(July 13, 2022 at 1:04 pm)tackattack Wrote: @BrianSoddingBoru4 I agree it was bigoted and very trope-ish as Rev said, and for the offense I do apologize. I didn't even know you were from NI or that you had lost an eye. I hope you can excuse my ignorance, and regardless it was out of place. Now back to the impact if you don't mind sharing a little more You said " I got over that feeling after a few years in New Zealand - people here just don’t seem particularly interested in killing each other." so it's lessened but not gone? I would assume that the impact of your wounds from the Poppy Day Massacre (thanks for the research and I'm sorry that you were a victim of a deplorable situation) would cause you considerable fear in going outside. Is it something that affects you regularly in an emotional or social sense?
I was never in fear for my life, more of an awareness that it was a possibility that one simply accepted (hence my comment about NI fatalism).
I don’t see how you could not know I’m from Northern Ireland, since my first post in this thread started out, ‘When I lived in Northern Ireland…’
Awareness of my own mortality is constant, I just don’t fret about it. I simply feel that when it comes to car bombs, shootings, and being beaten to death by Protestants, my odds of avoiding the things have increased significantly.
My injuries don’t make me fear going outside (I spend more time out of doors than I do in the house). The chief problem with being one-eyed is that, when I wink at a pretty girl, she thinks I’m falling asleep.
I excuse your ignorance. I do not accept your apology.
Boru
‘I can’t be having with this.’ - Esmeralda Weatherwax
