Oliver Cromwell was a metrosexual obsessed with his appearance

(Cat has returned my tongue, slightly used.) Ollie looks a bit foppish in this particular portrait, and who knew he was once young?

* (* = Words fail me.)

Cromwell murdered in retaliation for the murders of thousands of Protestants at the hands of Catholics. It was reprisal pure and simple.

Sounds like an S & M, D & S closet gay. How fitting penitence it would have been for some big, burly Irishman to tie him up and give it to him well!

I wonder if Ollie used any of this on his arse with a big burly Irishman as penitence?

I couldn't resist it Seano.lol

/so Cromwell was a fraud, not just a murderous tyrant. Sort of like Obama.

You brighten my day sirpeter LOL

STEVO."SHOO SHOO SKKKAAA GO ON GET OUT OF HERE YOU ANNOYING FLY !!!"Have a wash!!I'm sure the fly will go away then. ;))

bythebay and Stevenfallingstar are more to be pitied than laughed at.

ancavker | May 11, 2012, 11:03 AM EDT sirpeter: That is the revisionist way. The Irish fight to take back what was stolen from them and it is horrible. The Native Americans do it, and it is understandable. Michael Collins was a gangster and a gunman (according to the revisionists), the PLO/Hamas are legitimate freedom fighters.................>>>>>>>>> SHOO SHOO SKKKAAA GO ON GET OUT OF HERE YOU ANNOYING FLY !!!

Excuse me, but if Cromwell murdered "10's of thousands" of Irish men, women and children, how can he be described as "very godly?" Who did his PR campaign? That's something one would expect to come out of the PR machine for Cardinal Brady!

sirpeter: That is the revisionist way. The Irish fight to take back what was stolen from them and it is horrible. The Native Americans do it, and it is understandable. Michael Collins was a gangster and a gunman (according to the revisionists), the PLO/Hamas are legitimate freedom fighters.

@Bythebay - You forgot religous intolerance. The Puritans came to America seeking religous freedom but did not extend it to any other religous group. The Quakers all got shipped off to Rhode Island. If you were catholic you were in big trouble. The Puritan belief that God showed his blessing by making one wealthy is still at the root of many of America's current problems. If you are poor, then God considers you a sinner and is punishing you according to our modern puritans.

Bythebay.Quote"Cromwell's pillage of Ireland was in retribution for the massacre of Protestants in Ireland"Unquote.These Protestant settlers had settled on land SEIZED from former,native Catholic owners to make way for the NON-NATIVE Protestants.Who was the aggressor?Who stole the land? Who forced the native Irish off the land?When the Native Irish use force to get their land back that's a massacre?But you defend Native Americans who also used force and killed settlers who also SEIZED land.Pillage of Ireland = Retribution.Pillage of Native American land = Brutalized and robbed.Anyway the main reason Cromwell came to Ireland was the military threat posed by the alliance of the Irish Confederate Catholics and English royalists.First and foremost it was about power and control of IRISH land.