Things you can do down the country that you can't do in Dublin.

milehip1 · 28-02-2011 11:15PM

knird evol wrote: »

Or in the north west - they put hold their fist towards the windscreen

'they put hold their fist towards the windscreen'

is that Donegalish?

stupidusername · 28-02-2011 11:16PM

sheesh wrote: »

Take less than an hour to drive anywhere you want to go.

This. It's only a feckin city. you'd think they'd have better transport routes. I mean look at london. There's a few million more people and they have brilliant transport there. just grrr in general at dublin bus. used to always think how mad it is to spend something like 20 mins driving to work, but I spend an hour getting there myself now.

Solnskaya · 28-02-2011 11:16PM

Park your car WHEREVER you like.

AskMyChocolate · 28-02-2011 11:16PM

Give out abot, how 25 isn't half the game that 45 is,

Princess Consuela Bananahammock · 28-02-2011 11:17PM

sheesh wrote: »

Take less than an hour to drive anywhere you want to go.

... what, no public transport?

Walk empty beaches.

You ARE aware Dublin is coastal, right?

Go fishing and actually catch fish.

Seriosuly... big blue thing right beside it called "the sea".... check it out on a map...

walk home from the nightclub.

Assuming you enjoy 7-mile hikes after a night out

Not get hassled by druggies for cigarettes/money when smoking outside a pub.

Give you this one.

Have a life outside the pub.

Mass does NOT count as a "life"!!

KindOfIrish · 28-02-2011 11:17PM

To buy 3 bed semi for 120k

starling. · 28-02-2011 11:20PM

AskMyChocolate wrote: »

Wait on a crossroads for someone to come along.
Leave your change on the bar.
Play a game of pool with a couple of young lads.
Lose, and buy a bottle of red lemonade for the winners.
Buy a bottle of red lemonade.
Ask a complete stranger has he a tip for the 4.40 at Navan.
Rub your hands together when a plate of stew is put in front of you.
Blame Dublin.
Elect Michael Lowry.
Be told by your Auntie, that the only reason that you're getting stew at all is because "Your mother's a friend of mine"
Wash up
Go to Mass
See your great-auntie Brid
Wait at a different crossroads
Bond with your uncle who has an accumlator going.
Tell everyone that your mam is grand.
Visit a cemetary.
Waste half an hour chatting a girl up only to find she's your cousin.
Give out about your closest neighbours
Get the roide in Hayes' hotel while explaining to a young one how it was all fields down there.
Go to mass.
Fry up everything that couldn't walk from the previous night.
Miss your cousins.
Be strangely sad on the train.

Stare down a butcher. "Those chops are a bit fatty Michael"
Be beady-eyed.
Win two extra chops.
So AHer's what have I missed?

Er, I've crossed off all the things that you can do in Dublin. I could probably cross off more, except I'm unsure as to the availability of red lemonade in the Pale, I don't know what an accumulator is and I'm confused about the winning two extra chops thing.

About the leaving your change on the bar, you never specified that it shouldn't be stolen :pac:

And you put in mass twice, God love you

They're not all heathens up there I believe!

I'll add to your now very tiny list anyway...

Go visit landmarks which aren't in Dublin like the Blarney Stone and the Cliffs of Moher.
Complain about jackeens (though actually I suppose you can do that quietly in Dublin

pockets3d · 28-02-2011 11:20PM

Know everyone, even ironically the travellers that come and go

Not get hassled by druggies for cigarettes/money when smoking outside a pub.

but you can get hassled by your children for cigareetes/money when smoking outside a pub coz its a small place and they know where to find you

the groutch · 28-02-2011 11:23PM

bazza1 wrote: »

marry your sister

pics or GTFO

Princess Consuela Bananahammock · 28-02-2011 11:26PM

the groutch wrote: »

pics or GTFO

Alright, then...

Jesus Wept · 28-02-2011 11:27PM

Obviously you are just trolling by posting this thread in a Dublin forum.

Odysseus · 28-02-2011 11:28PM

Lando Griffin wrote: »

Be driving down the road and take a gun out and shoot something.

Not really legal that one, but it is nice to be able to walk along a public a public road with my shotgun open or my rifle over my shoulder on the way to my hunting grounds with worrying about the ERU suddenly surrounding me.

You can't shoot from a public road anymore, though I know some still do it. However, it is nice to able to engage in your sport without someone either judging you or calling the cops. As if I would carry a shot gun with 32" barrels along a public road if I didn't have the correct paper work.

Whereas in Dublin you have to sneak your firearms into the house in case somebody sees you.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock · 28-02-2011 11:31PM

Odysseus wrote: »

Not really legal that one, but it is nice to be able to walk along a public a public road with my shotgun open or my rifle over my shoulder on the way to my hunting grounds with worrying about the ERU suddenly surrounding me.

You can't shoot from a public road anymore, though I know some still do it. However, it is nice to able to engage in your sport without someone either judging you or calling the cops. As if I would carry a shot gun with 32" barrels along a public road if I didn't have the correct paper work.

Whereas in Dublin you have to sneak your firearms into the house in case somebody sees you.

You can do all this in Dublin.

rain on · 28-02-2011 11:39PM

Borrow your husband's car while yours is in the garage and have people you don't know raising their fingers off the steering wheel at you because they recognise each other by their cars

See massive amounts of stars in the sky at night

Park four tractors in various stages of disrepair on your lawn

Leave the doors unlocked

Corollary of the previous point: walk into people's houses and roar 'hello!' from the hall instead of ringing the doorbell

OhMeOhMy · 28-02-2011 11:39PM

Leave your back door unlocked for the neighbours to come and go

flanum · 28-02-2011 11:42PM

play cards for turkeys.

OhMeOhMy · 28-02-2011 11:43PM

Tea and buns at the local Whist in the parish hall!

Odysseus · 28-02-2011 11:50PM

Ikky Poo2 wrote: »

You can do all this in Dublin.

You can walk along a country road with your shotgun not in its case; but the barrels open so it is clear to all that it is safe and unloaded. Either on my way to or back from a feild I was hunting in, but I cannot do so in a high populated area, it has to be covered a case. I often see people walking on public roads in the country like that or with a pump or semi which cannot be broken open, I have an O/U so it's broken open if I'm on a public road. Though generally I would have it in a gun sock unless I'm just moving a couple of hundred meters to a different peice of land.

However, if I was to walk from my mothers in Ballyfermot with a shotgun in the open I would be lifted quite quickly, as it is an offense; and you bet people would be on their phones about the guy in combat gear walking down the road with a shot gun.

However, they may ring Joe Duffy first depending on the time of the day;)

Asphyxia · 28-02-2011 11:53PM

Star gazing

.same. · 28-02-2011 11:58PM

Check out the local newspaper to see whos been put off the road for drink driving

Princess Consuela Bananahammock · 28-02-2011 11:58PM

rain on wrote: »

Borrow your husband's car while yours is in the garage and have people you don't know raising their fingers off the steering wheel at you because they recognise each other by their cars

Hang on , if said sriver fails to recognse that the person driving is a different gender, they should NOT be on the road!

Odysseus wrote: »

You can walk along a country road with your shotgun not in its case; but the barrels open so it is clear to all that it is safe and unloaded. Either on my way to or back from a feild I was hunting in, but I cannot do so in a high populated area, it has to be covered a case. I often see people walking on public roads in the country like that or with a pump or semi which cannot be broken open, I have an O/U so it's broken open if I'm on a public road. Though generally I would have it in a gun sock unless I'm just moving a couple of hundred meters to a different peice of land.

However, if I was to walk from my mothers in Ballyfermot with a shotgun in the open I would be lifted quite quickly, as it is an offense; and you bet people would be on their phones about the guy in combat gear walking down the road with a shot gun.

However, they may ring Joe Duffy first depending on the time of the day;)

It's only an offense in Dublin, or you break the law down the country...?

ottostreet · 01-03-2011 12:01AM

I'm amazed at how accurate this list is. Including my butchers name being Michael!

And as for raising the finger at cars passing ya....im guilty!

davetherave · 01-03-2011 12:02AM

You can do all of those things in Dublin, bar the two Thurles things.

Bobjims · 01-03-2011 12:04AM

Get the intermittent smell of cow ****e while driving through the countryside.

Jesus Wept · 01-03-2011 12:07AM

OhMeOhMy wrote: »

Leave your back door unlocked for the neighbours to come and go

Some country bumpkins really are an easy target because they think crime doesn't exist and that not bothering to lock your doors is a good idea.

Also, why anyone wants their neighbours to come and go at will and without warning I have no idea.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock · 01-03-2011 12:09AM

The-Rigger wrote: »

Also, why anyone wants their neighbours to come and go at will and without warning I have no idea.

Danger ****.

Bykobap · 01-03-2011 12:10AM

Bobjims wrote: »

Get the intermittent smell of cow ****e while driving through the countryside.

Aaaaaahh the smell of home.

Balfie · 01-03-2011 12:11AM

AskMyChocolate wrote: »

Wait on a crossroads for someone to come along.
Leave your change on the bar.
Play a game of pool with a couple of young lads.
Lose, and buy a bottle of red lemonade for the winners.
Buy a bottle of red lemonade.
Ask a complete stranger has he a tip for the 4.40 at Navan.
Rub your hands together when a plate of stew is put in front of you.
Blame Dublin.
Elect Michael Lowry.
Be told by your Auntie, that the only reason that you're getting stew at all is because "Your mother's a friend of mine"
Wash up
Go to Mass
See your great-auntie Brid
Wait at a different crossroads
Bond with your uncle who has an accumlator going.
Tell everyone that your mam is grand.
Visit a cemetary.
Waste half an hour chatting a girl up only to find she's your cousin.
Give out about your closest neighbours
Get the roide in Hayes' hotel while explaining to a young one how it was all fields down there.
Go to mass.
Fry up everything that couldn't walk from the previous night.
Miss your cousins.
Be strangely sad on the train.

Stare down a butcher. "Those chops are a bit fatty Michael"
Be beady-eyed.
Win two extra chops.
So AHer's what have I missed?

Wait. You have stew on a plate an try to slag us Dublin people? What's next butter ur bread with a spoon?

rain on · 01-03-2011 12:17AM

Ikky Poo2 wrote: »

Hang on , if said sriver fails to recognse that the person driving is a different gender, they should NOT be on the road!

Maybe it's also the case that only in the country do you get driving instructors with the motto "Look at the space, not at the face"

Odysseus · 01-03-2011 12:21AM

Ikky Poo2 wrote: »

Hang on , if said sriver fails to recognse that the person driving is a different gender, they should NOT be on the road!

It's only an offense in Dublin, or you break the law down the country...?

No it's an offense in a highly populated area, whereas a rural country road isn't.

That's my understanding of it, the guys in the shooting forum can explain it much better as some of them know the firearms act backwards, I just know what I need to in order to stay legal. The same way you need to be a safe distance from a road to discharge your firearm, as I was pointing out to the poster I quoted.

It's a person choice but I waited until I have my own place in the country before I started geting my firearms, you need to be much more security conscious certain parts of Dublin

Things you can do down the country that you can't do in Dublin.

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