No hope for Dublin manhood!

Waestrel

Up where I live, in oh-so-fashionable-but-tragically-pretentious South Dublin (or SoCoDu according to some) i have of late noticed a certain trend towards douchebaggery in the young that i had not previously spotted. Before, when I was young - being from Dublin 16 meant aspiring to go to DIT and do engineering with "the lads" - now it seems to be a prerequisite to being a bumboy. Weak, weedy young men with no ability to fix a puncture or crap in the woods, too used to "delicate" hobbies such as French horn and soft touch schooling which resulted in too few beatings during the formative junior cert years.

Everywhere is infested with scensters, and poseurs, emos and metros. With Skinny jeans hanging around their arses, A pair of converse high tops, hair screwed on to their heads and a pair of black rimmed glasses, they are the arbiters of cool in post Celtic Tiger Dublin. Ambition do not usually involve going to UCD for Orts, as that is too mainstream, rather the attraction lies in animation, media and other limp wristed quiche eating courses.

What is to be done about this? When the zombie wars erupt we will need to be able to stand shoulder to shoulder with real men, those who can lobotomise a living dead with a well timed crack of a hurley,- instead we will have the company of girly men raised on x factor who think the zombies look like Jedward. What will we do? Their delicate nature will sell us all to ghoulish oblivion!

Edgedinblue

Who gives a crap about them, they'll be the first to die in a zombie war anyway! they'll make weak zombies

chin_grin

Cocaines a hell of a drug..........huhuhuhuhuhuhuhuh.

alwaysadub

I grew up in Dublin 16. I don't know any fellas who aspired to go to do engineering in DIT with the lads!

RonMexico

Douchebaggery?



Who are you to point the finger?

Jamiekelly

Its funny how most people have Irish youth boiled down to either a) the type of posh dubliners the OP is talking about or b) a bunch of skangers.


Jesus wept

starbelgrade

Waestrel wrote: »

Up where I live, in oh-so-fashionable-but-tragically-pretentious South Dublin (or SoCoDu according to some) i have of late noticed a certain trend towards douchebaggery in the young that i had not previously spotted. Before, when I was young - being from Dublin 16 meant aspiring to go to DIT and do engineering with "the lads" - now it seems to be a prerequisite to being a bumboy. Weak, weedy young men with no ability to fix a puncture or crap in the woods, too used to "delicate" hobbies such as French horn and soft touch schooling which resulted in too few beatings during the formative junior cert years.

Everywhere is infested with scensters, and poseurs, emos and metros. With Skinny jeans hanging around their arses, A pair of converse high tops, hair screwed on to their heads and a pair of black rimmed glasses, they are the arbiters of cool in post Celtic Tiger Dublin. Ambition do not usually involve going to UCD for Orts, as that is too mainstream, rather the attraction lies in animation, media and other limp wristed quiche eating courses.

What is to be done about this? When the zombie wars erupt we will need to be able to stand shoulder to shoulder with real men, those who can lobotomise a living dead with a well timed crack of a hurley,- instead we will have the company of girly men raised on x factor who think the zombies look like Jedward. What will we do? Their delicate nature will sell us all to ghoulish oblivion!

You should learn to chill out, old man.

You'll give yourself a heart attack.

stovelid

Waestrel wrote: »

Up where I live, in oh-so-fashionable-but-tragically-pretentious South Dublin (or SoCoDu according to some)

Move out so.

Or do you live with your old pair?

chin_grin

Jamiekelly wrote: »

Its funny how most people have Irish youth boiled down to either a) the type of posh dubliners the OP is talking about or b) a bunch of skangers.


Jesus wept

He was a douche bag too. Bleedin' carpenter and you'd think we'd find some of his handiwork in the bible? Noooooooooooo. He went around waffling his brain softy waffly jargon and making people zombies and making people become vegans (may not be true).

Aw, can Jesus not heal the splinters from his fingys? Awwwwwwwww.

Any questions?

Terry

Waestrel wrote: »

Up where I live, in oh-so-fashionable-but-tragically-pretentious South Dublin (or SoCoDu according to some) i have of late noticed a certain trend towards douchebaggery in the young that i had not previously spotted. Before, when I was young - being from Dublin 16 meant aspiring to go to DIT and do engineering with "the lads" - now it seems to be a prerequisite to being a bumboy. Weak, weedy young men with no ability to fix a puncture or crap in the woods, too used to "delicate" hobbies such as French horn and soft touch schooling which resulted in too few beatings during the formative junior cert years.

Everywhere is infested with scensters, and poseurs, emos and metros. With Skinny jeans hanging around their arses, A pair of converse high tops, hair screwed on to their heads and a pair of black rimmed glasses, they are the arbiters of cool in post Celtic Tiger Dublin. Ambition do not usually involve going to UCD for Orts, as that is too mainstream, rather the attraction lies in animation, media and other limp wristed quiche eating courses.

What is to be done about this? When the zombie wars erupt we will need to be able to stand shoulder to shoulder with real men, those who can lobotomise a living dead with a well timed crack of a hurley,- instead we will have the company of girly men raised on x factor who think the zombies look like Jedward. What will we do? Their delicate nature will sell us all to ghoulish oblivion!

A recession might help.
I can see this actually happening. The country will be in recession within two years. Mark my words.
Then they won't have enough money to be scenesters.

Ulysses Gaze

What do you suggest to toughen them up OP?

When they're newborns, leave them on top of a hill overnight in the winter and if they survive they'll be considered tough enough to be considered potential real men?

themadchef

Not so long ago a generation aspired to go to Scotland picking spuds or working in the gardens / on the roads in England. You had it soft, in your own way

So the Celtic tiger generation got it even softer, they will harden the fúck up because they will have to, simples. Dont be a begrudger, i bet your Granny looked at you rocking out to Fame in your leg warmers and thought wtf!!

PeteEd

awful dose of the Ghey doing the rounds in D16 at the minute, might explain it!

Waestrel

Ulysses Gaze wrote: »

What do you suggest to toughen them up OP?

When they're newborns, leave them on top of a hill overnight in the winter and if they survive they'll be considered tough enough to be considered potential real men?

Yes, this sounds good. Above Lough Bray near Glencree would be Ideal

Dont be a begrudger, i bet your Granny looked at you rocking out to Fame in your leg warmers and thought wtf!!

Not that old!

Dinner

Yes, I too dislike those who are different to me.

chin_grin

Instead of milk give babies this. That'll sort the men from the douchbags.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRuNxHqwazs

Nemanja91

2 years service in the Army for everyone when they are 18

DOC09UNAM

Nemanja91 wrote: »

2 years service in the Army for everyone when they are 18

Even women and disabled people?

Everyone is a bit harsh tbh.

chin_grin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZyNBK6M6BQ

alwaysadub

DOC09UNAM wrote: »

Even women and disabled people?

Everyone is a bit harsh tbh.

Especially them!!

Nemanja91

I shouldve been clearer but since manhood was in the thread title I thought I'd leave it out, 2 years service for men so but then they might say that is sexist!

starbelgrade

I studied in DIT Bolton Street in the 90s... the place was full of engineering students, all blokes, dressed in brown suede boots & lumberjack shirts tucked into their Levis, and listening to Bryan Adams.

It wasn't something to aspire to, in all honesty.

DOC09UNAM

alwaysadub wrote: »

Especially them!!

:eek:

Very harsh woman!

scientific1982

You're right OP, everyone must conform. Individuality must be discouraged or else we wont be able to put people into neat little boxes.

Waestrel

scientific1982 wrote: »

You're right OP, everyone must conform. Individuality must be discouraged or else we wont be able to put people into neat little boxes.

Zombies burrow out of the neat little boxes they are buried in, unless the coffin is buried upside down.

Angron

Go back to the old days, beatings for everyone!

Powerthirst works too, or failing that, Old Spice.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTvtFp_iPKc

smk89

scientific1982 wrote: »

You're right OP, everyone must conform. Individuality must be discouraged or else we wont be able to put people into neat little boxes.

Yes everything must be neat und tidy for the germans IMF

ballsymchugh

is the op referring to this kind of shyte??

https://us.v-cdn.net/6034073/uploads/attachments/352870/124085.jpg

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055999734

kowloon

A real man would already be out hunting naked in the forest with nothing but a smeared coat of his own fecal matter to protect him, and yet here you are on the internet whining. I'd be out there too if I hadn't been cut in half by a landmine, mauled by lizards and left to die in the baking sun.

Chuchoter

I'm going to abandon all my gender equality morals for this one. I am sick to ****ing death of my teenage boy friends WHO INSIST ON TELLING ME ALL THEIR ****ING EMOTIONS!

I'm a girl not Dr Phil for Christ's sake. Them and their skinny jeans and time consuming hair.

chin_grin

crayolastereo wrote: »

I'm going to abandon all my gender equality morals for this one. I am sick to ****ing death of my teenage boy friends WHO INSIST ON TELLING ME ALL THEIR ****ING EMOTIONS!

I'm a girl not Dr Phil for Christ's sake. Them and their skinny jeans and time consuming hair.

Jays you get around wha?