Marcus Parks

Extra sweet.

Yeah, and we're not going to go into all those reasons lest we fall into the troubles ourselves.

Read an amazing Irish book right now called The Third Policeman.

I would recommend it to fucking anybody.

I'm having a great time with it.

I mentioned Flan O'Brien, and you're fucking giving me Teletubbies, and you're giving me gay puns.

Yeah.

No.

For the purposes of this story, just know that it was indeed the IRA who put Mountbatten down on August 27th, 1979.

That morning, Mountbatten took some family and friends out on his boat in Northern Ireland to check on some lobster pots that they'd placed the day before.

Unbeknownst to Mountbatten, the IRA had filled those pots with 50 pounds of explosives overnight.

Yes, let's go through these because I try to get rid of the girls.

They make wonderful chums.

When the boat reached the pots, the IRA detonated the explosives, blowing up the boat and killing Mountbatten instantly.

Yeah.

And when the authorities found his legless corpse, Mountbatten was floating face down in the water, and Northern Ireland had one less monster to deal with.

Now, even though Jimmy Savile's closest relationship with the Royals was blown up by the IRA, and all this certainly puts a different tenor on the episode of The Crown that dramatizes Mountbatten's death.

Mountbatten is portrayed as a fucking hero in that show.

Really?

No, he's portrayed as a great man.