Jon Chapple

@BadNightBunny @dominbydigdug @kunley_drukpa Rascal Britishers

@dominbydigdug @kunley_drukpa Yeah. They do. Just like Indians will occasionally surprise you by whipping out "scoundrel."😆 A vestige of the time when they were ruled by people who actually understood the importance of keeping them in line.

BUYING ALCOHOL FOR ABORIGINALS 🇦🇺 Aboriginals really striking in appearance in person when you meet them for the first time. Very distinctive physiognomies, don’t want to call their look archaic but that is closest descriptor I can think of One thing about having these kinds of facial features is that they make the people look much older than they actually are. Was in Alice Springs in Australia, this is ‘major’ outback town in the Northern Territory. They have a lot of ‘abbos’ milling around in groups here, you walk around and they’re all sprawled out on the grass together. Lots of them aren’t really employed and many get some kind of government grant. Very hard not to stare because if you’ve never seen full-blooded aboriginals in real life before (like I hadn’t up until that point) like I say they’re quite distinctive looking Walking around the town, there’s a group of abbos milling in a park. One of the women comes up to me: [In a very strong bogan Australian accent while repeatedly scratching her face] “Ah yeah hey mate how’s it going mate you alright mate hey I couldn’t trouble you for sam help could I?” Was one of first times and I had spoken to an aboriginal before “What do you need?” “Ah yeah mate well see it’s my birthday mate yah know and ah I was just wondering if you could go in the bottle-o for me and grab us a few stubbies yah know” [scratches face again] Because of her very distinctive facial features was finding it difficult to focus on what she was saying, was looking directly into her eyes, couldn’t really take much in… “Why can’t you go in and buy some drinks for yourself?” “Ah yeah naw well we’re not allowed yah see they don’t let us buy alcohol yah see because they think we’re a right load of miscreants ah yeah but you look like a nice bloke could ya go and do it for me?” “They don’t let you buy alcohol” “Yeah they reckon we’ll start causing all kinds of trouble. Nah it’s not right” [scratches her face again] “If you’re not allowed I don’t want to get in trouble myself buying it for you” “Ah come on mate come on please it’s my birthday ah I just want one little drinkie on my birthday mate” “I don’t know…” “Ah come on mate go on come on mate” [jittering] “I’m not sure” “Mate we’re just chilling out a bit at the park on my birthday just want to unwind it’s no harm mate come on help us out mate” [scratches her face again] “It’s really your birthday?” “Yeahhh” “How old are you? You must be 40 or so right?” Thing is here in my head I thought I was really lowballing it - as I say the facial features they have make them look really old. Genuinely could not tell, had no mental model for it. Thought in reality though she must have been anywhere up to about 60. The weathered skin, the nasolabial folds, the brow ridge… “I’m 18 mate” she replies

@AbishaiSimari @gsl1776 @Joe__Bassey There were less than a million aboriginals in Australia before European colonisation. They didn't have weapons or towns or houses or the wheel. What sort of fight were they supposed to put up? You're comparing apples with oranges.

@gsl1776 @Joe__Bassey So using your logic if the nazis actually wanted to exterminate the jews then it wouldn't have taken them a week I guess.

The Aboriginals of Australia. Original natives of Australia, whom the British tried to exterminate 💯

@bohemiantoo @Broonjunior @yuanyi_z All Irish were British at the time

@Broonjunior @yuanyi_z He was British

“it used to be said that India was governed by Blackrock College, and with a Cork accent” — The Irish Times.

@Century_Toad @Nairobifatlover @yuanyi_z I agree to an extent but if one "form" of said national identity centres on a political union and the other form centres on destroying that political union, what room is there for manoeuvre? That seems like two forms and more like two separate nationalities.

@jonchapple @Nairobifatlover @yuanyi_z But a nation can contain multiple contesting forms of national identity. Refusing that contest because you don't think you'll win, and instead asserting your version of that national identity as a new, different nation, is just disingenuous and doesn't merit much respect.

Fascinating that Irish irredentism is high status among high-status Euros, while Trianon irredentism is the equivalent of a face tattoo.

@Century_Toad @Nairobifatlover @yuanyi_z But you're right that modern Ulster unionism is effectively rebranded Irish unionism.

@Century_Toad @Nairobifatlover @yuanyi_z Yes, but they considered themselves a different kind of "Irish" to the republicanism emerging in the south. The same way a Scotsman today might consider himself both Scottish and British, or ONLY Scottish with no room for the union.

@pendefig @HoeMcAdams @mendo5an @yuanyi_z Correct. I'm not sure whether you're disagreeing with me or not

@jonchapple @HoeMcAdams @mendo5an @yuanyi_z Famously Ireland left a year or two after the representation of the people act.

@HoeMcAdams @mendo5an @yuanyi_z You think the average Englishman had more power to choose where to go colonise next than the average Irishman? Statistically, they had even less, considering the Irish were overrepresented in the Imperial service and army.

@jonchapple @mendo5an @yuanyi_z The ruling class was Anglo

@DerryCelt1888 @mchelen7 @FigJobber It's pretty unambiguously what "our wee country" refers to here, even if you disagree with McIlroy's thoughts on the exact constitutional status of Northern Ireland

@mchelen7 @FigJobber Like I asked a dozen of you before... What country, your post doesn't show any country

Unionism, yet again, can't catch a break 🤣🤣🤣🤣

@Nairobifatlover @yuanyi_z Yes, they are often brashly patriotic in a way that offends modern liberal sensibilities, but then the same argument is never applied to, say, the Arabs of Palestine

@Nairobifatlover @yuanyi_z It is thoroughly odd. The Ulster Protestants, as an ethnoreligious group, are simply not considered a nation, despite meeting all the criteria for one, purely down to dislike, it seems.

@HoeMcAdams @mendo5an @yuanyi_z Its population ran the country to the same degree the Scots, English and Welsh did. I.e. initially not very much, then a bit more, within the context of a representative parliament.

@mendo5an @yuanyi_z Ok, Ireland as a country was not an imperial power, its population didn't run the country

@LordCampV @FischerKing64 I think hardly anyone even knows it's a nickname for Johns nowadays. I know multiple Jacks, all just Jack.

@FischerKing64 The most popular name for several years running in Quebec was "Jack", which is a diminutive of John. Like putting Billy as the legal name on your kids birth certificate. That an English nickname became the most popular name there really makes me wonder about those people.

Same thing in Germany. Well-educated Germans will joke among themselves when someone is expecting a baby that the parents should name him Kevin. Someone explained to me once that this goes back to the success of the movie Home Alone.

@BovrilG @emergenteffects For God and Ulster (Fry)

One of the 🐐 needs help. We're putting in place some tasks (both arduous and humiliating) and events to support Jon's push for life-saving treatment. In the meantime, any pennies you could spare would be greatly appreciated. Many thanks. X gofund.me/7b71c756

@alelliott88 This is a different book. I meant "Among the Thugs". Sorry. Won't delete just in case someone finds this and appreciates the recommendation

@alelliott88 This is such a belter of a book. I think I audibly gasped reading the bit about the Man Utd fans rushing security and then there not being enough seats on the plane for everyone haha

11. An excellent read. Montague fully immerses himself in the ultras movement around the world and provides a fascinating look into their culture and politics. It's an honest read and doesn't shy away from the dark aspects (violence, racism etc.) but isn't sensationalist either

@LordCampV @PepcMax1969 Spiritually brown

@PepcMax1969 Speak White.

Up in Canada, households either had Royal Family commemorative plates and tea towels or a portrait of JPII and crucifixes mounted on the wall. You knew where you stood - Protestant, law-abiding households, or subversive, IRA- and Mafia-supporting terrorists.

@SimonHarrisMBD Extremely 2013-coded humour. Not going to do well here anymore. Could try BlueSky? Supertanski might be interested? Probably shouldn't have given away all your followers, in hindsight. Is Mastodon still a thing? Ah well. CC @ThatsSoBluesky

FFS just had this message from school. What’s happening to this country?