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Sure fire signs that the area is posh.

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    #62
    Joeseph Balls
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,712 ✭✭✭Joeseph Balls


    The Rape of Lucretia wrote: »
    By what prejudice do you conclude they dont live in the home ?

    They were an luminous safety vest with "non-resident" or "the help" wrote on it


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    #63
    steddyeddy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,565 ✭✭✭✭steddyeddy


    lawlolawl wrote: »
    The whole place is very well maintained and a pleasure to be in or around.

    The people are generally friendly and not overly aggressive for no apparent reason.

    I agree with the first bit but I don't associate friendly with POSH. Some are some aren't.


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    #64
    Widdershins
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,633 ✭✭✭✭Widdershins


    zerks wrote: »
    The head of the residents committee appears out of nowhere to interrogate you if you stop your vehicle for more than 10 seconds on the street.

    In these situations I like to leave them wondering if I own the street.


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    #65
    Heisenberg1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,511 ✭✭✭Heisenberg1


    Nobody walking around the estate with Staffordshire bull terriers without a muzzle.


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    #66
    whoopsadoodles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,058 ✭✭✭whoopsadoodles


    They have teacups with hand painted periwinkles.


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    #67
    Gmol
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,281 ✭✭✭Gmol


    Anyone ask Aongus?


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    #68
    Barry Badrinath
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,460 ✭✭✭Barry Badrinath


    Gmol wrote: »
    Anyone ask Aongus?

    FFS,

    Youre on my kill list now if he shows up.


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    #69
    suicide_circus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,801 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    people wearing sportswear are really engaged in sporting activity


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    #70
    learn_more
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,520 ✭✭✭learn_more


    Very old women pottering around the garden dressed in Sunday clothes.


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    #71
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 17,925 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Lots of knobs ............ you won't get too many hipsters though.

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=101536079&postcount=16


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    #72
    nice_guy80
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,722 ✭✭✭nice_guy80


    Men walking around with sweaters tried around their shoulders.

    I mean, WTF?


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    #73
    NickNickleby
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,913 ✭✭✭NickNickleby


    The next door neighbour is probably called Nick, and the good lady wife, Becky.

    Nick

    oh oh, (after previous post to my last was posted while I was typing!!)

    ".... and he wears his sweater around his shoulders. V-neck of course!


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    #74
    stateofflux
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,563 ✭✭✭stateofflux


    styled granite walls (versus unpainted grey cavity block walls)


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    #75
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Everyone is Protestant as f*ck.


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    #76
    whoopsadoodles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,058 ✭✭✭whoopsadoodles


    Omackeral wrote: »
    Everyone is Protestant as f*ck.

    They put their toasters in the cupboard.


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    #77
    Jimbob1977
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,239 ✭✭✭Jimbob1977


    Ladies who lunch

    Charity balls

    Donnybrook Fair

    Champagne Socialist, except when a Halting Site is proposed for their street. Then it's a tricky planning issue.

    They 'read' law at Trinity

    Children with names like Sebastian and Cadence

    Born in Offaly to farming stock, good-looking, land a wealthy gentleman..... suddenly Lady of the Manor in D4

    Holidays in Roundstone or Puerto Banus


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    #78
    Elmer Blooker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,596 ✭✭✭Elmer Blooker


    Ridiculously overpriced shops usually called by two surnames as in
    &

    The Greens get a very high vote from the SUV/BMW/Merc driving electorate.

    places that sell sandwiches and paninis are called either a bistro, a wine bar or a tapas bar.


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    #79
    steddyeddy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,565 ✭✭✭✭steddyeddy


    Privately educated kids calling people on the dole self entitled.


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    #80
    degsie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,831 ✭✭✭degsie


    The name: (anything)brook


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    #81
    Rubberlegs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,073 ✭✭✭Rubberlegs


    degsie wrote: »
    The name: (anything)brook

    Ballybrook? :)


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    #82
    [Deleted User]
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    Lots of large trees particularly of the cherry blossom type.
    Red brick houses with pretty gardens and a drive to park the Beemer and Range Rover.
    Niche shops like 'Sea & Weed, purveyors of fine kelp'.
    Philipino women pushing non Philipino babies in Bugaboos.
    Women in gym gear with blonde ponytail and more angles than an octagon.
    Little girls dressed in tulle skirts with polka dot tights and Mary Janes.
    An air of superiority encountered in the local 'coffee house'.
    *Men in navy blazers, chinos, and brogues from Fitzpatricks.







    Usually very handsome*


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    #83
    KERSPLAT!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 31,152 ✭✭✭✭KERSPLAT!


    Jimbob1977 wrote: »
    Ladies who lunch

    Charity balls

    Donnybrook Fair

    Champagne Socialist, except when a Halting Site is proposed for their street. Then it's a tricky planning issue.

    They 'read' law at Trinity

    Children with names like Sebastian and Cadence

    Born in Offaly to farming stock, good-looking, land a wealthy gentleman..... suddenly Lady of the Manor in D4

    Holidays in Roundstone or Puerto Banus

    Donnybrook Fair is amazing!! Fresh food from there is so nice


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    #84
    Jimbob1977
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,239 ✭✭✭Jimbob1977


    KERSPLAT! wrote: »
    Donnybrook Fair is amazing!! Fresh food from there is so nice

    No doubt it's lovely. But you won't find a 'Donnybrook Fair' shop outside a wealthy area


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    #85
    bur
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,695 ✭✭✭bur


    The air of superiority.


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    #86
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 31,737 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    These are not signs that an area is posh, they are the reason why it is 'posh'.


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    #87
    Chancer3001
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,480 ✭✭✭Chancer3001


    Every single fvcking shop claims to sell Artisan or Craft food....

    Rustic bread too....


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    #88
    porsche boy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,550 ✭✭✭porsche boy


    The_Valeyard wrote:
    A good thrashing would be more appropriate. I would also accept, broil, tiff or even tussle

    And the quintessential 'Fracas'


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    #89
    porsche boy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,550 ✭✭✭porsche boy


    The_Valeyard wrote:
    A good thrashing would be more appropriate. I would also accept, broil, tiff or even tussle

    And the quintessential 'Fracas'


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    #90
    whoopsadoodles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,058 ✭✭✭whoopsadoodles


    Jimbob1977 wrote: »
    No doubt it's lovely. But you won't find a 'Donnybrook Fair' shop outside a wealthy area

    Stillorgan is only "middling" I'd say.

    I do love Donnybrook fair.


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    #91
    The flying mouse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,915 ✭✭✭The flying mouse


    KERSPLAT! wrote: »
    Donnybrook Fair is amazing!! Fresh food from there is so nice

    Sure it wasn't always like that ;)

    During the week, beginning on the 26th August, is held the notorious Donnybrook Fair, professedly for the sale of horses and black cattle, but really for vulgar dissipation, and formerly for criminal outrage and the most revolting debauchery. It was for generations a perfect prodigy of moral horrors - a concentration of disgrace upon, not Ireland alone, but civilized Europe. It far surpassed all other fairs in the multitude and grossness of its disgusting incidents of vice; and, in general, it exhibited such continuous scenes of riot, bloodshed, debauchery, and brutality, as only the coarsest taste and the most hardened heart could witness without painful emotion.' This was by day; 'the orgies of the night may better be imagined than described."

    Fighting was one of the chief characteristics of Donnybrook Fair. Fights often broke out between two people, and soon the onlookers became involved. To this day, the phrase 'Donnybrook Fair' is used to describe scenes of chaos and confusion. The Oxford English Dictionary defines a donnybrook as "a scene of uproar and disorder; a riotous or uproarious meeting; a heated argument."
    https://www.google.es/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=2&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwjt4-nnpZLQAhXF0xoKHcfqDvcQFggnMAE&url=http%3A%2F%2Foldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com%2F2015%2F06%2Fdonnybrook-fair.html&usg=AFQjCNG94-YqEqFTZdTCamaVRV4CBiLa3A


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