Waterford has least satisfied people in Ireland?

lost_for_words

It was on Today FM this morning with Ray D'arcy that the Irish Times did a survey on who was the most/least satisfied in the country.....and we came out last!!
Is it true, are we all a pack of miserable farts?

mike65

Yep! I blame Kilkenny people! (or Dubs).

Mike.

fricatus

lost_for_words wrote:

It was on Today FM this morning with Ray D'arcy that the Irish Times did a survey on who was the most/least satisfied in the country.....and we came out last!!
Is it true, are we all a pack of miserable farts?

Just created a new thread this minute: http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=52159492#post52159492

Moderators, can these maybe be merged?

Roen

Well I've just satisfied myself......oh wait.

merlante

Yeah, I think Waterford people are acutely aware of what they don't have, and often don't realise what they do have.

But on top of that, it is one of the most cynical places in the country. Maybe that is changing now, but compared to Dublin, where most people genuinely believe in things like law and order, fairness from the government, etc., etc. (they joke about it, but they do) Waterford people can be very dismissive about all of these things.

Baby4

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merlante

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Yeah, I think you hit the nail on the head there! With all the skyscrapers, fast living, decades of high crime and murder, I think it was only a matter of time before the Waterford mindset started to migrate in that direction.

Baby4

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Cabaal

Frankly I blame Mount Misery!

lost_for_words

I'm really starting to believe this now, when in work one day last week every customer I spoke to complained about something or other, and then one of them gave out to me for being in a good mood.

I'm afraid when I go travelling soon I'll find happy people....and won't know how to react!

I've always kind of thought Loftus Hall out on the Hook Penninsula was sending over creepy vibes to Waterford, maybe its put a spell on us all.

road_high

lost_for_words wrote:

I'm really starting to believe this now, when in work one day last week every customer I spoke to complained about something or other, and then one of them gave out to me for being in a good mood.

I'm afraid when I go travelling soon I'll find happy people....and won't know how to react!

I've always kind of thought Loftus Hall out on the Hook Penninsula was sending over creepy vibes to Waterford, maybe its put a spell on us all.

That Loftus Hall place gave me the creeps the one time I was near there. Freaky place all the same!

DéiseGirl

mfitzy wrote:

That Loftus Hall place gave me the creeps the one time I was near there. Freaky place all the same!

Off the scale creepy!!!! :eek: Just looking over at it from Dunmore East gives me the heebie jeebies ....

charlie@w.d

i wonder is it us waterford people that live in there haunting it:p

just out of interest does any one actually live there?

Dan133269

forgive my ignorance but is Loftus Hall that place in Wexford where the Devil apparently appeared and the roof simply cannot be fixed?

Maharet

Dan133269 wrote:

forgive my ignorance but is Loftus Hall that place in Wexford where the Devil apparently appeared and the roof simply cannot be fixed?

Yep that's the one, it is a creepy place, the stables and garden are especially eerie...

Baby4

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Dan133269

would love to go there, the story fascinated me as a child. seems strange that any sort of a supernatural force would choose Wexford as somewhere to appear
any of ye ever experience anything out of the ordinary there?

Psychedelic

i was at loftus hall a couple of years ago with a few friends.

it was really windy and as we walked up the long driveway the wind was howling, just like in a horror movie, wooooooooooo, and the building itself is creepy looking, strange architecture, i think there's statues on the roof, might be gargoyles i can't remember. all the windows were boarded up, grass in the gardens was overgrown etc.

there was just a real eerie vibe to the whole place, it's wierd, i don't believe in any devil nonsense but it's a really creepy place.

anyway we heard a dog barking (he sounded big & vicious too) and we got freaked out and legged it. when we got back to the road a grumpy oul fella started giving out to us, threatening to call the cops on us.

Dilbert75

Oh so its Wexford's fault that ye blaas are a crowd of moany miserable gits? Typical - we come over the bridge in the morning and take your jobs. Then we go back over the bridge in the evening with your money and your happiness. Ever think ye may just be a crowd of moany miserable gits??

Incidentally, that Loftus Hall story, what I know of it, smacks a lot of the girl of the house being gotten up the Damien by a visitor to stayed the night so she was locked away to get over the shame of it all. Naturally a story had to be invented to explain it. (Sad thing is that, up to maybe thirty years ago (or even less?), unmarried girls who became pregnant were still being sent away to spare the family the shame.)

road_high

Dilbert75 wrote:

Oh so its Wexford's fault that ye blaas are a crowd of moany miserable gits? Typical - we come over the bridge in the morning and take your jobs.

.....And I thought it was just the Kilkenny people who did this:D

merlante

Dilbert75 wrote:

(Sad thing is that, up to maybe thirty years ago (or even less?), unmarried girls who became pregnant were still being sent away to spare the family the shame.)

And now we have kittens giving birth to kittens. Glad we have that one sorted out...

road_high

http://www.wexfordweb.com/Loftus_Hall/index.htm

Dan133269

Dilbert75 wrote:

Incidentally, that Loftus Hall story, what I know of it, smacks a lot of the girl of the house being gotten up the Damien by a visitor to stayed the night so she was locked away to get over the shame of it all.

"Up the damien"? I leave Waterford for a few months and people are already making up new terms for getting pregnant, or is just me who never heard that expression?