Dublin - The skid mark of Ireland?

Legs.Eleven · 01-06-2014 12:42AM

humbert wrote: »

As someone who likes Dublin the behaviour that's tolerated by the Gardai and is becoming more and more widespread is depressing. And for what it's worth you don't see that in the city centre of most European cities; you might be able to find it but in Dublin it's simply unavoidable at this stage.

Really? I see similar almost daily here in Madrid.

TiGeR KiNgS · 01-06-2014 12:43AM

You think Dublin is bad ? just try the desolate wasteland of the midlands. 'Travellers' everywhere and accents that would make Ronald Mc Donald cry.

Tail Docker · 01-06-2014 12:44AM

TiGeR KiNgS wrote: »

You think Dublin is bad ? just try the desolate wasteland of the midlands. 'Travelers' everywhere and accents that would make Ronald Mc Donald cry.

Very true - offaly bleak.

Legs.Eleven · 01-06-2014 12:47AM

The more I read the ice-cream line, the funnier it gets.

humbert · 01-06-2014 12:49AM

I'll admit that I haven't been to Madrid but I have been to Copenhagen, Berlin, London, Paris, Stockholm, Valencia, Frankfurt (it's probably worse around the main station), Hanover, Edinburgh, Hamburg, Munich, Geneva and probably a few more and Dublin is the most conspicuously skanger infested. Even if all the rest are just as bad it doesn't actually diminish the problem that Dublin has.

degsie · 01-06-2014 12:49AM

Tail Docker wrote: »

Very true - offaly bleak.

Yeah, those 'Travelers' need to be kept on a Laoise

fleet_admiral · 01-06-2014 12:49AM

Tail Docker wrote: »

Very true - offaly bleak.

they should all be kept on a laois

Cienciano · 01-06-2014 12:49AM

OP, so did you say hi to your mam when you saw her outside heuston station?

Tail Docker · 01-06-2014 12:51AM

Frankfurt is a bit of a kip too, in all honesty..

bbbaldy · 01-06-2014 12:52AM

Adamantium wrote: »

Well in a city of 1 million people, you were bound to run into all sorts simply by chance of setting out the door particularly on a good day.

Join the rest of humanity and don't be surprised.

Enough faux outrage threads here.

Absolute rubbish, its not ok, its not a common sight in cities of over 1 million people. In a lot of European cities this is not acceptable, the police come down hard on this type of behaviour. I'm not saying its not there, but because its not acceptable its hidden and the general public does not have to put up with it. I find that In Dublin people find this behaviour to be a fact of life, for as long as they do this nothing will change.

Smidge · 01-06-2014 12:53AM

we even witnessed one lad kicking a 99 ice cream along the foothpath with bits of ice cream flying everywhere.

No need to have a wibbly wobbly over that!. I mean, something like that will hardly cause a super split in the fabric of society. the guy was clearly a flake.
I do agree with you on the policing side of things though.
What we need is Magnum.

Legs.Eleven · 01-06-2014 12:55AM

humbert wrote: »

I'll admit that I haven't been to Madrid but I have been to Copenhagen, Berlin, London, Paris, Stockholm, Valencia, Frankfurt (it's probably worse around the main station), Hanover, Edinburgh, Hamburg, Munich, Geneva and probably a few more and Dublin is the most conspicuously skanger infested. Even if all the rest are just as bad it doesn't actually diminish the problem that Dublin has.

I've lived in Edinburgh and London and oh, believe me, you find similar. Edinburgh has massive problems with heroin. We had massive punch ups right outside our flat between Rangers and Celtic fans most weekend nights.

My parents witnessed a man get the **** beaten out of him by two bouncers in front of their hotel visiting me in 2007 in London. He was left there for dead and they had to call the ambulance. If you leave the very centre, you'll find trouble. Parts of my areas were often cordoned off after someone was murdered there.

Not to say Dublin hasn't got it's problems and it certainly does but painting it as some sort of hell hole is a little naive. It's not as bad as people make out it is on Boards.

Let's face it, the ice-cream incident is hardly worrying.

degsie · 01-06-2014 12:55AM

Nib wrote: »

The streets were crawling with skangers roaring like animals and we even witnessed one lad kicking a 99 ice cream along the foothpath with bits of ice cream flying everywhere.

Did the Ice Scream?

fleet_admiral · 01-06-2014 12:56AM

Smidge wrote: »

we even witnessed one lad kicking a 99 ice cream along the foothpath with bits of ice cream flying everywhere.

No need to have a wibbly wobbly over that!. I mean, something like that will hardly cause a super split in the fabric of society. the guy was clearly a flake.
I do agree with you on the policing side of things though.
What we need is Magnum.

Id say he had freaky feet afterwards

Joe Duffy.. · 01-06-2014 12:57AM

Dublin is a great city, you get people like this in any major city in the country, Cork, Limerick, Galway. Especially in fine weather, seems to bring the skangers out.

The Backwards Man · 01-06-2014 12:58AM

Legs.Eleven wrote: »

I've lived in Edinburgh and London and oh, believe me, you find similar. Edinburgh has massive problems with heroin. We had massive punch ups right outside our flat between Rangers and Celtic fans most weekend nights.

My parents witnessed a man get the **** beaten out of him by two bouncers in front of their hotel visiting me in 2007 in London. He was left there for dead and they had to call the ambulance. If you leave the very centre, you'll find trouble. Parts of my areas were often cordoned off after someone was murdered there.

Not to say Dublin hasn't got it's problems and it certainly does but painting it as some sort of hell hole is a little naive. It's not as bad as people make out it is on Boards.

Let's face it, the ice-cream incident is hardly worrying.

I dunno legs, I'll never look at a cone the same way again.

Tail Docker · 01-06-2014 12:58AM

I love Dublin tbh, never had an issue with skangers or whatever. I think you can be a wee timerous beastie and see junkies on every corner, or else see a City going about its business. I remember when walking down Sheriff st meant you got mugged and Moore st was rough as fcuk -literally. It's waay better these days. I don't get the hand wringing.

--LOS-- · 01-06-2014 12:59AM

I think it has gotten so bad in the last few years, it has become an eyesore and a safety issue. I know there was always trouble but there seems to be so much more of it in public places now

TiGeR KiNgS · 01-06-2014 01:00AM

degsie wrote: »

Did the Ice Scream?

Why didn't OP just desert the area ?

Tail Docker · 01-06-2014 01:02AM

TiGeR KiNgS wrote: »

Why didn't OP just desert the area ?

This is just whipping it up. No topping that.

degsie · 01-06-2014 01:02AM

TiGeR KiNgS wrote: »

Why didn't OP just desert the area ?

Gardai were coning the area...

Tokarev · 01-06-2014 01:03AM

You don't Dublin OK,

Don't be in it.

If you work in it, Get over yourself.

Dublin is like any other major city.

Lots of scum and anti social behaviour like every other major city.

Deal with it.

Shakespeare's Sister · 01-06-2014 01:03AM

Tail Docker wrote: »

I love Dublin tbh, never had an issue with skangers or whatever. I think you can be a wee timerous beastie and see junkies on every corner, or else see a City going about its business. I remember when walking down Sheriff st meant you got mugged and Moore st was rough as fcuk -literally. It's waay better these days. I don't get the hand wringing.

Yeh I know people go on about it as if it's Baghdad, and I've never had grief there, but there is a poor garda presence in the city centre. And someone said Cork and Galway are the same for anti-social carry-on in their respective centres, even during the day. Absolutely no way. I don't know about Limerick.
I still love Dublin though, it just gets a bit let down in the centre at times.

humbert · 01-06-2014 01:03AM

Legs.Eleven wrote: »

I've lived in Edinburgh and London and oh, believe me, you find similar. Edinburgh has massive problems with heroin. We had massive punch ups right outside our flat between Rangers and Celtic fans most weekend nights.

My parents witnessed a man get the **** beaten out of him by two bouncers in front of their hotel visiting me in 2007 in London. He was left there for dead and they had to call the ambulance. If you leave the very centre, you'll find trouble. Parts of my areas were often cordoned off after someone was murdered there.

Not to say Dublin hasn't got it's problems and it certainly does but painting it as some sort of hell hole is a little naive. It's not as bad as people make out it is on Boards.

Let's face it, the ice-cream incident is hardly worrying.

That's not what we're talking about though. Nobody's denying that there is crime and violence and drugs in every major city it's the ubiquity and tolerance of it in Dublin that's unusual. I'm living in London at the moment.

TiGeR KiNgS · 01-06-2014 01:04AM

Tail Docker wrote: »

This is just whipping it up. No topping that.

I reckon there is hundreds and thousands of skangers in Dublin but at least its not the midlands.

degsie · 01-06-2014 01:04AM

Tokarev wrote: »

You don't Dublin OK,

Don't be in it.

If you work in it, Get over yourself.

Dublin is like any other major city.

Lots of scum and anti social behaviour like every other major city.

Deal with it.

Yeaaaa riiiight bud.

AlanS181824 · 01-06-2014 01:05AM

All these ice cream/dessert related puns...

It's all a Brunch of madness and I can't Flake it anymore...

....:pac:

Smidge · 01-06-2014 01:07AM

Legs.Eleven wrote: »

I've lived in Edinburgh and London and oh, believe me, you find similar. Edinburgh has massive problems with heroin. We had massive punch ups right outside our flat between Rangers and Celtic fans most weekend nights.

My parents witnessed a man get the **** beaten out of him by two bouncers in front of their hotel visiting me in 2007 in London. He was left there for dead and they had to call the ambulance. If you leave the very centre, you'll find trouble. Parts of my areas were often cordoned off after someone was murdered there.

Not to say Dublin hasn't got it's problems and it certainly does but painting it as some sort of hell hole is a little naive. It's not as bad as people make out it is on Boards.

Let's face it, the ice-cream incident is hardly worrying.[/QUOTE]

I know the sun is a regular visitor to your part of the world legs but this is IRELAND.
Today was the hottest day of the year and look what happened??
An innocent ice-cream cone, just doing what it does on a sunny day gets kicked to crumbs on a street.
Has the world gone mad Legs, has it?????
We can't just have acts of random ice-cream bashings on the streets of our capitol. If we allow that sort of thing to continue without bringing the full extent of the law down on the perpetrator, well all as I can say is we won't be joking about it when these mindless criminals get braver and moves on to greater crimes like headbutting pavlovas. Oh no, we won't be laughing then!!!!

dutopia · 01-06-2014 01:08AM

Ice cream flying everywhere, jaysis lads.

Legs.Eleven · 01-06-2014 01:09AM

humbert wrote: »

That's not what we're talking about though. Nobody's denying that there is crime and violence and drugs in every major city it's the ubiquity and tolerance of it in Dublin that's unusual. I'm living in London at the moment.

The ubiquitousness of supposed "skangers" is what you're referring to. I have to question what you consider a skanger to be. I've seen people being labelled skangers by virtue of them wearing tracksuits and having strong inner city working class accents on here so many times. I'd be wary of such labels and would question them.

Edit: Is ubiquitousness a word? :-/

Dublin - The skid mark of Ireland?

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