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Whats the most pretentious part of Dublin?

  • 28-08-2016 11:37AM
    #1
    fryup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,067 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    Was up from the country yesterday to collect my folks from the ferry in Dun Laoghaire, so had a few hours to spare ..so dropped into a cafe in monkstown..for breakfast.

    And i have to say the ears nearly dropped off me with all the D4 pompous claptrap from the various tables..."oh my Simon is going to Trinity in September" "oh i'll have to change my BMW soon its nearly two years old" "i think i'll sell the house for 1 million thats a fair price" it was almost like a game everyone trying to out BS each other:rolleyes:

    a world apart from where i come from i tell ya


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  • #2
    PhoenixParker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,695 ✭✭✭PhoenixParker


    The ferry in Dun Laoghaire? Yesterday?


  • #3
    corglass
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,109 ✭✭✭corglass


    fryup wrote: »
    Was up from the country yesterday to collect my folks from the ferry in Dun Laoghaire, so had a few hours to spare ..so dropped into a cafe in monkstown..for breakfast.

    And i have to say the ears nearly dropped off me with all the D4 pompous claptrap from the various tables..."oh my Simon is going to Trinity in September" "oh i'll have to change my BMW soon its nearly two years old" "i think i'll sell the house for 1 million thats a fair price" it was almost like a game everyone trying to out BS each other:rolleyes:

    a world apart from where i come from i tell ya


    I've another idea where the bs lies in this thread


  • #4
    corglass
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,109 ✭✭✭corglass


    fryup wrote: »
    Was up from the country yesterday to collect my folks from the ferry in Dun Laoghaire, so had a few hours to spare ..so dropped into a cafe in monkstown..for breakfast.

    And i have to say the ears nearly dropped off me with all the D4 pompous claptrap from the various tables..."oh my Simon is going to Trinity in September" "oh i'll have to change my BMW soon its nearly two years old" "i think i'll sell the house for 1 million thats a fair price" it was almost like a game everyone trying to out BS each other:rolleyes:

    a world apart from where i come from i tell ya


    I've another idea where the bs lies in this thread


  • #5
    hairyslug
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,561 ✭✭✭hairyslug


    Ohh fancy you having your own yacht.


  • #6
    judeboy101
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,246 ✭✭✭judeboy101


    Sheriff street


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  • #7
    Mary63
    Closed Accounts Posts: 801 ✭✭✭Mary63


    He must mean a cruise ship.

    There are no ferries coming into Dunlaoghaire for the past two years.


  • #8
    griffdaddy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,412 ✭✭✭griffdaddy


    fryup wrote: »
    Was up from the country yesterday to collect my folks from the ferry in Dun Laoghaire, so had a few hours to spare ..so dropped into a cafe in monkstown..for breakfast.

    And i have to say the ears nearly dropped off me with all the D4 pompous claptrap from the various tables..."oh my Simon is going to Trinity in September" "oh i'll have to change my BMW soon its nearly two years old" "i think i'll sell the house for 1 million thats a fair price" it was almost like a game everyone trying to out BS each other:rolleyes:

    a world apart from where i come from i tell ya

    Why must you turn my office into a house of lies?


  • #9
    Mech1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,163 ✭✭✭Mech1


    C'mon OP tell the truth, no more bs about ferries in Dunlaoire.


  • #10
    Zaph
    Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 47,396 ✭✭✭✭Zaph


    Monkstown is not in D4. This whole thread is based on a foundation of falsehoods.


  • #11
    moleyv
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,583 ✭✭✭moleyv


    The biggest hole in this story is that they would be eating in the same place.


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  • #12
    vicwatson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,404 ✭✭✭✭vicwatson


    Well most of "Foxrock" is infact in Deansgrange but they like to claim it as the rock


  • #13
    Anesthetize
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,468 ✭✭✭Anesthetize


    fryup wrote: »
    Was up from the country yesterday to collect my folks from the ferry in Dun Laoghaire, so had a few hours to spare ..so dropped into a cafe in monkstown..for breakfast.

    And i have to say the ears nearly dropped off me with all the D4 pompous claptrap from the various tables..."oh my Simon is going to Trinity in September" "oh i'll have to change my BMW soon its nearly two years old" "i think i'll sell the house for 1 million thats a fair price" it was almost like a game everyone trying to out BS each other:rolleyes:

    a world apart from where i come from i tell ya
    I don't see what any of that has to do with being pretentious. Those people are actually higher-middle class toffs. They're not pretending to be.


  • #14
    Peregrine
    Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 26,411 Mod ✭✭✭✭Peregrine


    Your story is full of holes, OP.


  • #15
    Zaph
    Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 47,396 ✭✭✭✭Zaph


    vicwatson wrote: »
    Well most of "Foxrock" is infact in Deansgrange but they like to claim it as the rock

    It's a well known fact that Foxrock is the largest area in Dublin covering an area encompassing everywhere from Killiney to Ballsbridge, depending on who you speak to. Obviously parts of it overlap with the second largest area in Dublin, which is Killiney itself.


  • #16
    Stealthfins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,141 ✭✭✭Stealthfins


    Anesthetize wrote:
    I don't see what any of that has to do with being pretentious. Those people are actually higher-middle class toffs. They're not pretending to be.

    Billy Connolly had a great sketch about these knobs.

    Middle class toffs,more like knobs ha ha


  • #17
    Tigger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,701 ✭✭✭✭Tigger


    So much potential to reel the op in wasted, Op a question ; did this happen a few years ago and you thought you'd talk about it now and that you would move it to yesterday to stay current or is it simply a complete act of fantasy?


  • #18
    Mech1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,163 ✭✭✭Mech1


    OP has over 8.5K posts on here, how many of those can be trusted now?


  • #19
    MissFlitworth
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,057 ✭✭✭MissFlitworth


    Several of my country colleague's kids are off to Trinity over the next few weeks. Gurteen College of Agriculture must be below them. Upwardly mobile, pretentious brats. Who do they think they are getting the requisite Leaving Cert results. Probably haven't even gotten Bishop's dispensation.

    Hope your pretend breakfast was nice, OP!


  • #20
    Barry Badrinath
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,460 ✭✭✭Barry Badrinath


    fryup wrote: »
    Was up from the country yesterday to collect my folks from the ferry in Dun Laoghaire, so had a few hours to spare ..so dropped into a cafe in monkstown..for breakfast.

    And i have to say the ears nearly dropped off me with all the D4 pompous claptrap from the various tables..."oh my Simon is going to Trinity in September" "oh i'll have to change my BMW soon its nearly two years old" "i think i'll sell the house for 1 million thats a fair price" it was almost like a game everyone trying to out BS each other:rolleyes:

    a world apart from where i come from i tell ya

    Lies, lies, lies.

    I frequent those cafes on a weekly basis and never hear any of that bolloxology.

    Admit you are making this up or you risk looking like a complete tool.


  • #21
    Stealthfins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,141 ✭✭✭Stealthfins


    Throw a spanner in the works lol


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  • #22
    ricardo1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 82 ✭✭ricardo1


    Tigger wrote: »
    So much potential to reel the op in wasted, Op a question ; did this happen a few years ago and you thought you'd talk about it now and that you would move it to yesterday to stay current or is it simply a complete act of fantasy?

    No. I think the OP was watching Damo & Ivor last night and just letting off some steam.

    There's another programme called Made in Chelsea OP. Have a look and tell us how pretentious SW3 London is.


  • #23
    spurious
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Education Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 27,416 CMod ✭✭✭✭spurious


    I'm not sure if it's pretentious or beyond cool to call a cruise ship a ferry.


  • #24
    Peregrine
    Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 26,411 Mod ✭✭✭✭Peregrine


    Mary63 wrote: »
    He must mean a cruise ship.

    There are no ferries coming into Dunlaoghaire for the past two years.

    http://dlharbour.ie/cruise-schedule/

    And, according to this, there hasn't been a cruise ship in Dún Laoghaire in over two weeks. I think the OP is telling porkies.


  • #25
    Jason Jealous Watchdog
    Posts: 13,104 ✭✭✭✭ Jason Jealous Watchdog


    Peregrine wrote: »
    http://dlharbour.ie/cruise-schedule/

    And, according to this, there hasn't been a cruise ship in Dún Laoghaire in over two weeks. I think the OP is telling porkies.

    To be fair it doesn't take checking ferry schedules to know the OP is lying. The whole post is ridiculous.

    And at some point in future if I'm proud of my kids for getting their course in Trinity makes me pretentious, then sign me up.


  • #26
    Hunchback
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,629 ✭✭✭Hunchback


    Even though my toes are rigidly curled inwards with embarrassment for the OP , I wonder what was his/her motivation for this tale.


  • #27
    alastair
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,309 ✭✭✭✭alastair


    I sent the chauffeur out in the Duesenberg to collect my butler from the Howth tram last week, and he mentioned that there were some very uppidy merchants out in Kingstown all right.


  • #28
    Birneybau
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,434 ✭✭✭✭Birneybau


    Hunchback wrote: »
    Even though my toes are rigidly curled inwards with embarrassment for the OP , I wonder what was his/her motivation for this tale.

    Self loathing I'd presume.


  • #29
    endacl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,443 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    Senor Fancy Pants wrote: »

    Admit you are making this up or you risk looking like a complete tool.

    That ferry has sailed!

    :pac:


  • #30
    Breaston Plants
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 792 ✭✭✭Breaston Plants


    Busted.


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  • #31
    El Tarangu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,631 ✭✭✭El Tarangu


    Stealthfins wrote: »
    Billy Connolly had a great sketch about these knobs.

    Middle class toffs,more like knobs ha ha

    ...
    ...

    Good one.


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