Noticed about a million spanish teens every corner of dublin. just wondering what's h

FloatingVoter · 16-07-2015 01:56AM

bodhrandude wrote: »

Its funny that they are learning English but don't talk it on the buses or the street.

I assume you're serious. They're here to get drunk, do some petty thieving and party. Learning English is the excuse they gave the parents back in Madrid. They probably download some Downton Abbey just before they go back in case any awkward questions are asked.
Fair play to them. Ourselves and the UK set the example -we export our jewel and darlin' criminals to the Costa del Blagga and they only come back when they get in trouble with the Russian mob. A few nuisance teenagers is more than a fair swap.

RichardCeann · 16-07-2015 02:12AM

FloatingVoter wrote: »

I assume you're serious. They're here to get drunk, do some petty thieving and party. Learning English is the excuse they gave the parents back in Madrid. They probably download some Downton Abbey just before they go back in case any awkward questions are asked.

No they are not. The majority of them would be under 18, have a full plan of lessons and excursions throughout their stay and are under pretty strict supervision. They have a big Friday night disco near my house in the school where the English lessons are held and I've never witnessed any hint of drunkenness. They are generally very well behaved. Being a nuisance on public transport and clogging up the footpath is their biggest crimes. But you can live with that.

It's expensive for their parents to send them over. Flights, bed and board with an Irish family, costs of the lessons, excursions and their spending money.

FloatingVoter · 16-07-2015 02:21AM

^ Are they strictly supervised while they're loitering around Dame St. 24/7 coming up with new ways to bum a fag? And I'm not talking about 13 or 14 year olds here. Haven't seen them but that age isn't on my radar. Ones I'm talking about would be 17 at least and mainly college age.
I haven't got a problem with them anyway - sign that summer is here.

RedemptionZ · 16-07-2015 02:23AM

I went over to Spain to learn Spanish when I was 16 during the summer with a few of the lads, place we went to school was basically just Irish people from about 14-18 so we'd go out with them and majority of them acted like complete scumbags and had no intention of learning Spanish, majority from private schools I might add so not the typical 'scumbag backround'. If the Spanish tried any of that stuff on a night out in Ireland they'd be set upon by our knackers. So while the Spanish are definitely more annoying, from my experience we Irish outdo them on scumbaggery, in the night time at least.

endacl · 16-07-2015 02:24AM

GerardKeating wrote: »

Been happening the past 30/40 years they come over to learn English. Kind of like when we send the kids to the gaelteach to learn Irish

Dublin is El Gaeltacht for English. We got a grant.

FloatingVoter · 16-07-2015 02:24AM

Ronnie Drew taught English in Spain back in the 50s. So any Spaniard pensioner that you see talking in pure Liffey English met the great man.

RedemptionZ · 16-07-2015 02:28AM

FloatingVoter wrote: »

^ Are they strictly supervised while they're loitering around Dame St. 24/7 coming up with new ways to bum a fag? And I'm not talking about 13 or 14 year olds here. Haven't seen them but that age isn't on my radar. Ones I'm talking about would be 17 at least and mainly college age.
I haven't got a problem with them anyway - sign that summer is here.

I live beside a secondary school that hosts them and they're pretty young, I'd say 14 or 15 would be the oldest. Maybe in town a few people go over to go to the more adult language schools when they're in their late teens. Have it on good authority that all the local scumbags in my area want to get their hands on them, probably because they're easy targets and I assume this is true throughout Dublin so I doubt they're able to cause too much trouble.

chrissb8 · 16-07-2015 04:02AM

Spanish people are just loud in general. It's just the way of itl. I think for the most part they're fine just really need to learn etiquette as to how to sit on bus seats i.e hogging and taking over the back of buses. That and littering. Par that they tend to keep to themselves and look like their having fun. Too many people dissing on them just for speaking their own language. Get over it.

FloatingVoter · 16-07-2015 04:22AM

RedemptionZ wrote: »

I live beside a secondary school that hosts them and they're pretty young, I'd say 14 or 15 would be the oldest. Maybe in town a few people go over to go to the more adult language schools when they're in their late teens. Have it on good authority that all the local scumbags in my area want to get their hands on them, probably because they're easy targets and I assume this is true throughout Dublin so I doubt they're able to cause too much trouble.

Yeah, I'm city centre Dublin....we're probably at cross purposes on who we're talking about. I see the young kids passing through like little battalions led by schoolteachers / designated adults - they're not what I'm referring to.
The crowd around Temple Bar / Dame St / Grafton St are all late teens and most would certainly be served alcohol without question in a pub. That's a litmus test for age ... not a slur on their intake.

steddyeddy · 16-07-2015 04:28AM

I operate from UCD where they seem to be learning English and bumping into people WHILE WALKING WITHOUT LOOKING :mad:

freshpopcorn · 16-07-2015 05:21AM

I was at the cinema a couple of Summers ago and their was a group of Spannish students sitting behind me.
For some reason they clapped if somebody kissed or at the end of a good scene and they all gave a big applause at the end of the film.

Asmooh · 16-07-2015 07:10AM

I think I have heard a few in the train as well they were talking about some pop group, forgot the name.. so I don't think they are older than 14

namloc1980 · 16-07-2015 07:31AM

Ah they're grand coming over here for a bit of an adventure. The shouting on the bus needs to stop though.

Dr Strange · 16-07-2015 07:44AM

steddyeddy wrote: »

I operate from UCD where they seem to be learning English and bumping into people WHILE WALKING WITHOUT LOOKING :mad:

They are mostly Italian on UCD campus I think. Loads of them around and when in the shops behaving like magpies. You can actually watch them shop-lift sweets and drinks when in Centra/Student shop or coffee shops. Bold as brass.

Apart from that they are very loud and are causing headaches for those staff who were hoping to have some quiet time to write up research or prepare new lectures.

somesoldiers · 16-07-2015 08:23AM

Valetta wrote: »

They never seem to look any older, though.

A bit like the Artane Boys Band years ago.

that's because it's not the same ones every year

I worked in a pub in Dublin city centre years back, a crowd of them would come in, make a fuss, all sit down, start smoking, then one would pluck up the courage to order a half pint, be told no, then they'd all make a fuss and leave again ..... The cycle continued all summer

inforfun · 16-07-2015 09:12AM

Thread is missing the "They share 1 pint with the lot of them"

So here.

cruais · 16-07-2015 09:14AM

Babble out loud, walk out in the middle of the road infront of on coming traffic and just act the general maggot....

Irish summer = Spanish students

Chinasea · 16-07-2015 09:14AM

Fudge You wrote: »

They are not being a nuisance by standing there????
All I have ever witness them do was stand around and chat to eachother, no big deal.

Imagine them standing on footpaths, and in shops, and being On Buses, the horror!!!!!!!!!!!! Who do they think they are?????

And spending money, how dare they.

Eugene Norman · 16-07-2015 09:17AM

namloc1980 wrote: »

Ah they're grand coming over here for a bit of an adventure. The shouting on the bus needs to stop though.

I was in a restaurant recently where the neighbouring table was 15 Spanish people. By Irish standards they shout buts it's just conversation to them I suppose. What was interesting is that more than one conversation seemed to be going on at once across the table. I mean on one side of the table a guy was talking to his friend on the other, and his neighbour was talking to her friend at the other end at the same time. Neither conversation paused for the other.

I'd be lying if I said that I am delighted when 20 Spanish students get on my dart carriage but they are harmless, if loud. If 20 of our local youth got on a carriage I'd feel a bit more uncomfortable.

Egginacup · 16-07-2015 11:08AM

Fudge You wrote: »

They are not being a nuisance by standing there????
All I have ever witness them do was stand around and chat to eachother, no big deal.

Imagine them standing on footpaths, and in shops, and being On Buses, the horror!!!!!!!!!!!! Who do they think they are?????

Well in fairness they do tend to travel in large groups and just stop in the middle of a busy footpath and chat. They take up the entire width of it and seem oblivious to the fact that there is other human traffic trying to get past them.

Egginacup · 16-07-2015 11:24AM

tempnam wrote: »

Yeah - when 10 kids stand blocking the doorway to a shop cos one of them is buying something in the shop i'd call that a nuisance. Especially when the fcukers dont move out of your way to let you in / out & you end up having to barge through them

I find that it works wonders if you can engage them in a little Spanish when this occurs...

"¿Por qué estás de pie en la puerta? Bastardo estúpido. ¿Acaso la puta de tu madre se le cae en la cabeza cuando eras un bebé?"

(Translation: "Why are you standing in the doorway? You stupid bastard. Did your whore of a mother drop you on your head when you were a baby?")

crockholm · 16-07-2015 11:33AM

Spanish students-the subject that transforms boardsies into Kevin Myers-esque curmudgeons

Mesrine65 · 16-07-2015 12:01PM

RedemptionZ wrote: »

Here to learn English and casually shout on buses.

tempnam wrote: »

They're here every summer op.

Hoards of them come over to learn English.

As well as that they generally block footpaths, shops, busses & just cause a general nuisance.

A bit like Irish tourists in Spain getting pissed-up in their GAA jerseys & shouting in English slowly so the Spaniards understand :rolleyes:

FFS they're teenagers on the loose in a different country, they're all over-excited & having the craic, probably their first experience away without parental restrictions.

At least they attempt to learn our language, what harm?

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 16-07-2015 01:10PM

LeakingLava wrote: »

So yeah, on the way home now from town and even in the bus I'm in, there are a lot of spanish teens. Just wondering is there something going on

Where have you been for the past 20 summers?

GLaDOS · 16-07-2015 01:16PM

According to the Spanish I work with, they're the equivalent of our stereotypical 'D4's, rich and spoiled.

the_monkey · 16-07-2015 01:21PM

ScienceNerd wrote: »

According to the Spanish I work with, they're the equivalent of our D4s, rich and spoiled.

I can confirm this.

Also a few things Spanish kids are brought up to get used to

*Loud noises
*making loud noises
*staying up late (i mean ridiculously late 2AM 9 year old kids running around the plazas)

But in fairness they are harmless enough - only things that piss me off are the shop lifting and the insults they shout at irish, I understand spanish now and can't believe the fing and jeffing they throw at people on buses and the DART.

lazeedaisy · 16-07-2015 01:27PM

From reading this thread it seems the students in Dublin are different from those in rural Ireland.

The students are from 13 to 16, don't necessarily know each other before they come over and are kids!

In spannish asking the time is a big loud deal. They talk very loud, and in groups the noise obviously gets very very loud. The students are in class 6 mornings a week, and ave activities planned every afternoon and are free all day Sunday's. There as been no discos or weekly entertainment. They have a 9pm curfew.

Most are here for the month of July and all learn English in school anyway. We don't have rural transport as such so no problem there.

They cannot all be labelled as thieving and not all of them are rich.

As has been said, they are teenagers, away from their parents and to be honest, I have to say after meeting a few of them, maybe they keep the best of them for rural Ireland. They are too tired to do anything other than play games on their phones and talk loudly,

I sure don't miss Dublin! :-)

cloud493 · 16-07-2015 01:30PM

Since when the Dublin kids in class? I see them piling onto the buses and wandering round the city centre at every time of the day, literally.

Saipanne · 16-07-2015 01:31PM

Some amount of jailbait, in fairness.

DarkyHughes · 16-07-2015 02:17PM

Most people here will be too young to remember the great Spanish student uprising of 1988 when they held the center of Cork for 3 months despite 1000's of cluster bombs being dropped on them.

Noticed about a million spanish teens every corner of dublin. just wondering what's h

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