They Came From Internet Space

And finally I got a round tuit, thus enabling myself to do a little writing, so as promised a reprise on the Invasion of the Mad Mollys.

A few weeks ago YouTube was invaded by a group of ‘Molly’s’. These appeared to be creatures of simplistic intelligence guided by two slightly more superior brained individuals. I am basing my premise on the fact that they did not make logical sense and were inclined to disrupt whilst there main leader was addicted to chimpanzee clips that they were frantically re-titling to prove the people they were attacking were in someway related to apes. Odd that, as all humans are related to apes and many apes are better behaved than man. I mused on their choice of name and thought perhaps they were linked to the children’s tales of “Milly Molly Mandy”. The age range suited but then I took a gargantuan step for mankind and all others who are naturally enamored with themselves and connected their insanity to the name Maguire.

For those who have managed to avoid the film (yes someone made a film about it) there are dubious historical references to a group of Irish catholic miners named the Molly Maguire’s. I am stating that the references are dubious as they are mainly documented by their adversaries and therefore open to an interpretation that may be far from truth.

However for the unenlightened the supposed group may have been named after a woman who ran an illegal ‘ale’ house, or a woman who was some form of martyr to their cause, or after a woman who helped them find their way to their meeting places or, and more aptly, as they were inclined to dress up as women to escape detection. I prefer to think of an anonymous group of Irish miners skulking through the night in dresses and bonnets as it has obviously more humorous connotations. Although from the behaviour of our very own group of Maguire’s they may have been in the illegal ale house prior to escaping Sunday sermon.

The reason for this invasion seems to have been an all out attempt to ridicule and berate those who were originally the innocent and bullied into submitting to the will of the minority ruling class in one rather small and badly run chat site. That they intimidated and threatened others into closing their accounts is palpably true but they do not seem to have honored their side of some supposed bargain in that there still exists a MollyMop (probably waiting to clean the blood of the floor after the victims have thoroughly demised.)

Other people with no reason whatsoever to be involved also took a delight in harassing those that they had a grudge against. One particularly nasty creature with an ego large enough to sink the titanic flaunted a slightly sad ability in Italian as she attempted to tell all and sundry how superior her intelligence was. I was not present for the entirety of the onslaught as I do have ongoing health problems but from the swathe of devastation I saw in the wake of their passing I am deeply saddened that these people consider themselves a) psychic, b) healers, c) empathic or d) spiritual.