Would you be ashamed to say you were reared in a Council house?

Hitchens · 30-07-2013 09:24PM #1

A pal of mine tells me that his mother-in-law flat out denies that her folks were Council house people. She has herself convinced she never picked spuds when she was a young wan as well.

I think that's so sad.

Is the Celtic Tiger to blame for this attitude or is there a snobbery gene in the Irish race?

30-07-2013 09:27PM

Hitchens wrote: »

A pal of mine tells me that his mother-in-law flat out denies that her folks were Council house people. She has herself convinced she never picked spuds when she was a young wan as well.

I think that's so sad.

Is the Celtic Tiger to blame for this attitude or is there a snobbery gene in the Irish race?

No I would not be ashamed to say.

The Backwards Man · 30-07-2013 09:29PM

I was reared in the backass of nowhere, I gathered spuds, holed turf and shovelled manure to beat the band and I don't give a flying fluck who knows or not.

Ilik Urgee · 30-07-2013 09:30PM

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles made a fortune out of admitting it so can't see any reason not to.

Gannicus · 30-07-2013 09:32PM

I was born and raised and still living in a council house and I don't give a flying fúck who knows what kinda house I was reared in. (parents eventually bought the house but still to this day) the estate is predominantly council owned

seven_eleven · 30-07-2013 09:34PM

Bahahaha. If anybody was ashamed of something as harmless as that I'd laugh at them. Thats pathetic in itself.

B.A._Baracus · 30-07-2013 09:35PM

I grew up in a council estate.

It's just snobbery by people who won't admit it ... and by people who judge by it. Reality is most people bloody don't care.

30-07-2013 09:35PM

I was reared in a council house.

Meh, guess not.

Vito Corleone · 30-07-2013 09:36PM

I would only really be ashamed or proud of things I did/achieved. I don't really understand people who are proud/ashamed of their family's background or people who are proud/ashamed of themselves because of the actions of their country. In the thread with the (fake) video of the Irish people harassing that Korean women I really couldn't understand comments such as "Oh god, they're Irish. I'm so ashamed right now!"

0ph0rce0 · 30-07-2013 09:38PM

Brought Up In A Council House Here Myself.

We are the future!!

NegativeCreep · 30-07-2013 09:40PM

In short: No.

Mint Sauce · 30-07-2013 09:41PM

Lived on a council estate till I was 19. Although council estates in London over 15 years ago, didn't quite have the same rep they do now compared to there or here.

Hitchens · 30-07-2013 09:41PM

Vito Corleone wrote: »

I would only really be ashamed or proud of things I did/achieved. I don't really understand people who are proud/ashamed of their family's background or people who are proud/ashamed of themselves because of the actions of their country. In the thread with the (fake) video of the Irish people harassing that Korean women I really couldn't understand comments such as "Oh god, they're Irish. I'm so ashamed right now!"

Dead on!

Another thing you'll hear sometimes is a person saying that they are from County so & so "and proud of it".

FreshKnickers · 30-07-2013 09:42PM

Ah now, if you want me to be honest then I'll have to admit that yes, I would be ashamed to say I was raised in a Council house. Because I wasn't, so I'd be lying and lies make the Babby Jesus cry.

30-07-2013 09:43PM

If anything, OP, I'd say I've only seen the opposite, a kind of reverse-snobbery.

I've a few friends who've all had quite cushy lives, who happened to grow up in council houses but go around talking about it like it makes them "street smart" and tough (none of them are anywhere near being independent). You'd swear they were from sort of gangsta ghetto.

bumper234 · 30-07-2013 09:44PM

Raised in a council house. Picked spuds, plucked turkeys and did whatever else i needed to do to get by.

Sunnyisland · 30-07-2013 09:45PM

100% no

Born and reared in a council house until I left when I was 19,then I went downhill :-)

My name is URL · 30-07-2013 09:46PM

I'd feel sorry for anyone who didn't grow up on a housing estate. What kind of life would that be.. never having poked at dead cats with sticks, getting stuck in quicksand in the bog behind the estate and robbing crates from the factory up the road for Halloween.

Those are important life experiences :pac:

pconn062 · 30-07-2013 09:47PM

What's gathering potatoes got to do with been reared in a council house? I wasn't reared in a council house but I live in the sticks and still work on a farm during the summer months (as do most people in the sticks!).

Hitchens · 30-07-2013 09:48PM

My name is URL wrote: »

I'd feel sorry for anyone who didn't grow up on a housing estate. What kind of life would that be.. never having poked at dead cats with sticks, getting stuck in quicksand in the bog behind the estate and robbing crates from the factory up the road for Halloween.

Those are important life experiences :pac:

and you had to spit when you went near the dead cat, to ward off disease

MadsL · 30-07-2013 09:48PM

The Backwards Man wrote: »

I was reared in the backass of nowhere, I gathered spuds, holed turf and shovelled manure to beat the band and I don't give a flying fluck who knows or not.

Christian Brothers was it?

seven_eleven · 30-07-2013 09:48PM

My name is URL wrote: »

I'd feel sorry for anyone who didn't grow up on a housing estate. What kind of life would that be.. with never having poked at dead cats with sticks, getting stuck in quicksand in the bog behind the estate and robbing crates from the factory up the road for Halloween.

Those are the important life experiences :pac:

lighting massive bonfires, avoiding various boobytraps set by the older teens in the woods, watching the fields get set on fire every year, playing in skips, getting the chase of crazy psycho neighbors and farmers, zooming about the place in gigantic bicycle gangs.

I cant imagine a more fun childhood.

bgrizzley · 30-07-2013 09:51PM

Fancy schmansy council house people, i grew up in a shoe...

Sunnyisland · 30-07-2013 09:51PM

I do know a person who,s mother in law would tell any one intrested enough, that her son in law was from a different part of the city then were they were actually from,

Did I say that right.

Red About Town · 30-07-2013 09:52PM

I was reared in a council estate. Far from the best place to spend my childhood/teenage years. I'm not ashamed of where I come from but realise it was/isn't a great place to live.

Banjo String · 30-07-2013 09:56PM

Lived in a council house in a council estate for 23 years with my family.

In those 23 years I never experienced a single instance of crime, be it violent or property related.

However I've been in this rather nice private estate, mortgaged to the balls with loads of Mercedes and BMW owners for 7 years now.

In that time I've had my (northern reg at the time) no plates robbed
my work vehicle ransacked, lots of equipment stolen
next door neighbour got the house broken into while she was there (nothing taken though)
Other next door neighbour house broken into and car keys taken and car robbed
Another neighbour got burgled.

23 years in the council estate and not a bother. Ever.

30-07-2013 09:57PM

bgrizzley wrote: »

Fancy schmansy council house people, i grew up in a shoe...

Did you have so many brothers and sisters that your mother didn't know what to do?

dirtyden · 30-07-2013 10:02PM

SamHall wrote: »

Lived in a council house in a council estate for 23 years with my family.

In those 23 years I never experienced a single instance of crime, be it violent or property related.

However I've been in this rather nice private estate, mortgaged to the balls with loads of Mercedes and BMW owners for 7 years now.

In that time I've had my (northern reg at the time) no plates robbed
my work vehicle ransacked, lots of equipment stolen
next door neighbour got the house broken into while she was there (nothing taken though)
Other next door neighbour house broken into and car keys taken and car robbed
Another neighbour got burgled.

23 years in the council estate and not a bother. Ever.

There is a quite logical reason for that though. People tend to rob richer people or steal more expensive cars.

oldyouth · 30-07-2013 10:05PM

What's a Council House??

:P

Banjo String · 30-07-2013 10:07PM

dirtyden wrote: »

There is a quite logical reason for that though. People tend to rob richer people or steal more expensive cars.

Yeah I get that.

point is though, the estate was a safer place than the 'nicer one' I live in now.

I loved chatswood.

tallus · 30-07-2013 10:10PM

Didn't Sean Lemass live in a council house ?.
My answer is no, because I lived in more than one council over the years, and to be honest, its not the house that causes people to be any different. Plenty of scumbags have managed to buy private / non council houses.

Would you be ashamed to say you were reared in a Council house?

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