I want to know every single thing about Skangers!!

truecrippler wrote: »

Awww so sorry Eve but I'd stick out like a sore thumb amongst "Skangers". I've been living in a disadvantaged area for 20 years. I am now 20 so I've should have grown up to be a "Skanger".. no? I don't sound like one because I chose to listen in school at a young age. I consider myself fairly educated because I also chose to go down this road. These "Skangers" chose differently.
I'm not slagging disadvantaged area's as such... just a term given to people who just act like they're all 'Ard Men etc. Like slagging... Bikers or Hippies? No? ok. have a beer on me .

edit: The-Rigger, you're correct. Too weak in my opinion.

Have to agree with Eve, I also listened in school at a young age (that has very little to do with how someone develops an accent by the way, not sure why you mentioned it), I have a third level education, I have been called a skanger when I was younger by snobs (and yes snobbery and insecurity is why people say it). I do wear nike runners sometimes because nike make the best most comfrotable runners (hence there worldwide popularity), I sometimes wear a Celtic jersey because I support Celtic FC, I sit upstairs down the back of the bus because they are the best seats on the bus as they provide you with the most room, I drove a scooter when I was younger because they were inexpensive, cheap on petrol and they don't get stuck in traffic. Calling someone a skanger because of someones accent, style of dress ect is no different than someone in America calling someone a ni**er because they are black. It is meant in a derogatory sense and it is pathetic, and the reason some people feel the need to go on about it is the same reasons you get people calling black people ****. It's born of fear of anything different to themselves, insecurity and ignorance.


"Oh look that kid's wearing Celtic jersey and he has his hair shaved short, I bet he has 12 kids and is uneducated, what a skanger."

"Oh look that kid's wearing baggy pants and a 2pac t-shirt, I bet he is a troublemaker and his father is in prison, what a ni**er."


Now I realise this will not be a popular opinion because lets face it this is afterhours, one of the most right wing, snobish, conservative locations on earth, but I thought I'd give it in anyways.

Thanks Slipss...somebody agreeing with me...this never happens.This talk of skangers is just not funny. It's been done to death, it was never funny in the first place and i'm sick to the teeth of hearing about it. It's people's prejudice (because of fear and ignorance) dressed up as "humour". I completely agree with you when you say there's no difference between using this word and n****er. There are people out there who think anyone from the Northside of Dublin is a so-called "skanger" so i can't for the life of me understand why someone from a disadvantaged area doesn't see the irony of using this word when referring to people from his own area. Alot of people out there wouldn't care how well you listened in class, they'd tar you all with the same brush. What happened to judging INDIVIDUALS by their actions and not what they wear, drink, how they speak or whatever? A feck it, not going to change the minds of this shower of twits but good to know i'm not the only one in a state of despair.

truecrippler wrote: »

Would you rather if I did it on the Amish community and how they don't like to advance, technologically speaking? Or would you get offended and quote the time when your T.V. remote ran out of batteries.

Well if you did a report on the Amish community calling them......well I don't think there is an equivalant to n.igger when describing the Amish, so lets just say Ammies, and then went on and on trying to make snide comments about their beards and their white shirts and their silly names, then yes I would think it would be in bad taste. I wouldn't be offended, I'm not offended now, I just think it's an odd thing for someone to do.

square_igloo wrote: »

Imo, that is absolute BS.

Well of course some scumbags wear celtic jerseys ect. But like you say in your post, the word skanger is associated with scumbags, but when the OP asked to know everything about skangers peopel didn't say "they rob cars, they assault people ect ect" they said "they wear tracksuits, they have nicknames like Deco, they ect ect". Basically people from working class areas, that is stereotyping in the way that all black people are stereotyped as being a certain way by some people and then refered to as n.iggers, which is why i made the comparison. You say skanger is based on the actions of people while n.igger is based on skin colour, well plenty of people would say they call black people n.igger and dislike them not because of their skin colour but because of how they act "they have criminal tendencies, they are lazy and uneducated ect". The point I was trying to make here was that people associate "skangers" with anti-social behavior ect and then when asked to describe them simply list off a bunch of things that are common to the majority of working class people. I hope that makes the point I was trying to make a little clearer.

"If one of these people attacked you or a member of your family you would not be long changing your opinion."
I was set apon by four youngfellas and stabbed three times in the back, robbed and left for dead four years ago, they all had thick Tallaght-esk accents and one of them had a Celtic scarve pulled up over his face. It didn't change my opinion. I think the fellas that jumped me were scumbags, i don't think anyone with that accent or a celtic scarf are scumbags and i wouldn't try to lump everyone with a similar style of dress or way of speaking in with them.

square_igloo wrote: »

of course you're gonna get some right wing conservative types.
All kinds of people post here, it's childish to label the entire forum based on the views of a few.

Thats fair enough.

truecrippler wrote: »

Ahem, anyways. Tell me every single bloomin' thing you know about skangers.
Where they come from.
What they wear.
Types of Skangers. (Was told something about Tallaght Skangers, no disrespect to Tallaghtfornian's).
How they speak.
Where they hang out.
What they drink... Dutch Gold, Devil's Bit, eugh yeh the likes of those.
Past times.
Even their feckin history.
I'll give credit to boards.ie to for part of my research. (might get a few new cool members *cough*

Any help is definitely appreciated.

Schweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeh!!!!!!!!

Nope, wants to know everything there is to know about "skangers", not just what they wear etc.

Yes Square Igloo, Dalkey is one of the most expensive places to live in the country. Never heard anyone referring to someone from this area as a skanger...skangers is a word exclusively used when referring to the working class, which must tell you something?

truecrippler wrote: »

Where they come from.

They come from disadvantaged areas and rather than get off their lazy hole and get a real job and improve their lot in life they prefer to make money through various lowlife criminal activities.

truecrippler wrote: »

What they wear.

Surprisingly for people who have no visible means of income they wear the latest in sports wear decorated with cheap Argos jewellery.

truecrippler wrote: »

Types of Skangers.

All the fucking same.

truecrippler wrote: »

How they speak.

Lazily. They sound like you’d imagine someone with a blocked nose speaking text speak would. Also there’s no real pause between words. There’s just a nasal drone that allows them to blend into each other. Alreetbuddd.

truecrippler wrote: »

Where they hang out.

Parks, fields, empty flats, dole office, dealers houses, street corners, Local Authority social housing unit to name a few.

truecrippler wrote: »

What they drink

Whatever is on offer in the off licence that day.

truecrippler wrote: »

Past times.

Vandalising local amenites while complaining about having nothing to do.

Petty crime.

Admiring each others sportswear while casing their neighbours property.

Intimidating the smaller, weaker, elderly members of society like fucking jackals.

Breeding to increase their welfare allowances.

Joyriding.

Unfortunately they don’t spend enough time;

Wrapping their stolen cars around trees.

Sharing dirty needles.

Getting raped and beaten in prison.

truecrippler wrote: »

Even their feckin history.

Arrived with the foundation of the welfare state.

KingOfFairview wrote: »

thank you Mr. Myers, but we've heard it all before

Here's another "working class hero" with his "defend the scumbags" mentality.

If you act like a skanger and you're from a working class area then you're called a skanger because. . . you are.

If you act like a skanger and you're not from a working class area, you are a skanger but you're called a muppet or something like that.

It doesn't reflect on working class people nor is it generalising all working class people so just stop trying to find some connection where none exists.

It's that attitude that lets them do what they like. Any condemnation of them in the media is seen as denigrating the poor, working class. It's not the 18th century anymore. The only people who deliberately cling to an outdated and irrelevant class system are the people trying to defend the worst members of society no matter what their "class".

Any minute now King I expect a good "snob" bashing thread from yourself. Something cutting and relevant to ease the class consciousness that eats you.