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Dublin Evening Herald - Thursday 13 February 1997

so he did try to get married before Liam. (and also experienced the same press intrusion issue.)

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should I get high for the first time in months tonight and watch TV or stay on the sobriety train

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went back and got them anyway

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my (adoptive) grandpa is in town for the first time in many years and it's crazy seeing my dad transform into a little kid with him

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I already rbed that post days earlier but the addition made me crazy again

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all the lore from loch lomond and knebworth is too much.

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liam didn't even watch the fireworks with him

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noel gallagher and the emotional our relationship is doomed but at least give me one last night where we can be in love and I can touch you before we act as normal brother and sister again and you get married at a wedding I can't bear attend soap he watches

[wastherethen]

I went to Paul McCartney’s daughter Stella’s party and who should open the door but the man himself. He was dead cool. There were all these questions I wanted to ask him but I settled on, ‘Do you watch Brookside?’

^ noel, on a party he went to in 1994, though i haven’t been able to find a date for the quote itself

[Brookside] experienced an extreme backlash from viewers in 1996 following a hugely controversial storyline focusing on an incestuous sexual relationship between two siblings; from thereon the show became synonymous with outrageous and improbable storylines that affected its popularity.

^ wikipedia

most of the backlash was in august 1996, particularly the first week of august; it seems that, while the whole storyline was controversial, episode #1758, which aired on the night of 2 august 1996—that is, the night before loch lomond—was especially so (probably because its content was more explicit about the sexual relationship between the siblings, but i’ll look into it some more.)

^ daily star, friday 10 may 1996 / belfast telegraph, friday 2 august 1996 / birmingham mail, saturday 3 august 1996

[wastherethen]

vitally important addition to this post—what happens in this episode:

nat and georgia (the brother and sister) are staying in a holiday cottage so that they can be together one final time before nat gets married to his girlfriend, jules. he is missing the wedding rehearsal to be with georgia.

due to some sort of double-booking situation, there is another family staying at the cottage; when they go fishing georgia and nat have sex (the sex isn’t shown onscreen, but we see them naked in bed making out afterwards).

they talk about their past and lament the fact that they can’t be free to be together; georgia says, “let’s just make the most of our last day together. then we can go back to being proper brother and sister again.” more making out and fucking offscreen ensues. (okay this scene is genuinely really emotional 😭 i’m not doing it justice with my lackluster narration)

the other family staying at the cottage come back from their fishing trip early and one of them walks in on nat and georgia naked and in bed together.

the family leave, disgusted, despite nat and georgia’s desperate attempts to de-escelate the situation and redeem themselves. georgia is convinced they’re doomed and that their relationship will inevitably be revealed; nat tries to comfort her and decides to leave to try to convince the family not to tell on them.

as far as i can tell from just those 25 minutes, the show is surprisingly sympathetic towards the couple; it seems like we are meant to feel sad for them (important disclaimer, though, that i watched this episode with absolutely no context whatsoever, so i could be wrong). anyways. let’s factor this into noel’s pre-loch lomond psyche shall we 😍

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@noelhope (THANK YOU!!!) found a quote from noel in 1997 which confirms that he was still watching brookside by that point. meaning he did see the incest episode. we just keep winning...........

“That’s not us doing that, that’s Sony,” says Noel, pointing an accusing finger at the hapless record company rep who has just come into the room to call time on the interview. “I don’t even have a computer at home. I know f*** all about websites, Internet, surfing and all that. When I’m at home I just want to watch Brookside. So if there’s any twat in a bedsit complaining about having his website shut down, don’t blame me, pal, blame Sony.”

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Noel Gallagher, Manchester City playoffs, 1999

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came this 🤏 close to buying a cactus today even though I have no clue what I'd do once winter hit

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[alnitaks]

pointpaint_

[terriblewomanyuri]

“Congrats to drugs for winning the war on drugs” is a phrase that is simply not true at all when you look at what the purpose of it was.

It was not to prevent the spread of drugs, it was to funnel Black people into prison and permanently curtail voting rights, to keep a provisional Jim Crow that could deflect criticism long enough to get the average white moderate to accept it, and to make the average white liberal’s dreams of “reform” still include the same framework.

Felons can’t vote because certain drug crimes were labeled felonies, because those drug crimes could be pinned on Black people and passed by or reduced to a misdemeanor on whites. Because you could cite the amount of (drug) felonies in an area (Black neighborhood) and assign more cops, militarized cops (why it was called a “war”), because you could claim random searches of suspicious individuals (Black people, including children) were necessary. The war on drugs worked. It was never about the fucking drugs.

[anarchistmemedistro]

“You want to know what this was really all about? The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and Black people. You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or Black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and Blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.”

[raelyn-against-society]

- John Ehrlichman, Richard Nixon's domestic policy chief

Nixon Adviser Admits War on Drugs Was Designed to Criminalize Black People

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I still miss my old blog 😐

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Sequoia National Forest - 35mm

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