Blackrock Boys engage in some of the greatest horseplay of all time.

JohnnyFlash wrote: »

Doubt these lads give a fock what some dorks on a site like Boards think about them.

To be fair if this is the zenith of their activities, they're the dorks!

The Rape of Lucretia wrote: »

Indeed. They are Irelands elite. Leaders of tomorow in business, politics, law, finance,etc, and so by definition, are not the same as the average Paddy. Which makes it easy to laugh at any characteristic that highlights their difference from the rest of society, and rather unfairly too. Yes they live a charmed and privileged life, but give so much back to society as well, yet dont really tend to get their due credit for that.

And that's the danger.

They are so seperated from the normal majority of society that they cannot even fathom issues such as homelessnes per example as money and status is something they are given.

Have no idea how to relate to anyone outside of their enclosed sheltered existence. Ending up in positions of high influence and carrying on their existence away and far removed from the normal paddy.

Is this something to whack them with a stick about? No that's not really fair but you can do things like get rid of private schools.

I believe they inspire an attitude, pompous outlook and a feeling of "elite" which is terrible to bring into the world.

The influence on society in Ireland is detrimental as a result. Nepotism, slaps on the back and higher barriers than ever before for someone on the street.

chrissb8 wrote: »

And that's the danger.

They are so seperated from the normal majority of society that they cannot even fathom issues such as homelessnes per example as money and status is something they are given.

Have no idea how to relate to anyone outside of their enclosed sheltered existence. Ending up in positions of high influence and carrying on their existence away and far removed from the normal paddy.

Is this something to wack them with a stick about? No that's not really fair but you can do things like get rid of private schools.

I believe they inspire an attitude, pompous outlook and a feeling of "elite" which is terrible to bring into the world.

The influence on society in Ireland is detrimental as a result. Nepotism, slaps on the back and higher barriers than ever before for someone on the street.

In Blackrock it’s constantly drummed into you that you’re the leaders of tomorrow and you’re better than the other plebs out there. A superiority complex is bred into you from the very start.

IAMAMORON wrote: »

Most of their parents are rich culchies who were born on farms and small towns and sent, " up to Dublin to get a job" , believe.

The accent is as much a piss take on their culture if anything, it is an identity thing. It cuts out the crap when they meet strangers. It is mostly put on.

Their mothers all started the accent thing when they first got off the train at Heuston back in the 80's and 90's. They started smothering their thick culchie brogues with their new posh south side Dublin accents. They did this to enable them to attract any middle class Doctors, Lawyers and Accountants they were trying to catch and start families with.

In fairness those poor lads never had a chance really... They're basically mongrels. Even worse they could be full culchies trying to be south side Dubs, not good. This can go very wrong when their rich professional culchie parents settled somewhere on the Northside and are sending their son to Booterstown on the Dort. Identity crises can develop which can lead to mental issues.

If anything the accent is a form of group and social tectonics. A bit like when scrotes wear English soccer jerseys, it helps them have a sense of belonging.

Well this is the greatest load of nonsense i have ever heard, the D4 accent evolved from the old anglo irish RTE accent, it has literally nothing to do with other irish people or "culchies" as you call them... you seem to have a massive chip on your shoulder about this

Absolutely nothing wrong with what the lads are up to sounds like some good clean fun, Group of lads in Thailand could be doing a whole lot worse,

But you can't help but laugh at the accent its almost like a parody,
Iv actually never come across anyone in real life with a accent quite like that, and I was born and raised Dublin ,
Shows in such a small City there really is a cultural divide that half the time you don't even realise exists ,

The Nal wrote: »

I know loads of people like him. All usually nice harmless lads but the group mentality means they're usually only interested in rugby, the odd Coldplay gig, Heineken and bland posts on Linkedin. Nice, but a culture vacuum and dull as dishwater.

To be fair I grew up just north of the river, but I find it strange in every day life in over 30 odd year's I have rarely come across anyone with the accent from social to sports, to work life and so on , Water downed version but no that "posh"


No doubt there just having a bit of harmless fun and enjoying themselves , probably all good lads from good families,

New Dublin English
Evolving as a fashionable outgrowth of the mainstream non-local Dublin English, new Dublin English (also, advanced Dublin English and, formerly, fashionable Dublin English) is a youthful variety that originally began in the early 1990s among the "avant-garde" and now those aspiring to a non-local "urban sophistication".[26] New Dublin English itself, first associated with affluent and middle-class inhabitants of southside Dublin, is probably now spoken by a majority of Dubliners born since the 1980s.[22] It has replaced (yet was largely influenced by) moribund D4 English (often known as "Dublin 4" or "DART speak" or, mockingly, "Dortspeak"), which originated around the 1970s from Dubliners who rejected traditional notions of Irishness, regarding themselves as more trendy and sophisticated;[27] however, particular aspects of the D4 accent became quickly noticed and ridiculed as sounding affected, causing these features to fall out of fashion by the 1990s.[28] New Dublin English can have a fur–fair merger, horse–hoarse, and witch–which mergers, while resisting the traditionally Irish cot–caught merger.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiberno-English

A bit long and convolulated but worth a read.