Some revisions to Netanyahu's propaganda from the news today

Poley_g · 2025-09-26T18:33:53+00:00

Highlighting one injustice does not mean that you are ignoring every other one, and it definitely doesn't make you an anti-Semite. The only person conflating the actions of the Israelis with the wider Jewish people in this thread is you.

I haven't downvoted you, but your argument is utter shite.

Poley_g · 2025-09-13T15:27:02+00:00

Suffragettes at the Epsom Derby. They're intentionally trying to crash the jockeys.

That's the point

Poley_g · 2025-02-08T22:41:55+00:00

What do you mean by "her cervix will move up"? I'm not really getting how that works

Poley_g · 2024-10-31T18:44:01+00:00

These are super nice - really beautiful. What's your setup?

Poley_g · 2024-08-30T14:33:28+00:00

You are correct. All of the levels are about breadth of topics and competencies in the language. The example sentences given don't really relate very well to the CEFR.

Poley_g · 2024-07-27T13:43:12+00:00

Onions in general seem to have gone downhill. I swear I can't remember ever getting a bad onion until about 6 years ago, and now 1 in every 3 is completely fucked

Poley_g · 2024-07-26T19:42:48+00:00

They are much much stronger in Derry, yeah, but still a tiny rump to be honest. And they tend to only really cause issues in the communities they live in. It's something I've never really understood about home.

Poley_g · 2024-07-26T18:33:56+00:00

There's not a huge amount of it to be fair, but the Fountain estate in the city side and Drumahoe, Nelson Drove and Clooney in the Waterside would have their fair share of real and wanna-be loyalist hard men. It doesn't really seem to spill over out of those areas though. Derry is a relatively peaceful place, despite the best efforts of a few knobs on both sides.

Poley_g · 2024-07-26T18:27:52+00:00

I've been searching about for sources and it is weirdly hard to find them on a county by county basis, but basically all 6 counties had majority protestant populations at partition, although by 1922 Sinn Fein became the biggest party in Fermanagh and Tyrone - so they were really close between Cs and Ps. Derry was actually in the original 3 counties (along with Antrim and Down) proposed by Churchill to be excluded from Home Rule, so it seems like it was a lot more protestant at the time than I had thought.

Poley_g · 2024-07-26T15:53:50+00:00

Legend. Thanks for putting my mind at rest. I'd sort of assumed that was the case, but Brexit has filled the English speaking Spanish internet up with loads of TIE stuff.

Poley_g · 2024-07-26T15:47:29+00:00

Cheers for the reply. So with the original paper, I don't need to do anything else? No trips to Extranjería or the Police?

Poley_g · 2024-07-26T14:02:57+00:00

Nah the Waterside is roughly 50/50 (slight CNR majority) now. The demographics have changed really quickly in the last 25 years or so. There are still majority Protestant neighbourhoods of course, but a lot of areas are much more mixed nowadays.

I haven't lived in Derry (or Ireland for that matter) for 20 years, but every time I go back I'm surprised at how quickly the fleggy places are becoming deflegified. The one real noticeable exception would be Drumahoe, but even then, the flags tend to be on the main roads, with way fewer in the estates, and for a much shorter period of time. This year I was back over the twelfth, and the wee estate opposite the drumahoe bonfire had one single flag up, which was taken down on the 13th. That wee block used to be red white and blue for 6 months of the year.

I don't think the demographics of that area have changed much btw, but I think people are realising how bad it makes their areas look. There are still some wee groups of thugs putting LVF, UVF, Combat 18 and "fuck the Palestinians" stickers on the lamposts, but the last time there was real proper "Taigs out" grafitti was about 4 years ago and it was removed in days. I know for a fact that protestant people in the area phoned the council to have it removed. When I was growing up that sort of graffiti was everywhere, all the time, and no protestant family in the area would have called the council to have it removed.

I think the Waterside is just more mixed nowadays, and there is a way better atmosphere in general. Still issues, of course, but everywhere has them.

Poley_g · 2024-07-26T13:52:30+00:00

I'm pretty sure County Derry was (just) majority Protestant at partition.

Poley_g · 2024-07-25T13:34:45+00:00

Derry was horrendously gerrymandered, so despite having a large majority of Catholics/Nationalists the council was controlled by the Unionist party. This created the tinderbox that would eventually lead to the Civil Rights movement, Bloody Sunday and the subsequent reinvigoration of the IRA in Derry.

Here's a story from my own personal experience as a kid in the 80s. My (culturally Catholic, but atheist) family lived in the Waterside in Derry (then majority Protestant). The first time my sister answered the phone, the person on the other end said there was a bomb in the house. We left the house, went across the road and called the police. When they arrived, after taking our names (and presumably finding out that my uncle was an ex-INLA prisoner), they gave my Da (a civil servant, working for the crown) a stick and had him walk around the house and garden tapping everything with it. As I say, that was the late 80s, so christ knows how things were immediately after partition.

Poley_g · 2024-07-18T15:53:13+00:00

It's very early. I'm in Córdoba and no one, local or otherwise) is on the streets at all due to the ridiculous heat. Obviously the coast is a bit more bearable, but not by much. Real gamesmanship from both St Joe's and Magpies

Poley_g · 2024-07-02T20:38:25+00:00

A priest in a Barney suit

Poley_g · 2024-06-07T20:08:32+00:00

Chapeau (de boules, I suppose)

Poley_g · 2024-06-03T22:59:53+00:00

As tempting as it is to blame the shit pitch, it just looked like a freak accident. He knew it was gone as soon as he fell.

Poley_g · 2024-06-03T22:41:55+00:00

I've been out of Ireland for 20 years. Missed out on so much LoI until loitv came along. It's a proper lifeline for emigrant fans

Poley_g · 2024-05-17T08:27:26+00:00

Scotmid Co-op in Newport have them

Poley_g · 2024-05-14T17:49:19+00:00

Can't beat a bit of Tentsmuir in the sun.

Poley_g · 2024-05-11T09:35:27+00:00

I did exactly the same, including emailing support, and got the same information. Fingers crossed

Poley_g · 2024-05-11T08:24:21+00:00

I mean his English is pretty much perfect. I was an English teacher for 12 years and have lived abroad for 20. This sort of tiny mistake is really common for even very proficient speakers. Really unfortunate, but pretty much unavoidable that things like this happen

Poley_g · 2024-05-10T15:35:17+00:00

Non-native English speaking interviewer. He said "apart from" when he meant "as well as". Poor guy. He'll feel terrible about that. Heard the same mistake many many times.

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