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They were known as "Asia's Finest,"

I've always understood Hong Kong's police to be one of the most violent, thuggish police forces in the world, but I guess people hear different things.

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If I remember from reading MJF's book, this essentially meant shooting most scenes for BTTF at night, Family Ties during the day.

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I grew up before the peace process, and I went to university with people from all over, including from the Falls, and one whose cousin was a hunger striker. Gerry Adams did nothing to bring you your education. You'd have got that anyway.

And I don't think you can call someone a peacemaker when he was the head of the Belfast brigade of the organization responsible for most of the civilian deaths in the 'war.'

John Hume was the guy who put his neck on the line, politically, to try to bring Gerry and the IRA into the mainstream, and that didn't get him very far.

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That thing with the carrot that had been left in the ground over the winter seemed like such horseshit. I bet if you cooked a regular carrot for that long in that much butter it would taste amazing too.