Anti-social behaviour that you just don't get

Ray Palmer · 26-02-2016 09:20AM #1

I have lived in Dublin for most of my life with a a few years working in other countries and a lot of traveling but I simply don't get some anti-social issues. General thuggery of attacks and drinking make a certain amount of sense to me and don't surprise me but others I just don't get.
Dumping on streets of furniture, rubbish, etc... just doesn't make any sense especially electrical gear. People live there and they dump it around their own area and then have to live with it but they don't seem to care.
Graffiti makes little to no sense, I am not talking about some image just the random tagging and scrawls over things. It actually isn't evn that bad here compared to other countries. Etching on glass is completely pointless and ugly. What great thrill are these sad people getting?
Anybody understand this or do stuff like this that they can explain?

JustShon · 26-02-2016 09:26AM

The dumping is simply a lack of giving a sh1t about their area. They're too lazy to dump it properly so they feck it out into the street and ignore it.

I knew a lad who used to do "tagging" as he called it. It's like a competition for them, they have to tag more places than the other lads who are also "tagging" and they all know each other's tags.

hatrickpatrick · 26-02-2016 09:33AM

This one is very specific to Dublin, but leaning out of house / flat windows and shouting "What the f*ck are YOUUUUUU lookin' a'? Ye f*ckin' muppeh!" to randomers on the street.

To me, this is literally the #1 sign that you've wandered into a "dodgy" area - but it makes absolutely zero sense.

This was the first danger signal I got when I took a wrong turn at 2AM one night coming out of a friend's gaff and wandered onto St Anthony's Road. I should have heeded it and turned the feck back around rather than continuing on my merry way *shudder*

osarusan · 26-02-2016 09:44AM

Clowns ripping the bus schedule off the wall, so nobody (including them) knows when a bus will come.

JustShon · 26-02-2016 09:45AM

osarusan wrote: »

Clowns ripping the bus schedule off the wall, so nobody (including them) knows when a bus will come.

Oooh, this one used to get on my nerves in a big way.

Not so much these days coz I use the app.

Mint Aero · 26-02-2016 09:47AM

Scumbag inner city types blaring love songs and chipmunk music off their Nokias on the bus.

Canadel · 26-02-2016 09:58AM

When the gentleman at the post office doesn't say you're welcome after you say thank you for the dole money. Manners cost nothing.

arayess · 26-02-2016 10:05AM

getting rid of waste like electrical gear costs.
dumping is free.

ED E · 26-02-2016 10:10AM

arayess wrote: »

getting rid of waste like electrical gear costs.
dumping is free.

With WEEE its free, buy a tellie, hand them the old one.

Just scummers on the scratcher being scummers on the scratcher.

hatrickpatrick · 26-02-2016 10:10AM

osarusan wrote: »

Clowns ripping the bus schedule off the wall, so nobody (including them) knows when a bus will come.

Implying the bus schedule on the wall has ever actually told somebody when a bus would come

the groutch · 26-02-2016 10:15AM

Scumbags stoning fire trucks & ambulances on Halloween night.

Ray Palmer · 26-02-2016 10:17AM

hatrickpatrick wrote: »

This one is very specific to Dublin, but leaning out of house / flat windows and shouting "What the f*ck are YOUUUUUU lookin' a'? Ye f*ckin' muppeh!" to randomers on the street.

Not once have I experienced this. Maybe because if I saw somebody hanging out a window at 2am in an dodgy area I would know not to look at them:D

The general threatening of people and looking for an excuse to start a fight I certainly have received and seen. The other day while waiting for the bus at 8:30am a young guy walking along with his mate just randomly did the classic "What you looking at?" to an old man waiting for the same bus as me. The man must have been 70 and the guy (holding a bottle of beer) in his early twenties. That is a new low I hadn't seen before as they at least used to threaten people at least close to their age. There were enough people at the stop to make a move that the scumbags walked away when people started to step forward.
Then general aggression is something I kind of understand. If your life is sh*t and others seem to have stuff you resent everybody. Not approving but at least makes some sense.

Kai123 · 26-02-2016 10:19AM

Smashing glass bottles on pathways.

vg88 · 26-02-2016 10:25AM

hatrickpatrick wrote: »

This one is very specific to Dublin, but leaning out of house / flat windows and shouting "What the f*ck are YOUUUUUU lookin' a'? Ye f*ckin' muppeh!" to randomers on the street.

To me, this is literally the #1 sign that you've wandered into a "dodgy" area - but it makes absolutely zero sense.

This was the first danger signal I got when I took a wrong turn at 2AM one night coming out of a friend's gaff and wandered onto St Anthony's Road. I should have heeded it and turned the feck back around rather than continuing on my merry way *shudder*

Had this 3 weeks ago on O'Connell street at around 10am. I was about to bring my czech girlfriend on a trip to Glenalough and Powerscourt to see the local wild life, didn't think we'd get to see it for free in dublin so early.

arayess · 26-02-2016 10:28AM

ED E wrote: »

With WEEE its free, buy a tellie, hand them the old one.

Just scummers on the scratcher being scummers on the scratcher.

only if you buying a new one.

I cleared out the house before and the fingal recycle centre charged me a decent sum to take my stuff.
My point was to pithy too be honest.apologies.
get rid of waste costs.
some people are scabby bastards and would dump to avoid that.
I hate it too . not condoning it.

The Master · 26-02-2016 10:29AM

Plebs wearing a straw boater after labour day, Animals

ShaneU · 26-02-2016 10:32AM

Smashing plexiglass on bus stops.

JustShon · 26-02-2016 10:35AM

arayess wrote: »

only if you buying a new one.

I cleared out the house before and the fingal recycle centre charged me a decent sum to take my stuff.
My point was to pithy too be honest.apologies.
get rid of waste costs.
some people are scabby bastards and would dump to avoid that.
I hate it too . not condoning it.

Getting rid of the costs won't do it.

"Ye hardly expect me to bring it all the way down the recyclin' place do ye?"

It's easier to just fcuk it outside and leave it there.

26-02-2016 10:45AM

JustShon wrote: »

Getting rid of the costs won't do it.

"Ye hardly expect me to bring it all the way down the recyclin' place do ye?"

It's easier to just fcuk it outside and leave it there.

In parts of the UK, there are still "Rag and Bone" men going around. If you want rid of something, you just leave it by the footpath and they'll take it away. They take anything big or small, as long as it is electrical or metal of any sort. There must be money in it, otherwise they wouldn't be doing it.

Timberrrrrrrr · 26-02-2016 10:50AM

arayess wrote: »

only if you buying a new one.

I cleared out the house before and the fingal recycle centre charged me a decent sum to take my stuff.
My point was to pithy too be honest.apologies.
get rid of waste costs.
some people are scabby bastards and would dump to avoid that.
I hate it too . not condoning it.

Power city will take electrical goods for free, no need to buy anything just walk in and put it in the cages inside the door.

JustShon · 26-02-2016 10:50AM

Deleted User wrote: »

In parts of the UK, there are still "Rag and Bone" men going around. If you want rid of something, you just leave it by the footpath and they'll take it away. They take anything big or small, as long as it is electrical or metal of any sort. There must be money in it, otherwise they wouldn't be doing it.

I know from having lived in Dublin 1, where dumping is a big problem, that dumped furniture or even just plain ol' bags of rubbish can hang about for weeks here.

The furniture and electrical goods aren't so bad but some people just throw bags of rubbish out without putting the label on it for the bin men to collect. Then city foxes, rats, pigeons and other animals get at them and the street winds up strewn with foul-smelling rubbish. At least a telly doesn't stink up the place.

Skerries · 26-02-2016 10:53AM

Spitting in public
spitting out chewing gum on the street
having a full blown conversation from one end of the street to the other usually with "Sharon" or "Deco" being called out several times first

Speedwell · 26-02-2016 11:01AM

This thread is in danger of turning into a "oh, those slum-dwelling hoodlums" thread. People, it is more excusable to see people who don't know better or who are just trying to survive engage in antisocial behavior. It is far less excusable, and more baffling, to see people who are comfortable and safe engaging in antisocial behavior. Things like reasonless workplace sabotage (as an IT worker I've seen people mess with systems for the merry hell of it), or the banks screwing their customers out of the last drop of blood, or engineers falsifying test results. That's what really upsets and confuses me.

Ray Palmer · 26-02-2016 11:04AM

arayess wrote: »

only if you buying a new one.
.

Not true, it is an electrical retailer you go to and it is free. Just walk into them and give it to them no purchase required. Power City have a container at the front door so you don't have to go into the shop.

Don't know what the story is with the recycle centre you went to but there shouldn't have been any charge for electrical goods.

BrianD3 · 26-02-2016 11:05AM

Public toilets - sh*tting on the seat, sh*tting on the floor or deliberately blocking the toilet by stuffing it with toilet roll.

mahoganygas · 26-02-2016 11:11AM

Speedwell wrote: »

This thread is in danger of turning into a "oh, those slum-dwelling hoodlums" thread. People, it is more excusable to see people who don't know better or who are just trying to survive engage in antisocial behavior. It is far less excusable, and more baffling, to see people who are comfortable and safe engaging in antisocial behavior. Things like reasonless workplace sabotage (as an IT worker I've seen people mess with systems for the merry hell of it), or the banks screwing their customers out of the last drop of blood, or engineers falsifying test results. That's what really upsets and confuses me.

Nobody mentioned slum-dwelling hoodlums. You did.

How is dumping your old TV onto a green excusable in any situation?
Also, why is somebody who is "trying to survive" dumping a television?

Why is somebody who is "trying to survive" allowed to be aggressive with strangers in your eyes?

There is no excuse for acting like a d1ck. Regardless if you are a "hoodlum" or IT worker.

Speedwell · 26-02-2016 11:12AM

mahoganygas wrote: »

Nobody mentioned slum-dwelling hoodlums. You did.

How is dumping your old TV onto a green excusable in any situation?
Also, why is somebody who is "trying to survive" dumping a television?

Why is somebody who is "trying to survive" allowed to be aggressive with strangers in your eyes?

There is no excuse for acting like a d1ck. Regardless if you are a "hoodlum" or IT worker.

I don't notice that I defended bad behavior. Perhaps you should have a nice cup of tea and a second read.

draiochtanois · 26-02-2016 11:16AM

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JustShon · 26-02-2016 12:41PM

Speedwell wrote: »

I don't notice that I defended bad behavior. Perhaps you should have a nice cup of tea and a second read.

No, you just said it's more excusable for some than it is for others.

Speedwell · 26-02-2016 12:42PM

JustShon wrote: »

No, you just said it's more excusable for some than it is for others.

"... more excusable to see..." See. Perceive.

Other antisocial behavior I don't get: Compassionless curtain-twitching whinging about "undesirables". Whether you choose to use that word, or only to imply it.

26-02-2016 12:44PM

The dole office expecting me to pay back the free money they gave me while I was working. wtf?!

Anti-social behaviour that you just don't get

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