Off Topic Politics Thread

They’d like to bring back burning witches as well mind...

 

They would need to recruit a new leader if they did that.

 

Dangerous woman. However. I did watch an interview with her once that told me something I hadn’t know about her. Her father was shot and seriously injured in an attempted murder due to his RUC involvement and she herself was on the school bus bombed by the IRA. Now this doesn’t make me condone some of her views, but it does make me see why she is so hardline.

I doubt her underlying feelings can ever be changed.

 

Slightly at a tangent, but I watched a brilliant documentary last night where the former Ireland rugby captain Brian O’Driscoll tried to find out how, throughout the fight for Home Rule, partition, civil war, and the Troubles, Ireland managed to stay united in one thing only, its national rugby team. He talked to former players, some of them fairly staunch Republicans or Loyalists, and they all said that the differences weren’t forgotten or not talked about while the players were together, they were just put aside for the sake of the team. Donal Lenihan, the captain during the 1980’s, had a grandfather who fought during the Easter Rising, and he used to share a room with a player who was a member of the RUC. Some very moving moments, including the part about 3 players on their way south to Dublin for training being accidentally involved in a roadside bombing of a judge’s car in 1987. The judge and his wife were killed, but fortunately the 3 players survived. One, Nigel Carr, missed the first World Cup because of his injuries but remains very philosophical about the whole thing.

Well worth watching if you can find it, it was a BT production called Shoulder to Shoulder, a line from the anthem used by the IRFU.

 

Thanks Chilcs, sounds good. I’ll look it up as I’m fascinated by a lot of the Irish history.

 

Repeated tonight at 7:45 on BT Sports 2.

 

I ditched BT sport.... and ditching Sky this weekend too.

 

Are you missing it? I had dreams of watching loads of Ligue Un/2.Bundesliga etc but I never do. I am getting tempted away by Eleven Sports, but BT still have Euro football...for now...

 

No, I don’t watch anywhere near the football I used to. Sky is Over priced for the use we get from it.

When we do watch a series it is often BBC and I have Amazon Prime now and will get Netflix too, to replace Sky.

 

Ask No7 what he and I use .....basicly every channel you can think of for £45 for a year.

 

Probably add sorting that to my Christmas projects. I've been predicting the end of dodgy streams for a while but yesterday I watched a perfect English language feed of Estonia v Finland (I know). So in the end I'm just paying Sky/BT for moral reasons, and tbh there are probably more deserving charities to offset my crimes against.

 

Yep not just footie either - all the Sky Cinema etc and every US channel you can think of. Been perfect since I got it in August.

 

We may have to have a chat...

 

And me

Got NowTV at the moment.

 

Please keep me in the loop too, I’ll be finishing with BT soon when Truespeed get their act together.

 

That was my nickname at school. First in the sprints at 100m and 200m when I was around 14, and 20th in the mid-Warwickshire cross-country race in 1971. I was pretty speedy in those days.

 

But can you guarantee 200 MBS minimum upload and download?

 

Simple!! Just find that four-year old child that Groucho often sought when he had a technological problem.

 

Can you drop me a PM mate?

 

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