The Infestation Has Begun!

Third_Echelon

Oh yes.. its that time of year again, when us folk that live in Dublin can no longer walk our streets without being blocked in our passage... unable to pass..

Yes, the yellow bags are back... those damn spanish students....

They are only here a matter of a week and they are blocking every damn street already...

The other day I tried to walk past the molly malone statue at the bottom of grafton street. It took about 5 mins to get past them! No word of a lie... The footpath was blocked from side to side and there was constant traffic.. I had to burrow my way through them... i yi yi...

And when I eventually got to grafton st... the same thing again.. aaahhhhh!!!

What the hell is there problem... disperse and be merry my latino friends...

Same situation again... walking home from the screen cinema last night... walking through temple bar, just before the temple bar... the whole street again... wall to wall was impassable...

It is just really F.U.C.K.I.N.G annoying...

What can we do?

I propose doubling up the usage of hurling sticks as spanish student beaters... see how they like that...

HelterSkelter

I have a better idea, let's kick all the culchies out of Dublin, then there will be a lot more room for everyone

simu

Better having Spanish kids around than skangers.

Third_Echelon

Originally posted by simu
Better having Spanish kids around than skangers.

at least the skangers are in the shops robbing stuff... i can walk around freely then!!!!

HelterSkelter

Originally posted by simu
Better having Spanish kids around than skangers.

...and boggers!

flogen

Originally posted by simu
Better having Spanish kids around than skangers.

touché simu!
I have no problem with the big groups, except when I'm on a bus with them, and they just shout and shout... are we that bad in Spain? I know there are the lad types who go to spain and get drunk and sing, but these are only kids... you cant even call them yobs!

flogen

Third_Echelon

Originally posted by flogen
touché simu!
I have no problem with the big groups, except when I'm on a bus with them, and they just shout and shout... are we that bad in Spain? I know there are the lad types who go to spain and get drunk and sing, but these are only kids... you cant even call them yobs!

flogen

the big groups are the worst.... they are just a goddamn nuisance... loud, ignorant, but admitingly full of hotties...:D

HelterSkelter

Originally posted by flogen
touché simu!
I have no problem with the big groups, except when I'm on a bus with them, and they just shout and shout... are we that bad in Spain? I know there are the lad types who go to spain and get drunk and sing, but these are only kids... you cant even call them yobs!

flogen

Have you ever seen Irish kids on holidays? I ran into a group of them in Paris earlier this year. They were at least as noisy as the Spanish students. In fact, they were making a complete show of themselves.

Stephen

Its not just Dublin that has them you know.

simu

Most teenagers are like that, I've noticed but you only notice it when you're no longer a teenager yourself.

They're handy for me coz I'm learning Spanish at the moment and I try to see if I can follow their conversations!

flogen

Originally posted by HelterSkelter
Have you ever seen Irish kids on holidays? I ran into a group of them in Paris earlier this year. They were at least as noisy as the Spanish students. In fact, they were making a complete show of themselves.

I havent actually, although I have been a part of one, I know that we wernt that bad, though. There were only about 5 or 6 in the group we went around the towns in, and none of us could be bothered to be all that loud.

Still, I dont doubt we are just as capable of being loud and annoying. Maybe we should just wipe out all European's under 18, should solve a few problems...:ninja:

flogen

MarcusGarvey

Originally posted by Stephen
Its not just Dublin that has them you know.

Yeah I hear theres millions of the bastards in Spain.

flogen

Originally posted by simu
They're handy for me coz I'm learning Spanish at the moment and I try to see if I can follow their conversations!

I'd love to catch them slagging you off so you could slag them back in Spanish...:D

flogen

joe_chicken

Originally posted by MarcusGarvey
Yeah I hear theres millions of the bastards in Spain.

hahahaha....

there's more than that in my estate at the moment

dudara

there's heaps of them here in UCC at the moment, and they have discos for them in the Mini and the Kampus Kitchen in the evening. God damn music blaring from the building next to me..

also I noticed a group of them the other day where every one of them was wearing the yellow onitsuka tiger runners, the ones from Kill Bill

whosurpaddy

Originally posted by MarcusGarvey
Yeah I hear theres millions of the bastards in Spain.

yea millions of drones protecting one queen. and im not talking about david beckham.

flogen

Originally posted by dudara
also I noticed a group of them the other day where every one of them was wearing the yellow onitsuka tiger runners, the ones from Kill Bill

bastards! where did they get them from? I've been looking for them for ages!

flogen

dudara

trust me, they're not that cool when seen en masse but I suppose that they co-ordinate nicely with the backpacks

simu

Originally posted by flogen
I'd love to catch them slagging you off so you could slag them back in Spanish...:D

flogen

My Spanish isn't that good yet, neway they don't seem to mock people much.

I speak French fluently though and it's hilarious that many French tourists who come to Ireland assume nobody will understand them and comment on everything out loud.

also I noticed a group of them the other day where every one of them was wearing the yellow onitsuka tiger runners, the ones from Kill Bill

Yeah, they're always much better dressed than irish kids. (even though I think all of them wearing the same runners is a bit sad).

RobertFoster

Originally posted by simu
I speak French fluently though and it's hilarious that many French tourists who come to Ireland assume nobody will understand them and comment on everything out loud.

what were they bitching about?

it's always funny when some guy tries to "chat up" a girl he thinks doesn't know english and then discovers they are fluent.

Third_Echelon

Originally posted by flogen
bastards! where did they get them from? I've been looking for them for ages!

flogen

i seen them in that shoe shop beside mc donalds on grafton st.... when i got past the spanish masses

simu

Originally posted by RobertFoster
what were they bitching about?

Anything really - not necessarily negative but going "look, that's weird" - it's funny coz they don't suspect you understand them.

flogen

Originally posted by Third_Echelon
i seen them in that shoe shop beside mc donalds on grafton st.... when i got past the spanish masses

sorry for the slight off topicness, but yeah, I thought I saw them too, but they're not the same... they're still yellow puma's, but they have some wierd netting on the sides, they aint the kind of leathery material the real ones are made of... I think they were bewards shoes anyway... I might still get them tho... if i cant find the real deal

flogen

EKRIUQ

Originally posted by HelterSkelter
I have a better idea, let's kick all the culchies out of Dublin, then there will be a lot more room for everyone

At least the spanish students can speak better english than most Dubs

flogen

Originally posted by simu
Anything really - not necessarily negative but going "look, that's weird" - it's funny coz they don't suspect you understand them.

I dont blame them tbh, dont the Irish have one of the worst reputations for languages, in that we dont know any but English..:D
I'm not getting bitchy, I'm one of those people, sadly

flogen

Töpher

Tu madre tiene sexe con mi perro.

The only spanish you need to know! Growl it as you push your way thru. Turns a few heads

EKRIUQ

Your Mother has sex with my dog,

DMT

A useful phrase:
Perdone. Bastardos.

EKRIUQ

Or in the words of David Beckham "Hijo de puta"

Nala

I really don't like Spanish students!!! They're so noisy and annoying and noisy and annoying...in their day-glo gear...and they NEVER queue!!! What is it with them and barging past everyone else? And what's with the fluorescent "outfits"? (I use the term loosely).

Sorry for the rant.

flogen

true about queueing... it seems to be an italian/spanish thing... they just push to the front. I know from experience that they are happy to butt in while you're talking to someone else, say if your working in a shop and dealing with a customer, they come up in groups of 30 shouting 'excoose me!', its just a cultural divide really... I'd say they all laugh at us Irish as we stand queueing in their country

'the fools, they will never be served!!! muhahahaha'

flogen

TwoShedsJackson

Originally posted by simu

They're handy for me coz I'm learning Spanish at the moment and I try to see if I can follow their conversations!

Same here, amazing the conversations you overhear in the Stephens Green centre.

Anyway, start roaring '¿Mis bolas es frío, puede usted calentarlos con su lengua por favor?' and then move forwards, they'll get out of the way fast.

Sleepy

Had to babelfish that admittedly, but what if they don't have tongue piercings?

TwoShedsJackson

Originally posted by Sleepy
Had to babelfish that admittedly, but what if they don't have tongue piercings?

Personally that would bother me not, although it should have been lengua not lengueta, as that's the tongue of a shoe. Bonus points for bizarreness for using it though, perhaps.

kida

walk up to them and at the top of your voice shout
"get the flock out of my way"

works every time:D

simu

Originally posted by neev
I really don't like Spanish students!!! They're so noisy and annoying and noisy and annoying...in their day-glo gear...and they NEVER queue!!! What is it with them and barging past everyone else? And what's with the fluorescent "outfits"? (I use the term loosely).

Sorry for the rant.

You could complain to the companies that organise their trips if they annoy you all that much. Tell them to teach them Irish ways of q-ing etc.

The Song Thrush

Here's a tip: avoid HMV in grafton street!!!!

Last summer I was in there and then a load of at least 100 spaniards came in and nobody could move or look at anything, or breathe fresh air for that matter. Took me half an hour to get outside.

flogen

Originally posted by The Song Thrush
Here's a tip: avoid HMV in grafton street!!!!

Last summer I was in there and then a load of at least 100 spaniards came in and nobody could move or look at anything, or breathe fresh air for that matter. Took me half an hour to get outside.

they're like a Flash Mob, but they don't seem to do it intentionally... when I worked in GAME (which is small enough), the place would go from empty to jam packed in 2.4 seconds.. then they'd all keep asking you if the game they were holding was in spanish, and if I could put it on the demo machines to let them find out...

flogen

tba

This topic is so racist in general. I quite like Spanish People and find alot of the comments in this thread derogatory.

RobertFoster

Originally posted by flogen
then they'd all keep asking you if the game they were holding was in spanish, and if I could put it on the demo machines to let them find out...

Do GAME smile or frown upon you asking to demo a game? I didn't know you could request what you demo...thought you just put up with what was there...if it was on...if the joypad was connected...if the joypad was working....

flogen

when I was there they didn't change the games, they usually put a new game in the machines, or ones they were trying to shift, and that was it... I dont think I've ever changed them over for a customer to try it out...

tba, I dont know if you consider my comments racist, but I'm just commenting on experience, obviously I understand that not all spanish are rude, or loud or ignorant, but I've come across many that are. Naturally, I've come aross thousands more Irish that are just as bad... if you want I can tell you stories on that too, but I'm sure you know yourself.

flogen

munkeehaven

yes they are all around...but i dont mind..the older spanish guys are very very sexxxxyyy..mmm..:D ......i saw one guy today in town and i nearly dropped my bag......

flogen

Originally posted by munkeehaven
i saw one guy today in town and i nearly dropped my bag......

Is that some kind of hip to the groove slang, or something?



flogen

munkeehaven

no..i nearly dropped the bag i was carrying because the guy i spotted was exceptionally good-looking (in my opinion)..he had long hair,lots of piercings and deep dark eyes...:o my friends thought he was horrible..ahh well, like i give a f'uck.

tba

Originally posted by flogen
tba, I dont know if you consider my comments racist

Its more the title that I think is wrong

joe_chicken

I think this thread is racist too!!!

we still havent given out about the italians! they're just as bad!

full forward

Originally posted by HelterSkelter
I have a better idea, let's kick all the culchies out of Dublin, then there will be a lot more room for everyone

But then who would you work for?

andrew163

i agree with a few people on this thread...leave the spanish alone, its the scangers that need to be chased out

seriously though, the spanish students are great.... we had one staying over few years ago, he was really friendly...and the girls are hot :eek:

leeroybrown

They can be irritating in large crowds but generally they're not too bad. In any event Spanish students clogging the paths and making loads of noise isn't anything new; it's been going on for years. The one thing that does irritate me is that sometimes they seem to be left to their own devices to roam the streets until quite late at night.

The funny thing about it is that Irish parents (I presume) are being paid to keep them and are probably sending their own kids of to the Gaeltacht (or abroad if they're lucky) and making a profit on it.

joe_chicken

my neighbour had a spanish student a good few years back...

they thought he was reasonably nice and didnt mind him being there...

during the week they started noticing things missing from the house!!!

...ornamants from the mantlepiece and the likes


when he was leaving, they thought his bag looked considerably bigger than when he arrived and that he hadnt really bought anything that big...


they confronted him and got him to open the bag



and right enough there we go bobs your uncle!!! the bag was full of stuff from their house (he said he didnt have enough time to shop for his relatives so he took some stuff to bring back)



he had even left behind some of his own stuff to make room for things in the bag!




besides that I've never had a problem with spanish students, even when they shout up and down the length of the bus when I'm sitting in the middle!

Dun

Just push past them - that's what they do at home, so they won't notice it. Their idea of manners are a lot different to ours and things like bumping into people or pushing past and not saying sorry, or not holding the door open for someone that's coming in behind you, is not seen as rude.

Also they are a good bit louder than us anyway, as the deafening (relative) silence that greeted me in Dublin airport when I arrived back after four months en España proved.

There's a ton of them with blue backpacks up here in Buncrana, Co. Donegal.