Yeah I spoke too soon on that. Definitely happening again today. First time it’s happened whilst I’m here in a few months
No. Not in the slightest. A repulsive belief, both factually and spiritually.
Some of the smartest people around are born into the so called underclass and become, like Curtis Warren, an initially successfully criminal. Some of the most sociopathic people around come from the upper (middle) class and make highly successful corporate executives – a phenomenon well established. Or highly successful politicians. I give you Boris Johnson, today exposed for being unable to grasp the difference between simultaneity and sequentiality.
If you know anything about genetics, you will know that the further apart two genetic lineages are, with the exception of thoroughbred horses, the greater the chance of exceptional offspring. Lay person’s terms, the key dynamic is breeding out of a narrow pool. Non mingling of the different social classes is a hinderance is many ways and not least in genetic terms. Anyone of my age or so from rural Ireland will likely recall the fact of a line dying out in a local farm being explained in these terms by your elders: ‘Sure, there was no one good enough to marry any of them…’
The colloquial truth of this genetic reality can be seen in the entertainment and the modelling industries. An extraordinary (and statistically disproportionate) amount of Irish people considered exceptionally goodlooking and attractive are of mixed blood. Staying close to home, you could instance Nadia Forde (half Italian, half Irish), Aisling Franciosi (half Italian, half Irish), Ruth Negga (half Ethiopian, half Irish), Andrea Roche (quarter Indian, three quarters Irish) and Georgia Salpa (half Greek, half Irish). Further afield, you could instance Helena Christensen (half Danish, half Peruvian) and Myleene Klass (half Austrian, half Filipino), There are loads more examples – to a completely disproportionate extent in quantitative terms.
The dynamic is not merely looks orientated. I have also noticed over the years that a high proportion of the young lads who become a King’s Scholar at Eton or a Scholar at Winchester are from a similarly mixed background. Boris Johnson’s mixed ethnic makeup, himself a King’s Scholar at Eton, would be a perfect case in point.
So I believe class has scarce little to do with intelligence and potential. Stupidity is caused by stupidity – but bad decisions are not just made, and bad things are not just done, because of stupidity.
I will leave you with two poems. Bernard O’Donoghue’s ‘Gerund’:
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Off to the poetry thread with ya, ya loon.
I heard recently that a lock of years ago that the New York hurling team won a match in the Ulster championship in NY but didn’t travel for the next match in the Ulster championship because their team was made up of a collection of unvetted males. We soon erase history.
We could be like North Korea If we really tried
There’s a few characters in this thread that wish for a mash-up of a Pyongyang mentality and a Glenroe aesthetic. Aran Sweaters, and toiling in the fields for dear life.
Imagine Conor in the dail. He’ll be elected on the first count
https://twitter.com/TheNotoriousMMA/status/1727035572869382176?t=9nQsDJnwIbrfKMZ07s0_6Q&s=19
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Full immunity for scumbag crime and turf out any foreigner would free up our prisons for refugees and homeless. Conor could be on to something.
McGregor on the button here, is Free travel around Europe really worth it? I have no issues getting my British passport stamped since Brexit
Ive no problem with EU travel policies tbf, i dpnt think we should look to have restrictionson on other member states. And lets be honest ireland is opted out of a majority of it so we are supposed to have checks but thats not well enforced.
Migration into the EU is a problem and should be addressed at EU level. Its a failing of the EU rather than ireland
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Scumbags don’t vote mate.
The lads defending freedom of movement as sacrosanct were the same lads cheerleading 2km travel limits and denying all healthcare to immigrants.
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The lads up in arms about 15 minutes cities demanding an end to freedom of movement
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If the lads arriving had something to check we’d check it.
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No passport no problem
How are they disposing their documentation when they land?
Toilet on the plane or in arrivals?
Its actually laughable how people rock up here and show that level of disrespect to our borders and nothing in place to stop it.
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Toilet on the plane usually
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You couldn’t make it up
It’s fascinating how pliable lads principles are and they mould them to fit whatever end purpose they want to get to.
For some of us, being truly principled means you always stay the course because once you park your principles once well then….
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