Racism against Dubliners

Hagar · 2004-09-01 10:26:37

I wish to protest the constant tirade against Dublin people on the boards. I believe it constitutes a form of racism. Racism is quite correctly banned from these boards. We are not a city of skangers, they form a minority as they do in all communities throughout the country. It is not a dirty place, see the national survey…

01-09-2004 11:26AM

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I wish to protest the constant tirade against Dublin people on the boards. I believe it constitutes a form of racism. Racism is quite correctly banned from these boards. We are not a city of skangers, they form a minority as they do in all communities throughout the country. It is not a dirty place, see the national survey published yesterday. Treat Dubliners with the respect with which you would like to be treated.

If you think I am going over the top, substitute any derogotary term for a coloured person where you see the word "Dubliner" in many of the posts on these boards and if the post is then racist , it was racist before the substitution and should be banned.

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#2 01-09-2004 11:28AM

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Of course, then you have every gimp from dublin with a chip on his shoulder whining about "boggers" and "culchies".

it cuts both ways.

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#3 01-09-2004 11:28AM

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Dublin isn't a race.

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#4 01-09-2004 11:29AM

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"But 'twas all in good fun!"

I don't mind it. Actually find it funny. They only do it cos they're jealous (and probably bored from having nothing better to do down in their own particular little corner of bog-ville) anyway.

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#5 01-09-2004 11:36AM

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Like everything on boards take it with a pinch of salt.

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#6 01-09-2004 11:40AM

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Dublin is a filthy place though, you have to admit that. People in Dublin don't really care about how their city looks and have no problem dumping all over it.

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#7 01-09-2004 11:47AM

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FX Meister wrote:

Dublin is a filthy place though, you have to admit that. People in Dublin don't really care about how their city looks and have no problem dumping all over it.

Same could be said about other counties.
http://www.rte.ie/news/2004/0830/litter.html

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#8 01-09-2004 11:49AM

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FX Meister wrote:

Dublin is a filthy place though, you have to admit that. People in Dublin don't really care about how their city looks and have no problem dumping all over it.

Well, most European cities actually do a proper job of cleaning up after their citizens. Dublin City Council is useless at this. Those 'Green Machines' are a joke, they just make the pavement slightly damp and leave the ciggerette butts and sweet wrappers on the ground.

And would it be too much to ask for chewing gum to be either banned or heavilly taxed???

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#9 01-09-2004 11:52AM

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I remember being given out to by a a girl from "the country" because *ALL* Dublin people think they're so much better than everyone else and that *ALL* Dublin people believed in the stereotypes of "country people".

Just because *I* think I'm better than everyone else doesn't mean all Dubliners do.

(and I haven't even lived in Dublin since I was 4)

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#10 01-09-2004 11:58AM

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nothing better to do down in their own particular little corner of bog-ville

Lived in Dublin for a while. Can safely say that the slagging and abuse "culchies" receive from Dublin "skangers/mammy-boys" far outweighs anything the other way.

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#11 01-09-2004 12:00PM

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stevenmu wrote:

I remember being given out to by a a girl from "the country" because *ALL* Dublin people think they're so much better than everyone else and that *ALL* Dublin people believed in the stereotypes of "country people".

Just because *I* think I'm better than everyone else doesn't mean all Dubliners do.

(and I haven't even lived in Dublin since I was 4)

Thats becasue Dubliners are better

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#12 01-09-2004 12:04PM

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Batbat wrote:

Thats becasue Dubliners are better

Better than Jesus, was my understanding...

Bethlehem was a pretty dirty city too you know...?

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#13 01-09-2004 12:18PM

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i don't know anyone who would actually treat anyone different because they are from the country or the city. thats not racism. its banter. ban-ter. its like blonde jokes.
people with any sense will know its just a bit of crack.
anyway, skangers are always overreacting...

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#14 01-09-2004 12:23PM

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Dubliners are all skangers...

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#15 01-09-2004 12:24PM

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Obviously.

And non Dubliners are inferior skangers...

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#16 01-09-2004 12:39PM

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monkeyfudge wrote:

Well, most European cities actually do a proper job of cleaning up after their citizens. Dublin City Council is useless at this. Those 'Green Machines' are a joke, they just make the pavement slightly damp and leave the ciggerette butts and sweet wrappers on the ground.

And would it be too much to ask for chewing gum to be either banned or heavilly taxed???

Well, Cork was recently found to be the dirtiest city in Ireland.

I do agree with the chewing-gum tax though. O'Connell bridge is just amazing. It's almost art.

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#17 01-09-2004 12:42PM

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Dubliners will make fun of culchies for hours and hours, but if someone says something about Dubliners then they get really defensive straight away.

If you can't take it, then don't give it....

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#18 01-09-2004 12:46PM

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to a standard dubliner there's two places in ireland, Dublin and this mythical place called "down the country".

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#19 01-09-2004 12:50PM

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Well maybe one of the reasons Dublin is so full of skangers is that half of the people in Dublin are from the country!!!

Anyway, to show that us Dubliners can laugh at ourselves I'll direct you to these two threads in the Humour forum that I posted in recent times:

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=181992

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=177373

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#20 01-09-2004 01:19PM

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STFU biatch!!

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#21 01-09-2004 01:22PM

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shup ye geebag ye, gissus a jant on yer bike will ye?

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#22 01-09-2004 01:22PM

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SheroN wrote:

to a standard dubliner there's two places in ireland, Dublin and this mythical place called "down the country".

I prefer the term "beyond the Pale" but the same general principle applies.
I used to rib one of my friends about coming from those regions. He never really helped himself in the matter because he actually did spend his summers work with actual bog turf. I mean c'mon that's too almost too easy...

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#23 01-09-2004 01:39PM

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What are you all on about? Most people living in Dublin are from somewhere else anyway. These days most of them are foreign!

Dublin people are alright. The place itself needs a shake-up though, in both organisation and appearance.

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#24 01-09-2004 01:48PM

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I recently had the misfortune to spend some time in the County of Waterford ( I am a Dubliner by the way ).

What I experienced was nothing short or Racism.

One "club" in Dungarvan refused me entry, although many locals were allowed in after me. I was not drunk, I had 2 pints in a pub nearby. When I questioned why I was being refused entry, one of the locals said "Coz you're a jackeen". The gorilla on the door nodded in agreement. :rolleyes:

Also, I was staying with a family just outside of Dungarvan, they were lovely, one of my friends met the daughter when away, very friendly people altogether.

However, my friend's friends' boyfriend ( sorry ), was nothing short of vitriolic in his apparent hatred for Dubs.

He wouldn't talk to us, ignored us in the house, and made smart comments to his mates at every hands turn. Effin' Dubs this, Bleedin Jackeens that.

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#25 01-09-2004 01:50PM

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Well here is a nice view of Dublin:

http://homepage.eircom.net/~flukey/DublinCity.htm

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#26 01-09-2004 01:51PM

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According to my calculations, you're all idiots.

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#27 01-09-2004 01:59PM

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arent all generalisations rubbish?

Emmo

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#28 01-09-2004 02:04PM

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Why do you care what a load of spud-munchers say about Dublin?

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#29 01-09-2004 02:45PM

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I think a lot of other EU citizens take better care of their cities and dont litter as much as we do. Maybe if the corpo clamped down and really went after people littering with fines, and not just dudes dumping their fag butts, then they could afford to better their cleaning systyems.
In regard to the general topic, I prefer to live in Dublin rather than the country, if someone asks me this I will admit it, I'm not slagging boggers but I just wouldnt want to live in the country.

monkeyfudge wrote:

Well, most European cities actually do a proper job of cleaning up after their citizens. Dublin City Council is useless at this. Those 'Green Machines' are a joke, they just make the pavement slightly damp and leave the ciggerette butts and sweet wrappers on the ground.

And would it be too much to ask for chewing gum to be either banned or heavilly taxed???

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#30 01-09-2004 03:46PM

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Are people working under the mis-conception that all dirt, litter etc in Dublin comes from Dubliners?
You only have to take a look at the main roads, train stations, bus stations, stage coaches etc leading out of Dublin on Friday to get some idea of the number of non-Dubliners who reside here for most of the week and go home at weekends. I'm sure these "itinerant workers" cause their fair share of gum, McD wrappers etc to be strewn around Dublin.

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#31 01-09-2004 03:46PM

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Flukey wrote:

Well here is a nice view of Dublin:

http://homepage.eircom.net/~flukey/DublinCity.htm

It would be if the pictures worked.

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