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Things YOU love and hate about Dublin

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    #92
    Wishbone Ash
    Registered Users Posts: 24,993 ✭✭✭✭Wishbone Ash


    *sighs*

    I don't know why I am giving this rubbish any more publicity. :rolleyes:



    This is what Mairt posted:

    Mairt wrote: »
    Hate's first ... Trying to get good service in shops, cafe's, bar's etc from people with (at best) pidgeon english. I very it infuriating. Went shopping in town the other day and felt like a minority.

    This is what I posted:
    Mairt wrote:
    Hate's first ... Trying to get good service in shops, cafe's, bar's etc from people with (at best) pidgeon english. I very it infuriating. Went shopping in town the other day and felt like a minority

    People in glasshouses........................:D

    I found it ironic that someone would complain, in poor English, about the standard of English of others and highlighted several mistakes in one line. It was done in a lighthearted manner, hence the smiley at the end.

    (Mairt subsequently provided an explanation, which I accept but I didn't know that at the time of posting).

    KKV then comes along, after 'randomly browsing' the thread and asserts that "you took his English and made it worse"! We are then provided with a little English lesson.

    Considering that he/she now claims to have read "the entire thread from start to end" perhaps he/she could point out where I have 'corrected' the post and made it worse. I merely highlighted some of the mistakes and didn't try to 'fix' anything.


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    #93
    humberklog
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 10,531 Mod ✭✭✭✭humberklog


    Loves Dublin people's sense of irony.

    Hate's KKVs' sense of irony
    Deleted User wrote: »
    irony :)


    (The Mis-use of the singular and plural apostrophes are being used incorrectly on purpose there KKV. I just thought I'd better point that out to you. In case you missed the irony).


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    #94
    IanCurtis
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,004 ✭✭✭IanCurtis


    Wishbone Ash wrote: »
    *sighs*

    I don't know why I am giving this rubbish any more publicity. :rolleyes:



    This is what Mairt posted:




    This is what I posted:



    I found it ironic that someone would complain, in poor English, about the standard of English of others and highlighted several mistakes in one line. It was done in a lighthearted manner, hence the smiley at the end.

    (Mairt subsequently provided an explanation, which I accept but I didn't know that at the time of posting).

    KKV then comes along, after 'randomly browsing' the thread and asserts that "you took his English and made it worse"! We are then provided with a little English lesson.

    Considering that he/she now claims to have read "the entire thread from start to end" perhaps he/she could point out where I have 'corrected' the post and made it worse. I merely highlighted some of the mistakes and didn't try to 'fix' anything.

    Mairt is a big old fashioned military obsessed boy....Gareth Keenan for 2008.

    Check out his ridiculous photos on After Hours for a few cheap laughs :)


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    #95
    damnyanks
    Registered Users Posts: 4,276 ✭✭✭damnyanks


    the thing I miss and always love about dublin is bumping into people who I havent seen in years. I left the country years ago so I dont experience that where I am now


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    #96
    arybvtcw0eolkf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 24,878 ✭✭✭✭arybvtcw0eolkf


    You know something else I love about Dublin...

    We can all have a big girls blouse argument and still laugh about it over a pint.

    Now, like I've said before - anyone fancy a pint someday and a laugh about boards, plus a good ol' back biting I'm up in Campions beside Balgriffin cemetry most Sunday evenings & for a quick one after Judo training on Thursday nights.

    Now lets drop the bullsh*t, its a small world.


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    #97
    Rashers
    Registered Users Posts: 907 ✭✭✭Rashers


    IanCurtis wrote: »
    Mairt is a big old fashioned military obsessed boy....Gareth Keenan for 2008.

    Check out his ridiculous photos on After Hours for a few cheap laughs :)

    Well there ya go... why not take him up on his invitation for a pint?


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    #98
    lightening
    Registered Users Posts: 3,125 ✭✭✭lightening


    IanCurtis wrote: »
    few cheap laughs :)


    Cheap shots don't you mean? Mairt has an excuse though I think he is actually a soldier.

    Roight?


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    #99
    devereux08
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21 ✭devereux08


    moved out of dublin two years ago to buy an affordable decent house,
    loved it at first but now i miss the bustle of the city i wanna come home
    I MISS THE OUL GIRL:(


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    #100
    zach morris
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    I love being in town(around grafton street) at night. I've never experienced any trouble and only ended up making friends with strangers.

    I also love how small Dublin can be. Usually everyone you meet that is around the same age ends up being a friend of a friend or in the same course as your mate or so on and so forth.

    I hate the people that just make life worse for others here. Dirty rotten scumbags who just ruin any atmosphere.


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    #101
    bins
    Registered Users Posts: 35 ✭bins


    I am from dublin and left it a small city trying to be london but love it


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    #102
    devereux08
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21 ✭devereux08


    How in the name of god is dublin trying to be like London
    what a dumb thing to say:confused: dublin has a character all of its own (people history etc)


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    #103
    kwalshe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 959 ✭✭✭kwalshe


    Mairt wrote: »
    Hate's first ... Trying to get good service in shops, cafe's, bar's etc from people with (at best) pidgeon english. I very it infuriating. Went shopping in town the other day and felt like a minority.

    I hate the Spire - pointless (no pun intended).

    I hate, absolutely detest the amount of junkie scumbags allowed to pollute our streets.

    I hate that new building on Dame St. the glass and concret one beside the city hall.

    (I'll add more to this list later I'm sure).

    The things I love about Dublin are disappearing too quickly. I love being a Dub, I love being Irish and I to see how both are being diluted with all this 'multi-cultural' rubbish, and I hate it.

    how did they let this happen... I looks like a community centre from a disadvantaged area.. it's rank


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    #104
    sunnyjim
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,302 ✭✭✭sunnyjim


    I have some things I absolutely love about Dublin.

    It's full of nooks and crannys you can make your own. I worked in the warehouse on Richmond Rd, and everything about it was seriously like a part of Dublin that never gave in to the crap that has seeped in. All the lads working there were the gems of Dublin. Talk of the Findlater family, Dublin in the sixties, the old way things were done... When I worked there, one of the guys celebrated his 60th year working there! He was also in the LDF during the emergency. The Star did a great article on him.

    For some reason, everything attacehed with this business seemed to be old Dublin. Every drop off I did with the van driver showed me a part of Dublin I didn't know - Moore St, the back end of Parnell St, the tiny shops throughout Finglas and Cabra - where each was a family business.

    I also love the brewery. I really can't get enough of it. If you've ever been there, free to walk around, you really can't believe how some parts of it are just so old. There are streets and alleyways in there that look like a foot hasn't fallen on them since photographs were taken in colour.

    Even to walk back from the brewery towards the city centre brings Thomas St and the stalls. Turn right off it and your walking down towards francis street. I seriously love this street - all the cheapo bars, the cakes, random junk... The contemptous looks from the stall holders and locals (altough thats worn off now that I've been there a bit :p)

    So many parts of Dublin that I can't even remember right now. Des got a lot of mine in his post! Although, I did shed a tear when the odl Artane Band Hall was burned down last autumn. It was housing a **** load of memorabilia that was meant to go to museums, including photos, uniforms of the band, old pics of Croke Park. ****in' yobs.


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    #105
    sig226
    Closed Accounts Posts: 30 ✭sig226


    love being in town(around grafton street) at night. I've never experienced any trouble and only ended up making friends with strangers.
    .....and wading through vomit! What a kip


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    #106
    Zascar
    Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 12,778 Mod ✭✭✭✭Zascar


    Things I love: Lots and lots of things, that's why I live here.

    Things I hate: People who constantly bitch about Dublin and how **** it is, but still continue to live here. Here's a tip for you... If you don't like it F**KING LEAVE!


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    #107
    R.D. aka MR.D
    Registered Users Posts: 2,643 ✭✭✭R.D. aka MR.D


    I hate:

    the prices, the way everyone has a superiority complex or an inferority complex, dublin bus, the pub opening hours, the basic costs.

    i love:

    the way the city looks in the summer when the sun is shinig, its actually pretty beautiful.
    the oppurtunities its given me


    And I am moving! finally got so sick of the hates above that its the only way to keep my sanity!


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    #108
    utick
    Closed Accounts Posts: 562 ✭✭✭utick


    Zascar wrote: »
    Things I love: Lots and lots of things, that's why I live here.

    Things I hate: People who constantly bitch about Dublin and how **** it is, but still continue to live here. Here's a tip for you... If you don't like it F**KING LEAVE!

    i did leave, much happier now! dont hate me


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    #109
    anladmór
    Closed Accounts Posts: 367 ✭✭anladmór


    likes: when idiots like utick leave the place. the growing diversity and i find people generally very cool. leaving by the sea. st.pat's inchicore. leinster rugby. camden st. all the bands that come here.

    dont like: weather i guess. not that it really bothers me that much, just be better during the summer if it was more predictable. it could be a bit more vibrant, sometimes it feels abit one dimensional.

    overall i love the place and its the best place i have lived :D


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    #110
    REPSOC1916
    Closed Accounts Posts: 162 ✭✭REPSOC1916


    Like : Hodges Figgis, Rathmines, Chapters, the relatively good whiskey served here compared to Ennis.

    Hate : the scumbag junkies northside, the pretentious fascist **** southside, noise levels in Trinity Halls.


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    #111
    humberklog
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 10,531 Mod ✭✭✭✭humberklog


    REPSOC1916 wrote: »

    Hate : the scumbag junkies northside, the pretentious fascist **** southside, noise levels in Trinity Halls.

    Hate: People that reside in the city and use shockingly ignorant sweeping statements disregarding the nuances of the city and the offence such a statement could have on its very understanding natives.


    Love: Dollyer...I went down this morning to see the sun-rise. Very impressive with sun rising in the east and the moon settling down in the west. Spectacular. Culews, oystercatchers, brent geese and heaveny spherical bodies obeying the glue of universal gravity. All was well in the world.


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    #112
    Harolds+
    Registered Users Posts: 186 ✭✭Harolds+


    I'd love if all culchies and immigrants went home and stop ****ing the Dubs out of it or if they wish to stay, they have to wear a star of Da....sorry, a crest indentifying want county they are from so we know who they are and dont have to talk to them

    I would like that very much : D

    I would love to see social housing in Ballsbridge and Donnybrook (although the latter is dangerous as it is!)


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    #113
    pepsicokeacola
    Closed Accounts Posts: 309 ✭✭pepsicokeacola


    Harolds+ wrote: »
    I'd love if all culchies and immigrants went home and stop ****ing the Dubs out of it or if they wish to stay, they have to wear a star of Da....sorry, a crest indentifying want county they are from so we know who they are and dont have to talk to them

    I would like that very much : D

    I would love to see social housing in Ballsbridge and Donnybrook (although the latter is dangerous as it is!)

    is that meant to be funny?

    i love dublin but some people piss me off, particulary the rare old times mentality of older dublin people. piss off for **** sake. depressing.


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