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Water Charges Protest, O' Connell St

  • 21-05-2015 8:22pm
    #1
    jungleman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 803 ✭✭✭


    Has anyone else been inconvenienced by the sit down protest on O' Connell St right now? After a crappy day (studying since 5am, exam went ****e) I was on my way to the missus for the evening. The 1 bus was just two minutes away from O' Connell St when that crowd decided to do a sit down protest and block all traffic around the bridge.

    I was and am against Irish Water. But that shower of idiots aren't helping anything. Had a bit of an exchange with a couple of them and they were absolute scumbags.


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  • #2
    Hans Bricks
    Registered Users Posts: 850 ✭✭✭Hans Bricks


    Sure they have fuck all of importance to do with their useless existences. Why would Eirigi tossers, guy fawkes wannabes and pseudo revolutionaries care about inconveniencing thousands of commuters, workers, students, shoppers and families trying to get home ?


  • #3
    Lollipops23
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,420 ✭✭✭Lollipops23


    I've been a victim of those kinds of protests several times over the years- it's always the innocent people trying to go about their day who end up getting shafted.


  • #4
    My name is URL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,069 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    Hans Bricks wrote: »
    Sure they have fuck all of importance to do with their useless existences. Why would Eirigi tossers, guy fawkes wannabes and pseudo revolutionaries care about inconveniencing thousands of commuters, workers, students, shoppers and families trying to get home ?

    You should take a walk up and give them a piece of your mind instead of whining like a bitch on the internet about it


  • #5
    jungleman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 803 ✭✭✭jungleman


    Hans Bricks wrote: »
    Sure they have fuck all of importance to do with their useless existences. Why would Eirigi tossers, guy fawkes wannabes and pseudo revolutionaries care about inconveniencing thousands of commuters, workers, students, shoppers and families trying to get home ?

    That was exactly the point I made to one of them, and I got a volley of abuse. I gave twice as much back. It's sad, they have completely taken over and ruined the anti Irish Water movement.


  • #6
    Hans Bricks
    Registered Users Posts: 850 ✭✭✭Hans Bricks


    My name is URL wrote: »
    You should take a walk up and give them a piece of your mind instead of whining like a bitch on the internet about it

    Ah right so anyone who doesn't agree with a shower of self entitled gob****es blocking traffic and people from getting home from the city center is whining like a bitch ? I'm sure you've "whined" about something or other in 20,000+ posts since you've been a member. Your arse sore from sitting on that tarmac all evening URL ?


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  • #7
    fullstop
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,500 ✭✭✭✭fullstop


    jungleman wrote: »
    Has anyone else been inconvenienced by the sit down protest on O' Connell St right now? After a crappy day (studying since 5am, exam went ****e) I was on my way to the missus for the evening. The 1 bus was just two minutes away from O' Connell St when that crowd decided to do a sit down protest and block all traffic around the bridge.

    I was and am against Irish Water. But that shower of idiots aren't helping anything. Had a bit of an exchange with a couple of them and they were absolute scumbags.

    Shower of tossers should get the water cannon


  • #8
    fullstop
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,500 ✭✭✭✭fullstop


    My name is URL wrote: »
    You should take a walk up and give them a piece of your mind instead of whining like a bitch on the internet about it

    Yeah, cause that would end well...


  • #9
    RobertKK
    Registered Users Posts: 33,753 ✭✭✭✭RobertKK


    Gardai should water cannon them to give them a wash, then pepper spray if they refuse to move, if that doesn't work then tear gas, if that doesn't work, just taser them and put them in stocks for inconvenienced people to throw rotten fish guts at them.
    Then water cannon them as they will need a wash.


  • #10
    tipparetops
    Closed Accounts Posts: 519 ✭✭✭tipparetops


    Responses here are like the response of the jacks to the fighters in 1916.
    Very sad.


  • #11
    Birneybau
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,357 ✭✭✭✭Birneybau


    tipparetops wrote: »
    Responses here are like the response of the jacks to the fighters in 1916.
    Very sad.

    You have got to be fcuking joking.


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  • #12
    Pinch Flat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,767 ✭✭✭Pinch Flat


    RobertKK wrote: »
    Gardai should water cannon them to give them a wash, then pepper spray if they refuse to move, if that doesn't work then tear gas, if that doesn't work, just taser them and put them in stocks for inconvenienced people to throw rotten fish guts at them.
    Then water cannon them as they will need a wash.

    Water cannon, then send them a bill for the water


  • #13
    tipparetops
    Closed Accounts Posts: 519 ✭✭✭tipparetops


    Birneybau wrote: »
    You have got to be fcuking joking.

    No. I am not.
    these modern day heroes are trying to stop the march of capitalism
    1916 heroes tried to stop the march of imperialism.
    In both cases the jacks done **** all but bitch about inconvenience.


  • #14
    chocksaway
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 608 ✭✭✭chocksaway


    tipparetops wrote: »

    No. I am not.
    these modern day heroes are trying to stop the march of capitalism
    1916 heroes tried to stop the march of imperialism.
    In both cases the jacks done **** all but bitch about inconvenience.

    Would ya go away out of that. These are out of touch idiots


  • #15
    Menas
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,318 ✭✭✭✭Menas


    tipparetops wrote: »

    No. I am not.
    these modern day heroes are trying to stop the march of capitalism
    1916 heroes tried to stop the march of imperialism.
    In both cases the jacks done **** all but bitch about inconvenience.

    You need to re-visit your history books. 1916 was nothing to do with stopping the march of imperialism!


  • #16
    Hans Bricks
    Registered Users Posts: 850 ✭✭✭Hans Bricks


    tipparetops wrote: »
    Birneybau wrote: »
    You have got to be fcuking joking.[/QUOTE

    No. I am not.
    these modern day heroes are trying to stop the march of capitalism
    1916 heroes tried to stop the march of imperialism.
    In both cases the jacks done **** all but bitch about inconvenience.

    Go on Home British soldiers go on home .... Have ye got no fuckin' homes of your own ? For 800 yeeeears ... we've fought you without fear and we'll fight you for 800 moooorreee, Sing along with me tipp


  • #17
    tipparetops
    Closed Accounts Posts: 519 ✭✭✭tipparetops


    Trigger Happy wrote: »
    You need to re-visit your history books. 1916 was nothing to do with stopping the march of imperialism!

    Please explain in 100 words or less. no links please.


  • #18
    tipparetops
    Closed Accounts Posts: 519 ✭✭✭tipparetops


    Hans Bricks wrote: »
    tipparetops wrote: »

    Go on Home British soldiers go on home .... Have ye got no fuckin' homes of your own ? For 800 yeeeears ... we've fought you without fear and we'll fight you for 800 moooorreee, Sing along with me tipp

    I dont sing that tat, nothing worse than over the top insincere patriotism.


  • #19
    fullstop
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,500 ✭✭✭✭fullstop


    tipparetops wrote: »

    No. I am not.
    these modern day heroes are trying to stop the march of capitalism
    1916 heroes tried to stop the march of imperialism.
    In both cases the jacks done **** all but bitch about inconvenience.

    Modern day heroes, sitting down on O'Connell street? Right up there with Mick Collins and the like. Get a grip.


  • #20
    tipparetops
    Closed Accounts Posts: 519 ✭✭✭tipparetops


    fullstop wrote: »
    Modern day heroes, sitting down on O'Connell street? Right up there with Mick Collins and the like. Get a grip.

    would you have more respect for them if they shot a few people in front of their families.


  • #21
    For Forks Sake
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,654 ✭✭✭✭For Forks Sake


    tipparetops wrote:

    I dont sing that tat, nothing worse than over the top insincere patriotism.

    Let me guess, you were a faux-republican before it was cool?

    You're as bad as that Fried Fish hipster from a few weeks back


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  • #22
    jungleman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 803 ✭✭✭jungleman


    tipparetops wrote: »
    Birneybau wrote: »
    You have got to be fcuking joking.[/QUOTE

    No. I am not.
    these modern day heroes are trying to stop the march of capitalism
    1916 heroes tried to stop the march of imperialism.
    In both cases the jacks done **** all but bitch about inconvenience.

    Are you for real? There's nothing heroic about them. They're absolute scumbags, they did nothing but hurl abuse at me. Not that I care, I'm surprised they could even string words together. One of them got so drunk the ambulance had to cart him off.

    It's pathetic you'd compare the 1916 heroes to these guys.


  • #23
    Menas
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,318 ✭✭✭✭Menas


    tipparetops wrote: »
    Please explain in 100 words or less. no links please.

    :)
    Go to the history forum , they would love to take you thru the detail.


  • #24
    TallGlass
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,935 ✭✭✭TallGlass


    There just making a show of themselves. I get a right laugh out of there videos online. When they stick it to the Garda and the Garda stick it back to them. There was a gas video of a sergeant in which he gave just as good as he got, ended up the protesters ****ing off. Then a super who was fairly large himself, telling a large lady she would want to lose some weight. You could have made one of them, 'ohhhhh no you didn't' bitch slap videos that are on YouTube.

    Then another fella trekking down the bog to meet some minister who wasn't in his office old to harass some young lad, who in the end told him he was just a civil servant and not a political member so your man left.

    Started out a good cause now there just making a show of themselves and have lost there original goal. To me they have turn more into a group who keep on try to push the boundary's of the law to see how far they can get, before getting so footage of someone losing the rag then editing and putting it on YouTube.


  • #25
    fullstop
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,500 ✭✭✭✭fullstop


    tipparetops wrote: »
    would you have more respect for them if they shot a few people in front of their families.

    Sure maybe some of them have, some of the ones I've seen at these protests anyway.


  • #26
    Patser
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,088 ✭✭✭Patser


    tipparetops wrote: »
    Please explain in 100 words or less. no links please.

    Our gallant allies in Europe.


  • #27
    tipparetops
    Closed Accounts Posts: 519 ✭✭✭tipparetops


    Trigger Happy wrote: »
    :)
    Go to the history forum , they would love to take you thru the detail.

    You brought it up, now put up or shut up


  • #28
    tipparetops
    Closed Accounts Posts: 519 ✭✭✭tipparetops


    jungleman wrote: »
    tipparetops wrote: »

    Are you for real? There's nothing heroic about them. They're absolute scumbags, they did nothing but hurl abuse at me. Not that I care, I'm surprised they could even string words together. One of them got so drunk the ambulance had to cart him off.

    It's pathetic you'd compare the 1916 heroes to these guys.

    Stereotype much. Classic


  • #29
    Menas
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,318 ✭✭✭✭Menas


    tipparetops wrote: »
    You brought it up, now put up or shut up

    Actually, you first falsley claimed that 1916 was about stopping the march of imperialism!


  • #30
    tipparetops
    Closed Accounts Posts: 519 ✭✭✭tipparetops


    For Forks Sake wrote: »
    Let me guess, you were a faux-republican before it was cool?

    YES, you are correct. I have actually aided the cause.








    I once bought washed diesel.


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  • #31
    fullstop
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,500 ✭✭✭✭fullstop


    tipparetops wrote: »
    You brought it up, now put up or shut up

    You brought 1916 into it. It was simply pointed out to you how ludicrous that was :):)


  • #32
    tipparetops
    Closed Accounts Posts: 519 ✭✭✭tipparetops


    Trigger Happy wrote: »
    Actually, you first falsley claimed that 1916 was about stopping the march of imperialism!

    You have posted everything but the real reason for 1916.
    Inform me.


  • #33
    20Cent
    Registered Users Posts: 8,939 ✭✭✭20Cent


    It is because of the arrest of some water meter protesters.
    Seeing the news about you know who and the gagging of our media today don't really blame them.


  • #34
    fullstop
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,500 ✭✭✭✭fullstop


    tipparetops wrote: »
    You have posted everything but the real reason for 1916.
    Inform me.

    Sure why would I need to, you're the expert :rolleyes:


  • #35
    tipparetops
    Closed Accounts Posts: 519 ✭✭✭tipparetops


    fullstop wrote: »
    Sure why would I need to, you're the expert :rolleyes:

    U are confused. Were you drinking with those protesters.
    I was referring to another poster, not you.


  • #36
    fullstop
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,500 ✭✭✭✭fullstop


    tipparetops wrote: »
    U are confused. Were you drinking with those protesters.
    I was referring to another poster, not you.

    That's nice :)


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  • #37
    anncoates
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,925 ✭✭✭✭anncoates


    jungleman wrote: »
    I was and am against Irish Water.

    Always good to see political principles that are so profound they get discarded because of a delayed commute.


  • #38
    Guy:Incognito
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 38,247 ✭✭✭✭Guy:Incognito


    tipparetops wrote: »
    You have got to be fcuking joking.[/QUOTE

    No. I am not.
    these modern day heroes are trying to stop the march of capitalism
    1916 heroes tried to stop the march of imperialism.
    In both cases the jacks done **** all but bitch about inconvenience.

    Are they refusing to take any money off the state or use anything the state spends money on? Presumably they are all dressed in clothes they made themselves and eat only food they grow themselves or buy off the local farmers. Hope they dont have mobiles either.

    Borrowing €5b a year to fund the country isnt doing a huge amount to stop the march of capitalism either.......


  • #39
    Guy:Incognito
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 38,247 ✭✭✭✭Guy:Incognito


    anncoates wrote: »
    Always good to see political principles that are so profound they get discarded because of a delayed commute.

    Its possible to be against something without being a dick about it you know.


  • #40
    Robert McGrath
    Registered Users Posts: 437 ✭✭Robert McGrath


    Patser wrote: »
    Our gallant allies in Europe.

    That is brilliantly concise.

    Bravo, sir (or Brava, madam)


  • #41
    anncoates
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,925 ✭✭✭✭anncoates


    Guy:Incognito wrote: »
    Its possible to be against something without being a dick about it you know.

    Thanks for that cogent analysis.


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  • #42
    Hans Bricks
    Registered Users Posts: 850 ✭✭✭Hans Bricks


    Anyone who claims they would sit in traffic, happy and content just because another re-hash of the same protest is blocking them from getting home is an out and out liar.

    Either that or the most patient, considerate man in the world.


  • #43
    jungleman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 803 ✭✭✭jungleman


    anncoates wrote: »
    Always good to see political principles that are so profound they get discarded because of a delayed commute.

    How have they been discarded? In my OP, which you went to the bother of quoting but obviously hadn't bothered to actually read properly, I clearly stated that I was and still am against water charges.


  • #44
    Hans Bricks
    Registered Users Posts: 850 ✭✭✭Hans Bricks


    jungleman wrote: »
    How have they been discarded? In my OP, which you went to the bother of quoting but obviously hadn't bothered to actually read properly, I clearly stated that I was and still am against water charges.

    But you weren't being enough of a complete dickhead about it though. Where's your passion ?!!


  • #45
    Birneybau
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,357 ✭✭✭✭Birneybau


    What's with all the mangled quoting of posts on this thread?


  • #46
    Bubbaclaus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,461 ✭✭✭Bubbaclaus


    They're dickheads with absolutely no consideration for anyone else. Nuff said.


  • #47
    MightyMandarin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,723 ✭✭✭MightyMandarin


    TallGlass wrote: »
    There just making a show of themselves. I get a right laugh out of there videos online. When they stick it to the Garda and the Garda stick it back to them. There was a gas video of a sergeant in which he gave just as good as he got, ended up the protesters ****ing off. [...]

    Pretty sure this is the one you're on about. Brilliant video and made that bully Derek Byrne look like a right eejit.


  • #48
    Streetwalker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,906 ✭✭✭Streetwalker


    Hans Bricks wrote: »
    Sure they have fuck all of importance to do with their useless existences. Why would Eirigi tossers, guy fawkes wannabes and pseudo revolutionaries care about inconveniencing thousands of commuters, workers, students, shoppers and families trying to get home ?

    Of course you'd let them know that to their faces right?


  • #49
    Streetwalker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,906 ✭✭✭Streetwalker


    Bubbaclaus wrote: »
    They're dickheads with absolutely no consideration for anyone else. Nuff said.
    Yes but enough about this government what's your opinion on the protest?


  • #50
    Joe prim
    Registered Users Posts: 919 ✭✭✭Joe prim


    For Forks Sake wrote: »
    Let me guess, you were a faux-republican before it was cool?

    You're as bad as that Fried Fish hipster from a few weeks back

    I've checked out that post, and actually, he was a chipster, so you're wrong, and I'm right.


  • #51
    Hans Bricks
    Registered Users Posts: 850 ✭✭✭Hans Bricks


    Streetwalker wrote: »
    Of course you'd let them know that to their faces right?

    Had I been there or If they were preventing me from getting home yes. Most definitely. What is this exactly ? First My Name is URL now you ? Are we not allowed discuss it or something ? Should we add these gimps to the Sacred cows thread ? These fools are the type (and to paraphrase My Name is URL) to "Whine like a bitch" if the Gardai so much as fart at them + the obligatory "police brutality" youtube videos of grown men screaming a victim complex because the Gardai pushed back at them.

    The OP got abuse off them for letting them know what the majority of Dublin thinks of them, so I doubt repeating the same thing would be of much use anyway.


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