Scumbags

Daegerty

Such a popular topic round here but is it all a bit overblown? Just trying to find out how much these "scumbags" really affect a person's life.

There are scumbags everywhere but I've had very little trouble from them. The last time they actually bothered me must have been about 3 years ago but I got over that.

fedor.2.

What happened then?

The High King

Are scumbags not them small bags you take on holidays ? You know, you wear them like a belt ?

PCPhoto

I work in the courts ... so make my life miserable !!

(well... they would make my life miserable - if I gave a sh1t)

cursai

Well you do stay in the pub a lot! If you got outside more!:)



location is teach tabhairne

Seachmall

Meh, I know (or know people who know) most of the scumbags in town so I've never really had any trouble.

Ally Dick

Scumbags are a result of ineffective community policing

Laisurg

Caused me quite a bit of hassle a few years ago when i lived in finglas, havn't had much trouble since, to be honest though guards do fúck all about them.

strobe

"What's that mean, scum?"
"You know, politicians, bankers, lawmen... scum"

Chris P. Bacon

What exactly is a scumbag?,i see it used here everyday in so many different terms.If a person has a skinhead they are a scumbag,if a person has tattoos they are a scumbag,if a person drinks in a pub that sells pints for €3 they are a scumbag.To me none of those people are scumbags.

Daegerty

Ally Dick wrote: »

Scumbags are a result of ineffective community policing

I'd say more a result of over regulation and them not being allowed to do anything & a lack of facilities.

Celly Smunt

just stick it up to them and they shít themselves,they don't expect you to actually stick up for yourself,anyone who doesn't stick up for themselves deserves a beating imo.

Mr. Denton

The High King wrote: »

Are scumbags not them small bags you take on holidays ? You know, you wear them like a belt ?

That's right. Tho in america they're called vulva-packs.

Celly Smunt

Mr. Denton wrote: »

That's right. Tho in america they're called vulva-packs.

fanny packs

mikemac

I haven't noticed The_Citizen around boards in months. Public safety has gown downhill in the meantime

Bloody Nipples

Chris P. Bacon wrote: »

What exactly is a scumbag?,i see it used here everyday in so many different terms.If a person has a skinhead they are a scumbag,if a person has tattoos they are a scumbag,if a person drinks in a pub that sells pints for €3 they are a scumbag.To me none of those people are scumbags.

Scumbag :pac:

guitarzero

Scumbag can range from a lad in a liverpool top hanging outside a chipper/bookies/run down pub to a dogdey drug dealer. They're often badly spoken, a bit ugly, stupid expression, wear grey tracksuits and often travel in packs. They're either called Anto or Keith or some nickname ending in 'er' or 'o'. The younginz' sometime have their hands down their jocks on their...private parts. The girls communicate by roaring nonsense, smeared in fake tan and kinda look like pikeys. They often spit between the gap in their 2 top front teeth and their highest ambition is to drive a car someday and maybe have a child and buy him a baby size liverpool jersey.
They lack intelligence and end up doing pretty meanial work or skive benefits. They're very confrontational to anyone they cant empathize or relate to. They come from a backround of poverty and are perhaps desinfranchized by industrialization in the past as they were likely rural folk by heritage who just farmed and tried to get by. So now they are the run down as the demands of technology and industry simply wasnt part of their general make up and are now merely low tier consumers who will never climb the ladder that demands what they cant deliver.

Basically, they are the Hyenas of society.

I could be completely wrong though.

Duffy the Vampire Slayer

Chris P. Bacon wrote: »

,if a person drinks in a pub that sells pints for €3 they are a scumbag.

This would mean most students are scumbags. Which is something a large percentage of AH appears to believe anyway.

digme

maybe you should have put in Dublin in the thread title as that is the sh!thole your all moaning about

Duffy the Vampire Slayer

digme wrote: »

maybe you should have put in Dublin in the thread title as that is the sh!thole your all moaning about

Not this ****e again.

Oranage2

anybody claiming they don't know what a scumbag is is either a f*cking idiot or a lefty liberal f*cktard.

scumbags are the anti social people

that harass you as you walk buy
drink and smoke on a bus
have multiple convictions

Superbus

What would people's thoughts be on a bag filled with scum?

PseudoFamous

digme wrote: »

maybe you should have put in Dublin in the thread title as that is the sh!thole your all moaning about

I have not yet come across any decent sized town in Ireland without scumbags. That said, they do relatively little harm to anyone. Spaniards, which I had an abundance of in my school, were far noisier, destructive, and an eyesore in general than "scumbags".

Turpentine

PCPhoto wrote: »

I work in the courts ... so make my life miserable !!

(well... they would make my life miserable - if I gave a sh1t)

Surely if there were no scumbags you'd be out of a job though?

Eric Cartman

if you consider wearing a tracksuit to court acceptable
if you dont think heroin is a bad descision
if you tuck your tracksuit into your socks
if you consider argos 'high class'
if you regularly visit cash converters
if you live in a council house and have kids to get more money off the social
if you go straight from the dole office to the pub or bookies
if you buy hash instead of weed
if you play music from your phone on the back of a bus
if you think 21s or Q-Bar good nightclubs
if you think a boxy starlet or 1.4 civic hatchbacks are cool cars
if you have ever said "what are you lookin at" to somebody
if you have ever started on somebody in a pub just because your drunk
if you have a bunch of kids by different dads you dont talk to anymore
if your still with your kids da even though hes in prison for something drug, theft or violence related.
if you think going to the shops in your pyjamas is acceptable
if you think massive hoop ear-rings look nice

answered yes to any of these questions ? then your a scumbag

ICE HOUSE

Eric Cartman wrote: »

if you consider wearing a tracksuit to court acceptable
if you dont think heroin is a bad descision
if you tuck your tracksuit into your socks
if you consider argos 'high class'
if you regularly visit cash converters
if you live in a council house and have kids to get more money off the social
if you go straight from the dole office to the pub or bookies
if you buy hash instead of weed
if you play music from your phone on the back of a bus
if you think 21s or Q-Bar good nightclubs
if you think a boxy starlet or 1.4 civic hatchbacks are cool cars
if you have ever said "what are you lookin at" to somebody
if you have ever started on somebody in a pub just because your drunk
if you have a bunch of kids by different dads you dont talk to anymore
if your still with your kids da even though hes in prison for something drug, theft or violence related.
if you think going to the shops in your pyjamas is acceptable
if you think massive hoop ear-rings look nice

answered yes to any of these questions ? then your a scumbag

All of the above while wearing a Celtic jersey

3hn2givr7mx1sc

I know or know someone that knows the majority of scumbags around, so they don't bother me too much really. Still twats though.

robbie_998

Eric Cartman wrote: »

if you consider wearing a tracksuit to court acceptable
if you dont think heroin is a bad descision
if you tuck your tracksuit into your socks
if you consider argos 'high class'
if you regularly visit cash converters
if you live in a council house and have kids to get more money off the social
if you go straight from the dole office to the pub or bookies
if you buy hash instead of weed
if you play music from your phone on the back of a bus
if you think 21s or Q-Bar good nightclubs
if you think a boxy starlet or 1.4 civic hatchbacks are cool cars
if you have ever said "what are you lookin at" to somebody
if you have ever started on somebody in a pub just because your drunk
if you have a bunch of kids by different dads you dont talk to anymore
if your still with your kids da even though hes in prison for something drug, theft or violence related.
if you think going to the shops in your pyjamas is acceptable
if you think massive hoop ear-rings look nice

answered yes to any of these questions ? then your a scumbag

I say no to all of these


Except I have the new civic and think it's cool... But it's new ! New model and so on and not scumbaggy in anyway !

Duffy the Vampire Slayer

ICE HOUSE wrote: »

All of the above while wearing a Celtic jersey

I'm really sick of the sectarian gang of yobs that follow a foreign soccer club being associated with Irish national identity.

CorkMan

Have had troubles in the past. I used to live in an area which was mainly mad of families, and I only lived with my cousin. A couple of times when out and about on that side of town scum tried to mug me, but I stood up for myself.

I'm big enough, but these people try to take advantage of the "politics" of the neighborhood and think I will back down because I do not have a big family behind me.

Nolanger

Ally Dick wrote: »

Scumbags are a result of ineffective community policing

They are a result of no free abortions in this country.

Eric Cartman

robbie_998 wrote: »

I say no to all of these


Except I have the new civic and think it's cool... But it's new ! New model and so on and not scumbaggy in anyway !

no, i think honda redesigned the new looking civic hatch to make it look extra stupid if you did anything to it. the triangle exhaust holes dont allow for big noisy exhausts, theres nowhere to really put a massive spoiler, yellow JDM lights arent an option

mark renton

Eric Cartman wrote: »

if you consider wearing a tracksuit to court acceptable
if you dont think heroin is a bad descision
if you tuck your tracksuit into your socks
if you consider argos 'high class'
if you regularly visit cash converters
if you live in a council house and have kids to get more money off the social
if you go straight from the dole office to the pub or bookies
if you buy hash instead of weed
if you play music from your phone on the back of a bus
if you think 21s or Q-Bar good nightclubs
if you think a boxy starlet or 1.4 civic hatchbacks are cool cars
if you have ever said "what are you lookin at" to somebody
if you have ever started on somebody in a pub just because your drunk
if you have a bunch of kids by different dads you dont talk to anymore
if your still with your kids da even though hes in prison for something drug, theft or violence related.
if you think going to the shops in your pyjamas is acceptable
if you think massive hoop ear-rings look nice

answered yes to any of these questions ? then your a scumbag

what a dik head - i think you may need to educate yourself on the working class of this society

robbie_998

Eric Cartman wrote: »

robbie_998 wrote: »

I say no to all of these


Except I have the new civic and think it's cool... But it's new ! New model and so on and not scumbaggy in anyway !

no, i think honda redesigned the new looking civic hatch to make it look extra stupid if you did anything to it. the triangle exhaust holes dont allow for big noisy exhausts, theres nowhere to really put a massive spoiler, yellow JDM lights arent an option

I didn't do anything to it and will not in the future... Everything is factory basic !

Am I a scumbag for owning a old grannies car ? Cos that's all I see drive it !

wild_cat

john47832 wrote: »

what a dik head - i think you may need to educate yourself on the working class of this society

Your the one associating those terms with the working class!

He didn't mention anything to do with that and i'm pretty sure you've insulted some "working class" people on here by assuming thats the social class he meant.


A scumbag to me is someone who has no respect for other people or the environment around them.


Also to anyone who wears pyjamas outside of their house - YOU LOOK LIKE A LAZY BOLLOX WHO DOESN'T DO A TAP!

mcmoustache

john47832 wrote: »

what a dik head - i think you may need to educate yourself on the working class of this society

Seems educated enough to me.

Care to elaborate? I'm not sure about what you're trying to say.

mark renton

wild_cat wrote: »

Also to anyone who wears pyjamas outside of their house - YOU LOOK LIKE A LAZY BOLLOX WHO DOESN'T DO A TAP!

did that come as a bit of late inspiration - or just another tough guy typist?

Eric Cartman

robbie_998 wrote: »

I didn't do anything to it and will not in the future... Everything is factory basic !

Am I a scumbag for owning a old grannies car ? Cos that's all I see drive it !

nope your grand then

wild_cat

john47832 wrote: »

did that come as a bit of late inspiration - or just another tough guy typist?

Get out of those pyjamas its not time for bed yet.

mark renton

wild_cat wrote: »

Get out of those pyjamas its not time for bed yet.

Apologies - at first glance I assumed you were a biggot, now I see you are just a child

wild_cat

john47832 wrote: »

Apologies - at first glance I assumed you were a biggot, now I see you are just a child

Its better than being scum.

Mint Sauce

john47832 banned for 3 days. Abuse, attack the post, not the poster.

lastlaugh

wild_cat wrote: »

Its better than being scum.

A Biggot is scum as far as I'm concerned.

tallaghtmick

Daegerty wrote: »

Such a popular topic round here but is it all a bit overblown? Just trying to find out how much these "scumbags" really affect a person's life.

There are scumbags everywhere but I've had very little trouble from them. The last time they actually bothered me must have been about 3 years ago but I got over that.

Last week my car was robbed the night before i was due to drop my son home so i had to get my father to drop him over tallaght-coolock,after that i was asked to pay 350 for the car to be brought home as it wasnt driving but because aviva dont pay fee's upfront and the car was only worth about 700 i gave it to the garda,so then i had to get a loan of money from family members and ask for more lifts to look at cars and buy 1....so yeh scumbags are scum who ruin peoples lives for the sake of a ipod yes thats all they took an old ipod from my car.

wild_cat

lastlaugh wrote: »

A Biggot is scum as far as I'm concerned.

How does that make me a bigot... being raised properly does not make me a bigot and I will not apologise for what I am saying.

Those people are not the working class. Working class people are decent the people described are scum. We wouldn't have as much trouble as we do if people stopped making excuses for scum bags.

Its not my fault if your were brought up thinking that's decent and the norm. Its not.

lastlaugh

wild_cat wrote: »

How does that make me a bigot... being raised properly does not make me a bigot and I will not apologise for what I am saying.

Those people are not the working class. Working class people are decent the people described are scum. We wouldn't have as much trouble as we do if people stopped making excuses for scum bags.

Its not my fault if your were brought up thinking that's decent and the norm. Its not.

I'm not saying you are a bigot.

I'm merely pointing out that I consider a bigot to be scum.

wild_cat

lastlaugh wrote: »

I'm not saying you are a bigot.

I'm merely pointing out that I consider a bigot to be scum.

Bigots are scum.

Religious bigots.

Now there is a group of people I hate more than any pyjama wearing rabbit breeding "you startin" hands on the balls scummer.

Johro

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The King of Moo

I don't see what being a scumbag has to do with social class. A scumbag, to me, has always been someone who's anti-social to an extreme extent, usually seeking confrontations of different sorts. But I see that happen across the social spectrum. It's sad that the overt snobbery which came along with the Celtic Tiger (it had always existed under the surface) still remains. I really don't understand why people focus on the anti-social actions of the underprivileged underclasses, and not the anti-social actions of all people. Some people argue that they're targetting the actions, not the people, but then contradict themselves by focusing on things like the way people speak and dress. Unfortunately there's a lot of snobbery in this country, going each way.


Some scumbaggy things I don't like:

Getting belligerent with people while intoxicated, often to the extent of violence.

Arguing loudly in the middle of the city (usually Dublin).

Driving dangerously fast.

Driving an expensive "executive" car which gives you a sense of entitlement, causing you to not indicate at turns, cut people off and run red lights at busy dangerous junctions while laughing at the people you almost run over.

Child neglect.

Harassing people and destroying property during Rag Week.

Treating people in service positions as beneath you, to the point of verbal abuse.

Deliberately ringing the doorbells of the elderly at 3am then running away.

Dealing drugs to those you know are addicted to them and being harmed by them.

Knowingly causing great harm to numbers of people through political or financial mismanagement, inaction or corruption.

Discriminating against people based on their social level, or on surface details which are presumed to be indicators of social level.

I've witnessed all of the above firsthand and consider them the actions of scumbags. Some are associated with certain social classes, others are common among all classes in this country.
Why focus on just a small number of such actions?

lastlaugh

The King of Moo wrote: »

I don't see what being a scumbag has to do with social class. A scumbag, to me, has always been someone who's anti-social to an extreme extent, usually seeking confrontations of different sorts. But I see that happen across the social spectrum. It's sad that the overt snobbery which came along with the Celtic Tiger (it had always existed under the surface) still remains. I really don't understand why people focus on the anti-social actions of the underprivileged underclasses, and not the anti-social actions of all people. Some people argue that they're targetting the actions, not the people, but then contradict themselves by focusing on things like the way people speak and dress. Unfortunately there's a lot of snobbery in this country, going each way.


Some scumbaggy things I don't like:

Getting belligerent with people while intoxicated, often to the extent of violence.

Arguing loudly in the middle of the city (usually Dublin).

Driving dangerously fast.

Driving an expensive "executive" car which gives you a sense of entitlement, causing you to not indicate at turns, cut people off and run red lights at busy dangerous junctions while laughing at the people you almost run over.

Child neglect.

Harassing people and destroying property during Rag Week.

Treating people in service positions as beneath you, to the point of verbal abuse.

Deliberately ringing the doorbells of the elderly at 3am then running away.

Dealing drugs to those you know are addicted to them and being harmed by them.

Knowingly causing great harm to numbers of people through political or financial mismanagement, inaction or corruption.

Discriminating against people based on their social level, or on surface details which are presumed to be indicators of social level.

I've witnessed all of the above firsthand and consider them the actions of scumbags. Some are associated with certain social classes, others are common among all classes in this country.
Why focus on just a small number of such actions?

Here here, there are lots of 'scumbags', from all social classes.

There is also a lot of middle class snobbery around which I find more distainful than flabby lazy teenagers wearing pyjamas to Tescos.

7sr2z3fely84g5

As rest said,scumbags can come from all walks,we had few high profile court cases on drunken assaults down through the years involving yuppies.