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I feel sick, I feel sick, we are in hell.

An MP stood in the House of Commons today and called a man that was shot dead in front of his wife and children “the IRAs solicitor of choice” and it hasn’t caused a ripple over there.

I still can’t get over it

— Seána (@GrantSana) November 30, 2020

scampus fugit (gyac), Tuesday, 1 December 2020 00:24 (three years ago) link

Was chatting shit about the wrong fucking party as well, but hey, Paddies right

I'm not in Sinn Féin and I think what the government have done is a total disgrace. Do you think it's OK for a government to murder it's own citizens then refuse a proper inquiry into that murder @LordIanAustin ? https://t.co/M10M1MQ9ZN

— Colum Eastwood (@columeastwood) November 30, 2020

scampus fugit (gyac), Tuesday, 1 December 2020 00:28 (three years ago) link

Lord Ian Austin. Horrible cunt.

ILXceptionalism (Tom D.), Tuesday, 1 December 2020 00:37 (three years ago) link

I think that the British establishment is moving away from being able to handle a topic like finucanes murder and the surrounding collusion at light speed tbh, the bloody Sunday apology feels like it's likely to be an anomaly in so many ways

spruce springclean (darraghmac), Tuesday, 1 December 2020 00:53 (three years ago) link

Yes. Have tried not to think about it much all day because I might cry when I do

scampus fugit (gyac), Tuesday, 1 December 2020 00:57 (three years ago) link

fucking Baron Ian Austin makes Frank Field (who was good friends with Thatcher) seem like a moderate, a sickening little creep.

calzino, Tuesday, 1 December 2020 08:36 (three years ago) link

As a QC who specialised in human rights issues, it’s very odd that the leader of the Opposition at Westminster, Keir Starmer, hasn’t said a word about the Govt’s failure to announce a public inquiry into the state’s illegal killing of a fellow human rights lawyer. Remarkable even

— Chris Hazzard (@ChrisHazzardSF) December 1, 2020

calzino, Tuesday, 1 December 2020 08:43 (three years ago) link

the diminutive dog-shagger Austin deleted his Finucane tweet, even some of horrible tory friends said he was trying a bit too hard.

calzino, Tuesday, 1 December 2020 21:32 (three years ago) link

Has the man ever spoken for the nation so well?

Same. pic.twitter.com/987xdfc7G3

— Gavan Reilly (@gavreilly) December 2, 2020



Me too, Micheál, me too.

scampus fugit (gyac), Wednesday, 2 December 2020 15:29 (three years ago) link

sounds dope rly

Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Wednesday, 2 December 2020 15:48 (three years ago) link

He sounds sincere tbf

spruce springclean (darraghmac), Wednesday, 2 December 2020 16:44 (three years ago) link

As sincere as I’ve ever seen him

scampus fugit (gyac), Wednesday, 2 December 2020 16:47 (three years ago) link

two weeks pass...

Newgrange stream from 8.45 here

scampish inquisition (gyac), Monday, 21 December 2020 08:38 (three years ago) link

loved this

plax (ico), Monday, 21 December 2020 10:21 (three years ago) link

got a result this morning

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esAkRoqjKx4

Number None, Tuesday, 22 December 2020 11:46 (three years ago) link

I had an early meeting this morning so I’m sorry to have missed this one, but I’ve loved watching this week. It really makes you feel privileged to be able to witness it.

scampish inquisition (gyac), Tuesday, 22 December 2020 11:55 (three years ago) link

I feel like Newgrange is somehow underrated? Like everyone knows about it, you learn about it in school, and it's just always...there. But when you go and stand in that chamber and feel the actual weight of history above you... It's magical

Number None, Tuesday, 22 December 2020 12:03 (three years ago) link

On the first stream, when they had a beautiful clear day and the sun was entering the chamber, they had a lovely shot of the “sun dagger” from above and your man said “when i see this, the word ‘immutable’ comes to mind, in other words we are touching the ancestors, and we are experiencing something that five thousand years ago was similarly experienced”.

scampish inquisition (gyac), Tuesday, 22 December 2020 12:48 (three years ago) link

But when you go and stand in that chamber and feel the actual weight of history above you... It's magical

The lack of development around it is great as well. When you go and stand on that hill and there isn't a major road in sight or a housing estate, or anything beyond a few farms, it's beautiful.

trishyb, Tuesday, 22 December 2020 14:17 (three years ago) link

three weeks pass...

Anne Rabbitte at it again, I see.

In April 2019, Rabbitte criticised plans to excavate the site of the former Bon Secours Mother and Baby Home in Tuam, describing it as "a wilful waste of public money", and questioned if the intention was to dig up every cillín (burial ground for stillborn and unbaptized infants) in Ireland.


Rabbitte: "As a mother I wonder what sort of societal pressure I'd have to be under to turn my back on my children… society must be responsible for forcing the hands of these families… the circle of blame is vast"

— Gavan Reilly (@gavreilly) January 12, 2021

scampish inquisition (gyac), Tuesday, 12 January 2021 17:00 (three years ago) link

If RTÉ replaced the Angelus with a minute dedicated to someone who died in the M&BH, one day dedicated per each individual, that would be 25 years for the babies alone

— Suzie (@leninjapirate) January 12, 2021

scampish inquisition (gyac), Thursday, 14 January 2021 11:21 (three years ago) link

Fuck

Ole Blueyes Solskjaer (darraghmac), Thursday, 14 January 2021 11:26 (three years ago) link

Yep.

scampish inquisition (gyac), Thursday, 14 January 2021 11:26 (three years ago) link

Somebody in Moscow has built a replica of iconic Dublin pub @ODonoghues15.

What’s more, unlike the ‘real’ version, it’s open, has customers in it, and is selling pints. pic.twitter.com/EEnuMpamUw

— Bryan MacDonald (@27khv) January 26, 2021



I will say that I found it extremely strange to see people dressed up in Paddy’s day stuff when I was in Moscow though. Downthread says it’s about €4.80 for a pint. The sport on the TV gives it that nice not-quite-right vibe you need in an essential Irish pub abroad.

scampish inquisition (gyac), Tuesday, 26 January 2021 19:26 (three years ago) link

ah, but can you get the pint of Harp?

Fenners' Pen (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 26 January 2021 19:29 (three years ago) link

Nice

Qanondorf (darraghmac), Tuesday, 26 January 2021 19:38 (three years ago) link

Genuinely thought the badly censored guy was wearing a gimp mask there for a minute.

new variant (onimo), Tuesday, 26 January 2021 22:53 (three years ago) link

Or rubber-banding it

Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 26 January 2021 22:56 (three years ago) link

I heard the guinness isnt great lads, cancel the minibus

Qanondorf (darraghmac), Tuesday, 26 January 2021 23:06 (three years ago) link

Also just spotted uncensored creepy looking guy in the first photo.

new variant (onimo), Tuesday, 26 January 2021 23:10 (three years ago) link

Doesn't travel, I hear xp

new variant (onimo), Tuesday, 26 January 2021 23:11 (three years ago) link

two weeks pass...

Horrible

Watching him deal with this his entire career, so just having my say after 9 years of constant abuse. pic.twitter.com/5nEyujhpZw

— Erin McClean (@Erineyy) February 15, 2021

scampless, rattled and puce (gyac), Monday, 15 February 2021 21:04 (three years ago) link

Nasty fuckin stuff

scampsite (darraghmac), Monday, 15 February 2021 21:12 (three years ago) link

two weeks pass...

Here is the blacklist of Irish surnames produced by Pontins and uploaded to its intranet

It was headed "UNDESIRABLE GUESTS" pic.twitter.com/poQNC6up8h

— Chris Green (@ChrisGreenNews) March 2, 2021

cool!

scampless, rattled and puce (gyac), Tuesday, 2 March 2021 10:24 (three years ago) link

Hey, we're not on there, that can't be right.

Punk's not daft (Tom D.), Tuesday, 2 March 2021 10:27 (three years ago) link

Susan Boyle, Jimmy Carr, Rory Gallagher, Bruce Lee, Paddy McGuiness, James Murphy, Richard O'Brien and all of the Nolan sisters are not welcome at Pontins.

Bastard Lakes (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 2 March 2021 10:28 (three years ago) link

Ive checked the list and seems ok, go to print imo

e-skate to the chapeau (darraghmac), Tuesday, 2 March 2021 10:35 (three years ago) link

i like the cutesy gandalf meme paired with the racist policy memo

treeship., Tuesday, 2 March 2021 10:51 (three years ago) link

and no Conamarans and no dogs either!

calzino, Tuesday, 2 March 2021 10:57 (three years ago) link

my brother's ex-wife was from a Connemaran family and she was boasting how their family was a such powerful and influential lot in some village and the main well sat on their land or something and then when she was visiting he said she got dysentery or something nearly as bad from drinking water from the well! This was in the early 90's as well not the early 20's!

calzino, Tuesday, 2 March 2021 11:09 (three years ago) link

When the families have been in situ for the few hundred years local politics gets into some petty shit

e-skate to the chapeau (darraghmac), Tuesday, 2 March 2021 11:21 (three years ago) link

Which is awkward at discos because well you have to shift *someone* ffs

e-skate to the chapeau (darraghmac), Tuesday, 2 March 2021 11:21 (three years ago) link

Real Ireland! If at one point my mum had decided to stay over there then I'd have been a connected guy in a Kerry building business and middle class by kerry standards. So perhaps just a different kind of arsehole to what England has made me into!

calzino, Tuesday, 2 March 2021 11:33 (three years ago) link

Sher look one brother over and id have been a multimillionaire meself but alas

e-skate to the chapeau (darraghmac), Tuesday, 2 March 2021 11:40 (three years ago) link

as a Connemara I can vouch for your dysentery story the water system here has been badly affected by corruption peaking with the crypto sporidium scandal in the early 00s that left large parts Galway with undrinkable tap water for years

plax (ico), Tuesday, 2 March 2021 14:02 (three years ago) link

it seems during the boom years lots of that money that was sloshing around in Ireland wasn't spent how it ought to have been

calzino, Tuesday, 2 March 2021 14:47 (three years ago) link

Never!

Punk's not daft (Tom D.), Tuesday, 2 March 2021 14:48 (three years ago) link

My name's on the Pontins blacklist, but I got into ATP 2016 under an assumed name and did loads of redacted so the joke's on them. Unless the joke is on me because half the headliners cancelled idk

hiroyoshi tins in (Sgt. Biscuits), Tuesday, 2 March 2021 18:16 (three years ago) link

four weeks pass...

Getting vaccines to all your friends, family and kids’ teachers, all while running a busy hospital? I wanna tell ya... try it sometime! pic.twitter.com/43HUyuJYI9

— jack (@jackalexe) March 30, 2021

Number None, Tuesday, 30 March 2021 12:07 (three years ago) link

i think to keep in mind the fact (it may of course be no fact at all but in art the construct is designed to fall away or to be concealed by the end result nest pas) that the 'ch' is well and good but it could as easily have been described as a 'gh'

the aaaauwwuuugh that calvin does the odd time might give an indication as to where the breathing is, an open gullet almost catching at the end of the emphasised nnTOIEE before the sharp 'ish' withdrawal that is rather akin to a kyokushinkai punch count

i hope that clears it up, at least as far as upper achill formal pronunciation goes. its different in newport, theyd rush it into toieeshuh which is no service to the word at all.

― theRZA the JZA and the NDB (darraghmac), Tuesday, 10 September 2019 14:25 (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink

Its a wonder imo folens havent picked me up yet with notes like this

your own personal qanon (darraghmac), Thursday, 1 April 2021 00:08 (three years ago) link


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