Has violence ever put you off socializing

LeeLooLee · 19-12-2015 03:48PM

Yes. I hardly ever go out in Ireland at all because of this. I just can't be bothered with the whole manky atmosphere of it. One of the best things about living in Spain is that people drink moderately and don't consider being drunk to be an excuse to act like an appalling, obnoxious human being.

TallGlass · 19-12-2015 03:51PM

****ing dying lads. You've no idea how prinny I am at the moment. Never be put out or off it.

suicide_circus · 19-12-2015 04:04PM

osarusan wrote: »

Completely disagree - certainly there are people who look for trouble, but there are people who just were in the wrong place at the wrong time and did nothing to initiate or otherwise deserve the beating they got.

Surprised this needs to be pointed out but I think he's referring to the people who start the fights, not the victims

Elemonator · 19-12-2015 04:11PM

Contrary to all the news reports, I have never seen anything going on in Dublin. Having said that though, I do spend time around the Home nightclub in Balbriggan and that place can be dodgy at closing up time outside (however I have never been on the receiving end). I did martial arts years ago but I'm seriously considering taking up Krav Maga again, Ireland has gone to the dogs.

My name is URL · 19-12-2015 04:23PM

I've honestly not seen a serious fight in or outside of a nightclub since the good old days of Oasis in Carrickmacross.

Used to be like Beirut at the end of the night there.. dodging fights like a game of Frogger trying to get to your bus!

wandererz · 19-12-2015 05:34PM

At Christmas time a few years ago i took some people who were visiting Ireland out on a night out in town.
Everything went well until the way back on the Luas green line.

This well dressed but slightly older guy (55-65) and probably a stellar member of our business or civil service decides to have at us.

He decides to insist on asking where they're from and several other questions.
Being friendly and unassuming they answer him that they're from South Africa.
Then he develops a problem with us because of that.
He turns to my wife and proceeds to call her a "Helga".
I can only assume that this was because she was blonde and white and he assumed her to be a Afrikaner.

I told him that he just insulted one of his own Irish people with the type of nazi phraseology he just used.
Strangely enough, he had insulted both the coloured and white people in the group.

I then escorted all of my group off the Luas and into a taxi instead.

My thanks to the people who called back to us and tried to get us to return and ignore that a**hole. We did not get back on.

That was not overt violence but rather verbal abuse.
That was not the only instance, but that and a few other situations certainly led to me curtailing any social excursions into Dublin with my wife and i alone.

Which is sad because we used to go out and party like everyone else. But recently there's just too much to deal with, with antagonistic people.

And that leads me to be more antagonistic as well.

It's better to just avoid that ****e.

Has violence ever put you off socializing

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