Re: OT: George best is *dead*

Col wrote:
> "Sean" <seand-news@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:NNMhf.5884$a15.2336@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Col wrote:
>
>>>
>>> It's just strange though that we've outpourings of grief from the
>>> Cromwell Hospital and Old Trafford but nothing at all from the
>>> Northern Irish angle. He was after all 'the Belfast kid made good'
>>> but not a peep from the folks up there......
>>>
>> Untrue. Northern Ireland had an extended local news programme this
>> evening to allow all sorts of people to have a bit of a cry about
>> him.
>>
>> BBC News Online NI over the past week has always had him at the top
>> of their page whenever the news came out that he was ill, stable,
>> making a slight recovery, taking a turn for the worst, within a day
>> of death etc.
>
> So the Local NI news was making the same noises as the rest of the
> media?
> No surprise there, then.
>
> The point I was really trying to make was that given that he was a
> 'Northern Irish' international with 37 caps to his name, I am shocked
> (though perhaps not particularly surprised) that this has not been
> mentioned that much.


Not mentioned that much by whom? The northern Irish or people in general?
And why aren't you particularly surprised? in fact, how can you be 'shocked'
yet at the same time not be particularly surprised?

Have you been taking vagueness pills, or perhaps you don't really know what
it is you're trying to say?


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