You are a skanger if

Syllabus · 13-06-2012 06:06PM

CiscoStudent wrote: »

1: Tallaght, Inchicore, Clondalkin.
2: Clontarf, Malahide, Raheny

:cool:

i was taking the piss with that one but if you must -

1: Donnybrook, Ballinteer, Dundrum, Churchtown, Blackrock, Mount Merrion, Sandyford, Rathfarnham, Foxrock, Lepardstown, Rathgar.

2: Finglas, Ballymun, Darndale, Coolock, Artane, DUNSINK LANE:eek:, Kilmore, Kilbarrack, ANY inner city area north of the Liffey

NinjaK · 13-06-2012 06:07PM

aaronjumper wrote: »

You like to pump out the tuuuuuuunnnnnnnes kid!!!

This is roughly the same answer I put in the last thread.

EDIT: You cut into the lining of your tracksuit so that you can shoplift more stuff.

Listening to dance music doesnt make you a 'skanger'. Ever dance in a night club??

Littlehorny · 13-06-2012 06:07PM

I remember when i lived in Coolock about 12 years ago the young lads used to wear adidas or nike tracksuit bottoms with pringle jumpers on top, ya know smart/casual!
Saying that i lived and worked in Coolock for about 4 years and never had a days trouble and met alot of nice people.

13-06-2012 06:09PM

shopaholic01 wrote: »

No, I'm actually a sociologist, and am conducting a survey of all subcultures currently identifiable in Irish socierty.

However, I would be grateful if Moo could save me the trouble.....:cool:

A sociologist eh?
Fascinating.;)

Helix · 13-06-2012 06:10PM

The King of Moo wrote: »

14: Insecure Desk Jockeys at the Starbuck's in the IFSC in the morning having pissing contests with each other by paying with cards for one coffee and getting the most foreign-sounding coffee in the largest cup size.

this one makes no sense. it's easier and safer to pay with plastic than it is carry cash around, and if you pay off when your statement arrives it costs nothing extra (depending on your card you might even make some money on it). and why would anyone try to outdo each other when it comes to starbucks? it's not an image or status thing, anyone can walk in and buy what they want. some people just happen to like drinks with stupid names available there

for example, im partial to the mocha cookie crumble frappuccino, because it's bloody yummy

Mance Rayder · 13-06-2012 06:11PM

The King of Moo wrote: »

What I find unpleasant is how on this forum they get so much more abuse than any other group, especially when they don't affect the lives of many people directly and in the cases of the majority of posters (not all), the complaining is coming from a socially superior position.

Your really think most of the people on this forum are well off?

I guarantee you most of us live in council estates and have real issues with skangers.

As a lot of people have said, Being a Skanger is a lifestyle choice and not a socio-economic class.

Growing up in Belcamp I can say that about 20% of the area were real skangers. They totally ruined the area for the other 80%.

The King of Moo · 13-06-2012 06:16PM

Helix wrote: »

this one makes no sense. it's easier and safer to pay with plastic than it is carry cash around, and if you pay off when your statement arrives it costs nothing extra (depending on your card you might even make some money on it). and why would anyone try to outdo each other when it comes to starbucks? it's not an image or status thing, anyone can walk in and buy what they want. some people just happen to like drinks with stupid names available there

for example, im partial to the mocha cookie crumble frappuccino, because it's bloody yummy

It's also often more expensive to pay with cards, especially in places with a mimimum spend limit on cards, but I don't know if Starbuck's have such a limit.

They might all happen to like the biggest size of fancy coffees, but the complete lack of lattés (without at least two adjectives) or Americanos, the insecure glances at each other and conscious attempts to affect a commanding delivery when asking for their coffee suggests that that's not the case for all of them.

Mance Rayder · 13-06-2012 06:16PM

Syllabus wrote: »

i was taking the piss with that one but if you must -

1: Donnybrook, Ballinteer, Dundrum, Churchtown, Blackrock, Mount Merrion, Sandyford, Rathfarnham, Foxrock, Lepardstown, Rathgar.

2: Finglas, Ballymun, Darndale, Coolock, Artane, DUNSINK LANE:eek:, Kilmore, Kilbarrack, ANY inner city area north of the Liffey

AH now you cant include Donnybrook sure that place is full of scumbags

Any group of people who can create fair city are just evil IMO.

Peetrik · 13-06-2012 06:18PM

hardCopy wrote: »

Do you realize there is a difference between people from disadvantaged backgrounds and skangers?

Do I realise?!? Its exactly what I've been saying...

http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m517zc7gM21rqc9vo.png

The King of Moo · 13-06-2012 06:21PM

CiscoStudent wrote: »

Your really think most of the people on this forum are well off?

I guarantee you most of us live in council estates and have real issues with skangers.

As a lot of people have said, Being a Skanger is a lifestyle choice and not a socio-economic class.

Growing up in Belcamp I can say that about 20% of the area were real skangers. They totally ruined the area for the other 80%.

I don't. I assume most people are middle to lower-middle class, with some above and below that. It doesn't take a lot to be better off than what most people here identify as skangers.

My definition of a skanger or scumbag is similar to yours: anyone who engages in aggressive anti-social behaviour regardless of social standing.

But the problem I have is that so many posts fixate not on the behaviour but outward signs which are generally signs of social class, such as clothes, accessories etc.

grindle · 13-06-2012 06:21PM

Peetrik wrote: »

Do I realise?!? Its exactly what I've been saying...

http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m517zc7gM21rqc9vo.png

Then why infer that skangers are underprivileged?

Peetrik wrote: »

What your indulging in is marginalisation of ordinary decent people due to, what I can only assume from your comments, was a sheltered and privileged upbringing.

Peetrik · 13-06-2012 06:26PM

grindle wrote: »

Then why infer that skangers are underprivileged?

Because, exactly as King of Moo has just pointed out, people have been listing outward signs of social class as identifying factors of 'skangers' not things like "paying off banker debts from the public pocket", or "raping pensioners".

grindle · 13-06-2012 06:31PM

Peetrik wrote: »

Because, exactly as King of Moo has just pointed out, people have been listing outward signs of social class as identifying factors of 'skangers' not things like "paying off banker debts from the public pocket", or "raping pensioners".

I wouldn't see them as signs of social class myself. Most teens dress like skangers in some way, but I don't think they're a skanger 'til they act like one.
Walks like a gowl, talks like a gowl, behaves like a gowl... Is a gowl.

Mance Rayder · 13-06-2012 06:31PM

I think whats happening here is that some people are having a bit of fun slagging off the stereotypical tracksuit chavy types whilst others are actually talking about our criminal class.

I think the confusion comes from the fact the these two groups so often overlap.

aaronjumper · 13-06-2012 06:44PM

NinjaK wrote: »

Listening to dance music doesnt make you a 'skanger'. Ever dance in a night club??

Did I say Dance music? No. Tunes is the slang term for music, generally, though it does tend to get used for dance music, more often then not.
I would have to refer to an urban dictionary.

Yes I have danced in a nightclub, though not that much, I don't see how that has any relevance to what I said.
If you're going to read between the lines I cannot be held responsible for what you take out of it.

I also like Dutch Gold, would you like to comment on that as well?

EDIT: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=tunes

PizzamanIRL · 13-06-2012 06:57PM

OP get out of your basement you snob. Nearly 5k posts in 7months.

Mance Rayder · 13-06-2012 06:58PM

I sense a thread closure coming on.

Big Nasty · 13-06-2012 07:05PM

The King of Moo wrote: »

But the problem I have is that so many posts fixate not on the behaviour but outward signs which are generally signs of social class, such as clothes, accessories etc.

I normally agree with most of your posts but:

Dress like a scroate, walk like a scroate, talk like a scroate? 999 / 1000 you are a scroate. Is it unfair to judge people from their appearance and accents? Sure it is but I'm not gonna change my ways just in case one out of every thousand 'aparent' scroates I may happen to meet is actually a decent person.

I also drive a BMW.

grindle · 13-06-2012 07:06PM

CiscoStudent wrote: »

I sense a thread closure coming on.

Nobody's called anyone a fucking idiot, or changed the thread subject to religion yet, so we're a while away from closure, for now, surely?
Feckin' skangers and their religious ways.

The King of Moo · 13-06-2012 07:15PM

MCMLXXV wrote: »

I normally agree with most of your posts but:

Dress like a scroate, walk like a scroate, talk like a scroate? 999 / 1000 you are a scroate. Is it unfair to judge people from their appearance and accents? Sure it is but I'm not gonna change my ways just in case one out of every thousand 'aparent' scroates I may happen to meet is actually a decent person.

I also drive a BMW.

Well now I think the number might be higher than 1/1000. I do understand that people have prejudiced, instinctive reactions: we all do.

What bugs me is that there are far more posts of people's judgements of people of skangers than, for example, people who appear to be stereotypical BMW drivers (I don't mind you driving a BMW as long as you indicate properly

).

I do understand why people have negative reactions to someone who drinks Dutch Gold and tucks his tracksuit pants into his white socks. But I don't understand why there's such a huge level of interest in such people on this forum, and why so many people don't seem to question these initial judgements, even a little.

grindle · 13-06-2012 07:18PM

The King of Moo wrote: »

But I don't understand why there's such a huge level of interest in such people on this forum, and why so many people don't seem to question these initial judgements, even a little.

Perhaps the people who don't like them have been gifted with abuse from them?

Mance Rayder · 13-06-2012 07:21PM

Yes and the Skangers arent exactly the reading or writing type so you won't find many of them here to defend themselves.

Of course we can always rely on some philanthropist from the south East to try and set everything Roish.

Monty Burnz · 13-06-2012 07:24PM

Shryke wrote: »

It would be great if we could all be as well off.
There's a real ugly side to this kind of thread and you don't have to look too deeply to see it.

It's nothing to do with being well off. My mother's family were dirt poor but their mother hammered home the importance of education. She wasn't educated herself, mind - and she wasn't a skanger either.

The King of Moo · 13-06-2012 07:25PM

grindle wrote: »

Perhaps the people who don't like them have been gifted with abuse from them?

Maybe, it's quite possible in fairness, though not many people have mentioned such in this thread (not that other threads aren't wanting for such stories, I admit).

But again, I've suffered negative encounters with people from all walks of life. Lippy teenagers, especially the ones with the cheek to be skateboarders, regular-brand teenagers shouting things at me, haughty middle-aged female customers, confused language students, middle-class students, drivers from all walks of life (I'm trying to overcome my prejudice against BMW and Mercedes drivers

) trying to kill me and so on...

So I don't get why the skangers always get singled out.

Though thinking about the ease with which I composed that brief selection, maybe these encounters say more about me...

norrie rugger · 13-06-2012 07:26PM

Shryke wrote: »

You're a dickhead if... you like to make fun of people from a lower class background.

I'm from a lower class background but do not act like these skangers. My parents did everything that they could to help my sister and I. I went to college, got my degree and got a good job. My sister works really hard and has travelled the world. Being from a lower working class background is no excuse for being a skanger

John Doe1 · 13-06-2012 07:28PM

If you went to an I.T instead of a university:p

grindle · 13-06-2012 07:29PM

The King of Moo wrote: »

Though thinking about the ease with which I composed that brief selection, maybe these encounters say more about me...

You do have a list at hand.

Put. The list. Down.

Now, think of 73 nice kinds of people...

HAHAHAHA, it was a trick!

Can't be done!

Big Nasty · 13-06-2012 07:32PM

The King of Moo wrote: »

Well now I think the number might be higher than 1/1000. I do understand that people have prejudiced, instinctive reactions: we all do.

What bugs me is that there are far more posts of people's judgements of people of skangers than, for example, people who appear to be stereotypical BMW drivers (I don't mind you driving a BMW as long as you indicate properly ).

I do understand why people have negative reactions to someone who drinks Dutch Gold and tucks his tracksuit pants into his white socks. But I don't understand why there's such a huge level of interest in such people on this forum, and why so many people don't seem to question these initial judgements, even a little.

I understand what you're saying and similarly there's an awful lot of hatred towards itinerants here too but those threads tend to get locked fairly sharpish. Personally I would trust an itinerant more than any scroate. Scroates are scroates but itinerants have their own code of morals - a lot of scroates don't have any.

mattjack · 13-06-2012 07:35PM

mikemac1 wrote: »

Plently of skanger threads but how about we nail down some definitions

Last thread for that was three years ago
So I'm not cluttering up AH here
I did search before you groan not another skanger thread

So tell us, how do we recognize a skanger?

Your tracksuit is some cheap counterfeit but your runners cost over 100 euro

In the evening time you roar at your children to cooooome in for yar taaaaaaay. Jaaaaaacinta will often be used too

You have "going out" pyjamas but even though you look like a slob you still wear makeup going to the Spar shop

Any more?

Your name must have three syllables .. that can be extended

MIIIIKEMAAACONNNE

The King of Moo · 13-06-2012 07:36PM

grindle wrote: »

You do have a list at hand.

Put. The list. Down.

Now, think of 73 nice kinds of people...

HAHAHAHA, it was a trick!

Can't be done!

1. Me.

2. Anyone who thanks any of my posts that I spent more than two minutes writing.

3. People who give their car park tickets to people entering the car park when they're leaving.

4. Eh, Jesus...?

You are a skanger if

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