Are Dubliners really Insufferable?

ChikiChiki · 24-08-2017 02:17PM

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.

Bit of a generalisation there. Do ALL Dubs think like that?

From a culchie. This Dubs v Culchies thing that people get wound up over is such a load of nonsense. In reality, no one really cares.

bodice ripper · 24-08-2017 02:18PM

People from Kildare wish they were culchies....

Rumpy Pumpy · 24-08-2017 02:23PM

Not all of them, but definitely most of them.

The worst type of Dubliner are the ones that see themselves as being a 'gas man'. You'd find lots of these sorts on Hill 16 on Sunday. Loud mouthed bores laughing at their own terrible jokes. Mistaking vulgarity and bad language for wit. An accent that would cut glass. Substantial drink problem. John Player Blue smoker. Big fan of white runners.

odyssey06 · 24-08-2017 02:25PM

Even Irish Times contributors can't afford Dublin house prices... where will it end???

At least this means one less insufferable person in my county.

They say Dublin 4 is a state of mind. Maybe we can move it to Rathlin Island or sth.

Are Am Eye · 24-08-2017 02:26PM

Gravelly · 24-08-2017 02:27PM

Rumpy Pumpy wrote: »

Not all of them, but definitely most of them.

The worst type of Dubliner are the ones that see themselves as being a 'gas man'. You'd find lots of these sorts on Hill 16 on Sunday. Loud mouthed bores laughing at their own terrible jokes. Mistaking vulgarity and bad language for wit. An accent that would cut glass. Substantial drink problem. John Player Blue smoker. Big fan of white runners.

:D:D I think we've all met that lad.

andekwarhola · 24-08-2017 02:31PM

The IT definitely have a bit of an identity crisis these days.

They seem to veer wildly between quality broadsheet journalism, lifestyle shilling; slightly crackers Personal Politics stuff and outright clickbait like this article.

Presumably they're torn between integrity and getting some of the hot click action enjoyed by other internet 'news' outlets.

DickSwiveller · 24-08-2017 02:32PM

No, they're not. Next?

Fratton Fred · 24-08-2017 02:33PM

Bambi wrote: »

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

and the all Ireland club hurling title going to a team from Dalkey....:D

uch · 24-08-2017 02:36PM

Deleted User wrote: »

Bunch of scrotes in Dublin.

You're either a posh knob or a knacker.

Surely you mean, member of an 'ethnic Minority'

Gravelly · 24-08-2017 02:36PM

About 5 years ago, I was in a certain well-known northside drinking establishment. I was with a work colleague, and we were entertaining two American clients. A young lady entered the bar, dressed in an outfit that would have made a Manilla street hooker blush, wearing around 17 coats of fake tan, obviously the worse for drink, and trailing 3 or 4 similar friends behind her. She announced to the entire bar, in a voice and accent that could be heard by dogs a continent away, that she "was gettin' ab sol ooootly foooooookin hammered, and foooook the bleedin' lot of yous" Our two American guests stared at her open-mouthed, obviously not being used to such displays of youthful exuberance. The young lady caught their eyes and screeched "what de foooooook are yous loookin at yous foooookin culchies"

It took us quite a while to explain what a culchie was, and why this young sophisticate mistook them for one.

Dyr · 24-08-2017 02:38PM

Rumpy Pumpy wrote: »

Not all of them, but definitely most of them.

The worst type of Dubliner are the ones that see themselves as being a 'gas man'. You'd find lots of these sorts on Hill 16 on Sunday. Loud mouthed bores laughing at their own terrible jokes. Mistaking vulgarity and bad language for wit. An accent that would cut glass. Substantial drink problem. John Player Blue smoker. Big fan of white runners.

I'd say a muck savage from Galway like yerself has had plenty of occasions to stand on the hill while Jim Gavins charges show the tribesmen how football is played

topper75 · 24-08-2017 02:38PM

andekwarhola wrote: »

The IT definitely have a bit of an identity crisis these days.

They seem to veer wildly between quality broadsheet journalism, lifestyle shilling; slightly crackers Personal Politics stuff and outright clickbait like this article.

Presumably they're torn between integrity and getting some of the hot click action enjoyed by other internet 'news' outlets.

True.

But they are trying to stay afloat in a stormy commercial sea. As are the Examiner and Indo.

Plain old news doesn't work any longer as a profitable commodity.

DickSwiveller · 24-08-2017 02:39PM

Gravelly wrote: »

About 5 years ago, I was in a certain well-known northside drinking establishment. I was with a work colleague, and we were entertaining two American clients. A young lady entered the bar, dressed in an outfit that would have made a Manilla street hooker blush, wearing around 17 coats of fake tan, obviously the worse for drink, and trailing 3 or 4 similar friends behind her. She announced to the entire bar, in a voice and accent that could be heard by dogs a continent away, that she "was gettin' ab sol ooootly foooooookin hammered, and foooook the bleedin' lot of yous" Our two American guests stared at her open-mouthed, obviously not being used to such displays of youthful exuberance. The young lady caught their eyes and screeched "what de foooooook are yous loookin at yous foooookin culchies"

It took us quite a while to explain what a culchie was, and why this young sophisticate mistook them for one.

What's your point? You don't think there are tramps in other counties?

suicide_circus · 24-08-2017 02:39PM

GLaDOS wrote: »

Haters gon' hate.

Yamanoto · 24-08-2017 02:40PM

uch wrote: »

Surely you mean, member of an 'ethnic Minority'

To middle-class Dubs, the term knacker always meant a working class scrotebag.

uch · 24-08-2017 02:41PM

Yamanoto wrote: »

To middle-class Dubs, the term knacker always meant a working class scrotebag.

No it didn't

Zubeneschamali · 24-08-2017 02:41PM

Jayzwoodyalissentayerman!

Wha? Story, buddy?

Gravelly · 24-08-2017 02:42PM

DickSwiveller wrote: »

What's your point? You don't think there are tramps in other counties?

Whoah there petal, did I say, or even insinuate that?

Dyr · 24-08-2017 02:42PM

Fratton Fred wrote: »

and the all Ireland club hurling title going to a team from Dalkey....:D

They're technically dubs alright

DickSwiveller · 24-08-2017 02:43PM

Gravelly wrote: »

Whoah there petal, did I say, or even insinuate that?

Yes.

Gravelly · 24-08-2017 02:44PM

DickSwiveller wrote: »

Yes.

Me nota reada so well.

DickSwiveller · 24-08-2017 02:46PM

Gravelly wrote: »

Me nota reada so well.

Is that an attempt at humour?

meeeeh · 24-08-2017 02:46PM

DickSwiveller wrote: »

What's your point? You don't think there are tramps in other counties?

Who cares, it's funny.

Anyway it's typical "it's August and we have nothing to write about" opinion piece. I love Game of Thrones but even I think at least 4 articles about it since Monday might be a bit of an overkill.

railer201 · 24-08-2017 02:47PM

Rumpy Pumpy wrote: »

Not all of them, but definitely most of them.

The worst type of Dubliner are the ones that see themselves as being a 'gas man'. You'd find lots of these sorts on Hill 16 on Sunday. Loud mouthed bores laughing at their own terrible jokes. Mistaking vulgarity and bad language for wit. An accent that would cut glass. Substantial drink problem. John Player Blue smoker. Big fan of white runners.

You haven't met any 'head de balls' yet - complete with a live demo - heading the ball into the back of the net ? 'Gas man' is tame compared to the real live wired 'head de ball'. :eek:

Gravelly · 24-08-2017 02:47PM

DickSwiveller wrote: »

Is that an attempt at humour?

God no, I can see that humour would be wasted on you.

DickSwiveller · 24-08-2017 02:47PM

meeeeh wrote: »

Who cares, it's funny.

Anyway it's typical "it's August and we have nothing to write about" opinion piece. I love Game of Thrones but even I think at least 4 articles about it since Monday might be a bit of an overkill.

I've never watched Game of Drones but I consider it a sort of cult. Anyway.....

Riddle101 · 24-08-2017 02:48PM

The article is utter drivel. The person who wrote it comes across as a snob to me. Just projecting his own bias really.

DickSwiveller · 24-08-2017 02:49PM

Riddle101 wrote: »

The article is utter drivel. The person who wrote it comes across as a snob to me. Just projecting his own bias really.

I'm pretty sure he's joking.

Anita Blow · 24-08-2017 02:51PM

And in order to escape the county he despises so much he has sought refuge in the isolated, rural oirish enclave of Maynooth Co.Kildare

Are Dubliners really Insufferable?

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