not much to do in the country side

girl in the striped socks · 31-03-2012 08:30PM

forfuxsake wrote: »

girl in the striped socks wrote: »

If they can see across a thirty acre field, through a window & can see me in my birthday suit then they deserve to perve

Are binoculars allowed?
Will ye still be wearing the stripey socks?

Just i case it ever ends up in court.

Ha ha ha, I don't walk around the house naked on a regular basis.
You get what I'm saying though.
Living beside someone doesn't suit me. If we have a BBQ or a party it can get as loud as it wants without pissing anyone off. The few times we did have a party in town ended up with the neighbours giving us filthy looks for about a week after it.

cena · 31-03-2012 08:31PM

44leto wrote: »

OP
Is it the loneliness of it, all the suggestions above are fun, but better when done with other people.

I was on a caravan holiday years ago, but more a baby sitting one, for three desolate week i the arsehole of the empire, the unmapped regions. My uncle and auntie went to the pub at night leaving me and my cousin with no tele and a game of fukcen cluedo we are both total world champion experts at cluedo. I couldn't wait to get back to the big smoke.

But now someday I would like to live in westcork but with-in driving distance of Cork.

It is a lonely place to live if you have no one

saa · 31-03-2012 08:34PM

help bring in the turf for gods sake.

forfuxsake · 31-03-2012 08:34PM

girl in the striped socks wrote: »

Ha ha ha, I don't walk around the house naked on a regular basis.
You get what I'm saying though.
Living beside someone doesn't suit me. If we have a BBQ or a party it can get as loud as it wants without pissing anyone off. The few times we did have a party in town ended up with the neighbours giving us filthy looks for about a week after it.

sorry didn't get past the first line!:mad:

cena · 31-03-2012 08:35PM

saa wrote: »

help bring in the turf for gods sake.

It makes a fire alright

girl in the striped socks · 31-03-2012 08:38PM

forfuxsake wrote: »

girl in the striped socks wrote: »

Ha ha ha, I don't walk around the house naked on a regular basis.
You get what I'm saying though.
Living beside someone doesn't suit me. If we have a BBQ or a party it can get as loud as it wants without pissing anyone off. The few times we did have a party in town ended up with the neighbours giving us filthy looks for about a week after it.

sorry didn't get past the first line!:mad:

Well it's not really practical is it.
The dog likes a crotch sniff & without clothes on it could get awkward.

I also realise I should have stopped posting about two posts ago.

haminka · 31-03-2012 08:56PM

It wasn't me! wrote: »

Hiking, shooting, fishing, cycling, running, photography, nature-watching, cooking, so on and so forth. If you live in the country and are bored, you've got to get outside and do something.

you said it for me

forfuxsake · 31-03-2012 09:02PM

It wasn't me! wrote: »

Hiking, shooting, fishing, cycling, running, photography, nature-watching, cooking, so on and so forth. If you live in the country and are bored, you've got to get outside and do something.

Hiking = walking outside
Shooting = kill something
Fishing = kill something
Cycling= walking outside
Running= walking outside
Photography = walking outside with a camera
Nature-watching= walking outside
Cooking=cos you can't do that in the city.
so on and so forth=run out of ideas

so walk(or bike if you're lazy, run if energetic) outside or kill something?

It wasn't me! · 31-03-2012 09:05PM

forfuxsake wrote: »

Hiking = walking outside
Shooting = kill something
Fishing = kill something
Cycling= walking outside
Running= walking outside
Photography = walking outside with a camera
Nature-watching= walking outside
Cooking=cos you can't do that in the city.
so on and so forth=run out of ideas

so walk(or bike if you're lazy, run if energetic) outside or kill something?

If you're that unimaginative, you're probably going to be boring and bored wherever you are. And see my sig regarding your absurdly simplistic conceptions of hunting and fishing, to say nothing of the other activities.

John Doe1 · 31-03-2012 09:09PM

To be honest we all just watch the grass and wait for the sweet embrace of death:)

westendgirlie · 31-03-2012 09:11PM

John Doe1 wrote: »

To be honest we all just watch the grass and wait for the sweet embrace of death:)

Ah the death notices. Where would we be without them.

darlett · 31-03-2012 09:16PM

It wasn't me! wrote: »

Hiking, shooting, fishing, cycling, running, photography, nature-watching, cooking, so on and so forth. If you live in the country and are bored, you've got to get outside and do something.

If I might be so bold, what much more is there to do in the city? Cinema sure. (Restaurants and pubs do exist in abundance in the countryside so Id block that one as exclusively city venture) Lets face it wherever we are most of us spend time with or without a partner engaged in tv, or on t'internet, or perhaps reading a book, studying, doing a crossword, cooking and eating food, exercising.
It really seems to come down less to being bored by the activities of a place, and more so being uncomfortable with the number of people living in your surrounds. I'm originally from country area and I dont particularly like living in built up areas, and I know some people from built up areas find country areas lonely/creepy. But boredom? If you find yourself saying you're bored a lot thats probably just your own handiework.

westendgirlie · 31-03-2012 09:17PM

Have a blazing row and the neighbours don't hear it.
Cast a fishing rod out of your window and catch that nights dinner.
See the stars not just a smoggy sky.
Leave your curtains open at night and not worry about police helicopter lights in your room.

policarp · 31-03-2012 09:21PM

Fracking. .

John Doe1 · 31-03-2012 09:32PM

Donegal

http://www.theodora.com/wfb/photos/ireland/malin_beg_donegal_co_ulster_ireland_photo_nutan.jpg

Typical Dublin Street Scene

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3399/3254113078_25d298cd98.jpg

Gordon Gecko · 31-03-2012 10:21PM

Dream about being in Dublin!

saa · 31-03-2012 10:39PM

Gordon Gecko wrote: »

Dream about being in Dublin!

Then move to Dublin and dream about being back again where everyone knows your name, done that, been there.. what's the next step emigrating?

mikemac1 · 31-03-2012 10:52PM

Salute everyone
If you're walking you must salute every driver, if you drive you must salute every walker.
It doesn't matter if you don't know them, you just have to salute, that's the rule
If you see a farmer in a field in the tractor you need to give them a big wave

If you don't we'll be talking about you outside Mass and calling ya a snob.

red menace · 31-03-2012 11:06PM

mikemac1 wrote: »

Salute everyone
If you're walking you must salute every driver, if you drive you must salute every walker.
It doesn't matter if you don't know them, you just have to salute, that's the rule
If you see a farmer in a field in the tractor you need to give them a big wave

If you don't we'll be talking about you outside Mass and calling ya a snob.

When driving, you must only raise one finger from the top of the steering wheel

darlett · 31-03-2012 11:13PM

red menace wrote: »

When driving, you must only raise one finger from the top of the steering wheel

Well a mexican wave from you and your passengers would be somewhat inappropriate no? :pac:

pragmatic1 · 31-03-2012 11:24PM

44leto wrote: »

OP
Is it the loneliness of it, all the suggestions above are fun, but better when done with other people.

I was on a caravan holiday years ago, but more a baby sitting one, for three desolate weeks in the arsehole of the empire, the unmapped regions. My uncle and auntie went to the pub at night leaving me and my cousin with no tele and a game of fukcen cluedo, we are both total world champion experts at cluedo. I couldn't wait to get back to the big smoke.

But now someday I would like to live in westcork but with-in driving distance of Cork.

I'd say theres a lot more lonely people living in cities than the countryside.

EGAR · 31-03-2012 11:52PM

mikemac1 wrote: »

Salute everyone
If you're walking you must salute every driver, if you drive you must salute every walker.
It doesn't matter if you don't know them, you just have to salute, that's the rule
If you see a farmer in a field in the tractor you need to give them a big wave

If you don't we'll be talking about you outside Mass and calling ya a snob.

If you drive a tractor then you must give the Nazi salute to everyone as one of my *neighbours* does, get's me every time, I think it's hilarious

. I mention it once to him and he said: *The wa..?*

:cool:

mikemac1 · 01-04-2012 01:54AM

Hitler was copying the farmers :cool:

The oh so subtle one finger off the steering wheel salute does not work in the tractor

The bigger the vaaaaay-ick-el, the bigger the wave, that's the rule

ejmaztec · 01-04-2012 02:03AM

westendgirlie wrote: »

Ah the death notices. Where would we be without them.

Most people in the countryside check those to make sure they're still alive.

redzerologhlen · 01-04-2012 05:48AM

mikemac1 wrote: »

Hitler was copying the farmers :cool:

The oh so subtle one finger off the steering wheel salute does not work in the tractor

The bigger the vaaaaay-ick-el, the bigger the wave, that's the rule

Or if its someone you know really well you have to flash the beacon and the lights aswell!! The country side is great. The couple of times I stayed in towns I nearly cracked up, too many people for my liking. My nearest neighbour is half a mile away

OneArt · 01-04-2012 07:55AM

Anywhere can be boring if you're not with the right people.

I live in a pretty normal city, nothing too exciting goes on here, but most of my friends in this country are here so I think it's great. If I moved somewhere like Berlin I would literally know no one and be bored sh!tless.

forfuxsake · 01-04-2012 08:00AM

Lots of country folk stating the advantage of being able to have blazing rows with their OH.Country people are angry, is it the boredom?

Cú Giobach · 01-04-2012 08:16AM

It all depends on what your into I guess, I'd be bored out of my mind in a nightclub, I hate shopping for the sake of shopping, watching a film in the cinema with people eating or laughing at things that are not funny drives me nuts, basically lots of those things people say they would miss living in the country don't interest some people. Whether country or urban socialising is the same for me, that is, the pub or peoples houses, and when getting off the head I prefer the country, less negative energy.
Though I could only live on the coast or maybe near a big lake, if I lived inland surrounded by miles of nothing but fields insanity wouldn't be far behind, not being able to get in a boat or have a spliff watching the sunrise/set over the water while sipping cocktails on the veranda.*

When I first moved to where I am now, every morning I felt like I was on holiday and even after settling it still feels like that, how many people can say that about where they live.

Dudess wrote: »

really remote, faraway countryside strikes me as pretty grim in bad weather.

I always found it the opposite, "heavy weather" always depresses me in cities but in the country it seems exhilarating, especially on the coast.

* This could actually be snakebites on a pallet in a field in front of my house?

mattjack · 01-04-2012 08:46AM

Dudess wrote: »

When you've the weather of course.

I grew up in a country-ish area - "rurban" I guess. Built-up parts with housing estates and amenities, but close to fields and woods too. I found myself spending more time in town (Cork) during the winter - really remote, faraway countryside strikes me as pretty grim in bad weather.

I'm similar,grew in an area close to Dublin near farms,canals etc.

Perfect habitat for gang of kids who'se parents were from Dublin city.

Burned barns,fields of corn/hay ?,robbed every single orchard for miles,swam in the canal,chopped down trees and robbed tyres off farmers for Halloween,terrorised all livestock ..... so in my opinion there's plenty to do in the countryside.

Gordon Gecko · 03-04-2012 01:25AM

saa wrote: »

Gordon Gecko wrote: »

Dream about being in Dublin!

Then move to Dublin and dream about being back again where everyone knows your name, done that, been there.. what's the next step emigrating?

You make the country sound like "Cheers", it kind of is though when I think about it: Over-rated and intensely boring.

not much to do in the country side

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