Why is there so many lowlifes in Dublin

hondasam

RainbowRose81 wrote: »

No i was just pointing out the difference between Galway and Dublin. Every place is different each have good points and bad points. Are you from Dublin? Because a good few Dublin people get very offened if anything's pointed out about Dublin. Its only a place

considering you are ashamed to be Irish I'm not surprised you are not loyal to your county and cannot understand others who are.

old hippy

hondasam wrote: »

considering you are ashamed to be Irish I'm not surprised you are not loyal to your county and cannot understand others who are.

We are all loyalists at heart

RainbowRose81

Chaotic_Forces wrote: »

See, here's the problem: you didn't have a go at scumbags, you had a go at scumbags from Dublin but... you decided to phrase it and make it out there are more scumbags here than anywhere else in Ireland.

So no, you shouldn't thanking him/her for telling it like it is, you should be thanking him/her for not making a comment of how you have it in for Dublin.

But, tell your friend to leave if he has a problem with Dublin, I'd advise you to the same and you should both move to a rural area where a trip to the shop is more than 5 minutes away since you have no idea of how to live in a city and what happens if you go into a well known bad area.

He doesn't have a problem with Dublin. When did I say he had? He is from a city of a population of 14 million he knows how to live in a city. He likes Dublin just like any one doesn't like getting abuse for no reason. I don't need advise. I don't dislike or like Dublin its ok it could be alot worse, its not a bad city in general. Its small though

Chaotic_Forces

RainbowRose81 wrote: »

He doesn't have a problem with Dublin. When did I say he had? He is from a city of a population of 14 million he knows how to live in a city. He likes Dublin just like any one doesn't like getting abuse for no reason. I don't need advise. I don't dislike or like Dublin its ok it could be alot worse, its not a bad city in general. Its small though

LOL, sure you don't dislike Dublin.

It's far from a neutral view you have of it.

Look, if he's from a big city like that then it's his own fault if he doesn't realize that he should avoid a bad area.

While being spat on is a horrible thing, if he chooses to walk through a horrible area when there are other (perhaps a few minutes longer) routes he could have chosen, it's his risk to take.

Bruthal

hondasam wrote: »

you were not there so how do you know, perhaps he decided to spit at the first five people that went past him.

Well i think there is a reasonable chance it was racism. Maybe not though.

why does it always have to be about nationality and racism.

Because maybe its news to you, Ireland has no shortage of racism. But of course, on boards there will be no racists so they must not exist.

charlemont

Its ignorance, the whole island is a breeding ground for it.

RainbowRose81

hondasam wrote: »

considering you are ashamed to be Irish I'm not surprised you are not loyal to your county and cannot understand others who are.

I didn't say i am ashamed to be Irish but i feel ashamed when my own people do that to others especially those who are not Irish. I want to feel good about my country and hope foreigners living/studying here have good experiences of being in Ireland. Well i am myself first and foremost. Nationality doesn't mean much anyway in the bigger scale of things. I am glad to be born in Ireland where there is not a lot poverty, there is peace and a mild climate

Bruthal

Its funny how the OP starts a thread about an indian friend being spat at in dublin, and then the OP is attacked for even suggesting it has scum bags in it.

Chaotic_Forces

RainbowRose81 wrote: »

I didn't say i am ashamed to be Irish but i feel ashamed when my own people do that to others especially those who are not Irish. I want to feel good about my country and hope foreigners living/studying here have good experiences of being in Ireland. Well i am myself first and foremost. Nationality doesn't mean much anyway in the bigger scale of things. I am glad to be born in Ireland where there is not a lot poverty, there is peace and a mild climate

Grow up. Do you think for every American I meet, they'll feel ashamed for the one American that told me to "fu*k off?" Do you think every English person I meet should feel ashemed of any English people that hate Ireland?

Hate exists everywhere, not just in Ireland.

If you want people to think good of Ireland why not do good things yourself since you are Irish?

pragmatic1

Chaotic_Forces wrote: »

See, here's the problem: you didn't have a go at scumbags, you had a go at scumbags from Dublin but... you decided to phrase it and make it out there are more scumbags here than anywhere else in Ireland.

So no, you shouldn't thanking him/her for telling it like it is, you should be thanking him/her for not making a comment of how you have it in for Dublin.

But, tell your friend to leave if he has a problem with Dublin, I'd advise you to the same and you should both move to a rural area where a trip to the shop is more than 5 minutes away since you have no idea of how to live in a city and what happens if you go into a well known bad area.

There are more scumbags in Dublin than anywhere else in the country. Thats not a go at Dubs. Dublin has the largest population so therefore its bound to have the most scumbags.

Bruthal

hondasam wrote: »

considering you are ashamed to be Irish I'm not surprised you are not loyal to your county and cannot understand others who are.

Yes the loyalty is showing alright, a dublin dirt bag spits at an indian fella, but its unlikely to be racist you say, and the OP must be ashamed to be irish if he thinks it was racist, or that dublin might have racist scum bags in it. Rocket science thread this.

RainbowRose81

When ever I get hassled anymore, I try to smile at them and laugh or trying say something nice to them, It's hard to do that when you are offended but If you show them you are upset or angry its only giving them satisfaction and that is what they want. They go mad and get frustrated because there is nothing they can do, when you laugh at them or smile

Chaotic_Forces

robbie7730 wrote: »

Its funny how the OP starts a thread about an indian friend being spat at in dublin, and then the OP is attacked for even suggesting it has scum bags in it.

All she wanted was a Joe Duffy scenario where we all say "ooh yeah and this one time, in Dublin, I saw an old lady cross the street and you wouldn't believe it Joe! This disgusting excuse for a human being wouldn't even offer the old lady help across the street"

"Sigh, it's a horrible place so it is that Dublin is now".

However, she didn't get much of that and instead got told the truth; there are scumbags everywhere, not just alone in Dublin.

pragmatic1 wrote: »

There are more scumbags in Dublin than anywhere else in the country. Thats not a go at Dubs. Dublin has the largest population so therefore its bound to have the most scumbags.

Well it was moreso that we're populated by them and as such, we're a horrible county. I know that, though. I guess I sort of phrased what I posted earlier incorrectly.

dj jarvis

hondasam wrote: »

for pity sake get over it, do you think an Irish person never got spat at.

yea !!! i was in amsterdam a while back and it cost me 200 euro to get her to spit on me ... oh wait

** ill get my sticky coat **

AnonoBoy

You know where there's a lot of lowlifes?

The Netherlands.

They all live below sea level there.

old hippy

robbie7730 wrote: »

Its funny how the OP starts a thread about an indian friend being spat at in dublin, and then the OP is attacked for even suggesting it has scum bags in it.

it's those damned Dublin loyalists again :mad:

Bruthal

AnonoBoy wrote: »

They all live below sea level there.

A good place for people who spit at others for no reason, with concrete shoes on.

hondasam

robbie7730 wrote: »

Yes the loyalty is showing alright, a dublin dirt bag spits at an indian fella, but its unlikely to be racist you say, and the OP must be ashamed to be irish if he thinks it was racist, or that dublin might have racist scum bags in it. Rocket science thread this.

I'm sick of people slagging of the Irish, everyday on here we have someone who is complaining. just because one person in the country spits at a non national I'm supposed to be ashamed and shocked well I'm neither.

southsiderosie

Chaotic_Forces wrote: »

Grow up. Do you think for every American I meet, they'll feel ashamed for the one American that told me to "fu*k off?" Do you think every English person I meet should feel ashemed of any English people that hate Ireland?

Hate exists everywhere, not just in Ireland.

If you want people to think good of Ireland why not do good things yourself since you are Irish?

I'm an American from Chicago, and I was ashamed that an Irish girl who had a scholarship to study in the US was almost beaten to death for her purse in my hometown. So I understand the OP's sentiment a bit.

That said, having lived in Dublin, I think there is a lot of Irish-on-Irish slagging and abuse that occurs on the street and at levels that I found startling. I guess local people are used to it, but I don't think it's normal to have to avoid packs of drunken feral children on the way home...especially when you are paying 1000/month in rent. This kind of stuff doesn't occur in all large cities (and Dublin is by no means a large city!), particularly large cities in Asia which are extremely safe.

hondasam

dj jarvis wrote: »

yea !!! i was in amsterdam a while back and it cost me 200 euro to get her to spit on me ... oh wait

** ill get my sticky coat **

for 200 euro she should have swallowed.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

The-Rigger wrote: »

They are kind of different, a rare event.
It's hardly fair to tar a place purely because a massacre/mass shooting occurred there, it could easily happen here. They are rare and perpetrated by an individual or a very small group.

Weren't the last couple of school shootings in 'more respected' small towns in Norway and Germany?

My point entirely - doesn't have to be a big city.

old hippy

hondasam wrote: »

I'm sick of people slagging of the Irish, everyday on here we have someone who is complaining. just because one person in the country spits at a non national I'm supposed to be ashamed and shocked well I'm neither.

Ah well, it's not just one incident, is it? I'm ashamed and shocked and dammit, awed, at your lack of sensitivity.

RainbowRose81

Chaotic_Forces wrote: »

Grow up. Do you think for every American I meet, they'll feel ashamed for the one American that told me to "fu*k off?" Do you think every English person I meet should feel ashemed of any English people that hate Ireland?

Hate exists everywhere, not just in Ireland.

If you want people to think good of Ireland why not do good things yourself since you are Irish?

I am not ashamed to be Irish at all. I am GLAD to be Irish but I sometimes FEEL ashamed to be Irish when people get abuse especially those people who foreigners here. Anyways its human nature to get abuse from others

old hippy

RainbowRose81 wrote: »

I am not ashamed to be Irish at all. I am GLAD to be Irish but I sometimes FEEL ashamed to be Irish when people get abuse especially those people who foreigners here. Anyways its human nature to get abuse from others

Human nature sucks.

Chaotic_Forces

southsiderosie wrote: »

I'm an American from Chicago, and I was ashamed that an Irish girl who had a scholarship to study in the US was almost beaten to death for her purse in my hometown. So I understand the OP's sentiment a bit.

That said, having lived in Dublin, I think there is a lot of Irish-on-Irish slagging and abuse that occurs on the street and at levels that I found startling. I guess local people are used to it, but I don't think it's normal to have to avoid packs of drunken feral children on the way home...especially when you are paying 1000/month in rent. This kind of stuff doesn't occur in all large cities (and Dublin is by no means a large city!), particularly large cities in Asia which are extremely safe.

Being ashamed that happened in your hometown is one thing. But being ashamed to be American is what the problem is. Of course you'd feel ashamed if you hear someone say "so I was down in your hometown and got spat on". You wouldn't label all other Irish as feeling ashamed though.

The thing a lot of people don't get (at least as I understand it) is not that you're paying 1,000 euro in rent for a high quality living and a safe area. You're paying because it's in the heart of the city where everything is within walking distance.

I'd also like to say, along with the UK, we tend to have very little police force against kids. That and most of the parents swear that their little angels are good kids. So when little Deco puts a window through, he doesn't get punished because 9/10 times if the police are called, you're a rat and get even mroe abuse. And the police force against kids in this country are a joke. So that's why we have scores of feral drunk kids. :P

Chaotic_Forces

RainbowRose81 wrote: »

I am not ashamed to be Irish at all. I am GLAD to be Irish but I sometimes FEEL ashamed to be Irish when people get abuse especially those people who foreigners here. Anyways its human nature to get abuse from others

You're feeling ashemd to be Irish because another Irish person spat at an Indian bloke.

You realize how insane that sounds, right?

hondasam

old hippy wrote: »

Ah well, it's not just one incident, is it? I'm ashamed and shocked and dammit, awed, at your lack of sensitivity.

Ah well I never claimed to be sensitive

That's what happens when you live in the real world.

Bruthal

old hippy wrote: »

it's those damned Dublin loyalists again :mad:

Well thats the thing. The op`s friend was spat at in dublin, so the op said dublin has a lot of scum bags, was the op wrong that dublin has lots of scum bags?, And then the dublin brigade attack. Im from dublin myself, but not blinded by the "proud to be irish" rubbish, as an excuse for such below scum bag behaviour.

Bruthal

hondasam wrote: »

I'm sick of people slagging of the Irish, everyday on here we have someone who is complaining. just because one person in the country spits at a non national I'm supposed to be ashamed and shocked well I'm neither.

No one said you are supposed to be ashamed, and why would you be shocked, as dublin has plenty of scum bags.

hondasam

robbie7730 wrote: »

No one said you are supposed to be ashamed, and why would you be shocked, as dublin has plenty of scum bags.

There are scum bags in every county in Ireland