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Thats sounds like brilliant history there mate, if you get a minute I’d love to read more. However, your sentence there about middle class farmers were as much to blame made me think of these modern day landlord renting out buildings for IPAS centres…..betraying their own for some coin. It’s why history is brilliant because there is nothing new in this world.
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That’s right, I was generalising a bit in my original post but yes, it wasn’t actually the king of England at all to start with was it…..he only got interested after. And I also read that when it came to Henry VIII some Anglo Irish lords stood against him. Its a brilliant subject mate, all the little twists and turns of politics and law that eventually lead to a situation where something like the hunger can happen and is allowed to happen.
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You can see what she means herself in the villages and towns mate, there’s a town near me, it’s Main Street as you approach the gates to the manors house and estate is a Georgian masterpiece……but there are empty and derelict places everywhere same as a lot of other towns. I read the actual effect was in total an almost 50 or 60 % reduction in the population of the country !
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Ahh, it’s a conversation that’s been done to death on here lads and I’m sure it’s the last thing on poor BHs mind……we all know the reality’s. Its one of the reasons the east of Europe is setting its stall out to attract young professionals who can work in the digital economy, I think over time that’s the direction our brightest and best, who retain a sense of what a nice European country should look like, will head. Bottom line is, like all of us, the bloke just wants to live his life in peace in his homeland and not be prey to circumstances he didn’t want and didn’t ask for…..not t
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Great Wolf is what the Apaches know me as !
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What nobody has said in this whole conversation is that isn’t it f***ing atrocious that this is England we are talking about…..I mean just stop for a second and think about that ! Not Texas or South Africa or Rhodesia or Mexico or Guatamala……middle f***ing England ! It’s perverse and disgusting and horrific and heartbreaking all in equal measure…..if you happen this week to relate this tragic tale to someone at work or in passing and they say “Well, that’s just how it is now” please…..please, please, please bang their f***ing head against the nearest wall !!
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100% understood mate. I taught my wife how to load and use my guns for that exact reason. You are in the lucky position to be a gun owner, take advantage of that. Obviously the best thing they can do is get out and run to a neighbour, but if they can’t then it’s an Alamo mentality. Fact is, we shouldn’t even be having this conversation should we….i mean we ain’t settler farmers in Rhodesia but that’s where we are at. Horrible mate, I suppose you will get all sorts of advice but ultimately you have to do what feels most comfortable to you.
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Good locks in your doors and windows and an alarm system buys you the time to get access to the tools to defend your family mate. Stall these people and have access to your guns, that’s the best protection you have. jmho
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For what it’s worth, the oldest and most practical methods like a baseball bat and a bayonet by the bed, keeping your gun cabinet and some ammo in your bedroom are the most you can do. A dog is almost useless in reality, it’s as much of a deterrent as an alarm box on the wall. A family home isn’t like a scrap yard where you can leave beasts of dogs just running loose, you can’t have dogs like that round a family home. Some of these gangs will torture the life out of you if they get in, happened to a few young family’s round my old way, you just have to be prepared to do them in
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First and foremost, I’m deeply sorry to read this mate…..I hope you and your family are not too shaken up, I know you were away (thank god) but all the same it’s a terrible thing for a family to have to deal with. I regret to inform you that before I moved this had become just a common thing. In the incidents that happened round me not all of the family’s were away, in fact people being there don’t bother these animals one little bit…..just be thankful you were away because plenty round my old way were brutalised in the most hideous way. Im not trying to make a bad situation worse
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I don’t think there is any getting from the fact that if the McCanns had been a family off of some council estate they would be in prison ! …….horrible pair of b*****ds !
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At the risk of causing a groan, when you visit the home nations and see how people who are basically the same people effect home nations differently to the indigenous people you can clearly see how a place shapes it’s people character…..you often hear or the hardy Scot’s or the relaxed Irish and it’s true because those lands make you that way…..that’s how you know that when they say “anyone can be British” it’s bollocks. We are special and unique and yet, as a whole sum of parts, mighty……amazing history of amazing people. We don’t appreciate ourselves nearly enough
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We prefer to call it liberating pallets from republican captivity pal ! lol Joking aside, I’m sure you’ve been seeing that all your life, I doubt it shocks you that much anymore mate.
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As I said before mate, the history of Ireland and its relationship with England and Scotland which eventually ends up at the hunger and beyond is a brilliantly interesting subject, it ranges to Scotland and leads into the history of the clans and the border revers which I’m not that up on. My pal @THE STIFFMEISTER has an incredible knowledge of the history of the borders and Scotland and how that led clans and warlords to Ulster…..which all ties in again. Our shared history of these isles, for good and bad, is second to none in my opinion.
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To be fair mate, that’s not the sole preserve of the RUC, all cozzers are or used to be at that.
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A million dead and a million had to emigrate…..you don’t forget that in a hurry mate
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I bet you don’t give up ? lol
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Mate, it’s a national pastime…..there’s a whole museum near me devoted to it, there’s walks you can follow that trace the routes peasants took to the docks and so to the coffin ships, like a hundred mile pathways…..in a way I quiet like it that they are so connected to their history. Have a look for the big graveyard, I think it’s cork way, there’s like a whole town buried in a massive pit in the middle of this ordinary local graveyard…..I’ll try and find what it’s called. When you learn about it all you understand why it’s a big deal.
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Nowhere else on planet earth will you get this kind of laser-esque assessment of geo politics…..! lol
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Sorry mate, sometimes I forget my audience ! lol
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Amazing ! lol
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In the word of Alan Partridge: ”If they could afford to emigrate they could afford to eat at a modest restaurant and you will pay the price for being a fussy eater” A joke before anyone go's mental but a perfectly English joke…..written by the son of Irish immigrants !
