Bad Weather.. Dublin needs to "man up".

thedoc46 · 06-01-2010 10:50PM

deccurley wrote: »

+1 OP.

if some people learned to drive in slippy conditions, the congestion wouldnt be as bad. Revving the crap out of the car!

Agreed 100% when i left for work earlier people were doing about 5kmh, folks this is what has the city brought to a standstill, Learn how to handle your car in this weather and it will not take 2+ hours to get home, Today hasn't a patch on new years morning.

seven-iron · 06-01-2010 10:51PM

Maybe if ye bitter jealous moaning attention-seeking culchies didnt come up here clogging up our roads (aswell as stealing our wimmin and jobs), the traffic would have been grand and I would have been home in time for my coddle and Fair City.

Thats incorrect. Dublin women dont like culchies.

poochiem · 06-01-2010 10:52PM

It is a complete joke. The city is at a standstill and I was walking through it thinking "it's not even freezing, it's been worse than this every day for a month in Galway". Nobody can say "it's the media not the dubs" because it was the dubs that all left work at lunch time because of the 'blizzard' and clogged every road in the city.

RTE deserve credit they did an outside broadcast from Bective, that's practically the countryside. ffs.

lol5605 · 06-01-2010 10:52PM

4 hour drive from santry to maynooth!

drdeadlift · 06-01-2010 10:53PM

thedoc46 wrote: »

Agreed 100% when i left for work earlier people were doing about 5kmh, folks this is what has the city brought to a standstill, Learn how to handle your car in this weather and it will not take 2+ hours to get home, Today hasn't a patch on new years morning.

I think it was a lot worse,if it does hit -6 tonight good luck to people getting to work in the morning.

yosser hughes · 06-01-2010 10:53PM

Dublin is the capital city and more people live and work here and therfore IT IS more important. Besided that,the whole country has failed pathetically to deal with mild winter conditions. THAT is the issue! Not some Dublin versus Country crap. Get over it.

twinytwo · 06-01-2010 10:53PM

its like dublin people when they go into the country... like deers in a headlight havnt got a clue... try to go down a single lane road with a truck coming against you and try to make the truck reverse:pac:

starbelgrade · 06-01-2010 10:54PM

seven-iron wrote: »

Thats incorrect. Dublin women dont like culchies.

And vice versa.

wolfpawnat · 06-01-2010 10:54PM

projectmayhem wrote: »

I just cannot get over the lack of planning for snow. It's not a huge amount of snow. Sure, more then we're used to, but having SOME buses with tyres to tackle the ice would be beneficial

+1 - nothing a few tyres for the buses won't sort out!

Dudess wrote: »

Yeah, but they have provisions in place for it, which Ireland doesn't have.

Our country hasn't the cop on to be ready for flooding (clearly), snow (obviously) or drought. We are being led incompetently regarding climatic provisions.

Nothing a bit of grit/salt/tyres/community unity wouldn't sort out

Hank_Jones · 06-01-2010 10:54PM

Why don't you all stop whinging and get on with it.

What a bunch of whingers.

P.S...I'm aware of the irony of this post, so please don't point that out...

thegen · 06-01-2010 10:55PM

twinytwo wrote: »

its like dublin people when they go into the country... like deers in a headlight havnt got a clue... try to go down a single lane road with a truck coming against you and try to make the truck reverse:pac:

Or Culchies caught in a one way system in Dublin;)

twinytwo · 06-01-2010 10:55PM

yosser hughes wrote: »

Dublin is the capital city and more people live and work here and therfore IT IS more important. Besided that,the whole country has failed pathetically to deal with mild winter conditions. THAT is the issue! Not some Dublin versus Country crap. Get over it.

its the fact thats it "mild" winter conditions for an extended period of time

drdeadlift · 06-01-2010 10:56PM

poochiem wrote: »

It is a complete joke. The city is at a standstill and I was walking through it thinking "it's not even freezing, it's been worse than this every day for a month in Galway". Nobody can say "it's the media not the dubs" because it was the dubs that all left work at lunch time because of the 'blizzard' and clogged every road in the city.

RTE deserve credit they did an outside broadcast from Bective, that's practically the countryside. ffs.

Dublin is a little bigger than galway& there are a hell of alot more people commuting long distances.

starbelgrade · 06-01-2010 10:57PM

yosser hughes wrote: »

Dublin is the capital city and more people live and work here and therfore IT IS more important..

There's old folks around where I live that have been isolated for 2 weeks now - if it weren't for neighbours getting them food & supplies, go knows what state they'd be in.

Compare that to a 4 hour journey home from Santry to Maynooth. You could starve to death in that time.

Oh yes, Dublin is more important because majority rules, not just at election time.

twinytwo · 06-01-2010 10:57PM

thegen wrote: »

Or Culchies caught in a one way system in Dublin;)

cant say that happens alot.. most country people know what a one way sign looks like... Dubliners however can be left in awe at what they believe to a magical animal ie... the cow

epgc3fyqirnbsx · 06-01-2010 10:58PM

starbelgrade wrote: »

I think they're well capable of doing that themselves, never mind the fact that most of the country's media is Dublin based (and Dublincentric).

Well the media wherever its from is probably responsible for most of the fighting that goes on here in AH

The Dublin/Country divide is exageratted when every time they venture outside the capital they pick the greatest bogarsed gombeen they can find to interview hence the dublin opinion that everyone outside they pale is an ignorant bogtrotter.(and don't get me started on that miserable pr1ck Jim Fahey)
Then when they interview dubs its either a posh wanker like d1ckhead from the meteor ad or some rats from the flats

No wonder they love David McWilliams in Montrose, it's all about pigeon holing everyone

sorry for going off topic, needed a vent

twinytwo · 06-01-2010 10:59PM

drkpower wrote: »

Maybe if ye bitter jealous moaning attention-seeking culchies didnt come up here clogging up our roads (aswell as stealing our wimmin and jobs), the traffic would have been grand and I would have been home in time for my coddle and Fair City.

tut tut... dont you no all the dublin women spread out from dublin looking for some real men?

Hank_Jones · 06-01-2010 11:01PM

Maximilian Fierce Radial wrote: »

The Dublin/Country divide is exageratted when every time they venture outside the capital they pick the greatest bogarsed gombeen they can find to interview hence the dublin opinion that everyone outside they pale is an ignorant bogtrotter.

Wait a second....

Everyone outside ''town'' isn't a complete muck savage?

When did this come about?

rossie1977 · 06-01-2010 11:02PM

drdeadlift wrote: »

Dublin is a little bigger than galway& there are a hell of alot more people commuting long distances.

and new york is ten times bigger than dublin and a little snow and ice doesn't close down that city, i was there during the blizzard of 2004, i couldn't see my hand in front of my face the snow was so strong and yet everything was moving. 26 inches inches of snow fell in central park one night a few years back and they had it cleared by morning on most roads, imagine 26 inches falling here, there would be people dying in the streets by the hundreds

Dempsey · 06-01-2010 11:02PM

Hank_Jones wrote: »

Wait a second....

Everyone outside ''town'' isn't a complete muck savage?

When did this come about?

You commute, dont you? :pac:

bonerm · 06-01-2010 11:04PM

Maximilian Fierce Radial wrote: »

You're right in fairness, tis always the meeja that gives the dubs a bad name whether its when dublin win a football match or get a bit of bad weather. Them and the lazy public servants in dublin bus :eek:

There definetly should be some sort of godwins-law for country posters who try to maintain that Dublin GAA is representative of this city and it's people. Dublin is a metropolitan city. Unlike the small parishes and counties around the country who are obsessed with the sport and treat their first XV like gods, we here don't live and breath and die for our team. We don't find it to be some sort of "point proved" when we beat the neighbouring county. I alway find it funny when people outside the capital cannot comprehend this. In fact 90% of people in this city (myself included don't give a flying **** about Dublin GAA and I'd say most of the remainder don't care either and only even go to games because it's a nice day out during the summer.

bluecatmorgana · 06-01-2010 11:04PM

I'm sick and tired of this Culchie v Dublin crap, for god sake nobody cares. Why do all country people have this thing about Dublin, that they hate it more than anything else. I have this friend from Meath (who of course lives and works in Dublin and dates a Dubliner) who always wants Dublin to lose in every GAA match regardless of who they are playing.... it seems a bit hypocrital to me to need Dublin so much but to dislike it so much too.

bluecatmorgana · 06-01-2010 11:05PM

bonerm wrote: »

There definetly should be some sort of godwins-law for country posters who try to maintain that Dublin GAA is representative of this city and it's people. Dublin is a metropolitan city. Unlike the small parishes and counties around the country who are obsessed with the sport and treat their first XV like gods, we here don't live and breath and die for our team. We don't find it to be some sort of "point proved" when we beat the neighbouring county. I alway find it funny when people outside the capital cannot comprehend this. In fact 90% of people in this city (myself included don't give a flying **** about Dublin GAA and I'd say most of the remainder don't care either and only even go to games because it's a nice day out during the summer.

oh thank God someone made this point.

here here

Hank_Jones · 06-01-2010 11:05PM

Dempsey wrote: »

You commute, dont you? :pac:

I try not to mix with the non-Dublin folk.

Savages.

seven-iron · 06-01-2010 11:06PM

4 hour drive from santry to maynooth!

you should have got a lift man!!!

df1985 · 06-01-2010 11:06PM

twinytwo wrote: »

its like dublin people when they go into the country... like deers in a headlight havnt got a clue... try to go down a single lane road with a truck coming against you and try to make the truck reverse:pac:

almost as good as when the country reg's see the M50 and wonder why theres two main roads side by side with a wall down the middle.....
its called a motorway lads, now get in the right bloody lane!

anyways this is a dublin v country thread already.

fact is the whole country is unprepared for this.if cork/limerick was hit theyd complain too.

Jax Teller · 06-01-2010 11:06PM

drdeadlift wrote: »

I think it was a lot worse,if it does hit -6 tonight good luck to people getting to work in the morning.

its already -5 http://www.google.ie/search?hl=en&source=hp&q=dublin+weather&meta=&aq=f&oq=dublin+weathe

twinytwo · 06-01-2010 11:07PM

bluecatmorgana wrote: »

I'm sick and tired of this Culchie v Dublin crap, for god sake nobody cares. Why do all country people have this thing about Dublin, that they hate it more than anything else. I have this friend from Meath (who of course lives and works in Dublin and dates a Dubliner) who always wants Dublin to lose in every GAA match regardless of who they are playing.... it seems a bit hypocrital to me to need Dublin so much but to dislike it so much too.

dude relax ... most people here are only having a mess....

epgc3fyqirnbsx · 06-01-2010 11:08PM

bonerm wrote: »

There definetly should be some sort of godwins-law for country posters who try to maintain that Dublin GAA is representative of this city and it's people. Dublin is a metropolitan city. Unlike the small parishes and counties around the country who are obsessed with the sport and treat their first XV like gods, we here don't live and breath and die for our team. We don't find it to be some sort of "point proved" when we beat the neighbouring county. I alway find it funny when people outside the capital cannot comprehend this. In fact 90% of people in this city (myself included don't give a flying **** about Dublin GAA and I'd say most of the remainder don't care either and only even go to games because it's a nice day out during the summer.

i've lived in a few little towns around the west and like dublin, the XV doesn't represent them either. I live in a village with about 300 and me or my friends couldn't gie a flying fcuk about the local team which is one of the best in the county. So don't stereotype us either

Dirk Gently · 06-01-2010 11:08PM

bluecatmorgana wrote: »

I'm sick and tired of this Culchie v Dublin crap,

ahh come on, it never gets old. get with the programme and stick it to someone.

Bad Weather.. Dublin needs to "man up".

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