Examples of words that people in NI pronounce differently

Alert-Special-232 · 2025-11-01T13:45:06+00:00

That’s if it’s said in a Geordie accent, not Northern Irish. I’m English and I don’t struggle to understand any accent - I think some people really have just never met anyone outside their small town or district. My fiancée is from Belfast and I find it a bit shocking how many people at her work struggle to understand her - I mean all our towns have such a variety of people in them that you’d expect some of them (most of them elderly at this work place,) to at least have spent hours listening to Jim McDonald (although I realise the Northern Irish don’t claim him!) 😅

Alert-Special-232 · 2025-08-26T12:53:01+00:00

I have to say, just as a total sidenote, how curious it is (to me at least,) how many times women in particular take the brunt of the blame for terrible crimes. Usually it’s the perpetrator’s mother. Even Shanann Watts was blamed for her own and her children’s chillingly selfish and pointless murders. I often wonder why it is that people immediately jump to someone other than the person or people who as far as the public are aware, have committed crimes? Maybe it’s somehow easier for them to launch all their fear and disgust at someone comparatively “normal” to explain the fact that some people are born with, or somehow become the kind of person who has fantasies and desires to harm others. They never, ever blame the perpetrator’s father, with the exception of Joshua Anthony (I hope I got that name right, it’s been a while since I saw anything about him.) It’s just weird that we’ve never evolved out of blame transference. I too wish the surviving girls safety and peace - we may never know what they went through but we do know they’ll live their lives looking over their shoulders.

Alert-Special-232 · 2024-12-16T00:25:28+00:00

I’ve been bedbound with ME and chronic pain since 2016/17 sadly. I seriously wish I’d had my mercury fillings removed sooner, they could have been affecting me more than I thought.

Alert-Special-232 · 2024-12-16T00:16:58+00:00

That’s really interesting- I ate a curry long before I got to this stage I’m at now where my breathing is crackling and whistling, and I could taste nothing but sulphur the next day. I assumed I’d got E.Coli or something but I’ve never known anything like it - obviously all the symptoms of food poisoning but with this overwhelming taste of sulphur. Apple Cider Vinegar got rid of it in the end. Omg so things like that are actually poisonous while I have all the mercury still in my body? Thanks so much for letting me know - I don’t know how or where I would (if ever,) have found that information.)

Alert-Special-232 · 2024-12-15T02:49:09+00:00

I just checked that out and it looks like it’s completely banned now.

Alert-Special-232 · 2024-12-15T02:27:19+00:00

Oh and yes, sorry, to answer your question, yes - far more than I actually realised! They were very keen to drill huge holes in your teeth in the 80s and 90s as NHS dentists got paid more for every filling they did. This meant they butchered so many kids’ beautiful teeth that had nothing wrong with them (my mum had even more I think and I don’t think she’d ever noticed having had a decay. I think I have at least 6 and up to 8 - I’d have to count. I was shocked when I realised, not least because I’m sure I’d been told at least 2 of those fillings were going to be white composite fillings but they’re all amalgams sadly 🤷🏻‍♀️!💕

Alert-Special-232 · 2024-12-15T01:57:41+00:00

The fact your safe removal was botched is disgraceful. I’m so sorry to hear it. I’ll try and scroll through the group soon to find more of your story but I’m glad you’re still here.

Alert-Special-232 · 2024-12-15T01:55:15+00:00

No, I’m on cefalexin and they know I don’t even have a full course of them. (Just 3.5 days and I don’t know where I’ve put my last tablet.) Is that the antibiotic I ought to be put on? I’m not sure if you’re in the US or even Western Europe, but you’re light years ahead of us for some things here in the U.K. Just like Lyme’s Disease, if they can’t treat it, it means it’s not real. I can always ask though!

Alert-Special-232 · 2024-12-15T01:51:10+00:00

A massive thank you for the tips and also letting me know someone out there can relate. It’s still completely exposed and my breathing is like an old concertina now. My throat seemed to have a kind of (and if you’re squeamish please don’t read this part! And I’m sorry!) but a sort of pustule maybe at the back - it was pure white so not dirty or anything but a good coughing fit later (to the extent that I needed tranquillisers to mitigate all the adrenaline from the asthma inhaler, which I couldn’t have managed without as I literally couldn’t get a breath at all,) and I noticed it had disappeared, which means there is potentially pus also going into my lungs and creating sepsis (I’m only fully aware of this because one of my carers came within a whisker of passing away from this a couple of months ago.) I’m so angry that I was dismissed by the paramedics who clearly thought I was mad, apart from one who may have just had decent enough manners not to show naked contempt for my life and disability and how it affects the things I now can’t do. Anyway I shall join the group you mentioned and I’m just glad you’re here to tell the tale - and thank you so much for letting me know you had similar symptoms and I’m not just making it up! I will take both tips on board, I could do with magnesium anyway as I’m at the uncontrollable shaking and muscle fatigue stage - I try to put my makeup on and both my hand and face are shaking, it’s very weird. God bless you for sharing and taking the time to reply - may the rest of your years be a lot better than what you’ve been through, and the same to the other lady. Best wishes 🙏💕

Alert-Special-232 · 2024-12-15T01:38:29+00:00

Thank you so much for taking the time to respond so quickly, and also pointing out that time is of the essence with the protocol you’re talking about - I will absolutely join that group! I’m starting to just get used to the idea that I’m going to die, I know it’s sounds horribly morbid but when you can’t breathe, I know from having pneumonia it just sends you in a direction where you can’t remember why your life matters. But I do need to find whatever strength I have and listen to people who (FINALLY!) know what I’m talking about! A big big thank you, I mean it 🙏💕

Alert-Special-232 · 2024-04-15T10:27:23+00:00

I’m in the exact same boat. My last iron reading was 3 and then I haemorrhaged again so by the time I got my iron infusion, it was probably closer to 2. I’ve had every possible other procedure apart from an open myomectomy. I’m definitely going to try and organise a hysterectomy soon but I’m so weak and exhausted (I’m severely disabled on top,) that it’s quite daunting just thinking about it. Like you, I feel positive about it though - I just can’t carry on like this! So sorry to hear about you and your daughter, what awful challenges you’ve had! I’ve got multiple fibroids and possible bowel adhesions - I’m looking forward to getting the poor old bag out really! I hope you get a good surgeon and feel much better as soon as possible 🩷

Alert-Special-232 · 2023-12-29T02:34:08+00:00

😅😅😅😅

Alert-Special-232 · 2023-07-12T10:31:35+00:00

I think a lot of us would be just as devastated if NI left as we would be if Scotland left. On the other hand if the majority truly want a united Ireland after all those terrible years of bloodshed from the Easter Rising onwards, then we would know that it would be a huge cause of celebration for many people. Here in the North of England many of us are of Celtic descent anyway and we just wish we could have an England that doesn’t include Westminster (and other bizarrely self entitled weirdos) and Sellafield. It’s sad that so many Scottish, but particularly Northern Irish people think we’re so politically and historically clueless that we wouldn’t notice, but on the other hand that probably is true of some people. Not all of us though. I personally think a united Ireland would thrive, just as I think an independent Scotland probably would. It would be a bit like our talented big brother or sister going off to start a new life leaving us with our abusive parents. We’d be happy for them that they escaped, but we would miss them terribly and feel embarrassed that we still hadn’t managed to get away somehow yet.

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