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Feel like you don't belong in Ireland?

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  • 07-06-2021 1:09am
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    waterfordwendy
    Registered Users Posts: 32 ✭


    This video just makes me so sad. The way the good weather brings out the worst in so many people in this country is awful. The litter left behind and the noise caused to local residents.

    I often wonder do I belong in a different culture like Scandinavia or Japan where you would have more friendship opportunities outside of alcohol consumption. I know not everyone was in this state today but I saw first hand plenty who were.
    https://twitter.com/fogaratigh/status/1401666027331768329?s=20


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    Atlantic Dawn
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    They are just scummers, in a civilised society the taxi driver would have a hand gun and wipe them out and be given the keys to Dublin City to graze his/hers sheep as a hero. In Ireland with the Greens in power the car driver would get a €700 fine for speeding away as emissions were unfriendly to the local daffodils.


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    YellowLead
    Registered Users Posts: 7,661 ✭✭✭YellowLead


    I don’t know what our exact population is but I reckon it’s around the 4.5 mil mark. So you are taking about tiny percentages.
    And you might need to live in one of those societies you speak of before making your decision there are pros and cons. Don’t make a snap decision based on a few scrotes.


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    Moghead
    Registered Users Posts: 353 ✭✭Moghead


    Atlantic Dawn wrote: »
    They are just scummers, in a civilised society the taxi driver would have a hand gun and wipe them out and be given the keys to Dublin City to graze his/hers sheep as a hero. In Ireland with the Greens in power the car driver would get a €700 fine for speeding away as emissions were unfriendly to the local daffodils.

    Weird.


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    Tchaikovsky
    Registered Users Posts: 2,185 ✭✭✭Tchaikovsky


    More of them need a nice swift impact with the tarmac like the lad in the video. Talking of Scandinavia and Japan in the OP however, there is a reason behind why they have such high suicide rates. Nowhere are there perfect, harmonious societies.


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    beerguts
    Registered Users Posts: 266 ✭✭beerguts


    Yeah op I am not looking forward to the future. I would tend to be slightly pessimistic at times but the younger crowd coming up don't seem to have much personal responsibility for their actions. They seem to have a victim mentality and are always questioning authority.


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    Atlantic Dawn
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    Moghead wrote: »
    Weird.


    But what they have us living through, grants allowed for people having wood burning stoves in built up areas. The Bannon dickhead promoting such living on RTE each week, he should be before a war crimes tribuinal for promoting damage to people's health. It's ok in Ballybackofmehole but not ok in built up areas.


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    Yurt2
    Registered Users Posts: 9,381 ✭✭✭Yurt2


    Atlantic Dawn wrote: »
    But what they have us living through, grants allowed for people having wood burning stoves in built up areas. The Bannon dickhead promoting such living on RTE each week, he should be before a war crimes tribuinal for promoting damage to people's health. It's ok in Ballybackofmehole but not ok in built up areas.

    This is the posting equivalent of jumping on a taxi while wearing a grey tracksuit and Canada Goose puffer jacket.


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    Suckit
    Registered Users Posts: 11,215 ✭✭✭✭Suckit


    Would have liked to have seen the driver do something like this..

    https://twitter.com/Xeriland/status/1396435239342419971


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    washman3
    Registered Users Posts: 3,646 ✭✭✭washman3


    Atlantic Dawn wrote: »
    They are just scummers, in a civilised society the taxi driver would have a hand gun and wipe them out and be given the keys to Dublin City to graze his/hers sheep as a hero. In Ireland with the Greens in power the car driver would get a €700 fine for speeding away as emissions were unfriendly to the local daffodils.


    Excellent..


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    slipperyox
    Registered Users Posts: 594 ✭✭✭slipperyox


    Biologists used to believe that human evolution had stopped.

    If you are of a fraternity, have multiple kids of the same mentality, and so on and so forth... and are rewarded for your endeavours, that's evolution, and you will increase in numbers.

    If you are middle class, that pays the taxes and has 2 kids by caution/consideration. Then your fraternity, that finances the other, will diminish, and an equilibrium will develop, and the other fraternities will also demise.

    vis-à-vis feed the monster and it will get bigger:)


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    Atlantic Dawn
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    Yurt! wrote: »
    This is the posting equivalent of jumping on a taxi while wearing a grey tracksuit and Canada Goose puffer jacket.


    Clothing irrelevant, the srote/stotess should be bankrolling repairs to the car in full.


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    Yurt2
    Registered Users Posts: 9,381 ✭✭✭Yurt2


    Atlantic Dawn wrote: »
    Clothing irrelevant, the srote/stotess should be bankrolling repairs to the car in full.

    You forgot to work vehicle emissions standards into your post.


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    Purple is a Fruit
    Closed Accounts Posts: 202 ✭✭Purple is a Fruit


    Vast majority agree, so you do seem to belong.


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    biko
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    Be the change you want to see in the world.


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    [Deleted User]
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    We, as a people/culture seem to totally lack self control. And this is not a new trend, IMO. We've always been this way. Look at what happened when we got access to a bit of credit in the noughties, for example. Everyone thought they were millionaires, driving jeeps, buying property abroad, etc.

    Nothing about the video surprises me.


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    Hamsterchops
    Registered Users Posts: 3,133 ✭✭✭Hamsterchops


    Definitely feel like I belong elsewhere, like Spain, Turkey, Greece, or anywhere with a warmer climate :)

    Scorchio.


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    Montage of Feck
    Registered Users Posts: 3,491 ✭✭✭Montage of Feck


    biko wrote: »
    Be the change you want to see in the world.

    I'm sure going on a "Falling Down" style walk through Dublin City wouldn't end well.

    🙈🙉🙊



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    waterfordwendy
    Registered Users Posts: 32 ✭waterfordwendy


    Galway last night, the council put in new bins to stop to littering near the river and canals and this is the intelligence that followed.

    https://twitter.com/galway_together/status/1401820796557873154?s=20


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    [Deleted User]
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    waterfordwendy wrote: »
    Galway last night, the council put in new bins to stop to littering near the river and canals and this is the intelligence that followed.

    https://twitter.com/galway_together/status/1401820796557873154?s=20

    Probably the same people who virtue signal about the environment on social media.


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    Mimon
    Registered Users Posts: 1,474 ✭✭✭Mimon


    waterfordwendy wrote: »
    Galway last night, the council put in new bins to stop to littering near the river and canals and this is the intelligence that followed.

    https://twitter.com/galway_together/status/1401820796557873154?s=20

    Them and the taxi crowd need to be taken by the riot squad down an alleyway and get an almighty hiding. This happens a couple of times and it will stop.


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    the beer revolu
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    Atlantic Dawn wrote: »
    They are just scummers, in a civilised society the taxi driver would have a hand gun and wipe them out and be given the keys to Dublin City to graze his/hers sheep as a hero. In Ireland with the Greens in power the car driver would get a €700 fine for speeding away as emissions were unfriendly to the local daffodils.

    In all honesty, this post makes me feel like I don't belong just as much as that shocking video in the op.


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    boombang
    Registered Users Posts: 2,108 ✭✭✭boombang


    Atlantic Dawn wrote: »
    They are just scummers, in a civilised society the taxi driver would have a hand gun and wipe them out and be given the keys to Dublin City to graze his/hers sheep as a hero. In Ireland with the Greens in power the car driver would get a €700 fine for speeding away as emissions were unfriendly to the local daffodils.

    I think you're mixing up lawyers with the Green party there. Lawyers keep the revolving door of the criminal justice system turning for their benefit. I don't think the Greens are endorsing gobshítes.


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    [Deleted User]
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    waterfordwendy wrote: »
    This video just makes me so sad. The way the good weather brings out the worst in so many people in this country is awful. The litter left behind and the noise caused to local residents.

    I often wonder do I belong in a different culture like Scandinavia or Japan where you would have more friendship opportunities outside of alcohol consumption. I know not everyone was in this state today but I saw first hand plenty who were.
    https://twitter.com/fogaratigh/status/1401666027331768329?s=20

    Their only youngsters egging each other on.....like ya feel bad for the taxi driver etc


    Few weeks and it'll be out of virtually all of their systems,any wildness or meeting up been banned with year and half.....let em blow off some steam ffs,....(less of the wreaking cars/private property though)


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    Bob Harris
    Registered Users Posts: 3,462 ✭✭✭Bob Harris


    waterfordwendy wrote: »
    https://twitter.com/fogaratigh/status/1401666027331768329?s=20

    The worst thing about the video is the absolutely horrific dress sense particularly of the women.


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    Mimon
    Registered Users Posts: 1,474 ✭✭✭Mimon


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Their only youngsters egging each other on.....like ya feel bad for the taxi driver etc


    Few weeks and it'll be out of virtually of their systems,any wildness or meeting up been banned with year and half.....let em blow off some steam ffs,....(less of the wreaking cars/private property though)

    Only blowing off steam :rolleyes:

    You obviusly live somewhere far away from these type of people to be typing this. We all blew off steam as teenagers but would never think to be as brazen as these little violent scummers.


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    whisky_galore
    Registered Users Posts: 15,741 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    Ah god luv de kids, they dont have no faciliteeeees. Bless dere harts. Dont be judgin dem.


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    [Deleted User]
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    Mimon wrote: »
    Only blowing off steam :rolleyes:

    You obviusly live somewhere far away from these type of people to be typing this. We all blew off steam as teenagers but would never think to be as brazen as these little violent scummers.

    their doing no worse,than what i seen lads do when i that age.....we all mostly turned out fine


    Charge/make em pay for damage to private property,its only fair (ie pay panel beater fee for damage to taxi)....

    but people been under some pretty severe restrictions last year and bit,theyve scraficed a massive percent of their youth/social and normal life....

    This was always gonna happen


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    dark crystal
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    boombang wrote: »
    I think you're mixing up lawyers with the Green party there. Lawyers keep the revolving door of the criminal justice system turning for their benefit. I don't think the Greens are endorsing gobshítes.

    Maybe not endorsing them per se, but here's Rip Van Winkle AKA Eamon Ryan's take on the situation:

    https://www.thejournal.ie/eamon-ryan-public-order-5459663-Jun2021/

    Yeah, it's the Gardaí who need to be questioned here, not the delinquents. Imagine how demoralising that is to read if you are a Garda in the midst of having glass bottles thrown at you in the course of doing your job and you hear that waffle?

    There is a huge appetite from the public for more stringent powers where it comes to juvenile crime. How often do you hear about young adults up in court having racked up 30 or 40 previous convictions?
    We must start tackling the issue head on before it gets to that stage. Unfortunately, the appetite to do this is not coming from the political parties, so I have no idea how it'll ever get any better and in fact, may only continue to get worse.


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    dark crystal
    Registered Users Posts: 10,962 ✭✭✭✭dark crystal


    Deleted User wrote: »
    their doing no worse,than what i seen lads do when i that age.....we all mostly turned out fine


    Charge/make em pay for damage to private property,its only fair (ie pay panel beater fee for damage to taxi)....

    but people been under some pretty severe restrictions last year and bit,theyve scraficed a massive percent of their youth/social and normal life....

    This was always gonna happen

    Ah, would you ever g'way outta that?

    The lads around my way haven't sacrificed anything, they were still congregating in large groups, knacker drinking, having parties etc.

    What aspect of under 18's lives have been sacrificed exactly? Not like they were going to pubs/clubs/restaurants before the pandemic was it? In fact, they had loads of extra time off school to get up to whatever they wanted.


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    xhomelezz
    Registered Users Posts: 2,971 ✭✭✭xhomelezz


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    their doing no worse,than what i seen lads do when i that age.....we all mostly turned out fine


    Charge/make em pay for damage to private property,its only fair (ie pay panel beater fee for damage to taxi)....

    but people been under some pretty severe restrictions last year and bit,theyve scraficed a massive percent of their youth/social and normal life....

    This was always gonna happen

    I'm just thinking how that taxi driver feels about it.. It's not only about the damage to his car..


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