What's the most Urbanistic thing you've seen a City Dweller do?

starbelgrade · 27-08-2010 11:27AM #1

City dwellers - they get excited when they see a field full of sheep, they get worried when they're driving on a country road at night that doesn't have street lights, they panic if they leave their housing estate without a Sat Nav, they get surprised when they get a pint for less than €4 & they ask silly questions, like "can you get a bus from here?" and "what time does the bar close?" when they're in a rural pub.

So, what's the most urbanistic* thing you've seen a city dweller do?

* = Yes, I made this word up

Mr. Rager · 27-08-2010 11:29AM

Urban people... always thinking they're better than us :mad:

SeaFields · 27-08-2010 11:31AM

Roar in terror..."what the fcuk is that?!!!!"

Its ok little urban dwelling dude, its just a cow.

--Kaiser-- · 27-08-2010 11:32AM

Throw a plastic bottle on the ground

Teferi · 27-08-2010 11:33AM

Eat ham sandwiches and not hang sangwiches.

funkyjebus · 27-08-2010 11:35AM

contribute to society.

cowhands · 27-08-2010 11:36AM

My Dad lives in the country in the midlands. He has an acre of garden that faces onto 52 arces of land for cattle and sheep.
One of the first times my other half (orginally from Dublin) came to visit he popped outside for a smoke and came running shouting "theres bleedin' bull in your garden!"...

...No love thats cow and its in a field...

Cantona's Collars · 27-08-2010 11:37AM

Run riot in Courtown on bank holiday weekends.Wear pyjamas to the shops.

Helmet · 27-08-2010 11:37AM

I grew up just on the Louth side of the border. I once had a little Dubín visiting for the weekend. We went for a spin, he was driving and I slowly but surely guided him across the border into South Armagh. After a while he asked me were we far from the North, I informed him that we were indeed in Northern Ireland. He let a little shriek out of him, did a dirty great U-turn and belted it back South as fast as his Ford Escort could carry him. He was genuinely petrified, he thought that he wasn't allowed to drive in the North and had been expecting a whole big border-crossing/immigration ordeal.......the crazy little Jackeen had even brought his passport...bless!

markesmith · 27-08-2010 11:41AM

Develop very strange accents

Notorious97 · 27-08-2010 11:42AM

Do you mean Dublin folk or are we including a makeshift 'city' you find in other counties?

GavRedKing · 27-08-2010 11:43AM

Drive huge foooooook off 4 x 4 around the city

anniehoo · 27-08-2010 11:43AM

Helmet wrote: »

He was genuinely petrified, he thought that he wasn't allowed to drive in the North and had been expecting a whole big border-crossing/immigration ordeal.......the crazy little Jackeen had even brought his passport...bless!

Dont blame him. I still remember being stopped at the border by guys with guns with "heads" on them asking to search our car boot...scary shyte when you're 5. Stuck in my head for a long long while...

MidlandsM · 27-08-2010 11:44AM

What's the most Urbanistic thing you've seen a City Dweller do?

well, .....pay 400k for a shoebox apt in a sh*thole area of Dublin.

pawrick · 27-08-2010 11:48AM

waiting for the train in Athlone at 2am to bring them back to Dublin (locked doors and no lights on at the station didn't give them a clue and no they had no alcohol on them).

ask me how to milk a cow? I've as much idea as anyone who saw it on tv.

assume I grew up on a farm / play GAA etc.

maybe more a dublin thing:

not know how to drive a car.

complain about the dark when out walking in the country at night!

ask me if I was Polish or English? (just because my accent is different doesnt mean I'm foreign!)

lay on the street passed out during the day

grab old womens hand bags

ask for change for a "hostel"

complain about coppers/flannerys and end up there anyhow on a night out

Deus Ex Machina · 27-08-2010 11:51AM

It is a trait among many country folk (I won't use absolutes like the initial post because that is clearly absurd) to believe that they are in some way tougher or more savvy than people who live in cities. It is hilarious when you actually confront these people on the issue, and see if they can provide tangible examples of how exactly they are superior and why this is the case, it usually ends up in some sort of tirade against "city people" and how they are soft in some unqauntifiable way.

landsleaving · 27-08-2010 11:52AM

I don't know.. own an apartment?

Maybe moan about people from outside Dublin, that seems popular too.

Why can't we all just be friends?

topper75 · 27-08-2010 11:53AM

Protest a fair shoulder-on-shoulder challenge when playing football.

CiaranC · 27-08-2010 11:53AM

Earn 95% of the GDP of the country

Sykk · 27-08-2010 11:53AM

They get surprised at how people are actually friendly and welcoming in small towns.

They end up moving down and buying a house when they realize it's actually safe for their kids to play outside.

They can't believe houses actually have gardens.

They go to any sporting match and stand in awe at how much better people from the country are at sports.

They try to hide their stupid accent when they hear how normal people actually communicate.

They can actually breath a full intake of oxygen rather than smoke from a double decker bus.

SugarHigh · 27-08-2010 11:55AM

There was a dublin guy in Mayo who rang up the local radio station to complain that some scumbag had dumped a bath tub in the middle of a field. It was in fact being used by the farmer to give his cows drinking water.

Millicent · 27-08-2010 11:59AM

CiaranC wrote: »

Earn 95% of the GDP of the country

Ah here. Don't be just pulling figures out of your arse. It doesn't help you make your sarky point.

Misanthrope · 27-08-2010 12:01PM

Drive through miles of urban traffic to the gym to use a treadmill for an hour.

Eat poison berries

Run away screaming from a cow.

Pace2008 · 27-08-2010 12:01PM

starbelgrade wrote: »

they get worried when they're driving on a country road at night that doesn't have street lights,

And not without reason, considering most fatal accidents occur on these roads, and our rural friends often have less compunction with getting behind the wheel after a beer or 10.

Millicent · 27-08-2010 12:05PM

A school friend of mine from the Brack was coming down to meet me so we could head off to Slane together. We went to school together in Bray and that was the furthest she had ever been "down the country".

So while I'm waiting for her to come down, she rings me and asks me are there any shops/off licences where I live. In Wicklow town. As in the capital town of the county she is coming to. Bless her, she really thought she was coming down to a house surrounded by fields, just because it was past the Pale.

So I did what any decent friend would. I told her "no". :pac: I told her we just had the one pub that was also the shop but we had to drive a long way to get to anything like a supermarket so we'd just have to get a carry out. She believed me too, until she got to the town and rang me excitedly to tell me she could see shops and pubs.

fakearms123 · 27-08-2010 12:06PM

Sit outside a coffee shop with peroxide blonde hair, giant novelty sunglasses with a big dopey judgemental face havin a "smoke" with a big gay cup of mocha choca latte pondering about what to spend daddy's money on next... f*cking sluts!

starbelgrade · 27-08-2010 12:08PM

Pace2008 wrote: »

And not without reason, considering most fatal accidents occur on these roads, and our rural friends often have less compunction with getting behind the wheel after a beer or 10.

I don't think it's the lack of road lighting that causes the accidents. Most cars have headlights.

Essien · 27-08-2010 12:10PM

I was stopped in traffic in Walkinstown one day when 2 young Dublin girls in a fiat punto pulled up beside me, the driver asked..

"How do I get to Walkinstown?"

Bob the Seducer · 27-08-2010 12:10PM

fakearms123 wrote: »

Sit outside a coffee shop with peroxide blonde hair, giant novelty sunglasses with a big dopey judgemental face havin a "smoke" with a big gay cup of mocha choca latte pondering about what to spend daddy's money on next... f*cking sluts!

Oooh... turned you down, eh? :pac:

easyeason3 · 27-08-2010 12:10PM

Stop at pedestrian crossing, press the button to change the lights & actually wait for the light to go green before they cross.
That always cracks me up. Everyone else just crosses the road without the aid of a green light.

fakearms123 · 27-08-2010 12:12PM

Bob the Seducer wrote: »

Oooh... turned you down, eh? :pac:

you probably don't have that problem Mr. Seducer :pac::p

What's the most Urbanistic thing you've seen a City Dweller do?

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