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As a Leftie you expect the state to put it right for you. Ha!
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This is what comes of having no commitment to individual responsibility and personal excellence.
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By the way, one could argue that many, if not indeed most, US troops were indeed brave, without in any sense agreeing with the political and military goals set for them. So it’s a bit diversionary to...
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Or hygiene in my case. Just kidding. You hope.
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Mark, you do; that’s a fact and no amount of ranting will ever erase it. Every European Liberal, neo-con, conversative, fascist etc owes his or her ‘freedom’ to the Red Army and the Soviet Union. It’s...
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That’s brilliant, Fergal. Clearly the solution is to put the role of ‘Irish rich bastart sorry wealth creator’ out to public tender. This section of the market clearly needs re-vitalising and be...
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And my proof-reading needs to be put out to public tender as well.
View ArticleComment on From Spain: 7th January by Rot Peter der Affe
Happy gardening – I kind of miss our garden back in Ireland. Balcony cultivation isn’t quite the same. How are you for water in summer? That’s the key. What you say chimes with what I’ve heard from...
View ArticleComment on Sunday Independent Stupid Statement of the Week by Rot Peter der Affe
In reverse sentiment to HG Wells and bicycles, one of the advantages of exile is that one is spared that despair for the human race every time you see a grown up reading the Irish Independent.
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How are you for water in summer? That’s the key. Good – there’s a connection to the water supply. Otherwise we couldn’t grow a thing.
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There’s also something to be said for not being able to understand all the stupid things you can hear people saying.
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There's a really interesting <a href="http://www.irishleftreview.org/2013/01/11/translation-mareas-trade-unionism/" rel="nofollow">piece over on the Irish Left Review</a> about the Mareas...
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Wasn’t this called ‘Smile Or Die’ in a previous incarnation? If so, I’d recommend it – think of it as an antidote to ‘The Best Is Yet To Come’.
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That hail mary was a real sickener, Yourcousin.
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Sorry, should have said “The people who set up Apartheid South Africa didn’t stand beside the Allies”.
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OK, you’re right, I didn’t realise that the National Party had opposed South African participation. However, it’s clear that the South African government at the time of WWII was racist and I could ask...
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Its up to the individual to decide on what kind of gratitude to feel to the USSR for its role in the defeat of the Nazis. Its an acknowledged fact however that the German army was fundementally...
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Eddie. You couldn’t ask that question about the South African government because they contributed very little to the overall victory. The Soviet Union, on the other hand, contributed more than anyone...
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