Sure fire signs that the area is posh.

marketty · 05-11-2016 08:08PM

The flying mouse wrote:

They have distinctive tastes and preferences and seek out enclaves of others who share them.

The flying mouse wrote:

Their culture incorporates little of the lifestyle or the popular culture of the rest of the nation.

The flying mouse wrote:

They increasingly look down on that mainstream lifestyle and culture.

The flying mouse wrote:

Meanwhile, their children & themselfs are so sheltered from the rest of the nation that they barely know what life is like outside their bubble of self importance.

Great, another Traveller bashing thread...

magentis · 05-11-2016 08:19PM

degsie wrote: »

The name: (anything)brook

Bolbrook :pac:

padd b1975 · 05-11-2016 08:25PM

Nobody owns a mongrel dog.

xabi · 05-11-2016 08:43PM

High horses grazing in the greens

JupiterKid · 05-11-2016 08:44PM

The suburb's name ending in "ock."

A Donnybrook Fair, a Butler's Pantry and an off licence specialising in pricey fine wines.

A few upscale cafes and restaurants.
Gated developments.

Barry Badrinath · 05-11-2016 08:51PM

Houses with M&S versions of Pot Noodles.

Cnuts.

maudgonner · 05-11-2016 08:55PM

You ask the kids about their hobbies and they say 'skiing and water polo'.

Then you make the mandatory joke about whether they're worried the horses will drown and they look down their noses pityingly at you like you're such an oik.

jackofalltrades · 05-11-2016 10:32PM

spurious wrote: »

Alarms, gates, high hedges, lots of security - signs of living a life in fear.

Dismal lack of knowledge of areas other than the home (garrison) one and perhaps trips to Grafton Street.
Quite a lot of opinions on said other areas though (see other thread).

steddyeddy wrote: »

Privately educated kids calling people on the dole self entitled.

This is why we can't have nice things.
Is it too much to ask to just have a light-hearted thread.

Your Face · 05-11-2016 10:33PM

This thread has gotten very common all of a sudden.

Colser · 05-11-2016 10:37PM

Your Face wrote:

This thread has gotten very common all of a sudden.

I know ya like..ðŸ˜

Sue Pa Key Pa · 05-11-2016 10:54PM

When I was but a chap, not only did all the neighbours wash their milk bottles, to be collected by the milkman the next day, but they damn well dried them too. That's the mark of an area

Cartouche · 05-11-2016 10:55PM

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.

Know you of such a place ?

lawlolawl · 05-11-2016 11:00PM

Cartouche wrote: »

Know you of such a place ?

Plenty of them around the country.

You just don't hear about them much because they don't repeatedly appear in the media in the form of: "The defendant, with an address of 123 Scumbag Terrace, Athlone.........."

eviltwin · 05-11-2016 11:04PM

Every dog is a purebred

The local park is full of parents in running gear jogging with three wheel buggies

Nearly everyone is Irish

Hipsters galore

FREDNISMO · 05-11-2016 11:35PM

All they sell in the local off license is Pimms

05-11-2016 11:38PM

They don't live in estates. They have "grounds".

dd972 · 05-11-2016 11:40PM

Lack of 'conspicuous consumption', i.e; a nice house but never a flash car outside.

dd972 · 05-11-2016 11:42PM

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.

Which is in no way connected to absence of stress, complete dominion over your life and being feckin loaded....;)

darlett · 05-11-2016 11:46PM

[Deleted User] wrote: »

They don't live in estates. They have "grounds".

And so when they 'release the hounds', the hounds aren't in imminent danger of being hit by a souped up car.

OldMrBrennan83 · 05-11-2016 11:47PM

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andekwarhola · 05-11-2016 11:48PM

You walk down a street and shout 'Oran', 'Milo' or 'Hugo' and two thirds of the kids on the street turn around.

darlett · 05-11-2016 11:48PM

Patww79 wrote: »

They're the areas everyone is celebrating right around now.

What. A. Game! :-)

ahlookit · 05-11-2016 11:55PM

The flying mouse wrote: »

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

Jesus that shop has had a hell of a rebrand.
It must have been on that Fergal Quinn TV show

All the kids have impossible to spell Irish names with superfluous letters like caoilfhinn and ruaraidh. They get sent to a gaelscoil so they won't have to encounter foreign children

Special Circumstances · 06-11-2016 12:25AM

whoopsadoodles wrote: »

They put their toasters in the cupboard.

I'm very confused right now.
My toaster is in its usual parking spot in the cupboard.... but I didn't know or care about "the game".
So I'm neither here nor there really am I?

Back on topic, all arguments are passive aggressive... rather than a bawling match in PJs in the street.

Means Of Escape · 06-11-2016 12:31AM

Tree saplings undamaged

06-11-2016 12:36AM

Its an aera where people are prepaired to pay 450k and more for a tiny ex council house.

MRnotlob606 · 06-11-2016 12:38AM

A lack of noise, less children per family. People taking care of civic amenities in their locality because they know by damaging them they are inadvertently devaluing their own properties. You only hear fireworks on halloween. Pyjamas are something you were going to be etc..