Soutside-Northside, D4's, etc.

eirebhoy

When is this generalisation going to end? I know a lot of people would call any type of posh person a D4 but there are a lot of people that call anyone from D4 posh. I mean, Ringsend and Irishtown are as bad as any other place in Dublin at times. Same goes for the Northside-Southside thing. There's probably around the same amount of scumbags and crime on the Southside. Places on the southside that certainly couldn't be regarded as posh: Tallagh (Jobstown, etc.), Clondalkin (Neilstown, Bawnogue), Ballyfermot, Crumlin, Drimnagh, Palmerstown, Inchicore, Dolphin's Barn, The Coombe, James Street, Pearse Street.... The list goes on and on. There's also plenty of decent places on the northside (Beumont, Drumcondra, Santry, Bayside, Howth...).

There are an awful lot of people from outside and even inside Dublin that think once you're a northsider you are most likely not as well off as the average southsider. Even your man Jeremey on the FM104 phone show give Northsiders stick. I'm actually a southsider myself but it must be annoying to talk to someone from the country and once you're a northsider they automatically think you're less well off (it does happen).

I am MAN

But generally more scumbags come from the northside and stuck up pricks from the southside, from what i've seen this is the case.

Northsider by the way.

impr0v

eirebhoy wrote:

....it must be annoying to talk to someone from the country and once you're a northsider they automatically think you're less well off (it does happen).

Isn't it a generalisation to assume that country people aren't clued in enough to know what's what, while at the same time presume they are as judgemental as you seem to think city people are?

RuggieBear

impr0v wrote:

Isn't it a generalisation to assume that country people aren't clued in enough to know what's what, while at the same time presume they are as judgemental as you seem to think city people are?

Roight!

Occidental

eirebhoy wrote:

Places on the southside that certainly couldn't be regarded as posh: Tallagh (Jobstown, etc.), Clondalkin (Neilstown, Bawnogue), Ballyfermot, Crumlin, Drimnagh, Palmerstown, Inchicore, Dolphin's Barn, The Coombe, James Street, Pearse Street

Not sure if you missed it, but most of these were disowned by Southsiders years ago, when they were renamed West Dublin.

Lenny

*yawn*

eirebhoy

impr0v wrote:

Isn't it a generalisation to assume that country people aren't clued in enough to know what's what, while at the same time presume they are as judgemental as you seem to think city people are?

I didn't say everyone from the country was like this. From the sentence you quoted I could be talking about one single person in the whole of Ireland.

Anyway, I regret opening this thread for some reason.

I'll rephrase it if you like:
"....it must be annoying to talk to Alex from the country and once you're a northsider he automatically thinks you're less well off."

impr0v

So what's the problem with the generalisation if only Alex is confused?

Occidental

eirebhoy wrote:

"....it must be annoying to talk to Alex from the country and once you're a northsider he automatically thinks you're less well off."

Everyone down here is called Mick, Paddy or Seamus. Alex is obviously a Southsider with a second home in the country, hence the attitude to Northsiders.

Spalk0

Are we talking Northsiders or North county?Because i wouldnt say were well off at all really anyways!Mind you i dont like the generalisation either!I am in the north county and i see a lot less scumbags than i would in the city really!And is anyone forgetting Malahide?would be regarded north Dublin and its the richest part of Dublin!

WhiteWashMan

well, im a southsider, and i dont dislike the northside.
lived there for many a year, studied in DCU.

i just dislike ignorant people, and you get those in all walks of life.

landser

eirebhoy wrote:

I didn't say everyone from the country was like this. ."

the use of the word "country" is a bit daft in itself... cork, belfast or limerick are hardly virigin fields.... by country i presume you mean outside of the dublin city limits? what a typical thing for a dub to say

Civilian_Target

I dunno if there is such thing as an ignorant person, we all just have varying degrees of ignorance. People with large amounts of ignorance get on my nerves, especially if they happen to be Xenophobic. And they exist in D4 as they do in Mulhuddar.t

I would regard myself as a typical south-sider. I NEVER go northside (unless I have to go to UGC.) I had to go to Grangegorman the other day, and I thought it was in Kildare!! Hoho, amusing. But really, the filth of the northside, the smell in the country, Why oh why would you leave the twin towers of Grafton St? (BT & BT2)
I mean what would my daddy think?

If any one takes my last post seriously, you need your head examined...Btw :rolleyes:

Spalk0

Papa Smut wrote:

I would regard myself as a typical south-sider. I NEVER go northside (unless I have to go to UGC.) I had to go to Grangegorman the other day, and I thought it was in Kildare!! Hoho, amusing. But really, the filth of the northside, the smell in the country, Why oh why would you leave the twin towers of Grafton St? (BT & BT2)
I mean what would my daddy think?

Hmm Dublin 8.....thats around inchicore right!ehhhhh DUMP!!!

Trigger!

Trigger! wrote:

Hmm Dublin 8.....thats around inchicore right!ehhhhh DUMP!!!

LOL Heehee, not quite old boy!

Spalk0

Well i could say Likewise, old chap!

RE*AC*TOR

Trigger! wrote:

Well i could say Likewise, old chap!

Have you some sort of avatar chaging machine?

jesus_thats_gre

There is no denying that the majority of the southside is far better kept and generally more pleasent to spend time in..

Spalk0

RE*AC*TOR wrote:

Have you some sort of avatar chaging machine?

Your the second person to ask me that!.....No i just get bored of my avatars and signature every so often and change it!

sprinkles

jesus_thats_gre wrote:

There is no denying that the majority of the southside is far better kept and generally more pleasent to spend time in..

I'll deny it!

Spalk0

sprinkles wrote:

I'll deny it!

And i'll second that!

Have you actually been everywhere in the northen hemisphere of Dublin?

Civilian_Target

Yeah, when its winter on the southside, its warm and sunny up here on the north side.

(Puts feet up and takes out another cool beer)

sprinkles

There's a nice little posh place on the northside called castleknock, then there's howth, malahide etc..........

Not that there's anything wrong with "Da Blanch" (aka castleknock), or indeed Finglas.

sprinkles

Civilian_Target wrote:

Yeah, when its winter on the southside, its warm and sunny up here on the north side.

(Puts feet up and takes out another cool beer)

LOL

Spalk0

hear hear

adjodlo

The southside has just as many, if not more crap areas than the northside. I gaurantee that my house is worth far more than 90% of anyone who has the attitude that the northside is full of knackers. I'm not saying it isn't, but so is the southside.

Most of these "Oh the southside is sooo kewl" people live so far away from the city center that they're practically boggers, living in cheapo estates with loads of other pretentious fúckers who need to cling onto that old southside cliché.

positron

I guess with sh*t load of new house owners fearing a (very) remotely possible risk of their investment going down the drain (bad market, less demand or skangers making a Kabul of your estate) are just going around talking big about their area, calling everything SouthSide, or Castleknock etc, me thinks they are all just afraid! Well, rightfully so!

ballooba

Trigger! wrote:

And is anyone forgetting Malahide?would be regarded north Dublin and its the richest part of Dublin!

Eh, hello... are you like totally... like... Dalkey, Roysh

adjodlo

Where'd this whole notion of Castleknock being posh come from. Agreed it's a nice area, but you can spot an arsehole from a mile away if they claim to be from castleknock and consider it posh.
Have any of you ever even BEEN in castleknock?