Good weather in this country making our children extra stupid...

MrVestek

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_d7U1TlKNeI

FatherLen

looks like a bit of craic.

bumper234

Is jealousy a bitter pill to swallow?

castletownman

Thick feckers love heights

MrVestek

bumper234 wrote: »

Is jealousy a bitter pill to swallow?

I'd rather not maim myself today thanks.

bumper234

I would rather be jumpin in there than sittin in this feckin office:mad:

calanus

I'd say the person recording the tomfoolery is equally stupid. Did he not realise that most cameras these days do have a zoom function?

bumper234

calanus wrote: »

I'd say the person recording the tomfoolery is equally stupid. Did he not realise that most cameras these days do have a zoom function?

He was afraid they would see him if he got too close:rolleyes:

MrVestek

calanus wrote: »

I'd say the person recording the tomfoolery is equally stupid. Did he not realise that most cameras these days do have a zoom function?

It was recorded on a phone with the only zoom available being a digital zoom. Would you rather have seen a highly pixelated mess on the screen instead of being able to make out what was going on?

wretcheddomain

When that Dublin thing said 'He's toiny' (48 sec), it reminded me of this:

bumper234

Achilles wrote: »

It was recorded on a phone with the only zoom available being a digital zoom. Would you rather have seen a highly pixelated mess on the screen instead of being able to make out what was going on?

Oh my put your handbag away love we are only having a joke with you:rolleyes: Jeez maybe you seriously do need to join them in the water cos you need to cool down a bit.

It wasn't me!

Looks like good fun to me.

MrVestek

bumper234 wrote: »

Oh my put your handbag away love we are only having a joke with you:rolleyes: Jeez maybe you seriously do need to join them in the water cos you need to cool down a bit.

Nah I've been waiting all day to get my handbag out and bash somebody with it. ;-)

jay1988

What exactly are they doing wrong? Looks like good fun to me.

bumper234

Achilles wrote: »

Nah I've been waiting all day to get my handbag out and bash somebody with it. ;-)

Beer first i ain't cheap you know :P

Peregrine

This was during the last time we got warm weather

MrVestek

Nimrod 7 wrote: »

This was during the last time we got warm weather

Jaysus one lad there barely clears the barrier into the Liffey.

Dravokivich

Achilles wrote: »

It was recorded on a phone with the only zoom available being a digital zoom. Would you rather have seen a highly pixelated mess on the screen instead of being able to make out what was going on?

There was something happening? All I saw was a shakey video.

seamus

The height isn't as dangerous as the water they're jumping into. Swimming races are no longer held in Liffey waters because they've been deemed too toxic.

MrVestek

seamus wrote: »

The height isn't as dangerous as the water they're jumping into. Swimming races are no longer held in Liffey waters because they've been deemed too toxic.

Would this be the same for the water in the Canal do you reckon?

calanus

Achilles wrote: »

It was recorded on a phone with the only zoom available being a digital zoom. Would you rather have seen a highly pixelated mess on the screen instead of being able to make out what was going on?

The problem was that I couldn't see what was going on

April O Neill

bumper234 wrote: »

Is jealousy a bitter pill to swallow?

This is quite a stretch!

April O Neill

calanus wrote: »

I'd say the person recording the tomfoolery is equally stupid. Did he not realise that most cameras these days do have a zoom function?

Darkens the photo/image though. :-/

April O Neill

jay1988 wrote: »

What exactly are they doing wrong? Looks like good fun to me.

There might not be enough depth for them not to hit the bottom when they enter the water.

Guess it was deep enough or we would have heard, but that's not the point. Some of the responses on this thread show how dismayingly little some know about water safety.

wretcheddomain

seamus wrote: »

Swimming races are no longer held in Liffey waters because they've been deemed too toxic.

The toxicity level has since declined with the prohibition raised against TD's Clare Daly and Lucinda Cretin urinating into the river.

April O Neill

seamus wrote: »

The height isn't as dangerous as the water they're jumping into. Swimming races are no longer held in Liffey waters because they've been deemed too toxic.

My BF was splashed by some manky water from that exact area twice at weekend (by kids intentionally splashing us), and both times, he got some kind of allergic reaction. Eyes streaming, and sneezing for hours after.

tmc86

Lots of work being done in your office anyway!

tin79

Achilles wrote: »

Would this be the same for the water in the Canal do you reckon?

The main problem with the liffey is sewage contamination leading to high levels of bacteria and associated risk of disease from rats etc. Its worst in the city of course. The liffey upstream of island bridge is actually very clean for the most part.

There are rats too in the canal but much less inflow from sewage pipes so the risk there is less on that front. However around the docks area the water quality of the canals is not great again due to inflow.

MrVestek

tmc86 wrote: »

Lots of work being done in your office anyway!

During lunch time?

No not really...

seamus

Achilles wrote: »

Would this be the same for the water in the Canal do you reckon?

Certainly the grand canal dock and probably the canal waters as far as Rathmines.

endacl

Needs more crocodiles.

BluesBerry

wretcheddomain wrote: »

The toxicity level has since declined with the prohibition raised against TD's Clare Daly and Lucinda Cretin urinating into the river.

For shame Clare & Lucinda for shame piddleing in the liffey like that ruining it for us all

Frank Lee Midere

Look. If this happened in most countries in the city centre the police would be there within minutes and arrest everybody for any number of offences.

It's time to stop going "era, they're grand"

Larbre34

Stupid, selfish carry on in this heat......

The last few days Ive seen nothing but college age young wans thinking its fine to wear nothing but a barely-there bikini and a backpack walking along the street on their way back to the Dart from Sandycove of an evening. How stupid and dangerous is that......

........to road safety!!

The Backwards Man

FatherLen wrote: »

looks like a bit of craic.

bumper234 wrote: »

Is jealousy a bitter pill to swallow?

bumper234 wrote: »

I would rather be jumpin in there than sittin in this feckin office:mad:

It wasn't me! wrote: »

Looks like good fun to me.

jay1988 wrote: »

What exactly are they doing wrong? Looks like good fun to me.

I sometimes wonder why incidents of drowning are so high in this country.

Then I read a thread like this and remember why.:mad:

tmc86

Achilles wrote: »

During lunch time?

No not really...

Get out there man, get some of that vitamin D!

SEPT 23 1989

The Backwards Man wrote: »

I sometimes wonder why incidents of drowning are so high in this country.

Then I read a thread like this and remember why.:mad:

http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20090720220818/familyguy/images/3/33/Buzz_Killington.jpg

The Backwards Man

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20090720220818/familyguy/images/3/33/Buzz_Killington.jpg

Yeah, because twats trying their best to injure or kill themselves and possibly tie up the coast guard is something to be laughed at isn't it?

Hardy-Har-Fcuking-Har.

flutterflye

So looks like it was just me then that watched the clip 3 times trying to see what the guys talking were on about. I thought they were videoing the guy in the boat or whatever it is there at the right of the video!
Even on the 4th go when I went into youtube to watch it and put it on full screen, I was halfway through before I saw it!

bumper234

The Backwards Man wrote: »

I sometimes wonder why incidents of drowning are so high in this country.

Then I read a thread like this and remember why.:mad:

How many reports of teenagers drowning in the river liffey/grand canal do you read about?

tmc86

This thread is the digital version of old busy bodies twitching their net curtains and giving out about kids being kids

MrVestek

tmc86 wrote: »

This thread is the digital version of old busy bodies twitching their net curtains and giving out about kids being kids

In my day this never would have happened. I'm 26.

tmc86

Achilles wrote: »

In my day this never would have happened. I'm 26.

Back in my day..... oh the irony

MrVestek

tmc86 wrote: »

Back in my day..... oh the irony

Irony. Yes, that's what I was going for. Glad you noticed it.

Tails142

bumper234 wrote: »

How many reports of teenagers drowning in the river liffey/grand canal do you read about?

Here's just a few links - they are lots more not reported on. Where the two junkies died at Suir road there was another young man drowned a few months before.

They pulled a body out at Mespil Road in 2009 that had been missing for months.

A drunk guy fell into GCD walking from the Spar back to his apartment and was pulled out a few weeks later. Then a couple of months later a van driver cable tied his hands to the steering wheel and drove straight in.

In 2012, the day before the docklands festival one of these kids was pulled unconcious from the water in front of the Kings of Concrete place and had to be resuscitated for 40 mins by the fire brigade, he was lucky to survive, apparently he didn't know how to swim

Accidents and deaths in water happen all the time, usually involves drink and drugs and only seldom are they reported.

Dec 2007 - Teenagers drowned 'in attempt to cool off'

Dec 2011 - Grand Canal drowning near Shannonbridge

Dec 2012 - Homeless couple used drug before drowning in canal

August 2012 - Donegal fan drowns in Dublin's Royal Canal

May 2013 - Drowning victim begins journey home to Ardara this evening

It wasn't me!

Have jumped off bridges in the middle of foreign cities before. Hand-wringing cries that "Only in Ireland!"are bollocks. If the water is deep enough there, and it seems to be, then it's just a bit of fun. Have jumped off bridges, piers, cliffs, trees and all sorts into water and am still here. A bit of common sense, checking your environment and such and the chances of anything bad happening are pretty slim. Things happen, but it's no reason to not do things that are fun either. If it were, we'd never go sky-diving or driving or anything else much either.