@rogerokeeffe
Shooting the breeze on Irish, EU and world affairs, history, language(s). #speirgorm A bit of a pedant, advocate of colonic irrigation of sentences. Location: 🇺🇸 shitshow to the left of us< 🇮🇪 > 🇬🇧 shitshow to the right
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Leavitt confirms that the current "ballpark" total of US soldiers injured fighting Iran is 150
The Covent Garden of Daisies.
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Any excuse is good enough to share a video these two spellbinding lads.
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The internet has been telling me for several years that it's from the French "allô", supposedly a phonetic spelling of "à l'eau!" which people who wanted to cross a river would call out to summon the ferryman.
I am extremely sceptical.
You sure? I thought he said "Ahoy" on his first call - which is the greeting still used in Slovakia.
"An electoral system should do two things: ensure that the majority rules and that significant minorities are adequately represented. First past the post achieves neither." www.ft.com/content/38d8...
Tr: "I don't know: ask Miller."
Definitely not a normal country for our era.
That crusader tattoo must be showing through his shirt.
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The Bartered Bride's Favourite
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I had some hesitation about pitching this one 😉:
The Rambling Tuning-fork.
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Rodney's Gloria.
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Could someone explain to me why they are chasing after foreign capital (i.e. courting a new class of absentee landlords) when there's all this Irish capital dwindling in real value in the Irish banks?
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Two veteran journalists produced a documentary that showed evidence of war crimes in Gaza. But the BBC refused to air the film.
This week, our friends at @revealnews.org tell you the story of the film that the BBC didn't want you to see.
"Korea!"
The talk out of him is increasingly kinetic, isn't it?
And I went up there, I said, "Shrink, I want to kill. I mean, I wanna, I wanna kill. Kill. I wanna, I wanna see, I wanna see blood and gore and guts and veins in my teeth. Eat dead burnt bodies. I mean kill, Kill, KILL, KILL." And I started jumpin up and down yelling, "KILL, KILL, " and he started jumpin up and down with me and we was both jumping up and down yelling, "KILL, KILL." And the sargent came over, pinned a medal on me, sent me down the hall, said, "You're our boy."
Whenever I see Pete Call of Duty incel Hegseth speak I think of this passage in Alice’s Restaurant.
Good Lord! I would have just assumed you would be familiar with "peppercorn rent".
"Pudeur" I know in French, but it would seem exceedingly recherché to use it in English.
As I try to point out in my forthcoming piece for the print edition of Byline Times, Trump’s Christian Zionists are actually deeply antisemitic. They want Jews to provoke the Second Coming by fighting Muslims, and then they will be damned in the ‘rapture’ if they don’t convert
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New MP Hannah Spencer was given a police escort after an anti-hate demonstration turned violent. The Green Party MP had made a speech at the Greater Together Manchester event on Sunday afternoon in Piccadilly Gardens.
I try very hard not to use the word Orwellian too much but it’s the best adjective for the mauling of language at the start of this BBC News report. “… an anti-hate demonstration that turned violent”. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
"He wants to be very constructive" -- moments after announcing that he's taking sanctions off Russia without mentioning Russia by name, Trump says "I had a very good call with President Putin" today
Esta es la portada de Tehran Times de hoy con imágenes de niños asesinados por EEUU en una escuela de Minab.
Reminds me of that old T-shirt "Adolf Hitler European Tour 1939-1945" showing a list of city names including "Moscow - cancelled". 😃
Why does the State even waste money contesting a case like this?
I reacted to one post without realising how funny the whole thread is. 😅
"Jews don't belong in American society."
Imagine a sitting member of Congress tweeting that. You can't. Thankfully, it'd never happen. And *if* it did, it'd be the end of their career and the biggest story in America.
But Ogles can say this about Muslims without any censure.
Tweet from matt (@mattxiv): using the passive "dead" and the active "killed" in the SAME HEADLINE is absolutely diabolical Quoted tweet from Sky News (@SkyNews): Latest attacks in Lebanon leave nearly 400 dead as two Israeli soldiers killed trib.al/xORAqhP
Like at this point it’s no secret to the people writing these headlines that this kind of thing has been roundly criticized for years and years. It’s an intentional, conscientious decision on their part. They know they’re propagandists (and, for better or worse, we all are!).
