Wherever he stands, I'm sure it contains grumpy disdain
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 6 May 2021 21:38 (three years ago) link
Think hes too fond of detesting absolutely everyone to take an actual side, not an awful approach tbh
― flagpost fucking (darraghmac), Thursday, 6 May 2021 21:46 (three years ago) link
I bet Petrdisis is fucking living it up on that one star review, now rock-crit graun finally has their own trump. Progress!
― calzino, Thursday, 6 May 2021 21:54 (three years ago) link
We knew this, they knew this, now the ruling says it.
NEW: An inquest has found that 10 people shot dead by the British Army in Ballymurphy in 1971 were innocent and their deaths were without justification.— Lewis Goodall (@lewis_goodall) May 11, 2021
The shootings, which the families refer to as "the Ballymurphy Massacre", happened immediately after the introduction of internment without trial in Northern Ireland.Those who died were Joan Connolly, 44, Joseph Corr, 43, Edward Doherty, 31, John Laverty, 20, John McKerr, 49, Fr Hugh Mullan, 38, Joseph Murray, 41, Noel Phillips, 19, Frank Quinn, 19, and Daniel Teggart, 44.No one has ever been charged or convicted in connection with any of their deaths. The original inquests in 1972 recorded open verdicts. However, fresh inquests were approved in 2011 following a lengthy campaign by the Ballymurphy families.
― Scamp Granada (gyac), Tuesday, 11 May 2021 13:13 (three years ago) link
Pretty sure the UK government will be straining every fibre to ensure no-one is prosecuted.
― Are Animated Dads Getting Hotter? (Tom D.), Tuesday, 11 May 2021 13:17 (three years ago) link
There was supposed to be something in the Queen’s Speech about this today but it’s been dropped 🙃
― Scamp Granada (gyac), Tuesday, 11 May 2021 13:18 (three years ago) link
I follow the Ógra Shinn Féin account and was very glad to see this news and that they unreservedly stand in solidarity with Palestine, unlike the cowardly UK Labour Party.
― calzino, Tuesday, 11 May 2021 13:45 (three years ago) link
about time. very dubious that brit "justice" will do anything to the still-living perpetrators, but we live in hope
― 《Myst1kOblivi0n》 (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 11 May 2021 17:50 (three years ago) link
The official acknowledged must be hugely relieving to the families at the very least. I can’t imagine how it must have been, carrying that burden for so long and fighting for basic recognition like this. Infuriating, but inspiring that they kept it up and the truth, for once, prevailed.
― Scamp Granada (gyac), Tuesday, 11 May 2021 20:41 (three years ago) link
"in the wake of an army operation" sets a new high bar for the passive voice https://t.co/HnpAvUoZwb— Crowsa Luxemburg (@quendergeer) May 11, 2021
― calzino, Tuesday, 11 May 2021 21:27 (three years ago) link
James Connolly was executed at Kilmainham Gaol #OnThisDay in 1916His daughter, Nora Connolly, recalls the last time she saw her father.This interview was recorded for 'Portraits 1916’ on 30 October 1965.https://t.co/hDYvSZ6FEn— RTÉ Archives (@RTEArchives) May 12, 2021
― Scamp Granada (gyac), Wednesday, 12 May 2021 10:48 (three years ago) link
They've been talking about having one in Edinburgh for years but I assume the fact that every Loyalist headbanger in Scotland (and beyond) would descend on it is I assume the problem. He was of course a massive Hibs fan!
― Are Animated Dads Getting Hotter? (Tom D.), Wednesday, 12 May 2021 10:58 (three years ago) link
Working Class Characters by Middle Class Filmmakersw/ @dominic_machale pic.twitter.com/KBT7SOEYnS— Tadhg (@TadhgHickey) May 24, 2021
this is quite amusing
― calzino, Monday, 24 May 2021 09:57 (three years ago) link
Bottle of Bucky is a nice touch.
― Are Animated Dads Getting Hotter? (Tom D.), Monday, 24 May 2021 10:02 (three years ago) link
Very fond of Matt LeBlanc as your uncle https://twitter.com/i/events/1398905503434960898
― Andrew Farrell, Sunday, 30 May 2021 10:33 (three years ago) link
too much hair and healthy skin complexion suggests teetotalism!
― calzino, Sunday, 30 May 2021 10:57 (three years ago) link
never wear a hat in Ireland y/n?
Props to anyone who tries to be fashionable in ireland i wore a red beret once in waterford and someone called me super mario— lady of sophistication (@janky_jane) August 15, 2021
― rob, Tuesday, 17 August 2021 14:15 (two years ago) link
many gems in the replies
Was wearing a vintage nike jacket in a very long que for drinks at a boxing match when a Belfast lad goes “fuck me this is taking forever, your man has been here since the 80’s”— Eoin O Neill (@eoinjoneill) August 17, 2021
I was walking across O'Connell Bridge one day in the Eighties when those little fabric hats with mirrors in them were popular. A guy in front of me was wearing one, and someone coming the other way just plucked it off his head and chucked it in the river.
― trishyb, Tuesday, 17 August 2021 17:24 (two years ago) link
I wore a suit with a matching tie and pocket square to my first day of work at an advertising company (I thought I was going to be in Mad Men I guess) and the staff sent around and signed a communion card for me with a fiver in it.— Loic Wright (@duffles1) August 17, 2021
― fix up luke shawp (darraghmac), Tuesday, 17 August 2021 17:51 (two years ago) link
^that one was a clear "I definitely couldn't hack it in Ireland" message for me--your first day, my god
― rob, Tuesday, 17 August 2021 17:56 (two years ago) link
someone coming the other way just plucked it off his head and chucked it in the river
HOWLING!
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Tuesday, 17 August 2021 17:58 (two years ago) link
is this anti-hat sentiment a known cultural attribute?
― rob, Tuesday, 17 August 2021 17:59 (two years ago) link
Fuck wearing a hat iirc
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Tuesday, 17 August 2021 18:00 (two years ago) link
too true
Also wore out a pink fake fur collar on a jacket one time and my friend told me I looked like I was being born 🤣🤣🤣— Áine Kav (@ainekavo) August 16, 2021
― rob, Tuesday, 17 August 2021 18:13 (two years ago) link
Acceptable hats in Ireland: plain wool beanie, flat cap if you are a man, stetson if you are a country and western singer from the Midlands.
― trishyb, Tuesday, 17 August 2021 18:13 (two years ago) link
Broadly accurate id have said
― fix up luke shawp (darraghmac), Tuesday, 17 August 2021 19:03 (two years ago) link
One my colleagues had an ankle-length dark green serge greatcoat, and when he burst through the office doors one day, another looked up and said: "What news of Stalingrad?" 🤣— Philip Nolan (@philipnolan1) August 16, 2021
― lukas, Tuesday, 17 August 2021 23:20 (two years ago) link
Incitation to hatred in all its orange glory. Yet again. pic.twitter.com/P8ahE1gKVx— 🐉🏇 🐲Marie Błð 🇮🇪 🏇🐉 (@EalaEarendel) August 29, 2021
lol, lets live on marmalade on stale warburtons bread to own the Republic, because of course it is entirely Ireland's fault that the Westminster govt royally fucked them over!
― calzino, Monday, 30 August 2021 10:42 (two years ago) link
could see the temptation to dump even more things in the Liffey judging by some of the fashion faux pas and what is already in the river. I take it they still haven't been moved to clean it, is it a tradition that it is that filthy. I actually worked on the bridge at the time the digital clock the Time In The Slime was in there and can remember how impossible it was to read cos of the dirt that was already in the river. I was talking about the Hudson being cleaned from the early 70s after it had been notoriously filthy over the weekend and that had me thinking about the Thames getting cleaned at roughly the same time. So was thinking about the Liffey and the likelihood that it would ever be cleaned.Seemed that there was a move pretty much worldwide to recognise the importance of clean water in towns fro a webinar I attended a few months ago. I also remeber precautions needing to be taken by all the swimmers in the Liffey swim which I think was supposed to be an annual event. THat one had to take a shower as soon as you got out of the river. Also that the clock had to be moved at great expense
― Stevolende, Monday, 30 August 2021 12:42 (two years ago) link
also remember the pavement on that stretch of the O'Connel Bridge being a point where people would score quite conspicuously when i was first in town, possibly right up to the time taht the police cameras went up in 97.Definitely saw pickpockets right in front of me as I sold posters. But in those early years I was tehre you would see waves of people crossing the bridge and often staying pretty much in step as they crossed over to O'Connel st. & then you'd suddenly see a bunch of people going against the flow as they stopped to score. The Abrakebabra on Westmoreland st was also a notorious drug den or represented as such.
― Stevolende, Monday, 30 August 2021 12:55 (two years ago) link
So I hear ye are all antisemites now?
― Piedie Gimbel, Tuesday, 12 October 2021 07:47 (two years ago) link
To a point
― fix up luke shawp (darraghmac), Tuesday, 12 October 2021 07:48 (two years ago) link
The centrist slugs seem pretty sure they have the receipts
I mean, this is predictable. pic.twitter.com/Cnljmpbkez— Elvis Buñuelo (@Mr_Considerate) October 11, 2021
― Piedie Gimbel, Tuesday, 12 October 2021 07:51 (two years ago) link
so saying fuck the Brits is the new anti-Semitism?
these wankers should concentrate on their own fascists - there's enough of the fuckers. There are MI5 papers just released in the last 10-20 years on right-wing British MPs, peers, senior military figures etc that were involved in plots ("including espionage, sabotage, unlawful private attempts to broker peace deals between Germany and Britain") to install a pro-Hitler regime in London.
But beyond these are other files identified in the de-classified MI5 dossiers which have not been released to the National Archives. They relate to yet more aristocrats, MPs and military officers who worked on behalf of Germany during the war.
― calzino, Tuesday, 12 October 2021 08:28 (two years ago) link
the background to this is Sally Rooney refused to allow a certain publisher to publish her work in Israel, which has been twisted into "Sally Rooney refuses to let her works be translated into Hebrew"
― Daniel_Rf, Tuesday, 12 October 2021 09:46 (two years ago) link
anti-imperialism is good
― calzino, Tuesday, 12 October 2021 10:24 (two years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FBfwwfeXoAUfTLK?format=jpg&name=900x900
now that's all clarified there won't be another word on the subject.
― calzino, Tuesday, 12 October 2021 13:52 (two years ago) link
up the roon'
― 《Myst1kOblivi0n》 (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 12 October 2021 19:32 (two years ago) link
Fifty year anniversary of Bloody Sunday:
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/gallery/2010/jun/10/bloodysunday-northernireland
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 28 January 2022 21:12 (two years ago) link
how long must we sing this song?
actually you can stop now thanks
― Bill Kristol Meth (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 28 January 2022 21:26 (two years ago) link
maybe you just stop posting, dickhead!
― calzino, Friday, 28 January 2022 21:30 (two years ago) link
suspect that was a U2 zing there calz
― Ár an broc a mhic (darraghmac), Friday, 28 January 2022 21:34 (two years ago) link
not that I'd expect it to have been made in eg a similar American civil rights context, for instance
― Ár an broc a mhic (darraghmac), Friday, 28 January 2022 21:36 (two years ago) link
exactly!
― calzino, Friday, 28 January 2022 21:37 (two years ago) link
and take that shite to ilm
My apologies, that was a lazy and ill-considered stupid drive-by post, not helpful or necessary
― Bill Kristol Meth (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 28 January 2022 22:15 (two years ago) link
― mardheamac (gyac), Friday, 28 January 2022 22:44 (two years ago) link
it still shocks me that a country where one of the top left-wing politicians consider Thatcher a good person and a victory for representation, is actually full of complete fucking idiots!
― calzino, Friday, 28 January 2022 22:55 (two years ago) link
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60130486
― Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Saturday, 29 January 2022 01:47 (two years ago) link