moore street

DJDC · 29-08-2005 07:00PM #1

me and me mates were buzzin around town the other day and we decided to walk into moore street.it was like been in bleedin johannesburg!i felt unsettled and people were starin at us.i felt like i wasnt wanted there.i felt like a foreigner in my own country.we felt like some lad was gonna blow himself up or something.we were the clear ethnic country.im not been racist or anything but does anyone else feel slighty intimadted when they are the only irish around.
I just tryin to start a civisiled discussion here.so dont over react and call me all sorts of names.u saw being too PC did in Britian.BOOM!! :mad:

AARRRGH · 29-08-2005 07:07PM

Nah, Moore Street is great. Try some of the restaurants (upstairs.)

Four friends and I had dinner there (with about 3 - 4 beers each) about two weeks ago. Our bill was €70!!!!

Personally, I find Asian women hot, so I enjoy the eye candy

Nightwish · 29-08-2005 07:08PM

Moore st freaks me out cos its a dive, not cos of the foreigners, which have, in fairness taken over. Its a smelly, dirty run down horrible st

Gazza22 · 29-08-2005 07:14PM

Yes i agree that it has become a bit of a quarter for foreigh people, Asian and African in particular

The place is a kip tbh

we felt like some lad was gonna blow himself up or something

WTF?! Now i'm sorry your little "I'm not racist" disclaimer just won't work here, because that's just not an exceptable thing to say

i felt unsettled and people were starin at us

Again i must say wtf!? I walk up moore st. occasionally and i never experience that..EVER!

it was like been in bleedin johannesburg!

In what way? I'm not following as johannesburg is entirely different to Moore St. tbh

when they are the only irish around

Got to disagree again...i'd say at any given time there is about 40% irish people there (from my experience)

Naos · 29-08-2005 07:14PM

Im off training. I shall leave you to the beasts of boards DJDC, enjoy the mauling and ultimate death.

fischerspooner · 29-08-2005 07:49PM

I think it's great. I've always wanted a Chinatown or Africatown or whatever in Dublin, like real cities have. I'd much rather be around these immigrants than the usual trampy aulones that sell bananas there. I'd take 100 immigrants over an inner city knacker aulone.

120_Minutes · 29-08-2005 07:51PM

Having been to both the centre of Jo'burg and also to moore street, i would suggest the OP lay off the smoke for a while, he's getting paranoid.

I will admit, moore st. is a bit of a kip, but i like seeing the diversity, the oriental shops mixed with the "howaya" street traders.

Try to imagine being one of three white people in a jo'burg shopping mall the size of one floor of the jervis centre full of black south africans, while we were never stared at or made feel uncomfortable, its an interesting feeling to say the least, our OP would have been a gibbering mess on the floor!

Scraggs · 29-08-2005 07:57PM

DJDC wrote:

im not been racist or anything but

isnt that what they all say
from my experiences someone who starts a sentence with that usually finishes it with something outragously disgustingly racist/xenophobic.

segadreamcast · 29-08-2005 08:05PM

I was walking up and down Moore Street repeatedly on Saturday infact, dipping in and out of shops to find some exciting things to cook with. Sadly, I didn't find anything superb really - but all the people were fine and friendly and eager to help I found. One of them even commented that they didn't get many Irish customers, though they were confused as to why!

How about you, OP, try spending more time on Moore Street? Buy something, create a link, work to combine communities instead of whining about feeling as though you're being watched.

Hobbes · 29-08-2005 08:10PM

I didn't realise there were so many Chinese people in johannesburg!

Gazza22 · 29-08-2005 08:12PM

fischerspooner wrote:

I think it's great. I've always wanted a Chinatown or Africatown or whatever in Dublin, like real cities have. I'd much rather be around these immigrants than the usual trampy aulones that sell bananas there. I'd take 100 immigrants over an inner city knacker aulone.

Yep, i agree, i think it's great that foreign culture is integrating into small parts of the city...it's great to try the food ect. I just wish that Dublin City Council would clean up the area....actually theres no point Moore St. shall be gone in a few years

themole · 29-08-2005 08:17PM

i have also been down moore street and been one of about 3/4 irish people there.

didn't feel like i was being stared at though. there were guys looking out fro shops, but thats what ya do when your bored.

i have never been into any of the shops there.

any good finds?

seems to be mostly selling scratch cards/calling cards

Hobbes · 29-08-2005 08:34PM

TBH Moore street and similar streets like it is the only reason I go into town anymore.

I can get almost anything at other places outside the city center (Blanch, Clare Hall, Swords) but if I am looking for other stuff (eg. Korean foodstuffs/books/movies) I have to go into the city centre.

adonis · 29-08-2005 08:36PM

i love the OP!! what a legend..i wonder if he has ever been off the auld sod? lol...
anyway, i used to live near there last year and it was great, shopping off the auld ones, i even ended up fancying one of them --- 6 for 50, you can only imagine what i got for a fiver! anyway..dont go to moore street if u dont want..but your eyes will remain wide shut..
and i think they should defo try to keep it..its got character..which isnt what can be said about the rest of the city.

Sam Vimes · 29-08-2005 08:55PM

DJDC wrote:

u saw being too PC did in Britian.BOOM!! :mad:

i don't know where to begin telling you what's wrong with that statment. its actually hurting my head thinking about it. please tell me what kind of drug induced logic brought you to the conclusion that being overly tolerant caused extremists to blow people up, rather than, say, the british governments participation in the iraq war that they were warned by the extremists would cause them to blow people up

Hobbes · 29-08-2005 09:04PM

I thought he was referring to the IRA blowing up places.

eth0_ · 29-08-2005 09:08PM

Moore St is an absolute kip but i've never felt uncomfortable, as a white female, walking down it...

The only thing that makes me avoid Moore St whenever possible, is the smell of seafood. Makes me retch :-/

Sam Vimes · 29-08-2005 09:20PM

Hobbes wrote:

I thought he was referring to the IRA blowing up places.

doesn't really make a difference if he was talking about islamic extremists or catholic ones, being too pc didn't cause it in any way shape or form

The Real B-man · 29-08-2005 09:58PM

yeah still the oul grannys lighteeeeerrrrsss 2 for a €1

Endurance Man · 29-08-2005 10:11PM

Having been to both the centre of Jo'burg and also to moore street, i would suggest the OP lay off the smoke for a while, he's getting paranoid.

I will admit, moore st. is a bit of a kip, but i like seeing the diversity, the oriental shops mixed with the "howaya" street traders.

Try to imagine being one of three white people in a jo'burg shopping mall the size of one floor of the jervis centre full of black south africans, while we were never stared at or made feel uncomfortable, its an interesting feeling to say the least, our OP would have been a gibbering mess on the floor!
Today 19:49

Hahahaha

, that made me laugh.

DJDC · 29-08-2005 10:13PM

"being too pc didn't cause it in any way shape or form"
this statement is short sighted and lacks any credability commander grimes.
the british goverment is realising now that it has gone too easy on extremism and is beginning to correct this through tough enforcement laws and deportions.too much PC lead to the situation where the goverment were afraid to punish extremism or even try to counteract it because they would be branded racist,right wing and too harsh by people like yourself.it took the london bombings for people to realise that their way of life was under serious threat and measures were urgently required to ensure their way of life continued.to simply conclude that everything is because of Iraq is really quite a pathethic arguement.
anyway back to the OP,yeh i suppose i was overreacting.its just moore street is sucha kip.it has a menacing feel about it.

Hobbes- I thought he was referring to the IRA blowing up places.
wtf!

FX Meister · 29-08-2005 10:13PM

dublindude wrote:

Nah, Moore Street is great. Try some of the restaurants (upstairs.)

Four friends and I had dinner there (with about 3 - 4 beers each) about two weeks ago. Our bill was €70!!!!

Personally, I find Asian women hot, so I enjoy the eye candy

Where did you go? I'd like to try somewhere along there and if you got a nice place then I'd like to go there.

Oral Slang · 29-08-2005 10:28PM

I was on Moore Street a couple of weeks ago and decided to buy some fruit off one of the street sellers.
I was queueing behind some eastern europeans who were buying a few bits & I couldn't believe my ears. The seller was saying really horrible things to the 2 people, but they didn't seem to speak much english so didn't realise. They carried on buying stuff oblivious to the abuse she was giving them. She kept on calling them idiots & f***in foreigners & go home. For the whole time they shopped she muttered on & on.
I ended up walking off & buying further down de street.. I really was disgusted by it!

tribulus · 29-08-2005 10:38PM

Scraggs wrote:

isnt that what they all say
from my experiences someone who starts a sentence with that usually finishes it with something outragously disgustingly racist/xenophobic.

yeah it should be made into one of those laws just like (badly paraphrasing here) "if someone brings up the nazis during a discussion of the ira that person invariably loses..." link anyone?

anyone want to attempt a definition...

back on topic: i actually quite enjoy walking down moore st. It's good to see different ethnicities mixing and as someone said already it feels like the street has a bit of charm to it. Also has anyone tried the epicurean (sp) food hall? Great mix of dishes from various countries and decent value too. It's on abbey st. beside spirit night club

adonis · 30-08-2005 12:02AM

DJDC -- in relation to the london bombings not having anytihng to do with iraq-- maybe you should read this link..

http://www.guardian.co.uk/guardianpolitics/story/0,3605,1558470,00.html

Lord Holohan · 30-08-2005 12:15AM

I myself am named Lord Holohan. I think moore street should be knocked down and the subsequent rif-raf deported or thrown in jail. I know this sounds tough but those lower class people are destroying the gentry image my father and his compatriots have laboured so hard to build . I myself am form the gentry class, that has been passed down form father to son across the generations. Lets keep it that way, lets expel these subhuman dogs.

Yours Sincerely
Lord Holohan

Undercoverguy · 30-08-2005 12:51AM

gazza22 wrote:

Again i must say wtf!? I walk up moore st. occasionally and i never experience that..EVER!

I cross the road a few hundred times a day and dont get killed.... dosnt mean it dosnt happen! Call me racist but Moore Street is "Irish", or at least was. I think we should all get togeather and claim it back. I get P*ssed off walking up there and these big a*sholes in their leather jackets and inch thick neck chains walk dead straight at you as if to say "this is my area, you move outta my way"

Out with them, in with the Irish. We can have a china town somewhere else, i dont have a problem with that just not on the most well known "Irish Street"

Flukey · 30-08-2005 01:13AM

Moore Street is great. It has changed and become more cosmopolitan in recent years, so there is a different atmosphere, but the old women traders still are the main influence in its character. It's a market street so it is always going to look a bit messy. They are going to do some improvements around there, so it will change.

lostexpectation · 30-08-2005 01:16AM

i give ten quid to anyone willing to bet the stirring on after hours today is being chuckled at by sf's again over at their boards today!

Hobbes · 30-08-2005 07:03AM

Undercoverguy wrote:

Out with them, in with the Irish. We can have a china town somewhere else, i dont have a problem with that just not on the most well known "Irish Street"

Maybe we can give them O'Connell street instead?

DublinWriter · 30-08-2005 07:49AM

DJDC wrote:

we felt like some lad was gonna blow himself up or something

Which is probably how most Brits felt about the Irish everytime they went through Kilburn.

It's thanks to 'the foreigners' that Moore St. has been regenerated.

If you don't like it then I suggest you detach Ireland from the planet earth and launch it into outer space so we don't have any immigrants.

Is it just me, or does anyone else find Irish people being racist to be deeply ironic?

If you really want to feel intimidated then forget Moore St., try walking through Darndale or down Sherrif St. between the hours of midnight and 4am.

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