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Sure-Fire Signs That an area is Rough

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 735 ✭✭✭milehip


    A channel4 documentary crew making the latest poverty porn blockbuster maybe repelete with a b-list celebrity looking to up their street cred with the common folk by experiencing how they live( and ****ing off to the nearest travel lodge as soon as it gets dark in the manner of an urban Bear Gryles)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,207 ✭✭✭The King of Moo


    nullzero wrote: »
    Plenty of taxpayers money usually has been spent on parks and playgrounds etc which have all been meticulously destroyed by local feral youth who's parents complain about a lack of amenities in the area.

    Any nearby areas populated by decent people have huge rates of daytime burglaries.

    Swathes of teenage trainee gangsters wandering the streets in Grey trackie bottoms with blue North face jackets, navy Nike baseball caps and white socks (one stuffed with 20's and the other stuffed with narcotics) finished off with a fetching pair of blue trainers.

    Grown men wearing tracksuits cycling around in the middle of the day on "borrowed" mountain bikes that would cost several months social welfare to buy.

    An active and well organized neighborhood watch scheme that reacts immediately anytime emergency services enter the estate by having swarms of kids attack any emergency vehicles that dare enter.

    A high percentage of young men named Lee Dean and Jordan.

    And deprived areas don't have decent people?

    Do you think these feral savages live there because of who they naturally are, or are they created by their environment and the decent people who look down their noses at them?

    F*cking nonsense.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,795 ✭✭✭✭TheDriver


    Sulkeys kept on the green without a need to lock them
    Everyone over 12 has some kind of tash
    Estates names average expected politicians or canon something. Usually ends in terrace.
    Vincent de Paul needs a van to deliver things there
    Local tec has massive enrolment and overworked attendance officer
    Social welfare office is bigger than the supermarket
    New 4x4 in every unemployed households driveway.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 617 ✭✭✭Ferrari3600


    A police car and a screaming siren
    A pneumatic drill and ripped up concrete
    A baby wailing and stray dog howling
    The screech of brakes and lamp light blinking

    A smash of glass and a rumble of boots
    An electric train and a ripped up 'phone booth
    Paint splattered walls and the cry of a tomcat
    Lights going out and a kick in the balls

    Days of speed and slow time Mondays
    Pissing down with rain on a boring Wednesday
    Watching the news and not eating your tea
    A freezing cold flat and damp on the walls

    Waking up at 6 a.m. on a cool warm morning
    Opening the windows and breathing in petrol
    An amateur band rehearsing in a nearby yard
    Watching the telly and thinking about your holidays

    Waking up from bad dreams and smoking cigarettes
    Cuddling a warm girl and smelling stale perfume
    A hot summer's day and sticky black tarmac
    Feeding ducks in the park and wishing you were far away

    Two lovers kissing amongst the scream of midnight
    Two lovers missing the tranquility of solitude
    Getting a cab and travelling on buses
    Reading the graffiti about slashed seat affairs


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,701 ✭✭✭dhaughton99


    The 'Loan man' comes on a Friday.


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,960 ✭✭✭Dr Crayfish


    Are all the young ones in these areas going around in gym gear these days but not actually going to the gym? Seems to be the case


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,625 ✭✭✭Stigura


    No. That's entertainment.

    (Town Called 'Malice' is far better suited)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,049 ✭✭✭Crea


    Rocks all over the road after them being thrown at the bus/gardai/ambulance/fire service.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 314 ✭✭Dr Jakub


    Feral children on the streets off a weekday
    Young men unironically wearing tracksuits, white runners and Celtic jerseys
    Satellite dishes everywhere
    Streets paved with discarded cans of Dutch Gold, Tesco Lager and bottles of Buckfast. It's not a college town.
    Graffiti classics such as 'Anto is a ledge' 'Damo is a fukin fagit'
    Bambi wrote: »
    Foreign lads, especially de blacks.

    Am I doing this right?

    No, Poles and Romanians.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,681 ✭✭✭JustTheOne


    About 400 chippers and Chinese takeaways in the local shop that looks like something from the 1960s.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,033 ✭✭✭✭Richard Hillman


    Constant dog barking
    Kids that are barely old enough to walk with Nike/Adidas runners


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,248 ✭✭✭✭BoJack Horseman


    Constant dog barking
    Kids that are barely old enough to walk with Nike/Adidas runners

    Dogs barking incessently, driven mad from lack of attention and exercise.... Yet, literally every sq-m of footpath has dog-sh*t on it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,619 ✭✭✭✭punisher5112


    Cars on bricks was always a real warning.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 617 ✭✭✭Ferrari3600


    Stood by the bus stop with a felt pen
    In this suburban hell
    And in the distance a police car
    To break the suburban spell
    Let's take a ride, and run with the dogs tonight
    In suburbia
    You can hide, run with the dogs tonight
    In suburbia
    Break a window by the town hall
    Listen, the siren screams
    There in the distance, like a roll call
    Of all the suburban dreams
    Let's take a ride, and run with the dogs tonight
    In Suburbia
    You can't hide, run with the dogs tonight
    In Suburbia
    I only wanted something else to do but hang around


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,763 ✭✭✭MyPeopleDrankTheSoup


    Malari wrote: »
    "No Water Meters" signs in the windows and on lampposts.

    yep. if water charges were free for people with medical cards like most of these things are, there would have been no protests


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,201 ✭✭✭pavb2


    Sure fire signs that an area is rough is when you visit someone's house and have to wipe your feet on the way out.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,701 ✭✭✭dhaughton99


    The trampoline is a valid form of exercise and MMA is classed as a sport.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,073 ✭✭✭✭PARlance


    You've probably missed the surest of sure signs.... the mysterious white lady statues in the windows.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,962 ✭✭✭r93kaey5p2izun


    Raffling cars and motorbikes on facebook for €50 per ticket.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,619 ✭✭✭✭punisher5112


    Raffling cars and motorbikes on facebook for €50 per ticket.

    There a 99 civic up for just like that the guy even took photo with car and him also near 24k spent so says.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,640 ✭✭✭andekwarhola


    Students posting nervously to boards from a passing bus with a dark stain on the crotch area of their skinny jeans.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,962 ✭✭✭r93kaey5p2izun


    There a 99 civic up for just like that the guy even took photo with car and him also near 24k spent so says.


    It's run of the mill round these parts. At least one a month.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,379 ✭✭✭newacc2015


    When every window in 'da flats or da gaff' has plaster moulds of a women half leaning. Every council house/flat in Dublin 1/7 has one in every window

    That everyone having a debs has to have a stretch limo, especially if they are paying for it with a loan from the CU

    Every dodgy area tends to have at least one bouncy castle in the one of the front gardens at anytime


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 326 ✭✭Makood


    Bambi wrote: »
    Foreign lads, especially de blacks.

    Am I doing this right?


    You can't say black, it's rainbow now. Apart from that you're good.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,766 ✭✭✭Bongalongherb


    When you order a skip and dispose of your old toilet and bath tub. Then a middle aged man and his wife walk over telling you that that's a lovely toilet you're throwing out and can they have it.

    5 to 6 heads wearing balaclavas dressed in black traksuits just standing there looking around doing nothing except smoking and scraping their knives off their balaclava heads. Obviously nothing to do, yet.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,398 ✭✭✭whatdoicare


    In Limerick it seems to be anywhere where the top of the range facilities are, like health centres and schools.

    It was even where the only public swimming pools were....before the private gyms opened and seeing as middle class people weren't going there anymore and scumbags never went there, they closed down.

    The expensive private estates have nothing and have always had to go to the rough areas to access facilities.

    I have to go there because it's the only access to a phn for the young one - the place has top of the range everything. Free dentist, free dietician, free special needs help, even a free cookery class for toddler food that gives free blenders and freezer boxes for the food, free baby massage class, free toddler group....guess who went to these things? Noone from the area, everyone from the working, mortgage paying areas. Hilarious isn't it??

    I remember when St Enda's school was open, it had facilities that my ****ty primary could only dream of, I remember going there to do my inter cert and marvelling at what they had!! They were right next to a swimming pool and sports center!! I thought it was a private expensive school! We barely had chairs and tables! They closed it down and opened a new school with a health centre and yet again, facilities that cost millions!

    Private estates can't even get their roads fixed or lighting finished >:(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,802 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    Children pushing babies around in prams


  • Posts: 4,520 [Deleted User]


    You've seen it on Secret Millionaire.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,701 ✭✭✭dhaughton99


    Visiting people in prison.


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,295 ✭✭✭Lt Dan


    gw80 wrote: »
    Actual happy children playing outside making real friends and learning how to socialise with people and not inside playing the latest game console sheltered until it's time to go to college and become a delicate snowflake and be overwhelmed and triggered by every thing in the real world

    No, they are just learning bad habits off each other, learning to steal and ekkkkk. .. learning the drugs trade :D:p

    Non Wurking class children do make friends; in school, at the rugby club, yacht club, music club, GAA Club ; in fact they are already lining up their business partners and trust funds. Ha ha ha


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