The “attacks” on Paris were tragic, as are all such things, and “my heart”, as always goes out to our French “cousins”. The “Auld Alliance”, never “died”, in this “heart”. The "Scots", and the "French", will be “allies” forever. They may have “forgotten” us, we have never “forgotten” them...
<Google” this, if you need to>
I’m Scottish, you’ve probably noticed, but, when “push comes to shove”, I’m “British”, and an utterly unrepentant “Royalist”, (I’ve met the “Boss”, 3 times “officially”, buy me a Beer, and I will explain) and yeah, the “British Army”, (actually the “Royal Navy”, it’s “complicated”), “owns my soul, until I die”, I DON’T GET TO “RETIRE”, they call, I will still come “running”. I make no apologies for this…
Major RedRafe, is a “loyalist”, forever…
What I’m trying to say, in a terribly “long winded way”, is, that, I come from a “nation” that has been continually attacked by “freedom fighters”, “terrorists”, whatever you want to call them, it’s the same thing, “the same "shit”.
There is no “horror” here, there is no “fear” here, only a “steely” sense of “resolve”, and the understanding that “just retribution” will be “administered”, appropriately, in a “timely fashion”.
I was, very often, part of the “just retribution”…
‘nuff said there…
Our response is generally: ” “Fuck you all very much”, and our “response” will be “incoming”, very soon”, “and, you, will NOT enjoy it”…
Now, with reference to being “emotionally triggered” by such things, hmmm, I absolutely adore Sinéad O'Connor, god bless her “beautiful”, absolutely, totally “batshit –crazy”, “born again”, “Irish-Muslim” self...
Her music touches a “chord” deep inside me, especially her more, “rebel” stuff…
Now, make no mistake, I love the Irish, and have many Irish friends, that I consider to be “family”…
But I was frequently “active” in Northern Ireland, from 1984, onward, and I will never ever forget that period of my life…
<You want to “know”, buy the old RedFart a beer>
You want to encounter the “Old Grey Werewolf”, “play” that kind of stuff…
Sinéad O'Connor - Nothing Compares 2U [Official Music Video]
Sinéad O Connor - Sacrifice
Danny Boy - Sinead O Connor
Sinéad O'Connor - Three Babies (Official Video)
Sinead O'Connor - This is a Rebel Song
[B][I]
Sinead O'Connor - Oro Se do Bheatha Bhaile
Sinead O'Connor - One more day
Simple Minds & Sinéad O'Connor - Belfast Child (live)
Sinéad O'Connor - All Apologies [Official Music Video]
Sinéad O'Connor & The Chieftains - The Foggy Dew
The Cranberries - Zombie (Official Music Video)
You want to watch a pretty good, actually really quite “balanced” movie, check this out…
'71 Official Trailer #1 (2015) - Jack O'Connell War Movie HD
Watch all of the various “trailers”, and disregard all of the blatant propaganda “shite” from both sides…
I quote, from an impartial “outsider” : “For those thinking this movie is taking sides, it absolutely doesn't. Really, what I got was everyone loses. Everyone commits atrocities. And yeah, war sucks and it's never the solution to anything.”
You know what is really funny!?
My “soul mate”, my absolute utter “Goddess”, who I loved beyond “everything”, was an Irish, British Army Nurse, from “Bandit Country”, in Northern Ireland.
<Google it>
I know this is “heresy”, but, : Alizée = 15/10, but "Bernadette", aka "Bernie" -= 17.5 +/10. Yeah, I have mentioned her before, but it’s true…
Her “Mother” adored me, her “Father” and “Brother”, well, in our military “parlance” at that particular time, were probably “T’s”…
There was a movie, “Snatch”, that was popular at that time, (is still one of my “favourite” movies, it’s “fun”, go “check it out”), that they made a “present day” series of, that I presented a “quote” to them, at that time that kind of conveyed my “message” to them, at that “time”…
Do you know what Nemesis means?
Funnily enough, I had no “trouble” with them, and I was just “joking”…
<Was I really?!…
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Just call me"Nemesis"...
Kind of feels like Alizée, who is a “total stranger” to me, and always will be…
But, you know what I mean…
Please don’t “mess” with the “little” lady
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Now, you know that I have the most absolute, utter, respect for everyone on this forum, and if I have offended anyone, at all, with this post, then, please “ban” me…
But this particular “subject”, is a “complicated” one, to me…
Enjoy the “playlist”, in the “spirit” it was posted in…
Respect…
Mark…