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What you see in Dublin

  • 12-12-2018 3:07pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 475 ✭✭


    Must admit I don't go to Dublin often. However on a recent trip there last week I couldn't believe what I saw. Walking from Temple Bar back to Heuston station I came upon a group of 6 or 7 druggies. One of them was sat on his heels with his tracksuit bottoms round his thighs. His hand reached around and he was routing himself out for a baggie of drugs.... Totally honorific! I was only glad I didn't have my young family with me. This got me thinking - others in Dublin on a regular basis must see some awful sights. What have you seen that made you think WTF!!!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,826 ✭✭✭Gloomtastic!


    I was in Leitrim a few weeks ago and saw these teenagers all hanging out the windows of moving cars. They’d just won some cup or other in the GAAAAA. Disgraceful behaviour! :rolleyes:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,388 ✭✭✭Cina


    Ah it's the boards.ie weekly "Let's bash Dublin" thread.

    Featuring such hits as

    "place is full o' scummers!"
    "what a skip, seriously!"
    "can't f*ckin' go anywhere without a car there"
    "where's me Dublin Bus lads?"
    "worse than bleedin' Africa so it is!"


  • Posts: 5,311 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    223vmax wrote: »
    Must admit I don't go to Dublin often. However on a recent trip there last week I couldn't believe what I saw. Walking from Temple Bar back to Heuston station I came upon a group of 6 or 7 druggies. One of them was sat on his heels with his tracksuit bottoms round his thighs. His hand reached around and he was routing himself out for a baggie of drugs.... Totally honorific! I was only glad I didn't have my young family with me. This got me thinking - others in Dublin on a regular basis must see some awful sights. What have you seen that made you think WTF!!!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,181 ✭✭✭✭iamwhoiam


    What I saw today in Dublin was lots of lovely kids all dressed in the uniform , all neat and tidy going to school. I saw mums and dads and nanas and grandads holding their hands and making sure they hats on . I saw a gentleman hold the gate for the kids and keep them safe . And I saw the lollipop lady all dressed in a santa hat with a huge smile for all the kids


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,070 ✭✭✭✭pq0n1ct4ve8zf5


    Jesus Dubs are touchy auld craythurs.


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  • Posts: 5,311 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Cina wrote: »
    Ah it's the boards.ie weekly "Let's bash Dublin" thread.

    Featuring such hits as

    "place is full o' scummers!"
    "what a skip, seriously!"
    "can't f*ckin' go anywhere without a car there"
    "where's me Dublin Bus lads?"
    "worse than bleedin' Africa so it is!"

    Dublin is full of scummers, an inconvenient truth but there you have it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 381 ✭✭homosapien91


    Dublin is full of scummers, an inconvenient truth but there you have it.

    Really depends where you are in Dublin, ain't all that bad


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,388 ✭✭✭Cina


    Dublin is full of scummers, an inconvenient truth but there you have it.
    So is every other capital city on the planet.

    When you have vast amounts of people in an enclosed place, that's sort of what happens.


  • Moderators, Music Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,734 Mod ✭✭✭✭Boom_Bap


    The best thing about Dublin is that it's not Cork














    :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,862 ✭✭✭mikhail


    Oh Jesus, the culchies are up for de Christmas shopping.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,070 ✭✭✭✭pq0n1ct4ve8zf5


    Cina wrote: »
    So is every other capital city on the planet.

    When you have vast amounts of people in an enclosed place, that's sort of what happens.

    So why get so het up about people mentioning the fact?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 475 ✭✭223vmax


    Since Dublin does have a large number of druggies, thieves and fiends, I was curious as to what others had witnessed that's all. I'm sure there are nice people there as well.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,235 ✭✭✭✭Cee-Jay-Cee


    iamwhoiam wrote: »
    What I saw today in Dublin was lots of lovely kids all dressed in the uniform , all neat and tidy going to school. I saw mums and dads and nanas and grandads holding their hands and making sure they hats on . I saw a gentleman hold the gate for the kids and keep them safe . And I saw the lollipop lady all dressed in a santa hat with a huge smile for all the kids

    I think the OP meant what did you see recently and not in 1976.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,952 ✭✭✭granturismo


    223vmax wrote: »
    Must admit I don't go to Dublin often. .... Walking from Temple Bar back to Heuston station I came upon a group of 6 or 7 druggies. ...!

    Next time you're in Dublin take the bus back to Heuston and you speed along in style giving you less time to be exposed to such vulgarities. Take the LUAS and the same performance could be right in front of you for a few minutes.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,070 ✭✭✭Franz Von Peppercorn


    iamwhoiam wrote: »
    What I saw today in Dublin was lots of lovely kids all dressed in the uniform , all neat and tidy going to school. I saw mums and dads and nanas and grandads holding their hands and making sure they hats on . I saw a gentleman hold the gate for the kids and keep them safe . And I saw the lollipop lady all dressed in a santa hat with a huge smile for all the kids

    No recession in your house.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,181 ✭✭✭✭iamwhoiam


    Dublin is full of scummers, an inconvenient truth but there you have it.

    If it was full of them there would no room for the rest of us . The huge majority of Dublin people are ordinary honest to god people who just want to live life as best we can and be kind to those around us
    Its very sad when some people overlook that to have a bash at us


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 327 ✭✭Raheem Euro


    This is like when the Simpsons went to New York.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,500 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    A seagull viciously attack a German tourist.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,181 ✭✭✭✭iamwhoiam


    No recession in your house.

    No thankfully not right now , been through two already !


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,070 ✭✭✭Franz Von Peppercorn


    223vmax wrote: »
    Since Dublin does have a large number of druggies, thieves and fiends, I was curious as to what others had witnessed that's all. I'm sure there are nice people there as well.

    I think we’re just used to it, like New Yorkers used to be in the 70s. I walk past druggies a fair amount, lost in my own thoughts, thinking of Tintern abbey.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,754 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    Cina wrote: »
    Ah it's the boards.ie weekly "Let's bash Dublin" thread.

    Featuring such hits as

    "place is full o' scummers!"
    "what a skip, seriously!"
    "can't f*ckin' go anywhere without a car there"
    "where's me Dublin Bus lads?"
    "worse than bleedin' Africa so it is!"

    More of a weekly "I'm gonna make some **** up and pretend it really happened" thread.

    I was in Athlone the other week and I saw an aliens having a pint with Elvis, John Lennon and Michael Jaclson. And I thought WTF!

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,798 ✭✭✭✭DrumSteve


    I think we’re just used to it, like New Yorkers used to be in the 70s. I walk past druggies a fair amount, lost in my own thoughts.

    I'm just mad at them cos they won't share.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,181 ✭✭✭✭iamwhoiam


    I think the OP meant what did you see recently and not in 1976.

    Sorry ? That is exactly what I saw this morning 12/12/2018


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,754 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    iamwhoiam wrote: »
    Sorry ? That is exactly what I saw this morning 12/12/2018

    Some of those drugs do **** around with your time perception, to be fair.

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,181 ✭✭✭✭iamwhoiam


    Some of those drugs do **** around with your time perception, to be fair.

    I was asked what I saw and thats what I saw


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,861 ✭✭✭RobbieTheRobber


    Some of those drugs do **** around with your time perception, to be fair.

    Well then stop boofing them where the op can see you.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,133 ✭✭✭✭GBX


    Feckin culchies coming inside the M50 and being judgemental. Shower of b******


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,943 ✭✭✭Deebles McBeebles


    OP you're wasting your time. Typical boards responses will castigate you for mentioning Dublin in a bad light and then the thread descends into culchies v jackeens.

    Also you can't mention anything/anyone in a bad light and your posts have to be watertight for fear of people taking a completely different meaning from them.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,194 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    Boom_Bap wrote: »
    The best thing about Dublin is that it's not Cork














    :D

    Correctamundo. 'Cos if it was, then Cork would also be Dublin. In furtherance, I'm glad I don't like broccoli because if I did I'd eat loads of it, and I can't stand the fucken thing.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 102 ✭✭John DoeReMi


    Cina wrote: »
    So is every other capital city on the planet.

    When you have vast amounts of people in an enclosed place, that's sort of what happens.

    Yes but other capital cities have competent law enforcement which means that scummers don't have the run of the place. Not that long ago the Irish Times ran a major piece in it's weekend edition about how the Liffey Boardwalk is now overrun with toerags preying on tourists. Including the piece of sh*t who kidnapped and raped the poor innocent Spanish tourist there last year.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,039 ✭✭✭✭retro:electro


    223vmax wrote: »
    Totally honorific!

    Do you mean horrific? Or were you honoured that you were the one he chose to rummage around in his arsehole in front of?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,219 ✭✭✭pablo128


    223vmax wrote: »
    Must admit I don't go to Dublin often. However on a recent trip there last week I couldn't believe what I saw. Walking from Temple Bar back to Heuston station I came upon a group of 6 or 7 druggies. One of them was sat on his heels with his tracksuit bottoms round his thighs. His hand reached around and he was routing himself out for a baggie of drugs.... Totally honorific! I was only glad I didn't have my young family with me. This got me thinking - others in Dublin on a regular basis must see some awful sights. What have you seen that made you think WTF!!!

    Poor chap is probably a redneck who got the neck slapped red raw off him to get up to Dublin and get a job. He probably couldn't get into the guards or the civil service, went on the drink, discovered it was cheaper to get high on the heroin, and here we are today, his own neighbours not even recognising him as he has 3 of his fingers up his hole.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,388 ✭✭✭Cina


    So why get so het up about people mentioning the fact?
    Het up?

    I was taking the p*ss in my post.

    EDIT: Actually I don't even know what 'het up' is supposed to mean.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 462 ✭✭com1


    Dublin is full of scummers, an inconvenient truth but there you have it.

    ...And boggers, dont forget the boggers! (Oh, hang on, I am kind of a bogger too, though that kind of proves the point(ish))
    I was in Athlone the other week and I saw an aliens having a pint with Elvis, John Lennon and Michael Jaclson. And I thought WTF!

    Princess, were you sampling the contents of yer mans ars baggy by any chance?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,482 ✭✭✭✭Ush1


    Cina wrote: »
    Het up?

    I was taking the p*ss in my post.

    EDIT: Actually I don't even know what 'het up' is supposed to mean.

    I think it means something in culchie, ghastly people.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭AllForIt


    Yeah, was in Dublin for the first time in a long while last month and the moment I exited Heuston station I went straight to the luas only to see 4 junkies standing by the ticket kiosk having a chat. I was so pissed off that the moment I seen them I said forget the Luas and walked into the city instead. What a terrible impression of Dublin this gives when the moment you set foot in Dublin the first thing you see is junkies. I don't know what it is about the Heuston/Luas area but junkies are always hanging around there. There must be radical lefties working in the council who maybe feel the race of junkies have a right to meander around wherever they feel like, for equality sake.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,133 ✭✭✭✭GBX


    Tis amazing how there is only junkies hanging around in Dublin and they are hidden in every other town in Ireland


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,754 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    com1 wrote: »
    ...And boggers, dont forget the boggers! (Oh, hang on, I am kind of a bogger too, though that kind of proves the point(ish))



    Princess, were you sampling the contents of yer mans ars baggy by any chance?

    I have done many "baggies" as you young'uns are calling them nowadays, and I have gone to many strange and bizarre places both physical and metaphysical in my time.

    Athlone is not one of them.

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,590 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    GBX wrote: »
    Tis amazing how there is only junkies hanging around in Dublin and they are hidden in every other town in Ireland



    Tis.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,754 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    GBX wrote: »
    Tis amazing how there is only junkies hanging around in Dublin and they are hidden in every other town in Ireland

    They're called "alcoholics" in other towns. Or "characters".

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,942 ✭✭✭topper75


    Sadly we'll never get the Éamonn Mac Thomáis commentary on what the OP saw. That would be a Netflix smash.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,950 ✭✭✭ChikiChiki


    GBX wrote: »
    Tis amazing how there is only junkies hanging around in Dublin and they are hidden in every other town in Ireland

    There's a methadone clinic smack bang in the city centre that attracts a huge amount of junkies.

    People that work in and walk through Dublin daily are aware of the plague of junkies around.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 327 ✭✭Raheem Euro


    This country man was going to a match in Croke Park one time and parked his car beside the flats near Croke Park. When he got out a couple of chung fellas walked over - "Hey mister, do you want someone to watch your car." The man laughed and pointed at the Rottweiler sitting in the back. "Don't worry lads he's well able to mind it." "Hey mister, can your dog put out fires"?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 342 ✭✭VeryTerry


    Dublin is full of scummers, an inconvenient truth but there you have it.

    The population has boomed in the last 50 years alright. The place is bursting at the seems with uncouth rural social infants battering each other on Harcourt and Camden Street but like anything we will get them up to speed eventually.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,681 ✭✭✭Standman


    I've got 12 children, and let me tell you, I'd never let them within 200 miles of Dublin.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 229 ✭✭John Sacrimoni


    "Druggies" Bog warrior confirmed.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,590 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    Standman wrote: »
    I've got 12 children, and let me tell you, I'd never let them within 200 miles of Dublin.


    Good shooting.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,009 ✭✭✭Allinall


    Standman wrote: »
    I've got 12 children, and let me tell you, I'd never let them within 200 miles of Dublin.

    This is what makes Dublin great.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,681 ✭✭✭Standman


    Allinall wrote: »
    This is what makes Dublin great.


    I agree, dozen o' pricks.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,070 ✭✭✭✭pq0n1ct4ve8zf5


    Cina wrote: »
    Het up?

    I was taking the p*ss in my post.

    EDIT: Actually I don't even know what 'het up' is supposed to mean.

    Don't worry about it, apparently I don't know what "taking the piss" means, I was under the impression it meant being lighthearted, making a joke, etc...


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