Things that annoy you about Galway

kinetic

Ill start ye off ,drivers in Joyces carpark f....ng idiots!

I parked there this morning,and when i returned to my car i saw a woman park arseways next to me and she was almost touching me even though she had ample room to park correctly.
I hopped into my car and decided to wait and she what she would do.She opened her door and surprise surprise she banged into my car and couldnt get out.I looked at her and to my utter amazement instead of reparking she climbed across the seats and hopped outta the passenger door!

It beggars belief!

biko

Well that could happen anywhere in fairness.

One thing that annoys me about Galway is the traffic is always congested. Takes an hour to cross the city sometimes, a journey of a few miles.

Zzippy

kinetic wrote: »

Ill start ye off ,drivers in Joyces carpark f....ng idiots!

I parked there this morning,and when i returned to my car i saw a woman park arseways next to me and she was almost touching me even though she had ample room to park correctly.
I hopped into my car and decided to wait and she what she would do.She opened her door and surprise surprise she banged into my car and couldnt get out.I looked at her and to my utter amazement instead of reparking she climbed across the seats and hopped outta the passenger door!

It beggars belief!

Why didn't you start a thread in Motors about women drivers, or bad parkers? In fairness, as Biko said, it could have happened anywhere, nothing to do with Galway...

MySelf56

300 days Guaranteed rain, apart from that all ok.

m83

This thread. Quit your moanin!

ukgalwaymcguire

m83 wrote: »

This thread. Quit your moanin!

agreed as they say in the sweeney.. shut it...

isnt there a grumpy old man/woman forum??

galway is one of the most beautiful places in the world..
its christmas.. we are alive, postive vibes!!!!:)

donmeister

The bus service round the city,its ridiculously bad. Enough said.

kinetic

ukgalwaymcguire wrote: »

agreed as they say in the sweeney.. shut it...

isnt there a grumpy old man/woman forum??

galway is one of the most beautiful places in the world..
its christmas.. we are alive, postive vibes!!!!:)

I watch a local climb out her passenger door and im moaning?

leninbenjamin

biko wrote: »

Well that could happen anywhere in fairness

in fairness do you go down to Joyces often? probably the worst parking set up in the western world, just encourages that kind of thing. sh*t like that seems to happen every other day when we go to it.

CrowdedHouse

The roundabouts and general inability to use them correctly(not helped by the wonderful design of some of them)

Doughnut City FTW


Anyway it's Christmas Eve,so no more moaning...

Have A Cool Yule Everyone

Diabhal Beag

The negativity. C'mon folks it Winter Festival / Hanukkah /Christmas. Lets be happy for 3 days.

lt_cmdr_worf

The traffic congestion in the Renmore and Claregalway areas, for me.

ukgalwaymcguire

kinetic wrote: »

I watch a local climb out her passenger door and im moaning?

yep your moaning but your allowed... cheer up, !!! (im on the cherry brandy lol)
its christmas... galway is lovely.. you cant moan about the whole of galway because of one silly cow who cant park.. laugh it off and be positive,, in the knowledge that if she cant park she will probably cremate the christmas dinner as well lol...

serious you got to laugh at these people.. :):)

biko

leninbenjamin wrote: »

in fairness do you go down to Joyces often?

I used to shop there all the time before I discovered that the prices on the selves and the prices at the till didn't match. I stopped shopping there since.

futura123

parking is a rip off in galway.
people cant drive properly and dont know how to use lanes correctly.

futura123

oh yeah and joyces is a nightmare to shop and park.......

321654

Galway

happyoutscan

Bank Holiday Weekends when it's overrun by morons.

galwayrush

Serial Objectors. We seem to have a hell of a lot of them in Galway. :mad:
The same names seem to crop up in objecting to any developement proposed for the City.

cornbb

Hen parties.

muppetkiller

you people !!!!!

tonyhiggins

Lack of a school of music...

JohnCleary

The lack of bins on the streets, what's the fcukin' story there like? It'd cost the Council less to just erect bins on every street instead of having to pay people to clear up the rubbish from the streets

leninbenjamin

JohnCleary wrote: »

The lack of bins on the streets, what's the fcukin' story there like? It'd cost the Council less to just erect bins on every street instead of having to pay people to clear up the rubbish from the streets

that type of thinking be a bit too progressive for round these parts. better shut up or they'll be onto you!

pseudonym1

The council!
And there are a high percentage of ignorant knobjockey types in city!
Apart from that the weather and bla bla bla ..

SimpleSam06

happyoutscan wrote: »

Bank Holiday Weekends when it's overrun by morons.

Agreed, I also have great difficulty walking down the street after 10pm with my wife without some drunk redneck coming up and trying to score. Getting from a nightclub to a cab is like an episode of gladiators. Fcuk off back to Roscommon lads.

fish fingers

People with RN and MO regs

thepoolgirl

To many traffic lights
Bad drivers.
To many gift shops
Rude shop assistants:eek:

Cole

People who go on about how fantastic Galway is.

They came here, fell in love with the place and never left.....they talk about living in Galway like it is some kind of spiritual awakening for them.
Any issues, such as traffic, planning etc. are to be tolerated or ignored because these things don't really matter and are trivial compared to the magical experience of being in Galway:rolleyes:

Galway is a nice place, but there's nothing exceptional about it...plenty of negatives also, imo.

Lockstep

Traffic/lack of public transport annoy me

Mr Cork Man

Cole wrote: »

People who go on about how fantastic Galway is.

They came here, fell in love with the place and never left.....they talk about living in Galway like it is some kind of spiritual awakening for them.
Any issues, such as traffic, planning etc. are to be tolerated or ignored because these things don't really matter and are trivial compared to the magical experience of being in Galway:rolleyes:

Galway is a nice place, but there's nothing exceptional about it...plenty of negatives also, imo.

Indeed just like the magical experience of being in cork.

DRakE

things that annoy me

- the majority of people on this board
- the women are cunts

JohnCleary

DRakE wrote: »

- the majority of people on this board

Sp p1ss off

- the women are cunts

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Thats just cause none of them would have you

Captain Darling

DRakE wrote: »

things that annoy me

- the majority of people on this board
- the women are cunts

Sandy vagina?

DRakE

JohnCleary wrote: »

Sp p1ss off

Thats just cause none of them would have you

baited

Dockfive

Parking on the pavement and double yellow lines without ever seeing anyone clamped .... grrrrrrrrrrrrr

However, on a positive note, the Saturday Markets and Felafel and curry ...... mmmmmmmmmmm

kinetic

Dockfive wrote: »

Parking on the pavement and double yellow lines without ever seeing anyone clamped .... grrrrrrrrrrrrr

However, on a positive note, the Saturday Markets and Felafel and curry ...... mmmmmmmmmmm

MMMMMMMM Falafel

nuac

Plus for galway
City nicely located between lake and sea
Nice buzz in UCG and city centre area
some nice old buildings well restored

con
suburban housing estates sprawl in a wasteland
the roundabouts should be renamed e.g. Dublin 1, Dublin 2 or N17-1 N17-2 or whatever. Calling them after the tribes of Galway makes it confusing to e.g. get the right road for Limerick if you are not familiar with that part of the city.

Fracture

Things that annoy me about Galway

- The crowd that go to cps, as in the stuck up girls and the students who think smashing a glass on the floor is AMAZING CRAIC
-The amount of tinkers
-The way it seems to be getting a bit rougher, any1 else noticed that?

On a more positive note, Galway is probably the best city in the country, its got a good relaxing kind of atmosphere in it that no other city has. I mean look at Dublin....its a fckin kip.

donmeister

Fracture wrote: »

- The crowd that go to cps, as in the stuck up girls and the students who think smashing a glass on the floor is AMAZING CRAIC
-The amount of tinkers
-The way it seems to be getting a bit rougher, any1 else noticed that?

+1 all very true!

JohnCleary

What else do I not like about Galway?

This cunt:






Felt like asking him how the progress on the Galway City by-pass was getting on, bus he was busy eatin' his schnakkkboxxx :pac:

donmeister

What is going on there? I lol'd

JohnCleary

On the last pic i'm just after spotting the pint glass on top of the bin

Aurora Borealis

Have to admit I find it a tad small-minded at times though perhaps that's not just Galway specific.

Any other annoyances such as traffic and parking etc are unfortunate alright but I do think there are more pluses to outweigh them obviously or else I wouldn't be here...

eamon234

It has some of the laziest musicians in the world - with all the talent there I haven't seen one decent band come out of there in years - they seem to be obsessed with making money playing covers and weddings.

Mr Cork Man

Fracture wrote: »

Things that annoy me about Galway

- The crowd that go to cps, as in the stuck up girls and the students who think smashing a glass on the floor is AMAZING CRAIC
-The amount of tinkers
-The way it seems to be getting a bit rougher, any1 else noticed that?

On a more positive note, Galway is probably the best city in the country, its got a good relaxing kind of atmosphere in it that no other city has. I mean look at Dublin....its a fckin kip.

I had an attempted break in in broad daylight.I actually think cork is irelands best city it combines big city atmosphere with small town charm.

KevR

JohnCleary wrote: »

The lack of bins on the streets, what's the fcukin' story there like? It'd cost the Council less to just erect bins on every street instead of having to pay people to clear up the rubbish from the streets

Agree completely!

Also, does anyone else ever get that rotten smell on Shop Street sometimes? I know there are bins on shop street but often they are left to overflow. Big bins left for a period of time full of rubbish are not going to put out a nice smell, that's for sure. If they emptied them more often there might not be an odour problem on Shop Street

dr.bollocko

Since moving here I have found Galway nothing if not charming. However the traffic is hilariously bad considering the size of the place. I find the local leaning towards pronouncing ever "s" as "sh" makes up for it though. Ye lovable westy rogues.

I love galway to peices, but there's on thing that annoys me:

Anyone, and I mean ANYONE!!! who objects to a bypass of Galway City to the north.

Why, in this day and age, should Connemara be strangled by a bunch of NIMBYs who want to keep their ickle park from those nasty awful dwivers in their evil, evil motor vehicles?

I live in East Galway (well, i do when I'm not working) and I've always wanted to head for Spideal and Clifden adn out to that country. But it takes less time to get to Dublin from where I (my parents) live than to get to clifden! Why, if I have no business in the city, should I be forced to go to within spitting distance of some of the most busy shopping centres in the city?

Greenies, a lot of things I do agree with you on, but anyone who doesn't want Galway bypasses? I want to PUNCH you!!!:mad::mad::mad:

JohnCleary

KevR wrote: »

Agree completely!

Also, does anyone else ever get that rotten smell on Shop Street sometimes? I know there are bins on shop street but often they are left to overflow. Big bins left for a period of time full of rubbish are not going to put out a nice smell, that's for sure. If they emptied them more often there might not be an odour problem on Shop Street

I've gotten that smell in a few places around town - totally rank. Guess it's the bins alright?

dr.bollocko wrote: »

Since moving here I have found Galway nothing if not charming. However the traffic is hilariously bad considering the size of the place. I find the local leaning towards pronouncing ever "s" as "sh" makes up for it though. Ye lovable westy rogues.

Schnack Box!

Deleted User wrote: »

Anyone, and I mean ANYONE!!! who objects to a bypass of Galway City to the north.

Galway defo needs a North by-pass alright, just a pitty that a bridge going over the Corrib at Menlo will ruin the relaxed atmosphere up there. I now you could say the same thing about the Quincentinary (sp?) bridge when it was built X amount of years ago but you can't compare the scenery around Terryland/Newcastle with Bushypark/Menlo (BTW I don't live in Bushypark/Menlo so wouldn't affect me personally, so to speak, but I love the fact that you can go up there for a walk and it feels like you're in the countryside, yet you're little more than a 10/15min walk from the city centre)

I'm standing my gound that the by-pass should be a tunnel, not a bridge! (Like thats every gonna happen)

dr.bollocko

JohnCleary wrote: »

Schnack Box!

I think that's why its really difficult to get a decent Shony Shurround Shound home shinema shystem anywhere in Galway.