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When did open defecation end in rural Ireland ?

  • 08-11-2017 12:42AM
    #1
    Phat Dick
    Closed Accounts Posts: 82 ✭✭Phat Dick


    A friend of mine insists open defecation was common in rural Ireland as recently as the mid 1980s


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  • #2
    Pero_Bueno
    Closed Accounts Posts: 502 ✭✭✭Pero_Bueno


    IBTL


  • #3
    Oldtree
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,109 ✭✭✭Oldtree


    Was that before or after electrification?


  • #4
    SteelyDanJalapeno
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    The gentrification


  • #5
    Donald Trump
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,325 ✭✭✭✭Donald Trump


    I asked my renowned Scientist friend from Leitrim the exact same question back about two years ago.

    He was outstanding in his own field. Well more out squatting in his own field. Having a shite


  • #6
    silverharp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,853 ✭✭✭✭silverharp


    what else should the cattle do?

    A belief in gender identity involves a level of faith as there is nothing tangible to prove its existence which, as something divorced from the physical body, is similar to the idea of a soul. - Colette Colfer



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  • #7
    JimmyMcGill
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    How else is it supposed to get out? Closed defecation sounds painful.


  • #8
    Sky Sparse Farm
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    It Stopped? ..


  • #9
    Donald Trump
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,325 ✭✭✭✭Donald Trump


    A lot of people moved on to shiteing in a bucket!!

    Progress is a great thing



  • #10
    [Deleted User]
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    Leitrim doesn't exist. Donnie weehans and his lies as usual.


  • #11
    Joeseph Balls
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,712 ✭✭✭Joeseph Balls


    Phat Dick wrote: »
    A friend of mine insists open defecation was common in rural Ireland as recently as the mid 1980s

    Still happens regularly enough. Some folk like keeping the tradition alive. A good dock leaf can go for good money in the local.


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  • #12
    MilesMorales1
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    It still happens in Dublin quite regularly.


  • #13
    Oldtree
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    There is a real sense of freedom while ****ting in the woods, does that count?


  • #14
    Irish Guitarist
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    I once saw a big pile of faeces with a couple of sheets of pink toilet paper on it up against the wall of the AIB. This was maybe seven or eight years ago.


  • #15
    One More Toy
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    Ask a few mayo girls


  • #16
    Oldtree
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    One More Toy wrote: »
    Ask a few mayo girls

    That's outside the pale, that is!!! :)


  • #17
    Arghus
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    5:19 PM yesterday.


  • #18
    [Deleted User]
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    MilesMorales1 wrote: »
    It still happens in Dublin quite regularly.

    I was in Dublin recently and I was shocked at the amount of ****e everywhere, and not all of it animal. Paths covered in it and you'd be afraid of your life to go near a bit of grass or an alleyway


  • #19
    TheManthatsDan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34 ✭TheManthatsDan


    One of St. Patrick's lesser known achievement's...


  • #20
    Hitman3000
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    Phat Dick wrote:
    A friend of mine insists open defecation was common in rural Ireland as recently as the mid 1980s


    Still is, I see cattle and sheep sh*ting in the fields every time I'm out for a run.


  • #21
    JimmyMcGill
    Closed Accounts Posts: 429 ✭✭JimmyMcGill


    Oldtree wrote: »
    There is a real sense of freedom while ****ting in the woods, does that count?

    Only if it makes noise either leaving your arse or hitting the forest floor. Be careful with the puckering vibrations too.


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  • #22
    Outlaw Pete
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,423 ✭✭✭✭Outlaw Pete


    http://www.PublicPoopingIreland.com


  • #23
    denismc
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    Irish Guitarist wrote: »
    I once saw a big pile of faeces with a couple of sheets of pink toilet paper on it up against the wall of the AIB. This was maybe seven or eight years ago.
    Obviously someone was trying to make a large deposit!


  • #24
    donegaLroad
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    Is there any way the mods could shut down this thread, in case there are people looking in, who intend to visit Ireland and can't tell that this is a piss take.


  • #25
    gctest50
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    donegaLroad wrote: »
    Is there any way the mods could shut down this thread, in case there are people looking in, who intend to visit Ireland and can't tell that this is a piss take.

    A. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect



    Outlaw Pete was like the Great Bot Herder :
    Outlaw Pete wrote: »

    http://www.PublicPoopingIreland.com


    .


  • #26
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 22,384 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    donegaLroad wrote: »
    Is there any way the mods could shut down this thread, in case there are people looking in, who intend to visit Ireland and can't tell that this is a piss take.

    There's about 20 posters so far who have missed the "join date, November 2017" and remarkably treated the "I heard people used to sh1t in the open up to the 1980s" as a serious topic.


  • #27
    gozunda
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,992 ✭✭✭✭gozunda


    Phat Dick wrote: »
    A friend of mine insists open defecation was common in rural Ireland as recently as the mid 1980s

    That would be a scatological matter ...


  • #28
    Edward M
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    I walked in on a neighbour having a **** in his cattle shed recently, he was hunkered down on the slats as the cattle chomped away on the silage close to him, he blushed so much I thought his head would burst, but he just jokingly said, I hope you have toilet roll in your pocket ted, I'm not looking forward to cleaning my arse with silage.


  • #29
    Donald Trump
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,325 ✭✭✭✭Donald Trump


    One More Toy wrote: »
    Ask a few mayo girls

    Two girls no cup ?

    That's what yiz get for not paying proper respect to the funeral back in '51 !!


  • #30
    Hitman3000
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    Deleted User wrote:
    There's about 20 posters so far who have missed the "join date, November 2017" and remarkably treated the "I heard people used to sh1t in the open up to the 1980s" as a serious topic.


    Nope just like the OP, having a laugh. Don't be so serious life's too short.


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  • #31
    Peregrinus
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    Phat Dick wrote: »
    A friend of mine insists open defecation was common in rural Ireland as recently as the mid 1980s
    Well, here's a link to a page from the census report from 1981 showing a county-by-country breakdown of farm dwellings and the "sanitary facilities" that they had. We can see, for example, that in Leitrim there were 3,798 farm dwellings, of which 1,373 had "no toilet or closet". That adds up to quite of lot of cold arse.


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