Why would any **** go pay respects to someone they didnt know It's the same when a footballer dies and people turn up at the stadium to leave scarves and flowers. Leave the family to grieve for **** sake. You may think the attack was horrific or justfified - depending on your political/moral slant - but you can debate that without getting involved in faux grief for a stranger.
I'm not talking about general respect, of course I respect people I have just encountered. My Ma would slap my face otherwise.
If they can match the mighty London. Them, Mayo or Dublin. Jim McGuinness has a great team around him. Not only does he have them thinking they are bulletproof he is able to react to what is happening in the game miles quicker than anyone else. TSG was some craic last night. War on the Sligo manager. I couldn't imagine that on match of the day.
Just a quick read through the existing threads on GC and any would be mope mongering attention whore would see where this thread was headed.
It's like 'care in the community' so you should be proud of yourself that you're providing a outlet and minding us!
I can't say I felt much at all about the death of Lee Rigby at the time - I filed it away with all the other high profile mental things that individuals have done to others over the last few years, the likes of shooting people waiting to watch Batman - or the various school shootings in America. It's not that I am indifferent to these things, it is just that I am desensitised to it - there was a terrorist attack in Belfast on Friday night http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-22664580 - nobody really cares because it is Belfast, we're used to these things, Britain certainly doesn't care, it doesn't even make the national news. Anyway what has annoyed me since this attack is the predictable reaction from the usual groups. The more dim among us are now coming out with the standard "this is OUR country!" nonsense, the surreptitious conscription of everyone into an "us" - and "we" are all against "them". If they want to live in "our" country they have be more like "us". The irony of course is that these terrorists behave like the "us" in this case, in that they are intolerant of people who have a different culture or religion to their own. For me the "them" should be the stupid and the credulous and those who wish to coerce others into behaving and thinking like them - I'd group the Islamic terrorists and the EDL type chavs together in this regard.
