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It’s a very nice sentiment

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Verso l'alto, 1937 Riccardo Moncalvo

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Movie poster for 1941 film, directed by Josef von Sternberg and starring Gene Tierney

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TIL that in 1956, for a bet, while drunk, Thomas Fitzpatrick stole a small plane from New Jersey and then landed it perfectly on a narrow Manhattan street in front of the bar he had been drinking at. Then, two years later, he did it again after a man didn't believe he had done it the first time.

true story, on Reddit

[wikipedia entry here]

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The Onion street ads, DC and NYC [photos pulled from social media]

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[photo by gavin leatherwood]

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Director and stars of 'Perfect Days'

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Harry, Quatro, Jett

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The Plimsouls, Oldest Story in the World

Nothing lasts, no one’s to blame

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For once it is not my pronunciation of certain words that stands out for being a bit clapped. I was recently chatting to a nice young man who rushed to tell me that his dad is Irish. Then he passed me my Guinness from the bar and declared: “Slant-eee!” I replied: “Oh no, babe – you say it like sláinte (slawn-sha, kind of).” Posh English girls are suddenly saying “the north of Ireland” instead of Northern Ireland, signalling their political righteousness. I sometimes imagine them saying that to my grandma (a tough-as-nails Derry woman with her fair share of Troubles tales) and just laugh. I actually texted a family member the other day: “You know all these posh English girlies are calling it the north of Ireland now.” They replied: “It will be Tiocfaidh ár lánext.”

I was pleased to find, after watching half the episodes of Say Nothing, that the show treats its subject matter much more seriously. Say Nothing tells the story of the IRA’s abduction and murder of Jean McConville, a mother of 10. She was accused of passing information to British forces, but no evidence of this has ever surfaced. Her orphaned children (their father died of cancer before her murder) campaigned for justice for many years. In parallel, the show follows the very different lives of IRA militants Dolours and Marian Price, along with figures they associated with, like Gerry Adams and Brendan Hughes.

The Price sisters grew up in a republican family and joined the IRA, one in her late teens and the other in her early 20s. They were involved in peaceful protests before this, including the Burntollet Bridge incident in 1969, when protesters on a civil rights march from Belfast to Derry were attacked by Ulster loyalists. This is depicted in a few terrifying scenes in the show and framed as a moment of radicalisation. Spirited, intelligent and angry, the Price sisters planned and participated in high-profile IRA actions, including the 1973 Old Bailey bombing that injured about 200 people.

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There are so many different shades of white light bulbs, I am so overwhelmed walking down the light bulb aisle, and then I'm never happy with the one I choose, no matter which one I choose, I get it home and I put it in and I'm like, ugh, I don't like THAT white