Comments on The Pensive Quill: The Bombmakers

Michaelhenry, Did you finish the trilogy yet? The...

2011-03-29T08:19:10.047+01:00

Michaelhenry,

Did you finish the trilogy yet? The character making, as you say, is brilliant.

Nuala mo cara I f0r one would have stood with you ...

2011-02-21T01:28:35.808Z

Nuala mo cara I f0r one would have stood with you four square,we will never be defefeated while Ireland has some guns.

Alfie, Anyone can use force, especially if they be...

2011-02-20T14:30:02.601Z

Alfie,
Anyone can use force, especially if they believe they have exhausted all other avenues.
I really don't know a lot about women's plight in the British Empire during the 18th century, however, I should think their lot would have been similiar to that of women everywhere else.
Early 19th century was when the Suffragettes emerged and they proved quite a formidable force.
This movement though essentially pacifist did dabble in acts of insurgency.
Would they have been justified in doing this, of course they would.

Nuala, Of course, they are separate issues, but t...

2011-02-20T14:02:01.416Z

Nuala,

Of course, they are separate issues, but there are important similarities as well. The Irish were denied self-determination and kept in the union by force, while women were denied the right to vote and to run for office and were forced to live as second-class citizens. In the 1800s, political advocacy and agitation by women or on their behalf was going nowhere, so, to my mind, they were just as entitled as the Irish to use force against the British government in order to effect change. Can you give me a good reason why this right existed for the Irish but not for women?

Alfie, I honestly do not understand what you are s...

2011-02-20T13:25:17.573Z

Alfie,
I honestly do not understand what you are saying here?
Women's emancipation and Irish emanicaption are two very different things.

Nuala & Tain Bo, You could probably argue tha...

2011-02-19T18:01:03.156Z

Nuala & Tain Bo,

You could probably argue that women in the British Empire in the nineteenth century had just as much right as the Irish to wage war against the British government. The Irish were forcibly held within the union but women were denied the right to vote. Persuasion wasn't working in the 1800s, so what other options were there?

Tain Bo, I came from a home where women were prett...

2011-02-16T21:17:19.837Z

Tain Bo,
I came from a home where women were pretty much on an equal footing.
I never heard a deragatory comment about women while I was growing up, which meant anything I heard outside the home at a later date was really quite alien.
The RM was rife with 'keep women in their place culture'
On an Easter Sunday, I think they viewed us as rows and rows of little Irish colleens interwined with the Legion Of Mary, who would do our bit and then retreat back to the kitchen sink.
There was never a real equality agenda, they paid lip service to the concept but nothing concrete actually ever materialised.

Nula How’s your good-self this day? Back during ...

2011-02-16T18:12:45.082Z

Nula

How’s your good-self this day?

Back during the 2nd hunger strike I attended a silent protest march. The march took of peacefully and of course run into the Brits/cops as the inspector give the usual speech over the bullhorn the men in the march got fired up and drowned out the cop.
There was one woman in the march who took control reminding us very sternly the reason for the silent protest she with authority shamed us hard-men itching for a riot back into line.
The march proceeded peacefully and dignified it concluded in the same fashion.
Things would have been a lot different if it was not for her taking a stance to this day I admire her actions.
Liberation is just another fancy word if there is no equality.

Everybody, the thread here is simply getting out ...

2011-02-16T15:27:44.596Z

Everybody,

the thread here is simply getting out of hand. Gratuitous insults are flying all round and the political debate has evaporated to be replaced by a slanging match. It is as much your blog as mine and I do not want to be policing matters. But there has to be some structure or order to the thing. It is a blog where people are supposed to exchange ideas not a public toilet where people scrawl graffiti and insults. Time for everybody regardless of degrees of culpability to take a step back.

Larry, I' m sure your wife is absolutley delir...

2011-02-16T15:26:38.171Z

Larry,
I' m sure your wife is absolutley delirious, let's face she would have to be.

Larry, I did not mean any offence to your wife. I...

2011-02-16T15:23:31.030Z

Larry,
I did not mean any offence to your wife. I meant it to you.
I seriously don't think any woman who spent more than second in your company would be hurrying to spend another.
You appear to be another one who can dish it out with bile and spew and then cannot take it when the tables are turned.
Larry, Albert would have you for breakfast, so not infering anything about him might prove the best advice you have ever gave yourself.

nuala i read your comments to my wife. she asks yo...

2011-02-16T14:46:36.696Z

nuala
i read your comments to my wife. she asks you to keep your nose out of her happy life. Thank you very much.

nuala ill tell you why i dont give a hoot for so-c...

2011-02-16T14:35:00.908Z

nuala
ill tell you why i dont give a hoot for so-called politically correct merchants. Many, like YOU are a new species of animal only recently discovered...hippo-critters.

to claim to be a feminist and yap on consistently about female opression only to on a number of ocassions make snide remarks about mail order brides to a person [like me] for example, married to a wonderful and beautiful filippina, is both anti feminist and racist.

My mrs is much safer with me to love her than with the likes of you muscling in on her 'rights'.

also, you are able to multi task like many wonderful females..in your case chewing the altar rails whilst spewing out personal poison and bile. You aint no wonderful woman. Be sure and say yer pennance after confession.

I'll not say or infer anything about Albert. But if you're afraid to answer your door because of the uglytax warden rest easy. The 2011 spring clothes collection is out in 'Cruffs catalogue' and the Bhurka section is at the front. Your fear ridden housebound days could be at an end. Go on treat yourself....coz 'you're worth it'.

tain bo
talkin of balls...most people here post under their own name..maybe you'll remove your phantom of the opera mask and post under your name? coz that surely aint nobodys name...

If the dots aren't joined up enough for the both of you to understand what was meant by this post then just stay at the back in the remedial section and please don't disturb the other students.

Marty, I am honestly bemused by all of this. All ...

2011-02-16T13:45:44.274Z

Marty,
I am honestly bemused by all of this. All of a sudden you appear to be all coy and shrinking violet.
More a case of dishing it out and then not being able to take the response.

Marty, Can we get back to the starting post here ...

2011-02-16T13:15:13.498Z

Marty,
Can we get back to the starting post here without all the drama and the hissy fits?
You said that 'In beardy's house sex education was watch out for your da.' I asked, in your book was there a difference between these victims and the ones you gush about? You did not answer!
These were your words not mine!
Lets get real here, if you say something either stand over it, renege.
You also called the women in Bobby and Martin's company slags?
How you conduct yourself on the blog, is not my concern.
It is not my jurisdication to morally guard what is said on the 'TPQ' if you have a problem why don't you complain?.
However, I have as much right to challenge your comments as you have to challenge mine and anyone elses.

Nuala ,nothing like spreading out your base of att...

2011-02-16T12:22:49.654Z

Nuala ,nothing like spreading out your base of attack, we have went from abusings victims of sex abuse ,your views not mine ,to again all womem are slags again your views thank fuck you didnt read my views on misandrists,I am proud to have know women who worked in the sex industry for whatever reason and I respected them,I am not a misogynist, I have have probably made love to more women than you,I hold up my hands to having a dark sense of humour ,but I neither apoligise or seek your premission to think as I do,as you say frankly its none of your business,if it applies to your posts then vice versa,if you find my posts offensive complain to the Blog Master in this instance Anthony,he can either reject my posts or pull me up, I respect his position as I try to do with nearly every other blogger here and I try and answer without the invective that is now creeping into some of these posts,if Anthony wants I,ll pull of from contributing here,I,ve been on my knees hon but I,ve never bent one and I,ve no intenton of starting now,Gabh mo leiscéal ar teanga agam,Nil habair méar an sceal seo.

tain bo + nuala aren't you both so sweet. yep,...

2011-02-16T08:52:03.902Z

tain bo + nuala
aren't you both so sweet.
yep, you difinitely sound like disgruntled, missplaced, unwanted wee Provos to me.

Like the decommissioning ye can shove yer political correctness/controling where you keep yer head tain bo.

Larry “Some people are akin to politically correc...

2011-02-15T23:49:30.912Z

Larry

“Some people are akin to politically correct PSF/NAZIS.”

As usual pointing the finger in a vague manner why do you lack the testicular fortitude and have a habit of making statements that make no sense, as you never identify the “some.”
Oh this answer took a month so I decided to superglue a computer to my bum after all punctuality is important.

Larry, When I first read that list of names I thou...

2011-02-15T23:35:23.935Z

Larry,
When I first read that list of names I thought you had taken them from the bridal catelogue!
Eve, number 41, Mary Magdalene number 45.
Do the bride get to see the suitor or does that not matter?

Larry Considering you informed me that I am full ...

2011-02-15T22:57:33.358Z

Larry

Considering you informed me that I am full of shite and naturally since you are the nearest thing to a toilet it was well worth the ten minutes dumping my verbal diatribe. Perhaps a time piece or a calendar would be useful, as grammar seems to avoid you.

Marty, A couple of weeks ago you were calling the...

2011-02-15T22:44:14.174Z

Marty,
A couple of weeks ago you were calling the women in the 'Kings Head' slags.
In fact when I pointed it out to you, you amplified the insult by saying they gave 'slags a bad name'.
No Church input there Marty. According to you you are ant-religion, so you can't pin that on the Church, that view of women came from yourself.

some people are akin to politically correct PSF/NA...

2011-02-15T22:40:33.271Z

some people are akin to politically correct PSF/NAZIS.

i'll keep my head firmly out of that dark place some peoples seem to be hopelessly and permanently stuck. love this blog.

tain bo how very polite you are. honestly took you...

2011-02-15T22:32:19.540Z

tain bo
how very polite you are. honestly took you two days to vomit that eh?
what an aca-dem.

stick with the amatuer shrink stuff i suggest...or maybe not, it took you two days and a lengthy diatribe NOT to get 'personal', PRICELESS, cheers for that.

Larry Go raibh maith agat, “amadán” I already ha...

2011-02-15T19:42:52.974Z

Larry

Go raibh maith agat, “amadán”

I already have an arch nemesis’ here and you sir are no Robert personable and extremely engaging.

I awoke this morning in thought about a staring contest I had once with an Orangutan “she” left me perplexed. I digress, it is fact that no matter what monkey house you visit there is always one chimpanzee that for unknown reason(s) will try and wind up the gorilla.

Regarding my observation after reading your latest insubstantial rants would your own angered hostility towards women prove my observation to be correct?
I believe in your wording you clearly provided the rope and are now dangling on the end of your own contrived hypocrisy.

Obviously you mistake my mannerisms for weakness there is good reason a rattle snake has a rattle it will mind its own business and politely let you know when to back off.

I would engage you in a verbal evisceration though psychologically you are already defeated as you display weakness with your puny insults. I can never actually understand your posts.

Respectfully I consider the PQ as an open classroom each time I visit I learn more.
There are other forums that would better suit your narrow-mindedness with the predictable I rule the roost and I know it all pointless rants.

Political correctness is a manufactured clever form of censorship obviously I would not ascribe that to the anti-censorship PQ. If you must use clichés and fragmented statements at least consider the readers.

Well that was a waste of ten minutes I will bid you good evening sir as for the now I am going to re-read the latest article as Don Carl-leone seems to be struggling against the tide.

Marty It has been years since I heard that one I ...

2011-02-15T17:01:05.140Z

Marty

It has been years since I heard that one I burst out laughing “are the gates not for keeping people out.” If I had said that to my granny I am sure I would have found out the answer.