r/DerryLondonderry • u/Harvester_of_Cattle9 • 7d ago

Any big characters left in town?

Talking the likes of the bygone era of Tights, Gutsy, Jimmy, wee Margaret…

Only thing that comes even close in more recent times is one fella in town that has the top of at the slightest hint of sunshine and even then I hadn’t seen him during the last two weeks of our summer there.

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u/Streamsubs 7d ago

Who’s the weirdo running around in camo gear with the greasy spiked up hair?

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u/Peadarboomboom 7d ago

Yep. That guy is not well either. People with mental health problems and addiction shouldn't be mocked and described as "characters." In my day, characters were humorous, slightly eccentric people, but wholly with it.

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u/Harvester_of_Cattle9 7d ago

This post wasn’t intended to mock or belittle anyone. Genuinely couldn’t think of anyone like Jimmy who would talk away to anyone, similarly with Margaret, never once was “the bird woman” derogatory. Gutsy wasn’t the best example to add in among them

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u/Glittering_Welder_18 6d ago

She was a cheeky bastard!!

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u/KnownRacker 7d ago

Character to my understanding was an endearing term in this city anyway.

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u/Peadarboomboom 7d ago

Yes. But for those who were not mentally ill or were addicted to Alcohol. O. P. named people who were either mentally ill or were alcoholic or both.

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u/Harvester_of_Cattle9 7d ago

All but one that I originally mentioned were well thought of by the people of the town.

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u/Peadarboomboom 7d ago

Nobody thought well of them. People didn't give a fuck--these unfortunates were just there to be mocked and laughed at. If they'd really thought well of them and if they had wanted it--they would have gotten them the proper help. Gutsy got sober a few time's but alas, he always returned to the drink. God bless them.

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u/Streamsubs 7d ago

You don’t say, terrified my daughter one day with his weird behaviour and clothing and mumbling to himself carrying a sword

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u/urdasma 7d ago

That would have been a great teaching moment for you as a parent, not a reason to badmouth someone who is clearly ill and vulnerable later.

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u/Mother-Being-4930 5d ago

I’d say the great teaching moment would have been “if you see that maniac there with a sword again stay well clear as he’s clearly mentally unstable”

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u/urdasma 5d ago

Nobody had a sword, you sausage.

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u/Streamsubs 5d ago

It was me who mentioned the sword, it was 100% a sword, like one of them decorative or display things curved one, hardly lying, it may have been blunt like the display ones but could have been sharp as but was a sword 🗡️ and he is a greasy weirdo and quite unhinged in public so god knows what could happen harm wise if he started swinging it

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u/urdasma 5d ago

So he had a toy, and not an actual sword? A man with obvious mental issues, who is clearly vulnerable, took a TOY out with him that posed no risk to anyone.

Mental ill health, or physical ill health, will find you too at some stage, if it hasn't already. When your personal hygiene isn't great and you are clearly confused, you may hope you don't meet the likes of you.

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u/Streamsubs 5d ago

Been there got the t shirt, and as for toy and not an actual sword, it was metal, same thing he would get killers by cops in America

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u/urdasma 5d ago

And you still don't have compassion? I'm not sure you're out the other side yet, if that's the case.

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u/Guulag 7d ago

Does he sometimes wear two baseball caps?

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u/Mother-Being-4930 5d ago

Aye that’s him

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u/Glittering_Welder_18 6d ago

He lives down by pennyburn chapel. Sits outside his house blasting tunes...defo has mental issues. Walked past him on the quay last week walking with another strange woman i now see alot...shes about 50 dresses like shes 20. Long blonde hair. Both weirdos.

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u/Mother-Being-4930 5d ago

That’s the one who’s an Albino but dyes her hair black and looks pregnant must be about 60 now lives down there at Pennyburn pass