularized by YouTuber Nerd Explains, which compares the horror movie situation where one or more characters experience multiple signs in an area that something is “very wrong” with the making of a banana split/sundae. With each new sign experienced by the character(s), an ingredient is added to the metaphorical sundae, and once the metaphorical sundae is complete, one or more of the characters are either harmed or killed by whatever was causing the signs.
“If the front door being open is the split banana, this is the three scoops of ‘get the fuck out of the house’ ice cream
-Nerd Explains explaining the Bloody Sundae in his video, “How to Beat the KILLER CAMERA in ‘Polaroid’ (2019)”
Bloody Sundae by Nerdgator137 December 5, 2020

sunday, bloody sunday 

A U2 song based on the massacre of bloody sunday. They perform it brilliantly at the Vertigo tour
Sunday, Bloody Sunday was such a good way for U2 to point out the injustice of that day