To the jackass pack of students picking on the rose man at a pub on Spring Garden Road: What the fuck is your problem?? That man had a head injury which makes speech difficult but did you know that he’s AT LEAST as intelligent as all of you put together? He’s a serious chess player. He’s a smart man. And even if he weren’t, what gives you the right to make fun of the way he talks when myself and my friends had to sit there and listen to your redneck drawl all evening? Let me tell you something else about that guy, he is a fixture around Halifax. He brings happiness and love to everyone he meets. He’s been here probably longer than you’ve even been alive.
You’re outsiders. You just came here. And here’s my friendly piece of advice to you: You’d better figure out how things work around here or you’re not going to be made feel very welcome. Though given the level of intelligent conversation you were able to carry off, I imagine it won’t be long before you flunk out of whatever institution was stupid enough to take you and you’ll have to run back to mommy and daddy with your tails between your legs like the dumbasses you are.
Seriously, get out of my city. You’re not wanted here. And if I see your faces in my neighbourhood again, I’ll tell you as much. —Flower Girl
This article appears in Sep 8-14, 2011.
That’s outrageous! Oh, you didn’t mention having actually done anything about it….
If this was a cheesy T.V. movie, Rosie O’Donnell (you), the brash abrasive girl with a heart of gold, would have told off the mindless louts and they would have sat there, shamefaced,
IRL, had you intervened, you would have gotten 3 words out of your mouth before being shouted down, with suggestions of quaint anatomical impossibilities and speculations about your sexuality and your slim prospects of finding “a good man to fuck the dyke out of you”
No mistake OP, their conduct was reprehensible and you probably should have said something at the time, if only for your own peace of mind. But, liquor + young assholes in a group never leads to a good ending and nobody ever redeemed a drunken cretin by appealing to their sense of shame. And Internet Tough Grrrrlz are just as pathetic as their male equivalent.
Right on SNUBIZ, I’m sure OP if you had just told them to show some respect or compassion they may have shut up, if they had of told you F off or shut up then be done, because there would be no hope for them and then at least you tried, end of the day they are the ones looking like Assholes
I know who you’re takling about (Flower Guy), he’s been selling Roses for ever. At least he’s got a job, (probably unlike the drunken assholes), and isn’t a burden to anybody. And he most certainly isn’t rude or intrusive.
I would have told them to STFU, but I’m a big man, and kinda stupid about not keeping my mouth shut when pissed off.
that guy has quite the history, he’s been a fixture since we moved here 18 yrs ago
It’s better if a woman does it Hugo, they have that “make you feel like shit with just words” gene. Nothing worse than being publicly reprimanded by a woman. I don’t mean that as sexist it’s just ego bruising. If a man gets in my face or mouths off to me I know how to deal with him.
Anyways, making fun of someone with a disability is pretty low. I don’t blame you for not saying or doing anything though OP, shit can get out of hand very quickly. I don’t think any less of you.
I knew these lovely ladies who would make fun of this one guy in our junior high who was mentally challenged. It made me sick. These bitches are the fucking scum of the universe and so it anyone else that makes fun of something that someone obviously has no control over!
The story I heard about this fellow is; his nickname is 12 storey, because he apparently fell off a 12 storey balcony when he’d been imbibing a little too much, landed on a car, obviously survived but in rough shape.
Whether this is true or not I cannot say, but that’s the tale I was told.
OK. I didn’t even finish reading this bitch. As soon as I read that someone’s giving the rose guy a hard time I got intensely infuriated.
It’s a good thing I wasn’t around to witness this. I’m not a violent person, but I’m afraid I would’ve ended up in the clink for assault.
NO ONE gives this man a hard time. EVER.
This man *is* a fixture and such a happy fellow! These people are obviously a waste of skin and oxygen. Shame on them!
i heard something like that baz, but it involved other people
(facepalm. Sad facepalm)
These assholes needed some empathy pounded into their oily fucking hides. If I saw this(and I’ve done this before-confronting ignorant fucks), I would need an ambulance, because they would have to beat me up to stop me from fucking hitting them.
I’m not a hippie, but if we were all a bit more compassionate, our little corner of the world would be better off.
Those assholes make fun of me and I see it, they’re fucked. I’m not historically violent, but some things deserve a physical reaction.
Anyone doubt me?
OP, do you surf? Hopefully those students target the homeless bums and dirty granola beggars next. I’d rather see both of those evicted from HRM instead.
Not for one minute.
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Imr7PCM58H4/TWgA…
sebastian that flower guy works for a living.
A show of hands who wants to know what sebastian does for a living? 🙂
lol I definitely DONT I_K.
And I heard about that too Baz, and I heard he was pushed and why but it’s all hearsay so I won’t speak on it cuz it could be total bullshit and I ain’t tryin to spread rumors about a stranger.
He seems like a very sweet man.
that’s what i heard too tommy, but the version i was told was that law enforcement was involved
He is a good dude, he used to give my ex a free rose every night when she worked at Gatsby’s. Fuckin pricks.
Well the one thing this guy has that the douchebags don’t is a job.
lol that and common decency, BT.
I’m glad I didn’t witness that spectacle, it would have gotten uglier. I hate drunken pack mentality and bullies. I have no patience for them.
i want to choke and kick them
fuck’n douches..
http://www.redstaplerchronicles.com/wp-con…
Next time, take a picture and post it on here, and everywhere else you can. That’ll help run em outta town.