What you see in Dublin

223vmax · 12-12-2018 4:07pm #1

Must admit I don't go to Dublin often. However on a recent trip there last week I couldn't believe what I saw. Walking from Temple Bar back to Heuston station I came upon a group of 6 or 7 druggies. One of them was sat on his heels with his tracksuit bottoms round his thighs. His hand reached around and he was routing himself out for a baggie of drugs.... Totally honorific! I was only glad I didn't have my young family with me. This got me thinking - others in Dublin on a regular basis must see some awful sights. What have you seen that made you think WTF!!!

Gloomtastic! · 12-12-2018 4:11pm

I was in Leitrim a few weeks ago and saw these teenagers all hanging out the windows of moving cars. They’d just won some cup or other in the GAAAAA. Disgraceful behaviour! :rolleyes:

Cina · 12-12-2018 4:13pm

Ah it's the boards.ie weekly "Let's bash Dublin" thread.

Featuring such hits as

"place is full o' scummers!"
"what a skip, seriously!"
"can't f*ckin' go anywhere without a car there"
"where's me Dublin Bus lads?"
"worse than bleedin' Africa so it is!"

12-12-2018 4:14pm

223vmax wrote: »

Must admit I don't go to Dublin often. However on a recent trip there last week I couldn't believe what I saw. Walking from Temple Bar back to Heuston station I came upon a group of 6 or 7 druggies. One of them was sat on his heels with his tracksuit bottoms round his thighs. His hand reached around and he was routing himself out for a baggie of drugs.... Totally honorific! I was only glad I didn't have my young family with me. This got me thinking - others in Dublin on a regular basis must see some awful sights. What have you seen that made you think WTF!!!

iamwhoiam · 12-12-2018 4:15pm

What I saw today in Dublin was lots of lovely kids all dressed in the uniform , all neat and tidy going to school. I saw mums and dads and nanas and grandads holding their hands and making sure they hats on . I saw a gentleman hold the gate for the kids and keep them safe . And I saw the lollipop lady all dressed in a santa hat with a huge smile for all the kids

pq0n1ct4ve8zf5 · 12-12-2018 4:16pm

Jesus Dubs are touchy auld craythurs.

12-12-2018 4:16pm

Cina wrote: »

Ah it's the boards.ie weekly "Let's bash Dublin" thread.

Featuring such hits as

"place is full o' scummers!"
"what a skip, seriously!"
"can't f*ckin' go anywhere without a car there"
"where's me Dublin Bus lads?"
"worse than bleedin' Africa so it is!"

Dublin is full of scummers, an inconvenient truth but there you have it.

homosapien91 · 12-12-2018 4:18pm

Deleted User wrote: »

Dublin is full of scummers, an inconvenient truth but there you have it.

Really depends where you are in Dublin, ain't all that bad

Cina · 12-12-2018 4:18pm

Deleted User wrote: »

Dublin is full of scummers, an inconvenient truth but there you have it.

So is every other capital city on the planet.

When you have vast amounts of people in an enclosed place, that's sort of what happens.

Boom_Bap · 12-12-2018 4:18pm

The best thing about Dublin is that it's not Cork

mikhail · 12-12-2018 4:20pm

Oh Jesus, the culchies are up for de Christmas shopping.

pq0n1ct4ve8zf5 · 12-12-2018 4:20pm

Cina wrote: »

So is every other capital city on the planet.

When you have vast amounts of people in an enclosed place, that's sort of what happens.

So why get so het up about people mentioning the fact?

223vmax · 12-12-2018 4:20pm

Since Dublin does have a large number of druggies, thieves and fiends, I was curious as to what others had witnessed that's all. I'm sure there are nice people there as well.

Cee-Jay-Cee · 12-12-2018 4:21pm

iamwhoiam wrote: »

What I saw today in Dublin was lots of lovely kids all dressed in the uniform , all neat and tidy going to school. I saw mums and dads and nanas and grandads holding their hands and making sure they hats on . I saw a gentleman hold the gate for the kids and keep them safe . And I saw the lollipop lady all dressed in a santa hat with a huge smile for all the kids

I think the OP meant what did you see recently and not in 1976.

granturismo · 12-12-2018 4:21pm

223vmax wrote: »

Must admit I don't go to Dublin often. .... Walking from Temple Bar back to Heuston station I came upon a group of 6 or 7 druggies. ...!

Next time you're in Dublin take the bus back to Heuston and you speed along in style giving you less time to be exposed to such vulgarities. Take the LUAS and the same performance could be right in front of you for a few minutes.

Franz Von Peppercorn · 12-12-2018 4:21pm

iamwhoiam wrote: »

What I saw today in Dublin was lots of lovely kids all dressed in the uniform , all neat and tidy going to school. I saw mums and dads and nanas and grandads holding their hands and making sure they hats on . I saw a gentleman hold the gate for the kids and keep them safe . And I saw the lollipop lady all dressed in a santa hat with a huge smile for all the kids

No recession in your house.

iamwhoiam · 12-12-2018 4:21pm

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Dublin is full of scummers, an inconvenient truth but there you have it.

If it was full of them there would no room for the rest of us . The huge majority of Dublin people are ordinary honest to god people who just want to live life as best we can and be kind to those around us
Its very sad when some people overlook that to have a bash at us

Raheem Euro · 12-12-2018 4:22pm

This is like when the Simpsons went to New York.

DEFTLEFTHAND · 12-12-2018 4:22pm

A seagull viciously attack a German tourist.

iamwhoiam · 12-12-2018 4:22pm

Franz Von Peppercorn wrote: »

No recession in your house.

No thankfully not right now , been through two already !

Franz Von Peppercorn · 12-12-2018 4:22pm

223vmax wrote: »

Since Dublin does have a large number of druggies, thieves and fiends, I was curious as to what others had witnessed that's all. I'm sure there are nice people there as well.

I think we’re just used to it, like New Yorkers used to be in the 70s. I walk past druggies a fair amount, lost in my own thoughts, thinking of Tintern abbey.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock · 12-12-2018 4:23pm

Cina wrote: »

Ah it's the boards.ie weekly "Let's bash Dublin" thread.

Featuring such hits as

"place is full o' scummers!"
"what a skip, seriously!"
"can't f*ckin' go anywhere without a car there"
"where's me Dublin Bus lads?"
"worse than bleedin' Africa so it is!"

More of a weekly "I'm gonna make some **** up and pretend it really happened" thread.

I was in Athlone the other week and I saw an aliens having a pint with Elvis, John Lennon and Michael Jaclson. And I thought WTF!

DrumSteve · 12-12-2018 4:23pm

Franz Von Peppercorn wrote: »

I think we’re just used to it, like New Yorkers used to be in the 70s. I walk past druggies a fair amount, lost in my own thoughts.

I'm just mad at them cos they won't share.

iamwhoiam · 12-12-2018 4:24pm

Cee-Jay-Cee wrote: »

I think the OP meant what did you see recently and not in 1976.

Sorry ? That is exactly what I saw this morning 12/12/2018

Princess Consuela Bananahammock · 12-12-2018 4:25pm

iamwhoiam wrote: »

Sorry ? That is exactly what I saw this morning 12/12/2018

Some of those drugs do **** around with your time perception, to be fair.

iamwhoiam · 12-12-2018 4:26pm

Princess Consuela Bananahammock wrote: »

Some of those drugs do **** around with your time perception, to be fair.

I was asked what I saw and thats what I saw

RobbieTheRobber · 12-12-2018 4:32pm

Princess Consuela Bananahammock wrote: »

Some of those drugs do **** around with your time perception, to be fair.

Well then stop boofing them where the op can see you.

GBX · 12-12-2018 4:33pm

Feckin culchies coming inside the M50 and being judgemental. Shower of b******

Deebles McBeebles · 12-12-2018 4:34pm

OP you're wasting your time. Typical boards responses will castigate you for mentioning Dublin in a bad light and then the thread descends into culchies v jackeens.

Also you can't mention anything/anyone in a bad light and your posts have to be watertight for fear of people taking a completely different meaning from them.

jimgoose · 12-12-2018 4:36pm

Boom_Bap wrote: »

The best thing about Dublin is that it's not Cork

Correctamundo. 'Cos if it was, then Cork would also be Dublin. In furtherance, I'm glad I don't like broccoli because if I did I'd eat loads of it, and I can't stand the fucken thing.

John DoeReMi · 12-12-2018 4:37pm

Cina wrote: »

So is every other capital city on the planet.

When you have vast amounts of people in an enclosed place, that's sort of what happens.

Yes but other capital cities have competent law enforcement which means that scummers don't have the run of the place. Not that long ago the Irish Times ran a major piece in it's weekend edition about how the Liffey Boardwalk is now overrun with toerags preying on tourists. Including the piece of sh*t who kidnapped and raped the poor innocent Spanish tourist there last year.

retro:electro · 12-12-2018 4:39pm

223vmax wrote: »

Totally honorific!

Do you mean horrific? Or were you honoured that you were the one he chose to rummage around in his arsehole in front of?

pablo128 · 12-12-2018 4:43pm

223vmax wrote: »

Must admit I don't go to Dublin often. However on a recent trip there last week I couldn't believe what I saw. Walking from Temple Bar back to Heuston station I came upon a group of 6 or 7 druggies. One of them was sat on his heels with his tracksuit bottoms round his thighs. His hand reached around and he was routing himself out for a baggie of drugs.... Totally honorific! I was only glad I didn't have my young family with me. This got me thinking - others in Dublin on a regular basis must see some awful sights. What have you seen that made you think WTF!!!

Poor chap is probably a redneck who got the neck slapped red raw off him to get up to Dublin and get a job. He probably couldn't get into the guards or the civil service, went on the drink, discovered it was cheaper to get high on the heroin, and here we are today, his own neighbours not even recognising him as he has 3 of his fingers up his hole.

Cina · 12-12-2018 4:44pm

Anderson Hollow Dipstick wrote: »

So why get so het up about people mentioning the fact?

Het up?

I was taking the p*ss in my post.

EDIT: Actually I don't even know what 'het up' is supposed to mean.

com1 · 12-12-2018 4:46pm

Deleted User wrote: »

Dublin is full of scummers, an inconvenient truth but there you have it.

...And boggers, dont forget the boggers! (Oh, hang on, I am kind of a bogger too, though that kind of proves the point(ish))

Princess Consuela Bananahammock wrote: »

I was in Athlone the other week and I saw an aliens having a pint with Elvis, John Lennon and Michael Jaclson. And I thought WTF!

Princess, were you sampling the contents of yer mans ars baggy by any chance?

Ush1 · 12-12-2018 4:47pm

Cina wrote: »

Het up?

I was taking the p*ss in my post.

EDIT: Actually I don't even know what 'het up' is supposed to mean.

I think it means something in culchie, ghastly people.

AllForIt · 12-12-2018 4:52pm

Yeah, was in Dublin for the first time in a long while last month and the moment I exited Heuston station I went straight to the luas only to see 4 junkies standing by the ticket kiosk having a chat. I was so pissed off that the moment I seen them I said forget the Luas and walked into the city instead. What a terrible impression of Dublin this gives when the moment you set foot in Dublin the first thing you see is junkies. I don't know what it is about the Heuston/Luas area but junkies are always hanging around there. There must be radical lefties working in the council who maybe feel the race of junkies have a right to meander around wherever they feel like, for equality sake.

GBX · 12-12-2018 4:54pm

Tis amazing how there is only junkies hanging around in Dublin and they are hidden in every other town in Ireland

Princess Consuela Bananahammock · 12-12-2018 4:55pm

com1 wrote: »

...And boggers, dont forget the boggers! (Oh, hang on, I am kind of a bogger too, though that kind of proves the point(ish))

Princess, were you sampling the contents of yer mans ars baggy by any chance?

I have done many "baggies" as you young'uns are calling them nowadays, and I have gone to many strange and bizarre places both physical and metaphysical in my time.

Athlone is not one of them.

kneemos · 12-12-2018 4:56pm

GBX wrote: »

Tis amazing how there is only junkies hanging around in Dublin and they are hidden in every other town in Ireland

Tis.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock · 12-12-2018 4:57pm

GBX wrote: »

Tis amazing how there is only junkies hanging around in Dublin and they are hidden in every other town in Ireland

They're called "alcoholics" in other towns. Or "characters".

topper75 · 12-12-2018 4:58pm

Sadly we'll never get the Éamonn Mac Thomáis commentary on what the OP saw. That would be a Netflix smash.

ChikiChiki · 12-12-2018 4:58pm

GBX wrote: »

Tis amazing how there is only junkies hanging around in Dublin and they are hidden in every other town in Ireland

There's a methadone clinic smack bang in the city centre that attracts a huge amount of junkies.

People that work in and walk through Dublin daily are aware of the plague of junkies around.

Raheem Euro · 12-12-2018 5:01pm

This country man was going to a match in Croke Park one time and parked his car beside the flats near Croke Park. When he got out a couple of chung fellas walked over - "Hey mister, do you want someone to watch your car." The man laughed and pointed at the Rottweiler sitting in the back. "Don't worry lads he's well able to mind it." "Hey mister, can your dog put out fires"?

VeryTerry · 12-12-2018 5:06pm

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Dublin is full of scummers, an inconvenient truth but there you have it.

The population has boomed in the last 50 years alright. The place is bursting at the seems with uncouth rural social infants battering each other on Harcourt and Camden Street but like anything we will get them up to speed eventually.

Standman · 12-12-2018 5:08pm

I've got 12 children, and let me tell you, I'd never let them within 200 miles of Dublin.

John Sacrimoni · 12-12-2018 5:10pm

"Druggies" Bog warrior confirmed.

kneemos · 12-12-2018 5:10pm

Standman wrote: »

I've got 12 children, and let me tell you, I'd never let them within 200 miles of Dublin.

Good shooting.

Allinall · 12-12-2018 5:12pm

Standman wrote: »

I've got 12 children, and let me tell you, I'd never let them within 200 miles of Dublin.

This is what makes Dublin great.

Standman · 12-12-2018 5:14pm

Allinall wrote: »

This is what makes Dublin great.

I agree, dozen o' pricks.

pq0n1ct4ve8zf5 · 12-12-2018 5:14pm

Cina wrote: »

Het up?

I was taking the p*ss in my post.

EDIT: Actually I don't even know what 'het up' is supposed to mean.

Don't worry about it, apparently I don't know what "taking the piss" means, I was under the impression it meant being lighthearted, making a joke, etc...

What you see in Dublin

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