Central Bank

Local Goddess

Whats the story with central bank nowadays?It was always packed and was the 'in' place to be on a Saturday back in the day.Now its never full and there is just no atmosphere there,whats the craic?!

Karoma

Did you leave..?
That could be it.. without your intellectually stimulating conversations..

That, or it's probably too cold & coming up to xmas exams..

monkeyfudge

The 'in' place for who? Bankers or skaters? Neither of which I'd particularly care for...

Goodshape

It was never the 'in' place to be. And we all laughed at you for thinking otherwise.

MrJoeSoap

Never a big fan of the place myself. Awful skateboarders making clowns of themselves, falling down steps and the like.

Karoma

MrJoeSoap wrote:

Never a big fan of the place myself. Awful skateboarders making clowns of themselves, falling down steps and the like.

In Their defence, the majority of them didn't have skateboards - and those that did, used them for mostly for posing.

MrJoeSoap

Haha, probably true, I remember watching them on my lunch break one time, they were trying hard and everything but just couldn't figure out how to stay on the skateboard. I remember I saw one spraypaint "Garda are Scum" on one of the oddly shaped (square-ish) seats they have there and I saw a Garda just around the corner...

Hehehe...

Rb

"In" for skaters and goths, that is all.
Everyone else just knew it as the place the freaks hang out.

Karoma

rb_ie wrote:

"In" for skaters and goths, that is all.
Everyone else just knew it as the place the freaks hang out.

naw-aw. other freaks knew it was sad.. honest.

Rb

Karoma wrote:

naw-aw. other freaks knew it was sad.. honest.

lol

simu

No man ever steps in the same central bank twice, for it's not the same central bank and he's not the same man.

-Heraclitus

Kernel

Back in the day it used to be Punks... ahh the day...

Hobbes

Wasn't it goths a few years ago? Its like a breeding ground for teenage angst.

KdjaCL

Handy place to meet boards people when selling stuff also handy for playing "Suicides top 10 " its like the dead pool but with different.


kdjac

Lorax

I used to hang around central bank and the music centre yeaaaaaaaars ago, ahh the memories of getting drunk on a saturday at 11am lol..

DamoKen

Kernel wrote:

Back in the day it used to be Punks... ahh the day...

yep, punks and crusties, and if you were feeling really posh you could go into the old school Foggy Dew for a can of scrumpy as you sat on the floor

xzanti

It always seems fairly busy to me... I had to que for 20 minutes the other day to make a withdrawal :rolleyes:

AARRRGH

What I find disturbing is the old guys (20s - 40s) who hang out with the kids.

WTF is that all about?

Freelancer

Local Goddess wrote:

Whats the story with central bank nowadays?It was always packed and was the 'in' place to be on a Saturday back in the day.!

Dammit I always find out the hip place to be 15 years too late.

Apparently this season the hip "in" place was to sit around on freezing concrete developing hemroids listening to insipid teenagers talking sh*t while , drinking cider, while Daimo makes his eighth attempt to roll a spliff (he's the best one in the group at it) in front of the institute which sorts out exchange and interest rates, how rock and roll is that!

I'll telephone "In Dublin", and let them know this is the new place for the fashinistas to hang out, Lillies is getting sooooooo passé

Binomate

I think I might pop down there after college and laugh at them all later.

bringitdown

I hang round the bins at the back of Dunnes on Georges street. C U there?

Tusky

In place to be ? Yeah, maybe, for angsty 14 year olds.

Tha Gopher

Does anyone else find it hard to feel sorry when they hear that a gang of lads in tracksuits have severely beaten a young rocker for wearing his I Hate Myself and Want to Die hoodie?

Goth kids, or kids who dont do the whole goth thing, they might hang around with moshers but only slightly verge on the clothing culture, are the biggest bunch of boring, out of touch with reality spanners Ive ever met. Who in the name of God are the parents? Rocker couples (usually consisting of a 15 year old girl who is either fat and ugly or would actually be quite pretty if she didnt wear fcuking black eyeliner, and her creepy, weird 19-21 year old boyfriend) are the most pathetic match Ive seen since skanger couples who wear matching his and her shellsuits.

If the 14 year old hoodie rockers are reading this, know the truth:
You are all spas.
Your music sucks. Your clothes suck. You have no chance of getting a decent bird. Your all idiots

I swear, some day Im going to go to the Central Bank and sell them a half ounce of "hash" (pristinely cut from a block of briquettes, they wont know) for at least 50 euro, then find a vantage point where I can watch them throwing up as they inhale the rich chronic smoke of the Offaly boglands. (Ill try 100 euro, hopefully theyve no knowledge of price, although with the 2.5 tonnes seized last week a 100 quid half is a real posibillity this Christmas:mad: Certain people I know who bought their bars or half bars just before the first seizure are gonna be ****ing loaded)

Its fraud, but its all these little bastards deserve.

SpAcEd OuT

Local Goddess wrote:

Whats the story with central bank nowadays?It was always packed and was the 'in' place to be on a Saturday back in the day.Now its never full and there is just no atmosphere there,whats the craic?!

the 'in' place?

maybe if your an ugly,smelly,rocker,freak with no friends.

It's really sad seeing those 20 something year olds hanging out with 13/14/15 year olds, I mean get a life and have a shower.

Sarky

Karoma wrote:

In Their defence, the majority of them didn't have skateboards - and those that did, used them for mostly for posing.

How, exactly, is that in their defence?

Nevyn

for like for thier defense, to beat juinkies over the head with thier skateboards.

Binomate

A lot of them think that anyone who doesn't dress like they do are "skangers", that's what pisses me off the most. I've never seen as many of those green jackets with the german flags on the sleves in one place before.

Local Goddess

Aww funny stuff

evad_lhorg

I never got the whole dressing black thing. and the make up or nail polish thing either. what I find funny about the "gots"(yea i saw it written like that "gots out") is that theyll argue the way they dress is about them being an individual and theyll dress however they want but they all dress the same so they are all like the skangers in a way. skangers have their tracksuits and now pink and lemon coloured t shirts with pajama bottoms while the bank people have their chains and black everywhere. individuals? ha!

Beer is Life

Tha Gopher wrote:

Does anyone else find it hard to feel sorry when they hear that a gang of lads in tracksuits have severely beaten a young rocker for wearing his I Hate Myself and Want to Die hoodie?

Goth kids, or kids who dont do the whole goth thing, they might hang around with moshers but only slightly verge on the clothing culture, are the biggest bunch of boring, out of touch with reality spanners Ive ever met. Who in the name of God are the parents? Rocker couples (usually consisting of a 15 year old girl who is either fat and ugly or would actually be quite pretty if she didnt wear fcuking black eyeliner, and her creepy, weird 19-21 year old boyfriend) are the most pathetic match Ive seen since skanger couples who wear matching his and her shellsuits.

If the 14 year old hoodie rockers are reading this, know the truth:
You are all spas.
Your music sucks. Your clothes suck. You have no chance of getting a decent bird. Your all idiots

I swear, some day Im going to go to the Central Bank and sell them a half ounce of "hash" (pristinely cut from a block of briquettes, they wont know) for at least 50 euro, then find a vantage point where I can watch them throwing up as they inhale the rich chronic smoke of the Offaly boglands. (Ill try 100 euro, hopefully theyve no knowledge of price, although with the 2.5 tonnes seized last week a 100 quid half is a real posibillity this Christmas:mad: Certain people I know who bought their bars or half bars just before the first seizure are gonna be ****ing loaded)

Its fraud, but its all these little bastards deserve.

You have some issues buddy...

Why do you care so much?

Splinter

Tha Gopher you seem to react pretty harsh there. i was a temple bar kid for many years and i may not have dressed as a full blown goth but i still wear black quite a lot and chains etc. im now 21 and i think i turned out well and don't ever regret hanging around the bank etc. i met a lot of good friends there, many i still have, i know there was quite a few little tossers as there was in ever walk of life, (the little scumbag who throws bricks at a bus or robs his mates, or the little goth who thinks he shall be kool by attention seeking when he has no need to). i think you just lashed out at them because you see them as an annoyance, i know i didnt hang around the bank to be 'cool' or the be a little 'bastard' as you called them.

Binomate

splinter wrote:

i still wear black quite a lot and chains etc. im now 21

lol!

Spicy Lauren

'Temple Bar Kids', that's how I call them.

Mind you, they don't always hang around Temple Bar.

They'll grow out of it.

Sarky

But what if they don't? WHAT IF THEY DON'T!?

yawnstretch

I remember the central bank was a popular place with goths/rockers etc. about 7 years ago. What happened as far as I remember (used to go to school in town back then) was that the central bank fought against this gathering habit by spending about 12 months with a boarded-off building site zone around the area people used to hang out.

It killed off the gatherings as there was simply no space for people to congregate anymore. When they finally unveiled the construction zone the large space in front of the bank was surrounded by a fence including the concrete steps where people used to sit.

I wasn't one of the people who hung around there but the anti-people mentality of businesses in the city centre these days sickens me.

Another example is McDonalds on Henry Street/Mary Street which has put big spikes outside to stop people sitting on the window ledges - but what happens next time someone trips on the street and falls on them? Wouldn't like to be their insurance company.:o

ferdi

i remember a few years back, The Soicialist Youth were having a rally infront of the central bank with loads of rocker kids hanging round them. A group of 'townies' started hurling abuse at the S.Y. and the rocker kids and one of the townies tried to grab one of the red soicalist banners from some guy. The whole group of socialists and rocker kids hopped on the townies and started kicking the **** out of them:D