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Wait, that's where the song comes from???

What did he say Ulster is British or give Ireland back? 😁

They'd caught some guys selling bootleg t-shirts in the car park, and Dave decided to have words. He was told they were raising money for 'The Cause' and given a crash course in NI's political history, from a very particular slant.

Whichever drugs were controlling Dave that night felt it appropriate to share his new-found knowledge during the encore - 'Give Ireland back to the Irish! More power to the IRA!' All hell very much broke loose.

That was my first gig. I got picked up by my ma in the car park while groups were throwing rocks at each other's coaches. I'm still seeking out that sort of thrill again.

Edit - just found this from Mustaine's pov - he remembers it much the same as me, despite 35 years of hard self-abuse since (and he's been a bit naughty too, etc and so on...) https://www.antrimguardian.co.uk/news/2021/02/19/gallery/anarchy-at-antrim-forum-13567/

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Yeah, the late 90's my folks got up in arms about a local pub which started doing lunchtime stripteases. They never even drank there.

If you haven't seen the documentary "Countdown to Zero", I'd highly recommend it. Especially if you like to stay awake at night wondering if we'll be vaporised by the morning

I imagine every gig since has been a disappointment?

Yeah, well they've had a lot to live up to, I guess.

Not all billionaires; in an almost perfect crossover event for the thread, some of the people rescued from the huge Med refugee incident earlier this month were rescued by a $175m 300 ft mega yacht. Doesn't appear to have a submarine.

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Command and Control by Eric Schlosser is also excellent, and the associated film is worth seeing too.

https://youtu.be/LXPrJcFmqKg

Isn't that scenario the basis of a film?

The New Peerless, as I recall. The strippers were slightly cleaner than the glasses and cutlery.

The problem is it only works if you mispronounce Slough, which as we all know rhymes with 'gruff'.

Yes, hippy, you fucking gorgeous human, see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimson_Tide_(film)

We call it "Sloth"

[csb]I was at the gig at Antrim Forum where Mustaine started a sectarian riot that inspired Holy Wars[/csb]

CSB Status: Pending
CSB Status: Confirmed. Definitely a CSB.

Can I come, will there be some kind of unique and interesting form of extreme tourism I can share on MySpace?

Betjeman was writing from the privileged position of not having to engage in manual work for a living. Slough had arguably been ruined when IK Brunel found land owners both further north, (Farnhams, & Langley Park), and further south, (Eton College, & Chalvey), unwilling to sell the land needed for his Great Western Railway.

The well laid out and planned, ( with an integral poeer station providing power, and steam), Slough Trading Estate offered better places of work in the run up to WW2 than the crowded factories of Acton that boomed during and after WW1.
I've no doubt some workers were exploited by bad managers and or owners, but Betjeman was never going to improve capitalism through a poem.

Re the missing nukes dropped over Spain, isn’t that where the GLOMAR response “neither confirm nor deny” was first coined?

Slough was probably the only place in the country that smelt of Spangles.

Just went down a little rabbit hole about the guy who said no, he was also the Liam Neeson character in the K19 film.

Aparently normally two people would have been enough to launch it (the two who'd already said yes), it just so happened that in this instance, on this boat, it had been expanded to three because of this other guy's rank and reputation. Mental

No: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glomar_Explorer

The coastguard ordered them to. The captain probably got a bollocking from the owner for being anywhere near them.

Where do you get that idea from (aside from your very obvious prejudices)?

Of course he doesn't appear to have a submarine. They don't open those hidden submarine-kidnapping bow doors where anybody can see.

Because the owners put their holiday first. They've lost a day of their schedule and been unable to go in the main saloon area in case they catch anything from the migrants. Now everything has to be cleaned. They're tangled up in a legal case which requires statements to be taken and possibly a future court appearance and lots of fussing by the owner's lawyers. This is the opposite of what they want from their boat. They buy it for non stop pampering, having everything just the way they want it, the full Louis XIV experience. It costs hundreds of grand per day. So I guarantee that superyacht captains try to stay well clear of migrant boats. (I worked on one.)