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• Commented on On inappropriate reactions to COVID19
  The only online citations I can find for the Angry Brigade being responsible are in the metadata of a photo on Scran.ac.uk and Stuart Christie's memoir - and given no less an authority than Her Majesty's Judiciary said he wasn't...
• Commented on On inappropriate reactions to COVID19
  The reason that neither PIRA nor UVF carried out any other attacks in Scotland, is that it contained a lot of support and infrastructure That's partly why I asked; the IRA is not known to have carried out any attacks...
• Commented on On inappropriate reactions to COVID19
  Why are [..] TickTock starting to rise despite the fact that they have no new technologies compared to their established peers? Because TikTok's established peer - precursor, really - was acquired and shut down by Twitter about a year prior...
• Commented on On inappropriate reactions to COVID19
  PIRA bombed in in the early 1970s, trying to kill the lone piper at the Edinburgh Military Tattoo I thought who was responsible for that one was unknown? PIRA had a longstanding objection to attacks in Scotland, so if it...
• Commented on On inappropriate reactions to COVID19
  Thanks for that; I missed it on first read-through....
• Commented on On inappropriate reactions to COVID19
  The potato famine period that started in the mid-1840s covered most of Europe, it wasn't just a case of "the Redcoats a'stealin' all of our potatoes oh" but the Oirish do like to blame someone other than themselves for all...
• Commented on Crib Sheet: The Labyrinth Index
  cooked first in the skillet (same word?) Frying pan, at least in my dialect....
• Commented on Crib Sheet: The Labyrinth Index
  Paws4thot's point is that right-Pondian English doesn't differentiate between parts of the plant; see Tesco's opinion on what 'coriander' means....
• Commented on Starship bloopers
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_the_Irish_state https://www.her.ie/news/maternity-expert-says-every-pregnancy-is-affected-by-the-8th-amendment-404854 Google has far more patience than I, Greg, and there's reams of stuff about abortion and the 8th - it's almost like it had to be explained to a whole country, or something....
• Commented on Starship bloopers
  Actually your reply strongly suggests that neither of us actually know/knew what the then law in S Ireland actually said or was interpreted, or how a court would view it. Greg, we're on the internet. It's not hard to find...
• Commented on Starship bloopers
  The then Irish constitution actually allowed Savita to have had an abortion No Greg, it didn't. Pro-lifers have argued the 8th allowed for abortion, in that so-familiar "deserving cases are allowed and if they weren't allowed clearly they aren't deserving"...
• Commented on Starship bloopers
  The Magdalene Laundries scandal dented & made small cracks in the Black Crows dominance of Ireland, but it was the death of one woman that finally did it, & did their rule in. You keep saying this. Why? Because I...
• Commented on So you say you want a revolution
  Sorry to say, it is - Amazon owns Goodreads....
• Commented on So you say you want a revolution
  Just wondering why this fundamental stuff (nuts, bolts, screws, etc.) hasn't been updated to/with 21st century tech. The facetious answer is because you're often screwing them into 20th (and sometimes 19th) century tech. (Also everything Moz says about 3D printers,...
• Commented on "It'll all be over by Christmas" (Part 2)
  Republic of Ireland: 3 year war of independence a century ago, a full democracy* today (cf the USA, a flawed democracy) ...skipping blithely over that whole Civil War bit. Soldiers tying tortured prisoners to land mines, anyone? If you grant...
• Commented on "It'll all be over by Christmas" (Part 2)
  Because what we want is police having millions of hours of bodycam footage to feed to machine-learning algorithms trained to recognise "criminality" (defined however the designer/owner/law enforcement system defines it)....
• Commented on "It'll all be over by Christmas" (Part 2)
  Name another country where "the revolution" hasn't degenerated into tyranny within less than a generation. Erm - Great Britain actually, culminating in 1688-89. Oops. Yes, because that revolution's tyranny was established in the country it was actually fought in. (The...
• Commented on Roll the dice
  *gestures at the entire ignored first half that mentions Haiti* Is this some sort of 'fnord' situation where you can't even see the word?...
• Commented on Roll the dice
  The important thing to remember is that we were the first to get rid of it - something that seems to have been lost in the noise. It's amazing how many people forget Haiti exists. I wonder why*? *No I...
• Commented on Cough Cough
  The victim is plainly showing an ID card to the police - who knock him down & leave him bleeding from the ear - never a good sign. Even during the Miner's Strike, I don't think it would have got...
• Commented on Cough Cough
  I will quote Wikipedia on the Irish Greens: "It has served in the Irish government once, from 2007 to 2011 as junior partner in a coalition with Fianna Fáil. The party suffered a wipeout in the February 2011 election, losing...
• Commented on Cough Cough
  Yes Greg, we're well aware colonialism is a go-to solution for when Britain has a population it finds awkward....
• Commented on Cough Cough
  Moz @416: Evidence please. I was referring to the extensive technology transfer (to use the polite term) program undertaken by the PRC government in cooperation with their industries, a program also executed by, among others, France and Israel. I am...
• Commented on So you think you can be a reality TV producer
  "Ambulatory acacia" is a hell of an evolutionary niche. :-)...
• Commented on So you think you can be a reality TV producer
  Yes, Fine Gael and Fine Fail still exist a century after Irish independence -- having outlived their original objective of Irish independence handily Which is likely more "horrible warning" than "source of hope" to the SNP - they were two...
• Commented on So you think you can be a reality TV producer
  Or you could read one of the many, many articles explicitly explaining the reasoning - consistent since the ban came in in 1997 - for it, instead of getting all conspiratorial. (TL;DR: different conceptions about food hygiene and animal treatment,...
• Commented on So you think you can be a reality TV producer
  we know how much profit e.g.Tesco makes (or doesn’t make, as the case may be) in a given year, but we don’t know (because Tesco aren’t required to report it) how that breaks down across their stores across the UK...
• Commented on So you think you can be a reality TV producer
  Also at least suggested - Mars One was going to fund itself by making a reality TV series of astronaut selection that would continue through the colony's founding. Is there a genre of "watching competence hit hard limits" reality tv?...
• Commented on So you think you can be a reality TV producer
  Also: it's been at least attempted - Michael Moore's TV Nation had a "CEO Challenge" segment. (The only one to rise to the challenge was the then-CEO of Ford, who changed the oil in an Explorer.)...
• Commented on Introducing Dead Lies Dreaming
  I'll get back to it, but it's thrown a *lot* of "huhs?" at me in the first few pages. It does that. It's very in media res - it just throws you into the Captain's head, and it'd be weird...