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When did skangers first appear in Dublin?

Koptain Liverpool · 2016-08-19 10:35:57

I'm guessing the 1990s - or was it earlier. By skangers I mean the likes of lads walking round with the socks up over their tracksuit bottoms and hands down the front who often shout abuse at passers by. I know there has probably been a visible 'junkie' element around since the 70s/80s but I'm talking here more about rough…

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#32 19-08-2016 1:05pm
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Koptain Liverpool wrote: »

When did skangers first appear in Dublin?

Shorty after The Battle Of Clontarf when the Vikings were defeated, the first documented reports emerged of tracksuit wearing muppets, who had tracksuit bottoms tucked into their white socks. They've been breeding like rabbits ever since.

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#33 19-08-2016 1:14pm
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Your forgetting the shell suit area during the late 80's:

Here is the former Sir Jim sporting one:

http://i57.tinypic.com/2db9o5u.jpg

When is the money (including lost growth) Michael Noonan took in the Pension Levy going to be paid back?

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