AnonoBoy wrote: » He's a few jambons short of a canteen lunch. A few fizzy pops short of a Famous Five picnic. A few apples short of an orchard. A few misogynists short of a gamergate discussion. etc. etc. You get the picture.
not yet wrote: » Not really, can you elaborate a little more....
Dots1982 wrote: » Can anyone with better knowledge than me explain to me Johnny Adair's personal convictions or is he just completely mental? I follow him on twitter and on the one hand he is glorifying the poppy and what it represents and attacking celtic for not glorifying the poppy yet this is a man who has links to neo-nazi groups in Germany and Combat 18? Exactly how does this work?
Dots1982 wrote: » I follow him on twitter
catallus wrote: » I thought this guy died years ago?!
Uncle Ruckus wrote: » Just did a wiki on him.
not yet wrote: » Ah sure he's only a product of the troubles, never meant any harm and all that..
anncoates wrote: » Loyalist - and to a lesser but still significant extent Republican paramilitarism - just provided a sympathetic /justificatory environment for generations of people that in other societies would have been plain serial killers, organized criminals, gun freaks and so on.
Its Only Ray Parlour wrote: » He suffers from anger issues which stem from his height issues.
DeadHand wrote: » How can you possibly say there were fewer of such people on the Republican side?
kneemos wrote: » How many followers has he got?
anncoates wrote: » struck by the relatively higher prevalence on the loyalist side of torture, serial killing with seemingly more inchoate political justification etcl.
anncoates wrote: » It's just impossible to see him without thinking of the Blue Oyster bar in those Police Academy movies
The worst of (the Loyalist thugs), like Johnny ‘Mad Dog’ Adair, in reality a late developer in the matter of shooting people, overcame his slight stature—he was known as ‘the wee man’ before he became ‘Mad Dog’—building outwards by injecting his arms and thighs with horse steroids and pumping-iron sessions. He used the popular household aerosol furniture polish Mr Sheen to make his shaven head shine. ... As the case of Adair shows, his charisma did not derive from his being a proficient killer, because unlike his associates he got into that at a relatively late stage, and is thought to have personally killed ‘only’ once. He routinely missed whenever he tried to shoot someone, and was risibly cackhanded with guns. On stage at a loyalist culture day even the mini-skirted and hooded ‘Mad Bitch’ got off a salvo while ‘Mad Dog’ grappled with a flashy automatic pistol on his knees.