Or annexing Clare.

Again.

I stand corrected on who supported...

I think Catholics are ahead of them in the queue, but yes.

"The same article claims that the Enniskillen bomb killed six children. It didn’t; the youngest victim was 20. It claims that Bobby Sands was elected MP in 1981 with 30.4% of the vote. Given that there were only two candidates, this would have been mathematically impossible. In fact, Sands got 51.2% of the vote. In Grokipedia’s main article on Northern Ireland, it says that “on Bloody Sunday, paratroopers killed 14 civilians… initially depicted by some media as unprovoked, though evidence revealed IRA gunfire and nail bombs”. This is the opposite of the truth. Initially, there were claims by the Army that the victims were violent, but evidence disproved this. Other articles contain dangerous open-mindedness about murder. In an entry on loyalist assassin Michael Stone, it posits that “from a loyalist perspective, Stone’s Milltown raid was hailed as a bold tit-for-tat response to IRA aggression, enhancing his status as an icon of defiance and boosting morale among Protestant extremists” while “republican assessments, however, framed the attack as indiscriminate terrorism against civilians”. It claims that “mainstream reporting, while factually recounting events, occasionally reflects institutional biases favoring narratives of loyalist aggression”."

"At the heart of this technology is a black box into which questions go & out of which answers are given —but we’re not allowed to see what precisely goes on inside".

Sobering piece by @sjamcbride.bsky.social on how Musk's Grokopedia is rewriting knowledge
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This has stayed with me

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We're all here.

If all he ever wrote was Breaking Up Is Hard to Do, etc etc etc

Well now fuckit.
Neil Sedaka.

THERE was a man who could write a fucking tune and a half

Absolutely - Calum Gilhooley (Booking a Flight) YouTube video by stancoftest

Best Absolutely sketch?

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Irish Independent: Man stole three coffee machines in a week from Monaghan department store.

How does he sleep at night?

Exactly this.

The Housemartins were better, of course

Same here.

Adult section of library and my dad would just give me Jack Higgins, Frederick Forsyth and James Herriott books to read.

There may have been effing, blindin', killing and ridin' in them but as long as I was reading something we were both happy.

Reginald Perrin anarchy sketch DVD quality YouTube video by mitsymagicful

I think they're listed by Reggie here.... youtu.be/Xb82v7wh1Fw?...

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But do Revenue is, I suppose, the question we'd really love answered!

There's a house outside athlone looks just like that, owned by a fella who *definitely* does, ahem, cash-based work.

Same with my dad with emails thirty years ago. Date and address at the start and then "Dear..."

'in memory of my late father' isn't the reason you get ashes on Ash Wednesday, and if Fionnan doesn't know that, he deserves to be Catholic Shamed.

Just not the way it thinks.

Toilet roll in the fridge now!

Probably not too impressed with Captain VonTrapp failing to take command of his boat in The Sound of Music as well.

"why do you all have seven fingers?"

He had a joke in his stump speeches about how, if he were to walk on water, the headlines the next day would read “Jesse Jackson Can’t Swim”

I see Springsteen has named his new tour 'No Kings'.

And still there'll be lads in the comments telling him to ditch the politics.

This needs to be a Viz strip

Bicycle Racist

"in thirty years time, a bloke I know on the Internet will tell me that he used to think that Catatonia was the Latin for Wales...'

Yes. There was, no doubt, some fucking awful shit in the charts in 1966 as well.

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I keep getting old smash hits singles review pages chucked at me on FB and far as I can tell, it was an eighties problem as well.

Maybe it's an always problem. Mind you, check out 1966

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