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Pantsface · 21-07-2012 12:15AM

An0n wrote: »

Incorrect.

Instead of worrying about things that could happen. Spend your 'alloted worrying time' on topics of things that will or are already happening.

For example:
- World poverty.
- Global warming.
- Wars.
- Population control issues.
- Natural resource issues.
- Future wars.
- Etc, etc.

*sweats*

crazy cabbage · 21-07-2012 12:25AM

people worry to much. If something is going to happen it will happen. worring about it wont change that. If it isn't going to happen well then you would have been worrying for no reason.

When i say that people shouldn't worry i dont mean that we should ignore world problems. I just mean that activism and actully doing something about it is infintly better that worrying.

People who worry/fear/whatever you want to call it tend to buy/shop more (for things they generly dont need). I cant help but feel sometime that the media overplay many of there stories to keep us 'controled' if that is the right word. Keep us shoping. keep us surpressed.

Prehaps i am mad. What am i ranting on about now

Princess Consuela Bananahammock · 21-07-2012 12:44AM

Pantsface wrote: »

ikky poo, are you a guardian reader?

Your user name would suggest otherwise

No, mainly BBC and RTE websites. Not sure where the name coems into it

or what this has to do with the guardian, but I have a rational approach to what I read.

Pantsface · 21-07-2012 12:50AM

Ikky Poo2 wrote: »

No, mainly BBC and RTE websites. Not sure where the name coems into it or what this has to do with the guardian, but I have a rational approach to what I read.

Ikky Poo comes across as a tabloid reader name to me, Ikky

purplepapillon · 21-07-2012 12:55AM

crazy cabbage wrote: »

People who worry/fear/whatever you want to call it tend to buy/shop more (for things they generly dont need). I cant help but feel sometime that the media overplay many of there stories to keep us 'controled' if that is the right word. Keep us shoping. keep us surpressed.

Last year during the Christmas shopping period, there was someone on Henry St who was either threatening people with a knife or who had actually stabbed someone during the day. Lots of colleagues were talking about it (I used to work in a shop near there). This didn't appear at all in the media as far as I could find at the time. Keep shopping

I think Dublin has become a more threatening place at night. I am usually wary of scaremongering and that sort of thing, but the nightclub scene in particular is getting very scummy (as if it wasn't already). I was out a few weeks back and two guys were fighting and one was pushed into me and headbutted me right in the nose. It was bleeding and hurt for like a week afterwards. The bouncer didn't care. More people through the doors, and more money, is all they want. In Dublin's most well-known nightclubs, they must exceed the maximum number of people allowed in such small areas. If a fire or something did occur, it could be like Stardust all over again.

Isolation in society is a factor. But all these fights in the media/papers over public/private sectors, employed/unemployed separates people to an extent that they don't realise. Any sense of community is hard to find in bigger urban areas.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock · 21-07-2012 01:52AM

Pantsface wrote: »

Ikky Poo comes across as a tabloid reader name to me, Ikky

I seeee...... reached that level have we?

Anyway, it just emphasises the point: you reading stuff and making massive incorrect assumptions about it is the source of your fears.

Have a read of a book called Freakonomics: it's basically about how we massively misinterpret and rationalise risk. Also, Bowling for Columbine, about how fear is used as a minipulative tool via the media to make people spend and consume more. Once you realise that that's the whole point, you tend to fear less.

If I am wrong, then the question remains: what is the source of your fears? What factors and sources do you take into account?

Brokentime · 21-07-2012 03:01PM

purplepapillon wrote: »

Last year during the Christmas shopping period, there was someone on Henry St who was either threatening people with a knife or who had actually stabbed someone during the day. Lots of colleagues were talking about it (I used to work in a shop near there). This didn't appear at all in the media as far as I could find at the time. Keep shopping

Papers can't report everything all the time. Doubt s/he stabbed anyone, though, because that would have probably made the news.

purplepapillon wrote: »

I think Dublin has become a more threatening place at night. I am usually wary of scaremongering and that sort of thing, but the nightclub scene in particular is getting very scummy (as if it wasn't already). I was out a few weeks back and two guys were fighting and one was pushed into me and headbutted me right in the nose. It was bleeding and hurt for like a week afterwards. The bouncer didn't care. More people through the doors, and more money, is all they want. In Dublin's most well-known nightclubs, they must exceed the maximum number of people allowed in such small areas. If a fire or something did occur, it could be like Stardust all over again.

You really need to find a 'local' watering hole. Bouncing from one place to the next, looking for the craic, inevitably leads you to the doors of clubs, where most bother is. I'd follow up with a complaint to that club, if you really did eat a yozzer off some guy and the bouncer did nothing. But did nobody ever tell you to stay away from people fighting; proximity to a scrap can be as bad as being involved in one.

purplepapillon wrote: »

Any sense of community is hard to find in bigger urban areas.

Rubbish; I live in a city with almost 25 million people and there's a wonderful sense of community here. Unless you just mean the bigger urban areas in Ireland.

Eve_Dublin · 21-07-2012 03:10PM

I'm never afraid. I've lived in dodgy areas in a few countries and the area I'm in now would also be a bit dodge but no, there's nothing to be scared of. Even travelling around South America on my own I felt completely safe. All crime is blown completely out of proportion.

christmas2012 · 21-07-2012 03:11PM

Pantsface wrote: »

Do you feel safe in your world? Feel safe to go to the shops, cross the road, go into town, watch a movie?

The World is getting a more frightening place, and smaller, I think.

Physcos seem to be everywhere! Or is it the media / social network we live in thats making it smaller / more scary?

If you think about the probability of random attacks like that shooter in aurora in the us in that cinema then you probably woulnt go outside the door..

Driving is more dangerous than being a pedestrian,there could be someone driving the wrong way on a road,speeding overtaking you into oncoming traffic causing you to also get in a big collision,there are so many things that can go wrong.

I feel safer as a pedestrian and certainly not a driver,but it doesnt stop me driving either..

In fairness we dont live in a bad part of the world,there are no daily false accusations,beheadings and what not,civil wars and strife mass killings and that,so i think we are relatively safe,although i did hear where i live there were attacks burglaries and muggings recently,but you would want to keep it out of your mind somewhat..

ScumLord · 21-07-2012 03:22PM

I feel safe just about everywhere. I've been all over Europe and never felt in any threat or had any troubles.

I've stopped reading the newspapers, they're all muck at this stage. Same with TV. I tried to buy a magazine for the first time in ages two weeks ago and saw the crap being sold in every petrol station. Celeb mags, rows and rows of celeb mags, not a focus in sight.

The media is trying to turn people into scared cattle. I think everyone should spend some time any from the media, I think it takes time away from them to appreciate just how conniving the media are with their scaremongering.

Wattle · 21-07-2012 08:36PM

On the beach in Port Antonio Jamaica with a nice big spliff and a bottle of Ting. Happy days.

mauzo · 21-07-2012 08:44PM

I feel safe in my area. Often go out running at 1 or 2am.

Sometimes Im afraid or paranoid about things but I have a reason and generally can read whether or not im right to feel safe, doubt that makes much sense lol

rain on · 21-07-2012 08:52PM

Yep I feel very safe, and I don't live in the nicest of areas (some lad had his arm hacked off with an axe on my street a few weeks ago, it never made the papers that I could see). I've never experienced any random violence towards me or even any verbal harassment. Despite being a rather small lady apparently I have 'an air of not tolerating fools gladly' so maybe that has something to do with it. I am cautious and aware of my surroundings when I'm out and about, especially on my own at night, but, touch wood, nothing bad has happened to me. And given that I spend 4-5 nights a week training full-contact fighting with fellas much bigger than me, I would like to see someone try anything. I also have a vicious sprint and great cardio, which would be my first weapons of choice, but if it came down to it, I'm not afraid of anyone.

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