Scumbags

EarlERizer

Spot the difference

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZJwC_vp-_Q

p.s. If your posting opinions in an effort to come across as better than others,the least you could do is use correct spellings & grammar

Hurricane-Dean

I don't understand why so many are blaming "scum bags" coming from what area (social class) they live in. I was brought up in a council estate that had maybe 5 or 6 "scum bags" that gave the estate a bad name. Thankfully they grew up and moved out.

I am a college graduate who likes to wear jerseys and tracksuits etc. am I a scum bag? I have been working since I am 16 and have only been forced to claim job seekers as a result of this country falling apart, I know many people who were in well respected jobs that claim job seekers to provide for their families, are they scum bags??

I have been in several friends estates and have been looked down at as a result of my clothing, the same people who would see an elderly person struggle (with shopping etc) and not bother to help them.

So all you "working class" people grow up! No matter what area you come from there will always be some kind of hassle!

I'm done

EarlERizer

The thing I dislike most in relation to 'scumbags', is their nature, the gang mentality,all wearing the same outfits,always ready to throw a punch,always targeting those they know can't or wouldn't fight back,going around intimidating people safe in their numbers,each one carrying a weapon and only too willing to use it.Walking around acting like they own the place.

Where I grew up (although not exclusively) there was a very fine line between the local scumbags & the uniformed ones!

Eric Cartman

EarlERizer wrote: »

Spot the difference

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZJwC_vp-_Q

p.s. If your posting opinions in an effort to come across as better than others,the least you could do is use correct spellings & grammar

in all reality damo looks like hes having a lot more craic there , id rather scumbags than stuck up d4 cúnts any day

Logical Fallacy

Last poll option should have been "Scumtari Baguar".

Seachmall

EarlERizer wrote: »

p.s. If your posting opinions in an effort to come across as better than others,the least you could do is use correct spellings & grammar

:pac:

Also, knacker drinking > pretentious club any day.

Eric Cartman

hear now; attacking somebodys spelling or grammar in a boards argument, makes you a scumbag. u all know im write

their i said it?

Bullseye1

How much of Ireland's population is made up of scumbags? There certainly seems to be a large percentage.

Eric Cartman

Bullseye1 wrote: »

How much of Ireland's population is made up of scumbags? There certainly seems to be a large percentage.

well you have all of cork , donegal, dundalk , and small parts of dublin, and all of celbridge

tatabubbly

Eric Cartman wrote: »

well you have all of cork , donegal, dundalk , and small parts of dublin, and all of celbridge

No scumbags in Donegal, we're nice folk up here

robbie_998

Eric Cartman wrote: »

in all reality damo looks like hes having a lot more craic there , id rather scumbags than stuck up d4 cúnts any day

I wouldn't

Thats like saying I'd rather get my wallet and phone nicked than get a slight headache !

cowzerp

Wearing pyjamas shopping might be ridiculis but it hardly makes someone a scumbag, unless there busy robbing while in there pyjamas!

stovelid

I find it all rather overblown but I would guess that a lot of the people that most go on about them are a) young b) living in proximity to them which obviously shapes your views.

The only place I can think of that I'm in sustained proximity to madsers is probably the Luas but as long as they don't hassle me, I just try and ignore them.

If you have a real deal that is a revulsion about what certain people wear and how they talk, you need to grow the fuck up to be honest.

Bullseye1

cowzerp wrote: »

Wearing pyjamas shopping might be ridiculis but it hardly makes someone a scumbag, unless there busy robbing while in there pyjamas!

Its typical attire for them all the same.

Eric Cartman

tatabubbly wrote: »

No scumbags in Donegal, we're nice folk up here

ahahaha the humor forum is that way ---->

http://www.donegaldaily.com/2011/04/04/joyriders-causing-havoc-in-letterkenny/

http://www.hoganstand.com/forum/MessagePage.aspx?TopicID=60699

http://www.inishowennews.com/08UrrisTerror.htm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8JDCTv4W1I

s20101938

Hurricane-Dean wrote: »

I was brought up in a council estate..... I am a college graduate who likes to wear jerseys and tracksuits etc. am I a scum bag?

Yes.

That video is funny as fock.

Daegerty

Eric Cartman wrote: »

ahahaha the humor forum is that way ---->

http://www.donegaldaily.com/2011/04/04/joyriders-causing-havoc-in-letterkenny/

http://www.hoganstand.com/forum/MessagePage.aspx?TopicID=60699

http://www.inishowennews.com/08UrrisTerror.htm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8JDCTv4W1I

Thats all overblown by sensationalist safety obsessed "down with that sort of thing" armchair Joe Duffy callers

Nothing bad ever happens in Donegal. and if it does they are troublemakers from across the border coming in to give the place a bad name

Donegal is lovely

az2wp0sye65487

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?

Well said.

Also, littering is a scummy thing to do. That's one thing that really bugs me. It's also something scummy that spans all the 'social classes'.

In particular, adults littering is disgusting. You can almost understand that when young kids do it, they know no better. Older kids should know better. But adults definitely do know better. Not only are they setting a terrible example for kids around them, they're destroying the environment as well as the pride that people take in their surroundings.

listermint

ders nooo faaacillllllllllllllitieeees maaannnnnnnn

Daegerty

listermint wrote: »

ders nooo faaacillllllllllllllitieeees maaannnnnnnn

Its "Fuss Illities", bro

Hurricane-Dean

s20101938 wrote: »

Yes.

That video is funny as fock.

Won't even bother with a response to troll replies

Spread

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

Does this differ from a SKANGER then?

super_furry

The problem is that there's too many overly vocal bedwetters, who like the vent their frustrations on the internet, rather than actually confronting anyone.

lastlaugh

Hurricane-Dean wrote: »

Won't even bother with a response to troll replies

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Too late!

Hurricane-Dean

lastlaugh wrote: »

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Too late!

Ok then a response to his stupidity, better?

The King of Moo

Kenia Faithful Shackle wrote: »

Well said.

Also, littering is a scummy thing to do. That's one thing that really bugs me. It's also something scummy that spans all the 'social classes'.

In particular, adults littering is disgusting. You can almost understand that when young kids do it, they know no better. Older kids should know better. But adults definitely do know better. Not only are they setting a terrible example for kids around them, they're destroying the environment as well as the pride that people take in their surroundings.

I hate littering too, and you're right, everyone seems to do it. Along with public urination during the daytime without bothering to find a secluded alley, it seems to be becoming more common and crosses all social boundaries.

lastlaugh

Hurricane-Dean wrote: »

Ok then a response to his stupidity, better?

No need to get so shirty about it.

stovelid

super_furry wrote: »

The problem is that there's too many overly vocal bedwetters, who like the vent their frustrations on the internet, rather than actually confronting anyone.

The need for adequate security on the Luas and in city centre areas is becoming overwhelming as the more students that get slapped/taunted/emasculated in front of their mots, the more we see an exponential upsurge in scumbag threads.

CorkMan

I knew people from a bit of a rundown area, the people who lived in the house were nice, but undesirable hung around the house. They drank outside the wall of the peoples house, threw cans into their front garden and often called to their front door asking for a light.

readyletsgo

tallaghtmick wrote: »

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.

Man sorry to hear that! Pain in the tits for nothing at all!

I completly agree with scumbags ruining a life.
Last sat night, I was walking home from a mates at 4am(I live in a **** hole area) he only lives around the corner from me. Now keep in mind, I was not drunk or on anything, only had 3 pints over the whole night.

So as I walked home I lit a smoke up and saw a fella (maybe 20years old) with his girlfriend walking towards me, they where having a fight over something/nothing, but when they past me the fella asked me for a smoke, I said no, then he asked for a drag (eww) I said no again, next think I know I'm being punched in the face and his gf is pulling him off me I get up and say wtf man! he starts running after me shouting I'll ****in dance on your head and all this! I was in shock tbh, all over a fcuking smoke!

So now in work I have a big shiner and I'm really embarrassed over it and I'm sure he forgot about me 5 mins later and prob beat the **** out of his 19 year old girlfriend when they got home.

Needless to say I am moving out of this area in the next two weeks, thank christ.