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Sure-Fire Signs That an area is Rough

Richard Hillman · 2016-11-02 15:24:19

A community center Speed Bumps Everywhere Oversized curbs A boxing club A local pub that changes its name every couple of years. A security guard at a small Spar/Centra Horses People Before Profit/AAA Posters

02-11-2016 4:24pm

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A community center
Speed Bumps Everywhere
Oversized curbs
A boxing club
A local pub that changes its name every couple of years.
A security guard at a small Spar/Centra
Horses
People Before Profit/AAA Posters

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Members of the community wearing grey tracksuit trousers and matching hoodies all the time.

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The pyjamas brigade.

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#5 02-11-2016 4:27pm

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Hands down pants.
Gangs of lads walking down the street like the opening credits of the Monkees tv show, only with their hands down their pants.

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#6 02-11-2016 4:29pm

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No idea why a community centre is a sign of a rough area?!

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People bringing their shopping home in the trolley from the supermarket.

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#8 02-11-2016 4:30pm

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Alsatians roaming the streets, but only in pairs.

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#9 02-11-2016 4:31pm

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if you see Horses tied up in a housing estate , leave sharpish.

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#10 02-11-2016 4:31pm

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The local boozer has mesh covering the windows.
Walls have broken glass and razor wire resting on top of them.
There's a token neglected kid no older than 3 with muck on his hands and face and a big mother ****in gooey snot that runs from his nose into his mouth hanging around outside the shops while the mother is in buying 20 John Player blue in her pj's and the auld lad is across in the local bookies on a Thursday morning.

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#11 02-11-2016 4:31pm

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Allinall wrote: »

Alsatians roaming the streets, but only in pairs.

Here, not even pairs of Alsations are safe from frisky goats in limerick.
http://www.broadsheet.ie/2016/06/28/alsation-once-again-2/

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Beer bottles around places they really shouldn't be.

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The name: Bally(anything)

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A small, wide Jack Russell cross terrier, standing on a footpath staring at you, just daring you to say something to him.

Bus stops without glass.

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Outside voice for indoors arguments, although indoors arguments are to be avoided if possible.
A roaring & screeching match up and down the estate is the ideal way to blow off a little steam.
At least one party must be wearing sleepwear for full marks.

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No knobs or hipsters wandering around.

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A pub with English premier league team flags outside.

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People trotting past on thier high horses.

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#19 02-11-2016 4:37pm

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degsie wrote: »

The name: Bally(anything)

Ballydehob, stay well clear.

https://www.google.es/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=2&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwiuzLmfs4rQAhVIthoKHY6wBCQQFggrMAE&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FBallydehob&usg=AFQjCNFm1O9br1Lb8Q-yamrkqmCpof0qPw

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Boom_Bap wrote: »

People trotting past on thier high horses.

Ah here.

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If the place name rhymes with mealsbrown.

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No rush hour traffic.

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People smoking on the street wearing a onesie past 3 pm
Especially if it's a man

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Shell-suit tracksuits and lads with 'Love' and 'Hat' tattooed on their fingers. They've lost one, obviously.

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Rubbish and broken glass strewn around the roads and footpaths.

Boarded up and bricked up houses

Lots of off-licences and bookmakers shops

Boy racers and joyriders

A general sense of malaise

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Tricolour on every lamppost.

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#27 02-11-2016 4:42pm

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Richard Hillman wrote: »

A community center
Speed Bumps Everywhere
Oversized curbs
A boxing club
A local pub that changes its name every couple of years.
A security guard at a small Spar/Centra
Horses
People Before Profit/AAA Posters

The local shop(not garage) with a hatch service only after 6pm.
A Health centre that doesn't keep any supplies of baby milk as it gets robbed.
Buggies left at the bus stops.
Runners tied together and thrown over electricity wires

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During fine weather the sitting room furniture is moved to the front yard/garden/footpath for some reason.

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Women wearing I Love PB trackies

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A Sinn Féin Advice Centre.

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If there's an abandoned factory that catches fire on a regular basis and is filled with asbestos that has not and probably will never be dealt with.

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Standard size pens/pencils do not exist - just bookie/argos sized ones

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Neglected children outside without clothing to protect against the weather.

Signs of serious drug addiction passed on from parents to children through example.

Unemployable people who grew up in a situation where they aren't afforded the possibility of advancing in education, and adapting to middle-class conventions of behaviour.

LOL at the poor!! #tensignsyouresociallydeprivedandknobsonlinelaughatyoutomakethemfeelbetteraboutthemselvesfromajoeiehackwhostoletheideafromacommentonthejournal.ie

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Lots of middle aged seemingly healthy men using walking sticks for some reason ...

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Lots of middle aged seemingly healthy men using walking sticks for some reason ...

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degsie wrote: »

Ah here.

It's aaghhh hheeeeeooooooorrrrrrrrr

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFDciiG7b4Q

:pac:

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Weird stuff in the weed riddled front garden, like a sofa and an old boiler

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The King of Moo wrote: »

LOL at the poor!!

That could be very dangerous. If I were you, I'd laugh silently. Far safer.

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when even the baskets have security tags in the local supermarket.

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Richard Hillman wrote: »

A local pub that has corrugated iron sheets on its windows.

FYP

If you want to get into it, you got to get out of it. (Hawkwind 1982)

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This

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#42 02-11-2016 5:07pm

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ThisRegard wrote: »

No idea why a community centre is a sign of a rough area?!

Because councils dont spend money on community centers unless there is high incidents of Anti-Social Behaviour.

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"No Water Meters" signs in the windows and on lampposts.

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If you throw a petrol bomb into the local pub and it's drunk before it can explode.

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The local centra/spar has a bigger off licence than fresh fruit/veg section

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Broken gates/walls of front gardens full of weeds & kitchen appliances/bin-bags/mattresses.

General apathy to the appearance of a home.

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lack of men with wanker names like Richard

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Kids standing outside the local shop throwing chips at the security guard

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Jrop wrote: »

Kids standing outside the local shop throwing chips at the security guard

Round here it's adults throwing cooked chickens!

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Allinall wrote: »

Alsatians roaming the streets, but only in pairs.

People from Alsace?

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#51 02-11-2016 5:21pm

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Special Circumstances wrote: »

Round here it's adults throwing cooked chickens!

Why would you waste a perfectly good chicken ? The mind boggles

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