Is there Class Distinction in Ireland ?

Fulton Crown · 17-09-2011 10:52PM

temply wrote: »

that was probably just their attitude towards yourself, in fairness

Attitude in general pal....seen thes goons as well...Munster Rugby claims to be clasles but in reality is the most closed shop ever.

Arrogant shower and i can back up that ....travelling back from Asia arrived in Heathrow....got to the Irish terminal Wetherspoons....full of braying Munster supporters ...who were the rudist most objectionable bunch of pricks i have seen in a long time .

Thats fact !

temply · 17-09-2011 10:58PM

Fulton Crown wrote: »

Attitude in general pal....seen thes goons as well...Munster Rugby claims to be clasles but in reality is the most closed shop ever.

Arrogant shower and i can back up that ....travelling back from Asia arrived in Heathrow....got to the Irish terminal Wetherspoons....full of braying Munster supporters ...who were the rudist most objectionable bunch of pricks i have seen in a long time .

Thats fact !

Hallo Flutteringbantam - need an alias in here for back up, ya?

Bless ya, buddy

latenia · 17-09-2011 11:01PM

Dotrel wrote: »

Carnmore and Kilpedder for instance. Other places like Ballyboden, Adamstown and Portlaoise I'd have heard but but would have trouble even finding on a map tbh.

Ballyboden and Adamstown are in Dublin

LH Pathe · 17-09-2011 11:05PM

there is a distinct underclass their stripes of dishonour are not hard to miss, Dunno how they missed it emselves?! adidas equipment is the new denim , to whom denim is the new polyester trousers. These folk will drag you down.. Drag us all down at this rate

FlutterinBantam · 17-09-2011 11:05PM

temply wrote: »

Hallo Flutteringbantam - need an alias in here for back up, ya?

Bless ya, buddy

Maybe you can prove that baseless allegation, or apologise, shaft.

Callin' you out on that one, put up or shut up:mad:

Dotrel · 17-09-2011 11:06PM

latenia wrote: »

Ballyboden and Adamstown are in Dublin

Dublin County. I was more referring to Dublin City previously.

Stained Class · 17-09-2011 11:08PM

Stained Class wrote: »

1. People with money

2. Coping Class (Most of us)

3. Underclass (Career doleites, druggies etc.)

That about covers it.

Okay Fulton, upon reflection I can simplify what I said earlier.

1. People with money.

2. People without money
.
3. People who couldn't give a bollix.

Ireland's Class System in a nutshell.:)

hamlet1 · 17-09-2011 11:09PM

southside dubliners think they are better than northsiders
all soccer pundits seem to have a working class dublin accent,whereas rugby pundits sound much classier
tcd students are much snobbier than ucd ones
no class distinction in the gaa,they are all the same
most golf clubs are very uppercrust as are some sailing clubs
big class distinction between schools,especially in the cities and bigger towns.i went to an all girls secondary school and we considered ourselves to be above the local vocational school

temply · 17-09-2011 11:10PM

FlutterinBantam wrote: »

Maybe you can prove that baseless allegation, or apologise, shaft.

Callin' you out on that one, put up or shut up:mad:

Attitude in general pal....seen thes goons as well...Munster Rugby claims to be clasles but in reality is the most closed shop ever.

Arrogant shower and i can back up that ....travelling back from Asia arrived in Heathrow....got to the Irish terminal Wetherspoons....full of braying Munster supporters ...who were the rudist most objectionable bunch of pricks i have seen in a long time .

Thats fact !

FlutterinBantam · 17-09-2011 11:10PM

hamlet1 wrote: »

southside dubliners think they are better than northsiders
all soccer pundits seem to have a working class dublin accent,whereas rugby pundits sound much classier
tcd students are much snobbier than ucd ones
no class distinction in the gaa,they are all the same
most golf clubs are very uppercrust as are some sailing clubs
big class distinction between schools,especially in the cities and bigger towns.i went to an all girls secondary school and we considered ourselves to be above the local vocational school

Totally wrong.

FlutterinBantam · 17-09-2011 11:12PM

temply wrote: »

Attitude in general pal....seen thes goons as well...Munster Rugby claims to be clasles but in reality is the most closed shop ever.

Arrogant shower and i can back up that ....travelling back from Asia arrived in Heathrow....got to the Irish terminal Wetherspoons....full of braying Munster supporters ...who were the rudist most objectionable bunch of pricks i have seen in a long time .

Thats fact !

Need more than that pal, reporting that post in 10 mins.

that's what you got to retract.

temply · 17-09-2011 11:12PM

FlutterinBantam wrote: »

Maybe you can prove that baseless allegation, or apologise, shaft.

Callin' you out on that one, put up or shut up:mad:

anyone reading page 3 of this thread can see exactly where you triped yourself up, pal

temply · 17-09-2011 11:13PM

FlutterinBantam wrote: »

Need more than that pal, reporting that post in 10 mins.

that's what you got to retract.

ooh i got you rattled!

Border-Rat · 17-09-2011 11:26PM

Fulton Crown wrote: »

Ireland always had the name of a "classless" society ...unlike our neighbours across the pond.

I wonder though .....

Even just lookin at the TV coverage of the recent matches...Soccer and Rugby would seem to point up some differences.

Coverage of the recent soccer match in Russia showed mainly a cohort of middle aged irish Fans...most of them looking fairly "weathered" and flashing a fair collection of "Goalpost teeth" and good rounded bumps under their lycra tops.

Average height about 5.5 i would say ..with typical 40/30 measurements.

A viewer would be forgiven if he/she took them for fork lift drivers/taxi drivers/storemen/ general operstives.

On the other hand it was very noticable to this poster that the crowd pictures at the Rugby in NZ showed a much younger demographic.....good proportion of females and all well groomed with shiny well cared for gnashers.

So is there a class distinction here ...an where does the avg GAA person fit in...uber culchie ? Professional person or what......

Just arskin.....

Wait, class is now measured on the gap between ones teeth and height? Well! I'd better straighten up and stiffen the oul lip!

parrai · 17-09-2011 11:27PM

temply wrote: »

ooh i got you rattled!

Absolutely brilliant !!!

RMD · 17-09-2011 11:29PM

Fulton Crown wrote: »

Attitude in general pal....seen thes goons as well...Munster Rugby claims to be clasles but in reality is the most closed shop ever.

Arrogant shower and i can back up that ....travelling back from Asia arrived in Heathrow....got to the Irish terminal Wetherspoons....full of braying Munster supporters ...who were the rudist most objectionable bunch of pricks i have seen in a long time .

Thats fact !

I've been a Leinster season ticket holder now for 6 years, I've been to all Leinster Vs Munster games in the last 4 years. I can speak from experience in saying when it comes to snobby supporters sadly Leinster takes it hands down, there's the "prawn cocktail brigade" as Roy Keane would put it who are the greatest shower of **** in the world.

The worst Munster supporters are the ones who moved to Dublin, found they now were earning a decent bit of money and decided to adopt a version of the "nouveau riche" D4 attitude while retaining their Munster heritage, turning them in a right dickhead.

Munster rugby is fairly classless, look at Moyross. It's a rugby stronghold yet a working class place with a reputation that rivals some of the worst parts in Dublin. You don't find any Rugby strongholds in the working class area of Dublin, it's pretty much Middle Class and above sadly.

LH Pathe · 17-09-2011 11:40PM

alls I can see is there's predominantly two extremes, those who think emselves classy (money'd) and those who are determined to be absolutely lacking. I can't speak for the former personally, sheilded off from us in their own little world but the latter are all too prominent

epgc3fyqirnbsx · 17-09-2011 11:41PM

RMD wrote: »

I've been a Leinster season ticket holder now for 6 years, I've been to all Leinster Vs Munster games in the last 4 years. I can speak from experience in saying when it comes to snobby supporters sadly Leinster takes it hands down, there's the "prawn cocktail brigade" as Roy Keane would put it who are the greatest shower of **** in the world.

The worst Munster supporters are the ones who moved to Dublin, found they now were earning a decent bit of money and decided to adopt a version of the "nouveau riche" D4 attitude while retaining their Munster heritage, turning them in a right dickhead.

Munster rugby is fairly classless, look at Moyross. It's a rugby stronghold yet a working class place with a reputation that rivals some of the worst parts in Dublin. You don't find any Rugby strongholds in the working class area of Dublin, it's pretty much Middle Class and above sadly.

I can't disagree with that but I'm sure that, thankfully, it will change soon. The whole country is following rugby now, like they began to follow soccer after '88
I'm from the sticks and people are a hell of a lot more inclined to watch rugby than soccer now and the clubs are getting to be huge

I hope this isn't just one golden generation and that with a nationwide pool we'll maintain ourselves as a worldclass team.

What else can we say we're worldclass at? Horse Racing and recently Golf and I hope we can keep those three

parrai · 17-09-2011 11:53PM

Fulton Crown wrote: »

Ireland always had the name of a "classless" society ...unlike our neighbours across the pond.

I wonder though .....

Even just lookin at the TV coverage of the recent matches...Soccer and Rugby would seem to point up some differences.

Coverage of the recent soccer match in Russia showed mainly a cohort of middle aged irish Fans...most of them looking fairly "weathered" and flashing a fair collection of "Goalpost teeth" and good rounded bumps under their lycra tops.

Average height about 5.5 i would say ..with typical 40/30 measurements.

A viewer would be forgiven if he/she took them for fork lift drivers/taxi drivers/storemen/ general operstives.

On the other hand it was very noticable to this poster that the crowd pictures at the Rugby in NZ showed a much younger demographic.....good proportion of females and all well groomed with shiny well cared for gnashers.

So is there a class distinction here ...an where does the avg GAA person fit in...uber culchie ? Professional person or what......

Just arskin.....

There are alot of young irish people that have emigrated to New Zealand and Australia at the moment, so it's not surprising that there would be a younger demographic attending....

And as regards the

"A viewer would be forgiven if he/she took them for fork lift drivers/taxi drivers/storemen/ general operstives."

and
"uber culchie"
That's just condescending ignorance!

Just sayin...

temply · 17-09-2011 11:56PM

parrai wrote: »

There are alot of young irish people that have emigrated to New Zealand and Australia at the moment, so it's not surprising that there would be a younger demographic attending....

And as regards the

"A viewer would be forgiven if he/she took them for fork lift drivers/taxi drivers/storemen/ general operstives."

and
"uber culchie"
That's just condescending ignorance!

Just sayin...

it really is so condescending, reminds me of another poster on here, but can't put my finger on who exactly...

Solnskaya · 18-09-2011 12:40AM

temply wrote: »

it really is so condescending, reminds me of another poster on here, but can't put my finger on who exactly...

it's getting a bit old now. maybe find another nemesis so flutterin can get on with filling his crown alone. Might be better to drop this running row, cos it's dull and catty and frankly, lifes too short, etc. Just saying, like. Or, in the sprit of this thread- loike.:)

temply · 18-09-2011 12:45AM

Solnskaya wrote: »

it's getting a bit old now. maybe find another nemesis so flutterin can get on with filling his crown alone. Might be better to drop this running row, cos it's dull and catty and frankly, lifes too short, etc. Just saying, like. Or, in the sprit of this thread- loike.:)

err, there was no mention of either of those posters in my post you responded to, so you're the only one dragging it out here.

whubee · 18-09-2011 02:23AM

Fulton Crown wrote: »

Don't see where your coming from Dude......just stating an opinion.

They just look a lot like the white van drivers you see on the M 50......

Ok pal ?

hmmm.

Troll or cu...individual with baseless superiority complex ?

so hard to tell.

Eric Cartman · 18-09-2011 04:28PM

Ireland has many classes , in order of how their viewed in society (1 being least complained about / noticed)

1) the true elite, money for years, political influence, live in massive stately homes etc...

2) The very rich who arent cúnts , some politicians, self made businessmen etc.. like nice things but have no problem going to a chipper, flying economy class and dont need a bentley to show off their wealth

3) The comfortable people - solicitors, doctors and businessmen on a decent salary who arent up to their eyes in mortgage debt , money isnt an issue, still down to earth and dont need designer clothes, porches etc... to be happy , own 1 or 2 houses and live anywhere except dalkey, dun laoighre or dublin 2, 4, 6 or 6w

4) The surviving class - Have just enough money to get by , can afford the mortgage or are renting , change cars every 3-5 years and dont buy anything fancy , a few luxuries but not trying to pretend your rich. a night in a posh nightclub in the city is still considered a luxury

5) the wannabe cúnt class - Have/had jobs but took out mortgages too big and bought bmw's on finance etc, trying to appear rich and spend their money hanging out in fancy nightclubs and buying designer clothes instead of paying the ESB bill

6) The cúnt class - these are people who have money , and like to let everyone know , most commonly found in dublin 2,4,6,6w dalkey or dun laoighre , love driving 7 series just for the badge , name their kids saoirse and tarquin , have a range rover for the school run, only private school will do , rugby is the only sport they follow and see gaa or soccor as 'commoners sports' , use the words 'pleb' 'commoner' or 'scobe' when talking about people, do their food shopping in that avoca shop off the n7 , they may have money but nobody really likes them and we all wish theyd go away

7) the scum class - people perpetually on the dole , serial single mothers , people who treat having kids like a trip to a goverment ATM , drug addicts , people who stroll round in tracksuits tucked into socks , think celtic are an irish football team and dutch gold is classy for.

Big Nasty · 18-09-2011 06:28PM

Eric Cartman wrote: »

The cúnt class - these are people who have money , and like to let everyone know , most commonly found in dublin 2,4,6,6w dalkey or dun laoighre , love driving 7 series just for the badge , name their kids saoirse and tarquin , have a range rover for the school run, only private school will do , rugby is the only sport they follow and see gaa or soccor as 'commoners sports' , use the words 'pleb' 'commoner' or 'scobe' when talking about people, do their food shopping in that avoca shop off the n7 , they may have money but nobody really likes them and we all wish theyd go away

I would rather be a bollix in a Bimmer than a dick in a D-Max!;)

Eric Cartman · 18-09-2011 06:36PM

MCMLXXV wrote: »

I would rather be a bollix in a Bimmer than a dick in a D-Max!;)

i said bought for the badge, your well aware of my love of bimmers of the e38 variety

Jess16 · 18-09-2011 06:44PM

I think in Ireland there are pretty much two groups -the Olé's and the Au Lait's

paddyandy · 18-09-2011 07:01PM

Human Beings cannot exist together without it....always present at every level of any society.It's not always obvious but it's always there.It takes different guises.Tell me where it is'nt?

Dudess · 18-09-2011 07:14PM

Ireland a classless society me bum-hole. When the country was in the grip of the catholic church, there was an absolute hatred of the poor encouraged.

PeterIanStaker · 18-09-2011 07:23PM

For Forks Sake wrote: »

Explain NASCAR?

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Is there Class Distinction in Ireland ?

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