Trains
When I was walking up to get the train a wee boy about 6 years old was standing by the side of the road on his own. As we passed he picked up a stone and winged it at a passing bus, then looked at me as if I’d stolen his lunch. When I got to the platform an unforecast shower of bricks arrived and peppered the train and the platform. People duely moved back, the conductor told the drive to “get the train the fuck out of here”. Apart from that no-one was either excited or unexcited, it rains a lot here I suppose.
On the train home tonight there was a copy of the Daily Ireland sitting so I had a read, never read it before, no prior knowledge of what it was about. Interesting choice of font says I to myself, a little too harsh on the serifs for my liking, distracting rather than anything else, maybe they’re trying to hark to some celtic thing. Maybe I’m thinking about it too much.
I noticed a lot of the articles in the Daily Ireland refer to a place called ‘the North’ which I’m fairly sure doesn’t exist. Perhaps they mean ‘the north’ or maybe Northern Ireland, but a place called the North doesn’t exist as far as I know. In the sport pages they seemed to be really pleased to see the PSNI get “hammered” in gaelic football, plenty of observations on PSNI vehicles at the ground and players who wouldn’t give their name to the press.
There was also an article about how Father Alec Reid shouldn’t have called all unionists Nazis, he should have just called most of us Nazis. And that buisness with the IRA blowing things up and murdering was simply terrible but unionists deserved it.
Am I alone in thinking that there is a whole economy dedicated to keeping people at odds with each other? I mean, think of the people who’d be out of work if we all got on.
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Diarmid: You’re a moron.
I find the rationale (or more appropriately, lack thereof) of people who would defend Fr. Reid’s divisive and insipid remark stunning. Truly stunning.
The Slugger Troll Fly-Paper™ has lost it’s stickiness, so now the rest of us have to bear the burden of Irish History Trolls wandering free on the internet.
For me that’s enough reason to empty my pockets to help Slugger get fleeced^H^H^H^Hnew forum software.
By the way, you should read Diarmid’s “website”. It’s a classic.
I find it very depressing that little children are being raised as antisocial little feckers. I find myself fantasising about how great it would be if I could kick their little arses really hard. Of course I know that this would be counterproductive but I can dream.
And as everyone do know the ‘RA kept one weapon back and that was the one Fr Reid shot himself in the fut with.
Don’t know if there is an economy built around keeping us apart but I do know this. NI’s keenest voters are those on the more extreme side of things. If people with more inclusive moderate views all voted then things might be a little different.
I’ve seen it Stephen. He’s been blogging for quite a while now. I wrote him off ages ago, though briefly stopped in after his comment and saw his brilliant analysis breaking down just how correct Fr. Reid’s comments were.
Still waiting for the photographic evidence of Dachau West and the original plans for unionism’s Final Solution to wipe Northern Ireland (sic, spit, guffaw, I meant the imperialist occupied six counties of the North) of it’s population of Catholics for good. Those loyalists, universally reknown for their cunning intelligence, must have done an excellent job at keeping their devious plot a secret from the rest of the world, given whose death squads are actually the most notorious outside of your otherwise lovely borders.
Emily: remind me, is Diarmid Logan the same guy who used to argue for the genetic superiority of the native Irish? I remember a weblog by a guy of a similar name back when I cared/didn’t have a job.
He might of (certainly seems capable), though you might also be thinking about Paul Dunne from the Shamrockshire Eagle, Wanker Class-A.