Students on public transport...

Fittle

It's that time of year again where the (spainish/italian whatever) students arrive to our dear land, amd pay over the odds for a box room and a packed lunch in suburban dublin all in the name of learning english.....

So I use public transport. And every night for the past two weeks, there are hundreds (well, alot) of them surrounding me, talking and talking and talking and talking. It's like they talk over each other. They don't seem to stop between sentences. They don't seem to reply to each other. They just roar across the bus/dart at each other. Do Irish students behave like this on european buses/trains? I've lived abroad and seen Irish teenagers on school tours in paris/brussels and amsterdam and NONE of them roared at each other on public transport....

I was getting the dart last night and there were (I counted them) 17 of them sitting on the floor of the dart while all around them, commuters tried to get on and stand comfortably.....and they shouted (talked) to each other very loudly...
Or am I just getting old......

TechnoPool

different countries different ways of lives, the Spanish are mental they gibber on its mad.

Go to japan and its deathly quiet.

Dravokivich

Them brats... why can't they be tearing up seats... rolling splifs.. and pissing over the back seats like our respectable teenagers...

Banned Account

TechnoPool wrote: »

Go to japan and its deathly quiet.

Yup, they're too busy feeling each other up to be chatting.

alan4cult

They did win the World Cup

NothingMan

Have you just tried asking them to quiet down? Here's a quick Italian lesson.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JhuOicPFZY

Edit: You may need to grow a mustache.

Fittle

Dravokivich wrote: »

Them brats... why can't they be tearing up seats... rolling splifs.. and pissing over the back seats like our respectable teenagers...

See this p*sses me off....

Have you ever seen an irish person (or any person for that matter) actually p*ss over the back seat of a bus/train....

NothingMan

Fittle wrote: »

See this p*sses me off....

Have you ever seen an irish person (or any person for that matter) actually p*ss over the back seat of a bus/train....

Yep. Saw a drunken scummer piss upstairs on the 77 and another not scummer looking but obviously a scummer cop a squat upstairs on the 77N. Also seen multiple junkies shooting up. Smoking was an everyday occurence on the 75 at 7:30am and it wasn't always cigarettes either.

SeaFields

"Public Transport is for losers". H.J. Simpson

Captain Darling

Fittle wrote: »

See this p*sses me off....

Have you ever seen an irish person (or any person for that matter) actually p*ss over the back seat of a bus/train....

Yes. One uncomfortable experience was some dude locked, puking down the back of my seat.

Fcuking smell of barf was unreal. Had to get up and move.

Captain Darling

SeaFields wrote: »

"Public Transport is for losers". H.J. Simpson

Only losers take the bus-Cathal Coughlan.

tommyhaas

Fittle wrote: »

See this p*sses me off....

Have you ever seen an irish person (or any person for that matter) actually p*ss over the back seat of a bus/train....

I think anybody who's ever got a bus from town to slane etc has seen that numerous times. In fairness, if the driver wont stop your left with little other option

Captain Darling

I also saw this little bastard from St Mels take a sh1t inside the front door of Athlone train station.

minidazzler

Fittle wrote: »

See this p*sses me off....

Have you ever seen an irish person (or any person for that matter) actually p*ss over the back seat of a bus/train....

I have.

Dravokivich

Fittle wrote: »

See this p*sses me off....

Have you ever seen an irish person (or any person for that matter) actually p*ss over the back seat of a bus/train....

Yes actually... Happened alot on the 51B / 51C / 51N / 78A / 68 / 69...

Sofa King Great

Fittle wrote: »

See this p*sses me off....

Have you ever seen an irish person (or any person for that matter) actually p*ss over the back seat of a bus/train....

Yes

Fittle

Im not trying to compare Irish people on public transport to foreign students...
Im just asking wtf they roar at each other all over the bus/train....

tommyhaas

NothingMan wrote: »

Yep. Saw a drunken scummer piss upstairs on the 77 and another not scummer looking but obviously a scummer cop a squat upstairs on the 77N. Also seen multiple junkies shooting up. Smoking was an everyday occurence on the 75 at 7:30am and it wasn't always cigarettes either.

I think smoking upstairs on a bus was okay before the smoking ban, I mean it wasent legal but a blind eye seemed to be turned to it

Captain Darling

Fittle wrote: »

Im not trying to compare Irish people on public transport to foreign students...
Im just asking wtf they roar at each other all over the bus/train....

Because they cant hear themselves over the noise of Irish teens pissing, puking and riding.

o1s1n

Dravokivich wrote: »

Them brats... why can't they be tearing up seats... rolling splifs.. and pissing over the back seats like our respectable teenagers...

As yes, the oul 'X is worse than Y, therefore there's nothing wrong with Y' arguement.

Irish teenagers are a pain in the arse on busses.

Spanish students are a pain in the arse on busses.

Solution? Don't let children on the bus. :pac:

NothingMan

tommyhaas wrote: »

I think smoking upstairs on a bus was okay before the smoking ban, I mean it wasent legal but a blind eye seemed to be turned to it

Just because it wasn't enforced doesn't make it ok. Upstairs, first thing in the morning, pissing rain all the windows closed, windows fogged up and a cloud of hash and cigarette smoke making everyone suffer. Disgusting.

Tordelback

Hmmm, if the noise is really driving you crazy, why don't you ask them to be quieter? Unlike our native micturators they're not likely to beat you up, and probably will quieten down (some). They're a bunch of kids on holiday. That means 'loud'.

seanbmc

They love to travel in groups of like 10 or more, I was in a Starbucks last week and you couldn't hear a thing in the place because they were so loud.

Fittle

I wouldn't ask them to be quieter - last nights dart was packed and they wouldn't have heard me anyway...I just don't get how they can even hear each other....
I should stick the earphones in...

phasers

Tordelback wrote: »

Hmmm, if the noise is really driving you crazy, why don't you ask them to be quieter? Unlike our native micturators they're not likely to beat you up, and probably will quieten down (some). They're a bunch of kids on holiday. That means 'loud'.

No, they don't quieten down. they either ignore you, pretend not to understand English or just talk louder.

They're a shower of bastards.

Fittle

seanbmc wrote: »

They love to travel in groups of like 10 or more, I wa sin a Starbucks last week and you couldn't hear a thing in the place because they were so loud.

Wow, someone else who's experienced it!

I was lookin at these kids in amazement last night - one guy actually didn't breath for about 4 minutes while he was roaring (talking) at his mate who was sitting on the floor beside him!!!!

Zeouterlimits

I find their enthusiasm endearing, it adds a bit of life to the bus full of people (including myself) dreay and dull eyed heading home from work etc.

ejmaztec

Fittle wrote: »

Im not trying to compare Irish people on public transport to foreign students...
Im just asking wtf they roar at each other all over the bus/train....

They all speak strange languages amongst themselves, and are only understood by each other.

kfallon

Fittle wrote: »

It's that time of year again where the (spainish/italian whatever) students arrive to our dear land, amd pay over the odds for a box room and a packed lunch in suburban dublin all in the name of learning english.....

So I use public transport. And every night for the past two weeks, there are hundreds (well, alot) of them surrounding me, talking and talking and talking and talking. It's like they talk over each other. They don't seem to stop between sentences. They don't seem to reply to each other. They just roar across the bus/dart at each other. Do Irish students behave like this on european buses/trains? I've lived abroad and seen Irish teenagers on school tours in paris/brussels and amsterdam and NONE of them roared at each other on public transport....

I was getting the dart last night and there were (I counted them) 17 of them sitting on the floor of the dart while all around them, commuters tried to get on and stand comfortably.....and they shouted (talked) to each other very loudly...
Or am I just getting old......

Wait til the start singing when on the bus......FFS!!!

NothingMan

kfallon wrote: »

Wait til the start singing when on the bus......FFS!!!

Yeah cos Irish kids don't do that....


Everywhere we goooo...

cson

Rabble rabble rabble damn students/foreigners/ctulhu rabble rabble rabble

KevArno

micturators

???? What the hell does that mean?

Fittle

Problem solved. I got a taxi home:D

fizzynicenice

Fittle wrote: »

See this p*sses me off....

Have you ever seen an irish person (or any person for that matter) actually p*ss over the back seat of a bus/train....

I did that once

WesternZulu

NothingMan wrote: »

Yep. Saw a drunken scummer piss upstairs on the 77 and another not scummer looking but obviously a scummer cop a squat upstairs on the 77N. Also seen multiple junkies shooting up. Smoking was an everyday occurence on the 75 at 7:30am and it wasn't always cigarettes either.

Take public transport a bit and have never seen that sort of carry on.

Just a thought...maybe its just on dublin buses :pac:

Irishoz

I was in my local Spar yesterday and there was easily 20 of them that decended on the shop at once, it was like one of those flash mobs! Then while I was queueing at the till with another Irish person a load of them just came up and skipped the queue. The girl behind the counter told them to go to the back of the queue and then as I moved up to the counter about 3 others skipped the queue on the person behind me! The girl behind the counter was getting pissed and said to me that they were always doing that.