Comments on The Pensive Quill: Eegits

Helen, "I know the truth can hurt Robert so ...

2010-08-31T00:43:59.650+01:00

Helen,

"I know the truth can hurt Robert so I guess that's why you resorted to sarcasm"

Sarcasm has been described as the cream of wit. Depends how it is applied. That you derived some mirth from it indicates that its purpose was achieved. Your resentment is of your own making. Resentment, I have heard it said, is like swallowing poison and hoping the other person dies!

Robert, You are a witty one and your comment did ...

2010-08-30T04:46:14.736+01:00

Robert,

You are a witty one and your comment did make me laugh, but apparently AM's reply to you and my "bravo" remark to AM, must have hit home with you. I know the truth can hurt Robert so I guess that's why you resorted to sarcasm in your post to me. That's okay, though I think you should now chill out with a nice organge brew called 'Paddies Lie Down'. I think it would suit you.

Helen, "Bravo to your reply to Robert."...

2010-08-22T23:35:37.166+01:00

Helen,

"Bravo to your reply to Robert."

I often think comments like yours should, like wine, be accompanied with tasting notes. Accordingly I thik yours would go something like this:-

APPEARANCE & NOSE:- Distinctly fishy and immediately unappealing but a perfect marriage of green,white and orange.

PALATE AND FINISH:- There is nothing very complex about this. A distinctive bittersweet note with an over abundance of acidity. My hopes for the remainder of bottle aren't too high, but we will see... Not great with fine fayre but a great accompaniment to the Wolf Tones 'You'll Never Beat The Irish'

Aye Helen unfortunately what happens in America so...

2010-08-19T17:46:47.281+01:00

Aye Helen unfortunately what happens in America soon happens here on these islands,in the case of "dumming down" I think that has been with us a while,

marty, I agree with your assessment on Iraq. Som...

2010-08-19T17:01:56.076+01:00

marty,

I agree with your assessment on Iraq. Some people are stupid and believe everything they read and are told. Others I feel just don’t care or are just disinterested and only concern themselves with what's going on in their own lives, not realizing the domino affect that can take place by ignoring the suffering, injustices, and evilness that exit in the world today. However, as for some of the youth of this nation, I am convinced they are stupid. They haven’t caught on to how our government and our media are "dumbing down" America. Just take a look at all the “reality” shows and sitcoms on TV anymore. Pure, unadulterated trash. The youth of today can tell you more about the contestants on American Idol, or who got thrown out of “The Bad Girls Club”, “The Jersey Shore” and what new video Snoop Dog is appearing in, but they haven’t a clue as to who the Vice President of the United States is – DUH! I’m sure that young soldier was just so happy to be going home that he didn’t take the time to realize he was brain washed by the government to possibly believe in the statement he made.

I was watching the bbc news earlier,there was foot...

2010-08-19T13:43:58.799+01:00

I was watching the bbc news earlier,there was footage of American combat troops being withdrawn from Iraq,haging out of the back of a truck a combat soldier who was going home with his life and limbs intact was hysterically yelling "we won we brought democracy to Iraq"yip they hung Saddam but the insurgency continues unabated,the Taliban are as strong if not stronger than ever, and as for democracy can one call a puppet reime democratic, kinda reminds me of the eejits travelling up and down the falls in convoy waving tricolours and yelling "ya we won"and that other old eejit Cahill giving a fist in the air salute and telling all "we won" I asked myself at the time are people really that stupid? and today I asked myself that same question again!

Elliot, "Also there are roughly 4000 troops ...

2010-08-18T21:45:10.505+01:00

Elliot,

"Also there are roughly 4000 troops stationed in Northern Ireland"

4000 too many! And for what purpose?

AM, Bravo to your reply to Robert. well stated!

2010-08-18T21:35:28.102+01:00

AM,

Bravo to your reply to Robert. well stated!

Elliot, "Northern Ireland exists at the will...

2010-08-18T21:29:53.487+01:00

Elliot,

"Northern Ireland exists at the will of the majority of its inhabitants, that's how it came about, that's how it was when the troubles started and that is how it will end. - WRONG!

You forget that the north of Ireland exits ONLY because its borders were illegally gerrymandered by the Brits in order to ensure that "majority vote". Donegal is the furthest northern county in NI - so you tell me how it wound up as part of the south of Ireland?

Talking of eejits,everyone seems to be wondering w...

2010-08-17T19:08:12.965+01:00

Talking of eejits,everyone seems to be wondering why muslim terrorists are so quick to commit suicide, lets have a look shall we....No Christmas-No television-No naked women-No football-No pork bbq-No hotdogs-No burgers-No beer-rags for clothes and towels for hats,constant wailing from the guys in the towers,more than one wife,you cant shave,your wife cant shave,you cant wash of the smell of donkey cooking over camel shit,your wife is picked by someone else,she smells worse than your donkey.Then they tell you when you die it all gets better.....it couldnt get any f##kin worse could it

Liked that Alfie well said,and as you rightly say ...

2010-08-17T17:07:55.449+01:00

Liked that Alfie well said,and as you rightly say if one was to follow the logic,some of the shires in England will soon become muslim states.

Elliot, Ireland was implicitly recognised as a cou...

2010-08-17T16:25:02.013+01:00

Elliot, Ireland was implicitly recognised as a country within the United Kingdom, though it was never formally constituted as such; it was clearly not a seamless and inextricable part of the UK in the way that, for example, London is of England. Indeed, the idea of Ireland being a country occurs even in the Act of Union 1800. And anyway, Ireland - as a whole - was co-opted forcibly into the Union to begin with. So the idea of Ireland as a nation or country had precedence. However, the partition of Ireland was a violation of the principle of national self-determination, as Ireland was a multiethnic whole; there was no credible border between Catholics and Protestants; and creating a Northern Ireland entity only stranded a larger percentage of Catholics (35%) under an alien sectarian administration than the percentage of Protestants in a united Ireland (26%). If you followed your logic fully, then you would support the right of counties with a nationalist majority, such as Tyrone and Armagh, to secede from Northern Ireland. Countries should have the right to secede; counties or cities or enclaves should not.

Poor Elliot - like the moth to the flame

2010-08-15T21:08:06.753+01:00

Poor Elliot - like the moth to the flame

Anthony I suppose it was rather nasty of me to po...

2010-08-15T20:51:28.783+01:00

Anthony

I suppose it was rather nasty of me to point out double standards like that, I'll leave you to your hypocrisy.

Michaelhenry, that's very true about the ope...

2010-08-15T18:33:26.589+01:00

Michaelhenry,

that's very true about the operational cabability of the IRA in that period which the current IRAs are incapable of attaining and which further underlines the futility of their campaign. Against that there was a large number of volunteers lost in fatalities. Same thing would happen if the current lot upped the military ante. The longer an armed conflict goes on the greater the ease with which the opposition can penetrate. I know we will disagree on this but in my view if the military might of the Provisional IRA could only secure the situation that pertains today - far short of anything anybodydied for or went to prison to achieve - then the current IRAs have no chance whatsoever of bettering it.

Elliot, sarcasm. Always used sparingly. It's...

2010-08-15T16:41:42.590+01:00

Elliot,

sarcasm. Always used sparingly. It's like an anti-nasty spray. Works wonders. Ever see the video Priest Off? Does the same sort of thing as the spray there.

Anthony I'll concede defeat, your masterful r...

2010-08-15T16:10:59.434+01:00

Anthony

I'll concede defeat, your masterful reparté betters any substantive response you could have made. Who needs logic when you have sarcasm?

Nostalgia I miss the Helicopters and those wee gre...

2010-08-15T05:49:31.076+01:00

Nostalgia I miss the Helicopters and those wee green men wandering around with their funny accents.

Interesting news I was completely unaware of “Norn Irish Air Space” complicated as the British Army won the ground war yet lost the Air war?
Maybe you are taking that wee song Sam Missiles in the Sky to the close encounters of the absurd kind.

Evidently you underestimate the British Military and technology “Stealth” maybe one day when you are up in Irish Air Space in your hot air Balloon you might come across an Ariel Unmanned Drone. Far cheaper than Helicopters plus unlike humans they don’t suffer from boredom or fatigue.

A soldier is a soldier, until he or she leaves the army you make the case that a Provo attack on soldiers is different from a Dissident attack yet they both have the same objective.
Ryan put you in checkmate bailing out there would have been the wiser move.
You make it sound like an entertaining sporting event between the Provos and the Dissidents.

Not to rain on your private parade “They” (Won) and have not gone away and shall remain for the foreseeable future.

Slán mo chara

AM- crappy under car bombs, or bad men, or bad wom...

2010-08-14T22:00:55.597+01:00

AM- crappy under car bombs, or bad men, or bad women, or just sneeky
brits being bad again,

you tell the truth about the number of mistakes from late 87
into 89, but in that period 46 british soldiers were killed, about half were armed when they met their maker, 22 cops plus 16 u.d.r were also killed in this time
frame, with no exect dates, i can not give exact figures.

some loylist members were also executed in this period,
no dissident groups have ever killed a loyalist in their 24 years
that must be why they are hardline.

good elliot, we are now down to 4000 troops, kept ...

2010-08-14T21:40:05.332+01:00

good elliot, we are now down to 4000 troops, kept in the barracks
untill all the barracks come down,
that will disappoint eirigi, who said last year that the number would never go below 5ooo, then the r.a.f pulled out,
not to be out-done eirigi have said that they will protest untill
the last brit soldier leaves, bless
their little socks.

have to say again ryan, for facts
sake, that the dissidents have never killed any armed brit soldiers in there 24 years,
those two who were killed at
massereene were unarmed by degree,
and were protected by civillian guards, the armed choppers were also removed,
some will say that a brit is a brit
others say that the dissidents are traitors for fighting in a cusy
environment,
no dissident group killed any british soldiers or any cops whilst the armed british army was on our streets.

Then I apoligise Robert, like the man sitting at t...

2010-08-14T20:13:01.530+01:00

Then I apoligise Robert, like the man sitting at the bar,staring into his pint, he sighed heavily,"whats up Dan" said the barman "its not like you to be so down in the mouth"..."Its my four year old son, the little f##ker has got our next door neighbour pregant" "get away thats impossible" said the barman.."its not said the man"...."The wee f##ker stuck a pin in all my condoms".....thought for the day.....Who picks up a guide dogs shit!!!!!!

Marty, You see a glass house were none exists. T...

2010-08-14T19:48:24.300+01:00

Marty,

You see a glass house were none exists.
There were many actions carried out in the name of Loyalism that I would and could never condone.

Michaelhenry-what about those soldiers killed last...

2010-08-14T18:48:56.505+01:00

Michaelhenry-what about those soldiers killed last year? Who were they members of the sisters of charity mission? Were they not armed soldiers killed by dissident republicans? Or from the great leader's standpoint they were traitors who must be informed upon and put in prison.

Ryan, there are reasons other than Uncle Tom one...

2010-08-14T18:38:42.085+01:00

Ryan,

there are reasons other than Uncle Tom ones for people having opposed the armed campaign of the Provisional IRA. Some people displayed immense courage in standing up to us.

Michaelhenry, interesting point about the three ...

2010-08-14T18:33:39.575+01:00

Michaelhenry,

interesting point about the three bombs dropping off. Bad magnets or bad men?

But in our day day we actually had a worse run - from the end of 87until into 89 there was a serious amount of mistakes where civilians were killed in operation after operation. Like you today, people then were asking similar questions.