What makes a city?

25-11-2014 01:13AM

A professional sports team helps.

And an international airport.

Karpackie · 25-11-2014 01:33AM

A Chinese restaurant that serves authentic food from a region of China where the chefs grew up in. And that includes adding loads of MSG. About 3 of them in the whole of Dublin. None of them that cheap.

Summer wind · 25-11-2014 01:45AM

A song: The Cold Windy City Of Chicago.

WINGDIPEST · 25-11-2014 01:52AM

Slunk wrote: »

Trying to settle something here. What three things make a city? A river, cathedral and what ?

flocks of sheep
lots of sheep

tv/chemtrails/tap water

I'm not afraid to shout "cherries" out loud in a crowd for no reason.
I'm a transatlantic flight on drugs by night
I'm steven seagal's left eyebrow when his eating toffee but I'm also his right one but only when his drinking coffee !

fleet_admiral · 25-11-2014 02:12AM

Sligo is a city is it not? It's big and has signs saying city centre

Dum_Dum · 25-11-2014 02:12AM

People > 500,000

Henlars67 · 25-11-2014 02:19AM

fleet_admiral wrote: »

Sligo is a city is it not? It's big and has signs saying city centre

There's a few local idiots who think they're important who have bestowed city status on Sligo. As far as I'm aware there's nothing official in it.

90% of people here are quite happy with Sligo being a town.

zcorpian88 · 25-11-2014 08:23AM

Jobs of all descriptions, not just retail and pubs.

Like factories and multi national companies.

Having a college/university not just these local ****holes handing out Level 5 at the highest.

anncoates · 25-11-2014 08:25AM

A significant population of culchies that wax nostalgically about 'back home' but won;t go and live there.

25-11-2014 08:30AM

fleet_admiral wrote: »

Sligo is a city is it not? It's big and has signs saying city centre

They're pointing to Galway. Newry being a city is a good one. Tallaght is more of one.

anncoates · 25-11-2014 08:34AM

Omackeral wrote: »

Tallaght is more of one.

Nearly up with Galway now, population wise..

OldGoat · 25-11-2014 10:47AM

AnonoBoy wrote: »

A city built on rock and roll would be structurally unsound.

*pushes glasses up nose*

...would be structurally ONsound

*Zips up anorak

Lapin · 25-11-2014 10:54AM

A University.

Maynooth is a metropolis.

Waterford is...........

Waterford ?

The_Captain · 25-11-2014 11:01AM

Having a university would be a good shout. Maynooth isn't a real university though, it's just a place to put idiots for three years to stop them hurting other people