Behind the Tattered Curtain...

**ohliz** · 05-03-2010, 03:29 PM

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Ja. Jewel</div><div class="ubbcode-body">stayed too long, hooked up with the wrong folks </div></div>

More than one story like that in Negril, for sure...but then again there's more than one story like that in Key West and Homer, Alaska Los Angeles and probably every other popular beautiful area...my dad has a word for people who think moving to "paradise" will magically fix all their problems and then it doesn't...Jackson Hole Syndrome. <div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Some years ago it was discovered that Jackson Hole, Wyoming, had an unusually high incidence of mental illness. It was found that this location of idyllic natural beauty was a beacon for people having difficulties adjusting to life wherever they were.</div></div>

Some call it "amenity migration" - migrating for the physical beauty of a place rather than for family or economic reasons.

Anyway, I digress. Thanks for sharing the story Jackie.

<span style="font-weight: bold">No matter where you go, there you are</span>.

**Sprat** · 05-03-2010, 03:43 PM

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Well, welll, well....

I guess my story certainly has congured up all kinds of feelings.

First of all, I will not even attempt to go back and answer or try to understand half of what has been written...because somethimes the english language is difficult enough to comprehend!

There is nothing wrong with any of the comments....good, bad or indifferent. If you take offence to it, that is entirely your individual feelings. I can only be responsible for myself, and what I say and do.

So let's put it like this, I am sure that I won't make all of the people happy all the time.

I have other stories I wll share...but I'll tell you right now....you might not like them!

Hope everyone is having a good day!!

**Magician** · 05-03-2010, 04:16 PM

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Hush Auntie Ctry! From mi read this:

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: story</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Goldie, as she is referred to on the island, was another of the <span style="font-weight: bold">misplaced foreigners </span>who now called Jamaica home</div></div>

Mi automatically disconnect the story from Jamaica, and look at it from a point of Jackson Hole Syndrome person moving to JA to find paradise while probably she won't find in anywhere she goes in the World.

That's why it never vex mi, but was more of a curiosity.

**Ja. Jewel** · 05-03-2010, 07:06 PM

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Sprat</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Well, welll, well....

I guess my story certainly has congured up all kinds of feelings.

First of all, I will not even attempt to go back and answer or try to understand half of what has been written...because somethimes the english language is difficult enough to comprehend!

There is nothing wrong with any of the comments....good, bad or indifferent. If you take offence to it, that is entirely your individual feelings. I can only be responsible for myself, and what I say and do.

So let's put it like this, I am sure that I won't make all of the people happy all the time.

I have other stories I wll share...but I'll tell you right now....you might not like them!

Hope everyone is having a good day!!

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Well Sprat, I'm sure dis board gonna help you bone up pon yuh patois unnerstanding!....keep that thick skin growing...you may need it. Thanks for the story!

**Marilyn** · 05-03-2010, 07:33 PM

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I haven't seen this much action round here in a long time. I was about the call the paramedics to see if this board was still alive, least we got some juices flowing around here.

**Sophie Magoo** · 05-03-2010, 10:42 PM

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sprat, thank you for sharing this sad story . . .

i for one, would love to hear anything else you would care to write about!!!

**diabolical_Tanya** · 05-03-2010, 11:19 PM

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Sprat don't pay no mind to the negative nellies, to quote Whitney Crack is wack a juss true dem noh know how it rampart inna Negril an Ochi

no different than south Central or Brooklyn or Pork an Beans fla

**diabolical_Tanya** · 05-03-2010, 11:22 PM

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seet deh mi a watch a show pan TLC "fame and recovery" an coke head Tara Conner a chat bout how much coke shi an di ress a di peeps dem snort on a trip for a photo shoot in JAMAICA

**Schuttzie** · 05-04-2010, 08:26 AM

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Sprat, I love your writings and would love to hear more stories! Keep on, keeping on!

**Jazz** · 05-04-2010, 12:38 PM

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: diabolical_Tanya</div><div class="ubbcode-body">seet deh mi a watch a show pan TLC "fame and recovery" an coke head Tara Conner a chat bout how much coke shi an di ress a di peeps dem snort on a trip for a photo shoot in JAMAICA </div></div>

whats you point? that u can get coke ah Jamaica? everybaddy an dem pickney know dat - if ah dat yuh dung deh ah look fah it nuh hawd fe fine... If that is ALLL yuh si wen u go ah Jamaica den u have a problem

**tuffstuff** · 05-04-2010, 02:21 PM

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: diabolical_Tanya</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Sprat don't pay no mind to the negative nellies, to quote Whitney Crack is wack a juss true dem noh know how it rampart inna Negril an Ochi

no different than south Central or Brooklyn or Pork an Beans fla </div></div>

A who yaw fling wud pan? Caw mi sure know say mi neva mention nutn bow di 'rampartness'' of any jugs!!! An mi nave no prob wid ppl talk bout the ills of the Rock neyda- just know wah di fawt yaw talk bout!

**Bizzy** · 05-04-2010, 02:31 PM

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BOAL @ rampart and rampartness mi a dead unu neva fail mi

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: tuffstuff</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: diabolical_Tanya</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Sprat don't pay no mind to the negative nellies, to quote Whitney Crack is wack a juss true dem noh know how it rampart inna Negril an Ochi

no different than south Central or Brooklyn or Pork an Beans fla </div></div>

A who yaw fling wud pan? Caw mi sure know say mi neva mention nutn bow di 'rampartness'' of any jugs!!! An mi nave no prob wid ppl talk bout the ills of the Rock neyda- just know wah di fawt yaw talk bout! </div></div>

**esp** · 05-04-2010, 02:49 PM

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: tuffstuff</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: diabolical_Tanya</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Sprat don't pay no mind to the negative nellies, to quote Whitney Crack is wack a juss true dem noh know how it rampart inna Negril an Ochi

no different than south Central or Brooklyn or Pork an Beans fla </div></div>

A who yaw fling wud pan? Caw mi sure know say mi neva mention nutn bow di 'rampartness'' of any jugs!!! An mi nave no prob wid ppl talk bout the ills of the Rock neyda- just know wah di fawt yaw talk bout! </div></div>

DWLAPUMS!!! Man unu still a gi joke in yah....Tuffy mi seh yuh nuh easy yuh nuh **SADWL**

**ohliz** · 05-04-2010, 02:51 PM

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Jazz</div><div class="ubbcode-body">
I am pretty sure that if you spent some time with a family in Mandeville</div></div>

**mountaingal** · 05-04-2010, 05:05 PM

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mi late to the party, lol!

i agree with folks who say that the central character's story doesn't actually reflect on Jamaica as much as the writer believes. or it does, but in a way i think the writer did not intend.

sista c i think goes to the heart of it when she said that she understands the actions of the shopkeeper and captain. certain core jamaican values are reflected in the attitudes of those individuals, and the writer has overlooked that - perhaps because she hasn't really been around jamaicans enough to understand them. i don't know. but i can think of other trip reporters on the board who would have been more perceptive about that.

to me, this is a story of a woman who, for one reason or the other, is being shunned by the community in which she lives, where she hangs out. is it because of her drug use? maybe. but it has very little to do with whether jamaica is a place of hardship or is only a paradise on the beaches, etc.

it was an interesting read, both the story and the comments. thanks guys, mi waina look some distraction from work. mission accomplished!!

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