You know me dear reader …
I’m a really easy going kind of woman and it takes a lot for me to get angry.
What is it about people that makes them think stealing plants or just tearing them out of their pots … is some kind of funny.
What goes through their tiny stupid minds …
‘ I think I’ll prove what a cool and courageous guy I am … by … stealing and destroying plants … yeh … that’ll be an act of courage that I’ll be proud to tell my friends and relatives about.’
Stupid and ignorant … what do you do for an encore?
Run into parked cars?
Tear wings off butterflies?
Beat and abandon puppies (cover your ears Coco)?
Abuse women and children?
I came home after babysitting for the D’Arcy’s to find that some moron had pulled out all of the 5 plants in the wheelbarrow planter … and … all the 6 inches of soil.
The courageous person/s had actually stood and taken the time to chuck all the soil onto the path.
You just proved to me that some people really haven’t evolved much from grunting savages.
And … to the car load of boys ( I refuse to call you men … you have to have some real strength and courage to be a man) who verbally harrassed a young woman on the street during the festival …
Who yelled that they would grab her and take her away and hurt her …
You are sad.
What is it about some men when they get into their packs?
You fill yourself with alcohol and without any effort … your collective IQ drops to about 3.
You know what I think?
You’re afraid of women and have no idea how to be a man with them … a man who treats women with respect.
So … you have to get drunk with your mates and then scream abuse at a lone woman.
Yeh … that takes real courage.
Grow up.
Good news … I just went out into the street and replanted the barrow.
Hope the poor wee plants survive.
And to those people thinking …
‘Why doesn’t she take her plants in at night?’
Why should I?
It’s like when people tell women to cover up because some men can’t control themselves and they ‘asked for it’ if they get raped or assaulted.
We excuse stupid and abusive behaviour by making the victim modify their actions …
Sorry folks but I have a slightly higher faith in most human beings … we can learn to have impulse control … stupid boys can choose to become men.
When we excuse and justify this kind of behaviour we are saying that we don’t believe people have the power to make choices about what kind of person they want to be.
We’re saying that they have no control over themselves.
We say … ‘it was the alcohol’ … ‘they’re just guys’ …’it’s the testosterone’ …
Young men can choose to be complex, interesting and non abusive people … and we diminish them and ourselves if we keep sustaining the belief that their stupid behaviour is unchangeable … and out of their control.
So … to the young men who shouted abuse to the young woman … to the persons who keep stealing and killing my plants … to the people that abandoned Coco.
Your behaviour is stupid and ignorant … you diminish yourselves.
And … I believe that you have the capacity to stop doing these stupid and ignorant things.
That’s real courage.
I’ll post photos of the Fancy Dress Parade later today.
Slan.
Liz
August 16, 2008 at 11:14 am
I hear you
August 16, 2008 at 6:57 pm
Your last two posts should be called “Beasts and the Beauties”. I agree with everything you said about the people who have the audacity to insert their maladjusted behavior into our lives. They have absolutely no right to disrupt what we love. There’s a special place in Hell for people who abuse people and animals. They’re cowards and they seem to gravitate to each other to cause trouble. A few moments of mindless pleasure for them can cause a lifetime of heartache for others.
August 17, 2008 at 11:39 pm
I HOPE THERES A FUNGUS IN THOSE PLANTS SO YOUR VANDALS WILLY WILL FALL OFF.CHECK OUT THE FANCY DRESS PHOTOS ON YOUTUBE UNDER “BALLINAMORE FANCY DRESS
August 18, 2008 at 7:57 am
Sorry to say, but there has been a repeat of the other nights events. I discovered your barrow minus it’s contents up the street this morning when I was going to work. Can’t be sure but there were two eejits stumbling around the street just up ahead of me which means the dirty deed was possibly perpetrated minutes before I came on the scene. This may be a good thing because I think if I had have come across this act in progress I would have felt the need to envoke Desmond’s solution… without the need for a fungus. If you get my meaning.
P.S. Barrow returned. Still without contents unfortunately
August 18, 2008 at 8:10 am
Bugger.
Thanks mate.
Jeez – maybe if we’re really lucky all these stupid people won’t breed!
Thanks for bringing back the barrow – poor wee plants – just when they thought they had a second chance.
Have a good day at work.
Best.
Liz
August 18, 2008 at 10:08 am
Hi Liz
Yeah when i was bringing out the dogs i noticed the plants up the street. The men who sweep the street (and fair play to them) they stopped and helped me sort out the plants and they filled the barrow back up with as much as they could lift and we left it back down at your house. Thanks lads. And they also wished for a fungus related infliction on all the half wits who left the town in such a mess for them this morning. They told me that the hanging baskets up the street were trashed too. Cool. Now the thing is there is not much point trying to get through to these people on this blog because if you are the type of red neck that thinks its cool to destroy plants its unlikely that you would have the intelligence to read anything other than cartoons. The only way you could communicate with these geniuses would be to get drunk, go to the chipper and start a fight. The sniff of a fight and a waft of chip oil and they would all come running.
It would actually speed the process up a bit if I stuck a ridiculous fin on the back of my car and maybe some blue lights underneath. I pretty much have the noisy exhaust sorted. Then we could just batter them with shovels or something. Ok sorry getting a bit carried away there. Just after remembering the funniest thing. You have to tell Mrs Hamill this. Last night I wanted to let the dogs out and have them back in and settled before the fireworks started. I went out the back door and a fella was staggering round trying to pee up against Mrs Hamill back wall. He never even copped that i was there. …..And then… Like an army going to war. Johnjoe, Boycie, Millie and Trigger all went full throttle at him. You never seen anyone run so fast. If all his bits are still where they should be its a miracle. I shouted at the dogs to come back because I didnt want them to run out on the street. They all came back but Boycie sat with a mohawk running the whole way down his back!! Never knew he had it in him!!
Anyway great to have the town back to ourselves today. Love the festival surely but its just a pity that it attracts such absolute tossers.
Glad to get all that off my chest!!
Just checked out the photos on youtube of the fancy dress. Good man Dessie!! Great stuff!!
Maggie
August 20, 2008 at 4:48 pm
Liz, I guess there is a dark side everywhere. I always think how unhappy they must be and they wake up that way every single day and everyone they approach they spread the darkness. I hope that there is a changing mindset in the world. Everything is energy and if all you do is spread good energy its going to spread. Wow! What a choice spread happiness or gloom? I am sending you an email via your regular email as I am so slow to learn on the computer. I am uploading a pic of my mom’s cousin Lizzy in front of her house in Ballinamore in 1994, and below is a pic of me and cousin Lizzy, I am the one with the dark brown hair. remember just keep spreading the light. namaste. jude margolis