In Honour of English Crustys

11-06-2015 10:57AM #1

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-33077599

I got reading this and it brought me back to the days when the English Crustys used to come to Ireland. I have many stories about interacting with them.
They never really understood Ireland.
They never could understand that if you camped in someones field in Ireland a couple of blokes would move you on with shotguns as opposed to long court cases. I remember talking to one bunch that actually mistook a halting site for a crusty camp, they regaled me with tails of how all there worldly goods were taking off them when they availed of the halting site.

They could never get used to the violent Irish. No such thing as a peace loving Irish Crusty, give the Irish man a couple of beers and all of a sudden its war !
I think they just gave up on Ireland or grew up and got jobs !
So any Crusty stories ?

Have you a Crusty story ?

kfallon · 11-06-2015 10:58AM

Left me jocks on for a week.....very crusty!

That's my story!

ClovenHoof · 11-06-2015 10:59AM

They never really understood Ireland.

That's because wealthy young people with trust funds and rich parents back home in the Home Counties have never understood Ireland.

somesoldiers · 11-06-2015 11:03AM

I used to work in a bar in D2 while the Glen of the Downs was all going on. A crowd of them started coming in on Friday evenings with some people that worked in a shop nearby.
The manager eventually barred them as they stank to high hell and the Friday evening after work crew were always moaning about them

the evasion_kid · 11-06-2015 11:05AM

Met plenty of them traveling in the states,though the crusties over there were far different from the peace loving "dudes" from this side of the world....don't even get me started on the oogles

http://crustypunks.blogspot.ie

Mr. Incognito · 11-06-2015 11:06AM

English crustys?

Spend a few months in Galway mate

ElvisChrist6 · 11-06-2015 11:10AM

You still get the old crust punks coming over for crust gigs, but they're often the ones that were actually in crust bands at their height. Not the rich kids who don't need to live in squats but still do.

11-06-2015 11:10AM

Mr. Incognito wrote: »

English crustys?

Spend a few months in Galway mate

They are only pretend Crustys ! But ya as a Mayo Person Galway people are dirty Crustys !

Trudiha · 11-06-2015 11:26AM

My Missus and I were walking our dogs in a wood in West Cork a couple of weeks ago when we encountered a couple with small kids, all four were dressed in hand hewn clothes, she had a shaved head and he had dreadlocks, she was wearing one of those hats that's almost a skullcap. There was a strong smell of essential oil about them.

Imagine our surprise when they greeted us with Irish accents. Crustie might be catching.

11-06-2015 11:40AM

Trudiha wrote: »

My Missus and I were walking our dogs in a wood in West Cork a couple of weeks ago when we encountered a couple with small kids, all four were dressed in hand hewn clothes, she had a shaved head and he had dreadlocks, she was wearing one of those hats that's almost a skullcap. There was a strong smell of essential oil about them.

Imagine our surprise when they greeted us with Irish accents. Crustie might be catching.

Did you tell them to move on ?

Not G.R · 11-06-2015 11:47AM

Remember that time a load of crusties tried to destroy capitalism by building a shanty town on Dame st. :pac:

Trudiha · 11-06-2015 11:47AM

6541 wrote: »

Did you tell them to move on ?

Not at all; we are dependant on tourism here but we did consider trying to sell them a very small amount of turf wrapped in cling film.

11-06-2015 11:51AM

Trudiha wrote: »

Not at all; we are dependant on tourism here but we did consider trying to sell them a very small amount of turf wrapped in cling film.

Sure he would never fall for the auld turf trick and it would want to be tin foil as opposed to cling film.

Aongus Von Bismarck · 11-06-2015 11:51AM

I grew up in a part of Galway that was infested with crusties during the mid-90's. They'd come down from their camps and squats in the Slieve Aughty's to draw the dole and do their shopping. Hideous bunch of people. Notorious for shop lifting.
The men all had straggly long hair, dirty unkempt beards with beads in them, combats, wool jumpers, dogs being lead on a piece of rope. The women tended to have either shaved heads or dreadlocks. Hemp dresses, wool cardigans, homemade earrings.
The Gardai ended up raiding their camps and arresting them for growing weed. Took a hard-line on them. Cleared them out of the area, thankfully. A shower of workshy pests living a feckless existence courtesy of the State.

seamus · 11-06-2015 11:55AM

Ah there are a few Irish crusties around, but they tend be higher-class crusties. They live in self-sufficient communities, but they still tend to shower and choose mobile homes and caravans over shacks in the woods. My aunt & uncle live in one down in Cork and they love it.

Ireland isn't all that conducive to full-on crustification. A lot of land is privately-owned, the weather's not great for long-term shanty living and ultimately the local populations don't really like you. Plus, we tend not to have very many trust-funded people or independently wealthy former nobility families around.

As others have said above, those who do go for the full-on living off the earth lifestyle in Ireland tend to get run out by the Gardai or the locals because they turn into thieves and drifters moreso than self-sufficient hippies.

jimgoose · 11-06-2015 11:58AM

There's a lot of them down around West Cork still, specifically the Ahillies area. Presumably they're living off-grid, giving the finger to De Man or somesuch, the usual. Except for the dole and the clapped-out old Mercedes vans, of course. I think most of them only do the whole "Crusty" thing to annoy people, probably their parents. :pac:

11-06-2015 12:05PM

Surely there must be a few Crusties reading boards.ie ???

Cool_CM · 11-06-2015 12:20PM

jimgoose wrote: »

There's a lot of them down around West Cork still, specifically the Ahillies area. Presumably they're living off-grid, giving the finger to De Man or somesuch, the usual. Except for the dole and the clapped-out old Mercedes vans, of course. I think most of them only do the whole "Crusty" thing to annoy people, probably their parents. :pac:

Yeah, was about to say that they probably all moved down to West Cork.

11-06-2015 12:30PM

seamus wrote: »

Ah there are a few Irish crusties around, but they tend be higher-class crusties. They live in self-sufficient communities, but they still tend to shower and choose mobile homes and caravans over shacks in the woods. My aunt & uncle live in one down in Cork and they love it.

Ireland isn't all that conducive to full-on crustification. A lot of land is privately-owned, the weather's not great for long-term shanty living and ultimately the local populations don't really like you. Plus, we tend not to have very many trust-funded people or independently wealthy former nobility families around.

As others have said above, those who do go for the full-on living off the earth lifestyle in Ireland tend to get run out by the Gardai or the locals because they turn into thieves and drifters moreso than self-sufficient hippies.

I know some people who like a semi crusty existence they have a house but no electricity they use a generator mainly for the freezer they have a range but no central heating, they have running water and a septic tank, where they live is very remote, they do work on and off they live very simply. Its perfectly possible to live like that and keep your self clean and live a normal existence.

West cork and Galway is always associated with crusty lifestyles and because of that they attract a certain type to get away from that you need to go somewhere else parts of Tipperary and Leitrim are very remote.

I did encounter a load of crusty on the street in Clonakilty and thought they looked scary and the children were dirty and poorly dressed wellingtons in the summer.

Herb Powell · 11-06-2015 02:22PM

The crust is indeed strong in West Cork, pleasant enough folk in my experience though, I must say. Very few fit the "smelly" stereotype, they mostly seem to wash alright. More than can be said for a lot of "normal" inhabitants.....

donegaLroad · 11-06-2015 02:32PM

Trudiha wrote: »

My Missus and I were walking our dogs in a wood in West Cork a couple of weeks ago when we encountered a couple with small kids, all four were dressed in hand hewn clothes, she had a shaved head and he had dreadlocks, she was wearing one of those hats that's almost a skullcap. There was a strong smell of essential oil about them.

Imagine our surprise when they greeted us with Irish accents. Crustie might be catching.

Patchouli oil

I love the smell of it

Ranchu · 11-06-2015 02:39PM

The crusties showing up in places like west Cork and Galway tend to be more Levellers loving new wave hippies as opposed to Discharge loving crust punks.

muppetkiller · 11-06-2015 02:41PM

There's loads arriving in Galway again now that the Arts festival is coming up. You can hear them banging their drums as you walk the prom.

I saw one last night with a Rat on her head walking across the bridge last night ???? A huge Pet RAT !!!....The Poor Rat

Mesrine65 · 11-06-2015 02:43PM

Ranchu wrote: »

Discharge loving crust punks.

Discharge for the uninitiated...

darkpagandeath · 11-06-2015 02:47PM

is gas a lot of them are into the environment, And look at all the waste mess they create..

fortwilliam · 11-06-2015 03:00PM

That crowd of clowns that moved into Glen Of The Downs in Wicklow,
They were "Protecting the trees" regardless of the fact that the ones being removed were mostly dead, and were being replaced 6/1.

They left the place in shyte when everybody got bored of them and they went away.
Ropes and plastic tarp tied all over the trees, campfire remains everywhere, dumps of plastic and tin cans all over the forrest.
They did a thousand times more damage to the environment than the road widening ever did.

Idiots.

Yea, stick it to society man, I ain't gonna be a slave for a wage... But I'll take my dole from the people who actually do work to support the environment thankyouverymuch...

philstar · 11-06-2015 11:29PM

plenty of them new age travelers in east clare, Tuamgraney/scarrif direction

anncoates · 11-06-2015 11:47PM

Not exactly crusties, but my wife grew up in a rural area i the West beside a pretty hippy European family - Dutch or German - that used to let their kids run around in the nip up and down the road which caused great scandal in the community in the mid 70s. She still does an rather excellent impression of her elderly relations tut-tutting about it.

bodhrandude · 12-06-2015 12:58AM

What happened in Thatcher's Britain in the late 80s probably influenced the migration to here, the documentary Battle in the Beanfield, the fight between the Peace Convoy and the police.

Lyaiera · 12-06-2015 01:34AM

Grand bunch a lads.

I do wonder if you can get fibre broadband in the Allihies?

c_man · 12-06-2015 01:42AM

My earliest memory of hearing the phrase "shower of cunce" was in relation to some English crusties when I was around 5 or 6 by my Dad.

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