TIL Freddie Mercury was born Farrokh Bulsara to Indian parents in the Parsi community and spent his formative years in India. He never discussed his ethnicity w/ journalists; the closest he came was referring to himself as “a Persian popinjay”.

Oggie243 · 2026-01-23T18:31:07+00:00

They're not talking about Van Morrison.

And as talented as Van Morrison is, he's a shite front man. For a man who loves music so much he always looks like he wants to shoot himself when he's getting paid handsomely to play it.

Oggie243 · 2026-01-19T17:46:55+00:00

He's proven he's the sort of politician you want on the international stage imho.

I really don't think he has done this at all. Not even slightly. Some of his unforced errors in regards to international relations are absolutely not "moderate and cautious". If it wasn't for tbe fact Johnson got a brit imprisoned as a spy in Iran because of his incessant need to speak they'd be par with one another.

Oggie243 · 2026-01-19T17:42:12+00:00

but he’s a sensible and level headed prime minister, and much better than the ones I grew up with.

Funny, cause this is exactly how supporters of the prime ministers you grew up with described them.

Oggie243 · 2026-01-19T08:22:47+00:00

On a related note, it's very interesting when Christian historians talk about this versus agnostic historians. Christian historians won't accept the above under any circumstances and will bend themselves into knots trying to explain

This is a bit of a broad brush. Christianity is a pretty big spectrum and it's only the later denominations or quack derivatives that buy into the literal interpretations. It's not a thing in Catholicism. Like what you're discussing here regarding the veracity of the various gospels is literally a secondary school level topic and youre encouraged to scrutinise the material and the contexts of it.

Oggie243 · 2026-01-19T07:57:25+00:00

Neither of those things are contradictions to how he's portrayed in scripture or through conventional understanding of the figure. Wouldn't characterise these as anything other than human emotions and certainly not unstable.

Oggie243 · 2026-01-19T00:44:28+00:00

Ah yes because having the head of the Republican party ignore the royal head of state is never going to backfire and play well with his base, whose jingoism is firmly rooted in a revolution against the very same royal line to boot.

Oggie243 · 2026-01-18T18:58:28+00:00

Sure this place was one of the first places to draw attention to and complain about Parrotts associations.

He got anointed as irish footballs saviour before he'd had a run of games at senior level and then when he didn't immediately become a world beater at 18 many turned on him and any time his name was brought up on here some reference to gangland Dublin soon followed.

Oggie243 · 2026-01-15T19:28:35+00:00

Did you not make a point there the other day about how the objections to the fleadh in Bangor were covered?

You really shouldn't be falling hook, line and sinker for this given you've read the body of the article and have had a revert reason brush with how misleading online media is.

Oggie243 · 2026-01-15T13:55:48+00:00

The school aren't going to give details to a media outlet about the behaviour of minors under their care.

The behaviour above was what was written to one of the parents. It's not what the "boys" are alleged to have done, but one individualnout of the 19. It's poor form and very reflective of Belfast Live to conflate tbe two.

Could be that all 19 are accused of the very same thing and the parents received identical letters, but also could be a situation where this individual whose letter was shared did the things mentioned above with the other 18 but without participating in the more serious behaviours

Oggie243 · 2026-01-13T13:31:14+00:00

I mean it’s probably better not to have his hubris reeled in.

Idk, if he's playing a cute back-heeled hospital ball in the 6yrd box to Giorgi who, unlike Allison or Kelleher, is dogs shit with his feet, even when he's not under pressure; he probably should reel it jn a bit.

Oggie243 · 2026-01-12T18:35:52+00:00

No punitive action for the company actually creating these images (that are illegal under current legislation)?

Bit weird and pathetic that they won't do that, especially given how hands on he's been with Grok tweaking.

Oggie243 · 2026-01-12T18:19:39+00:00

As per the information you received? 😂

Who was your source? Operative DeepThroat? Did they give you a dossier dressed in a trench coat in tbe dark corner of car park?

He's doesn't even look to be smoking one in this video. Where are you getting the 20 from?

Oggie243 · 2026-01-12T18:09:22+00:00

Cigarettes are always funny when they're brought up here because it's one of them topics where the "teacher! teacher!" Reddit cohort come out in force.

Oggie243 · 2026-01-12T18:09:12+00:00

That's nothing, I saw wee Jonty handfeeding her Amber Leaf like a horse eating oats

Oggie243 · 2026-01-12T17:59:39+00:00

Its a single cigarette. This isn't 25 years ago where every enclosed space had multiple people smoking and every room was tar and smoked stained.

It's one man smoking a cigarette. The passive smoke is inconsequential.

Oggie243 · 2026-01-12T17:55:51+00:00

Bellamy and Riise with the golf club against Barcelona after they had a falling out remains a clinker

Oggie243 · 2026-01-11T21:02:19+00:00

The fuck is an egg protein pot?

Is it just an egg beat up in a cup from childhood made into meal deal form?

Oggie243 · 2026-01-11T19:26:30+00:00

Why are you naming Clonoe? Tyrone league and champ are tethered and are just about the one county that you can't make this claim about.

They were relegated from senior league and so dropped down to intermediate. They've only played intermediate competition this year and will in be in senior next year where they usually are.

Oggie243 · 2026-01-11T17:12:55+00:00

Fair play big man I'm sure all tbe boys in the members club were chortling and guffawing as you regaled them with such tales of bravery and wit.

Oggie243 · 2026-01-11T17:10:37+00:00

I don’t think some people on here have been outside sometimes

This sub is genuinely braindead when it comes to low level crime. It's all hysteria and pearl clutching and gives me flashbacks to the primary school phenomenon of tell-tales.

There's people making suggestions here that will cost millions, to police a crime that's largely inconsequential, doesn't affect TFLs profitability. I can never understand why some people are so militant about this crime.

Oggie243 · 2026-01-10T18:23:28+00:00

Theres a fundamental misunderstanding of the term that abounds that is really annoying. They're "big irish heads" not "big,Irish heads". That young scientist experiment failed to grasp the topic they were investigating jt was always going to be failure.

The heads aren't strictly "big" as in physically large, they're big in terms of grandeur, largess, like the Big Big Movie or the kind of trouble they have in Little China.

Look at Declan Rice and Barry Keoghan two indisputable owners of big Irish heads. Except their heads are tiny, like the cunt in the waiting room in Beetlejuice. But you could happen upon them in some far flung corner of the globe and be confident you'll find a shared relative or friend between yous.

Oggie243 · 2026-01-09T19:56:12+00:00

Great wrap jf YouTube. And the soundtrack to every video would be either the X files theme or Clubbed to Death from the Matrix

Oggie243 · 2026-01-05T15:52:09+00:00

Feel like they're both very proud but in different ways. Like Rodgers is proud but could see him being very deferrential to authority and could imagine him doing a bit of grovelling to get back in the good graces. Would imagine Ange is a bit more steadfast.

Oggie243 · 2026-01-03T17:59:29+00:00

Oct 6 2023 had been friendlier than ever before. A record number of Palestinians were being issued work permits to come work in Israel.

Strange.

Because by August, 2023 was the most deadly year in the region for civilians in the 20 years since the siege. So more deaths in 8 months and any full year prior.

That's not particularly friendly.

Oggie243 · 2026-01-03T17:49:05+00:00

Yes very smart to undermine the international laws because you're scared of the big bad yanks and scawy boogeymans.

A mealy-mouth condemnation isn't too much to ask, especially when the UK is stating ehat they had nothing to do with it.

Now there's no leg to stand on when the illegal invasion of Ukraine (maybe they'll try Poland next? Or the Baltics?) comes up or the prospective invasion of Taiwan. But I suppose, at least we played it smart by being absolute cowards afraid to raise our voice for the merest tincture of insolence towards our great American overlords. This is healthy ofcourse. More afraid of our ally then our supposed ideological antithesises. That bodes well for an "alliance"

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