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Nelson Mandela and RTEs death watch

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  • #32
    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    Lelantos wrote: »
    I dunno why RTE seem to think the Irish people give a shíte about Nelson, sure didn't we blow up his column in Dublin ffs


    ....no wonder the poor fecker left for Africa then so.


  • #33
    Lelantos
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,612 ✭✭✭Lelantos


    Polish the black armbands lads, we may need them tomorrow.


  • #34
    woodoo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,219 ✭✭✭woodoo


    If his health is that poor than maybe its better for him to move on. I know i would if i was his age and sick all the time.


  • #35
    Dr Turk Turkelton
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 3,129 ✭✭✭Dr Turk Turkelton


    Lelantos wrote: »
    I dunno why RTE seem to think the Irish people give a shíte about Nelson, sure didn't we blow up his column in Dublin ffs

    He was brilliant in The Dark Knight Rises though.


  • #36
    Duckworth_Luas
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,746 ✭✭✭Duckworth_Luas


    I was big supporter of the anti-apartheid movement back in the 1980s

    Still waiting for my free Nelson Mandela though!

    :o

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCZKZILvE70


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  • #37
    Riddle101
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,669 ✭✭✭Riddle101


    He's 94 years old. That's a long time to be alive.


  • #38
    NuckingFacker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,221 ✭✭✭NuckingFacker


    I'd say there's a few lads from the ANC who are going, ffs, mandela got banged up in the first year, us tools had to campaign against apartheid for years and years while he did laps of Robben Island, then the fecker gets let out and everyone gives him the credit for the work we did. Apart from having a funny accent, what exactly did he do?

    In a past life I was a photographer and covered a lot of anti-apartheid demos. I didn't see Nels at any of them.. saw loads of other lads getting the good news from the S.A police though. I'd say they feel much the same about mandela as actual gang-bangers in the U.S feel about Biggie - in it for a week, rapped about it for years, got all the glory, all the spoils, all we got was jail time..


  • #39
    Mint Sauce
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,293 ✭✭✭✭Mint Sauce


    Dont think they are covering it much more than any other news platform.

    BBC are reporting him again today.


  • #40
    Fr_Dougal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,167 ✭✭✭Fr_Dougal


    He was brilliant in Pulp Fiction.


  • #41
    Nodin
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    NuckingFacker wrote: »

    In a past life I was a photographer and covered a lot of anti-apartheid demos. I didn't see Nels at any of them....

    ......this may have been BECAUSE HE WAS LOCKED THE **** UP.


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  • #42
    Lapin
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,183 ✭✭✭✭Lapin


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    Today's winner
    Busted Flat. wrote: »
    I am sick and tired of listening about that clown, what did he do for his people ?. No one would have known about him only for his wife Winnie, she fought all her life for him, spent years in house arrest, degraded by the press, but fought gallantly for her people, then deserted by that selfish clown.


  • #43
    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    Lapin wrote: »
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    Today's winner

    He posted it yesterday though...


  • #44
    woodoo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,219 ✭✭✭woodoo


    NuckingFacker wrote: »
    Apart from having a funny accent, what exactly did he do?.

    Someone is going to be outraged with you.


  • #45
    NuckingFacker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,221 ✭✭✭NuckingFacker


    Nodin wrote: »
    ......this may have been BECAUSE HE WAS LOCKED THE **** UP.
    Yeah, I know. And when he wasn't, he....... ..........


    you fill in the blanks.


  • #46
    NuckingFacker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,221 ✭✭✭NuckingFacker


    woodoo wrote: »
    Someone is going to be outraged with you.
    someone generally is. It's the new normal for me.


  • #47
    flutered
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 6,766 ✭✭✭flutered


    according to breaking news he is rather weak.


  • #48
    Busted Flat.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,003 ✭✭✭Busted Flat.


    flutered wrote: »
    according to breaking news he is rather weak.


    I would have thought it was closer to a month.


  • #49
    T-Maxx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,495 ✭✭✭T-Maxx


    NuckingFacker wrote: »
    Yeah, I know. And when he wasn't, he....... ..........


    you fill in the blanks.

    Apartheid ended with Mandela's release. You should know this really.


  • #50
    flutered
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 6,766 ✭✭✭flutered


    Busted Flat. wrote: »
    I am sick and tired of listening about that clown, what did he do for his people ?. No one would have known about him only for his wife Winnie, she fought all her life for him, spent years in house arrest, degraded by the press, but fought gallantly for her people, then deserted by that selfish clown.

    traded her in for a younger model, it happens all the time.


  • #51
    Jacovs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,331 ✭✭✭Jacovs


    T-Maxx wrote: »
    Apartheid ended

    :pac:


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  • #52
    Duggys Housemate
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,298 ✭✭✭Duggys Housemate


    NuckingFacker wrote: »
    I'd say there's a few lads from the ANC who are going, ffs, mandela got banged up in the first year, us tools had to campaign against apartheid for years and years while he did laps of Robben Island, then the fecker gets let out and everyone gives him the credit for the work we did. Apart from having a funny accent, what exactly did he do?

    In a past life I was a photographer and covered a lot of anti-apartheid demos. I didn't see Nels at any of them.. saw loads of other lads getting the good news from the S.A police though. I'd say they feel much the same about mandela as actual gang-bangers in the U.S feel about Biggie - in it for a week, rapped about it for years, got all the glory, all the spoils, all we got was jail time..

    Yeah, nobody believes that. And being in prison is hardly a picnic.


  • #53
    Duggys Housemate
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,298 ✭✭✭Duggys Housemate


    NuckingFacker wrote: »
    Yeah, I know. And when he wasn't, he....... ..........


    you fill in the blanks.

    He founded the ANC (before)
    Ended Apartheid in talks with DeKlerk (after)


  • #54
    Busted Flat.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,003 ✭✭✭Busted Flat.


    T-Maxx wrote: »
    Apartheid ended with Mandela's release. You should know this really.

    DeKlerk was scurring behind the scenes with Mandella to have a peaceful hand over of power due to world pressure. Mandella was just a side bar to the whole collapse of DeKlerk's power base. Corrupt black Africans took over from corrupt white Africans, and Nelly walked away with his big fat largess.


  • #55
    Duggys Housemate
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,298 ✭✭✭Duggys Housemate


    Busted Flat. wrote: »
    Botha was scarring behind the scenes with Mandella to have a peaceful hand over of power due to world pressure. Mandella was just a side bar to the whole collapse of botha's power base. Corrupt black Africans took over from white Africans, and Nelly walked away with his big fat largess.

    Yeah but he still negotiated the settlement. And SA may be corrupt but it isn't racist against its majority population. If Mandela - who was in prison until he was an old man made money later - good for him. If he'd had had a normal lifespan for black Africa he would have died in prison.

    And you spelled DeKlerk wrong.


  • #56
    Femme_Fatale
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,628 ✭✭✭Femme_Fatale


    Busted Flat. wrote: »
    Every freedom movement in the world had their own way of treating Touts and traitors. Look what they are doing to Bradley Manning, what about water boarding, the torture chambers in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Guantanamo, and the secret jails in Poland and other countries run by the CIA.
    And who's defending them? The brutality Winnie Mandela oversaw was outrageous. Yeh I admire much of what she did in the run-up to acquiring power, but the methods used by her Football Team gang were horrific. And to effectively say that a traitor deserved that kind of physical brutality, just because others have done similar, is staggering.


  • #57
    Busted Flat.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,003 ✭✭✭Busted Flat.


    Duggys Housemate wrote: »
    He founded the ANC (before)
    Ended Apartheid in talks with DeKlerk (after)

    He didn't found the ANC.

    Wikipedia, Google is down can't access the link.

    The African National Congress (ANC) is the Republic of South Africa's governing political party, supported by its Tripartite Alliance with the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) and the South African Communist Party (SACP), since the establishment of non-racial democracy in April 1994. It defines itself as a "disciplined force of the left".[2] Members founded the organisation as the South African Native National Congress (SANNC) on 8 January 1912 at the Waaihoek Wesleyan Church in Bloemfontein to increase the rights of the black South African population. John Dube, its first president, and poet and author Sol Plaatje were among its founding members. The organisation became the ANC in 1923 and formed a military wing, the Umkhonto we Sizwe (Spear of the Nation) in 1961.
    It has been the ruling party of post-apartheid South Africa on the national level since 1994. It increased its majority in the 1999 elections, and further increased it in 2004, with 69.7% of the votes. In 2009 its share of the vote reduced slightly, but it remained the dominant party with 65.9% of the votes.


  • #58
    Busted Flat.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,003 ✭✭✭Busted Flat.


    Femme_Fatale wrote: »
    And who's defending them? The brutality Winnie Mandela oversaw was outrageous. Yeh I admire much of what she did in the run-up to acquiring power, but the methods used by her Football Team gang were horrific. And to effectively say that a traitor deserved that kind of physical brutality, just because others have done similar, is staggering.

    All sorts of war is staggering, they don't just fight during the day and go home for their tea.


  • #59
    efb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkXxi5OgNzo


  • #60
    Listrydude
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 202 ✭✭Listrydude


    So, Is Enda getting the government jet fueled up in preparation for the state funeral? He might bring Dobbo so he can report from there tomorrow! I suppose there will be books of condolences and the pubs in Moneygall will close for an hour? Ah, hang on....


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  • #61
    T-Maxx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,495 ✭✭✭T-Maxx


    Duggys Housemate wrote: »
    Yeah but he still negotiated the settlement. And SA may be corrupt but it isn't racist against its majority population. If Mandela - who was in prison until he was an old man made money later - good for him. If he'd had had a normal lifespan for black Africa he would have died in prison.

    And you spelled DeKlerk Mandela wrong.

    FYP

    And you spelled De Klerk wrong.


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