Sure-Fire Signs That an area is Rough

dublinman1990 · 07-05-2017 09:37PM

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

I really hope they don't get bigger egos when the full arms of the law get thrown upon them.

We are lucky that they are not getting a slap in the wrist when they live in the North.

Pack of utter vermin. Hopefully; the innocent bystanders will get a full recovery.

Victor · 07-05-2017 10:42PM

Cornelius Crow wrote: »

I presumed it might have been something to do with Irish water?

I think it predates that, but I certainly got queries of "Do you work for the council?", joking cries of "Anto, Irish Water!" and "Are you a journalist?" when doing surveys for www.openstreetmap.org

Bambi wrote: »

Lots of Black people

Don't see them in posh neighborhoods that much

Actually, 'posh' areas do have a reasonable proportion of immigrants. It is the older council-built areas like Crumlin, Drimnagh, Coolock that don't - the populations there have low mobility.

Dyr · 07-05-2017 11:59PM

Victor wrote: »

I think it predates that, but I certainly got queries of "Do you work for the council?", joking cries of "Anto, Irish Water!" and "Are you a journalist?" when doing surveys for www.openstreetmap.org

Actually, 'posh' areas do have a reasonable proportion of immigrants. It is the older council-built areas like Crumlin, Drimnagh, Coolock that don't - the populations there have low mobility.

never mentioned immigrants. kinda funny that you questioned one specific generalization in thread full of generalizations, why is that?

mikemac2 · 08-05-2017 12:03AM

The estate is named after a saint or a dead republican

Glenster · 08-05-2017 12:04AM

Bambi wrote: »

never mentioned immigrants. kinda funny that you questioned one specific generalization in thread full of generalizations, why is that?

let's not get fake outraged now. you mentioned black people.

Richard Hillman · 08-05-2017 12:06AM

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.

"Salt of the earth" is a wonderful expression of filth

r93kaey5p2izun · 08-05-2017 12:09AM

Bambi wrote: »

Lots of Black people

Don't see them in posh neighborhoods that much

I don't know about posh neighbourhoods but they're thin on the ground in Neilstown anyway. Very very few. Lucan next door has plenty though. There isn't anywhere for new people to move into in Neilstown - no new housing stock and nobody moves on really.

osarusan · 08-05-2017 12:14AM

Lads with hands down the tracksuit pants.

Glenster · 08-05-2017 12:15AM

osarusan wrote: »

Lads with hands down the tracksuit pants.

my bedroom as a kid was pretty ****ing rough then.

please helpThank YOU · 08-05-2017 12:17AM

Scum bags who look like the Banjo guy for Deliverance. drinking tea out side there house 24/7 staring at people whats your problem there sitting room is the front garden.

Victor · 08-05-2017 12:53AM

Bambi wrote: »

never mentioned immigrants. kinda funny that you questioned one specific generalization in thread full of generalizations, why is that?

Let's face it, when I was growing up in Cork in the 1980s, other than a few medical students, there was only one black person in Cork. A huge proportion of black residents in Ireland are immigrants or first generation Irish. My point is that one of the positive factors about immigration in Ireland is that it hasn't created ethnic ghettos - immigrant communities are mixed, it is the lower working class / underclass Irish ghettos that lack ethnic diversity.

I've several posts on this thread, so I'm not just questioning "one specific generalization".

SimpleDimples · 08-05-2017 01:23AM

A pitbull is the family pet of choice.

Dyr · 08-05-2017 01:28AM

Victor wrote: »

Let's face it, when I was growing up in Cork in the 1980s, other than a few medical students, there was only one black person in Cork. A huge proportion of black residents in Ireland are immigrants or first generation Irish. My point is that one of the positive factors about immigration in Ireland is that it hasn't created ethnic ghettos - immigrant communities are mixed, it is the lower working class / underclass Irish ghettos that lack ethnic diversity.

I've several posts on this thread, so I'm not just questioning "one specific generalization".

I don't know or care what cork was like in the 80s but I can think of half a dozen black families from my road in the 1980s. A rake of black people live there now too, its a rough neighborhood. Same in other rough neighborhoods. You'll always see more black people in rough neighborhoods in Ireland.

That might make you uncomfortable because if you're referring to blacks as an underclass, well thats different in your book I guess

Victor · 08-05-2017 01:54AM

Bambi wrote: »

I don't know or care what cork was like in the 80s but I can think of half a dozen black families from my road in the 1980s. A rake of black people live there now too, its a rough neighborhood. Same in other rough neighborhoods. You'll always see more black people in rough neighborhoods in Ireland.

That might make you uncomfortable because if you're referring to blacks as an underclass, well thats different in your book I guess

No, I made two statements, separated by a comma

Victor wrote: »

My point is that one of the positive factors about immigration in Ireland is that it hasn't created ethnic ghettos - immigrant communities are mixed,

it is the lower working class / underclass Irish ghettos that lack ethnic diversity.

please helpThank YOU · 08-05-2017 02:34AM

Rough the Scum bags area loves the Volkswagen Passat and Audi Cars.

Johngoose · 08-05-2017 06:48AM

House price of under €300,000 is the latest criteria.

AndyBoBandy · 08-05-2017 06:51AM

Kid spray painting "Fuk da Gards" on the side of a house,

Then going to said house for his dinner.

jca · 08-05-2017 04:50PM

Ramps ahead sign changed with a spray painted T to T ramps ahead.

previous user · 08-05-2017 11:51PM

Richard Hillman wrote: »

"Salt of the earth" is a wonderful expression of filth

I lived on a council estate for 30 odd years and I agree with this statement.

De Bhál · 09-05-2017 12:27AM

Johngoose wrote: »

House price of under €300,000 is the latest criteria.

Ah ****e

please helpThank YOU · 09-05-2017 01:00AM

Number 1 Glue Sniffers.

jimgoose · 10-05-2017 04:36PM

Victor wrote: »

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.

There are quite a lot of nurses and students around here to be sure - this situation will obtain as long as you can get €450 per month for a box-room in Firgrove. Regarding Ballincolling, while I can appreciate a certain number of upwardly-mobile Fintans wanting to "upgrade" to Rochestown, the only middle-class types who move to Ballincollig from Bishopstown are the ones who bought a second Land Rover Discovery in 2013 and are getting evicted around now.

Gravelly · 10-05-2017 04:52PM

3 or 4 scummy looking young lads sitting on a garden wall, watching another young lad cycling a (stolen) bmx around in circles.

Any unoccupied house has the windows boarded up, and the garden is full of the neighbours rubbish.

Any undeveloped area has a spiked fence and boulders across the entrance to prevent the relatives from moving in.

There are lots of battered "communal" toys like trikes and go karts abandoned at regular intervals.

Morbidly obese women in vests and tracksuit legs smoking in the garden while holding shouted conversations across the street.

The kids never look before running across the road.

20-10-2022 10:16PM

When the local secondary school has an equestrian club but the students have to supply their own horses

gameoverdude · 20-10-2022 10:31PM

When people have a chardonnay with their taco fries, when everybody knows it should be a malbec.

saabsaab · 20-10-2022 10:56PM

Scorched areas on the park green, rubbish thrown around broken fences/windows and stray dogs everywhere

20-10-2022 11:16PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119772888#Comment_119772888

Why did you resurrect a Zombie thread from 2017 for this?

Could you not have found a more recent thread to moan on?

EmmetSpiceland · 20-10-2022 11:20PM

When they put a green light on you as soon as look at you.

Brendan Bendar · 21-10-2022 02:09AM

When you see a lad with a big Dublin Fire Brigade head on him allowing his pit bull to bust out a log cabin of copper bolts in the middle of the footpath and then just walks off.

CGI_Livia_Soprano · 21-10-2022 06:44AM

It really doesn’t take much for the sheltered, firmly middle class in Dublin to foam at the mouth about “scumbags,” and “scrotes.” Usually all it takes is seeing someone wearing a grey tracksuit with their hair combed forward.

The denizens of boards.ie love to declare themselves to be these shining lights of enlightened centrist humanism, but as soon as they are exposed to the unseemlier parts of life themselves (eg meeting an addict in the street, hearing an accent they don’t like) these enlightened humanists turn into outright fascists very quickly.

It’s very telling that the vast majority of the posts in this thread are from Dublin. Dublin inherited a lot of the social behaviour from the UK and I would include the sneering at “lower class” people amongst those traits.

Unfortunately for those struggling against addiction, some people simply need to feel the warm glow they get from knocking the underprivileged down more than any satisfaction they could get from helping people in need.

Sure-Fire Signs That an area is Rough

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