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The last 8 posts on this thread form a beautiful example of how a paraphrase of something that someone thought they heard, can then be turned into a direct quote and used against the speaker.
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The last 8 posts on this thread form a beautiful example of how a paraphrase of something that someone thought they heard, can then be turned into a direct quote and used against the speaker.
The child is just scared about the future. She has grown up (thus far) in a democratic land, blessed by certain freedoms. She fears that those liberties she has taken for granted may now be in jeopardy. The clouds are storm clouds, very much like the storm clouds that gathered over Europe in 1939.
1916 was when democracy started in Ireland, which had previously been run by protestants but would thenceforth be run by democrats.
referendums are some craic all the same.
Here here - I'd be up for more of them!Froog - referendums are some craic all the same.
I didn't want to misquote, but that was definitely what was expressed and i am 99% confident it came from Gormley. It shocked me (it shouldn't really) that someone would say something so provocative and potentially damaging when being made vote again is such a hot topic, so i was wondering had anyone else heard it.
.... not that a simple quote like that should change peoples mind on such a big decision whether i say it, he says it or anyone else says it.
Someone carry with something more meaningful than my pedantic arguments ...
Ha I'm a Chinese whisper initiator or something - no the point is fair enough I guess and I've done enough pendentary me self over the years to admit it!Hugh - your Gormley "quote" was then "quoted" as an actual quote by Krossie.
Yeah, I am surprised that Gormley would say such a thing also, if for no other reason than I would have thought he would have more sense. But I can imagine a context in an interview in which he would end up saying something like this, or even exactly like this, which, when taken out of that context, gives a meaning or impression that may be different to what was intended.
I agree totally. But, I fear that for many people that may not be the case. I suppose I am amused by the fact that even though you flagged the fact that you were paraphrasing something that you were only half-listening to, your Gormley "quote" was then "quoted" as an actual quote by Krossie.
God, I'm rambling here and really not meaning to be having a go at either of you. Someone carry with something more meaningful than my pedantic arguments ...
at least neither coir or libertas had a poster where someone held a shotgun to the irish flag with the slogan "vote no or ireland get's it"
maybe more a sinn fein poster?
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I dunno - Libertas should have a slogan "Keep power with the irish politicians we hate."
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