In Honour of English Crustys

6541

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-33077599

I got reading this and it brought me back to the days when the English Crustys used to come to Ireland. I have many stories about interacting with them.
They never really understood Ireland.
They never could understand that if you camped in someones field in Ireland a couple of blokes would move you on with shotguns as opposed to long court cases. I remember talking to one bunch that actually mistook a halting site for a crusty camp, they regaled me with tails of how all there worldly goods were taking off them when they availed of the halting site.

They could never get used to the violent Irish. No such thing as a peace loving Irish Crusty, give the Irish man a couple of beers and all of a sudden its war !
I think they just gave up on Ireland or grew up and got jobs !
So any Crusty stories ?

Have you a Crusty story ?

kfallon

Left me jocks on for a week.....very crusty!

That's my story!

ClovenHoof

They never really understood Ireland.

That's because wealthy young people with trust funds and rich parents back home in the Home Counties have never understood Ireland.

somesoldiers

I used to work in a bar in D2 while the Glen of the Downs was all going on. A crowd of them started coming in on Friday evenings with some people that worked in a shop nearby.
The manager eventually barred them as they stank to high hell and the Friday evening after work crew were always moaning about them

the evasion_kid

Met plenty of them traveling in the states,though the crusties over there were far different from the peace loving "dudes" from this side of the world....don't even get me started on the oogles

http://crustypunks.blogspot.ie

Mr. Incognito

English crustys?

Spend a few months in Galway mate

ElvisChrist6

You still get the old crust punks coming over for crust gigs, but they're often the ones that were actually in crust bands at their height. Not the rich kids who don't need to live in squats but still do.

6541

Mr. Incognito wrote: »

English crustys?

Spend a few months in Galway mate

They are only pretend Crustys ! But ya as a Mayo Person Galway people are dirty Crustys !

Trudiha

My Missus and I were walking our dogs in a wood in West Cork a couple of weeks ago when we encountered a couple with small kids, all four were dressed in hand hewn clothes, she had a shaved head and he had dreadlocks, she was wearing one of those hats that's almost a skullcap. There was a strong smell of essential oil about them.

Imagine our surprise when they greeted us with Irish accents. Crustie might be catching.

6541

Trudiha wrote: »

My Missus and I were walking our dogs in a wood in West Cork a couple of weeks ago when we encountered a couple with small kids, all four were dressed in hand hewn clothes, she had a shaved head and he had dreadlocks, she was wearing one of those hats that's almost a skullcap. There was a strong smell of essential oil about them.

Imagine our surprise when they greeted us with Irish accents. Crustie might be catching.

Did you tell them to move on ?

Not G.R

Remember that time a load of crusties tried to destroy capitalism by building a shanty town on Dame st. :pac:

Trudiha

6541 wrote: »

Did you tell them to move on ?

Not at all; we are dependant on tourism here but we did consider trying to sell them a very small amount of turf wrapped in cling film.

6541

Trudiha wrote: »

Not at all; we are dependant on tourism here but we did consider trying to sell them a very small amount of turf wrapped in cling film.

Sure he would never fall for the auld turf trick and it would want to be tin foil as opposed to cling film.

Aongus Von Bismarck

I grew up in a part of Galway that was infested with crusties during the mid-90's. They'd come down from their camps and squats in the Slieve Aughty's to draw the dole and do their shopping. Hideous bunch of people. Notorious for shop lifting.
The men all had straggly long hair, dirty unkempt beards with beads in them, combats, wool jumpers, dogs being lead on a piece of rope. The women tended to have either shaved heads or dreadlocks. Hemp dresses, wool cardigans, homemade earrings.
The Gardai ended up raiding their camps and arresting them for growing weed. Took a hard-line on them. Cleared them out of the area, thankfully. A shower of workshy pests living a feckless existence courtesy of the State.

seamus

Ah there are a few Irish crusties around, but they tend be higher-class crusties. They live in self-sufficient communities, but they still tend to shower and choose mobile homes and caravans over shacks in the woods. My aunt & uncle live in one down in Cork and they love it.

Ireland isn't all that conducive to full-on crustification. A lot of land is privately-owned, the weather's not great for long-term shanty living and ultimately the local populations don't really like you. Plus, we tend not to have very many trust-funded people or independently wealthy former nobility families around.

As others have said above, those who do go for the full-on living off the earth lifestyle in Ireland tend to get run out by the Gardai or the locals because they turn into thieves and drifters moreso than self-sufficient hippies.

jimgoose

There's a lot of them down around West Cork still, specifically the Ahillies area. Presumably they're living off-grid, giving the finger to De Man or somesuch, the usual. Except for the dole and the clapped-out old Mercedes vans, of course. I think most of them only do the whole "Crusty" thing to annoy people, probably their parents. :pac:

6541

Surely there must be a few Crusties reading boards.ie ???

Cool_CM

jimgoose wrote: »

There's a lot of them down around West Cork still, specifically the Ahillies area. Presumably they're living off-grid, giving the finger to De Man or somesuch, the usual. Except for the dole and the clapped-out old Mercedes vans, of course. I think most of them only do the whole "Crusty" thing to annoy people, probably their parents. :pac:

Yeah, was about to say that they probably all moved down to West Cork.

seamus

seamus wrote: »

Ah there are a few Irish crusties around, but they tend be higher-class crusties. They live in self-sufficient communities, but they still tend to shower and choose mobile homes and caravans over shacks in the woods. My aunt & uncle live in one down in Cork and they love it.

Ireland isn't all that conducive to full-on crustification. A lot of land is privately-owned, the weather's not great for long-term shanty living and ultimately the local populations don't really like you. Plus, we tend not to have very many trust-funded people or independently wealthy former nobility families around.

As others have said above, those who do go for the full-on living off the earth lifestyle in Ireland tend to get run out by the Gardai or the locals because they turn into thieves and drifters moreso than self-sufficient hippies.

I know some people who like a semi crusty existence they have a house but no electricity they use a generator mainly for the freezer they have a range but no central heating, they have running water and a septic tank, where they live is very remote, they do work on and off they live very simply. Its perfectly possible to live like that and keep your self clean and live a normal existence.

West cork and Galway is always associated with crusty lifestyles and because of that they attract a certain type to get away from that you need to go somewhere else parts of Tipperary and Leitrim are very remote.

I did encounter a load of crusty on the street in Clonakilty and thought they looked scary and the children were dirty and poorly dressed wellingtons in the summer.

Herb Powell

The crust is indeed strong in West Cork, pleasant enough folk in my experience though, I must say. Very few fit the "smelly" stereotype, they mostly seem to wash alright. More than can be said for a lot of "normal" inhabitants.....

donegaLroad

Trudiha wrote: »

My Missus and I were walking our dogs in a wood in West Cork a couple of weeks ago when we encountered a couple with small kids, all four were dressed in hand hewn clothes, she had a shaved head and he had dreadlocks, she was wearing one of those hats that's almost a skullcap. There was a strong smell of essential oil about them.

Imagine our surprise when they greeted us with Irish accents. Crustie might be catching.

Patchouli oil

I love the smell of it

Ranchu

The crusties showing up in places like west Cork and Galway tend to be more Levellers loving new wave hippies as opposed to Discharge loving crust punks.

muppetkiller

There's loads arriving in Galway again now that the Arts festival is coming up. You can hear them banging their drums as you walk the prom.

I saw one last night with a Rat on her head walking across the bridge last night ???? A huge Pet RAT !!!....The Poor Rat

Mesrine65

Ranchu wrote: »

Discharge loving crust punks.

Discharge for the uninitiated...

darkpagandeath

is gas a lot of them are into the environment, And look at all the waste mess they create..

fortwilliam

That crowd of clowns that moved into Glen Of The Downs in Wicklow,
They were "Protecting the trees" regardless of the fact that the ones being removed were mostly dead, and were being replaced 6/1.

They left the place in shyte when everybody got bored of them and they went away.
Ropes and plastic tarp tied all over the trees, campfire remains everywhere, dumps of plastic and tin cans all over the forrest.
They did a thousand times more damage to the environment than the road widening ever did.

Idiots.

Yea, stick it to society man, I ain't gonna be a slave for a wage... But I'll take my dole from the people who actually do work to support the environment thankyouverymuch...

philstar

plenty of them new age travelers in east clare, Tuamgraney/scarrif direction

anncoates

Not exactly crusties, but my wife grew up in a rural area i the West beside a pretty hippy European family - Dutch or German - that used to let their kids run around in the nip up and down the road which caused great scandal in the community in the mid 70s. She still does an rather excellent impression of her elderly relations tut-tutting about it.

bodhrandude

What happened in Thatcher's Britain in the late 80s probably influenced the migration to here, the documentary Battle in the Beanfield, the fight between the Peace Convoy and the police.

Lyaiera

Grand bunch a lads.

I do wonder if you can get fibre broadband in the Allihies?

c_man

My earliest memory of hearing the phrase "shower of cunce" was in relation to some English crusties when I was around 5 or 6 by my Dad.

bodhrandude

I remember when I used to go down to the Willie Clancy Week at Miltown Malbay in Clare, sometimes crusties would gather at Spanish Point and have mental raves. I remember having to crash in some ones caravan when such a mad rave took off, they were playing this mad industrial gabba techno by a bunch of nutters called SpiroTribe.

foggy_lad

All they are is a pack of poll tax dodgers and dole spongers!

the evasion_kid

bodhrandude wrote: »

I remember when I used to go down to the Willie Clancy Week at Miltown Malbay in Clare, sometimes crusties would gather at Spanish Point at have mental raves. I remember having to crash in some ones caravan when such a mad rave took off, they were playing this mad industrial gabba techno by a bunch of nutters called SpiroTribe.

Some horrific police treatment of people in that video,anyways the spiral tribe set up a rave here in the hellfire Dublin I think it was

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiral_Tribe

Mesrine65

^ Correct, October 92 & what a great fúcking night that was

biko

It started in 1649

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWzzvnPOyTM

Special Circumstances

Lyaiera wrote: »

Grand bunch a lads.

I do wonder if you can get fibre broadband in the Allihies?

You can yeah, but the hemp fibre will never match the optic fibre.

Fratton Fred

It always amazed me that a group who wanted to be free from societies pressures, restrictions and burdons and live an unregimented simple life, all managed to turn up at the Post Office on a Thursday to collect their dole money.

I think they've all given up their campavans now and have turned to telling the world about the evils of the MMR vaccine, Parabens and dairy products through social media.

6541

They did hold great raves !!

biko

biko wrote: »

It started in 1649

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWzzvnPOyTM

Went to see Dick Gaughan in Whelans one night it was brillent although I hadn't realised he has such a leftie following and the audience was most male.

osarusan

ClovenHoof wrote: »

That's because wealthy young people with trust funds and rich parents back home in the Home Counties have never understood Ireland.

Can we call it a crust fund?

(has that joke been made already?)

AH must have a jug of ready-to-pour scorn for every classifiable group of individuals in existence.

Crusties? Really? Of all the inoffensive people in society, peace-loving, tree-hugging crusties are near the top of the list, in between senile old dears and Filipino nurses.

Fratton Fred

Fratton Fred wrote: »

It always amazed me that a group who wanted to be free from societies pressures, restrictions and burdons and live an unregimented simple life, all managed to turn up at the Post Office on a Thursday to collect their dole money.

I think they've all given up their campavans now and have turned to telling the world about the evils of the MMR vaccine, Parabens and dairy products through social media.

Although you have to be wary of stereotyping I had a conversation/debate/argument with a committed anti water protester who was giving out with fury about this government all the while she was receiving the back to education allowance, subsidised child care and attending university all at the courtesy of the same government.

6541

I Hate Filipino Nurses ! They do untold damage to the envirnoment.

take everything

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

AH must have a jug of ready-to-pour scorn for every classifiable group of individuals in existence.

Crusties? Really? Of all the inoffensive people in society, peace-loving, tree-hugging crusties are near the top of the list, in between senile old dears and Filipino nurses.

I'd say it's the "stick it to the man/living off the grid" shtick but still managing to collect their dole that irks most people.

LadyFenghuang

take everything wrote: »

I'd say it's the "stick it to the man/living off the grid" shtick but still managing to collect their dole that irks most people.

That's BS. Most are working.

Egginacup

6541 wrote: »

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-33077599

I got reading this and it brought me back to the days when the English Crustys used to come to Ireland. I have many stories about interacting with them.
They never really understood Ireland.
They never could understand that if you camped in someones field in Ireland a couple of blokes would move you on with shotguns as opposed to long court cases. I remember talking to one bunch that actually mistook a halting site for a crusty camp, they regaled me with tails of how all there worldly goods were taking off them when they availed of the halting site.

They could never get used to the violent Irish. No such thing as a peace loving Irish Crusty, give the Irish man a couple of beers and all of a sudden its war !
I think they just gave up on Ireland or grew up and got jobs !
So any Crusty stories ?

Have you a Crusty story ?

Don't really mind them but one time I was in a hostelry reading the paper and enjoying a pilsner. A crusty came in and sat at the bar a few places away from me. The stink off this guy was repulsive, I mean stomach-churning. The body can naturally clean itself over time. Natural skin oils and hair oils take over the function that we currently rely on soap and water to provide. The problem is the clothing. This guy had on a kind of multi-coloured woolen poncho thing that I'd say hadn't seen water or detergent since he procured the garment and I'd say he most likely slept in it.
If a guy is homeless and dirty I can forgive that. He's poor, down on his luck and doesn't have access to regular baths/showers. But this crusty CHOSE to be squalid. I didn't want to leave the pub as I was happy there and thankfully El Crust left after two drinks.

Never been a fan of dreadlocks either except on Rastas. Don't like them on girls. Not even black girls.

LadyFenghuang

LadyFenghuang wrote: »

That's BS. Most are working.

That's true my husband nieces, three sisters work all the festival and shows in the UK doing the car parking, now in the winter they do other work and they live in houses, but they work with a lot of crusty types who travel around working all the festivals doing anything and everything and who live in mobile homes or on boats in the winter they are a genuine tribe of alternative lifestyles.

OneOfThem

mariaalice wrote: »

That's true my husband nieces, three sisters work all the festival and shows in the UK doing the car parking, now in the winter they do other work and they live in houses, but they work with a lot of crusty types who travel around working all the festivals doing anything and everything and who live in mobile homes or on boats in the winter they are a genuine tribe of alternative lifestyles.

That'd be my experience too. Any crusties I've actually known, all worked. Not often, and not hard, but just enough to fund their lifestyles. 'Wanting an easy life' seems to be their main crime. Life is meant to be hard. I've three kids and a 500000 mortgage to pay. And then you've these fvckers just taking it easy and basically enjoying themselves most of the time. Fvck that. Life is hard for me. It should be for everyone else. Bastards!

I'm sure there's the dole scroungy, massively hypocritical, unwashed variety too. Just none I've gotten to know over the years fitted that bill. So just my experience. YMMV.

jonnny68

they loved squat partys and acid techno music and taking loads of hallucinogenic drugs in the mid 90's anyway :eek::D

fryup

who remembers Swampy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKfoWm06F3M