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Are Dubliners really Insufferable?

  • 24-08-2017 01:43PM
    #1
    Gravelly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,092 ✭✭✭


    From today's Irish Times:

    Why I’m glad I can’t afford to live in Dublin

    This article is rather hard on the Dubs, and includes such gems as:

    We are flummoxed by Dublin GAA fans’s karaoke appropriation of English soccer supporter culture, stumped as to why the bric-a-brac skyline has not been consigned to history and modern skyscrapers allowed take its place.

    though we may live among Dubliners we don’t want to be like them

    When we interact with natives we find them not quite like the rest of us – Irish but with an asterisk.

    To live among Dubliners is one thing. But to bring up your own mini Dubs? That is a leap many of us are reluctant to make.

    I have to say as a culchie who works in Dublin, I thought it was a bit harsh, but with an element of truth. Though in my experience, northside Dubs tend to be far less self conscious about their "Irishness" than southsiders, and tend to not have the same parochialism. The company I work in is in the northside, and staffed overwhelmingly by northsiders, and I never get any of the culchie hatred that I notice among a certain cohort of southsiders, especially those who are a bit precious about how terribly middle class they are.


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  • #2
    GLaDOS
    Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 23,257 Mod ✭✭✭✭GLaDOS


    Haters gon' hate.

    Cake, and grief counseling, will be available at the conclusion of the test



  • #3
    sbsquarepants
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,810 ✭✭✭✭sbsquarepants


    Gravelly wrote: »
    Are Dubliners really Insufferable.

    Not me. I'm adorable;)


  • #4
    xalot
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,111 ✭✭✭xalot


    I dont know if the article is supposed to be tongue in cheek but the writer says they've no friends from Dublin, think the problem might lie with them and not the dubs!

    As a culchie living in the big smoke nearly all my friends are from Dublin. They (the writer) just seem like they've an axe to grind.


  • #5
    Ush1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,484 ✭✭✭✭Ush1


    Sure Kildare is full of Dubs anyway, stupid article.


  • #6
    Gravelly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,092 ✭✭✭Gravelly


    xalot wrote: »
    I dont know if the article is supposed to be tongue in cheek but the writer says they've no friends from Dublin, think the problem might lie with them and not the dubs!

    As a culchie living in the big smoke nearly all my friends are from Dublin. They (the writer) just seem like they've an axe to grind.

    I've loads of Dublin friends too and I'm about as culchie as it's possible to be.


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  • #7
    osarusan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,059 ✭✭✭✭osarusan


    Sad to see the IT publishing such vapid stuff.


  • #8
    MRnotlob606
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,642 ✭✭✭MRnotlob606


    Irish Times articles are becoming increasingly elitist, insufferable,and sanctimonious. I cannot even look at the drivel that is expounded daily by that "progressive" newspaper.

    Whinging ****ers trying to sublimate their mid live crises into journalism.


  • #9
    Dr. Kenneth Noisewater
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,234 ✭✭✭Dr. Kenneth Noisewater


    There are insufferable pricks everywhere. There are just more in Dublin, because there are more people in Dublin.

    I went out with a Dublin girl for a while, she was sound.


  • #10
    Chips Lovell
    Moderators, Politics Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,279 Mod ✭✭✭✭Chips Lovell


    Meh. Dubs vs. Culchies clickbait


  • #11
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 1,208 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Bunch of scrotes in Dublin.

    You're either a posh knob or a knacker.


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  • #12
    Gravelly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,092 ✭✭✭Gravelly


    osarusan wrote: »
    Sad to see the IT publishing such vapid stuff.

    This is the same IT that Una Mullaly writes for. It's a long time since publishing vapid stuff was an unusual act for them.


  • #13
    jamesthepeach
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 960 ✭✭✭jamesthepeach


    Dubliners are grand.
    The ones who aren't millenials at least.


  • #14
    faceman
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    Jaysus why do the Irish Times print such drivel?

    Well you know what they say, Dub hating is a stepping stone to racism.

    Hasn't Kildare always tried to be Dublin 2.0 anyway? :D


  • #15
    Bambi985
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,274 ✭✭✭Bambi985


    What a load of pretentious old shyte. Painfully floral and over-indulgent and the most unoriginal argument you'll ever read. People don't like natives from the capital, what an inspiring revelation! It's not like English people generally hate Londoners or Americans generally hate and revile New Yorkers if they're not personally from there. Fcuk off Ed.


  • #16
    Vita nova
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 789 ✭✭✭Vita nova


    It's for threads like this that you really wish Boards had downvoting


  • #17
    Kimbot
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    Bunch of scrotes in Dublin.

    You're either a posh knob or a knacker.

    I wonder which I am so........


  • #18
    ChikiChiki
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,949 ✭✭✭ChikiChiki


    Thats one hell of a bitter article. Who pissed on his cornflakes.


  • #19
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 1,208 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    jonnycivic wrote: »
    I wonder which I am so........

    Knacker if you drive a Honda! :-)


  • #20
    Kimbot
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 19,071 Mod ✭✭✭✭Kimbot


    ChikiChiki wrote: »
    Thats one hell of a bitter article. Who pissed on his cornflakes.

    That might have been me...... :pac:


  • #21
    Kimbot
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    Knacker if you drive a Honda! :-)

    So im a posh git then... interesting.


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  • #22
    Chips Lovell
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    faceman wrote: »
    Jaysus why do the Irish Times print such drivel?

    Because it works. It's their most read article today.


  • #23
    Fratton Fred
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,566 ✭✭✭✭Fratton Fred


    that article sums up what I have always thought about a lot of culchies and their culture.

    around 150 years ago, someone defined what it was to be Irish and they still insist on that being the benchmark. Anything else just isn't Irish, with absolutely no realisation that like everything, culture moves on.


  • #24
    Barry Badrinath
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,460 ✭✭✭Barry Badrinath


    If everyone would just go ahead and stay in their own County, that would be greeeeaaat.


  • #25
    Grayditch
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,347 ✭✭✭✭Grayditch


    People are annoying.


  • #26
    Gravelly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,092 ✭✭✭Gravelly


    Vita nova wrote: »
    It's for threads like this that you really wish Boards had downvoting

    Shooting messengers is frowned upon in polite society.


  • #27
    A Little Pony
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,875 ✭✭✭A Little Pony


    Bambi985 wrote: »
    What a load of pretentious old shyte. Painfully floral and over-indulgent and the most unoriginal argument you'll ever read. People don't like natives from the capital, what an inspiring revelation! It's not like English people generally hate Londoners or Americans generally hate and revile New Yorkers if they're not personally from there. Fcuk off Ed.
    You won't find English people living in London. I tend to find Southerners rather soft.


  • #28
    B-D-P--
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,162 ✭✭✭B-D-P--


    Jep Gambardella wrote: »
    Meh. Dubs vs. Culchies clickbait

    Actually one of the main attitudes that turns people off dub.
    Your simple 1 line sums up exactly the attitude of dubs to anyone outside dublin.

    Dubs think they are on a pedestal, above the rest of the country.


  • #29
    Kimbot
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    B-D-P-- wrote: »
    Dubs think they are on a pedestal, above the rest of the country.

    Sorry you'll have to speak up, I cant hear you from up here :pac:


  • #30
    Dyr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,246 ✭✭✭✭Dyr


    Dublin three in a row on the horizon..it makes the boggers act weird


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  • #31
    Ush1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,484 ✭✭✭✭Ush1


    B-D-P-- wrote: »
    Actually one of the main attitudes that turns people off dub.
    Your simple 1 line sums up exactly the attitude of dubs to anyone outside dublin.

    Dubs think they are on a pedestal, above the rest of the country.

    Dubs really don't care and I'm sure lots of people from the rest of the country don't either, this rivalry is in the head of some tiny minded people.


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