What are you looking up on Wikipedia right now?

[matedog]

I saw a preview for a Netflix doc on this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miami_Showband_killings and had never heard of it. Is this event well known in UK/Ireland? But holy shit, what a fucked up event.

No, loyalist violence isn't really remembered in the UK.

Interesting. So the Irish Nationalist violence is what gets most of the coverage?

[Marky Dread]

I saw a preview for a Netflix doc on this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miami_Showband_killings and had never heard of it. Is this event well known in UK/Ireland? But holy shit, what a fucked up event.

No, loyalist violence isn't really remembered in the UK.

Interesting. So the Irish Nationalist violence is what gets most of the coverage?

I'm sure we discussed this doc elsewhere in the "Watching" thread. About a year or so ago.

[Silent Majority]

I saw a preview for a Netflix doc on this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miami_Showband_killings and had never heard of it. Is this event well known in UK/Ireland? But holy shit, what a fucked up event.

No, loyalist violence isn't really remembered in the UK.

Interesting. So the Irish Nationalist violence is what gets most of the coverage?

That's right, the establishment supported the brave patriotic work of their proxies in the area and the Republicans were terrorists for doing the same as the Loyalist paramilitaries and also force out of the solitary hands of the state.

[Wolter]

On a lighter note: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fratellini_family

[BostonBeaneater]

How have I never heard of this.

2004 Dave Matthews Band Chicago River incident

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_Da ... r_incident

[revbob]

How have I never heard of this.

2004 Dave Matthews Band Chicago River incident

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_Da ... r_incident

And yet they are free to dump their aural feces at will.

[Wolter]

How have I never heard of this.

2004 Dave Matthews Band Chicago River incident

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_Da ... r_incident

And yet they are free to dump their aural feces at will.

It happened right after I moved here and it’s definitely huge in local lore.

EDIT: checking the page, and it was literally the same week I moved here.

[Dr. Medulla]

How have I never heard of this.

2004 Dave Matthews Band Chicago River incident

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_Da ... r_incident

And yet they are free to dump their aural feces at will.

That's on Flex and Flex alone.

[matedog]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_Womack

Okay, so I revisited the song "Teardrops" by Womack & Womack. As far as I know, this song was a hit everywhere except the US. I was curious if there was any relation to Bobby Womack and wow this is fucked up.

Sam Cooke has a daughter Linda Cooke.
Sam Cooke is murdered.
Sam Cooke's widow marries Bobby Womack. Bobby becomes stepfather to Linda Cooke.
Sam Cooke's widow finds Bobby allegedly sexually abusing Linda, his stepdaughter and she shots a gun at him. Linda never talks to her mother again after this.
Linda Cooke marries Bobby's uncle. Basically, her step-uncle.

What a weird, incestuous story.

[Dr. Medulla]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_Womack

Okay, so I revisited the song "Teardrops" by Womack & Womack. As far as I know, this song was a hit everywhere except the US. I was curious if there was any relation to Bobby Womack and wow this is fucked up.

Sam Cooke has a daughter Linda Cooke.
Sam Cooke is murdered.
Sam Cooke's widow marries Bobby Womack. Bobby becomes stepfather to Linda Cooke.
Sam Cooke's widow finds Bobby allegedly sexually abusing Linda, his stepdaughter and she shots a gun at him. Linda never talks to her mother again after this.
Linda Cooke marries Bobby's uncle. Basically, her step-uncle.

What a weird, incestuous story.

John Phillips and Woody Allen choose to withhold judgment.

[matedog]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_Womack

Okay, so I revisited the song "Teardrops" by Womack & Womack. As far as I know, this song was a hit everywhere except the US. I was curious if there was any relation to Bobby Womack and wow this is fucked up.

Sam Cooke has a daughter Linda Cooke.
Sam Cooke is murdered.
Sam Cooke's widow marries Bobby Womack. Bobby becomes stepfather to Linda Cooke.
Sam Cooke's widow finds Bobby allegedly sexually abusing Linda, his stepdaughter and she shots a gun at him. Linda never talks to her mother again after this.
Linda Cooke marries Bobby's uncle. Basically, her step-uncle.

What a weird, incestuous story.

John Phillips and Woody Allen choose to withhold judgment.

"Stepdad is kind of a creep, but his brother is kinda cute. I'm going to have seven kids and a couple chart toppers with him."

[Dr. Medulla]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_Womack

Okay, so I revisited the song "Teardrops" by Womack & Womack. As far as I know, this song was a hit everywhere except the US. I was curious if there was any relation to Bobby Womack and wow this is fucked up.

Sam Cooke has a daughter Linda Cooke.
Sam Cooke is murdered.
Sam Cooke's widow marries Bobby Womack. Bobby becomes stepfather to Linda Cooke.
Sam Cooke's widow finds Bobby allegedly sexually abusing Linda, his stepdaughter and she shots a gun at him. Linda never talks to her mother again after this.
Linda Cooke marries Bobby's uncle. Basically, her step-uncle.

What a weird, incestuous story.

John Phillips and Woody Allen choose to withhold judgment.

"Stepdad is kind of a creep, but his brother is kinda cute. I'm going to have seven kids and a couple chart toppers with him."

The, uh, heart wants … um, what the heart wants?

[Dr. Medulla]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_P%C3%A9tomane

[matedog]

Heard a passing reference to this guy on a podcast, so I looked him up: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clive_Wearing
Guy got sick and now has amnesia where he can only remember 7-30 seconds at a time. Seems like a nightmarish existence and so hard to comprehend where time has no real meaning. Found an interesting doc on him as well and he seems like a perfectly affable guy:

[Dr. Medulla]

Heard a passing reference to this guy on a podcast, so I looked him up: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clive_Wearing
Guy got sick and now has amnesia where he can only remember 7-30 seconds at a time. Seems like a nightmarish existence and so hard to comprehend where time has no real meaning. Found an interesting doc on him as well and he seems like a perfectly affable guy:

That's heartbreaking. It's just permanent unfamiliarity.