What's so bad about being a rat?

Electric Gypsy

It was something I overheard recently that made me think about this. There's this CIE driver who drives slowly on his route in the hopes that the bus 10 mins behind will overtake and do the work for him. He'll then get a nice and easy 'swing' along the motorway in order to get back time. Sometimes he also drives the route 'out of service'. Two other drivers of the same route were giving out about him, and apparently the control centre had a suspicion about this guy. So one day an inspector from the control centre asked the guy, who was telling us the story, if he'd report back whether or not that bus was out of service when it passed him. He said okay to the inspector but of course didn't bother calling him back when the bus passed, as he "wasn't gonna rat him out". Now if it were me, I wouldn't have taken the initiative to rat him out myself having had the suspicion... but if I were asked to, I would've happily obliged. After all, he's messing up the service and loading the work on another driver on the same route, who'd potentially be me. And like the good guy this fella telling the story was he wouldn't tell me out this driver was, but I of course since found out. Yesterday morning in the depot I found a dirty decker bus and wrote "drive slow ronan, get a swing' on the back of it, and it's been photographed in service and shared and whatsap groups. I was in tears laughing.

Is it an Irish thing, to never rat someone out. Have you ever ratted someone out? or have you wanted to?

dazed+confused

Snitches get stitches!

peter4918

Walter Mitty type stuff here…..

whisky_galore

Cool story bro.

Donald Trump

There's always rats Nidgey

Electric Gypsy

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121254516#Comment_121254516

Jealous that I'd a good laugh.

Electric Gypsy

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121254515#Comment_121254515

Shouldn't that be snitches get snitched?

Electric Gypsy

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121254536#Comment_121254536

Thanks for noticing

Rothko

Is it an Irish thing? No.

lbunnae

You sound like a rat. Rats out.

Apiarist

Hi Ronan, there is a rumor about you that you intentionally drive too slow to avoid work. I do not intend to sully your reputation on a rumor, but if I have to overtake your bus on the route in the future, I will take it up with the management.

If you give a fair warning, it is not ratting in my opinion.

Pauliedragon

Reminds me of an Irish guy living in New Zealand during the height of covid ringing in to red fm in Cork. The story was basically us Irish aren't obeying lockdown but the kiwis are. When asked why His response was kiwis would always ring the cops if they're neighbours were breaking lockdown rules as opposed to Irish people wouldn't "rat"

JeffreyEpspeen

"John Gotti played checkers, I played chess": Sammy The Bull Gravano

Goldengirl

Bubonic plague and Weil's Disease..the dirtiest creatures 🤑

Rothko

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121256114#Comment_121256114

It's really abominable.

Rows Grower

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121256114#Comment_121256114

Reported for anti beta hatred. Beta's have rights too.

We can do what we want Bobson Dugnutt and you won't stop us.

Ever.

JayRoc

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121255927#Comment_121255927

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Potential-Monke

People don't like to rat because they usually get up to stuff that other people could rat them out on. Everybody is up to something, so everyone keeps quiet.

crustyjuggler

Lol

Badly Drunk Boy

Is it an Irish thing, to never rat someone out. Have you ever ratted someone out? or have you wanted to?

Of course it's a Irish thing! Did you never hear of the lad who invented it? His name was O'Merta.

growleaves

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121255875#Comment_121255875

Interesting that he didn't perceive that social solidarity among New Zealanders had decayed.

Loafing Oaf

😝😝😝

Mrs OBumble

Having worked (briefly) in the mailroom of an agency which received reports from the public about all sort of issues, I can assure you that Irish people do plenty of ratting on others. Some anonymous, some not even.

Riddle101

I don't think it's an Irish thing but I do think there is a culture in Ireland that tends to be dismissive towards informing on others. Perhaps it because some Irish people have a laid back attitude towards bending the rules or breaking them that they all have a similar attitude towards informing because they know that if the shoe was ever on the other foot, they would not want people to tell on them.

French Toast

When we were in 2nd Year of secondary school two or three lads thrashed the classroom. Nothing too bad in hindsight - threw tables and chairs around the place. Obviously everyone in the class knew who it was but we weren’t going to snitch. The oldest battle-axe teacher in the school was put in charge of getting it out of us. Her line of attack was “Are you all such small, spineless men that 20 of you will lie down and take punishment for what you didn’t even do?”

Effective in fairness. She got it out of us.

Greyfox

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121258927#Comment_121258927

I'd say if a wrecked classroom is the only victim I can understand why people wouldn't rat but if it was a case of 1 or 2 lads battering another lad then ratting is the correct thing to do

SEPT 23 1989

Unless a woman.child or animal were getting hurt I wouldn’t be bothered

Rows Grower

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121259897#Comment_121259897

Reported for being anti man.

Men have rights too you know.

Electric Gypsy

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121259974#Comment_121259974

He probably didn't even realise that his comment revealed how he places a higher value on the female life. Society rubbing off on him.

Robert Nairac

Rats have short lives

Rows Grower

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121260058#Comment_121260058

No empathy, hope he gets banned from here, fired from his job and sent to prison for life.