This is actually news to me, ignorant southerner that I am, i thought the argument was only about the town itself.
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This is actually news to me, ignorant southerner that I am, i thought the argument was only about the town itself.
Any excuseThis is actually news to me, ignorant southerner that I am, i thought the argument was only about the town itself.
this was news to me:
This is actually news to me, ignorant southerner that I am, i thought the argument was only about the town itself.
I am not a smart man, but I do not get that at allthis was news to me:
"Unlike with the city however, there has never been a County Derry."
the brits invented the counties as the currently stand though in the first place - it was transferring the english administrative system onto the incrementally conquered Ireland.You'd forget how long they've been there all the same
Plantagenets and so on
Pre-dating the formation of many counties
Hoors
A fucking shocking state of affairs when you think about itthe brits invented the counties as the currently stand though in the first place - it was transferring the english administrative system onto the incrementally conquered Ireland.
The true gael would have to truck with counties. Tuath was where it was at.
Oh man, two things I think about a lot:
You got a good 'un thereMy missus' ma is Russian, though her whole family is staunchly anti-roosky.
You got a good 'un there
Was listening to this report this morning - while searching for stuff about the monument coming down - it's from the Terehova check point in Latvia to get into Russia
They mention the non-citizens, but it seems plenty of them like it that way. The non-citizen passport gets them in to Schengen without a visa. Their kids are choosing to be non-citizens too.
Those Russians that came over with the Soviet occupation sound stuck in a way; completely unwilling to adapt to Latvian society, and kind of not wanted by Russia all that much.
Obviously this is vox-pop from people stuck in trucks and cars. Some cranky fuckers and a heartbreaking story about a mother searching for her son.
But illuminating for a place I don't know all that much about.
Jees, the power of propaganda to break a brainI was out walking here in the city I'm in (Valmiera), this morning. Its about 100 miles from the Russian border, or less even. There was an old lady in front of us and, as we were walking faster than her, we caught up with her. There were a few lads in a van working on repairing some road damage and there was music playing. I didn't know what music it was, and assumed it was coming from the van. But it wasn't. The old lady was carrying a transistor radio and was blaring it loudly. We noticed the workman looking strangely at her and, when we caught up, we realised why. The music was Russian propoganda music, and she had a russian ribbon around her hat. We popped into the shop and left her go her own way. When we came out of the shop we saw her across the street walking in amongst a bunch of old people, clearly trying to antagonise them. But no one paid a blind bit of heed to her so she walked on. When we passed her again she was punching the air to whatever song was playing (yeah, I know, clearly very mentally ill). We passed her and walked on. A short time later we crossed a bridge over the big river in this city, and heard some shouting behind us. It was clearly something to do with the old lady so we walked back to see. Some guy in, maybe his 50s or 60s (old enough to have done his compulsory stint in the soviet army), was shouting at her saying she was disrepecting her country's history by carrying on as she was. He didn't get physical, said his piece and moved on. As did we. But I fear for that old lady. She'll rub someone up the wrong way and they'll land her back on her soviet arse.
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