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    #62
    crockholm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,448 ✭✭✭crockholm


    The Randy Riverbeast wrote: »
    Think I'll open up a chipper. With all the chips on people's shoulders here that's me stocked for years.
    Just as long as you sell stuffing,peas and coleslaw with the chips to cater for the country cousins particular appetites.:cool:


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    #63
    jimgoose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,237 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    crockholm wrote: »
    Just as long as you sell stuffing,peas and coleslaw with the chips to cater for the country cousins particular appetites.:cool:

    Below here in Caaark bah Chips'n'Cheese be puuure daycint. :D


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    #64
    kneemos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,619 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    Why don't we have culchie hunting.
    Similar to the hunger games.You could mount your kill on the "hood"of your SUV.


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    #65
    fleet_admiral
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,750 ✭✭✭fleet_admiral


    And pink sauce. I saw a chipper in Ardfert selling it 2 years ago and had to wonder what it was. Ketchup and Mayonnaise, so Maryrose sauce


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    #66
    crockholm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,448 ✭✭✭crockholm


    And crubeens and drisheen for ol Jim.


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    #67
    Rabbo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 637 ✭✭✭Rabbo


    This has already been done in Britain at a much larger scale.

    Before cheap package holidays to the continent, alot of their seaside towns were popular holiday destinations.

    When low cost flights came in, these areas became ghost towns so the British authorities in their wisdom decided to convert the hostels and hotels to cheap bedsit accommodation and ship their homeless there en-masse.

    Alot of these towns are now low employment and high crime ghettos.


    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/10221475/Seaside-towns-have-become-dumping-grounds-for-poor-says-think-tank.html


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    #68
    crockholm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,448 ✭✭✭crockholm


    fleet_admiral wrote: »
    And pink sauce. I saw a chipper in Ardfert selling it 2 years ago and had to wonder what it was. Ketchup and Mayonnaise, so Maryrose sauce
    It's called "Special sauce" down here in Kerry.God help us.:(


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    #69
    jimgoose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,237 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    crockholm wrote: »
    And crubeens and drisheen for ol Jim.

    Pig's Head and Packing-and-Tripe for me, please. I'm originally from East Limerick. :D


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    #70
    jimgoose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,237 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    crockholm wrote: »
    It's called "Special sauce" down here in Kerry.God help us.:(

    "Burger Sauce" in most chippers is usually just ketchup and mayo.


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    #71
    Mesrine65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,949 ✭✭✭Mesrine65


    6541 wrote: »
    Surely if I was from the City of Dublin and had a good IQ I would have an underground system, link the LUAS, had a rail connection to the airport, kept methadone clinics away from the city centre, had a house building strategy, do not destroy you georgian period houses, came down heavy on crime. Surely this is all evidence of a lower IQ.
    Blame the politicians/government & not the Dublin people, they're being shafted as much as the rest of the country & have as much say as you do!


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    #72
    Menas
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,318 ✭✭✭✭Menas


    jimgoose wrote: »
    "Burger Sauce" in most chippers is usually just ketchup and mayo.

    With a dash of HP brown sauce in the fancier neighborhoods.


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    #73
    crockholm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,448 ✭✭✭crockholm


    kneemos wrote: »
    Why don't we have culchie hunting.
    Similar to the hunger games.You could mount your kill on the "hood"of your SUV.
    As one who has previously worked near a Dublin school,it wouldn't work.Dublin SUV drivers tend to bunch like sardines and refuse to pull in leaving time for the culchie to escape to the sanctuary of the Merchant Pub.


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    #74
    biko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,060 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Keep Dubs in Dublin, that's what I say.
    Or at least have some asylum process in place.


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    #75
    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,038 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    Making them live down the country really is adding insult to injury


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    #76
    Gerry T
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 1,633 ✭✭✭Gerry T


    893bet wrote: »
    Where do you get your figures from? do expand please.

    http://www.finfacts.ie/irishfinancenews/article_1026476.shtml


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    #77
    jimgoose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,237 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »
    Making them live down the country really is adding insult to injury

    It'd make a great reality show, though - a bunch of dyed-in-the-wool inner-city types parachuted into, e.g. the back-end of the Ballyhoura country. With an Air Corps helicopter on standby of course, in case they started starving or getting bitten to death by wild sheep. :pac:


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    #78
    frozenfrozen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,677 ✭✭✭frozenfrozen


    there aren't enough jobs 'down the country' so it would just be making a satellite slum of dublin. maybe if they spread out some jobs across the country there would be lower demand for houses in dublin and less people would go homeless in the first place


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    #79
    NicoleW85
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 484 ✭✭NicoleW85


    I love Dublin. The buzz of the city and (generally) lovely people. I do also love culchie life in Donegal. I can't stand cabbage though. Maybe that's cos I'm a townie at heart (im originally from a large town up north).
    This dissing Dubs v Culchies thing is absurd. We have just been voted the friendliest nation and there's so much internal animosity! What would the yanks say?? Now shake hands and say you're sorry!
    :D


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    #80
    jimgoose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,237 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    NicoleW85 wrote: »
    I love Dublin. The buzz of the city and (generally) lovely people. I do also love culchie life in Donegal. I can't stand cabbage though. Maybe that's cos I'm a townie at heart (im originally from a large town up north).
    This dissing Dubs v Culchies thing is absurd. We have just been voted the friendliest nation and there's so much internal animosity! What would the yanks say?? Now shake hands and say you're sorry!
    :D

    I like Dublin too - I lived there for a few years back in the day. Greetings from the Peanut-Pickin' South, y'all! :D


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    #81
    MilesMorales1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,431 ✭✭✭MilesMorales1


    Amount of saltiness here by culchies is unreal.


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    #82
    kowloon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 14,192 ✭✭✭✭kowloon


    Assumption: The homeless are bad people.

    Let's not even bother with the Dublin vs. rest of the country divide when we're starting with the above BS.


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    #83
    Boring username
    Closed Accounts Posts: 679 ✭✭✭Boring username


    seamus wrote: »
    That's a lovely attitude you have there. Is it any wonder your home county is a ****hole when its inhabitants seem to be xenophobes?

    Maybe if they were more progressive and open minded their young people wouldn't flee at the first opportunity?

    Ultimately I think this will flop because the vast majority of homeless families don't want somewhere that's a few hundred KM from their friends and families. Some will be happy to take them, but most won't.

    And it's valid to a certain extent. If someone is struggling financially, then they're probably struggling emotionally and healthwise too. Lifting them up and dropping them out of reach of people who can provide them with practical assistance is unlikely to make things better.

    That said, we need to be more flexible on the whole thing. Someone should be able to state a preference for a location and then they get housed within a 5km radius of that location. You can't refuse without very good reason (i.e. my ex wife lives next door).

    With respect, anyone with this attitude has only themselves to blame for being homeless. If you're offered a house for yourself and your children, you bloody well take it. A roof over your head in Donegal is better than a night on the freezing streets of Dublin. Your first priority by a mile is yourself. You can skype the friends until something better comes up.

    If I was homeless, I'd take accommodation on Rockall if it meant a warm bed and somewhere to live.


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    #84
    Gerry T
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 1,633 ✭✭✭Gerry T


    I love country people too. I have worked on sites in Cork, Waterford, Limerick, Sligo, Donegal, Athlone etc.... and always found people the same no matter where I was. It's probably the people that don't travel that have the narrow minds.


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    #85
    kneemos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,619 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    We should move the culchies into Dublin and the Dubs out the country for a trial period,in the spirit of understanding and reconciliation.

    No smashing the place before you leave.


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    #86
    Mesrine65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,949 ✭✭✭Mesrine65


    'United We Stand Divided We Fall'...

    No wonder our island was subjugated by foreign powers for so long, we'll never learn :(


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    #87
    Gerry T
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 1,633 ✭✭✭Gerry T


    kneemos wrote: »
    We should move the culchies into Dublin and the Dubs out the country for a trial period,in the spirit of understanding and reconciliation.

    No smashing the place before you leave.

    But then the dub culchies and culchies would hate the dubs and culchie dubs and the dubs and culchie dubs would hate the dub cluchies and culchies.

    What a mess !


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    #88
    crockholm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,448 ✭✭✭crockholm


    Mesrine65 wrote: »
    'United We Stand Divided We Fall'...

    No wonder our island was subjugated by foreign powers for so long, we'll never learn :(

    ''Put an Irishman on a spit,and you will find another to turn him"-G.B. Shaw (I think)


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    #89
    kneemos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,619 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    Gerry T wrote: »
    But then the dub culchies and culchies would hate the dubs and culchie dubs and the dubs and culchie dubs would hate the dub cluchies and culchies.

    What a mess !


    Nobody would talk to anybody on a night out.


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    #90
    recylingbin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,001 ✭✭✭recylingbin


    Gerry T wrote: »
    I love country people too. I have worked on sites in Cork, Waterford, Limerick, Sligo, Donegal, Athlone etc.... and always found people the same no matter where I was. It's probably the people that don't travel that have the narrow minds.
    Whoa!!!! Easy there, lonely planet.


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    #91
    Gerry T
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 1,633 ✭✭✭Gerry T


    recylingbin wrote: »
    Whoa!!!! Easy there, lonely planet.

    Can't we all just get along :)


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