Bi-Generation

Behind the Scenes of The Rani's Bi-Generation, Susan and The Interstella...

The Fourteenth Doctor Bi-generates! | David Tennant to Ncuti Gatwa | The...

Dr. Alan Grant: [finding egg shells] 

Oh my God. Do you know what THIS is? 

This is a dinosaur egg. 

The dinosaurs are breeding.

Tim: 

But Grandpa said all 

the dinosaurs were girls.

Dr. Alan Grant: 

......Amphibian DNA.

Lex: 

What's that?

Dr. Alan Grant: 

Well, on the tour, the film said 

they used FROG DNA to 

fill in the gene sequence gaps. 

They mutated the dinosaur genetic code 

and blended it with that of a frog's. 

Now, some West African frogs 

have been known to 

spontaneously 

change sex 

from male to female in 

a single sex environment. 

Malcolm was right. Look... 

[we see a trail of baby dinosaur footprints] 

Life found A Way.

Bonnie/Heather

Heather Goes with the Flow | Series 10 | Doctor Who

Bonnie, Heather;

Heather, Bonnie --

"It isn't a freak optical effect! 

And it's following me....!"

I play Heather and she 

starts as a normal student, 

goes to University with Bill 

and then becomes a Water 

sort-of possessed-Monster. 

I think even when I got the audition 

for it, I was like ....argh, that's 

so fun!, I get to go and do that. 

And yeah, to play one of the monsters 

it's just a really cool, really cool job. 

I've been drenched already a few times today. I have hoses in my wig. The front bit is my own hair, then I have a wig with hoses coming through it, bottles of water thrown on me. I say thrown they are very nice about it. And then I have a pipe that comes up my jeans through the wig, and through my sleeves as well. So basically I'm always drenched in water. I think working on Doctor Who has been one of my favourite jobs so far. Everyone is so nice, there's just so much going on, and we get to work with Daleks. It's really good. So, yeah, I quite enjoyed it, could just kind of go with the... I was going to say 'go with the flow'. I will not say that! Yeah, it was fun.

   

Being Bonnie | The Zygon Inversion | Series 9 | Doctor Who

"....it was really tricky -- 

I've never done anything like that before;

You're playing uh Bonnie whilst also trying to 

remember the performance you've given as 

Clara, in your head -- so it's, um...

It's quite a MindGame; 

it's quite a lonely episode; 

I was very glad when Peter

came to set and I had someone 

to look at and act against --

again we'll forgive we'll forget I loved evil clown thought she was great I thought Jen is a great evil creature that's what she's like really oh it's not fair but it was constantly flicking between the two characters and she was a lot of fun to play and it was it was uh good to interact with the doctor as well in a different dynamic in a different setup will there be holidays oh will there be music 

I loved Bonnie -- I thought 

she did it brilliantly, um... and 

I think she should have her own series 

Dr. Disco : 

Why'd you come to my lectures 

when you're not A Student?

Bill Potts : 

Okay, so my first day here, 

in the canteen, I was on chips. 

There was this girl. Student. 

Beautiful. Like a model, only 

with talking and thinking. 

She looked at you and you perved. 

Every time, automatic, like physics. 

Eye contact, perversion.
So I gave her extra chips. 

Every time, extra chips. 

Like a reward for all the perversion. 

Every day, got myself 

on chips, rewarded her.

 Then finally, finally, she looked at me, 

like she'd noticed, actually noticed, 

all the extra chips --

Do you know 

what I realised? 

She was fat. 

I'd fatted her. 

But that's Life, innit? 

Beauty or Chips. 

I like chips; So did she --

So that's okay.

Dr. Disco : 

And how does that in any way 

explain why you keep coming 

to my lectures?

Bill Potts : 

Yeah, it doesn't really, does it? 

I was hoping something would develop.

Pickled in Time

Oh, to be in China, now 

that November's here -- 

Doctor Who: Dimensions In Time - 1993 Children In Need

During filming, Sylvester McCoy stood 

in the middle of Albert Square and yelled, 

"I don't understand why 

those BBC Enterprises 

people can't get us all together 

for love nor money, but when

JN-T makes a few calls, we're all here 

with our boots blacked — 

doing it for nothing! 

There must be something wrong!"

The Cancellation

OMAHA Beach

Is Dead Internet Theory Real?

What Happened, is of those say thousand follow-bots that followed you half of them blocked you on the same day 

Now, The Algorithm disfavours you for three weeks --

So, they know how to Game The System, is The Point --

There are these tricks that they can do based on 

the different you know uh 

The Algorithm is taking the temperature of all the different people and things that are being said on the on on the platform and it's prioritizing according to all those temperature readings The algorithm so they know how to put that's a term we're going to come to regret Existing 

That's right And they're going to put a lighter underneath some of those some of those uh thermometers that are sticking out and heat it up or cool it down uh so that they can create an artificial environment And I hear that they're very good at this I've talked to some people who know some of the the stuff about how the tech works and that the they're very sophisticated Again if you have something like China as a state actor doing this and they have every incentive to we know that they're doing it they could do this very very effectively figure out who within the uh MAGA pantheon of of people with with reach engagement and influence, no enforcement of responsibility anywhere to be seen 

And elevate the ones who are being least responsible and punish the ones who are trying to bring responsibility into the conversation And you can massively contour the online conversation so that people in 'Reality' don't even know what's happening but somehow it's filtering up through everybody else's engagement to where maybe the president's hearing it or the president's adviserss are hearing it or you know Don Junior is picking stuff up from what he's looking to sometimes wise sometimes unwise from this stew of irresponsible elevated and responsible depressed uh algorithmic information sharing ing 

Yeah Well it's a it's a terrifying scenario because huh 

I was talking to someone at a bank yesterday I was locked out of my account after spending two hours getting it unlocked I made a transaction and then it was locked again And with no explanation I just couldn't get into my account Yeah So after some trouble I contacted them again and asked cuz I was going to make a sequence of these transactions I said "Well I'm going to make the same transaction tomorrow." 

I hadn't done anything with the account for a long time so it flagged you know strange activity I said "Well I'm going to do the same thing tomorrow Can you be sure that my account won't be flagged again?" And the answer from the help desk and it was a manager not a first level subordinate was no They had they don't have control over the algorithm is distant as you might imagine 

right and this is this is also this is such an ugly vision of the future 

and wait until AI takes the control of the algorithm till the infinity point past the omega point you can't get it back yeah well we may already be at that place 

yeah well you how much automation is there in the X algorithm plenty plenty right and it's going to be gamed constantly just like The stock market is gamed you know in micro doses 

Yes 

Continually 

Yeah 

So, but the problem See I've I've felt that we're building a new unconscious That's an interesting Well it is it's an externalized unconscious Yeah Because what your unconscious does essentially is filter the world for you Like it prioritizes your perceptions That's how the collective unconscious works It prioritizes your perceptions The probability that you know the mechanisms of prioritization are low Do you understand the philosophical roots of your own priorities probably not Probably not Right Within a very limited So explicitly within a very limited confine --

Well An Algorithm is a Perception-prioritiser --

That's right 

So it's worse than conception Right Something that messes with your perceptions is way more terrifying than something that messes with your conceptions Yeah Right Perceptions I think perceptions are the axioms of conceptions Right That's it's a weird way of thinking about it that an object is an axiom of a concept It's like a a perception is like a crystallized conception It's where you start And then these algorithms prioritize our perceptions of online discourse in ways we don't understand in the least They're like nothing else we've ever encountered They're an alien They're as alien as an intelligence as we're likely to encounter 

Sure 

So and then they're gamed So relentlessly gamed That's right And 

So I don't view the social media environment 

as a place to hang out with my friends; 

I don't view it as the public square --

You know that was The Big Argument, 

"Yeah, Twitter's a Public Square', 

or whatever --Yeah, It's not. 

....I hate to break this to anybody 

who doesn't understand this [YET] --"

"It is a Hobbesian-Nightmare --"

"No, no it's something different -- 

It is Omaha Beach, with 

the machine gun-nests raining 

psychological bullets at you all the time --

It is A Battlefield a hot, 

kinetic active-Battlefield for 

psychological control 

and manipulation; 

It is a propaganda War-space, 

like we've never seen before in The World -- 

So when you interact people say "James, 

the way you interact on Twitter is kind of insane." 

Well it's.. Yeah -- I've got a flack jacket on and 

a helmet and a rifle I don't act like 

I'm walking down the street and going to the bank or going to go to the store and get a croissant Something completely different because I'm on a battlefield So yeah of course I am a little glib or I am a little dismissive or I am a little you know reserved or you know people say things to me and I just ignore them or whatever else 

"How Do You *Know* --

- or *DO You Know* ....? 

-- *How* Do You know that 

*You're a Force for Good?* 

Or Do You *assume* that.....?

I'm -- I'm very *curious* -- 

It's a very hard question; 

What I can say that I'm certain about -- 

somebody asked me something similar a few days ago, is 

"How Do You know that 

You've *escaped* Plato's Cave 

rather than being still *inside* ...?" 

And I said that there's a there's a feature to 'Reality', 

which is first of all that ''Reality'', whatever this word means, 

is True; and secondly that 'Reality' is also coherent because I'm a realist I believe those things so we have to start there I'm a I have a philosophical orientation toward realism So therefore then the moral question is slightly different than the epistemological one but they're similar If 'Reality' is true by definition and is coherent therefore a way you can have insight into that is that the true things that you say interlock with other true things -- 

and you don't hit these contradictory points 

because of the coherence principle; --

So you can guess that you're a Force for Good in a similar way but it's much less clear 

-- You can *pray* that You're a Force for Good. 

....That's The Problem because the real issue is you don't know what propaganda you you've consumed You don't know what propaganda you're you're consuming at any given moment It's entirely possible that you know let's say that there is a as I I posited right that there is a psychological operation to damage MAGA through rampant uh creating a a subculture of rampant anti-semitism or to undermine Trump or whatever its ultimate purpose is I think it's to fragment the political movement and undermine Trump's base of support for whatever else he has to do later in his his his term or possibly for the elections in 2628 and going forward; 

Those kinds of things So you could say okay psychological operation the psychological operation could be in fact exact just to be hypothetical exactly The OPPOSITE of what you think it is --

The Psychological Operation could be in fact that and this is kind of one of the things the anti-semmites will put forward It's very conspiratorial and paranoid and that's where you can start to ask this question is that they want you to think that this is what's going on They want you to think that so see people will reflexively support Israel So Israel is actually the source of the scops not something like you know Iran that's against Israel So you don't know which side of the thing you're on Yeah That's a problem with an emergent lowrust society right when you don't know what's true paranoia emerges to rule Cuz how can it not [Music]

Yo-Ho! hanan

John

masc. proper name, Middle English Jon, Jan (mid-12c.), from Old French Jan, Jean, Jehan (Modern French Jean), from Medieval Latin Johannes, an alteration of Late Latin Joannes, from Greek Ioannes, from Hebrew Yohanan (longer form y'hohanan), said to mean literally "Jehovah has favored" or "Jah is gracious," from hanan "He was gracious."

Greek conformed the Hebrew ending to its own customs. The -h- in English was inserted in imitation of the Medieval Latin form. Old English had the Biblical name as Iohannes. As the name of John the Baptist and John the Evangelist, it was one of the most frequent Christian given names, and in England by early 14c. it rivaled William in popularity and was used generically (in Middle English especially of priests) and as an appellative (as in John Barleycorn, John Bull, John Q. Public). Somehow it also became the characteristic name of a Chinaman (1818).

The Latin name also is the source of French Jean, Spanish Juan, Italian Giovanni, Portuguese João, also Dutch Jan, Hans, German Johann, Russian Ivan. Welsh form was Ieuan, Efan (see Evan), but Ioan was adopted for the Welsh Authorized Version of the Bible, hence frequency of Jones as a Welsh surname.

also from mid-12c.

john (n.)

"toilet," 1932, probably from jakes, used for "toilet" since 15c. Meaning "prostitute's customer" is from 1911, probably from the common, and thus anonymous, name by which they identified themselves. Meaning "policeman" is by 1901, from shortening of johndarm (1823), a jocular Englishing of gendarme.

"John Darm! who's he?" "What, don't you know!

In Paris he is all the go;

Like money here,—he's every thing;

A demigod—at least a king!

You cannot fight, you cannot drink,

Nor have a spree, nor hardly think,

For fear you should create a charm,

To conjure up the fiend John Darm!

["John Darm," in "Varieties in Verse," John Ogden, London, 1823]

also from 1932

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Evan 

masc. proper name, Welsh form of John, perhaps influenced in form by Welsh ieuanc "young man" (cognate of Latin juvenis), from Celtic *yowanko-, from PIE *yeu- "vital force, youthful vigor" (see young (adj.)).

gendarme (n.)

"French military police," 1796, from French (they were first organized in France 1790); earlier "mounted trooper" (1540s), from French contraction (14c.) of gens d'armes "men at arms." Gens is plural of gent "nation, people," from Latin gentem (nominative gens) "race, nation, people" (from PIE root *gene- "give birth, beget," with derivatives referring to procreation and familial and tribal groups). For armes see arm (n.2). Related: Gendarmerie, gendarmery. French also had gens de (la) robe "lawyers," which was sometimes borrowed in English.

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"coffee," by 1932, likely derived from Java, a noted source of fine coffee, as explained in the glossary of naval terms in Robert P. Erdman, "Reserve Officer's Manual, United States Navy" (Washington, 1932). The guess that it is from the name of U.S. coffee merchant Joseph Martin

toilet

1530s, earliest in English in an obsolete sense "cover or bag for clothes," from French toilette "a cloth; a bag for clothes," diminutive of toile "cloth, net" (see toil (n.2)). Toilet acquired an association with upper class dressing by 18c., through the specific sense "a fine c

lavatory

late 14c., "washbasin," from Late Latin lavatorium "place for washing," noun use of neuter of Latin adjective lavatorius "pertaining to washing," from lavat-, past participle stem of lavare "to wash," from PIE root *leue- "to wash." Sense of "washroom" is first attested 1650s; as

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Old English heafod "top of the body," also "upper end of a slope," also "chief person, leader, ruler; capital city," from Proto-Germanic *haubid (source also of Old Saxon hobid, Old Norse hofuð, Old Frisian haved, Middle Dutch hovet, Dutch hoofd, Old High German houbit, German Ha

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"lavatory," 1940, but perhaps 1922 (based on a pun of Joyce's); perhaps [Dictionary of American Slang] from French lieux d'aisances "lavatory," literally "place of ease," picked up by British servicemen in France during World War I. Or possibly a pun on Waterloo, based on water c

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Reality War

Legend (noun)

plural legends

1 : A Story from The Past that is believed by many people but cannot be proved to be True. — see also urban legend

2  : A famous or important person who is known for doing something extremely well

3 : a.) A List that explains the symbols on a map;

b.) formal : The Writing that appears on an object.

Bengali, Bengali, Bengali, Bengali --

Oh, shelve your 

Western plans 

and understand --

'Cause Life is hard enough 

when you belong here....

Gangs of New York - Opening Sequence

/

Gangs of New York ''Fight Scene''

The Borg is The Ultimate User --

 [Observation lounge]

PICARD: 

Guinan, how much more can you 

tell us about these creatures?

GUINAN: 

Bits and pieces.

PICARD: 

Anything would help.

GUINAN: 

They're made up of organic and artificial Life which 

has been developing for thousands of centuries.

Q: 

The Borg is The Ultimate User -- 

They're unlike any threat 

your Federation has ever faced. 

They're not interested in political conquest, 

wealth or Power as you know it... 

They're simply interested in Your Ship, 

its Technology; They've identified it 

as something They can consume --

RIKER: 

You brought us here, you exposed us to Them, 

and you cost us the lives of our shipmates --

Q: 

Oh, please....

PICARD : 

....Number One -- 

Eighteen of our people have died. 

Please, tell us this is one of your illusions.

Q: 

Oh, no -- This is as 'real', 

as Your so-called 'Life', gets.

(And he vanishes)

Grievous

There’s no such regulation.

Your Training makes You regulation.

Your Anger makes You predictable.

The Motor makes you rhythmic and circular.

Footprints on 

The Floor of 

Plato’s Cave

Regnant

In the context of Hindi, "reigning queen" can refer to both historical rulers and modern-day actresses. The Hindi word for "queen" is "Rani," derived from Sanskrit. This term can be used to refer to queens of Indian royal families, like Rani Chennabhairadevi, or even Bollywood actresses who are considered popular and influential, like Deepika Padukone. The movie "Queen" (2013) also uses the term "Rani" in the title, referring to the main character Rani Mehra. 

Here's a more detailed breakdown:

Historical Queens:

The term "Rani" is used to refer to female rulers in the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia, equivalent to "queen". Some examples include Rani Chennabhairadevi, who ruled for 54 years, and Razia Sultana, the only female ruler of the Delhi Sultanate. 

Modern-day "Queens":

In the context of Bollywood and popular culture, actresses are sometimes referred to as "queens" or "reigning queens" to highlight their popularity, influence, and talent. 

For example, Amazon UK refers to Deepika Padukone as a "reigning queen" of Bollywood in their book. 

The Movie "Queen":

The 2013 Hindi film "Queen" features the character Rani Mehra, who is portrayed as a strong and independent woman, and the title "Queen" highlights her journey of self-discovery. 

Tetrapiriarbus

Miasimia Goria

As The Mistress 

Rani commands :

The Queen B**** : 

I need The Chemical. 

The only source is 

the human brain. 

There's only a minute 

amount in each brain.

Uncle Abanazzer : 

How does extracting this 

make humans more aggressive? 

…I'll not ask again.

The Queen B**** : 

…..Because without 

that chemical, 

The Brain cannot rest.

Uncle Abanazzer : 

Ah, now I understand; 

You need it for your aliens 

on Miasimia Goria — 

I dropped in on your little 

domain before 

following you here. 

Chaos. 

Complete mayhem.

 What went wrong?

The Queen B**** : 

‘Wrong’? Who said 

anything went Wrong?

[Which is The Charles 

Manson Defence]

Uncle Abanazzer : 

Well, you rule there absolutely. 

I assume one of 

your little schemes 

didn't turn out quite 

as you expected.

The Queen B**** : 

A small matter. 

In the process of heightening 

the awareness of my aliens, 

I lowered their ability 

to sleep. They became —

Uncle Abanazzer : 

Difficult to Control. 

On the other hand, with this and 

the impregnated parasites, their talents are 

yours to command. 

Oh, such power….

The Reason People Lie

"The Reason People Lie" - Jordan Peterson On Why We Lie About Our Prefer...

"In your last um interview with Steven Barrett you um said one very important phrase which is that with Steven Bartlett oh yes okay uh when you said that 

"Bad Things happen when 

Good Men hold their tongue --" 

It really struck me and I think when I've had in an institution such as Oxford where I had the optimism that I would come and be able to uh be very open about my views and thoughts and I had realised that that is not entirely the case 

and the point that I'm getting to 

is that I am very open uh very outspoken 

very outspoken about my stance protecting um anti-Wokeism as it says 

and when I mention your name, for example --"

'' -- Don't do that."

"There are there are people 

who take me aside into the corner 

and says "You cannot say that; 

You cannot bring that --"

"-- yeah, it's like saying 'Voldemort'."

"But I have so many people, 

so many fellow students here 

who then confided in me and 

said, "I am not as brave as you, 

to share these views online; 

I cannot speak freely 

and I don't feel like -- 

I can be cancelled and 

my career can suffer." 

I also fear that every single day; 

but your phrase really inspired me 

and so what my question is,
"How do individuals, who depend on 

building a career in an economy 

such that is driven by Wokeism, 

survive and and still stay True 

to their moral stance...?" 

"So, here's a a definition of Faith :

'Faith is the willingness to assume 

that no matter what happens to you, 

if you Tell The Truth, it's the best thing 

that could possibly happen to you --'

Now this is a very weird thing to understand; 

now, the reason people lie or remain silent;

there's two reasons : one is to gain an undeserved advantage 

and the other is to escape a deserved punishment --

And so people will lie and manipulate 

or remain silent to, you could say, to twist the fabric of reality 

so that it makes itself manifest to their benefit --

But The Question is 

"'Benefit', by what standards? 

and over what time frame? 

And so it's definitely the case that you can gain a temporary advantage by deception but that doesn't mean that you're gaining a medium to long-term advantage right and so then you might say well how do I play things out so that I balance short-term medium-term and long-term advantage optimally and the answer to that is you say what you think right and then there's all sorts of things that might happen including the things that you just described and it's also potentially the case that you might pay a price for in your career but you got to ask yourself :

"Do you want to walk down a career road 

to a destination that requires you 

to hold your tongue --?"

like if you're not popular because of what you say with people who might hire you you might thank your lucky stars that they don't want you around because you don't want to be anywhere near them and if you do say what you have to say and someone comes along and says 

"You're just exactly the sort of person we're looking for," then you get to go and work with those people and that means that you have a life that's actually yours instead of the life of whatever lie you happen to be telling for the sake of convenience 

And so and I would say too you should be afraid 

of saying what you think but you should 

be a lot more afraid of hiding, right --

You start hiding.... I saw this with professors

 and it's still happening now it's like, 

so The Undergraduate says, 

"Well, I have to write 

what The Professor wants 

or I won't get the grade --"

and then which is by the way far less true than you might be than you might fear even among relatively woke and ideologically corrupt professors um and then you're a graduate student and you think well I can't really say what I think because I'm not I haven't got a faculty position yet and then you're a junior faculty member and you think God I'm not tenured and but when I'm tenured I'll say what I think and then you get tenured and you think well I'm not full professor yet and then you're full professor and you're a 35 year-old coward who hasn't said a true word in 20 years and now you think all of a sudden because you're secure you're going to be brave...? 

That's your Theory of Courage....?

 is it the more secure you get the braver you'll be well that's as stupid a theory of courage as you could possibly hope to develop so start now and grow a hide like a thick hide and see what happens like my experience and it's not only my experience but my experience with the people I know is that I know lots of people who paid a price for abiding by their conscience and a lot of them are riding pretty high at the moment right things swung around in a remarkable way which and that tends to happen now it doesn't always happen sometimes you tell the truth and they shoot you and that's the end of that but I I mean Jay Badacheria I I know Jay and Jay was a is an epidemiologist at Stanford and a good one and he wrote the great Bington declaration and got pillaried by his compatriots for doing so but Stanford has a pretty solid tenure uh uh arrangement and also Stanford has the Hoover Institute so people who are more conservative have a bit of protection but Badacheria was dragged through the mud in a pretty major way and now he runs the national institute institute of health right and he's not the only one that such things have happened to and so I would say you know the truth is a long-term and profound game and you got to decide if you're going to play it and there'll be costs just like there are to everything but if you're going to align yourself with anything in your life you might as well align yourself with the truth because then at least you have reality on your side and that's a good deal as you're progressing forward so take your lumps now and learn how to do it and you'll be fortified optimally when you make your way out into the world 

When I applied to graduate school I wrote a very strange letter and I did that on purpose i told my potential advisor as clearly as I could exactly what I was like um for for better or for worse and there's no doubt that many people read that letter and thought there isn't a hope in hell that I'd give that guy an interview but the person I did end up working with read the letter and thought that's just the person I'm looking for and I had a great relationship with him i still work with him it's 45 years later if you lie then the life you have isn't yours the life you have is the life of the spirit of the lie and if that's the life you want then go ahead and lie with silence or with commission but if you want your life then tell the truth your truth your truth is you and the life you have if you tell the truth is your life well what possible threat would be sufficient to entice you to give that up right

Men of Violence

"And faced now with the failure 

of their discredited cause, 

the Men of Violence have chosen, 

in recent months, to play what may well 

be their last card -- They have turned 

their violence against themselves, through 

the prison Hunger-strike to Death --

They seek to work on the most basic 

of Human Emotions, Pity, as a means 

of creating tension and stoking the fires 

of Bitterness and Hatred --"

-- Thatcher.

Maybe you're the 

one that's afraid.

Cassian: 

Of course I'm afraid! 

But there's a difference between Fear, 

and losing your nerve! 

...You want out of this? Make a choice. 

Don't use me as an excuse.

Hunger (2008) — The priest tries to talk Bobby Sands out of his protest

The Rt.Hon. Bobby Sands M.P. : 

Have you been to 

Guidor, in Donegal?

Father Moran : 

Aye.

The Rt.Hon. Bobby Sands M.P. :

I went there when I was twelve. 

Big cross-country race for the boys, 

and we were all in the back of a minibus 

headed towards Derry one morning. 

And this is big time. I mean, this is like 

International Athletics for us, 'cause we're 

racin' against boys in The South, and we have 

this thing to do, "Belfast Pride". 

Two of the boys are Prods; 

the rest of us are Catholics. 

It's a cross-community event; 

I suppose the 'good people'

on the side think 

this is great stuff : --

"Let’s get this wee team 

over from Belfast!" 

and all that patronising shite. 

Anyway, we're through The Border; 

the boys are all singin' pop tunes and all, 

but I'm just in the back of the bus 

lookin' out the window --

We're going through The Mountains. 

You know where Mount Errigal is and everything? 

It's a beautiful sight, Dom. Donegal has to be 

the most beautiful place in Ireland, I reckon.

Father Moran : 

Aye...

The Rt.Hon. Bobby Sands M.P. :

Anyway, we've arrived at Guidor, what a place, 

and it's hoppin' with about two hundred boys, 

and they're getting into their gear 

and membering up --

The whole event's run by Christian Brothers 

and they're clapping young fellas around 

the back of the ears, basically trying 

to maintain some Order. 

Our team goes off for a wee jog to stretch out the legs. 

We're surrounded by fields of barley, and 

we dip down into a wee valley where there's 

a stream and woods running through it. 

The woods and stream are 

out of bounds, so naturally, 

us Belfast boys have to go check them out. 

Woods and the stream seem 

just like the Amazon to us. 

And we come across these young fellas from Cork, 

and there's some banter about our accents; 

they could barely talk; we couldn't understand 

a word they were saying. 

We had the idea that They're lording it over us a bit, 

you know; looking down on us; I'm sensing it, anyway. 

We run along, and we come up with this idea 

to go down to the stream and check it out for fish. 

So we're down by the river, downstream. 

There's half a foot of water in there. 

Little silver fish, but nothing substantial, 

'til one of their boys calls us further down --

Lying in the water is a wee foal, 

four or five days old. --

He's all skin and bones, gray collar, and 

he's got flecks of blood on his coat, 

'cause he's cut himself up really badly 

on the sharp rocks --

We're just standing over him and 

you can see his back leg's snapped --

And he’s breathing, he’s alive, but just about. 

So this big conversation gets started up 

between the boys who suddenly 

reckon themselves The Leaders, 

and they're deliberating as to 

what we should do --

Someone says "Drop a rock on his head", 

but I'm looking in their faces and I can see 

they're either scared stiff or 

clueless; it's all bravado. 

And this foal on the ground, in real pain, 

all this chitchat going on, going nowhere. 

Next thing, one of the priests sees us, sees the foal, 

tells us not to move and we're 

done for, really done for. 

Group of boys will always get 

the blame for hurting a foal. 

Group of Belfast boys will 

get a hammering for sure. 

So it's clear to me in an instant, 

and I'm down on my knees, and 

I take the foal's head in my hands 

and I put him underwater. 

He's thrashing around a bit to start, so 

I press down harder until he's drowned. 

Priest arrives, though. 

He's grabbing me by the hair, 

dragging me through the woods, 

promising me a proper hiding, but 

I knew I did the right thing 

by that wee foal, and I could take 

the punishment for all our boys. 

I had the respect of them other 

boys now, and I knew that. 

I'm clear of the reasons, Dom. 

I’m clear of all the repercussions. 

But I will act, and 

I will NOT stand by 

and Do Nothing.