Advertisement
Help Keep Boards Alive. Support us by going ad free today. See here: https://subscriptions.boards.ie/.
https://www.boards.ie/group/1878-subscribers-forum

Private Group for paid up members of Boards.ie. Join the club.
Hi all, please see this major site announcement: https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058427594/boards-ie-2026

Just got back from Belfast

245678

Comments

  • #32
    TheDukeOfEarl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 58 ✭✭TheDukeOfEarl


    Belfast is just like any other city on this island.


  • #33
    cancercowboy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 195 ✭✭cancercowboy


    Duckworth_Luas wrote: »
    1) I've the biggest culchie head on me, no Dubliner has ever sneered at my accent.

    2) I've never met an Irishman that called this country Éire.

    3) You're right, Cork is a ****hole.

    4) How did you mistake Belfast for Disneyland? In reality they're very different.

    Point number on is direct conflict with point number three. I called it Éire to draw a distinction from Northern Ireland. I could have called it "The Republic" but I thought that was bit too Star Wars. Éire is the name of our country after all, if you've never hear another Irishman say it you have now.


  • #34
    orourkeda
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,916 ✭✭✭✭orourkeda


    cancercowboy wrote: »
    Go yourself to Belfast city centre and tell me you aren't impressed. Tell me Dublin City center is cleaner. Tell me is better planned. Please prove me wrong.

    I think youre overstating it somewhat. Belfast isn't all that much better than Dublin or Cork


  • #35
    cancercowboy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 195 ✭✭cancercowboy


    TheDukeOfEarl wrote: »
    Belfast is just like any other city on this island.

    No, no it's not. Chatting with several mates who have been there we are all of the same opinion that the city centre is much cleaner, better planned out, and far less vagrants.


  • #36
    sollar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,007 ✭✭✭sollar


    You make alot of good points OP.

    Belfast clean, dublin dirty... peoples fault and councils fault

    Roaming gangs in dublin none in belfast... why is that happening?

    Shop fronts all occupied and decent signage in belfast because they didnt have a crazy boom and bust like us.... badly run economy here.

    NI Staff in shops in belfast unlike in dublin.... irish people too good to do them jobs:rolleyes:

    I think we have just never demanded high standards here and we never really voted in decent well meaning people. Too much cute hoorism. Its hard to put your finger on but we don't run our affairs all that great here yet.


  • Advertisement
  • #37
    stovelid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,252 ✭✭✭✭stovelid


    rossie1977 wrote: »
    you can get dinner and a pint for £5 in wetherspoons

    If you're the kind of nutbag that would be caught dead in the place, aye.

    P.S I lived in Belfast for years and don't agree with the OP. Dublin is three times the size of Belfast and no less architecturally distinguished than Belfast, being similar cities of origin. Plus the troubles ensured that Belfast was never going to have the amount of visible street crime that Dublin does.


  • #38
    KeithAFC
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,239 ✭✭✭✭KeithAFC


    Don't orange ladies clean it up every 12th with litter pickers.. Let us clean up Dublin for yous :D:D


  • #39
    cancercowboy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 195 ✭✭cancercowboy


    orourkeda wrote: »
    Dublin and Cork City centres are not as bad as you make them out to be

    Go to Belfast and tell me that. I though they weren't that bad myself until i saw how clean they could be.

    You know what, **** this. The lot of you are exactly what I am talking about, wrong minded and stubborn about it. Our city's are a ****ing tip, if you disagree you're blind or just an argumentative muppet.

    One thing is for certain with attitudes like this nothing will ever change fot he better because the lot of you are content to live in your own filth.


  • #40
    Chris P. Bacon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,808 ✭✭✭Chris P. Bacon


    KeithAFC wrote: »
    Don't orange ladies clean it up every 12th with litter pickers.. Let us clean up Dublin for yous :D:D

    Your probably not even from Northern Ireland,cut it out boy.


  • #41
    Chris P. Bacon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,808 ✭✭✭Chris P. Bacon


    cancercowboy wrote: »
    Go to Belfast and tell me that. I though they weren't that bad myself until i saw how clean they could be.

    You know what, **** this. The lot of you are exactly what I am talking about, wrong minded and stubborn about it. Our city's are a ****ing tip, if you disagree you're blind or just an argumentative muppet.

    One thing is for certain with attitudes like this nothing will ever change fot he better because the lot of you are content to live in your own filth.

    Your only using Dublin and Cork as a comparison,what other cities in Ireland have you been to?


  • Advertisement
  • #42
    fonecrusher1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 5,985 ✭✭✭fonecrusher1


    I was in belfast about 2 years ago....meh, its alright. Beautiful? nah no way i would describe it as that.


  • #43
    I dont know
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 163 ✭✭I dont know


    In my 8th year living in Belfast now and I have to say I'm loving the place. The city centre has had a hell of alot of development in recent years and thats why everything looks so nice and clean.
    Belfast still has all the problems you find in any other Irish city plus some more on top


  • #44
    orourkeda
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,916 ✭✭✭✭orourkeda


    cancercowboy wrote: »
    Go to Belfast and tell me that. I though they weren't that bad myself until i saw how clean they could be.

    You know what, **** this. The lot of you are exactly what I am talking about, wrong minded and stubborn about it. Our city's are a ****ing tip, if you disagree you're blind or just an argumentative muppet.

    One thing is for certain with attitudes like this nothing will ever change fot he better because the lot of you are content to live in your own filth.

    Why are you throwing a strop?

    I just happen to think Cork and Dublin are not that bad as cities.


  • #45
    KeithAFC
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,239 ✭✭✭✭KeithAFC


    Chris P. Bacon wrote: »
    Your probably not even from Northern Ireland,cut it out boy.
    I am from N.I. Not belfast though. :pac:


  • #46
    rossie1977
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,541 ✭✭✭✭rossie1977


    stovelid wrote: »
    If you're the kind of nutbag that would be caught dead in the place, aye.

    whats wrong with it?? seems like any normal 'spoons i have been to in the uk


  • #47
    Chris P. Bacon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,808 ✭✭✭Chris P. Bacon


    KeithAFC wrote: »
    I am from N.I. Not belfast though. :pac:

    Whats the AFC in your username mean?


  • #48
    TheZohanS
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,581 ✭✭✭✭TheZohanS


    Chris P. Bacon wrote: »
    Whats the AFC in your username mean?

    A.Fecking.Catholic


  • #49
    fonecrusher1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 5,985 ✭✭✭fonecrusher1


    cancercowboy wrote: »

    You know what, **** this. The lot of you are exactly what I am talking about, wrong minded and stubborn about it. Our city's are a ****ing tip, if you disagree you're blind or just an argumentative muppet.

    Translation = agree with me or you're a muppet. Possibly one of the most retarded posts ive seen ever.


  • #50
    Celly Smunt
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,463 ✭✭✭Celly Smunt


    it's strange,only when you leave N.I back to the republic the sense of safety leaves you and you get greeted by a black cloud of worry and smugness.


  • #51
    stovelid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,252 ✭✭✭✭stovelid


    rossie1977 wrote: »
    whats wrong with it??

    It's akin to judging the cultural life of Dublin in Burger King.


  • Advertisement
  • #52
    orourkeda
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,916 ✭✭✭✭orourkeda


    fonecrusher1 wrote: »
    Translation = agree with me or you're a muppet. Possibly one of the most retarded posts ive seen ever.

    Sums up my view on that post too


  • #53
    jive
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,762 ✭✭✭jive


    i disagree man i was in belfast yesterday and this scummer stuck it in my arse while i was stumbling around in litter


  • #54
    orourkeda
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,916 ✭✭✭✭orourkeda


    jive wrote: »
    i disagree man i was in belfast yesterday and this scummer stuck it in my arse while i was stumbling around in litter

    Any use?


  • #55
    flas
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,274 ✭✭✭flas


    rossie1977 wrote: »
    got to agree with op, belfast at least the city centre is much nicer to look at compared to dublin, no homeless, no beggars, no junkies hanging around, really nice modern highrise towers going up along the river (ideas like that wouldnt get off the drawing board in dublin f**king NIMBYS), clean streets, clean buildings, cheap pubs, you can get dinner and a pint for £5 in wetherspoons

    didnt these try and move into Ireland a few years ago and the publicans(politicians) put a hold on it or something? think i remember reading about it because i was just back from london and had been in a few for cheap pints and burgers and thought these would do a great trade with people after work in the likes of dublin! they seemed to be full of people in after work and tourists!


  • #56
    jive
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,762 ✭✭✭jive


    orourkeda wrote: »
    Any use?

    I dunno I think some other nackbag spiked me diet coke at mcdonalds, what an awful city.


  • #57
    OPENROAD
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,692 ✭✭✭✭OPENROAD


    Chris P. Bacon wrote: »
    Whats the AFC in your username mean?

    The Arsenal - Arsenal Football Club imo, assume I am correct Keith?


  • #58
    Celly Smunt
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,463 ✭✭✭Celly Smunt


    flas wrote: »
    didnt these try and move into Ireland a few years ago and the publicans(politicians) put a hold on it or something? think i remember reading about it because i was just back from london and had been in a few for cheap pints and burgers and thought these would do a great trade with people after work in the likes of dublin! they seemed to be full of people in after work and tourists!

    probably so,they used to do all you can drink for 2 hours for £10 in sheffield,good times


  • #59
    stovelid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,252 ✭✭✭✭stovelid


    Chris P. Bacon wrote: »
    Whats the AFC in your username mean?

    Arsenal I assume.

    He should be a Linfield, Glens or Portadown man but they don't play in the champions league I guess.


  • #60
    KeithAFC
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,239 ✭✭✭✭KeithAFC


    OPENROAD wrote: »
    The Arsenal - Arsenal Football Club imo, assume I am correct Keith?
    :) Yep.


  • Advertisement
  • #61
    TheDukeOfEarl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 58 ✭✭TheDukeOfEarl


    Ards FC ?


Advertisement
Advertisement