Jun
29
2007
Things aren’t really going to well for Vorenus, are they? Dreaming about his wife’s suicide/attempt to distract Vorenus from killing her son. Waking up knowing that it is all true. Becoming a “son of hades”[1] Being a general grump, although I suppose thinking that your kids are dead and knowing that you are the reason you wife is dead, not to mention the fact that you should have been protecting Caesar when he was assassinated is bound to put any one in a bad mood. But taking it out on poor Pullo? That’s just not nice.
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Linknotes:
- last episode. I didnt post about it cause I was lazy ↩
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These being the words of Marcus Tullius Cicero,
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Jun
29
2007
An asylum seeker who came to Ireland in 2000, Mr Adebari mused that while he was now Portlaoise’s first citizen, he was not yet an Irish citizen.
“Are you telling us you’re not legal,” Mr Aird interrupted, at which the whole public gallery erupted in laughter.
Okay, so on one hand this is good news. But is it really such good news that we have to point it out as though saying see, look, no racism here?
Bloody[1] asylum seekers, coming here, bewitching our electorate, getting voted into office, and where are the brown envelopes huh? Where is the corruption? What, no money for favours? What sort of Irish politician is he? Or maybe he is just too much of a cute hoor to be caught out yet.
And also, a voting pact between Fine Gael and Sinn Fein?
Title nicked from a HIBERNO-ENGLISH archive
Linknotes:
- I dont NEED the disclaimer that this sentence is not meant seriously, do I? ↩
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