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Yeah that's why I mentioned pop culture stuff because it's a long ass story. There's a multi-part documentary called "Once Upon a Time in Nothern Ireland" that goes deep into the story with accounts from people on both sides and tons of crazy footage, also if you want to watch a good ass movie about it then check out '71. It's about a Brit soldier who gets tossed into Ireland and basically gets left behind enemy lines in Nothern Ireland where shit is popping off. Both of these are great though.

Catholics vs Protestants has been a huge thing in Ireland for a very long time, stupid brother wars with White people killing each other over religious views and other things. I think it goes all the way back to the "Plantation of Ulster" where the Brits basically tried to colonize the native speaking Irish who spoke Gaelic in the 17th century. I think they still have a huge wall built between Northern Ireland (which is like a totally different country than regular Ireland) and the rest of the country. They used to have military checkpoints between the two sides to stop people from killing each other all the time. That song "Sunday Bloody Sunday" by U2 is about how the military murdered a bunch of protesting civilians in the early 70's which started the whole thing up again and kept going through the 90's when The Cranberries did that "Zombie" song about those kids getting caught up in the crossfire. There's also that movie "Michael Collins" with Liam Neeson about the start of the IRA during the Irish War of Independence and I think that takes place around the time my family left the country. Sure, it's the gay Hollywood version of events, but it's still a neat movie to get people further interested in the history.

I was basically raised Roman Catholic. My ma's side of the family left Ireland over the religious bullshit like 100 years ago so thankfully I got to miss out on the later half of all the "Bloody Sunday" madness that was still going on over there when I was a kid with all the car bombs and shit. I went to Catechism and Sunday School and did the First Communion thing and all that, and then all the pedo stuff happened with the church getting exposed after all those articles in the later 90's or whatever and my family stopped going and my parents haven't been religious since, it's interesting to see the affect that had on a lot of people looking back.

Yeah we weren't rich when I was growing up but we weren't poor either. We had an IBM 5150 computer so my parents wouldn't buy an NES because I think my dad thought it was just some lame kids version of a computer which we already had so I had to play NES ports on DOS. My dad had some high up position at a tool and die company that ended up making parts for Space X right before he retired so I think he made a fuckload of money off Elon. Apparently this tool and die shop was one of the only places in the USA that could press the massive sheets of steel he needed for the "Starship" model or something. I think they mostly made stuff for the Chinese before that, but I know he made a lot of money that he has stashed. 🤷🏻‍♂️