Paisley dead

[Bruce Gonsalves]

This guy was a prick. May he rot in hell

[HAL]

Perhaps he can do that. How difficult is rot in hell ?

[David]

Why do you dislike him so much? Can't say I know a lot about Northern Irish politics.

[Bruce Gonsalves]

[HAL]

Enough about me, let's talk about the Pies.

[SweatyPie]

NO SURRENDER 🇬🇧

[HAL]

Can you speak any foreign languages?

[Mugwump]

"This guy was a prick may he rot in hell" is probably a statement that sums up much of what is wrong with our degraded youtube, soundbite culture.

I knew only a little of Ian Paisley until today, and what I knew was largely derived from my Catholic mother, who regarded him as a tribal enemy - not too far from the view above, in fact. So, primed with hostility, I started listening today to his various obituaries.

Instead of the bellowing bigoted ogre I expected, I found a man with an extraordinarily chequered life - a man who fought bitterly for his tribe, and caused undoubted suffering. At times, probably a bigot. And yet, too, a man of private courtesy even to his enemies, who looked at this Christian faith as he got older and realised that his past actions were not always compatible with that faith ; a man who ultimately made the painful decision to cross from his own beliefs and joined with hated enemies who had themselves done equally hateful things, or worse ; a man who was repudiated by large numbers of those who he had fought for, because he finally paid the price for a hard-won peace.

His farewell speech in the House of Commons is a kind of bittersweet last post to the compromises and painful understandings that maturity and mortality bring to those of us with the moral courage to criticise our actions and beliefs against higher standards. It is strange that a life which seemed to embody evil, can ultimately be transfigured by personal courage into a thing of inspiration.

[HAL]

Thanks for telling me your taste in men.

[sixpoints]

There's a word often bandied about for people who;
organise, promulgate, foster, promote & encourage, politically motivated acts of violence. Violence that lead to scores of deaths. We seem to call prople like that terrorists.
This guy however, gets a Life Peerage from Westminster instead. He dies as a 'Baron of the Realm'.
You may have been welcomed through the doors of the House of Lords, but you're going to find it a much tougher job at those other gates when you attempt to explain yourself to St Peter.

[Bruce Gonsalves]

[watt price tully]

This always reminded me of Ian Paisley: has it down pat

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxpYW_w5pgo

[Morrigu]