neuro is IN TROUBLE. Also, POLITICAL.
I was a bold girl, it would seem! Some emails I have received:
Dear neuro
Normally i enjoy your blog but was very upset by that photograph you put up of your bf laughing at the memorials. I am American and was very hurt by the the event: I trust you will take them down.
Thanks,
[Name withheld]
...and...
As someone with high moral standards (I am the treasurer of two churches in west Dublin) I am disgusted by the photographs of your husband. I am quite sure that I know you and will be informing your church leadership of your disgusting behaviour.
Sincerely,
K.T.
Uh oh! And...
I don't know your real name, sorry, to Neuro Praxis,
Thought the pictures of K by the memorial statues were very offensive, a lot of people have been killed and such. It is tyipcal that you call yourself a Christian and yet you show these pictures which were obviously posed, the look on his face is the offensive part, there was no need for it. You should take them down out of respect for the dead and try to practice what you preach in furture I doubt your "god" is pleased with you
T.G.
No, he's not. : ( And...
Dear neuropraxis
I was sickened by your pictures of the memorial site, the facial expression of your husband was disgusting and crude - if he really is that happy about the bombing then he's very sick. You must be sick to have married him, taken the pictures and published them on the internet. This bombing was one of the most awful things ever in the world to have happened to innocent people and the memorial is not even sufficient to commemorate it - there should be one in every public park, then you could go and take dumb pictures of your husband grinning like an asshole beside them too.
[Name withheld]
You're all so ready to comment on your disgust but let me tell you this: when K was at those memorial "statues", he was weeping. What you see in that photograph is clearly an expression of distress. I already stated that he had to drink whisky in order to calm down, which is very unusual for him.
Frankly, I am quite hurt by the fact that you feel you can mock him (and by proxy, me) for our compassion.
I have had enough of this. I'm off to the memorials of the Bhopal disaster and the Bam earthquake and then the Srebrenica Massacre.
Oh wait...they don't exist!
Posted by neuro-praxis on December 21, 2004 02:11 AM, in the category Limb Infections
I think it's terrible when people take offense on behalf of others. Did it dawn on any of you that maybe people more directly involved wouldn't mind?
I died in the 9-11 attacks and I think those pictures are hilarious.
Posted by: Anonymous 9-11 Victim at December 21, 2004 08:15 PMHmmm...
I'm all for respecting the dead (hell, I used to be one), but for fucks sakes lads...
There is such a thing as being too sensitive about things. If Americans were to suddenly hoard around the bullet holes in the pillars of the GPO and pose like Kevin did, I for one wouldn't turn around and start complaining that it was disrespectful to the dead. People are going to pose at memorials and sites like that.... I know that back in the day, I used to merrily swing out of the memorial to fallen Ardee IRA heroes in my town whilst drunk, and I was never told to cop myself on.
Man, I need a drink.
Posted by: embee at December 21, 2004 11:41 PMHi, I'd like to register my disapproval, too. I mean, it's not like you Europeans have ever had bombings or conflict within your own nation so you have no right to comment or even engage in our pain. And Irish people in particular know nothing regarding internal conflict or being bombed by people. You should be ashamed of yourself and repect my pain!!
Yours sincerely,
Penny the Dog.
Posted by: Walls at December 21, 2004 11:42 PMThank god you didn't post the picture of him urinating on the memorial eh?
Posted by: Rossa at December 22, 2004 02:51 AMAnd a round-up of today's results on the vidiprinter:
Old Neuropraxians 0 - Massive Overreactions 5
After taking a firm beating from the reactionaries, the neuropraxians manager maintained an air of cool confidence in her teams performance, summed up in the word: "Meh".
Posted by: mr_angry at December 25, 2004 09:47 PMUh, Bhopal and Bam were natural disasters. And the Srebrenica massacre was the result of a civil conflict.
What I'm saying is you should stop making excuses for TERRORISTS and SUPPORT THE TROOPS!
Predictably, I was more upset by your mocking of a pet cemetary. Say what you want about dead Americans but leave our furry departed alone.
And that last picture of K. is just terrifying.
Posted by: Anonymous at December 28, 2004 06:34 PM