Anthony McG

Apparently, according to this guy, I don’t have any business supporting English football clubs. Rubbish. I’ve been supporting United since I was 12 (1993). Yes, they had just won their first Premier League and I was probably influenced by that (and mainly my mate Mattie). Do I however, consider myself a lesser being because I don’t support a League of Ireland club? God no, and why should I? I respect the fans of Shels, Bohs, Pats, Galway United, Drogheda etc and I can understand their point about people supporting foreign teams. They travel up and down the country each week and get out on the terraces. Fair play lads.

What I won’t be though is a poster boy for what Mark considers to be people who “support” English clubs. I’ve been to Old Trafford once (not the required twice according to Mark) and I’m going again in August for Solskjaer’s testimonial. I’m a member of the Independent Manchester United Supporters Trust having bought shares prior to the Glazer takeover. I’m a member of United’s own supporters club. I buy the jerseys, follow the team news and had a hell of a nail-biting night watching the Champions League final. I can’t tell you why I don’t support a League of Ireland club, my grandad (who lived in Cabra West was a Bohs fan) went regularly to games but I don’t. I fell in love with a club across the water in 1993 and I’m fucked if I’m going to apologise for it.

Nice one. Won free passes to the Soundcheck Launch Party in Spy this evening (thanks to Unarocks). Details are on her blog here and the Facebook event is here. Will report on it tomorrow.

I received a forwarded email from a friend I used to work with last week. The subject line didn’t describe the contents so I began to read down through it. It showed images of the Holocaust and quoted Dwight D. Eishenhower. “What the hell is going on here, why would someone forward this”. Then it came to the real meat of the email:

This week, the UK removed The Holocaust from its school curriculum because it ‘offended’ the Muslim population which claims it never occurred.

If this happened I had heard nothing about it so I did what I normally do and I Googled the sentence. Among the results were this article on Snopes.com and another on HoaxSlayer. The content of either article did not suprise me. They’re both calling bullshit on it. The suggestion that UK schools have removed the holocaust is inaccurate to say the least. It seems to have come out of a report outlining how schools were dealing with “emotive and controversial history events”. One school selected not to teach the holocaust and the reports seem to have been exagerated from there.

My problem with the email is this: blatant fearmongering. While certain events in history may be controversial and contested by certain sections of society, they happened. Do I think people claiming that the Holocaust never happened are wrong? Yes but forwarding an inaccurate piece to twenty odd people is irresponsible. I expect more from my friends.

Wow, I don’t know what I was expecting from this film but it really suprised me. Lars is a socially awkward young man who lives in his brother’s garage. He doesn’t enjoy spending time with people and has a real problem with being touched. Lars finds out about real dolls and orders Bianca. I won’t go through the whole story but this film is by turns suprising, heartbreaking and very funny. Ryan Gosling is a really gifted actor and makes you understand how Lars has come to this point in his life. I’d recommend this film wholeheartedly. It’s not the usual fare but I really enjoyed it.
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This is genius