How do you define a D4?

opinion guy · 26-03-2010 01:23AM

billybigunz wrote: »

Did you get that from the boggers guide to lazy d4 stereotypes?

Ross O'Carroll-Kelly ??

Millicent · 26-03-2010 01:23AM

Nulty wrote: »

Whats the craic with that? my head "does be wrecked" when people talk like that. My nephew is 7 and says 'Hostible' for Hospital and says 'I done me/y homework'.

I don't care about his accent but the words are wrong! The words are wrong:mad:

Does that happen in D4?

Yes! It literally does! :P

nicegirl · 26-03-2010 01:28AM

Nulty wrote: »

Whats the craic with that? my head "does be wrecked" when people talk like that. My nephew is 7 and says 'Hostible' for Hospital and says 'I done me/y homework'.

I don't care about his accent but the words are wrong! The words are wrong:mad:

Does that happen in D4?

Grammatical error! Didn't mean to offend you

baalthor · 26-03-2010 04:59AM

Bubs101 wrote: »

A Lawyer and a Brickie might work as hard as each other in their respective jobs but the brickie could never have worked at all the day before he got the job whereas a Lawyer worked all through his childhood and his adolescance to get there

Er, no. Bricklaying is a skilled trade requiring several years of training and apprenticeship. There are barristers living on marginal incomes who might have been better off had they had taken up a trade like bricklaying or carpentry instead.

starbelgrade · 26-03-2010 05:08AM

baalthor wrote: »

Er, no. Bricklaying is a skilled trade requiring several years of training and apprenticeship. There are barristers living on marginal incomes who might have been better off had they had taken up a trade like bricklaying or carpentry instead.

Comparing the two is literally like comparing chalk & cheese.

Michaelrsh · 26-03-2010 06:53AM

baalthor wrote: »

Er, no. Bricklaying is a skilled trade requiring several years of training and apprenticeship. There are barristers living on marginal incomes who might have been better off had they had taken up a trade like bricklaying or carpentry instead.

That's true, aren't only 5% of barristers actually are successful (can't confirm this statistic though) partly because of the fact that there are so many lawyers in the country, so much so that there isn't enough work for them all. And also, this thing about becoming a lawyer. One isn't require to have a law degree to gain access to the king's inn or the law society to become a barrister or a solicitor. I know a girl who has a english degree and then did this 6 months FE-1 course (think it was DIT) to prepare for the law society exams and you know what she got in and is now a practicing solicitor. However she does say that it is ten-a-penny at the moment and only solicitor/barristers with connections get anywhere.

I am kinda sick of this D4 thing though. I'm in UCD now but live on the northside and all my school friends are now calling me a D4. :rolleyes: .
Now I really see the stereotypical D4 though everyday. It usually comes in the form of a female with messy hair, tracksuit bottom that are usually yellow, pink or blue, and never forget a pair of Uggs. Other must have accessories are a nice designer bag and a brush in your left hand. In terms of the class background, sometimes their parents are on the top-half of the food chain, however I have noticed that in a group of these D4 one girl is wealthy and the other girls kinda view her as the central axis of the group, known as the 'Alpha-D4'. These packs of wandering D4's are usually grazing beside the Arts block or Quinn, however they have been spotted outside their usually territories from time to time. This migration has yet to be explained but could be due to the economic climate and the fact that one can prey on cheaper food in other parts of the campus.

One more thing. I think one can compare Dublin 4 as it is nowadys to the final days of the Soviet Union. Its infrastructure was next to none other in the 1960's and 1970's however nowadays it's quite old and outdated and might even be falling apart (:P). Infrastructure and housing in other parts of dublin nowadays (most notably the northside) is more modern and advanced.

baalthor · 26-03-2010 10:31AM

starbelgrade wrote: »

Comparing the two is literally like comparing chalk & cheese.

I didn't compare them. I corrected the poster's impression that you can become a bricklayer without any training.
But if I was comparing them I would argue that the two occupations have more in common with each other than chalk and cheese.

j1974 · 26-03-2010 11:11AM

Rebelheart wrote: »

Shallow, superficial, rootless people who are the backbone of the readership of The Sunday Independent. Not much substance at all to them.

Not the sort of people you'd find at a trad seisiún, or having down-to-earth chats about real things and real characters in real pubs, or keeping in touch with family in rural Ireland, or interested in the GAA or generally part of Irish Ireland.

Yes, the true Jackeens.

I agree with your first part totally, but the "keeping in touch with family in Rural Ireland" and "GAA interest" makes ****e sense. Im from D11, far from D4, but I've no interest in Family from Rural Ireland, as I have none, born in Dublin you see, also I've not interest in GAA either, but I hardly qualify as A D4 Snob. You sound like you've a slight "jackeens are DUBS" complex. get over that, it's so *****in annoying.

Glenster · 26-03-2010 11:15AM

baalthor wrote: »

the two occupations have more in common with each other than chalk and cheese.

2ft 7' is more like brown than a flamingo is like a traffic jam. Prove me wrong.

Foxhound38 · 26-03-2010 12:03PM

melekalikimaka · 26-03-2010 12:10PM

its really quite funny reading peoples ideas of what a d4 is, tracksuits...ha.

piby · 26-03-2010 12:12PM

D4 is more than a physical appearance it's a state of mind

thebaz · 26-03-2010 12:14PM

to see real D4's call into the Donnybrook Fair , not sure if tha abercrombie fake tan brigade actually live in D4 - more upper class wanabees

p.s. except for friday night Wezz

pikachucheeks · 26-03-2010 12:46PM

Live and let live, I think.
It's not nice being categorised or boxed by other people, so why do it to them?

Jules1977 · 26-03-2010 12:53PM

John and Edward would be a good example of D4 people ! :-) Except they are from Portmarnock so I dont know what the people are like from that neck of the woods??

I remember on one of the Irish Talent Shows last year I think and these 10 year olds were asked where they were from and they responded by saying "D4" ! I was stunned :-) and the accents on them as well. Now is that the parents fault I wonder telling them to say "D4". mmmmmmmmmm

I wonder.............

Jules1977 · 26-03-2010 12:56PM

I would hate to think of my 3 year old niece sounding like a posh little madam :-) I would kill my sister lol :-) Ah no, but I worry being honest what the newer generation will be like compared to when I was a kid. Sacry times!

melekalikimaka · 26-03-2010 12:58PM

why are people disgusted at a posh accent, would it not be more desirable than a less affluent type? not be snobby just curious?

drdeadlift · 26-03-2010 01:07PM

Im not sure their accent is the give away you can normally see them a mile away

pikachucheeks · 26-03-2010 01:07PM

melekalikimaka wrote: »

why are people disgusted at a posh accent, would it not be more desirable than a less affluent type? not be snobby just curious?

People are equally disgusted by a "scumbag" accent, so seemingly, there's no pleasing Irish people.
If you're not X you're Y or Z. (X,Y and Z representing stereotypes)

I think it depends on where you're coming from though - If you live in a "posh" area and have a "posh" accent, you're more likely to be accepted there, because you'll *probably* fit in better than someone who's considered to be less posh, less "affluent".

ToxicPaddy · 26-03-2010 01:42PM

pikachucheeks wrote: »

If you live in a "posh" area and have a "posh" accent, you're more likely to be accepted there, because you'll *probably* fit in better than someone who's considered to be less posh, less "affluent".

Unfortunately this seems to be the truth, however most you will find are merely putting on a image of being affluent and are struggling with debt up to their eyeballs to pay for the image they are portraying to the outside world..

Give me a job I enjoy even if its not the most highly paid one, a decent quality of life and a group of decent down to earth friends and family who you can trust your life to over a group of stuck up shallow image obsessed drones anyday..

Thats just my 2c

Tox

profjinx · 30-03-2010 07:48PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fnu0QulMS-o&feature=player_embedded

textbook d4.

Doyler92 · 30-03-2010 07:50PM

I know it's more than likely been said before - someone from that area.

honeymonster · 30-03-2010 09:52PM

It has to be that accent I ****ing hate it!!

I was talking to an old man, and he told me when he was a young lad that accent didnt exist. So where the **** did it come from?!!

landsleaving · 30-03-2010 09:52PM

California, I think.

Latchy · 30-03-2010 10:28PM

I think I once heard it refered to as a mid atlantic accent but does sound like the Californian influence there to

30-03-2010 10:57PM

Can't remember if this was posted already but meh...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jU0ZhKHTUo

opinion guy · 31-03-2010 01:10AM

profjinx wrote: »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fnu0QulMS-o&feature=player_embedded

textbook d4.

Am I the only one who got a cat eating ham off cornflakes when I clickd on this link - you all seem to be talking about something else as the cat didn't have a d4, mid-atlantic or californian accent seeing as it didn't talk at all

Nulty · 31-03-2010 01:22AM

pikachucheeks wrote: »

People are equally disgusted by a "scumbag" accent, so seemingly, there's no pleasing Irish people.
If you're not X you're Y or Z. (X,Y and Z representing stereotypes)

I think it depends on where you're coming from though - If you live in a "posh" area and have a "posh" accent, you're more likely to be accepted there, because you'll *probably* fit in better than someone who's considered to be less posh, less "affluent".

Hammer - nail - Hit.

ballsymchugh · 31-03-2010 01:22AM

was in pizza hut earlier and overheard some young wans talking. one of them said "oh my God, i actually lolled."
not sure what she meant, but i burst my arse laughing anyway.

landsleaving · 31-03-2010 01:23AM

opinion guy wrote: »

Am I the only one who got a cat eating ham off cornflakes when I clickd on this link - you all seem to be talking about something else as the cat didn't have a d4, mid-atlantic or californian accent seeing as it didn't talk at all

That was Brian O'Driscoll's cat, obviously, loike.

In seriousness though... link fail.

In animal/ham related news, I used to catch crabs with ham on a string.

And no, I have no idea why that video of a cat eating ham was posted, and probably never will.

How do you define a D4?

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