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Sure-Fire Signs That an area is Rough

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  • #632
    Brendan Bendar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,375 ✭✭✭✭Brendan Bendar


    Hanwellian wrote: »
    Yes, Man Utd/Liverpool/Celtic, never League of Ireland teams. And these that wear British club shirts are those that are anti-British in other areas of life.[/QUOTE]

    :eek:

    Jaysus!!


  • #633
    jca
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,585 ✭✭✭jca


    Stephen15 wrote: »
    Houses with loads of outside christmas lights

    In June:pac:


  • #634
    steddyeddy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,565 ✭✭✭✭steddyeddy


    BalcombeSt4 wrote: »
    Yeah Bray checks all those boxes.

    Lots of burnt out cars & fire ruins in fields that used to be used for kids football matches also.

    I'm anything but a snob but I can't stand Bray.


  • #635
    Stephen15
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,907 ✭✭✭Stephen15


    Also an ice cream van that sells everthing and comes around in the winter.


  • #636
    bazza1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,272 ✭✭✭bazza1


    Joan Burton in a car....surrounded by "fans" :)


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  • #637
    retalivity
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,983 ✭✭✭✭retalivity


    Pallets randomly lying on the pavement.
    Rough road surfaces
    A clearance bar to stop oversized vehicles getting in/out of a place


  • #638
    Wibbs
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,327 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    Very few trees lining the streets. For some reason trees are to be uprooted or burnt or whatever in many such areas. I knew a lad who lived in an place that was roughly(no pun) divided into a nice folks area and not so nice folks area, or at least the percentages gravitated according to locale*. The houses and streets were identical when they were built at the same time, but the "rough area" had very few street trees. Trees which had been planted in both areas when new. After a few decades one area was a "leafy suburb" the other was not. It fascinated me at the time.




    *not saying the "rough area" had no nice people. Not at all. The majority were, but there was a minority that got large enough to impact everyone in the wider context. It doesn't take that many to turn a nice place into a shithole for everybody. You could transplant those people/families into the "nice" area and cook for ten years and you'd see the changes.

    Many worry about Artificial Intelligence. I worry far more about Organic Idiocy.



  • #639
    Dyr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,246 ✭✭✭✭Dyr


    Wibbs wrote: »
    Very few trees lining the streets. For some reason trees are to be uprooted or burnt or whatever in many such areas. I knew a lad who lived in an place that was roughly(no pun) divided into a nice folks area and not so nice folks area, or at least the percentages gravitated according to locale*. The houses and streets were identical when they were built at the same time, but the "rough area" had very few street trees. Trees which had been planted in both areas when new. After a few decades one area was a "leafy suburb" the other was not. It fascinated me at the time.

    theres actually a reason for this but its not what you'd think. The Council control "rough" ares and will answer to no one when it comes to pulling down trees for whatever changes they want to make. Whereas in more mature areas they just can't get away with it.

    There was a study done on it
    http://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/street-trees-proliferate-in-wealthy-areas-reveals-city-research-1.2552994


    I know in my area the council paid some pratt of a german artist to do something artistic so he decided that as there were very few trees in the neighborhood that people should be "given" the opportunity to sponsor a tree based on the logic if they paid for it that they'd look after it. The level of neo liberal delusion is staggering. And when they actually went ahead with it they planted the mangiest saplings you'd find:confused:


    of course it never occurred to this clown that the council who were funding the project were the same guys who ripped up the neighborhoods tree's in the first place.


  • #640
    Victor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 78,732 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    Bambi wrote: »
    theres actually a reason for this but its not what you'd think. The Council control "rough" ares and will answer to no one when it comes to pulling down trees for whatever changes they want to make.
    Why would the council remove trees?


  • #641
    conorhal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,061 ✭✭✭conorhal


    Victor wrote: »
    Why would the council remove trees?

    Maintainance costs, they have to be trimmed to avoid overhang or interfering with overhead power and phone lines, then of course they clog the gutters every Autumn which then need to be cleared.
    Councils generally can't be arsed with that because that's money which could be better spent on junkets to conferences on roundabouts in San Francisco or visiting whatever US town they've twinned themselves with...


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  • #642
    Pinch Flat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,780 ✭✭✭Pinch Flat


    Overly decorative guttering, porches with faux Georgian pillars and that tacky beading on the windows usually mean stay away.


  • #643
    Wibbs
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,327 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    Bambi wrote: »
    theres actually a reason for this but its not what you'd think. The Council control "rough" ares and will answer to no one when it comes to pulling down trees for whatever changes they want to make. Whereas in more mature areas they just can't get away with it.
    True B, though in the particular place I mentioned both were council areas(well it was one area originally but slowly separated into "bad/good"). At least initially. Over time I suppose more people bought their house in the "nice" area. I further suppose that if you own your gaff you're more involved and invested in the surroundings, more likely to take care of the surroundings and more likely to press the council to replant fallen trees for example.

    Many worry about Artificial Intelligence. I worry far more about Organic Idiocy.



  • #644
    Sgt Hartman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,829 ✭✭✭Sgt Hartman


    I'm from a working class area which was a fantastic place to grow up back in the 80's and 90's. It's gone to the dogs in recent years though. This is what I see now if I'm in the area, or similar areas.

    .Big dogs such as alsations or rottweilers roaming the roads, often rummaging through a torn black bag full of rubbish.

    .Large boulders lining the edges of green areas to prevent joyriders from driving onto the green to burn the vehicles out.

    .Some tracksuit wearing drug addled zombie with barely two teeth in his head and using a crutch to get around irritating passers by with lines such as "d'ya have a euro on yuh boss?" or "d'ya have a fag boss?"

    .Females of all ages wandering around in badly fitting tracksuits or filthy pyjamas. Many are quite obese mainly due to poor diet and lack of education.


  • #645
    Richard Hillman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,033 ✭✭✭✭Richard Hillman


    People whistling loudly
    Park entrances with bike blockades
    Kids walking around with stereo systems
    Greens and Parks that don't have a sign to say "No Golfing"


  • #646
    Jack the Stripper
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,203 ✭✭✭Jack the Stripper


    Bottle banks in visible locations in a town.


  • #647
    Cortina_MK_IV
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,350 ✭✭✭Cortina_MK_IV


    White porcelain reclining lady statue in every window.

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  • #648
    Jack the Stripper
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,203 ✭✭✭Jack the Stripper


    A Lidl and Aldi within 100 metres of each other.


  • #649
    jca
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,585 ✭✭✭jca


    Richard Hillman wrote: »
    People whistling loudly
    Park entrances with bike blockades
    Kids walking around with stereo systems
    Greens and Parks that don't have a sign to say "No Golfing"

    Stereo systems? Ah here, have you been locked up since 1990?


  • #650
    Jack the Stripper
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,203 ✭✭✭Jack the Stripper


    10 or more community workers cutting grass.


  • #651
    PowerToWait
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,790 ✭✭✭PowerToWait


    Walter H Price wrote: »
    Yes , WTF is that i see it all over the place on the bus in and out of work through Cabra just struggle with spelling to be honest, hasn't overly held me back career wise either.

    You're taking the bus to work, you're not doing that great. As we're being judgmental **** you understand.


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  • #652
    Jack the Stripper
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,203 ✭✭✭Jack the Stripper


    Pedestrian crossing in a straight through small town.


  • #653
    Sosurface
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 229 ✭✭Sosurface


    Jack the Stripper wrote: »
    A Lidl and Aldi within 100 metres of each other.
    Ardkeen. Waterfords self proclaimed answer to D4 has this. I almost feel sorry for them filling up their Ardkeen Stores carrier bags with cheap German products as there's not even an M&S here for them to pretend they were in.


  • #654
    Jack the Stripper
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,203 ✭✭✭Jack the Stripper


    Seat alhambras parked badly outside local shop with young lads pissing out the back windows.


  • #655
    Glenster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,626 ✭✭✭Glenster


    Deedsie wrote: »
    Alright Thatcher, what's wrong with taking the bus to work? Better than sitting in a line of traffic with the other geniuses.

    The bus is the more sensible option most of the time.

    Its grand if youre going from stillorgan to the IFSC.

    But youre in Cabra mate.

    Gotta side with Maggie on this one.


  • #656
    Ash.J.Williams
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,152 ✭✭✭✭Ash.J.Williams


    If Your estate is named after a priest Bishop or Canon


  • #657
    Sosurface
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 229 ✭✭Sosurface


    Tracksuit clad women with multiple children of varying ethnicity in tow outside the post office/shop/chipper.


  • #658
    Jack the Stripper
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,203 ✭✭✭Jack the Stripper


    Foreign reg cars with half flat wheels.


  • #659
    Jack the Stripper
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,203 ✭✭✭Jack the Stripper


    Estates full of Dacia Dusters.


  • #660
    suicide_circus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,802 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    People spitting all over the place.


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  • #661
    Jack the Stripper
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,203 ✭✭✭Jack the Stripper


    Local lotto written on a pallet with jackpot of €34.


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