Hunger
She Lied.
I revisited the Nickelodeon in Portland today to watch Hunger, an excellent film portraying the Her Majesty's Maze Prison H-block hunger strike in 1981.
Will, the avuncular cashier, advised me "People have complained of the thick Irish accents in the film" as I paid for my ticket.
"I’ve an Irish Grandmother, I’ll be fine" I assured him.
The accents seemed authentic enough, and not too thick. As I was exiting Will interrupted his conversation with a grey haired lady to ask me "How did you like the film?"
"It’s powerful" I answered, adding "Though it raises questions."
"Like what?" the grey lady wanted to know. She seemed excited.
"Well, why didn’t the IRA (Irish Republican Army) break their own out of prison?"
She seemed confused. "What do you mean?"
"I mean attack the prison, as soldiers, and break their own out."
"Oh, they tried, many times, but they all got shot" she lied.
"Really?" I scoffed. Prisons are mostly indefensible.
"You just need to educate yourself" she patronized me. I’ve heard that before: it usually means I have to buy the same brainwash she did. Or validate her superstitions, or her ideology, etc.
"Well, I’ll research that" I shrugged.
"Oh you should" she warbled. Why do idiots always seem to have perfect pitch? Is it the bird brain? "I’m just really glad they showed this film" she added.
She was a baby boomer alright. Why couldn’t the so-called "Greatest Generation" raise children to value honesty? I’m trying to remember the last time I met a Baby Boomer who wasn’t full of nonsense and shit. Are honest Baby Boomers a minority, or is that just my perception playing tricks with me? This woman would sooner destroy her credibility than admit she didn’t know something. I don’t understand that.
For what it’s worth, I did learn IRA prisoners escaped from Maze Prison in 1983, but there’s no record of the IRA ever attacking a prison to free their own.
What's wrong with this woman? Is it the same mental disease that prevents Libertarians from admitting their ridiculous ideology was bullshit hi-jacked by convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff in his failed attempt to oppose anti-Appartied forces in South Africa back in the 1980's?
You’ve heard it from me before: religion is bullshit. Ideology is bullshit too. You don’t have to eat the bullshit. Put it down. Spit it out. Right now. Yes I mean you. No, I don’t want any, thank you. It causes too much trouble, and it’s quite nasty - I assure you - once you see it as it is.
I realized this woman was Irish-American. I realized she was Roman Catholic. I realized she is an ardent supporter of the IRA. It would not surprise me if she'd made donations to their cause (and thus funded terrorism). I also realized she’d eaten bullshit, and was trying to share a turd with me.
Yuck, no.
I revisited the Nickelodeon in Portland today to watch Hunger, an excellent film portraying the Her Majesty's Maze Prison H-block hunger strike in 1981.
Will, the avuncular cashier, advised me "People have complained of the thick Irish accents in the film" as I paid for my ticket.
"I’ve an Irish Grandmother, I’ll be fine" I assured him.
The accents seemed authentic enough, and not too thick. As I was exiting Will interrupted his conversation with a grey haired lady to ask me "How did you like the film?"
"It’s powerful" I answered, adding "Though it raises questions."
"Like what?" the grey lady wanted to know. She seemed excited.
"Well, why didn’t the IRA (Irish Republican Army) break their own out of prison?"
She seemed confused. "What do you mean?"
"I mean attack the prison, as soldiers, and break their own out."
"Oh, they tried, many times, but they all got shot" she lied.
"Really?" I scoffed. Prisons are mostly indefensible.
"You just need to educate yourself" she patronized me. I’ve heard that before: it usually means I have to buy the same brainwash she did. Or validate her superstitions, or her ideology, etc.
"Well, I’ll research that" I shrugged.
"Oh you should" she warbled. Why do idiots always seem to have perfect pitch? Is it the bird brain? "I’m just really glad they showed this film" she added.
She was a baby boomer alright. Why couldn’t the so-called "Greatest Generation" raise children to value honesty? I’m trying to remember the last time I met a Baby Boomer who wasn’t full of nonsense and shit. Are honest Baby Boomers a minority, or is that just my perception playing tricks with me? This woman would sooner destroy her credibility than admit she didn’t know something. I don’t understand that.
For what it’s worth, I did learn IRA prisoners escaped from Maze Prison in 1983, but there’s no record of the IRA ever attacking a prison to free their own.
What's wrong with this woman? Is it the same mental disease that prevents Libertarians from admitting their ridiculous ideology was bullshit hi-jacked by convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff in his failed attempt to oppose anti-Appartied forces in South Africa back in the 1980's?
You’ve heard it from me before: religion is bullshit. Ideology is bullshit too. You don’t have to eat the bullshit. Put it down. Spit it out. Right now. Yes I mean you. No, I don’t want any, thank you. It causes too much trouble, and it’s quite nasty - I assure you - once you see it as it is.
I realized this woman was Irish-American. I realized she was Roman Catholic. I realized she is an ardent supporter of the IRA. It would not surprise me if she'd made donations to their cause (and thus funded terrorism). I also realized she’d eaten bullshit, and was trying to share a turd with me.
Yuck, no.