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    And wow, PBP actually campaigned for Brexit? Fucking wankstains.

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      Originally posted by Lang Spoon View Post
      And wow, PBP actually campaigned for Brexit? Fucking wankstains.
      Yeah both the SP and PBP supported a "Leave" vote. The pricks. (The "Solidarity" bit of Solidarity - People Before Profit is the SP. Which is no longer linked to the SP in England and Wales).

      What was the Irish SWP renamed itself the Socialist Workers Network in 2018, I think. And doesn't seem do anything under its own name now as far as I can see. But is still linked to the rump-SWP in Britain.
      Last edited by DCI Harry Batt; 30-10-2021, 22:28.

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        You can really only tell the PBP/SWP continuum by the shitey typeface of some of the placards being the same as U.K. Swappies when RBB's mob are leafleting on O'Connell st or trying to infiltrate a worthy protest somewhere. Those lads are all about the front movements.

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          Seánie Fitzpatrick, the former CEO of Anglo-Irish Bank, which precipitated the 2008 domestic crash, has died aged 73.

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            Good riddance, should have died in prison.

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              Just like that other gangster named Sean who is still acting like a early mediavel chieftain to the yahoos up the N3.

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                Originally posted by Discordant Resonance View Post
                The nuclear lobby, will it ever fuck off.

                Ireland has no uranium and nowhere to store the waste. And you just know that some cowboy builder with links to FF will end up getting the contract and there will be cracks in the containment vessel before the thing even opens.

                Ireland is literally made of wind. Denmark has less wind than Ireland and is powering itself 50% by wind, and is on course to hit 85% by 2035.

                Ireland is already at 35% energy from wind, so just keep going on that road.

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                  Also dying today, Austin Currie, who was a leading civil rights campaigner and one of the founders of the SDLP:

                  https://twitter.com/aoifegracemoore/status/1458176425278779393

                  One of his most noted actions was a 1969 sit-in in Caledon, Co. Tyrone, over sectarianism in the allocation of housing, though best to draw a veil over the 1990 presidential election in his twilight years.

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                    Originally posted by Discordant Resonance View Post
                    Also dying today, Austin Currie, who was a leading civil rights campaigner and one of the founders of the SDLP:

                    https://twitter.com/aoifegracemoore/status/1458176425278779393

                    One of his most noted actions was a 1969 sit-in in Caledon, Co. Tyrone, over sectarianism in the allocation of housing, though best to draw a veil over the 1990 presidential election in his twilight years.
                    He was only 51 when he went for the presidency.

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                      Labour has reverted to Connolly's starry plough, though the contrast between the current party and the one that last used it in the Eighties is rather stark:

                      https://twitter.com/electionlit/status/1459260257339850758

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                        The bottom one here looks like someone's punching you with a rose.
                        https://twitter.com/electionlit/status/1459265048791113741

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                          I always associate that with Mitterand's PS

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                            I think it's the lines to the right.
                            To me the Parti Socialiste one looks more like someone's handing you a rose.

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                              My god those are so terrible. That said, we weren't exactly a haven of design best practice at the time.

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                                Rte went full on transformers in the 1980s

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                                  Fucking hell, I'm guessing my whatever barely sentient nephew of some board member who could hold a ruler was the Design Guy.

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                                    You don't get it LS, That's about as good as it got. This was not a visual culture.

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                                      Shot yer bolt in the 9th century

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                                        Even that is an acquired taste



                                        This is apparently a cat. We have a framed black and white image of this somewhere. I never really warmed to it. I always much preferred the poem Pangur ban written by a monk in the margin of a 9th century missal.

                                        https://www.poetrynook.com/poem/pangur-b%C3%A1n
                                        Last edited by The Awesome Berbaslug!!!; 14-11-2021, 18:18.

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                                          They weren't trying to draw cats in a realistic style though, this was a deliberate way of illustrating, possibly heavily influenced by Pictish stone carvings, which definitely fed into Irish/"Scots" High Crosses. I fucking love the what the fuck is this "Pictish beastie" found on the reverse of cross slabs all over Pictish Scotland, and which might have been a marker of a kin group, or maybe not:

                                          Last edited by Lang Spoon; 14-11-2021, 18:28.

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                                            The only thing that comes to mind is a sea horse, or a truly outstanding crop of mushrooms.

                                            There's a bunch of depictions of cats in the book of Kells, and no two are remotely the same. I don't think they were massively concerned with realism.
                                            Last edited by The Awesome Berbaslug!!!; 14-11-2021, 18:34.

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                                              Originally posted by Lang Spoon View Post
                                              They weren't trying to draw cats in a realistic style though, this was a deliberate way of illustrating, possibly heavily influenced by Pictish stone carvings, which definitely fed into Irish/"Scots" High Crosses. I fucking love the what the fuck is this "Pictish beastie" found on the reverse of cross slabs all over Pictish Scotland, and which might have been a marker of a kin group, or maybe not:


                                              I'm fairly sure that's a depiction of that rare, mythical beast that's half-duck, half-flintlock pistol.

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                                                Originally posted by The Awesome Berbaslug!!! View Post
                                                in the book of Kells...I don't think they were massively concerned with realism.
                                                And that is different from any other religious tract how?

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                                                  Well it's full of drawings of cats, for a start

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                                                    Can they get to 50%?

                                                    https://twitter.com/ToghannEire/status/1460283120947716098?s=20

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