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You know things are bad when...

  • 25-10-2008 11:38am
    #1
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭


    ...the BBC says my town is a black spot!

    Drogheda my home town was called a Blackspot of Ireland! Yikes :eek:

    Crikey - I'm outa here!

    BBC News Report: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7689789.stm


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  • #2
    Dord
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,817 ✭✭✭✭Dord


    /points and laughs

    :p


  • #3
    Wertz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,909 ✭✭✭✭Wertz


    It's all Cromwell's fault you know...


  • #4
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    Wertz wrote: »
    It's all Cromwell's fault you know...

    I guess so. :(

    He started it!


  • #5
    Dirk Gently
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,784 ✭✭✭Dirk Gently


    You know things are bad when the shop assistants in the shops you've gone to over the past few years who wouldn't normally even look at you while serving you suddenly start telling you to have a good day and enjoy your weekend.



    edit: Draw-haw-da was always a horrible place tbh. :P


  • #6
    Peyton Manning
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,658 ✭✭✭✭Peyton Manning


    My town was described as a black spot. Luckily, Im not racist and get on well with them.


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  • #7
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    clown bag wrote: »
    You know things are bad when the shop assistants in the shops you've gone to over the past few years who wouldn't normally even look at you while serving you suddenly start telling you to have a good day and enjoy your weekend.


    Very true. We're not used to it! :rolleyes:


  • #8
    ScumLord
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,789 ✭✭✭✭ScumLord


    Biggins wrote: »
    I guess so. :(

    He started it!
    According to some RTE documentary I saw, we started it. When the Romans pulled out of Britain we invaded and took over then a little while later they forgot they where Irish and invaded Ireland. So it was them dirty paddys that started it.


  • #9
    Piste
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,440 ✭✭✭✭Piste


    In an LC Geogrpahy book pretty much all of Louth is in there as an example of a disadvantaged area!


  • #10
    weeder
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,469 ✭✭✭weeder


    tl;dr


  • #11
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    weeder wrote: »
    tl;dr

    :confused: Say what?


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  • #12
    Renegade_Archer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 743 ✭✭✭Renegade_Archer


    Lawl, I left Drogheda a year ago and moved to Los Angeles; I'm bringing the woman back home with me for christmas, wondering wtf she'll think of Drogheda..


  • #13
    amacachi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,316 ✭✭✭✭amacachi


    Piste wrote: »
    In an LC Geogrpahy book pretty much all of Louth is in there as an example of a disadvantaged area!

    Yep, we're part of the Border Midland and West Region. Louth on it's own probably wouldn't qualify, but with the other counties dragging us down we get extra monies.:)


  • #14
    Shacklebolt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,418 ✭✭✭Shacklebolt


    Virtually all the west of Ireland counts as disadsvantaged except for a few major towns.


  • #15
    4zn76tysfajdxp
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,944 ✭✭✭✭4zn76tysfajdxp


    Shacklebolt wrote: »
    Virtually all the west of Ireland counts as disadsvantaged except for a few major towns.

    Mayo being none of them.


  • #16
    cHaTbOx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,011 ✭✭✭cHaTbOx


    Well the rest of ireland is a blackspot to dubliners .
    This is what they see when they look at a map


  • #17
    Shacklebolt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,418 ✭✭✭Shacklebolt


    random chatbox wrote: »
    Well the rest of ireland is a blackspot to dubliners .
    This is what they see when they look at a map

    Whats so special about Achill and Belmullet?

    To be honest you havent really seen Ireland until you see the places outside Dublin.


  • #18
    Shacklebolt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,418 ✭✭✭Shacklebolt


    Madden Puny Gopher wrote: »
    Mayo being none of them.


    Seeing as the village of Mayo is tiny obviously not-but Castlebar is the second biggest town in the west.


  • #19
    4zn76tysfajdxp
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,944 ✭✭✭✭4zn76tysfajdxp


    Shacklebolt wrote: »
    Seeing as the village of Mayo is tiny obviously not-but Castlebar is the second biggest town in the west.

    What would be the biggest?


  • #20
    Shacklebolt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,418 ✭✭✭Shacklebolt


    Madden Puny Gopher wrote: »
    What would be the biggest?

    Yes of course its Galway-a delightful city where I currently reside.


  • #21
    Donald-Duck
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,119 ✭✭✭Donald-Duck


    Biggins wrote: »
    :confused: Say what?

    Too long; didn't read


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