Interesting Things Thread

Cheers Bucko.

https://maps.archaeology.ie/HistoricEnvironment/

https://www.archaeology.ie/

16 per cent of black males of voting age in Mississippi cannot vote for life due to felony conviction.

The Business Wars Podcast series on the Diamond Trade is an interesting insight on it

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@Big_Dan_Campbell Gurwinder has done a study on TFK

Gurwinder’s 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 can’t do the research to back them up. So they make things up
    • It makes them feel connected and like they’re part of the conversation
    • It’s something that people do to strengthen their status
    • “The need to have an opinion compels people to take a stance on things that they don’t know anything about.” – Gurwinder Bhogal
    • This kind of mindset pollutes the global conversation with ill-thought-out opinions
  • 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 it’s a poorly thought out opinion), they feel the need to defend that opinion
    • If they don’t, then they’re going to look inconsistent; they think they’re 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
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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 it’s 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 don’t 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 ‘free state’ :person_shrugging:t2: they were literally barstool republicans who became front line top level republicans. I think one of them was even a footix. You’d love to know what in their childhoods drove them to such lengths.

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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 “killed in action”. 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 “a nice quiet boy at home who never gave us any trouble”.

Edward Butler’s 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. Butler’s father was formerly a private in the Defence Forces.

Martin Joseph O’Connell, known as Joe, lived with his parents in a small bungalow beside their farm in Co Clare until 1974. His mother, Ms Annie O’Connell, said after his arrest: “I don’t know how he got mixed up with such people.”

In 1996, O’Connell wrote from jail to Sinn Fein’s An Phoblacht newspaper, declaring the IRA ceasefire to be “the most stupid, blinkered and ill-conceived decision ever made by a revolutionary body”.

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

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Releasing wolves into Congress could work.

Did they not release some sort of Yak in there last year and everyone went mad.

Don’t talk back

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Arnie…coming out of the shower in twins with Marnie watching…

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Negotiate first, attack last. You never negotiated.

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Saw that years ago, may or may not have posted it at the time. It’s quite amazing alright.