The annual invasion of foreign students - worse this year?

darkman2 · 15-07-2008 07:43PM #1

Seems to be more foreign students this summer then ever. I was in Malahide Village today and there was so many of them it was difficult to actually walk around them. The whole place was packed out with Italian? and Spanish? and other nationality students. It was almost surreal. More students then people living there I thought. They can be annoying too - like the way they wont get out of your way until you push them.....and some of them just seem to have an attitude disfunction. Most seem well behaved though. Many of the birds are nice to look at and talk to. But they can be noisy especially on Friday nights.

Anyways seems to be a huge collective of them this year taking over the place.

TeletextPear · 15-07-2008 07:46PM

if another group of spanish students gets in my way when im trying to walk down grafton street im going to fucking lynch someone :mad: they're everywhere!!

tribulus · 15-07-2008 07:47PM

Meh, can't say I've noticed a difference.

All teenagers are noisy if you ask me. I've only noticed myself since I've stopped being one.

Wertz · 15-07-2008 07:56PM

We could do with the revenue really...lots of good money being made by people putting them up in their homes and the like. It's kind of a summer tradition in Dublin by now...

Phlann · 15-07-2008 08:03PM

Haven't noticed it being particularly bad.

Two years ago was the worst I've ever seen. Everywhere you looked there were Spanish kids, could rarely get a seat on the bus and if you did you'd have the pleasure of hearing the chorus of Wonderwall sung in broken English for the entire journey.

What's with the luminous schoolbags btw? If it's to stop them getting lost surely it defeats the purpose when there's several thousand of them all wearing the exact same one??

I can't help thinking of that scene with the baskets in Raiders of the Lost Ark every time I'm in town.

dsmythy · 15-07-2008 08:04PM

"Many of the birds are nice to look at"

err what age are these girls?

It does seem to be more than usual. Maybe they havn't spread their visits out as before.

chopperbyrne · 15-07-2008 08:04PM

It's the gathering on steps that annoys me.

At least leave a gap for people to walk up or down.

Has anyone been to Spain and seen lots of Spanish kids blocking steps?

Do they do it at home or only here?

KTRIC · 15-07-2008 08:12PM

chopperbyrne wrote: »

It's the gathering on steps that annoys me.

At least leave a gap for people to walk up or down.

Has anyone been to Spain and seen lots of Spanish kids blocking steps?

Do they do it at home or only here?

No, been in Madrid a couple of times and I didn't see gangs of kids blocking any of the doorways or footpaths

I don't know what compels them to do it here !! (by here I mean Ireland, because if it was here then it'd be Germany, confused ?? thought so :rolleyes:)

_JOE_ · 15-07-2008 08:13PM

Why do we complain about everybody and everything. They're students, teenagers and over here to enjoy themselves having spend a lot of money. They're not aggressive and don't need to be pushed walking down the street. Let them enjoy their holidays without the harrassment...

Joe Cool · 15-07-2008 08:15PM

Haven't seen that many to be honest.
Not that many identical bags or group singing on the bus anyway.

Maybe the recession scared them off...

Mr. CooL ICE · 15-07-2008 08:17PM

dsmythy wrote: »

"Many of the birds are nice to look at"

err what age are these girls?

It does seem to be more than usual. Maybe they havn't spread their visits out as before.

Spanish girls can't say no. In english

Phlann · 15-07-2008 08:23PM

Think it might be the same in both languages.

Better that you hear it from me than from a judge

darkman2 · 15-07-2008 08:23PM

_JOE_ wrote: »

Let them enjoy their holidays without the harrassment...

Many would say its the other way around. I dont think ive ever seen Irish people 'harrassing' a group of Spanish students, during the day anyway. The 'not getting out of the way' thing can be annoying. They all do it.

TeletextPear · 15-07-2008 08:25PM

darkman2 wrote: »

Many would say its the other way around. I dont think ive ever seen Irish people 'harrassing' a group of Spanish students, during the day anyway. The 'not getting out of the way' thing can be annoying. They all do it.

+1

Peared · 15-07-2008 08:27PM

Yes. It's like something out of a horror film.

They're everywhere you look.

Are the Spanish, as a race, hard of hearing? I only ask because of the apparent need to shout everything at the top of their voices at all times anywhere regardless of the proximity of the listener.

darkman2 · 15-07-2008 08:31PM

Another thing that Irish people think happens is that when you pass them on a footpath they think that they are constantly slagging Irish people in Spanish or Italian! Thinking that Irish people dont know these langauges. Most dont but some do!;)

Phlann · 15-07-2008 08:36PM

darkman2 wrote: »

Another thing that Irish people think happens is that when you pass them on a footpath they think that they are constantly slagging Irish people in Spanish or Italian! Thinking that Irish people dont know these langauges. Most dont but some do!;)

I was getting off the bus before and one of them sitting near the door told her friend that I was hot (I speak a tiny bit of Spanish so I caught what she said), I turned around and went 'Gracias!'

She was scarlet! :pac:

kerfuffle · 15-07-2008 08:39PM

I've noticed more this year than last few years actually. Last week, I'm not exaggarating, I saw a group of about 100 Spanish students on Westmoreland Street around 11.15pm - no dount heading for their last bus home. I don't object to them coming here, but they really do my head in when they're in packs like that.

KTRIC · 15-07-2008 08:44PM

_JOE_ wrote: »

Why do we complain about everybody and everything. They're students, teenagers and over here to enjoy themselves having spend a lot of money. They're not aggressive and don't need to be pushed walking down the street. Let them enjoy their holidays without the harrassment...

They are different therefore they must be harassed , its our right as Irish to bully, beatup and rob this little moneybags.

dsmythy · 15-07-2008 08:51PM

If there's one thing they will take home with them it's the various english phrases used by someone to ask someone else to make room for them. And reasons why not to start a binge drinking culture.

Eric Cartman · 15-07-2008 09:10PM

ive found that if you ignore them they are easily walked through, they dont seem to have any resistance to it and will just complain in spanish as you walk by, to make it worse for them i walk in the 'no mans land' between them and street performers quite slowly so as to fúck up any video recordings or photos they might be taking.

im a very foreign-tollerant person (Polish wimmins can stay) but GET OUT OF MY COUNTRY !!!!!!!

15-07-2008 09:10PM

Happily I don't work in the Dublin City Centre so I haven't seen any, although I was walking through with my bike today and the idiots decided to wait in front of the scaffolding on the right hand side of grafton street (leaving town) by the spar.

Conor108 · 15-07-2008 09:21PM

Yeah there was loads of students in the village today!

latenia · 15-07-2008 09:28PM

FFS, one of the few genuine export industries we have in the country and all you people do is whinge because your bus is a bit fuller than normal.

Phlann · 15-07-2008 09:31PM

latenia wrote: »

FFS, one of the few genuine export industries we have in the country and all you people do is whinge because your bus is a bit fuller than normal.

Chill out, boyo. It's all in good humour.

af_thefragile · 15-07-2008 09:31PM

Grafton st. are full of all these kids lately and they do make a lot of noise...
The girls are quite attractive but most of them look like 14-16...!

connundrum · 15-07-2008 09:36PM

Wtf is with them sitting. Everywhere!

In the middle of the path, on the road, on the floor of the bus.

Have they no energy in Spain or wha?

taidghbaby · 15-07-2008 09:39PM

could be worse.......if you were in madrid you'd be dodging american students!!!

15-07-2008 09:41PM

I'll never forget the trip I took from Dublin to Galway two summers back. The bus was packed with Spanish students who spent the first 30 minutes of the journey shouting, running up and down the bus and singing at the top of their voices. I think I may have actually had a psychotic episode as I just sat up in my seat and screamed for them to shut the **** up and let us try and enjoy the journey in peace. I got some truly evil looks from the lot of them but it did keep them quite for the rest of the journey.

The thing that annoys me about them bar their inability to control their vocal levels is that no matter where you go and there is a group of them, they insist on taking up as much room as possible. There's a festival on in my home town and the other day there was music in the streets, a group of Spanish students were sat all over the steps leading to the atm machine I use and they just refused to move out of the way. I asked them nicely a number of times to let me pass before just forcing my way through.

musicfan · 15-07-2008 09:46PM

Hundreds of them congregate around the entrance to Dun Laoghaire Dart Station at rush hour - but they are standing on steps in the way of everyone - they won't get out of the way - and then when you push through they look at you as if you are rude - STAND OUT OF THEY WAY

Dont know how much they help the economy - used to work in a sweet shop years ago - and would take about 40 of them about 30 mins looking over the counter to decide to buy 1 bar of chocolate!!!!! Then they all left!

projectmayhem · 15-07-2008 09:46PM

i don't have major gripes about them... i'd be the same at their age in spain with a load of school mates... but the one time i wear my german football jersey out (i've german relatives, blood, etc.) i got mad abuse. which is fine. i know enough german to tell 'em where to go (in good humour), but some of them kind of got a little physical with me. i know they were still in somewhat good humour but i'm a stranger to them, and vice-versa... don't touch me!

The annual invasion of foreign students - worse this year?

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