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What stores are popular now? Do you like clothing they offer?

I'm afraid I don't know what's popular :)
I'll tell you what I'm wearing. Blue trousers, multicoloured socks and this t shirt.
What stores are popular now Do you like clothing they offer
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Thanks, as always, for your answer about Home Rule. In that answer you mentioned that after independence the Irish state drove out Protestants. How was this done?

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There were various vigilante attacks, mainly on wealthy members of the pre-1914 ascendancy, but also on poor Protestants.
http://www.wesleyjohnston.com/users/ireland/past/protestants_1861_1991.html
Interestingly, recent immigration has led to a rise in Protestantism as black Pentecostal churches have experienced growth, much as in England, but I'm talking about the demise of traditional, mainly Anglican, religion.
This is, as I say, not a subject I know that much about (hence the reference to wanting to study it) but I'd start with Michael McConville and progress to that.
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Would you get feriens tego tattooed on your chest?

You've hit proper lows here Ben, not just for the arsehole question but because you obviously haven't bothered reading my previous answers, which would give you some idea what I think about "loyalist" terrorism.
Fuck's utter sake, do you even read my comments? What is the point of asking questions if not?
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Please excuse my ignorance on so much of what you are referring too in your answer about the relationship between Ireland and Britain even down to basic term. In your answer to my question about this relationship you made mention of "the failings of the independent Irish state". Could you explain?

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Don't worry about "ignorance" :) as your curiosity is the gateway to knowledge, reading the book Ascendancy to Oblivion by Michael McConville is the best way to do this.
After independence, the Irish state took on a sectarian charachter, persecuting the Protestants who made up 10% of the population prior to that, but almost all were driven out. This was allegedly for the benefit of the Catholics but of course it didn't make them better off, quite the opposite.
Most went to Ulster or to mainland Britain but this didn't work and was unjust because the southern Protestants were, though they wouldn't have liked to acknowledge this, rooted in Ireland and part of Ireland.
As a member of an ethnic minority you will appreciate the harm done by this; if what was done in Ireland after 1923 had been done in South Africa after 1994, you might now be living in exile in Europe with people you have little in common with, and not in your own country.
This is especially sad since many of the original Irish leaders, like Charles Parnell, were Protestant themselves, but were squeezed out by sectarians.
Because of the failure of the British state to reach a reasonable accomodation in 1893 and the period immediately before 1914, the door was opened to such people as, to quote an other Irishman, the centre didn't hold.
These are my thoughts but as I say you'd be better with Michael McConville as he's done a first-rate job amassing his research and writing about it lucidly.

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The most attractive country in Europe for you?

I like lots of places but what about Poland, I very briefly went there in 2004 but didn't do anything like enough.
My granddad was Polish & originally came from Torun but as he died in 1976 I know little about it, I'd like to go on a voyage to find this out.
My visit was to Krakow but as I say I can barely remember it, areturn trip is certainly overdue!
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What's next? *Feel free to interpret the question any way you'd like* (STAIF)

I'm off on atrip here :)
https://www.battleofnantwich.org/schedule
Commemorations of this battle take place on this day every year, but somehow I've never been to any, so I hope to have a good interesting time & post about it later.
Some of my friends live in that town so they'll be along as well, if it doesn't rain (too much) we'll have a good one.
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What's the worst movie you have ever seen in your whole life?

Where the Wild Things Are, wtf was that all about?
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How do you like biology? Do you find it interesting?

I'm not especially interested in biology but I recognise that it's a worthwhile & important topic.
When I wrote about museums
https://ask.fm/Hadacol/answers/144839313916
The Natural History Museum is also located on that legendary street in London and I do enjoy a visit there.
Sorry to disappoint but I don't know enough about biology to add more?
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In your answer about what Home Rule was you quoted King George V as saying ""What fools we were not to have accepted Gladstone's Home Rule bill. The Empire would not have had the Irish Free State giving us so much trouble and pulling us to pieces". How did the Irish Free State trouble Britain?

StephenInd’s Profile PhotoStephen Ind
The whole controversy over Irish independence, which came to the boil at the Easter Rising and led to a particularly senseless slaughter after World War 1 (as if enough hadn't been killed already) could, in my view, have been avoided.
http://www.history.ac.uk/reviews/review/1516
As is touched on in that review, right-wing intrasingience in Belfast and London and the insistence of the extremists of the IRA led to a belief that somehow the countries could be entirely severed from each other, when most normal people would regard this as a threat to be avoided, and the failings of the independent Irish state and its sectarian identity confirm this.
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..you like young coconut and its juice..??

Yes fam, I love it!
When I visit my girlfriend who lives in Chinatown in Birmingham, I go to a stand in the Bull Ring indoor market & get juiced :)
you like young coconut and its juice
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Thanks so much for you answer as to how you came to work in accounting. Very generous to share these details with us and very insightful. A different topic but something you raised there, Home Rule. What is this and why does it interest you so?

StephenInd’s Profile PhotoStephen Ind
Home Rule was a proposal for bringing a just peace to Ireland which was brought forward by Liberal governments in Britain.
http://www.historyhome.co.uk/peel/ireland/homerule.htm
I believe if it had succeeded, we would have had a peace and Ireland would still be part of that family of nations rathet than having been violently torn asunder from Britain as it was after 1918, to everyone's detriment.
I do believe the conduct of right-wing "patriots" was shocking and, as in 2016, they buggered up the country they "love".
King George V, hardly a left-wing agitator, said:
"What fools we were not to have accepted Gladstone's Home Rule bill. The Empire would not have had the Irish Free State giving us so much trouble and pulling us to pieces".
Some sensible accomodation could have been found since, as readers of Ascendancy to Oblivion by Michael McConville will know, Britain and Ireland have been intertwined for centuries, which is one of the reasons why IRA terrorists failed to achieve their objectives.
I am very much a unionist when it comes to Scotland and Northern Ireland remaining in the United Kingdom. I say people need to be given good reasons why this is the right choice for them, because it is, and that will only be done by accepting people's right to be Scottish and British, or to be culturally an Irish Catholic and continue to value what being part of the United Kingdom offers.
The legendary Irishman advised "not to start from here" but we can at least avoid making it worse.
And apart from my own opinions, it's a fascinating topic. I'm intrigued by the thinking of those who:
-staunchly opposed the whole thing like Edward Carson
-had no strong convictions but went along with the anti bandwagon or exploited the issue, like FE Smith
-those who changed party; there were several distinct schools of thought who jumped ship from the Liberals to the Tories, who were all against Home Rule but had little else in common
-those who reluctantly went along with it and/or accepted its inevitability
- enthusiasts, of whom there were relatively few in mainland Britain.
You could happily spend at least two years of an MA thesis engrossed in this stuff!
(But who would pay me to do that?)

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Drop one English word which will make people check the dictionary!

My favourite obsolete word is "howbeit", meaning something like "however" or "nevertheless".
It appears several times in the 1611 bible ( a masterpiece of English literature that should be read by all, regardless of what they believe or don't believe) but seems to have gone out of fashion for some reason.
Howbeit, I'll carry on my mission to bring it back.
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With whom do you get along well?

Most people, though I wouldn't necessarily choose to spend my own time with, for instance, vaguely acceptable people at work.
I carefully choose my friends but often have little choice in the people I work, volunteer, etc. with (and even less in my family!) so I find it best to get on ok with most people while not taking them too seriously.
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I have noticed a certain tension between the cultural activities you enjoy so much and your work. When you chose to go into accounts did you consider other fields where you could have expressed your love of culture more?

StephenInd’s Profile PhotoStephen Ind
A bit of a challenging one :)
Really, I didn't so much make the choice as fall into it. During my last year at university I was drunk almost all the time and this combined with (and made worse) a lack of confidence, so I didn't apply to work in, for instance, a museum.
(My degree was in history and my dissertation on the legacy of the English Civil War, a subject I was thoroughly tired and bored with in 2006 but have rekindled my interest in now).
So I drifted, working in a factory, two different warehouses, and at Royal Mail, and was unemployed when I unexpectedly got the accounts job from one of those desultory job searches any unemployed person will be all too familiar with.
Five years later I'm still there, apart from a year I had when I was too ill with hypothyroidism to work. And it isn't exactly thrilling but as I've become more competent and responsible, and begun to earn more (albeit still less than I like), the fact that I've proven so good at it is another factor.
Were I to win the lottery I'd resume my never-finished academic career as I do feel an undergraduate degree isn't enough for the level of interest and curiosity I have in. for instance, Herbert Asquith's and Mr Gladstone's attempts at bringing in Home Rule.
Since meeting a 26 year old PhD graduate and marvelling at what an accomplished person she is, I've felt this even more, but then you come back to the central point, which is a chronic shortage of jobs in those fields given how many want to work in them and in my other field of interest, environmentalism.
So I continue to earn a living in this way and, (like most people), the things I most truly enjoy are confined to evenings, weekends & holidays.

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What are some of the most fun museums that you have visited?

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You can't beat a walk down Exhibition Road in London, so called because the Great Exhibition of 1851 was held there.
http://www.vam.ac.uk/page/g/great-exhibition/
The street is just lined with museums, so anyone can find what they're interested in, apart from people who don't like museums, and who cares what they think?
If you take in the sights and sounds of Westminster you can then walk through parks to this place & find your history there.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exhibition_Road
Just imagine being some kind of scholar at Imperial or the Goethe Institute and spending your breaks in one of those places.
More fun than accounts anyway!
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From you answer about giving to charities I see you are particularly concerned about the children of the poor having access to culture in order that their imaginations are stimulated. Do you think the internet is good medium to achieve this?

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The internet has its uses, but you can't beat a good museum, library or university for that combination of expertise and information.
For instance, a budding artist who wants to work woth ceramics would benefit enormously from a trip here:
http://www.stokemuseums.org.uk/pmag/
http://www.wedgwoodmuseum.org.uk
https://www.vam.ac.uk/collections/ceramics
Or their foreign equivalents, like Sevres in France or Jingdezhen in China.
The reason my posts are so well informed isn't that I'm an expert on everything, but that I've consulted those who are. And part of that is online research, but most of it is that I always visit the local museum of the town I'm in, where all the information is gathered and explained by people who know and love an area I may not know much/anything about, but be curious.
The use of the internet is connecting people to thoughts & lives different to their own, but as I say the concentration of information and the explanation of its significance is best done locally.

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Have you ever given to any charities?

Yes mate, I'm very keen to support charities.
I have an underactive thyroid that took years to get diagnosed & treated, so when I do some athletic feat (that would have been impossible before I got treated) I always go to http://www.btf-thyroid.org/ & make a donation so no one else suffers the way I used to.
Also I always contribute to the "suggested donation" at museums. I staunchly support free access as it's essential to me that the poor have as much right to access culture as the rich, children from deprived backgrounds should have their imaginations fired the way those in private schools routinely do.
So in order for the museum to be free to those who can't afford it, I strongly believe those who can afford it should pay, a far better approach than having charges compulsory.
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