Middle Class Area= No Bonfire, Working Class Area= Burn The Whole Thing Down

TheZohanS · 31-10-2009 11:19PM

Sheeps wrote: »

In middle and upper class areas the people actually take pride in their communities.

As do a lot of working class people. It's the small minority that don't care and give their community a bad name.

Voltex · 31-10-2009 11:20PM

whadabouchasir wrote: »

I don't get this thread,do people have a problem with bonfires?And if so why don't you actually do something about it insted of moaning on boards? Now I'm off to set fire to a pile of wooden pallets.

Obviousley I dont...seeing as i set out to find one...

whadabouchasir · 31-10-2009 11:26PM

Voltex wrote: »

Obviousley I dont...seeing as i set out to find one...

And I wish you well in your search. Maybe you could even start one your self.

brummytom · 31-10-2009 11:29PM

[Ignorant Foreigner] Do the council stage official, safe bonfires and firework displays in local parks over there? [/Ignorant Foreigner]

NothingMan · 31-10-2009 11:31PM

brummytom wrote: »

[Ignorant Foreigner] Do the council stage official, safe bonfires and firework displays in local parks over there? [/Ignorant Foreigner]

Some neighbourhoods have been known to organise a safe controlled bon fire, but mostly the kids just collect or steal whatever they can throughout October and set it on fire in a field.

Some adults let off fireworks for the kids, but again mostly it's just kids blowing stuff up.

NothingMan · 31-10-2009 11:32PM

NothingMan wrote: »

I live in Tallaght and we threw our old wooden garden table on the field this morning assuming it would be gone pretty quick. Still there now though. I think Tallaght may be coming up in the world.

Obviously except for scummers like me throwing tables into fields.

brummytom · 31-10-2009 11:33PM

NothingMan wrote: »

Some neighbourhoods have been known to organise a safe controlled bon fire, but mostly the kids just collect or steal whatever they can throughout October and set it on fire in a field.

Some adults let off fireworks for the kids, but again mostly it's just kids blowing stuff up.

Oh right, cheers.
For once I'm actually quite grateful for our local councils :P

Voltex · 31-10-2009 11:34PM

NothingMan wrote: »

Some neighbourhoods have been known to organise a safe controlled bon fire, but mostly the kids just collect or steal whatever they can throughout October and set it on fire in a field.

Some adults let off fireworks for the kids, but again mostly it's just kids blowing stuff up.

Throughout October!!!...in some areas they steal all year long.
I remember being at at a council organised bonfire when I was at Uni in Manchester...very well done...brilliant bonfire. I remeber i couldnt stand within 100ft it was sooooo hot!!

NothingMan · 31-10-2009 11:36PM

Voltex wrote: »

Throughout October!!!...in some areas they steal all year long.

Oh they definitely steal all year long, but they get impatient and light smaller fires with their loot.

CCCP^ · 31-10-2009 11:36PM

I came from a middle class housing estate and we had bonfires almost every year, right up until we lost all the ditches and green areas we used to stage our bonfire on and cull wood from when the building started for houses during the Celtic Tiger.

Come to think of it, the Celtic Tiger killed it off.

asdasd · 31-10-2009 11:38PM

Halloween in Ireland is pretty much a contained riot, a chav uprising. The police cede areas of the city unless people are actually getting burned to death. And even then, there is a certain reluctance.

Ireland flags during world cups all there in working class areas and not at all in middle class areas.

We should merge patriotism and bonfirism like the English on bonfire day. Instead of burning the guy and the Pope we need to get the chavs burning the Queen. Well, effigies of. That would add a certain patriotic frission to the lumpen takeover of the city.

b28 · 31-10-2009 11:40PM

super_furry wrote: »

Yeah that'd be great. It'd be even better if they were full of working class people and immigrants. :rolleyes:

I can't believe how you can get away with saying that!
Its OTT!!!:mad:

DonkeyStyle \o/ · 31-10-2009 11:41PM

tedstriker wrote: »

All the PC boarders are out dressed up as gardeners and yoked off their faces on some sort of natural cocktail.

Damn, well someone has to step up and fill the void.
I'll give it a go.

...ahem...

The level of ignorance in this thread is astounding.
Not all working class people have bonfires and enjoy tracksuits.
Do you have any links to back up these vile claims?
Try moving out of your mammys basement and go see some of the world... you think it's bad here? Try walking the streets of Hanajuju on Halloween night, you small-minded, sheltered, bigots would shít your pants.
Why don't you go out and actually help these people instead of looking down on them? I do voluntary work for six different outreach programs. What do any of you do?
You all sicken me.

That should tide us over for now.

asdasd · 31-10-2009 11:42PM

Hanajuju

Goggle has no clue. I say you made it up.

stovelid · 31-10-2009 11:46PM

Voltex wrote: »

Im actually surprised by how blunt boardies are...
I was trying to be tactile in how I titled this thread....looks like I neddnt have bothered

A lot of people need to vent because they're shaking in their houses over the suffering they've endured tonight: kids hanging around outside, speaking in loud voices and letting off fireworks. Imagine!

Bitching on here beats going out and getting owned by some 16 year old.

asdasd · 31-10-2009 11:47PM

I was chased by two 11 year olds two years ago. Left the country in shame.

stovelid · 31-10-2009 11:48PM

asdasd wrote: »

I was chased by two 11 year olds two years ago. Left the country in shame.

Are you sure you didn't leave in shame because you were chasing them?

asdasd · 31-10-2009 11:52PM

I wish,dude. I wish.

They were tough feckers. I fled like a ...scared.. fleer.. from...stuff.

KungPao · 31-10-2009 11:58PM

Wow.

So working class equals knacker/scumbag/chav etc.

(I could use some strong words here, but I shall not)

Lets just I am not best pleased about the usual lazy stereotypes being rolled out here.

Maybe there are bonfires in these areas because they like having fun.

A side note ---there is scum in all the 'classes'.

brummytom · 01-11-2009 12:00AM

KungPao wrote: »

Wow.

So working class equals knacker/scumbag/chav etc.

No, but vast majority of knacker/scumbag/chav etc = working class

asdasd · 01-11-2009 12:16AM

No, but vast majority of knacker/scumbag/chav etc = working class

I think most of us are working class - working for the man is working class. I generally dislike the use of the term working class to mean (effectively) the underclass. On the subject of the underclass I admit bigotry.

A side note ---there is scum in all the 'classes'.

/cough bankers /cough

Saibh · 01-11-2009 12:29AM

mikemac wrote: »

Was standing at the bus stop in Ballyfermot Dublin today. Around 17:30.
Some fecker in a Micra gave me an evil smile and threw some sort of firework at me. Missed me but missed my bag with €70 worth of shopping by inches.
And then the bollox was stopped in traffic for ages.

If I had balls or was like the Citizen I'd have dragged him from the car and beaten him.
I'll admit it, I did nothing at all. And this lad I bet was no more then 17

Don't really understand some people mentality - what enjoyment would he have got out of it. At least no one was hurt.

4zn76tysfajdxp · 01-11-2009 12:30AM

brummytom wrote: »

No, but vast majority of knacker/scumbag/chav etc = working class

Not really, seeing as most of them have never seen a day's work in their life.

To be honest, I think that some people in here are confusing "working class" with "scumbaggish thugs." I also think some people in here should be fucking ashamed of themselves.

brummytom · 01-11-2009 12:38AM

Yisroel Billions Gum wrote: »

Not really, seeing as most of them have never seen a day's work in their life.

To be honest, I think that some people in here are confusing "working class" with "scumbaggish thugs." I also think some people in here should be fucking ashamed of themselves.

Fair play. I think it's fair to say most knackers/chavs wouldn't be middle-class.. though, as you say, having - in all probability - not worked, it would seem unfair to describe them as working class.
What social class would they best be described as then?

I'm reminded of a clip from John Prescott's TV series on class
John: (Talking to some dossers): And what class would you consider yourself
Dosser: Middle-class I think, yeah
John: Really.. not working class?
Dosser: I down't werk

I'm not ashamed of myself either.

pebbles21 · 01-11-2009 12:39AM

mikemac wrote: »

Was standing at the bus stop in Ballyfermot Dublin today. Around 17:30.
Some fecker in a Micra gave me an evil smile and threw some sort of firework at me. Missed me but missed my bag with €70 worth of shopping by inches.
And then the bollox was stopped in traffic for ages.

If I had balls or was like the Citizen I'd have dragged him from the car and beaten him.
I'll admit it, I did nothing at all. And this lad I bet was no more then 17

What you did was the right thing to do !these scummers love someone to react so they have something to brag about to their scummy mates

Just be safe in the knowledge that one day that fcuker will get whats coming to him!

themont85 · 01-11-2009 12:40AM

Halloween night is an excuse for all classes to act like degenerate scumbags. Probably more from 'working class areas' but I was Blackrock/Foxrock tonight and saw plenty of bombfires/little twats with fireworks.

4zn76tysfajdxp · 01-11-2009 12:41AM

brummytom wrote: »

What social class would they best be described as then?

Under.

MarkR · 01-11-2009 12:42AM

mikemac wrote: »

Was standing at the bus stop in Ballyfermot Dublin today. Around 17:30.
Some fecker in a Micra gave me an evil smile and threw some sort of firework at me. Missed me but missed my bag with €70 worth of shopping by inches.
And then the bollox was stopped in traffic for ages.

If I had balls or was like the Citizen I'd have dragged him from the car and beaten him.
I'll admit it, I did nothing at all. And this lad I bet was no more then 17

Tin of beans through the back window would have got hit attention. Hell even a spud in the exhaust would have gotten your point across!

KungPao · 01-11-2009 01:21AM

This thread reeks of insecurity. People desperately trying to distance themselves from 'the working class'.

Most don't seem to even understand what class is, or what the system represents.

I hate all this class business. As Jumbo once said in Only fools and horses, 'a blokes just a bloke'.

Indeed Jumbo, indeed.

gurramok · 01-11-2009 01:41AM

I'm in D4 roysh, none of this bonfires(we rather recycle like good green people) and fireworks stuff.
We can hear the fireworks exploding from the nearby ghetto, damn peasants. At least we have middle class gardai to take care of those riff-raff :P

Middle Class Area= No Bonfire, Working Class Area= Burn The Whole Thing Down

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