Whats the country coming too?

Dooom · 09-08-2006 09:04AM

Dragan wrote:

The height is spot on.....can't remember what type of t-shirt i was wearing, would have had a shaved head and sunglasses on, and a navy bag on my back!

Wow, it would be cool to have been THAT close to a fellow boardsie!!!

Aha! Wasn't me that was there, but a friend of mine was telling me about this the other day!
He thought you were actually going to shake the skobe's hand, and he was all ready to back you up had something gone down.

He couldn't stop laughing when you told him to f*ck off and kept staring at him.

empirix · 09-08-2006 09:21AM

Dudess wrote:

Nikorami, that's really sh*t. Sorry you've had to experience all that horror. I would have thought that most of us weren't so despicable but obviously I was wrong. If you can't even venture into town anymore, then I don't blame you for leaving Ireland. You're probably right. It'll take something massive, like rioting (look at Notting Hill, Brixton and others in the UK; Paris only recently), for the issue to be recognised by the authorities.

Dude, while i welcome our foreign friends in with open arms, if these lads went on a riot the whole racism thing would get a hell of a lot worse here, it s just the Irish attitude, we feel threatened about invasion, the RA would probably reform!!
Its the worst thing that our new friends could do, I say give it time, things will get better, some people just need more time to adjust

And as for the 3 scumbags on the green, well theres always going to be a few of these characters around, personally i wouldn't give them the time of day, let them rot in the dole queue

Dragan · 09-08-2006 09:21AM

Spike wrote:

He thought you were actually going to shake the skobe's hand, and he was all ready to back you up had something gone down.

That pretty cool of him dude, not many people would give a crap about a stranger in the street like that!!!

Dooom · 09-08-2006 09:38AM

Dragan wrote:

That pretty cool of him dude, not many people would give a crap about a stranger in the street like that!!!

Indeed, there was an incident a while ago where 4 scumbags where trying to intimidate one guy and wouldn't let him pass without him giving them some smokes. We both crossed the street and stood beside the victim with arms crossed, and just looked at the scumbags.
Both of us have martial arts experience, and we can hold our own in a scrap (although he's been a kick-boxer a lot longer than I have

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As soon as the skobes saw they weren't getting away with anything, the leader who was doing all the talking looked at his mates, who looked like they'd just shìt themselves. The lead started to walk off, his mates in tow, but a few feet away he turns and says "ye'd better run lads, or else my brudder'll fùck ye up".
My friend looks at him and says "Right so, we'll be here." The skobe looked somewhat taken aback and didn't know what to say, so my friend just takes two steps forward towards him. I've never seen someone jump so high and go so white.

It's surprising how cowardly these guys actually are, especially when they realise that there's people who have no qualms about kicking their ass in.

Naked Lepper · 09-08-2006 09:42AM

biko wrote:

OP, a few skangers having a go at you in Dublin (where else) does not equal "the country is falling apart". Good man for staring them down though.

in my experience, you will find alot more racism outside dublin than in dublin. remember that dublin is the main melting pot of the country and is definetly alot more diverse than most irish towns.

Dragan · 09-08-2006 09:46AM

Spike wrote:

It's surprising how cowardly these guys actually are, especially when they realise that there's people who have no qualms about kicking their ass in.

yeah, they need to out number you to feel comfortable but when you start showing them that your not worried, THEY start to get worried.

Simple fact is that if me and two of my mates were giving a long guy crap, and he was being cool as a cucumber i would really worry about why and get the hell out of there!!!

A bit of confidence goes a long way....they way i see it is that it will be a fight if they want to make it one regardless of what i do. Might as well make them worry, and if they go i will make damn sure they remember it!!!

Dooom · 09-08-2006 09:53AM

Exactly. Even if you're ****ting a brick, all you have to do is stand your ground. Of course there are exceptions when using your legs is a far better choice.
In the couple of fights I've been in, I've never fought dirty. Although sometimes the swift kick to the nads or the shins could be very satisfying!

Karl Hungus · 09-08-2006 09:59AM

Dragan wrote:

yeah, they need to out number you to feel comfortable but when you start showing them that your not worried, THEY start to get worried.

Indeed. They're the biggest cowards out there, and I find that one sure fire way to make them **** themselves is to just say straight out to them, come on, hit me so, go right ahead.

Strangely enough, nobody has ever had the guts to do it.

I find people who really want to hurt you will just come straight out and attack you. The kind of scumbag who needs to start threatening you first is just trying to guage whether or not you'll be an easy target.

Dragan · 09-08-2006 10:06AM

Karl Hungus wrote:

I find people who really want to hurt you will just come straight out and attack you. The kind of scumbag who needs to start threatening you first is just trying to guage whether or not you'll be an easy target.

Bingo, the times people genuinely wanted to do me damage there was nothing i could do about it because i never saw it comin'!

Dermington · 09-08-2006 10:27AM

Did you tell them about crossfit?

Dragan · 09-08-2006 10:28AM

Dermington wrote:

Did you tell them about crossfit?

Nah.....the last thing i want is healthy, physically able and well rounded scumbags!!!!

Degsy · 09-08-2006 10:28AM

Its like an interview with these scumbags.they say "have you got the time" or "give us a smoke" or other random question designed to test your willingness to defend yourself.If you mutter to your feet of look frightened in the slightest the chances of getting jumped go through the roof.Cowards dont like people who fight back,they'll all go for a weak target.

Beruthiel · 09-08-2006 10:54AM

If it were just knackers that would be something, but I believe it's everywhere.
It is where I work and it is where my b/f works.
He's french and works for a large company.
After a meeting one day two of his work collegues started complaining about the amount of foreginers in the country, he pointed out that he was one of those 'foreginers'. They tried to back track by saying he didn't count, when he asked why they muttered something about the french being in Europe longer.
These sort of comments coming from so called 'intelligent' people annoy the hell out of me. Any time I hear it (which is at least every couple of weeks) I tend to point out the 40 million irish Descendants all over this planet, how is this different or are we Irish special?

09-08-2006 01:27PM

I've experienced this for a while yet when I tell people they usually say to get over it or something as if it's nothing. This attitude just makes the racist behaviour seem acceptable. It's bad enough if you really are foreign but like the OP, I'm Irish and it does my head in when people say stuff like 'go back to where you came from.' It's so bloody ignorant. I feel so self conscious now, every time I talk to someone I wonder if they're thinking I'm foreign and don't belong, every time I go for a job and don't get it I wonder if it's because I look foreign. The thing is, I think most of the time people DON'T care, but once you have it in your head that people can be racist against you it's hard not to be paranoid. I just find I have to block it out as much as possible because your appearance/race is the one thing you can't change. I love being in Paris and London and walking around knowing nobody gives a crap where my parents might come from. It's pretty sad that I feel I belong more in FRANCE than my own country.

cornbb · 09-08-2006 01:41PM

My grandparents (in their late 70s) were walking one day here in Limerick when a few skobes (in fairness they were only kids) on bikes came flying past on bikes. My grandad gave them a 'look' as they were on the footpath, they nearly knocked my grandparents down even though there was a cycle path right there.

So they flung the bikes down and swaggered over, started spitting on the ground, etc... So my grandmother came at them with her umbrella and they scattered like fleas

Man, wish I could have seen it...

Dermington · 09-08-2006 01:41PM

Dragan wrote:

Nah.....the last thing i want is healthy, physically able and well rounded scumbags!!!!

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Degsy thats a good explanation. Well assuming we can all distinguish between some scumbag and an actually bonified Sham/Pikey (ie the sort of i would knock out a bull with one punch pikey) what would you say if some scumbag asked you for a smoke or whatever? And assuming he decided to be a c*nt what would you do about it?

btw no hero answers.

dr.bollocko · 09-08-2006 01:53PM

I must say I respect Dragans stance on this one.
U know a lot of ppl are physically intimidated into walking away from something when it fills them with anger, rage even at how these people can get away with their small minded attitudes, just because they have a small-minded mate to back them up.
Im just fed up of walking away from prejudice rather than grabbing it by its dirty small-minded jugular.
I have no tolerance for this kind of moron, I guess I built up this backburner of anger about it over a number of years of doing just that, walking away when I felt I should have said something.
Before I started working out, i had lost track of the number of times I stopped myself from saying something, to some skobe on the street, to a small-minded taxi driver, to work colleagues, etc. Now, I hate to say it, but any and all added muscle does relax me enough to say what I feel and break the fear cycle.

But I have come to the conclusion that while might never means right, it can certainly help in untying tongues when something needs to be said.

I often wasnt able to sleep for thinking "Why did I hold back there?"
Now, since I have a bit more muscle, and Im not short, I do definitely feel that I can say more in defence of my opinions and get away with. Being right, being heard, and being intimidating are always going to be clashing in an argument, but one day I just got fed up of being intimidated, fed up of being scared.
Now I am an evil Doctor with a psychic Nipple, and as such, I have a solution for the rest of ye, willing to follow the anti-prejudice path, but not willing to follow my path towards evil super-villainy.

So my solution, we train, or breed, or genetically engineer an army of strong, well-trained brutal looking enforcers of anti-discrimination laws. (This is a sort of a solution to the policing problem too..)
Its something i would love to see stamped out completely and forever. I mean, here are these people coming to the country and prospering, and the most our most vocal inhabitants can come up with is some lame slur designed to incite hatred, looking for a fight.
So these are the people we will target with our mighty clone army.
Dragan, U can be Boba Fett.

If I get to be Han solo.

Dragan · 09-08-2006 02:02PM

Dermington wrote:

Degsy thats a good explanation. Well assuming we can all distinguish between some scumbag and an actually bonified Sham/Pikey (ie the sort of i would knock out a bull with one punch pikey) what would you say if some scumbag asked you for a smoke or whatever? And assuming he decided to be a c*nt what would you do about it?

btw no hero answers.

I grew up with two Travellers, and everywhere i go i seem to get on very well with the community and i can honestly say that not all Travellers are hard as nails....that just an image thing. The do seem to walk around in dozens though, so be careful that way.

If you get asked for a smoke/time whatever, just say "Sorry" stay walking, don't look down, just look at them, say "Sorry bud" and stay going. It's not dismishing them, showing fear.

If they step up and block your path they want something, you need to find out what it is and decide if you are willing to part with it. If your willing to do so then do and move away and hope the leave you alone.

If your not you need to realise you will most likely have to physically get rid of them, be it intimidation or knocking the crap out of them.

If i say no and they want to go ( please note that saying know would be hugely influenced by situation, time, location, how many of them there were, other people on the road and the vibe i got off them to name a few things ) then fine.....i only said no because i was willing to go so i'm not worried about it.

The incident that i started the thread over, as i said it was day light, crowded city center, one obviously scared guy, two guys a lot smaller, a lot weaker and with considerably less reach than me. I have enough training to be happy that a punch i throw and land is gonna have an effect and i had a bag on my bag, looped through my hand and free for an easy swing.

The quite one would have got the bag in the face, the mouthy one a kick in the nuts and the quite one a stare, because i was more than happy to be he would have done nothing.

It's all about the situation at the time.

Degsy · 09-08-2006 02:04PM

Dermington wrote:

k

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Degsy thats a good explanation. Well assuming we can all distinguish between some scumbag and an actually bonified Sham/Pikey (ie the sort of i would knock out a bull with one punch pikey) what would you say if some scumbag asked you for a smoke or whatever? And assuming he decided to be a c*nt what would you do about it?

btw no hero answers.

There's no clear answers to a "what if.." like that.You've got to judge a situation on its merits.First off are you bigger than the bloke,is there a few of them,do they look like they can handle themselves,are they drunk or stoned,where is this happening,are they actually spoiling for a row or just being smart-arses??Nine times out of ten the pricks have no balls and wont get physical if you stand up to them.If this is happening in dublin,use your best Duuublin accent when you're replying to them,look them in the eye show you're not afraid and you've allready put them on the back foot,you could also (as dragan did) give them a smile..it can be disarming,especially an evil grin,you could also pretend to be slightly mental,scumbags are terrified of madmen..the list goes on and on...

Dermington · 09-08-2006 03:19PM

I was just wondering what the common approach was.

I'm 6'3", 225lb's and played a lot of rugby etc so I know how strong I am and what I can do but I still have to say I just cant bring myself to get physical about it. The norm for someone like me is to be a big loud f*ckin eejit but because I'm not like that I just cant be physically agressive with people. Obvious exceptions but some tosser bumming a cig off me isnt really worth me breaking him. :mad:

TheBlock · 09-08-2006 03:21PM

I'm hard too lads can I join in.....Internet hardness is the dogs.

I can kick Asssss

Dermington · 09-08-2006 03:45PM

TheBlock wrote:

I'm hard too lads can I join in.....Internet hardness is the dogs.

I can kick Asssss

Yore Ma is what makes me hard tbh

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Seriously though (she is puck) my entire post was about me not being hard and not fighting...:rolleyes:

Dragan · 09-08-2006 05:11PM

TheBlock wrote:

I'm hard too lads can I join in.....Internet hardness is the dogs.

I can kick Asssss

Sure you can, now run off and pick a fight with some scumbag!!!

Terry · 09-08-2006 06:15PM

TheBlock wrote:

I'm hard too lads can I join in.....Internet hardness is the dogs.

I can kick Asssss

thank you for your input.
however, this thread is about how each person deals with every day scumbaggery.
if you don't have anything relative to this thread, then please don't post in it again.

please don't feed the trolls.

Chucky the tree · 09-08-2006 06:49PM

Whats the hand shake trick? they shake it then give you a nice glasgow kiss?

Terry · 09-08-2006 07:11PM

yes, i believe that's what it is. never seen it though.
you know you're dealing with a true scumbag when they try that.

Dragan · 10-08-2006 09:07AM

Chucky the tree wrote:

Whats the hand shake trick? they shake it then give you a nice glasgow kiss?

Exactly....in any such situation it is best to try and avoid any type of contact at all, even the old "passing a cigarette" trick can result in a grab of the wrist and being pulled into a headbutt.

Had this done to me once in my more naive days but he messed up the headbutt and rather than getting my nose he got my forehead. While i was dazed he was also and i was able to make my escape!!!!

Dermington · 10-08-2006 09:52AM

Dragan wrote:

While i was dazed he was also and i was able to make my escape!!!!

Thanks to your superior strength and fitness

Degsy · 10-08-2006 10:07AM

If there's any danger at all of a headbut been thrown,keep your chin tucked into your chest,and drop your head abruptly once you sense movement.Their nose will crash into the top of your head in a very satisfying form of poetic justice!

10-08-2006 10:08AM

Chucky the tree wrote:

Whats the hand shake trick? they shake it then give you a nice glasgow kiss?

Do I want to ask?

Whats the country coming too?

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