Slugger O'Toole

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ForkHandles has commented 201 times (6 in the last month).

1. Comment on Cleveland rescue: “I barbecued with this dude, we ate ribs and listened to salsa music…”
   on 13 May 2013 at 9:25 am

   laughed my leg off when I saw this on my mates phone. thought it was a spoof. looks like something straight out of a US sketch show

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2. Comment on Team Jasil – that’s John and Basil – say: “Get off your backsides and vote for people that are trying to make a difference”
   on 13 May 2013 at 6:48 am

   I wish them all the best with their effort to create a non tribal party. To do that they must start off by recruiting some Catholics. From the very start, they must keep their party broadly in line with the religious balance in NI. That is the key, along with actually having real policies. Alliance is a party with Ps and Cs but no firm direction. It just tries to walk a meandering line between 2 daft extremes with no thought given to what is normal practice. A new party needs the P and C balance as a given. Then they should make their ideas and policies more attractive than the other parties. They should concentrate on arguing the detail of their ideas against the no detail of the other parties ideas, and not get drawn into nonsense cliché tribal and sectarian bickering.

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3. Comment on Irish Justice Minister: “a tribute to how far we have come as a society”
   on 9 May 2013 at 9:43 am

   “This country’ obviously does not include the good republican burghers of Slugger O’Toole. ”

   What on earth is a republican burger? And what is a burger doing reading a website? !

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4. Comment on Adams’s extended RTE interview on political murder turns the southern clock right back for Sinn Fein…
   on 1 May 2013 at 10:03 pm

   for anyone normal the ira supporters posts look completely ridiculous. but then again no one normal will be taking any notice of these sort of threads on slugger.
   thank goodness…..

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5. Comment on Draft CSI document contains yawning gaps. OFMdFM parties fear criticism.
   on 1 May 2013 at 9:58 am

   Just received a message that originated somewhere in Normal Land, reads -
   “FYI flegs, parades and talking about the troubles are not major issues here in Normal Land. They are important and need to be resolved, but major issues are
   Economy
   Job creation
   Health infrastructure
   Transport infrastructure

   Prioritize time and effort accordingly”

   Message ends…..

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6. Comment on Are we settling for a society where the dominant communities are going to remain separate?
   on 23 April 2013 at 4:26 pm

   “The demographics reach a tipping point in next 2-3 years.”

   you do realize the idea that Catholics are gagging to be part of the ROI is shown to be false in every opinion poll? they more and more prefer to be part of the UK. the reasons are the same as everyone elses, its simply the better country to be part of. infact the idea that your thinking is governed by what religion your parents were, is seen as a bit daft these days. only the over 60s on slugger still think in this way, to most peoples amusement!

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7. Comment on Why is the BBC ghettoising NI regional outputs?
   on 8 April 2013 at 6:33 am

   Nevin , You just need to get a VPN client with servers to connect to in the UK. do a google for reviews of vpns for watching iplayer on a PC. I don’t want to give the name of the one I use incase some plonker tries to block its IP addresses. But it works perfectly from here in the middle east.

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8. Comment on Can Northern Ireland pick up where it last left off in the 1960s?
   on 8 April 2013 at 4:17 am

   “You sometimes get the impression that people in authority still think we are all back where we were in 1969″

   Only the old ones that grew up in the troubles decades and can’t adjust to anything else.

   ” But the answers will only come by politicians who are prepared to act by moving decisively through the middle by putting policy concerns first, and framing constitutional issues in the far term.”

   Yes this is true of course. The problem with NI politicians has always been an inability to get off the starting blocks and start taking action. There is always the going round and round at the starting line announcing intentions as above, but never actually doing anything. Then repeating the same sound bite reworded a little and then never actually doing anything.

   Politician’s Tip of the day:
   Using education as an example. Announce your detailed plans on how to provide a number of schools across NI to cater for present and future needs and pupil numbers. Incorporate costs and savings. Show how your plan is the best one to provide for academic and vocational (or whatever) types of education for local areas and all of NI, and so on. Talk about these details on TV. Only then go into the detail of how you have included an increasing number of integrated schools and how you will promote and steer future planning to increase integrated education to meet the ideal of removing sectarian division and so on.
   Come up with the detailed plans and incorporate the ideals such as integrated education into them.

   Don’t make another moronic announcement of “We must work together to… blah blah blah” and have absolutely no plans or ideas to follow with.

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9. Comment on Can the slow death of Irish Nationalism be averted?
   on 2 April 2013 at 9:47 am

   Roc, yeah the Germans are quite good at running things. Is there a requirement for UK politicians to hold British nationality, or maybe residency? Probably is some sort of requirement. I would be quite happy to see a German hold a few UK government positions if they were better than any UK locals. Why not?

   I’m sure you realize that we are not talking about ‘the UK handing over its political power to Germany’ just about people from other places holding a job and not locals. Its funny the way you old fashioned nationalists view everything in such a 19th century ruler/ruled, landowner/peasant, power/powerless, master/slave type way

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10. Comment on Can the slow death of Irish Nationalism be averted?
    on 1 April 2013 at 10:48 am

    “You use an expression like “tribal mentality” in reference to themmuns”

    Actually you are projecting a bit here due to your tribal mentality… I was referring to nationalist type of thinking which could be from any country. The subject here is specifically Irish Nationalism. I am discussing from the point of an observer who is observing the tribal thinking in others.

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