Sure-Fire Signs That an area is Rough

Ciaran_B

Saipanne wrote: »

Ranelagh has an Aldi/Lidl?

There was a Lidl at the triangle, just down from Super Valu. Maybe it's gone now?

Birneybau

Glenster wrote: »

People wearing jogging bottoms who aren't currently jogging

"Dogs are welcome" signs outside the pub

a sit down chipper

kids wearing light-up trainers

Minorities

Old ladies with trolleys

Rough areas have hip pubs?

Anyway, and not in direct reference to the above post: This thread is ridiculous.

222233

Lots of available parking.

Robsweezie

Even the local wildlife want to fight you

david75

I just stopped two little scumbags trying to rob a bike locked to a pole right beside my house.
That's my windows getting broken tonight.

Kimbot

Hanwellian wrote: »

Hands down the jocks & walking with a limp.

Really feckin annoying, I just laugh at em as they pass looking shiftily at the pavement.

I normally roar over "Has it fallen off yet?" :pac:

seachto7

Can anyone tell me where the fad for having your hands down the front of your tracksuit pants comes from? Not so fashionable right now, but it was a few years ago.... Baffles me.

BattleCorp

seachto7 wrote: »

Can anyone tell me where the fad for having your hands down the front of your tracksuit pants comes from? Not so fashionable right now, but it was a few years ago.... Baffles me.

Nah, it still goes on.

Kimbot

seachto7 wrote: »

Can anyone tell me where the fad for having your hands down the front of your tracksuit pants comes from? Not so fashionable right now, but it was a few years ago.... Baffles me.

To me it came from "Married with children"

david75

seachto7 wrote: »

Can anyone tell me where the fad for having your hands down the front of your tracksuit pants comes from? Not so fashionable right now, but it was a few years ago.... Baffles me.

Apparently psychologically speaking it's a sign of insecurity. They're literally protecting they're most vulnerable bits. But they don't know that or that that's why they're doing It.

The Bishop Basher

david75 wrote: »

Apparently psychologically speaking it's a sign of insecurity. They're literally protecting they're most vulnerable bits. But they don't know that or that that's why they're doing It.

Couldn't agree more..

Watched one of our local "hardmen" walk past my house last week doing his level best to look as hard as possible with his hard man swagger..

I had a bit of a giggle as he doesn't realise it bless him but but it just screams insecurity to me..

Jrop

Are their hands not disgusting ? The groin is the sweatiest part of the body gross

Right2Write

'Free the Jobstown Five' posters!

fuzzydunlop85

You can buy Mach 3 blades in the local boozer.

padd b1975

Houses refurbished to within an inch of their lives even though no one who lives in them has ever had a job.

Hanwellian

Queuing outside post office on a Thursday before it has opened.

padd b1975

The local shop is a modified shipping container.

Arcade_Tryer

padd b1975 wrote: »

Houses refurbished to within an inch of their lives even though no one who lives in them has ever had a job.

Country estates aren't typically rough to be fair. Unless you mean the wildlife.

harry Bailey esq

Pubs with flat roofs

david75

Arcade_Tryer wrote: »

Country estates aren't typically rough to be fair. Unless you mean the wildlife.

Or unless they're in cork

antodeco

When the chippers and Londis have security guards.

When the telephone box is missing most of it's glass.

david75

antodeco wrote: »

When the chippers and Londis have security guards.

When the telephone box is missing most of it's glass.

Telephone box?

Thread says area. Not decade

jaysisjames

Cheap lead lattice windows
Old women getting out of taxis laden down with shopping
a pair of runners tied together , hanging from electrical lines
overweight middle aged women dressed in pyjamas and dressing gown in local centra/spar/costcutter

previous user

Feral kids throwing stones at strangers

Stephen15

You have ring a buzzer to get into the chemist shop.
The local shop has everthing behind the counter.
No bus shelters
Iceland shops

Jeff2

Where I used to live if I heard some one screaming I would grab my phone ( ready to ring 999) and go out to check.
Here if a child of adult is screaming outside I just turn up the TV.

It's like crying wolf ,if some one really had a problem who then no point shouting for help.

antodeco

david75 wrote: »

Telephone box?

Thread says area. Not decade

Still loads of telephone boxes out on the main road by me!

99problems

It's called dolphins barn

Vita nova

david75 wrote: »

Originally Posted by Arcade_Tryer View Post
Country estates aren't typically rough to be fair. Unless you mean the wildlife.

Or unless they're in cork

A country estate to me means a big country house with lots of land and woods... hence the wildlife.

david75

Vita nova wrote: »

A country estate to me means a big country house with lots of land and woods... hence the wildlife.

Thanks for that. Generally we don't have many estates left. It's more an English thing. Those in Irish hands are sold and rotting. Only danger in such a place is a roof slate falling through a hole and hitting you in the head.

Victor

The houses don't have street numbers.

The houses have erratic street numbers (22, 23, 24, 5, 12, 27, 28) to deliberately confuse people, e.g. gardaí.

The houses have erratic street numbers so the new resident doesn't get their house burnt down in a case of mistaken identity.

neris wrote: »

bonfires with the remains of unburnable stuff

https://xkcd.com/1821/

Walter H Price wrote: »

its exactly what thees areas need an influx of money and people who improve the property's , and the overall look and feel of the area , see it all over areas like Phibsborogh , Cabra , Glasnevin , Stoneybatter, Whitehall parts of Finglas ... there start to look like respectable areas in time house prices will force the gentrification of most of the suburbs close to the city center and that can only be a good thing.

The less working class and unemployed in an area the better and more desirable it becomes and the social problems and so on reduce. These concentrated areas with poverty and social problems that came out of government housing schemes from the 30's -70's need to be broken. No need to evict people , the market is simply pricing them out.

One has to be very careful, as gentrification can lead to the displacement of poor people to even worse locations, but now they have no social structures (family, school, community connections, etc.) to support them.

Every area should have some form of mixed tenure, mixed-sized, mixed-design housing. Otherwise you just end up with ghettos, where the only 'community leaders' are drug dealers.

whiskeyman

Tricolours everywhere when there's no major sporting event on...

neverever1

I've been in areas that have obviously stolen cars or they were acquired by nefarious means anyway. The locals look at you funny, like you don't belong there. They're usually wearing suits. Have over sized houses, got by robbing the rest of us. Suit wearing scumbags, I try to avoid those areas.

Stephen15

Houses with loads of outside christmas lights

BalcombeSt4

Richard Hillman wrote: »

A community center
Speed Bumps Everywhere
Oversized curbs
A boxing club
A local pub that changes its name every couple of years.
A security guard at a small Spar/Centra
Horses
People Before Profit/AAA Posters

Yeah Bray checks all those boxes.

Lots of burnt out cars & fire ruins in fields that used to be used for kids football matches also.

Glenster

BalcombeSt4 wrote: »

Yeah Bray checks all those boxes.

Horses in Bray?

Hanwellian

Where there are whole estates without water meters installed.

average_runner

Richard Hillman wrote: »

A community center
Speed Bumps Everywhere
Oversized curbs
A boxing club
A local pub that changes its name every couple of years.
A security guard at a small Spar/Centra
Horses
People Before Profit/AAA Posters

The speed bumps I would laugh at. Most expensive estates have speed bumps for the safety of kids at play.

All Spars have security guards.

Parchment

average_runner wrote: »

All Spars have security guards.

No they dont!

Parchment

Stephen15 wrote: »

Iceland shops

Yes! This was a sure sign of a sh!thole area/town in Scotland!

Jack the Stripper

Social housing.

Hanwellian

Where T.D's have offices on the Main Street of a town.

Glenster

Hanwellian wrote: »

Where T.D's have offices on the Main Street of a town.

Greystones?

Hanwellian

Glenster wrote: »

Greystones?

Hey, if the cap fits!

silverharp

wire mesh on the traffic lights

circadian

Glenster wrote: »

Horses in Bray?

Horses bray.

LirW

After reading all of that in this thread, I identified so many things that were normal for me as a kid - I grew up in real pissholes (although not in Ireland). Now I know that I was probably one of these feral kids.

To add to the topic: There is usually one guy in his late 30s - 40s with a little dog still living with mammy, being super chill to all kids around but physically abuses his mom behind shut doors.

Hanwellian

Community Centres full stop.

And, Community Centres running 'Back to Education' courses.

Jack the Stripper

Planning permission for further development for social housing.

Walter H Price

Hanwellian wrote: »

Community Centres full stop.

And, Community Centres running 'Back to Education' courses.

Yeh anywhere where people refer to "me community" or "the community" tend to indicate the place is a kip e.g. i was the first in "me Community" to go to collage (and not just go on drugs or the dole).

Don't even need to ask where, you know its a kip.