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AH: The Hanly Centre Girl Of The Mind

  • 02-09-2011 06:50AM
    #1
    strokemyclover
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,198 ✭✭✭


    Most Dublin males aged 18 to 40 who frequent Grafton Street will know The Hanly Centre Girls; bright and cheerful, always ready with a compliment and a flirt.....all in return for your Two Euro!

    If you're reading this, I'm pretty sure you know After Hours; bright and cheerful, always ready with a compliment and a flirt....all in return for your original thought!

    Yes, I'll admit I've been fairly angry with AH over the past few months. I wasn't quite sure why until I was approached (for probably the 20th time in my life) by one of these half-girl/half-leech mutants at the top of Grafton Street yesterday.

    Before I'm attacked: I'm not saying stay away from AH! Nor am I saying don't give to charity! I guess what I'm trying to say is that if you ever have an original thought and you ever have aspirations to put one or many original thoughts to work for you keep them to yourself and away from After Hours.

    I'd rather have Two Euro in my pocket during austere times than be duped out of my Two Euro.....only to see a picture of that same Two Euro later in a newspaper article written by some half-wit journalist. He sure is a good looking journalist though, I'll give him that much!


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  • #2
    Killer Pigeon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,125 ✭✭✭Killer Pigeon


    Never knew there was a Grafton Street in Dublin, Ohio.


  • #3
    Mr Magners
    Closed Accounts Posts: 817 ✭✭✭Mr Magners


    I have no clue what you're talking about.:confused:


  • #4
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 3,539 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    strokemyclover wrote: »
    Most Dublin males aged 18 to 40 who frequent Grafton Street will know The Hanly Centre Girls

    Us females aged 18 to 40 only get approached by Hanly Centre guys, I've actually never seen a HC girl...


  • #5
    plein de force
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,148 ✭✭✭plein de force


    I honestly have no idea what you're trying to say:confused:
    try and rephrase the OP


  • #6
    chin_grin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,808 ✭✭✭✭chin_grin


    I'm between that bracket, from Dublin (unfortunately) and haven't a clue what you're on about!


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  • #7
    FatherLen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,808 ✭✭✭FatherLen


    i think he is trying to say that what we say in AH is used by journalists???


  • #8
    xsiborg
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,635 ✭✭✭xsiborg


    strokemyclover wrote: »
    Most Dublin males aged 18 to 40 who frequent Grafton Street will know The Hanly Centre Girls; bright and cheerful, always ready with a compliment and a flirt.....all in return for your Two Euro!

    Dublin City Forum
    >


  • #9
    Interceptor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,165 ✭✭✭Interceptor


    xsiborg wrote: »
    Dublin City Forum
    >

    The Hanly Centre have chuggers in most irish cities and towns. I don't get the comparison the OP is trying to make - I'm a bit thick.

    Has the Hanly Centre ever actually done any good?

    'cptr


  • #10
    sbsquarepants
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,810 ✭✭✭✭sbsquarepants


    strokemyclover wrote: »
    Most Dublin males aged 18 to 40 who frequent Grafton Street will know The Hanly Centre Girls; bright and cheerful, always ready with a compliment and a flirt.....all in return for your Two Euro!

    If you're reading this, I'm pretty sure you know After Hours; bright and cheerful, always ready with a compliment and a flirt....all in return for your original thought!

    Yes, I'll admit I've been fairly angry with AH over the past few months. I wasn't quite sure why until I was approached (for probably the 20th time in my life) by one of these half-girl/half-leech mutants at the top of Grafton Street yesterday.

    Before I'm attacked: I'm not saying stay away from AH! Nor am I saying don't give to charity! I guess what I'm trying to say is that if you ever have an original thought and you ever have aspirations to put one or many original thoughts to work for you keep them to yourself and away from After Hours.

    I'd rather have Two Euro in my pocket during austere times than be duped out of my Two Euro.....only to see a picture of that same Two Euro later in a newspaper article written by some half-wit journalist. He sure is a good looking journalist though, I'll give him that much!

    Is there a point in here? Or a question of some sort?
    WTF are you on about?


  • #11
    Guill
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,332 ✭✭✭Guill


    What's a Hanley centre,
    whats a hanley girl,
    why do people give them 2 euro?


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  • #12
    Sergeant
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,362 ✭✭✭Sergeant


    Ah the Hanley Centre. An alcohol and drug treatment centre whose chuggers are so annoying they actually drive you to drink.


  • #13
    Fremen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,481 ✭✭✭Fremen


    Sergeant wrote: »
    Ah the Hanley Centre. An alcohol and drug treatment centre whose chuggers are so annoying they actually drive you to drink.

    Did he post something "insightful" only to see it in the papers a couple.of days later or.something?

    Admit it OP, you've never had an original thought in your life. And you're a grotesquely ugly freak.


  • #14
    ibarelycare
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 58,456 ✭✭✭✭ibarelycare


    I used to be a Hanley Centre girl. I lasted a day and a half and sold a grand total of 8 scratchcards :D I loathed myself the entire time :(


  • #15
    mikemac
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19,967 ✭✭✭✭mikemac


    Charity for people who waste their life on alcohol


  • #16
    Wattle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,075 ✭✭✭Wattle


    He's saying he has a drink problem and that everyone at AH is to blame.


  • #17
    Dravokivich
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Music Moderators, Politics Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 22,424 CMod ✭✭✭✭Dravokivich


    ibarelycare wrote: »
    I used to be a Hanley Centre girl. I lasted a day and a half and sold a grand total of 8 scratchcards :D I loathed myself the entire time :(

    Oh they are the one's that sell scratch cards to aid people with Alcohol addiction?

    I asked 1 of'em once what do they do for gambling addicts.


  • #18
    kfallon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,775 ✭✭✭✭kfallon


    true-or-false wrote: »
    Us females aged 18 to 40 only get approached by Hanly Centre guys, I've actually never seen a HC girl...

    They exist alright, I remember being plagued by the same two girls in Galway about 6 years ago when at the races met them every night in Galway city, in the end politeness wasn't working so I told them to fook off! Not proud of it but at the end of a long week it was all a bit too much for me!


  • #19
    cosmicfart
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,298 ✭✭✭cosmicfart


    Ahh the Handy Girl Center cheapest rides in all of Dublin


  • #20
    Earthhorse
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,728 ✭✭✭✭Earthhorse


    I'd love to see some examples of journalist stealing content from boards and creating articles out of it. I know they sometimes quote people from boards but I think this wholesale copy and paste stuff is exaggerated.
    ibarelycare wrote: »
    I used to be a Hanley Centre girl. I lasted a day and a half and sold a grand total of 8 scratchcards :D I loathed myself the entire time :(

    You were right to.


  • #21
    Wertz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,909 ✭✭✭✭Wertz


    Perhaps OP a link to what you think was plagiarised by journos from AH and to your original post(s) would be in order, instead of the cryptic Dublinese allegory.
    I'm pretty sure I've had some stuff lifted from on here and other boards forums, but I could never prove it in court and tbh they're welcome to it.
    That said something you post in here is published by you and is technically your property so it being reproduced elsewhere without your permission or a mention isn't on and I'm sure the admins might be interested.

    Hanley girls eh? Are they some kind of cut price hooker? I'm left with an image of the Raisins Girls from South Park only with howiya accents...


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  • #22
    kfallon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,775 ✭✭✭✭kfallon


    ibarelycare wrote: »
    I used to be a Hanley Centre girl. I lasted a day and a half and sold a grand total of 8 scratchcards :D I loathed myself the entire time :(

    You are forgiven my child!


  • #23
    strokemyclover
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,198 ✭✭✭strokemyclover


    I don't think anything has been lifted from my previous posts though I do intend to write some serious things in the future. I guess the purpose of this thread was to acknowledge what was holding me back from doing so.

    Everything that needs to be said has already been done by the replies in this thread and I apologise for the encrypted message.

    I guess I'll be seeing ya! :)


  • #24
    For Forks Sake
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,487 ✭✭✭✭For Forks Sake


    Dravokivich wrote: »
    Oh they are the one's that sell scratch cards to aid people with Alcohol addiction?

    I asked 1 of'em once what do they do for gambling addicts.

    Sell them dhrink?


  • #25
    Aglomerado
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,819 ✭✭✭Aglomerado


    The Hanly Centre have hit a new low. I was in Doolin at the weekend and on both Friday and Saturday nights we got "Chugged"... in the PUB.


  • #26
    later12
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,298 ✭✭✭✭later12


    strokemyclover wrote: »
    Most Dublin males aged 18 to 40 who frequent Grafton Street will know The Hanly Centre Girls; bright and cheerful, always ready with a compliment and a flirt.....all in return for your Two Euro!

    If you're reading this, I'm pretty sure you know After Hours; bright and cheerful, always ready with a compliment and a flirt....all in return for your original thought!

    Yes, I'll admit I've been fairly angry with AH over the past few months. I wasn't quite sure why until I was approached (for probably the 20th time in my life) by one of these half-girl/half-leech mutants at the top of Grafton Street yesterday.

    Before I'm attacked: I'm not saying stay away from AH! Nor am I saying don't give to charity! I guess what I'm trying to say is that if you ever have an original thought and you ever have aspirations to put one or many original thoughts to work for you keep them to yourself and away from After Hours.

    I'd rather have Two Euro in my pocket during austere times than be duped out of my Two Euro.....only to see a picture of that same Two Euro later in a newspaper article written by some half-wit journalist. He sure is a good looking journalist though, I'll give him that much!

    I'd say well done to any bored journalist who can convert this incoherent rambling post into legible English.

    No offence to AH, but I really don't think any journalist worth his salt would desire to plagiarize the forum's users.


  • #27
    Yahew
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,488 ✭✭✭Yahew


    Nobody really knows what the OP is on about, do they? I mean, I admire that some people have tried to answer the original post, but I abandoned the first paragraph - apparantly AH is like a chuggers. Really? I mean chuggers come to you, an "original thought" in an AH thread is you coming to AH. The only people being mugged here are those of us who wasted the 2 minutes of our lifes to read that incoherent nonsense.


  • #28
    Yahew
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,488 ✭✭✭Yahew


    Oh I did eventually go back and read the rest.

    We moved on from chuggers, and a new simile presents itself: posting here is like having a picture of your two euros posted in a newspaper by a handsome journalist.


    :confused::confused::confused:


  • #29
    opinion guy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,000 ✭✭✭✭opinion guy


    Aglomerado wrote: »
    The Hanly Centre have hit a new low. I was in Doolin at the weekend and on both Friday and Saturday nights we got "Chugged"... in the PUB.

    Did you buy them a drink ?


  • #30
    The King of Moo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,207 ✭✭✭The King of Moo


    As far as I can tell, the idea of the original post is that AH is like the Hanly Centre chuggers because the chuggers lure you in by seducing you and take the TWO EURO you give them (and maybe it's implied they misuse it, though that's not mentioned, but it would mean the comparison makes more sense).

    Now After Hours also lures you in with its attractive and flirtatious users, thus making you give your opinion or good idea (or TWO CENTS), only for that then to be misused by an unscrupulous journalist.
    The same way, I suppose it's implied, that the Hanly Centre misuses your two euro.

    I'm ashamed to admit that I've read the post more than a few times now.

    Did I figure it out?

    Do I win?


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  • #31
    Wertz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,909 ✭✭✭✭Wertz


    later10 wrote: »
    I'd say well done to any bored journalist who can convert this incoherent rambling post into legible English.

    No offence to AH, but I really don't think any journalist worth his salt would desire to plagiarize the forum's users.

    It's happened on boards before (not just AH) where thinly veiled copy/paste jobs have appeared in various publications that didn't credit the source. I don't have any examples offhand but to be fair you've been about less than a year and this wouldn't be a new phenomenon and is in fact less likely to happen since the place got even more popular over the years.
    Pretty sure that some journalists have posted here too in the past, posing questions and sometimes polls to garner various public opinion for their piece without revelaing their motive.


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