Benefits St

Hootanany · 13-01-2014 9:13pm #1

Its on CH 4 now interesting TV it got me wondering do we have are own equivalent St in Ireland.

ChunkyLover_53 · 13-01-2014 9:14pm

Yes.
Athlone.

Chucken · 13-01-2014 9:14pm

Oh please don't do this.

13-01-2014 9:14pm

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hairyprincess · 13-01-2014 9:15pm

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You make an excellent point.

Chucken · 13-01-2014 9:16pm

hairyprincess wrote: »

You make an excellent point.

It's more a circley type thing than a point though.

hairyprincess · 13-01-2014 9:20pm

Chucken wrote: »

It's more a circley type thing than a point though.

You also make an excellent point.

Chucken · 13-01-2014 9:21pm

hairyprincess wrote: »

You also make an excellent point.

I like your positive thinking.

Hootanany · 13-01-2014 9:21pm

ChunkyLover_53 wrote: »

Yes.
Athlone.

not a area a street then the area

biko · 13-01-2014 9:22pm

Hootanany wrote: »

Its on CH 4 now interesting TV it got me wondering do we have are own equivalent St in Ireland.

I am not watching TV right now, perhaps you can fill the rest of us in on what it is?

13-01-2014 9:23pm

Chucken wrote: »

Oh please don't do this.

Its too late, the crash is set in motion, and now we all have to slow down and look.

westcoast66 · 13-01-2014 9:23pm

This is one program that I could never see RTE doing an Irish version of.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 13-01-2014 9:23pm

Oh good. At last a thread not designed to offend or to lead to a stereotyping argument. How refreshing!

Femme_Fatale · 13-01-2014 9:26pm

Occupying the point between feeling depressed for the people whose lives are sh1t, and annoyed at the minority arsehole contingent making life miserable for others.

All in all: grim.

Fuk this I'm going back to the Golden Globes...

Hootanany · 13-01-2014 9:27pm

Its about a street in Birmingham that 90 percent are on benefits a fly on the wall type of thang

Chucken · 13-01-2014 9:27pm

Femme_Fatale wrote: »

Fuk this I'm going back to the Golden Globes...

Are you getting an award this year? :eek:

markesmith · 13-01-2014 9:27pm

Willow Park in Athlone.

I'm sure there are a few streets in Dublin like this?

Femme_Fatale · 13-01-2014 9:28pm

Chucken wrote: »

Are you getting an award this year? :eek:

Award...?

Phoebas · 13-01-2014 9:29pm

westcoast66 wrote: »

This is one program that I could never see RTE doing an Irish version of.

TV3 on the other hand....

Chucken · 13-01-2014 9:31pm

Femme_Fatale wrote: »

Award...?

Sorry. I'm not sure what a golden globe is

Is it not an award for something?

A trophy type thing perhaps?

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 13-01-2014 9:31pm

Hootanany wrote: »

Its about a street in Birmingham that 90 percent are on benefits a fly on the wall type of thang

So what do you want? Us to slag off an area of high unemployment here in Ireland so we can say they are all spongers or something? Of course we have areas with massive percentages of homes relying on welfare. What exactly do you want to discuss about it?

weirdspider · 13-01-2014 9:32pm

Dundalk?

Femme_Fatale · 13-01-2014 9:32pm

Chucken wrote: »

Sorry. I'm not sure what a golden globe is

Is it not an award for something?

A trophy type thing perhaps?

Only messing with ya. Not sure where I was going really. :pac:

Chucken · 13-01-2014 9:32pm

Gabriel Purple Bagpipe wrote: »

So what do you want? Us to slag off an area of high unemployment here in Ireland so we can say they are all spongers or something? Of course we have areas with massive percentages of homes relying on welfare. What exactly do you want to discuss about it?

Thats it in a nutshell.

Fox_In_Socks · 13-01-2014 9:33pm

Femme_Fatale wrote: »

Award...?

AWARD!!! AWARD AWARD!!

/Fr Jack

Chucken · 13-01-2014 9:33pm

Femme_Fatale wrote: »

Only messing with ya. Not sure where I was going really. :pac:

Don't be at me. I'm feeling a bit ditzy this evening

KyussBishop · 13-01-2014 9:35pm

Charlie Brooker has an ok article on it:
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jan/12/benefits-street-poverty-porn-british-fury

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 13-01-2014 9:38pm

Was this on after Coronation Street, Sesame Street, The Street, or the Streets of San Francisco?

urabell · 13-01-2014 9:39pm

These people are victims of society, they are in no way lazy, dim or lacking self control.

Chucken · 13-01-2014 9:40pm

Gabriel Purple Bagpipe wrote: »

Was this on after Coronation Street, Sesame Street, The Street, or the Streets of San Francisco?

Hill Street Blues...;)

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 13-01-2014 9:41pm

urabell wrote: »

These people are victims of society, they are in no way lazy, dim or lacking self control.

Too right. But who said they were? Why even your wit to this contrived argument?

urabell · 13-01-2014 9:44pm

Gabriel Purple Bagpipe wrote: »

Too right. But who said they were? Why even your wit to this contrived argument?

I'm watching the show and it would be easy for someone to jump to that conclusion, I'm just pre empting the unempathetic

13-01-2014 9:44pm

KyussBishop wrote: »

Charlie Brooker has an ok article on it:
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jan/12/benefits-street-poverty-porn-british-fury

Nice comment piece.

Laughed myself silly at this bit:

Some on the left think it's an offensive and misleading example of "poverty porn", which is just like regular porn, minus the money shots.

KyussBishop · 13-01-2014 9:48pm

Candie wrote: »

Nice comment piece.

Laughed myself silly at this bit:

His 'Weekly Wipe' show is good as well, which there appears to be a new series of now - this will probably be in it

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Brooker%27s_Weekly_Wipe

Eight Ball · 13-01-2014 9:48pm

markesmith wrote: »

Willow Park in Athlone.

I'm sure there are a few streets in Dublin like this?

Ailesbury road. Full of bankers who got hand outs from the Irish taxpayers.

My name is URL · 13-01-2014 9:50pm

There's no way these Romanian lads are for real... just no way.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 13-01-2014 9:50pm

Hootanany wrote: »

not a area a street then the area

You know that street in Dublin 7... Can't remember the name.....you know it.....they all wear sheepskin lined slippers...deal in second hand cars......what's it called again?????????

Eight Ball · 13-01-2014 9:52pm

Oh Jesus don't press over to RTE 2 Bono on talking ****e alert.

urabell · 13-01-2014 9:55pm

Eight Ball wrote: »

Ailesbury road. Full of bankers who got hand outs from the Irish taxpayers.

Some people get off scorning at benefit hounds others get off scorning at bankers, but we all get off and we all scorn and we're all probably wrong

mickydoomsux · 13-01-2014 9:56pm

They could do numerous concurrent series of this for Ireland.

You could start with Carlow 'town', then Athy, then Clonmel and then move on to the entirety of Wexford county. And that's just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to utter kips in around the country.

Gatling · 13-01-2014 9:57pm

Didn't TV 3 already do a version ohhhhh yeah tallifornia

But seriously how entertaining a street where 90% are on benefits long term ,
And now the residents are saying they where conned by C4 and made look like a bunch of lazy scroungers involved in criminality

Hootanany · 13-01-2014 10:01pm

Gabriel Purple Bagpipe wrote: »

You know that street in Dublin 7... Can't remember the name.....you know it.....they all wear sheepskin lined slippers...deal in second hand cars......what's it called again?????????

Stalker alert

urabell · 13-01-2014 10:01pm

Gatling wrote: »

Didn't TV 3 already do a version ohhhhh yeah tallifornia

But seriously how entertaining a street where 90% are on benefits long term ,
And now the residents are saying they where conned by C4 and made look like a bunch of lazy scroungers involved in criminality

'this guy is one of the best shoplifters I've ever met in my life'

entertaining and criminal in equal measure

My name is URL · 13-01-2014 10:03pm

mickydoomsux wrote: »

They could do numerous concurrent series of this for Ireland.

You could start with Carlow 'town', then Athy, then Clonmel and then move on to the entirety of Wexford county. And that's just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to utter kips in around the country.

Wouldn't be anywhere near as entertaining as this though, and it's just one small street.

Push Pop · 13-01-2014 10:08pm

Gatling wrote: »

Didn't TV 3 already do a version ohhhhh yeah tallifornia

But seriously how entertaining a street where 90% are on benefits long term ,
And now the residents are saying they where conned by C4 and made look like a bunch of lazy scroungers involved in criminality

I think it is a sad and uncomfortable look at society and how it has failed them and in equal measure how they are failing themselves.
Surely those Romanian guys are a set up, it's like a daily mail readers wet dream.

kneemos · 13-01-2014 10:10pm

Push Pop wrote: »

I think it is a sad and uncomfortable look at society and how it has failed them and in equal measure how they are failing themselves.
Surely those Romanian guys are a set up, it's like a daily mail readers wet dream.

Think they were Greek.

Gatling · 13-01-2014 10:13pm

kneemos wrote: »

Think they were Greek.

No they were all Romanian one or two said they previously worked and lived in greece

Hootanany · 13-01-2014 10:15pm

promised 40 a day the guy said he would only pay them 10 then paid them SFA

Gatling · 13-01-2014 10:17pm

Hootanany wrote: »

promised 40 a day the guy said he would only pay them 10 then paid them SFA

Then again they weren't exactly scared for there lives with the stories of gangs and killing ,

None of them didn't look like they were starving either

PizzamanIRL · 13-01-2014 10:19pm

TV3 will do their own version of this. They love that type of stuff.

Hootanany · 13-01-2014 10:25pm

Yep but where

Benefits St

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