GUBU (Grotesque Unbelievable Bizarre and Unprecedented) was a term coined in the Irish political context back in the 1980s about an absolute political/criminal sh!tshow. www.thejournal.ie/malcolm-maca... - ThreadSky

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ianford.bsky.social • 80 days ago

GUBU (Grotesque Unbelievable Bizarre and Unprecedented) was a term coined in the Irish political context back in the 1980s about an absolute political/criminal sh!tshow.
https://www.thejournal.ie/malcolm-macarthur-killings-gubu-3243563-Feb2017/

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karenattiah.bsky.social•80 days ago

I LOVE this

ordellini.bsky.social•80 days ago

That the Attorney General was putting up a double-murder suspect and then refused to budge on his holiday plans and flew off to New York is, indeed, GUBU.

ianford.bsky.social•80 days ago

They went to a football match together while he was on the run, if I recall. And the police commissioner was a spectator nearby.

ordellini.bsky.social•80 days ago

Oh, that's glorious.

ianford.bsky.social•80 days ago

Ireland in the 1980s... a very messed up place. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

ordellini.bsky.social•80 days ago

I'm fairly new to this island (6 years) and I was a nipper in the 80s but I've been trying to learn as much as I can. Man, what a time.

ianford.bsky.social•80 days ago

I was only a kid at the time. But the 80s were bleak. Very, very bleak. Unbelievably bleak.