@Big_Dan_Campbell Gurwinder has done a study on TFK
Gurwinderâs Theory of Bespoke Bullshit
- In the age of social media, opinions are more important than deeds
- Everybody wants to have an opinion on everything, but they canât do the research to back them up. So they make things up
- It makes them feel connected and like theyâre part of the conversation
- Itâs something that people do to strengthen their status
- âThe need to have an opinion compels people to take a stance on things that they donât know anything about.â â Gurwinder Bhogal
- This kind of mindset pollutes the global conversation with ill-thought-out opinions
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People are existentially connected to their opinions more than ever; letting go of the opinion would be tantamount to their destruction
- Once people speak an opinion in public (even if itâs a poorly thought out opinion), they feel the need to defend that opinion
- If they donât, then theyâre going to look inconsistent; they think theyâre gonna be perceived as weak or stupid
- Their egos compel them to defend even the worst opinion because they want to remain consistent
- The blockchain of opinion errors
- Before the internet, people quietly changed their opinions and hoped that nobody would notice
- Nowadays, because there is a public record of everything, we are compelled to defend even the worst of opinions
The sound is extremely satisfying
Ppft They left out the spire, a statue to the favourite passfime of the people who spend their days on o connell street.
The Spire is in there
Just in the middle of reading this Road to Balcombe Street book. It really is absolutely mental what they got up to. They had the whole of London totally scared out of their shite for a couple of years. Wandering into pubs with huge bombs in bags, kidnapping people, shooting up restaurants, bombing busy shopping streets at Christmas.
Wed often say about the troubles era IRA that itâs very hard judge them and their actions unless you were brought up in the downtrodden areas of the north like they were. The craziest thing about these boys is they were from Clare, Kerry, Limerick I donât think any of them were from the north. Probably the most ruthless violent Ira men of the era and they were just brought up in normal areas of the âfree stateâ 
they were literally barstool republicans who became front line top level republicans. I think one of them was even a footix. Youâd love to know what in their childhoods drove them to such lengths.
Harry Duggan was one of four children of Mr and Mrs Harry Duggan, of Feakle, Co Clare. He was born in Kilburn, London, before returning to Co Clare with the family when he was three. He left school at 14 and became a carpenter in a local factory. He became active in Sinn Fein when the troubles started in the late 1960s and in 1972 his family was told he was âkilled in actionâ. His father searched a graveyard in Scarriff, Co Clare, after gardai had said his son had been buried secretly.
It was during the Balcombe Street siege that fingerprints from Ireland confirmed his identity. His father, who said he had not heard from his son for two years before the siege, described him as âa nice quiet boy at home who never gave us any troubleâ.
Edward Butlerâs family lived in a small cottage in Castleconnel, Co Limerick. He is one of seven children and worked as a labourer with Limerick County Council. He sold republican newspapers outside his local church before leaving the area a year before the siege. Butlerâs father was formerly a private in the Defence Forces.
Martin Joseph OâConnell, known as Joe, lived with his parents in a small bungalow beside their farm in Co Clare until 1974. His mother, Ms Annie OâConnell, said after his arrest: âI donât know how he got mixed up with such people.â
In 1996, OâConnell wrote from jail to Sinn Feinâs An Phoblacht newspaper, declaring the IRA ceasefire to be âthe most stupid, blinkered and ill-conceived decision ever made by a revolutionary bodyâ.
Hugh Doherty was born in Glasgow but his family came from Co Donegal, where his relatives still live. After leaving school, he worked in various parts of Britain as a labourer on road building contracts. His brother Pat is a vice-president of Sinn Fein.
Eamon Ryan was on to something
Did they not release some sort of Yak in there last year and everyone went mad.
Donât talk back
ArnieâŚcoming out of the shower in twins with Marnie watchingâŚ
Negotiate first, attack last. You never negotiated.
Saw that years ago, may or may not have posted it at the time. Itâs quite amazing alright.
Got sucked into this earlier. A great watch.
Fred was some boy
Thatâs savage. I can see the Barnakyle river n all on it when I zoom in.