Sure-Fire Signs That an area is Rough

Richard Hillman · 06-05-2017 02:27PM

Houses with names on the front door like "Old Trafford", "Anfield" and "Parkhead"

jca · 06-05-2017 03:13PM

Elvis is king over the front door.
Overflowing Ray Whelan dustbins.
Late teens/early twenties walking around sucking an e-cigarette, sometimes pushing a buggy.

ZeroThreat · 06-05-2017 03:53PM

D12 is included in address

Pivot Eoin · 06-05-2017 04:03PM

If you still see John Player boxes floating around, rather than Camel Blue, Menthol Clicky variants or empty bottles of Vape Juice.

Ayuntamiento · 06-05-2017 04:09PM

Drove through a pretty rough part of Finglas recently (is there any other type of part of Finglas

) and found many of the houses to be adorned with Irish flags.

Dr Crayfish · 06-05-2017 04:10PM

Fat kids. Really fat women. Women in posh areas take way better care of themselves, the hoi polloi don't.

Dr Crayfish · 06-05-2017 04:11PM

Ayuntamiento wrote: »

Drove through a pretty rough part of Finglas recently (is there any other type of part of Finglas ) and found many of the houses to be adorned with Irish flags.

Nationalism is something those who have little else to live for cling on to.

Ayuntamiento · 06-05-2017 04:12PM

Dr Crayfish wrote: »

Ayuntamiento wrote: »

Drove through a pretty rough part of Finglas recently (is there any other type of part of Finglas ) and found many of the houses to be adorned with Irish flags.

Nationalism is something those who have little else to live for cling on to.

I'd be nationalistic too if the state paid for the house I live in and gave me an allowance every week to live off!

Pivot Eoin · 06-05-2017 04:13PM

Dr Crayfish wrote: »

Nationalism is something those who have little else to live for cling on to.

If they really wanted to support Nationalism they'd go plastering flags up around Blackrock and D4, dont expect a gang of protestants to be marching through Finglas anytime soon! Effect of the flag is lost on other nationalists.

Pivot Eoin · 06-05-2017 04:14PM

Pivot Eoin wrote: »

If they really wanted to support Nationalism they'd go plastering flags up around Blackrock and D4, dont expect a gang of protestants to be marching through Finglas anytime soon! Effect of the flag is lost on other nationalists.

Woops sorry, back to original point

"Tiocfaidh Ar La" spraypainted on the walls is a good sign.

ZeroThreat · 06-05-2017 04:20PM

Ayuntamiento wrote: »

Drove through a pretty rough part of Finglas recently (is there any other type of part of Finglas ) and found many of the houses to be adorned with Irish flags.

Hmmm the gov here could probably have offered that area as a test site to US for their MOABs for a tidy sum:)

van_beano · 06-05-2017 04:22PM

Pivot Eoin wrote: »

Woops sorry, back to original point

"Tiocfaidh Ar La" spraypainted on the walls is a good sign.

I spotted graffiti one time which read such and such "is a Vergon"

Robsweezie · 06-05-2017 05:06PM

-walls with bricks missing.
-spitting and gollyers on the ground.
-punctured, dirty footballs.
-rubbish everywhere, particularly cigarettes, chipper bags, smashed glass from beer bottles and squashed coke/7up cans
-feral kids on bikes and scooters that will call you a cuunt as soon as look at you, no fear.
-a stray trolley from the shop.
-at least one car/****box with ridiculously loud engine and tunes pumping for all to hear

Hans Bricks · 06-05-2017 06:05PM

Local Facebook raffles for an '04 Passat, for 20 euro a ticket.

" Numbers going fast folks"

IK09 · 07-05-2017 10:41AM

TheWarChicken wrote: »

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

Ah come on...you hardly expect us to believe that this goes on.

Dr Crayfish · 07-05-2017 11:23AM

Cloth tracksuit bottoms and no tops on, apparently. Funny how Belfast scumbags are the exact same as ours in appearance and behaviour evidently!

http://www.independent.ie/videos/irish-news/video-sunbathers-left-shocked-after-brawl-breaks-out-in-park-35681471.html

The_Valeyard · 07-05-2017 11:26AM

Dr Crayfish wrote: »

Cloth tracksuit bottoms and no tops on, apparently. Funny how Belfast scumbags are the exact same as ours in appearance and behaviour evidently!

http://www.independent.ie/videos/irish-news/video-sunbathers-left-shocked-after-brawl-breaks-out-in-park-35681471.html

lovely people

HenryHill · 07-05-2017 11:29AM

Ayuntamiento wrote: »

Drove through a pretty rough part of Finglas recently (is there any other type of part of Finglas ) and found many of the houses to be adorned with Irish flags.

Yeah they are everywhere in Finglas. I dont see a problem with it.

Dr Crayfish · 07-05-2017 11:35AM

Parts of Finglas are fine, the old parts near the village, and the posh Bono part.

HenryHill · 07-05-2017 11:39AM

Dr Crayfish wrote: »

Parts of Finglas are fine, the old parts near the village, and the posh Bono part.

The West is great salt of the earth people.

Jack the Stripper · 07-05-2017 11:43AM

Two or three kebab shops with their meal deals plastered all over the window.

retalivity · 07-05-2017 11:46AM

Tanning/sunbed shops

Also ive heard 'salt of the earth' used so often to describe absolute wasters it is now a derogatory term to me.

jimgoose · 07-05-2017 01:57PM

Jack the Stripper wrote: »

A Lidl and Aldi within 100 metres of each other.

There's a new Lidl being built as we speak here, across the road from the... Aldi. In Bishopstown, Cork. The place where we all live with the mortal danger of being accosted by a seven-foot ex-loose head prop retired bank manager in a pink shirt collecting for the Guide Dogs.

Victor · 07-05-2017 03:06PM

jimgoose wrote: »

There's a new Lidl being built as we speak here, across the road from the... Aldi. In Bishopstown, Cork. The place where we all live with the mortal danger of being accosted by a seven-foot ex-loose head prop retired bank manager in a pink shirt collecting for the Guide Dogs.

Bishopstown isn't what it used to be with all the middle class moved to Rochestown and Ballincollig to be replaced by young nurses and college students.

Mena Mitty · 07-05-2017 04:36PM

BattleCorp wrote: »

i tink its waaaa rich priks kall de bookies.

When I was growing up 'Turf Accountant' used to be written on the bookie's window. Bookies, Betting shop or Turf Accountant, whatever they call themselves nowadays...they don't care what side of the tracks you come from, your money is as good as the next man.

Brendan Bendar · 07-05-2017 06:46PM

retalivity wrote: »

Tanning/sunbed shops

Also ive heard 'salt of the earth' used so often to describe absolute wasters it is now a derogatory term to me.

Yes, usually used to describe lads who are able to 'beat the system' like guntering along doing this an dat claiming welfare a bit of de 'dissabillitie'

AaahhJaysus ' Sollth' of de Eeeeeart dat lad ,doin his best ya know gettin things dun aaahhhhha ahhhh Aaahh aahhhhh Aah.

eviltwin · 07-05-2017 06:52PM

Settled travellers

Conor Bourke · 07-05-2017 07:48PM

Victor wrote: »

The houses don't have street numbers.

The houses have erratic street numbers (22, 23, 24, 5, 12, 27, 28) to deliberately confuse people, e.g. gardaí.

The houses have erratic street numbers so the new resident doesn't get their house burnt down in a case of mistaken identity.

As a community worker in disadvantaged areas, this is the bleedin' bane of my life. Latest I've seen is house numbers that were previously on wooden plaques having been hacked off (I presumed it might have been something to do with Irish water?) which leads to me being an absolute creep driving up and down streets at 2mph looking for the house I'm supposed to be visiting and getting filthies from the neighbours.

Dyr · 07-05-2017 07:58PM

Lots of Black people

Don't see them in posh neighborhoods that much

Brendan Bendar · 07-05-2017 08:02PM

Cornelius Crow wrote: »

As a community worker in disadvantaged areas, this is the bleedin' bane of my life. Latest I've seen is house numbers that were previously on wooden plaques having been hacked off (I presumed it might have been something to do with Irish water?) which leads to me being an absolute creep driving up and down streets at 2mph looking for the house I'm supposed to be visiting and getting filthies from the neighbours.

Proves my point all about this IW thing.

These punters just don't want to be on 'anyones' radar.

Sure-Fire Signs That an area is Rough

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