Stab City

Vita nova · 17-05-2019 03:00PM

Shock, horror! Some people prefer certain cities or towns, others the country life, that's normal but what I can't understand is why people feel the need to sh*t on other's choices. Constructive criticism is fine but calling places shítholes and kips is pointless.

dodderangler wrote: »

Because I’m from Dublin. So if I didn’t mention Dublin some culchie would’ve and said Dublin is a shíthole so I put my two cents in first.
You understand?

Well, you were the first person in the thread to call a city a shíthole and to call people culchies.

pawdee · 17-05-2019 03:06PM

My girlfriend is from Cork city. Every time I go to Cork I get stabbed. I must say I've had it up to here at this stage.

NickNickleby · 17-05-2019 03:11PM

pawdee wrote: »

My girlfriend is from Cork city. Every time I go to Cork I get stabbed. I must say I've had it up to here at this stage.

What?? Is she STILL stabbing you??? :eek:

c.p.w.g.w · 17-05-2019 03:36PM

average_runner wrote: »

Lived in Waterford, Wexford and Dublin. Not much of a difference except for sizes.

Waterford for me was more rough than the other two. But Waterford is still a nice place.

Every county has its bad spots, london has a real problem at the moment, Paris has major problems

Was in Paris last year...it was a complete kip. Rats, domestic waste and smell of piss everywhere. Also was followed a couple of occasion and those lads selling sh!t near tourist places were proper aggressive too

fryup · 17-05-2019 04:48PM

Hedgelayer wrote: »

Anyhow I got slashed across the arm twice in Limerick cidddy, they usually used to slash you.

Rarely they'd stick it right into your abdomen, too risky to cause manslaughter or murder.

Just a slash....

ah sure its just a slash, just being friendly

chicorytip · 17-05-2019 05:41PM

The "Stab City" moniker originated back in the early nineteen eighties - a period when there was little or no indictable crime in Limerick - where a young Libyan man was brutally stabbed and, I think, subsequently died. Most of the criminal godfathers who would earn notoriety in later decades would have been small children at the time.

dodderangler · 18-05-2019 07:39PM

realdanbreen wrote: »

If I was taking a day trip I'd go to a real city like London or Paris. It would take nearly as long to make it from Newlands cross into Dublin centre as it would to fly to London. Besides what's there to see in Dublin? There's only so many trips to the Zoo the adult brain can take. And that Dublin ACCENT!!!

You want to go to London or Paris go for it. You won’t be attacked as easily in Dublin as you would in London or Paris. Main reason I told my missus I’m not going to Paris is because of the immigrants plaguing the place with knife attacks etc. So go ahead.
Dublin will always be better.

ToddyDoody · 19-05-2019 12:56AM

Effects wrote: »

PhuckHugh wrote: »

What has Dublin to do with anything?

(Kilkenny is still just a big town tbh)

I know where you live.

bodice ripper · 19-05-2019 01:02AM

Yurt! wrote:

Well, we've got possessive apostrophes in Limerick. I'll put up with the odd bit of knife crime as long as the written word isn't stabbed in the face.

Well, you oughtn't have an apostrophe in a possessive "its". I'd say you knicked it tbh.

ToddyDoody · 19-05-2019 01:13AM

They're stabbing everyone these days.

PhuckHugh · 17-01-2020 09:01AM

There's a stabbing every week now in Cork --- it's horrific.

jimgoose · 17-01-2020 11:19AM

There are rough corners in any city. Personally, I've walked abroad at all hours of the day and night in Cork, Limerick, Dublin and Galway, and no-one has interfered with me or even so much as offered me a bit of hash.

Mad_maxx · 17-01-2020 12:41PM

Always liked Limerick, marrying a Limerick lady to boot

Love the unpretentiousness of our third city

Mad_maxx · 17-01-2020 12:43PM

Church on Tuesday wrote: »

We've got this weird obsession/hang up about our cities, well only two of them - Dublin and Cork at a push, could be called cities in the literal sense. Must be some kind of urban/rural divide.

I often wonder have some people here been to actual proper density cities were there are any amount of social problems/disturbances at any time of the day and night.

Our cities/large towns are pretty timid believe me.

Rural types despise those from two parishes over, never mind Dublin

Raconteuse · 17-01-2020 01:00PM

dodderangler wrote: »

What do you expect when you live in a shíthole?
Been in cork once and that was enough for me. Granted Dublin has its ****holes aswell but cork is a joke. Limerick worse.
Was only in Limerick five mins before a lad asked for me a few euro out of his nut

A totally normal city with normal suburbs is a sh1t-hole. Course it is.

Anyway, I've lived near Cork city centre since 2001 (bar a short stint in Dublin, which I enjoyed - great city) and no, there aren't stabbings every other week.

Before 2001 I grew up in a lovely quiet middle-class suburban/countryside area outside Cork city so I am as sheltered as they come. And I find the way people act as though Cork has become this Mad Max alike place utterly hilarious. What sort of little crybabies are these people? Including the tough acting dodderangler.

I'm not saying there aren't thugs and no-go areas in Cork city. You'll never find an urban area without them, but overall, Cork is just so safe.

Church on Tuesday · 17-01-2020 01:10PM

Mad_maxx wrote: »

Rural types despise those from two parishes over, never mind Dublin

I'm of a rural background myself.

I don't give a toss about the next door neighbour never mind the next parish over.

Widdershins · 17-01-2020 01:20PM

Hedgelayer wrote: »

Dublins not a **** hole, I like it for a day trip.
You'll get lunatics living down boreens in the country side too, bombed out of their heads living in squalor.
Feeding off what the state has to offer.
There's a few villages in Clare and there's little estates in them which are rife in criminality and dysfunction.
Its just never talked about.

Newmarket on Fergus . Kilrush is a bit weird too.

topper75 · 17-01-2020 01:22PM

Mad_maxx wrote: »

....
Love the unpretentiousness of our third city

Ha ha - no latin quarters or grafton quarters down here. We just have town.

"Fork's in the bag you gowl"

Sephiroth_dude · 17-01-2020 02:24PM

PhuckHugh wrote: »

There's a stabbing every week now in Cork --- it's horrific.

Gangland shootings every week in Dublin :rolleyes:

jimgoose · 17-01-2020 02:59PM

topper75 wrote: »

Ha ha - no latin quarters or grafton quarters down here. We just have town.

"Fork's in the bag you gowl"

Ju know King's Island, you misfortune?? :pac:

Mad_maxx · 17-01-2020 05:04PM

Church on Tuesday wrote: »

I'm of a rural background myself.

I don't give a toss about the next door neighbour never mind the next parish over.

I said rural types, not people from rural backgrounds

topper75 · 17-01-2020 05:22PM

jimgoose wrote: »

Ju know King's Island, you misfortune?? :pac:

Who're you calling a misfortune? Step out of the fog jimgoose or I'll be up to you mind to give you one unmerciful bad batin'.

jimgoose · 17-01-2020 05:43PM

topper75 wrote: »

Who're you calling a misfortune? Step out of the fog jimgoose or I'll be up to you mind to give you one unmerciful bad batin'.

Yurt!

Capt'n Midnight · 18-01-2020 11:28PM

Ah Limerick where the men are men ... and so are the women.

It's the forgotten city in the news. If you exclude crime stories it gets a lot less airtime than much smaller places. And it was always so.

Widdershins · 19-01-2020 09:25AM

Two people were shot in Sixmilebridge this week.

Montage of Feck · 19-01-2020 09:47AM

Maybe the disdain shown to Limerick by official Ireland is due to its revolutionary and anti treaty past, it even had a short lived soviet.

whisky_galore · 19-01-2020 09:51AM

Montage of Feck wrote: »

Maybe the disdain shown to Limerick by official Ireland is due to its revolutionary and anti treaty past, it even had a short lived soviet.

Most people don't know that, or care, one way or the other.

BeerWolf · 19-01-2020 09:52AM

Better ban knives.

Tails142 · 19-01-2020 10:02AM

Widdershins wrote: »

Two people were shot in Sixmilebridge this week.

There was some sort of trad music festival on this weekend, some lad must've touched another lad's fiddle.

Widdershins · 19-01-2020 10:09AM

Tails142 wrote: »

There was some sort of trad music festival on this weekend, some lad must've touched another lad's fiddle.

At least you didn't say banjo.

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