Comments about the strike

There are 97 comments about "the strike"

Sean O' Muileann: Do u think that bobby was scared, fighting for the cause is one thing, coming within an inch of your own life, knowing the risks and chances of being killed on active duty, but to......

in response to: Bobby Sands: An Cumann Cabhrach biography of 1981 by Marcella32

KINE TSK: Peace to LA & NYC... heard Philly was getting HUGE?! Anyone know who wrote this sh*t back in the day? Since there's a bunch of heads in here, "Almost 22 years in these backstabbin' streets. Strike......

in response to: JA: A True NYC King by Peter

Pat Fleming (nee Brannan): What a great site!! Just spent a morning reading through the messages and re-living my youth. I lived at 93, Lyndhurst Ave until I was about 5 years old. I remember a lady called Phylis......

in response to: Irlam, Manchester by Andrew Smith

Pat Fleming (nee Brannan): What a great site!! Just spent a morning reading through the messages and re-living my youth. I lived at 93, Lyndhurst Ave until I was about 5 years old. I remember a lady called Phylis......

in response to: These Things No Longer Exist by Andrew Smith

Al Pierro: Just came across this website in search of info on what has happened to St. Joseph's church where we used to play softball back in the 50's & 60's. I attended a grade school on......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

kidcapri22yrs: ok, ok what some people are saying are that, the nazi-ideology has infiltrated the american gov't from 1930's to present, built one of their many capitol structures to capture and enslave non-anglo americans. what are......

in response to: Airport Scenes 1 by aer suzuki

rob: It always strikes me as sad when people scrawl their shitty graf all over an interesting piece...

in response to: The Hotdog Man by Peter

derry republican: these ten brave men gave there lives for are country wonder wat they would think now of them judas sinn fien traitors in stormont with the brits. sinn fien are not interested in an united......

in response to: Bobby Sands: An Cumann Cabhrach biography of 1981 by Marcella32

Beni: I lived in Jax for one and a half years. I don't like it. My main problem with the city is the lack of public transportation, the non-centralized infrastructure and the low intellect of the......

in response to: Scenes from a Little Town Called Jacksonville by Jones

EvilGentleman: I find it weird to see someone you know personally commenting about suffering rapidly expanding cranial pressures due to webmasters we know online commenting on comments made by people he knows online commenting to people......

in response to: Don Valley in the Winter by Michelle

Deb Simpkins: Hi Norma, as I remember it, Oak Ave wasn't very long so I wonder if our grandparents knew each other? I will ask my dad and see if he remembers Tommy and May.. Bolton... was......

in response to: These Things No Longer Exist by Andrew Smith

Peter: bob: i was poised to go to great effort to provide you links to mass-media sources that refute almost everything you say- about the misplacement of blame in iraq, about soldiers who refuse to go......

in response to: Ground Zero: lower Manhattan as it looks today by Peter

Anne Priestley (nee Rigby): Hi Cyril I didn't hear about the lightning strike it must have been frightening. You have a good memory. Do you cope with the heat out there? We get a couple of hot days in......

in response to: Irlam, Manchester by Andrew Smith

Roger: Even the movie dosent grasp the sheer horror of what they went threw even BEFORE the hunger strike. If you read bobby sands book, it will bring you to tears. As example, there were three......

in response to: Bobby Sands: An Cumann Cabhrach biography of 1981 by Marcella32

Eve- England: The man elected to go first on the strike, he knew he was going to die from the word go, that takes something rare. Whatever your politics, the man died for the freedom of others,......

in response to: Bobby Sands: An Cumann Cabhrach biography of 1981 by Marcella32

yas: saw this driving through queens once. i can't even wait to explore it a bit farther. i do wonder, why was there only ever one world's fair? shouldn't there have been many, like every year?......

in response to: Abandoned... NY State Pavilion by Peter

JOEY TPA The Public Animals: Man, I LOVE the industrial shots...my dad was born in England... seems to strike a chord in me.....

in response to: These Things No Longer Exist by Andrew Smith

February 6, 1958 United players killed in air disaster: The Munich air disaster took place on February 6, 1958, when the British European Airways Flight 609 crashed on its third attempt to take off from a slush-covered runway at the Munich-Riem airport in Germany.......

in response to: These Things No Longer Exist by Andrew Smith

Peter: he only strikes when the iron is hot....

in response to: The Cars That Ate NYC by CartLegger

CartLegger: Looks to me like a faulty traffic policy, like a city built for the benefit of cars, not people. [[img:22413]] This accident--which happened at the corner of Knickerbocker Ave. and grove St. in Bushwick, Brooklyn-- involved......

in response to: The Cars That Ate NYC by CartLegger

karlo: I appreciate your views BBH,but i have to disagree. You should read as much as you can about the hunger strikes,or better still,take a trip to Ireland and talk to the families,friends or people who where......

in response to: Graffiti in Belfast by barry

rose peatel: the second to botom chicken strikes me to be very odd ...

in response to: Wild Chickens by Tyfoid Kid

Jamie: it often strikes me that people who make a living from sign writing, invest in fairly expensive vinyl cut plotters and the associated software but more often than not fail to simply run their copy......

in response to: Artritis Cancer by Catherine Penfold-Waxman

Big Bank Hank: Everytime I see paintings of the hungerstrikers it makes me want to throw up! These men were terrorists/criminals they thought nothing of killing people, blowing up buildings/people, robbing banks, extorting money of people, and generally......

in response to: Graffiti in Belfast by barry

procyon: sort of; important but not too important. the '33 world's fair was there, and it was the site of mayor daley's famous, ridiculous late-night bulldozing in 2003. from the next day's Trib: "Mayor Richard Daley launched......

in response to: Adler, 12th St. Beach and the Former Meigs Field by procyon

aer: i think this is the best series i've seen you do in a while. i mean, all your shots are good, but some i like better than others, and these are perfect. you strike a......

in response to: Dec 29 2006 Toronto by hool

chris tracey: bobby was a brave man who just wanted freedom in his country god bless the hunger strikers...

in response to: Bobby Sands: An Cumann Cabhrach biography of 1981 by Marcella32

Joseph Sassone: I was 15 years old when Bobby Sands died and remember it rather well. The other 9 men who gave their lives for the cause are sadly overshadowed somewhat by Bobby but someone had to......

in response to: Bobby Sands: An Cumann Cabhrach biography of 1981 by Marcella32

Cameo: I'm sure it won't take long for them to return. I'll try to make a note of who strikes first and get the pics up here. ...

in response to: Anti-graf / Clean Canvas by Cameo

Peter: the {buff} strikes again!...

in response to: Anti-graf / Clean Canvas by Cameo

Matlac: EG, "geo-nerdiness" is contagious. While reading about your earthquake research in the St. Lawrence Valley I remembered about the 1663 earthquake which hit Quebec City and Charlevoix surrounding. The Atlas of Canada says it was......

in response to: The Top 10 Canadian Skylines by CE

Shaz: was at the hunger strikers march today in belfast all those men would have been proud of the support they were given today!! rest in peace !!...

in response to: Hunger Strikers by barry

EvilGentleman: All in proper juxtaposition. Sign strikes again! I also like the top of the Woolworth Building poking out of the background sky....

in response to: Copies by sine

joey: evilg - i'm a beach boy. daddy took the t-bird, and my goatee is hidden by the camera. jon - this is at maxi's on mayfield rd. little italy. more cleveland photos to come. mr. ghost......

in response to: Self Reflection by joey

Catherine Penfold-Waxman: Nice to see you Joey! and a nice shot. I almost want a pack of Lucky Strikes....

in response to: Self Reflection by joey

EvilGentleman: Yesterday's paper had an article about how there are bylaws coming into force to make bars put ashtrays outside their entrances. The city estimates that 600,000 people use the downtown core each weekday (not counting......

in response to: Montreal Goes Non-Smoking: Good or Bad? by EvilGentleman

I.T.U.C.: "ALL HAIL DISCORDIA". Give praise to the patron Saint of Cyclists, for getting her strike right on target; again. Please supply coordinates of the collision, so the C.L.F (NY) can sticker the site as a......

in response to: Bus Vs Suv by barry

Catherine Penfold-Waxman: Peter, we used to play the same game. But these days, it's called "Black Ops Death Strike: Take out the Terror Cell."...

in response to: Decapitated Bird (Warning: Yes, Really) by jeeff

EvilGentleman: Chris, I can tell you from experience, that while the majority of police try hard to do a decent job, cases of police overstepping the bounds of the responsibilities entrusted to them by the citizens......

in response to: I Was Arrested Today by CE

jack: ATTENTION! ATTENTION! READ ALL ABOUT IT! THE OCTOPUS ATTACKER STRIKES AGAIN! so, the evil gentleman has struck again. i'm putting out an all points bulletin to apprehend this elusive crinimal. watch......

in response to: Octopussing by EvilGentleman

ea: lightning strikes and missing you heat dreams of animals wounding one another with human tools palms rattling my sense of being coagulating risk the risk arterial fist thump bumping keep roll hum drumming over highways time slides sideways and when I wake......

in response to: Hotel Detail by ea

Rob: Thanks Rick for your mini review and google search and paste for the words “buddy bike.” But as the owner of the above bike, let me clear a few things up: Regarding the bike pictured: It is......

in response to: Side-by-Side Tandem Bicycle: by Peter

Sean RC: Here editor whats the score mate why did has my comment been removed? after reading what half these fools have been saying mine got removed mine was factual for fuck sake. Even my comment on......

in response to: Ulster Young Militants: Shankhill by norniron

elaine: you can take photos of anything you like except minors. or miners, during the days of the strikes, but that's just because the police don't like you doing stuff they don't like you doing -......

in response to: 11 Stanley Place, Kinning Park by kobe

EvilGentleman: The great sheep porn star Lambone strikes again!...

in response to: April 27th 2006: Cameraphone by Jamie

A concerned viewer: I actually know the guy who did this, he lives in brooklyn. The way he explained it to me was that he intended to kill an animal (by the way it was a bunny)......

in response to: A Grisly Example of Man\'s Inhumanity by GGP

EvilGentleman: I think for me, it went from my imagining some child crying because some sick scumbag had killed their beloved kitty, to my now imagining some radical activist making a statement about lab testing on......

in response to: A Grisly Example of Man\'s Inhumanity by GGP

Biff: The Amazons strike again......

in response to: Thanks For 30 Wonderful Years by groovehouse

Micheal - Australia: I was a teenager during the hunger strikes and took the side of the hand I was delt. I have had time to reflect and investigate with an open mind and no matter how you......

in response to: Bobby Sands: An Cumann Cabhrach biography of 1981 by Marcella32

Peter: the {buff} strikes yet again!...

in response to: Bench by Pat

Peter: my mom lived in {seoul} for years in the 70s... shes had a chronic case of pneumonia that strikes every winter, and the doctors say it most likely stems from the wear-and-tear her lungs took......

in response to: Dirty Lense by chiamattt

galaxy: ahhhh, greenpoint. brings back memories from the year the garbage collectors went on strike in the summer time. nothin' like the whiff of diapers mixed with rotting food in the humid summer of......

in response to: Greenpoint by Curbed

EvilGentleman: Sorry, hool. From what I have seen, I have been encouraged by a large group of the regulars here, including the other 4 of your fellow editors. I shall try to keep your wishes in......

in response to: Things I Hate About... Grocery Shopping by EvilGentleman

Peter: eg: you said ##"I may have differing views on America's legitimacy (and Canada's too, for that matter)"## that really caught my attention. id truly be fascinated to hear more about this... as someone whose heritage predates......

in response to: Burning the Flag by jack

Chantek: As a knitter, your stuff really strikes a cord with me. Making functional garments is great, but you've taken the 'function' out of the pieces which is part of the shock. A stop sign......

in response to: Wholesome Urban Graffiti by groovehouse

Catherine Penfold-Waxman: It's tensing to strike. Soon it will feed on a manhattanite. It will devour everything except the cell phone, which will be subsumed into the sidewalk. ...

in response to: Pipebot! by Peter

elaine: not impooible, hear that, jamie? it does have a little discontent, but praps more from the surroundings than from you. 'angry' is only one of the elements jack has picked up on, if you look at......

in response to: Will You Be Waiting for Me in the Star Alley? by an impossible child

jack: oh to run in a field again with my glove on my hand and my baseball cap on my head running and yelling for a strike out. the sun in my face and my......

in response to: First Time at a Baseball Game by johnny E

ian: When I first arrived in Rome and tried to hop on the subway, I was delighted to find out I came right in the middle of a 2 hour transit strike. Upon reaching the platform,......

in response to: I\'l See You in Rome by pietro

43: sometimes. though your combination of religious rhetoric and girlcrazy oggling strike me as contradictory and irritating. perhaps you might consider the risk of misrepresenting your faith by tossing it out agressively amongst unarmed......

in response to: I\'l See You in Rome by pietro

Fragthemall.: I am curently working on a mod for Counter Strike called "Kengsinton Market". It is a "Patty defusing " scenario. Litterbugs versus Vigilantes. The Ulock armed Vigilantes try to prevent the baseball bat toting litterbugs......

in response to: Motorist Vs Courier by hool

Jilee: I am from there, but it is hard to get the point. This could be depicting crowding instead of transit strike....

in response to: Transit Tidal Wave by Chris Fuerth

Six : I would and have given people there garbage back when they drop it. I almost always do it politley( ok a little sarcasticly, but its funny for people to look like such idiots for so......

in response to: Motorist Vs Courier by hool

Litter did I Know: I read this story carefully. I have already dealt with a similar situation in a similar way in Victoria BC. A Car whizzes by me on a narrow downtown street and out the window flies......

in response to: Motorist Vs Courier by hool

Alexandre Dumas: My sister's a horrid nightmare of a woman. Have at her. Have fun with your fantasies about killing me. I hope they distract you when your face repeatedly strikes my knee....

in response to: Motorist Vs Courier by hool

jack: i killed him, i killed him! i did'nt mean to, it was an accident. i was doing the lotus strike position and my instructor told me to try and hit him. i......

in response to: Chinese New Year by Selig

piggly wiggly: what's with this selective crap about nobody should ever strike a woman?! how 'bout nobody should ever strike another? jeezus. no wonder this world is getting nowhere nearer global peace. p.s. betterthingstodo is an asshole....

in response to: Motorist Vs Courier by hool

EvilGentleman: For the respondent who posted at 20:44 Thank you for your response. At least someone here is actually reading my entire posts before passing judgement. I realize I am somewhat of a modern-day anachronism. I strongly......

in response to: Motorist Vs Courier by hool

TO EvilGentleman:: Anyone who takes the time to systematically write a piece about how they beat the shit out of guys that abuse women (and the rules by which they do so) I figured was every bit......

in response to: Motorist Vs Courier by hool

Jacques: "Besides if there is no litter bugs out there alot of people would be out of a JOB." ARe you serious? And the rest of you who have stooped to this level and made this outrageous......

in response to: Motorist Vs Courier by hool

Dear White Vest Girl: Take you rock to the pawn shop, sell it, take the cash and get away from your psycho fiance before he beats you to death (or your future children) in a fit of rage. Your story......

in response to: Motorist Vs Courier by hool

PK: LEAH, Leah, Leah....I'm glad to hear you're ok, but things could've been much, much worse for you. First tip that someone is off base should clue you to someone's emotional quotient. Low. Just chucking food out......

in response to: Motorist Vs Courier by hool

Timichango: Jesus-h-christ - psycho motorists strike again! It's getting bloody ridiculous out there. Glad that she's ok... can't say I'm as glad about the driver. If anyone knows her, and if she needs......

in response to: Motorist Vs Courier by hool

Catherine Penfold-Waxman: I have a friend whose dress sense is amazing. One day Kron be in an Austrian Durndal (like in the Sound of Music) and the next she'll be wearing vintage 70's polyester with grapes and......

in response to: Broadway Squat by elaine

Juice_Artst n graffitti: Ma main man had 2 strikes, slipped, got arrested and flipped He screamed 'Thug Life!' and emptied a clip gots tired of runnin from the police ...

in response to: Must Do Crack! by Peter

Lottie: During his non-violent hunger-strike, it became very obvious how fanatical Margaret Thatcher and the British goverment of those days actually was. This greatly increased the understanding of lookers-on all around the world. The present-day population......

in response to: Bobby Sands: An Cumann Cabhrach biography of 1981 by Marcella32

jack: okay here are the facts: 1=the strike started jan. 1, 1965. mayor john lindsay was arrogant and wanted to break the powerful union boss then. but both were arrogant and wanted to be......

in response to: Transit Strike! by Peter

kc: In 1980 I think women started wearing sneakers to work instead of heels...and maybe joey's right...stopped into my local liquor store yesterday, and they said day one of the strike had been incredibly busy, they......

in response to: Transit Strike! by Peter

jack: peter i hope all is fine with you. i remember the strike in 1965. i was home on leave and i had to drive to take the staten island ferry from brooklyn and then......

in response to: Transit Strike! by Peter

Peter: heh... i stayed home yesterday, but went in today because i had a dr's appointment, and as it was right across the street from my office, i decided, why not... ill snap more photos on the......

in response to: Transit Strike! by Peter

Catherine Penfold-Waxman: I second that emotion. I knew Peter would document the strike! Good man. I set out with every intention of walking to 55th and 3rd from Astoria with two of my neighbors. We got about two......

in response to: Transit Strike! by Peter

GGP: hey, been waiting for you to weigh in on the strike, Peter. good views and some great bridge shots. bummer about the flat....

in response to: Transit Strike! by Peter

jeeff: a few years ago i used to dislike them, but then i had a change of heart. ps. i bet the sidewalks aren't so empty today. i bet there are some crazy photo opportunities during......

in response to: Vermin to Some by Catherine Penfold-Waxman

Peter: wow, awesome. a flint church! does that mean if you strike it wit hsome iron, it'll spark? hehehehe. pretty photos, elaine. thanks. i always love seing the stuff around there. ...

in response to: St Peters Close, Yes He Is by elaine

Paul G: Peter is right: that is a good composition. That pic says a lot about the history of architecture in NYC. If the sun struck the neo-clasical structure in the center, it would be a million......

in response to: Slice of Grand Central by Catherine Penfold-Waxman

Peter: and the green keds strike again: [[img:5617]]...

in response to: Standing Around by sine

elaine: dulce et decorum est pro patria mori...it is a good and beautiful thing to die for one's country - [[http://www.english.emory.edu/LostPoets/Dulce.html]] best not to die for flags, whatever their stripe, but the impulse is pure, more......

in response to: grace in the city/4th july by elaine

elaine: it's fab, isn't it? there is a new thing on bbc here started last spring, called 'springwatch' which is just perfect elaine tv. they set up camp in the country with loads of webcams and......

in response to: Pet Bird Precursorz by GGP

elaine: oddly, sometimes you have the edge in these situations by being female? and obviously weaker/not giong to join in/maybe appealing to some other part of people's brains, reminding them of their mother, whatever. it's good......

in response to: Girlfight by JJ

elaine: sad in a way, but also very cool. the one where the chain fence has just been melted through is amazing...tree chi... this strikes me as less cruel than 'bred' trees where willow is introduced......

in response to: It Isn\'t Easy Being Green by GGP

elaine: tis fab, really. actually, did you ever read a book called 'angry white pyjamas' by robert twigger? it's really really good, your brief description of your apartment suddenly put it in my mind. there are......

in response to: tokyo by night by jeeff

elaine: Joe, looking through your articles here, it seems amazing to me that you even attempt to live in Los Angeles, with your sensibility. I mean, there are some nooks and crannies, but it does strike......

in response to: Long Time Gone by Joe

elaine: nice to know your local council or whoever is responsible thinks so highly of it's residents... reminds me of Liverpool UK in the 80's. I seem to remember a time when not only was there......

in response to: Junk Yards of Moscow by UHOCTPAHEZ

elaine: I was recently jolted by the power of words when listening to a radio programme about how weather had influenced novels and Ian McEwan talked about how he had written the cement garden in South......

in response to: day trip by elaine

Peter: viva text indeed! good story. its nice to read something on here once in a while as opposed to just looking at photos. i encourage you to write stories like this whenever the whim strikes,......

in response to: on asking for change by vz

Jamie: A bit of clarification is perhaps needed for those not familiar with the Irish/Ulster slang used here. My facts should not be taken as gospel but are what I have gleaned from spending a couple......

in response to: Falls Road: Belfast by Jamie

Karma: these are really nice. i always strikes me as to how pictures of chicago always look sunny as well as gray, often at the same time. i like how you do the borders, also. good stuff....

in response to: Falls Road: Belfast by Jamie