Racism against Dubliners

ionapaul · 01-09-2004 04:02PM

Although Dublin has some of the most beautiful people in Ireland living there (Baggot St. after work on a Friday? Mmmmmm...) it certainly and without any doubt has the highest concentration of fuglies. Always strikes me as I walk around O'Connell St. or Henry St. - inbreeding, poor nutrition, or society's preferences colouring my views, who can tell? They are probably nicer than the 'beautiful people' in any case.

Flukey · 01-09-2004 09:31PM

Ste- wrote:

It would be if the pictures worked.

They do.

Sarky, can we view your calculations?

DrColossus · 02-09-2004 02:01AM

Those pictures are a load of old bollix,Its amazing how the sun makes it look so lovely. I walk up the keys every morn from heuston and the stink is unbearable. If you look in the liffey its full of manky old tyres and god knows what else. The only reason we know its "water" is cos it moves slightly faster than land. Dublin city is NOT a lovely place. The city is not full of skangers but jaysus man, theres an awful lot of them round o'connell st and henry st.

oh and dont take the boards to seriously, we culchies get the piss ripped out of us just as often,

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oh yeah and dublin isn't a race, you silly fool
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Flukey · 02-09-2004 02:05AM

I don't think too many people take here to seriously. Look at those two threads in the humour section that I posted above. Both relate to Dublin!

munkeehaven · 02-09-2004 02:07AM

oh.god.seriously, if ye heard yourselves ffs, i mean this little island is bloody tiny, we are all the same, there is not enough land between dublin and other places to make ye somehow "better" blah blah blah and vice versa.the whole culchies/ townies thing will go on and on like always... :rolleyes: i guess people need to keep themselves occupied *somehow*.snore.

Flukey · 02-09-2004 02:08AM

Don't forget the southsiders and the northsiders!

munkeehaven · 02-09-2004 02:13AM

i just think that irish people are very parochial.that can be good in small measures ie for gaa games and whatnot but outside of that, it just gets tiring.

Flukey · 02-09-2004 02:41AM

Yes we are parochial, but then as has been said above, we don't take it too seriously! The vast majority of it is fun and banter. That is why rival fans can stand beside each other and slag the hell out of each other at a GAA match. You wouldn't get that happening in every country. The northsiders hat the southsiders, the dubs hate the culchies, the Irish hate the Brits, the Europeans hate the yanks, the yanks hate the world, the martians hate the earthmen, the.... All of it is true and none ot it is true. It is all relative and no one takes it too seriously, here at least. The Irish don't take things too seriously. That can have its problems at times, but we enjoy ourselves and get through it. It is better than being stoney-faced all the time. We like to slag and be slagged. Some people do take it seriously. If you try and slag an American, they take it seriously and don't get what we are at. Slagging each other here is all part of the fun. As we know it is not serious, it doesn't bother people. Dubs and culchies love to slag and be slagged and long may it continue!

Tommy Vercetti · 02-09-2004 09:15AM

munkeehaven wrote:

i just think that irish people are very parochial.that can be good in small measures ie for gaa games and whatnot but outside of that, it just gets tiring.

true true, wasn't life a whole lot simpler when we could just nod in disagreement with prods and brits

Hagar · 02-09-2004 09:28AM

Flukey, your'e spot on. I had two things in mind when I posted this thread.

Firstly I wanted to provoke discussion regarding the bias shown by "Boards" in moderating political correctness. Is seems it is perfectly acceptable to use/abuse certain stereotypes but others are protected with undue vigour. For instance I can post "The dirty Jackeen ate my apple" or "The thick Culchie ate my my turnip" but if if post "The lazy Niqqer ate my watermelon" I risk being banned. The auto editor won't even let me spell the word. I maintain that all stereotypes should either be banned or allowed.

Secondly I was doing a personal survey on how many boggies could read. Next week the test will be on joined up writing.

BTW Whoever took a rep point from me, you miserable effer, and left the comment "grow a sense of humour" has obviously never visited the humour board. I am a regular poster there and some of my jokes are even funny. Mind you, funny is a relative term.

shoegirl · 02-09-2004 10:09AM

Hagar wrote:

I wish to protest the constant tirade against Dublin people on the boards. I believe it constitutes a form of racism. ...Treat Dubliners with the respect with which you would like to be treated.

Its more begrudgery. Most non-Dubliners believe that they are hard done by compared to Dublin when in fact the opposite is actually true. There are country towns that have vastly better commuter bus services than smaller Dublin suburbs, for example. And vast swathes of Dublin have little or no access to services such as public swimming pools, etc, whereas most large country towns have them. Parish-pump politics sees to it that there is a perception that country folk are hard done by. Not the case at all. Dublin gets far less in structural investment per person than the rest of Ireland, and in many years has had far more redundancies per head of population.

Having said that, I've lived outside Dublin for most of the last 8 years and find that many people are surprised at why a Dubliner would want to live in Cork or Wexford or wherever? Its such a shame that so many people from the regions see Dublin as the be-all and end-all. Its not!

combs · 02-09-2004 03:40PM

FX Meister wrote:

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.

Dublin is in Ireland. Ireland is "the country." So you are technically living in the country already.

Zulu · 02-09-2004 03:54PM

Good christ - no I'm not. I've electricty, running water, and sewage! (Not a septic tank out back.)

pretty-in-pink · 02-09-2004 04:08PM

seansouth wrote:

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.

growl hiss spit stupid dungarvan

everyone ive ever had the misfortune to meet from there or indeed the people who love the town and the people *o so much* are scum and so horrible. drug abusing, child molesting, girlfriend beating, gay bashing, inbred ugly, annoying, stuck up, stupid, heinous cretans.

its a waterford thing in a way. they all think they are better then everyone else cause they win a couple of gaa matches. yankers!

Zulu · 02-09-2004 04:09PM

Your sig is perfect!

Sarky · 02-09-2004 04:51PM

Flukey wrote:

Sarky, can we view your calculations?

No.

evilbubbs · 02-09-2004 05:38PM

im just of the opinion that 95% of IRISH people are complete FUPPETTS
the ones that remain are tolerable at best.

as for generalisations and the like. well lets put it like this, i wouldnt start throwing round names about other ethnic groups, but seeing as its irish people arguing the point, it doesnt matter.

for the record i dont care what any1 says knackers arent an ethnic group that re unique etc, they are people who dont want to live in a settled place full stop. (theres another bunch to pick on if you really want to go for a laugh.)

Flukey · 03-09-2004 12:06AM

OK Sarky, I suppose we'll have to wait until the full report of your findings has been completed and studied by experts in the field before you can release them to the international media and the world. OK, I can wait.

Big Ears · 03-09-2004 12:27AM

Flukey wrote:

by experts in the field

What do you mean by that ?

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quad_red · 03-09-2004 12:30AM

points.

Like all these towns with their fantastic sports facilities and uber transport services.

<chokes on laughter> Towns have hinterlands that they support. Hence (for example) the public pool in tralee does tralee (20,000 plus) and a considerable hinterland. So some people travel great distances to use this facility.

Now, are you telling me that 99% of dubliners aren't more than an hour away from a public pool by public transport (which, incidentally, tralee hasn't yet been graced with).

I live in Dublin. I really like it. But the place (in typical irish fashion) is so badly run. People from outside Dublin see cash cows like the Luas and get resentful but thats always the way. Don't take it seriously.

Lets just all live in peace and harmony.

jesus_thats_gre · 03-09-2004 01:56AM

Dublin certainly ranks higher than Cavan, Offaly, Limerick, Clare, Laois, Leitrim and Sligo!! Hicks!

Bard · 03-09-2004 01:58AM

monkeyfudge wrote:

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

Yes it would.

jesus_thats_gre wrote:

Dublin certainly ranks higher than Cavan, Offaly, Limerick, Clare, Laois, Leitrim and Sligo!! Hicks!

No, it doesn't.

There. I have spoken.

Ajnag · 03-09-2004 02:00AM

They tell me that there are only infidel east of the shannon.

Damn these new smilies suck.

Anyway dubs sure can dole it out, SO TEKKIT!

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