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Does anyone actually like Bray?

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  • #32
    chopperbyrne
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,143 ✭✭✭✭chopperbyrne


    irishbird wrote: »
    snip

    And it has a Quasar!

    Don't let it close down. Go play and say Chopper sent you!


  • #33
    Fratton Fred
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,566 ✭✭✭✭Fratton Fred


    Maybe
    Maximilian wrote: »
    There's a lovely place called Bray north of London - a village with at least two 2-Michelin Star restaurants.

    Beats that ****hole in Wicklow anyway

    west of London actually, between Maidenhead and Windsor.

    Home to a little known eating place called the fat duck http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fat_Duck

    and the Waterside
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterside_Inn

    Apparantly the snail Porridge that Heston serves up at the fat Duck is superb, followed up obviously by egg and bacon ice cream :eek:


  • #34
    John Mason
    Hosted Moderators Posts: 10,661 ✭✭✭✭John Mason


    chopperbyrne wrote: »
    And it has a Quasar!

    Don't let it close down. Go play and say Chopper sent you!

    i dont live in bray anymore, too many scumbags for my liken


  • #35
    Tom65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,685 ✭✭✭Tom65


    Atari Jaguar
    I can't believe no one has mentioned the Brayjing nickname for the amount of Chinese that live there (or at least used to).

    Bray: where the Celtic Tiger never happened.


  • #36
    Fratton Fred
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,566 ✭✭✭✭Fratton Fred


    Maybe
    Tom65 wrote: »
    Bray: where the Celtic Tiger never happened.
    It did, but it had a baby at 15 and ended up a crack whore.:D


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  • #37
    chopperbyrne
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,143 ✭✭✭✭chopperbyrne


    Tom65 wrote: »
    I can't believe no one has mentioned the Brayjing nickname for the amount of Chinese that live there (or at least used to).

    Bray: where the Celtic Tiger never happened.

    Is Brayjing what the locals say? We always said Braysia.

    I think Eddie Rockets is staffed exclusively by East Asians!


  • #38
    Eoin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,288 ✭✭✭✭Eoin


    No
    irishbird wrote: »
    bray is in wicklow ?

    Some of it is in Dublin, certainly under Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council anyway. Probably best leaving this in AH anyway. I think Brayruit was another nickname as well, though I like the Brayjing one.


  • #39
    Defenestrate
    Closed Accounts Posts: 442 ✭✭Defenestrate


    chopperbyrne wrote: »
    And it has a Quasar!

    Don't let it close down. Go play and say Chopper sent you!

    Curse you and your multiple Quasar references! Now I want to go play it. :(


  • #40
    chopperbyrne
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,143 ✭✭✭✭chopperbyrne


    Defenestrate wrote: »
    Curse you and your multiple Quasar references! Now I want to go play it. :(

    Do it, do it!


  • #41
    Fratton Fred
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,566 ✭✭✭✭Fratton Fred


    Maybe
    chopperbyrne wrote: »
    I think Eddie Rockets is staffed exclusively by East Asians!

    what has that got to do with a discussion on Bray :D


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  • #42
    HalloweenJack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,574 ✭✭✭HalloweenJack


    Maybe
    I hate Bray. It's a dump. There's nothing to do but drink.

    The cinema's, the amusements are slowly but surely closing down and the nightclubs are all crap. The one good thing is Bray Wanderers.

    It's handy living close to Dublin but WE ARE NOT WANNABE DUBS. Who would be? There are the kids of blow-in Dubs who act like Dubs and then there are the other people in the town who are from Wicklow.

    But, yeah...I can't stand the place.


  • #43
    Fratton Fred
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,566 ✭✭✭✭Fratton Fred


    Maybe
    HalloweenJack wrote: »

    There's nothing to do but drink.

    The one good thing is Bray Wanderers.

    you have made two very worrying statements right there :D


  • #44
    Sleepy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 25,000 ✭✭✭✭Sleepy


    Maybe
    Lived there for 7 years. Never again.

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  • #45
    Terry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,073 ✭✭✭✭Terry


    Bray is the Leixlip of Wicklow, but crappier.


  • #46
    PrivateEye
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,283 ✭✭✭PrivateEye


    Maybe
    Love playing Bray Wanderers, just to get the old
    "Sh!t Dublin suburb, you're just a sh!t Dublin subbbbbbburb"
    chant out.

    Used to love going out to the amusements in my young(er) days. Remember about two years back when I'd just finished transition year a group of us thought 'Ah lads, haven't been to Bray in years will we go out and have a look?'- Once you hit the double digits, Bray just seems a kip.
    Bray: where the Celtic Tiger never happened.
    Much lols. :)


  • #47
    Nermal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,004 ✭✭✭Nermal


    Too many carnies...


  • #48
    Jemmy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,385 ✭✭✭Jemmy


    Atari Jaguar
    Ah its not so bad, ive had some good nights out there along the seafront but otherwise eh...no!


  • #49
    Beau x1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 911 ✭✭✭Beau x1


    Atari Jaguar
    Defenestrate wrote: »
    "This train is for Bray. Bray."
    Haha. I lol'd.

    Anyway, Bray is alright. I live there, and I have to say you could do a lot worse, living in the middle of nowhere i.e. Roundwood. Its actually quite alright, except that the vast majority of the population is filled with scum. Another thing is that the now closed down cinema and bray bowl make it a look like a bit of a kip.
    I can't say I LIKE it, but I can't say I hate it, either. Its just there really, a small enough town that hosts a few shops, bars on the seafront and a Mc Donalds. The DARTS nice to have too which I use frequently.

    Not the sort of place you'd go to hang out in really, but its decent enough.


  • #50
    Fusion251
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,044 ✭✭✭Fusion251


    No
    I quite like bray but it does need a facelift. The town has just been approved for a new town centre (2 billion) to be built, this will be on the same scale as Dundrum.


    http://www.braytowncentre.com/


    So it soon will be up and coming town! Woohooo


  • #51
    Tom65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,685 ✭✭✭Tom65


    Atari Jaguar
    Fusion251 wrote: »
    I quite like bray but it does need a facelift. The town has just been approved for a new town centre (2 billion) to be built, this will be on the same scale as Dundrum.


    http://www.braytowncentre.com/


    So it soon will be up and coming town! Woohooo

    Ah jesus, the traffic coming from Dublin into Bray is horrific now. I can't even imagine after this is built.


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  • #52
    limerickwoman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 493 ✭✭limerickwoman


    Atari Jaguar, I haver been there:eek:


  • #53
    Dudess
    Closed Accounts Posts: 37,214 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    My mate lived in Bray for a few years when she was a kid - she doesn't want to talk about it.


  • #54
    frecklz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 48 ✭frecklz


    There is a €2 billion development plan for Bray in the pipeline. Big shopping centre and 8-screen cinema on the seafront... Might keep the lower life forms away from IMC Dún Laoghaire...

    On the plus side of Bray - funfair (I just listen to the screams), Sea Life (awesome, but too small for yer money - also next to a seafood restaurant :eek:), and Ardmore Studios (where movies and stuff get made).

    Mainly a depressing little seaside-town-that-was.


  • #55
    gcgirl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,044 ✭✭✭gcgirl


    Maybe
    Bray is just a bunch of Dub wannabes!!! Full of Dutch Gold drinking skangers!! Arklow is not much different! Come on Wicklow Town:D


  • #56
    Latchy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,190 ✭✭✭✭Latchy


    In my travels around north west england i somtimes come across people who on hearing my accent say '' oh we went on a day /weekend trip to ireland '' and i go ,oh how nice and tell me, were did you go ? and the reply in a lot of cases is ' Bray' and for some reason i find myself laughing :D


  • #57
    Jesus Wept
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,243 ✭✭✭✭Jesus Wept


    Fusion251 wrote: »
    I quite like bray but it does need a facelift.

    The needle on the 'like-yore-ma'-ometer is at breaking point. I can't hold it much longer. :(

    I know yorema'isms are actively discouraged, but with metaphors like this, something has to give.


  • #58
    Xavi6
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,159 ✭✭✭✭Xavi6


    Maybe
    irishbird wrote: »
    ....bono drinks in the harbour....

    That's a no vote from me so.


  • #59
    elmyra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,755 ✭✭✭elmyra


    Atari Jaguar
    It's a point of personal pride that I can count on one hand the number of times I've been to Bray. I bought a car there once, I dropped a friend to their house, I inexplicably ended up there on a pointless road trip one dark dark night, I gave a speech at a conference in the Esplanade and I went through it on a bus to Glendalough. Sadly, on none of these occasions did I really get to form a proper opinion of the place - never had food there or just wandered around or anything. Aside from that, my feelings are basically summed up in two thoughts - 1, Greystones appears to be way better. Their beach is gorgeous and it has a nice villagey feel and appears less knackery. 2 - the McChurch is weird and bothers me.


  • #60
    BraziliaNZ
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,671 ✭✭✭BraziliaNZ


    i used to like it when i was a wain. Haven't been there since I was about 14 with my mates, which was 14 years ago or so, we climbed the hill and walked around the coast a bit and it was sunny and nice. The town was a kip at the time though. I remember drunk dublin knackers up for the day with their tops off and one of them with blood running from his head. I'm never going there again.


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  • #61
    Crumble Froo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,196 ✭✭✭Crumble Froo


    No
    aww, awesome day...

    was going in for surgery the day afterwards, but ended up randomly hopping on a dart to bray, having some nice chill time (twas a gorgeous day, in feb, i think), having some nice space to my self on the beach and stuff, and then waiting for the dart back, and seeing a few girls from college, and then going back with them, hanging for a bit... a really really good freindship sprung from the day, and i always think of bray with affectoin now :)


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