Go Fu.ck Yourself

nowye'retalkin

That is what someone said to moi today on Dame street when I asked them for the time. I just said excuse me do you have the time and the guy who seemed, by looks, normal enough just turned back to me as he was walking past and said Go fcuk yourself. :eek: By normal enough I mean they didn't look like a skanger or scumbag.

Was kind off shocked really. Has anyone else experienced that level of rudeness or dished it out?

This was once the land of the friendly Irish (Dublin) but have we gone all modern and lost our old oirish friendlyness?

Is Dublin now London mark II

galwayrush

I find London quite friendly.

nowye'retalkin

nowye'retalkin wrote: »

Was kind off shocked really. Has anyone else experienced that level of rudeness or dished it out?

Never experienced that, it seems very excessive.

mikemac

You need to get out of Dublin.

It's different in rural areas, sure everyone salutes you as you drive along or go for a walk on country roads

marcsignal

wearing a Kevin Myres T Shirt can often provoke such a reaction

OPENROAD

galwayrush wrote: »

I find London quite friendly.

+1

Have never understood the whole "London is not friendly" thing myself,I have found the opposite over the years.

Eric Cartman

was it dick cheney ?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxFc1RMbko4

allthedoyles

This reminds me of a day I left my mobile phone in the car, and asked a guy on the street , if I could use his for a minute ..............and he told me he did'nt have one on him....next thing is .. his mobile phone rings !

Next I asked a security guard outside large store .......He said '' what would I be doing with a mobile phone '' ..............I could actually see the phone in his pocket !

This was in Waterford ...by the way

kerry4sam

mikemac wrote: »

You need to get out of Dublin.

It's different in rural areas, sure everyone salutes you as you drive along or go for a walk on country roads

This is sooo true, irrespective of whether they know you or not it is all salutes and even the odd smile! Maybe it's to do with the more traditional community spirit evident in the 'country'.

Sir Gallagher

allthedoyles wrote: »

This reminds me of a day I left my mobile phone in the car, and asked a guy on the street , if I could use his for a minute ..............and he told me he did'nt have one on him....next thing is .. his mobile phone rings !

Next I asked a security guard outside large store .......He said '' what would I be doing with a mobile phone '' ..............I could actually see the phone in his pocket !

Are you taking the piss?

miju

allthedoyles wrote: »

This reminds me of a day I left my mobile phone in the car, and asked a guy on the street , if I could use his for a minute ..............and he told me he did'nt have one on him....next thing is .. his mobile phone rings !

Next I asked a security guard outside large store .......He said '' what would I be doing with a mobile phone '' ..............I could actually see the phone in his pocket !

excuse me it's the wallet inspector

pwd

nowye'retalkin wrote: »

That is what someone said to moi today on Dame street when I asked them for the time. I just said excuse me do you have the time and the guy who seemed, by looks, normal enough just turned back to me as he was walking past and said Go fcuk yourself. :eek: By normal enough I mean they didn't look like a skanger or scumbag.

Was kind off shocked really. Has anyone else experienced that level of rudeness or dished it out?

This was once the land of the friendly Irish (Dublin) but have we gone all modern and lost our old oirish friendlyness?

Is Dublin now London mark II

had you just robbed his watch?

x in the city

Dublin is the pits

Id rather work in Mozambique than there

dez_warlock

It's like boyz in the hood!

pebbles21

nowye'retalkin wrote: »

That is what someone said to moi today on Dame street when I asked them for the time. I just said excuse me do you have the time and the guy who seemed, by looks, normal enough just turned back to me as he was walking past and said Go fcuk yourself. :eek: By normal enough I mean they didn't look like a skanger or scumbag.

Was kind off shocked really. Has anyone else experienced that level of rudeness or dished it out?

This was once the land of the friendly Irish (Dublin) but have we gone all modern and lost our old oirish friendlyness?

Is Dublin now London mark II

he probably thought you were begging

why didnt you just look at the clock at trinty college?

ejmaztec

allthedoyles wrote: »

This reminds me of a day I left my mobile phone in the car, and asked a guy on the street , if I could use his for a minute ..............and he told me he did'nt have one on him....next thing is .. his mobile phone rings !

Next I asked a security guard outside large store .......He said '' what would I be doing with a mobile phone '' ..............I could actually see the phone in his pocket !

This was in Waterford ...by the way

shouldn't have called him "boss".

abouttobebanned

allthedoyles wrote: »

This reminds me of a day I left my mobile phone in the car, and asked a guy on the street , if I could use his for a minute ..............and he told me he did'nt have one on him....next thing is .. his mobile phone rings !

Next I asked a security guard outside large store .......He said '' what would I be doing with a mobile phone '' ..............I could actually see the phone in his pocket !

This was in Waterford ...by the way

I left my wallet at home today...i wonder if i could borrow yours?

Biggins

They even come to your house.

I was (and still am - 1 left) giving away free 2 21inch monitors.
Advertised them on an Irish recycle site during the week. Described them very well.
Chap contacted me then to say he wanted one.
"Fair enough, its yours for the taking".
He turned up at the house two days ago. We went to the shed to get one and when I broke my back lifting the damn thing - he took a look at it, turned to me and said "Sod that - I don't want it" and turned and marched off without saying "hello, good bye, sod you or thanks but no thanks..."
Nothing! He just went through my sidegate and buggered off. Leaving me and the wife standing there open mouthed with shock looking at each other!

If that wasn't bad enough, he then later went to the free site and gave out that he had spent 20 quid on petrol for a wasted journey on a monitor he didn't want!!! WTF - You'd swear I was to blame for him taking a huff!

(I had even provided him with the picture of the monitor before he came. Ya can't win!)

mikemac

allthedoyles wrote: »

This reminds me of a day I left my mobile phone in the car, and asked a guy on the street , if I could use his for a minute ..............and he told me he did'nt have one on him....next thing is .. his mobile phone rings !

Next I asked a security guard outside large store .......He said '' what would I be doing with a mobile phone '' ..............I could actually see the phone in his pocket !

This was in Waterford ...by the way

No payphones in Waterford?
Even if there are none on the street, most pubs have one.

Would you trust everyone who approached you in the street and asked for your mobile? It's not being ignorant, it's being careful

Mr.Lizard

FYI, in Dublin, someone coming up to you and asking for the time is usually a prelude to a mugging. OP you were very rude and insensitive. I hope you will be more considerate in future.

Latchy

nowye'retalkin wrote: »

This was once the land of the friendly Irish (Dublin) but have we gone all modern and lost our old oirish friendlyness?

Some people will take their Irish friendliness out depending on who it is they are talking to ie, the good looking bird or the guy who is going to help me do me a favour or climb up the ladder .But in general ,these people are not really friendly .

Is Dublin now London mark II

As others have said .Might be millions more people in London but would not class it as an unfriendly place as such .They dont tend to be as small minded .

Sir Gallagher

"Country's capital in rude person shocker"

Seriously the Dub bashing is just sad at this stage.

Butterfly baby

At a guess I'd say he most likely thought you were a Chugger.

Saibh

Maybe they didn't have a good day, can't expect everybody to be in good humour all the time.

marcsignal

dez_warlock wrote: »

It's like boyz in the hoodies!

fixed that for you dez_warlock

Sharpshooter

nowye'retalkin wrote: »

That is what someone said to moi today on Dame street when I asked them for the time. I just said excuse me do you have the time and the guy who seemed, by looks, normal enough just turned back to me as he was walking past and said Go fcuk yourself. :eek: By normal enough I mean they didn't look like a skanger or scumbag.

Maybe he'd just had his watch stolen.
What time was this exactly?

galwayrush

Biggins wrote: »

They even come to your house.

I was (and still am - 1 left) giving away free 2 21inch monitors.
Advertised them on an Irish recycle site during the week. Described them very well.
Chap contacted me then to say he wanted one.
"Fair enough, its yours for the taking".
He turned up at the house two days ago. We went to the shed to get one and when I broke my back lifting the damn thing - he took a look at it, turned to me and said "Sod that - I don't want it" and turned and marched off without saying "hello, good bye, sod you or thanks but no thanks..."
Nothing! He just went through my sidegate and buggered off. Leaving me and the wife standing there open mouthed with shock looking at each other!

If that wasn't bad enough, he then later went to the free site and gave out that he had spent 20 quid on petrol for a wasted journey on a monitor he didn't want!!! WTF - You'd swear I was to blame for him taking a huff!

(I had even provided him with the picture of the monitor before he came. Ya can't win!)

Careful, could have been a scumbag casing your property.

Ghost Train

A guy asked me for change on Dame Street, I said "Sorry no"
He then called me an "Asshole"

There are loads of scumbags around the centre of Dublin

The Mad Hatter

pebbles21 wrote: »

he probably thought you were begging

+1

This has happened to me a couple of times.

Biggins

galwayrush wrote: »

Careful, could have been a scumbag casing your property.

He was about 45+ in age.
Not that difference in age is factor. I just thought someone older would be a bit more appreciative or even mention a "thanks but no thanks".
Nope, he just took a notion in his head and stomped off! Weird.

(He could case all he wanted. If he saw into a number of rooms, he'd spot items that would quickly show I wasn't to be broken into lightly!)

Poloman

You see thats Dublin for you. Wouldnt happen anywhere else.

Only joking I juist dont like Dublin I think the people are rude in general. You just met some tool is all. Every county has them but in fairness that is pretty harsh what he said to you.

DonkeyStyle \o/

Mr.Lizard wrote: »

FYI, in Dublin, someone coming up to you and asking for the time is usually a prelude to a mugging. OP you were very rude and insensitive. I hope you will be more considerate in future.

Yep, don't scare people like that just because you can't be bothered carrying a time-telling device with you.
He went a bit far telling you to go fck yourself though, the proper response is always "Time you got a watch"... or do what I do and pretend he doesn't see or hear you.

Abi

nowye'retalkin wrote: »

That is what someone said to moi today on Dame street when I asked them for the time. I just said excuse me do you have the time and the guy who seemed, by looks, normal enough just turned back to me as he was walking past and said Go fcuk yourself. :eek: By normal enough I mean they didn't look like a skanger or scumbag.

Ye. Sorry about that. But you scared me. Nobody connects eyes in the city centre.

*shudders*

Btw. It was a quarter to two.

Has anyone else experienced that level of rudeness or dished it out?

Dished it. Too much filth around to be a friendly anymore.

nowye'retalkin

Abigayle wrote: »

Ye. Sorry about that. But you scared me. Nobody connects eyes in the city centre.

*shudders*

Btw. It was a quarter to two.



Dished it. Too much filth around to be a friendly anymore.

Wow The lesser spotted gob sh1te.

Nice atempt at being funeh. Be funeh elsewhere?

Abi

nowye'retalkin wrote: »

Wow The lesser spotted gob sh1te.

Nice attempt to be smart.

/Fail.

Now yer talkin' through it.

southofnowhere

allthedoyles wrote: »

This reminds me of a day I left my mobile phone in the car, and asked a guy on the street , if I could use his for a minute ..............and he told me he did'nt have one on him....next thing is .. his mobile phone rings !

Next I asked a security guard outside large store .......He said '' what would I be doing with a mobile phone '' ..............I could actually see the phone in his pocket !

This was in Waterford ...by the way

Was in Belfast with my girlfriend recently, we were walking through a shopping centre on the saturday night and I asked the two very big and burly security guys the best place to get a taxi (as we were clueless and needed to get across town).

One of the guys took out his own mobile phone, asked where we were headed, called a taxi firm, told them where to collect us and where we were headed and then pointed us to the collection spot.

Couldn't have been nicer and we both remarked, haven got lost a few times and needed pointing in the right direction, just how friendly people up there were. Even just in general. As for the OP, that's a very generalised statement about Dublin based on one eejit.

taidghbaby

miju wrote: »

excuse me it's the wallet inspector

hate them bastads

consultech

Sharpshooter wrote: »

What time was this exactly?

Go Fu.ck yourself.

Armin_Tamzarian

allthedoyles wrote: »

This reminds me of a day I left my mobile phone in the car, and asked a guy on the street , if I could use his for a minute ..............and he told me he did'nt have one on him....next thing is .. his mobile phone rings !

Next I asked a security guard outside large store .......He said '' what would I be doing with a mobile phone '' ..............I could actually see the phone in his pocket !

That's nearly as bad as the time I got onto the DART and suddenly realised that I'd left my phone on a bench at the station.

Realising that my only hope was to ring it and maybe get it handed it.

I over-reacted (as I do).
I sprinted down the carriage to the first bloke I saw and shouted "quick give us your phone".

The guy started screaming his head off, shouting for "HELP".

In my haste I'd failed to notice the white stick between his legs,
the poor chap.

On the plus side, I got my phone back.

JoeyW

nowye'retalkin wrote: »

This was once the land of the friendly Irish (Dublin) but have we gone all modern and lost our old oirish friendlyness?

IMO I don't think Ireland is as friendly as it used to be anymore. I live in a smallish town in the midlands and years ago you would be in and out of the neighbours houses and vice versa, today I don't even know my neighbours names, we say an odd hello and thats it. It's not just Dublin, the whole country has changed.

In fairness though, I would never give anyone a loan of my mobile phone!!

nowye'retalkin

Abigayle wrote: »

Nice attempt to be smart.

/Fail.

Now yer talkin' through it.

Don't be a hater Aby,

Be yourself. You could do better but at least you have a starting point.

Be better.

Sharpshooter

consultech wrote: »

Go Fu.ck yourself.

Was that your sense of humour,or were you disguising your disdain with a full stop?

thebigcheese22

Sharpshooter wrote: »

Was that your sense of humour,or were you disguising your disdain with a full stop?

I'm guessing twas humour!

Overheal

nowye'retalkin wrote: »

That is what someone said to moi today on Dame street when I asked them for the time. I just said excuse me do you have the time and the guy who seemed, by looks, normal enough just turned back to me as he was walking past and said Go fcuk yourself. :eek: By normal enough I mean they didn't look like a skanger or scumbag.

Was kind off shocked really. Has anyone else experienced that level of rudeness or dished it out?

This was once the land of the friendly Irish (Dublin) but have we gone all modern and lost our old oirish friendlyness?

Is Dublin now London mark II

maybe he was having a bad day? scumbag kids used to love asking me for the time because I said it all yanklike - oh its three forty seven intstead of quarter to four. It seemed to astound them.

Kinetic^

Biggins wrote: »

They even come to your house.

I was (and still am - 1 left) giving away free 2 21inch monitors.
Advertised them on an Irish recycle site during the week. Described them very well.
Chap contacted me then to say he wanted one.
"Fair enough, its yours for the taking".
He turned up at the house two days ago. We went to the shed to get one and when I broke my back lifting the damn thing - he took a look at it, turned to me and said "Sod that - I don't want it" and turned and marched off without saying "hello, good bye, sod you or thanks but no thanks..."
Nothing! He just went through my sidegate and buggered off. Leaving me and the wife standing there open mouthed with shock looking at each other!

If that wasn't bad enough, he then later went to the free site and gave out that he had spent 20 quid on petrol for a wasted journey on a monitor he didn't want!!! WTF - You'd swear I was to blame for him taking a huff!

(I had even provided him with the picture of the monitor before he came. Ya can't win!)

I was going to take the monitor if you're missus bent over to pick it up but when I saw the crack of dawn from your jeans I said boll0cks to that!

Armin_Tamzarian

Overheal wrote: »

maybe he was having a bad day? scumbag kids used to love asking me for the time because I said it all yanklike - oh its three forty seven intstead of quarter to four. It seemed to astound them.

But how did they know?

Do you carry round a sign saying "I'm from America"?

Overheal

no, first time it was an honest question.

Abi

nowye'retalkin wrote: »

Don't be a hater Aby

Abi is a lover, not a hater. Why dont you be somewhere else?

zonEEE

allthedoyles wrote: »

This reminds me of a day I left my mobile phone in the car, and asked a guy on the street , if I could use his for a minute ..............and he told me he did'nt have one on him....next thing is .. his mobile phone rings !

Next I asked a security guard outside large store .......He said '' what would I be doing with a mobile phone '' ..............I could actually see the phone in his pocket !

This was in Waterford ...by the way

well in fairness if some random person on the street asked me for my phone i would say no too.

Armin_Tamzarian

rofl at mental image of Overheal parading around Dublin like the Pied Piper of Hamlyn,
dressed like Uncle Sam with a parade of little skangers
trooping around after him chanting, "here mister, gis the time"...

ChewChew

Overheal wrote: »

maybe he was having a bad day? scumbag kids used to love asking me for the time because I said it all yanklike - oh its three forty seven intstead of quarter to four. It seemed to astound them.

Technically, three forty seven is not a quarter to four.