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Sure-Fire Signs That an area is Rough

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  • #52
    phill106
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,821 ✭✭✭phill106


    The meat has security tags in tesco/dunnes


  • #53
    draiochtanois
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,655 ✭✭✭draiochtanois


    This post has been deleted.


  • #54
    Skylinehead
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,690 ✭✭✭✭Skylinehead


    Richard Hillman wrote: »
    Because councils dont spend money on community centers unless there is high incidents of Anti-Social Behaviour.

    Hmmm


  • #55
    REM76
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 147 ✭✭REM76


    Garden full of working class toys:

    Wrecked trampoline
    Wendy house faded and broken to bits
    Half deflated footballs
    Random blankets, covered in dog excrement
    Three-legged patio chairs
    Stickers on everything


  • #56
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 21,679 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    REM76 wrote: »
    Garden full of working class toys:

    Wrecked trampoline
    Wendy house faded and broken to bits
    Half deflated footballs
    Random blankets, covered in dog excrement
    Three-legged patio chairs
    Stickers on everything

    Working class toys?? Huh?


  • #57
    Gmol
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,281 ✭✭✭Gmol


    Father something something park or named after a republican


  • #58
    REM76
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 147 ✭✭REM76


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Working class toys?? Huh?

    Self-explanatory.

    Are you alright, do you need some kind of psychiatrist?


  • #59
    qo2cj1dsne8y4k
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,646 ✭✭✭✭qo2cj1dsne8y4k


    A local shop looking like a garda cell with the lack of windows and bars on the few windows/doors there is.
    Guys with hot rocks.
    Honda Civics.
    Socks over tracksuit bottoms
    Women in leggings.
    Blonde overweight women with dark roots
    Women wearing tracksuit bottoms
    Anyone wearing tracksuit bottoms
    Children in pjs
    Small Children drinking fizzy drinks
    Women with horrific looking eyebrows
    Women with fake MK and a Paul's boutique jacket


  • #60
    HensVassal
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,570 ✭✭✭HensVassal


    degsie wrote: »
    The name: Bally(anything)

    Ballyhaigue?


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  • #61
    The King of Moo
    Registered Users Posts: 8,207 ✭✭✭The King of Moo


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Working class toys?? Huh?

    Of course! As a child I loved nothing more than playing with a blanket covered in dog sh*t.
    Ah, I could imagine a million different situations just from that one filthy blanket. Like:
      Playing "dirty superhero"
    • ....


  • #62
    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,028 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    Its named after one of the patriots of 16'


  • #63
    Junkyard Tom
    Registered Users Posts: 10,117 ✭✭✭✭Junkyard Tom


    Neighbours talking to each other.


  • #64
    MilesMorales1
    Registered Users Posts: 6,431 ✭✭✭MilesMorales1


    Glad after hours isn't judgemental.


  • #65
    Pherekydes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,190 ✭✭✭✭Pherekydes


    The nearest bus shelter to my house has the glass smashed. :eek:


  • #66
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 21,679 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    REM76 wrote: »
    Self-explanatory.

    Are you alright, do you need some kind of psychiatrist?

    Well now that you mention it I wouldn't mind an auld chat. Couch or chair?


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  • #67
    REM76
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 147 ✭✭REM76


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Working class toys?? Huh?

    Just watch Mrs. Brown's Boys. I was too obtuse for you.


  • #68
    jimgoose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,180 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    Pherekydes wrote: »
    The nearest bus shelter to my house has the glass smashed. :eek:

    The one nearest my house is smashed to flitters on a regular basis during Student Piss-Up season - there's nothing rough about these characters, except when they're after a dozen Jagerbombs. :pac:


  • #69
    NIMAN
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,021 ✭✭✭✭NIMAN


    Tiny little men with huge dog(s) on leads (usually the man will be at a 45deg angle to hold said dogs back).

    Said man also likely to have some items of Lonsdale clothing.


  • #70
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 21,679 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    REM76 wrote: »
    Just watch Mrs. Brown's Boys. I was too obtuse for you.

    Damn. I had my heart set on a psyc session.


  • #71
    Teyla Emmagan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,641 ✭✭✭Teyla Emmagan


    Shoes hanging from ESB wires.


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  • #72
    jimgoose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,180 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    Teyla Emmagan wrote: »
    Shoes hanging from ESB wires.

    Yeah, could someone tell me what that's about?


  • #73
    Turnipman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 789 ✭✭✭Turnipman


    jimgoose wrote: »
    Yeah, could someone tell me what that's about?

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2054954758/4


  • #74
    Teyla Emmagan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,641 ✭✭✭Teyla Emmagan


    jimgoose wrote:
    Yeah, could someone tell me what that's about?

    A sign that a drug dealer lives nearby apparently? I don't know if it's a warning or an invitation though.


  • #75
    jimgoose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,180 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    Turnipman wrote: »
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2054954758/4

    Oh right, it's much like pawnbroker's balls then. :pac:


  • #76
    Junkyard Tom
    Registered Users Posts: 10,117 ✭✭✭✭Junkyard Tom


    jimgoose wrote: »
    Yeah, could someone tell me what that's about?

    People like to fool themselves into believing that they signify a gang-bangin' no-go zone but it's probably just young people messing.


  • #77
    jimgoose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,180 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    Junkyard Tom wrote: »
    People like to fool themselves into believing that they signify a gang-bangin' no-go zone but it's probably just young people messing.

    Someone said to me a few years ago that in places like South-Central L.A. and possibly Johannesburg it meant that some streethawk had been killed. I considered that unlikely around here.


  • #78
    r93kaey5p2izun
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,962 ✭✭✭r93kaey5p2izun


    When the food from the local deli counter is passed to the till via a pneumatic tube system.

    A lot of the stuff here is fairly accurate but some is such rubbish it stands out that the poster has never actually laid eyes on a rough area irl and is just relying on cliched anecdotes. Most of it's funny but some posts just reek of any excuse for looking down on the plebs.


  • #79
    fryup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,067 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    trainers hanging from a phone line


  • #80
    boombang
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,108 ✭✭✭boombang


    When all the roads are named after executed republicans

    When you can't figure out if it's the mother or sister pushing the child in the buggy

    When shops operate out of shipping containers staffed by people behind iron bars (only every saw this in Ballymun in fairness)


  • #81
    Alun
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,487 ✭✭✭✭Alun


    boombang wrote: »
    When you can't figure out if it's the mother or sister pushing the child in the buggy.
    .. or even the grandmother :)


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  • #82
    GreenFolder2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 710 ✭✭✭GreenFolder2


    Traffic lights in cages.


  • #83
    mojesius
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,362 ✭✭✭mojesius


    -The chipper is the best cuisine around and always jammers.
    -There is always a bookies and a windowless pub beside said chipper
    -Local Chinese has an unfortunate name like 'hung wang' and gets shut down every few years by the HSE
    -The local aldi/lidl doesn't bother stocking health foods
    -There is no nitelink service


  • #84
    Donal55
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,023 ✭✭✭Donal55


    Malari wrote: »
    "No Water Meters" signs in the windows and on lampposts.

    .....and no water meters.


  • #85
    mariaalice
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,630 ✭✭✭✭mariaalice


    The King of Moo wrote: »
    Neglected children outside without clothing to protect against the weather.

    Signs of serious drug addiction passed on from parents to children through example.

    Unemployable people who grew up in a situation where they aren't afforded the possibility of advancing in education, and adapting to middle-class conventions of behaviour.

    LOL at the poor!! #tensignsyouresociallydeprivedandknobsonlinelaughatyoutomakethemfeelbetteraboutthemselvesfromajoeiehackwhostoletheideafromacommentonthejournal.ie

    Well I say fair play the poster has just though up a new way of posting about their obsession issue, it must be difficult to to think up a new theme on the skobies /welfare debate.

    Having said that years ago a security guard talking about his job said never go in to a pub that has security on a Sunday afternoon.


  • #86
    The_A
    Registered Users Posts: 26 ✭The_A


    ThisRegard wrote: »
    No idea why a community centre is a sign of a rough area?!

    It will often mean that the area has a problem with rogue youths so they need somewhere to keep them off the streets


  • #87
    Ursus Horribilis
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,168 ✭✭✭Ursus Horribilis


    Kids hanging around when they should be in school.

    Battered cars from the 1990s parked outside the houses during working hours.


  • #88
    Your Face
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,275 ✭✭✭Your Face


    Signs you're a turd eating knob goblin:

    - Starting threads about disadvantaged areas


  • #89
    Sklarker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 242 ✭✭Sklarker


    tnegun wrote:
    During fine weather the sitting room furniture is moved to the front yard/garden/footpath for some reason.

    Ha. Reminds me of my neighbour who used to eat dinner in the summer on a small table in the front garden in a bikini. Was like something from a Kenny Everett sketch. Classy bird.


  • #90
    agent graves
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 354 ✭✭agent graves


    LexieOnRale wrote: »
    A local shop looking like a garda cell with the lack of windows and bars on the few windows/doors there is.
    Guys with hot rocks.
    Honda Civics.
    Socks over tracksuit bottoms
    Women in leggings.
    Blonde overweight women with dark roots
    Women wearing tracksuit bottoms
    Anyone wearing tracksuit bottoms
    Children in pjs
    Small Children drinking fizzy drinks
    Women with horrific looking eyebrows
    Women with fake MK and a Paul's boutique jacket


    ya because its only the scummy kids that would dare ware pjs


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  • #91
    Special Circumstances
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,569 ✭✭✭Special Circumstances


    NIMAN wrote: »
    Tiny little men with huge dog(s) on leads (usually the man will be at a 45deg angle to hold said dogs back).

    Said man also likely to have some items of Lonsdale clothing.

    Aw man, how could I forget, bull terriers in bondage gear. Dressing your dogs up all studs and leather. There's something bubbling under the surface there alright!!!

    Local gym near me is big into the oul tyre flipping in the car park craic. Grand like, whatever.... It's when you park your chromed up pickup truck right next to the tyre flipping area so your bondaged up pit bull can watch you flip tyres that you've crossed the line.


  • #92
    derm0j073
    Registered Users Posts: 661 ✭✭✭derm0j073


    Dogsh1t . If the paths are dogsh1t mine fields .


  • #93
    Bicky bicky
    Closed Accounts Posts: 311 ✭✭Bicky bicky


    More CCTV than portloaise prison connected to gardai main station to that area

    Kids on scramblers without adult supervision(even worst no helmets).

    Cars parked outside derelict house's.

    Cars parked outside houses which are worth more than the house.


  • #94
    gw80
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,041 ✭✭✭gw80


    Actual happy children playing outside making real friends and learning how to socialise with people and not inside playing the latest game console sheltered until it's time to go to college and become a delicate snowflake and be overwhelmed and triggered by every thing in the real world


  • #95
    dhaughton99
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,696 ✭✭✭dhaughton99


    Dublin flags and bunting stays up after the finals.


  • #96
    Saipanne
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,882 ✭✭✭Saipanne


    Great thread. Lots of bitter common folk on here. I'm working class too and I'm having a great laugh at this.


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  • #97
    MilesMorales1
    Registered Users Posts: 6,431 ✭✭✭MilesMorales1


    So after hours really is 90% middle class people looking down on working class? Glad I didn't know you lot when I was growing up.


  • #98
    dhaughton99
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,696 ✭✭✭dhaughton99


    Everyone is called by a nick name and children have names like Koi, Nova, or worse, Brooklyn.


  • #99
    Fr_Dougal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,166 ✭✭✭Fr_Dougal


    No Donnybrook Fair.


  • #100
    eviltwin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,495 ✭✭✭✭eviltwin


    Saipanne wrote: »
    Great thread. Lots of bitter common folk on here. I'm working class too and I'm having a great laugh at this.

    Me too. I'm actually recognising certain traits of my neighbourhood. I even wear tracksuit bottoms. I guess I must be a skanger.


  • #101
    Laois_Man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,758 ✭✭✭Laois_Man


    Was out for a Sunday afternoon run in a lesser known City in the US South last year. You know you've strayed a bit too far into knackerland when you're out for a run in broad daylight and the person walking up ahead of you, when they hear you coming, starts running too!


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