Why do Halgonians stare so much
I’m sure your wondering why the title of this story and what is it’s significance. Here is my reason for this whole beef I have.
I was born and raised in Nfld and have lived away for more than 20 years in different parts of Canada and also lived in Halifax 15 years
ago but moved to Toronto. Now I just moved back to Halifax over a year ago because I wanted to be back where folks are friendly, show
great hospitality and most of all being close to the Atlantic ocean.
I know growing up in Nfld and being a part of the East Coast culture we are all view by the world as the most friendliness people on earth.
I have always heard people when living away ask me where I am from and I’d say the East Coast and instantly they respond with such excitement.
Let’s get to my issue with regards to my letter and that is when I moved back I was in awe how much things have changed in regards to how people are here. I have found that people are not friendly anymore, they are most ignorant and in my case as I am walking down any street or being downtown people stare too much at me as if I had ten heads. What is their problem? I’m not wearing anything odd and I’m not a famous celebrity, so it baffles me to see this. For instance, I had been walking along herring cove road just from shopping and just about every person in a car are looking so intently at me as if I am from a different planet. To make matters worse I had a few people in cars whip their heads so fast my way they almost swerve of the street. This is sad to see that people are willing to risk their lives and others driving just so that they feel the need to be rude and look at someone walking up the street. I find it hilarious because at least when I lived in Toronto for the last 15 years people there don’t pay attention to you. They have more important things going on and if you want to feel invisible that is the place to live. For me being invisible to anyone in Toronto was the best feeling in the world.
For those who are reading this and feel this is not who you are please remove yourself from this equation. This does not reflect Nova Scotians as a whole but for a small percentage of people who feel the need to make it their daily ritual to stare so much at somebody it causes them to have a whiplash. —let me be invisible please
This article appears in Sep 12-18, 2013.
Seems like a bit more than staring with the reactions you stated. Have you something on your person that may ellicit such head-snapping reactions? Say a lack of clothes?
dear (used to be) invisible man.
I am confused. you said you wanted to come back to the coast because it is so friendly. but then you said the feeling of invisibility you had while living in Toronto was ‘the best feeling in the world’. maybe I am stretching here but doesn’t that invisibility aspect of a large city also mean coldness, unfriendly, uncaring?
maybe you are just not used to people actually looking at other people anymore. maybe you look familiar to them. as you said, it’s not everyone who is looking at you, just some.
hey! maybe its a bunch of Toronto people who recognize you!
or….you haven’t forgotten to put on your pants this morning have you?
Its not the locals that stare. Its people like you, who are from away.
I for one look/stare at everything/everyone. I am a very observant person and if its public domain, my eyes will indulge. Don’t be so self conscious.
Oh, and its Haligonian.
you can only notice when someone is starring at you if your starring right back………
Nothing escapes The Captain’s eyes. OB is more than likely just recovering from experiencing a steely, penetrating gaze from this direction. Don’t mind her, her wits are clearly addled.
The weak minded often suffer adverse effects when subject to the all-seeing scrutiny of The Captain. I must remember to not to stare too long at any one individual, lest destruction ensue…
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That’s my story too….people see my hair and think i have ten heads or i’m an alien.
bah! klyde you have gorgeous hair. but why does that Charlie Daniels song keep running thru my head? (Baillie jealously making an appearance)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=952h-AJ3Bcg
LOL coming from a newfoundlander, that’s funny. Newfoundlanders are nosey as shit! I have family from newfoundland, all over, stephenville, bonavista, gander, st. johns, lewisport.. all of them are nosey and there are a lot of stuck up newfoundlanders..which is funny haha
3 x tldr, i sense a pattern
Were they staring at you with THEIR EYES? Whoaaaaaa….freaky!
Are you a jugalloo (whoop whoop)? that might explain it.
Scooter. I’m going with big tits.
Elevated levels of contradictocity in this bitch. I think rereading it could provide some insight into your problems.
Why I think this is happening, and it’s not just here, it’s all over North America.
Something happened in the early 80s. There was this mass new age movement where a brand of pop psychology erupted where people started to think that someone could know things about other people intrinsically and with knowledge level qualification (most people don’t know what areas of reality are subjective). Sadly this rubbed off onto the 25 to 35 year old present generation so much that the “principle” of “if it walks like a duck and talks like a duck it’s a duck” has gone WAY too far. People base their intelligence on how they can “predict” that a feeling they have about a person may be correct, and even later form realities by unknowingly twisting his or her perception of that person until that person becomes whatever the onlooker had originally thought. People see what they want to see and hear what they want to hear, as to feed their own egos.
Too much in the truth they say
Leave it till another day
Let them have their little game
Dillusion helps to keep them sane
Your going to go insane
B Sabbath Vol 4
It’s called paranoia. They’re not actually staring at you, it just seems like they are. I go through that all the time.
Maybe it’s because we’re nosey fuckers?
Did it occur to you that maybe these people find you attractive? Or maybe you dress really interestingly and people want to check it out? Or anything? It’s even possible they’re not looking at YOU but just AROUND. And you’re around.
People look at each other for a reason. So you know.. take it as a complement. And ignore it. They have a right to look wherever they want.
Every single one of them want to fuck you … like they are doing with their eyes.
This is retarded.
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Remove 9 of your heads and all will be well with the world again!
Just think, if everyone had no eyeballs to see, we’d all be bumping into each other…thank God, He gave us hands.
Let me be invisible. With my face full of tattoos and earlobes that dolphins jump through down at tampon beach there. Stop looking at my, fluorescent orange hair, and face piercings. How dare you.