Sure-Fire Signs That an area is Rough

Jack the Stripper

Pedestrian crossing in a straight through small town.

Sosurface

Jack the Stripper wrote: »

A Lidl and Aldi within 100 metres of each other.

Ardkeen. Waterfords self proclaimed answer to D4 has this. I almost feel sorry for them filling up their Ardkeen Stores carrier bags with cheap German products as there's not even an M&S here for them to pretend they were in.

Jack the Stripper

Seat alhambras parked badly outside local shop with young lads pissing out the back windows.

Glenster

Deedsie wrote: »

Alright Thatcher, what's wrong with taking the bus to work? Better than sitting in a line of traffic with the other geniuses.

The bus is the more sensible option most of the time.

Its grand if youre going from stillorgan to the IFSC.

But youre in Cabra mate.

Gotta side with Maggie on this one.

Ash.J.Williams

If Your estate is named after a priest Bishop or Canon

Sosurface

Tracksuit clad women with multiple children of varying ethnicity in tow outside the post office/shop/chipper.

Jack the Stripper

Foreign reg cars with half flat wheels.

Jack the Stripper

Estates full of Dacia Dusters.

suicide_circus

People spitting all over the place.

Jack the Stripper

Local lotto written on a pallet with jackpot of €34.

Richard Hillman

Houses with names on the front door like "Old Trafford", "Anfield" and "Parkhead"

jca

Elvis is king over the front door.
Overflowing Ray Whelan dustbins.
Late teens/early twenties walking around sucking an e-cigarette, sometimes pushing a buggy.

ZeroThreat

D12 is included in address

Pivot Eoin

If you still see John Player boxes floating around, rather than Camel Blue, Menthol Clicky variants or empty bottles of Vape Juice.

Ayuntamiento

Drove through a pretty rough part of Finglas recently (is there any other type of part of Finglas ) and found many of the houses to be adorned with Irish flags.

Dr Crayfish

Fat kids. Really fat women. Women in posh areas take way better care of themselves, the hoi polloi don't.

Dr Crayfish

Ayuntamiento wrote: »

Drove through a pretty rough part of Finglas recently (is there any other type of part of Finglas ) and found many of the houses to be adorned with Irish flags.

Nationalism is something those who have little else to live for cling on to.

Ayuntamiento

Dr Crayfish wrote: »

Ayuntamiento wrote: »

Drove through a pretty rough part of Finglas recently (is there any other type of part of Finglas ) and found many of the houses to be adorned with Irish flags.

Nationalism is something those who have little else to live for cling on to.

I'd be nationalistic too if the state paid for the house I live in and gave me an allowance every week to live off!

Pivot Eoin

Dr Crayfish wrote: »

Nationalism is something those who have little else to live for cling on to.

If they really wanted to support Nationalism they'd go plastering flags up around Blackrock and D4, dont expect a gang of protestants to be marching through Finglas anytime soon! Effect of the flag is lost on other nationalists.

Pivot Eoin

Pivot Eoin wrote: »

If they really wanted to support Nationalism they'd go plastering flags up around Blackrock and D4, dont expect a gang of protestants to be marching through Finglas anytime soon! Effect of the flag is lost on other nationalists.

Woops sorry, back to original point

"Tiocfaidh Ar La" spraypainted on the walls is a good sign.

ZeroThreat

Ayuntamiento wrote: »

Drove through a pretty rough part of Finglas recently (is there any other type of part of Finglas ) and found many of the houses to be adorned with Irish flags.

Hmmm the gov here could probably have offered that area as a test site to US for their MOABs for a tidy sum:)

van_beano

Pivot Eoin wrote: »

Woops sorry, back to original point

"Tiocfaidh Ar La" spraypainted on the walls is a good sign.

I spotted graffiti one time which read such and such "is a Vergon"

Robsweezie

-walls with bricks missing.
-spitting and gollyers on the ground.
-punctured, dirty footballs.
-rubbish everywhere, particularly cigarettes, chipper bags, smashed glass from beer bottles and squashed coke/7up cans
-feral kids on bikes and scooters that will call you a cuunt as soon as look at you, no fear.
-a stray trolley from the shop.
-at least one car/****box with ridiculously loud engine and tunes pumping for all to hear

Hans Bricks

Local Facebook raffles for an '04 Passat, for 20 euro a ticket.

" Numbers going fast folks"

IK09

TheWarChicken wrote: »

People smoking on the street wearing a onesie past 3 pm
Especially if it's a man

Ah come on...you hardly expect us to believe that this goes on.

Dr Crayfish

Cloth tracksuit bottoms and no tops on, apparently. Funny how Belfast scumbags are the exact same as ours in appearance and behaviour evidently!

http://www.independent.ie/videos/irish-news/video-sunbathers-left-shocked-after-brawl-breaks-out-in-park-35681471.html

The_Valeyard

Dr Crayfish wrote: »

Cloth tracksuit bottoms and no tops on, apparently. Funny how Belfast scumbags are the exact same as ours in appearance and behaviour evidently!

http://www.independent.ie/videos/irish-news/video-sunbathers-left-shocked-after-brawl-breaks-out-in-park-35681471.html

lovely people

HenryHill

Ayuntamiento wrote: »

Drove through a pretty rough part of Finglas recently (is there any other type of part of Finglas ) and found many of the houses to be adorned with Irish flags.

Yeah they are everywhere in Finglas. I dont see a problem with it.

Dr Crayfish

Parts of Finglas are fine, the old parts near the village, and the posh Bono part.

HenryHill

Dr Crayfish wrote: »

Parts of Finglas are fine, the old parts near the village, and the posh Bono part.

The West is great salt of the earth people.

Jack the Stripper

Two or three kebab shops with their meal deals plastered all over the window.

retalivity

Tanning/sunbed shops

Also ive heard 'salt of the earth' used so often to describe absolute wasters it is now a derogatory term to me.

jimgoose

Jack the Stripper wrote: »

A Lidl and Aldi within 100 metres of each other.

There's a new Lidl being built as we speak here, across the road from the... Aldi. In Bishopstown, Cork. The place where we all live with the mortal danger of being accosted by a seven-foot ex-loose head prop retired bank manager in a pink shirt collecting for the Guide Dogs.

Victor

jimgoose wrote: »

There's a new Lidl being built as we speak here, across the road from the... Aldi. In Bishopstown, Cork. The place where we all live with the mortal danger of being accosted by a seven-foot ex-loose head prop retired bank manager in a pink shirt collecting for the Guide Dogs.

Bishopstown isn't what it used to be with all the middle class moved to Rochestown and Ballincollig to be replaced by young nurses and college students.

Mena Mitty

BattleCorp wrote: »

i tink its waaaa rich priks kall de bookies.

When I was growing up 'Turf Accountant' used to be written on the bookie's window. Bookies, Betting shop or Turf Accountant, whatever they call themselves nowadays...they don't care what side of the tracks you come from, your money is as good as the next man.

Brendan Bendar

retalivity wrote: »

Tanning/sunbed shops

Also ive heard 'salt of the earth' used so often to describe absolute wasters it is now a derogatory term to me.

Yes, usually used to describe lads who are able to 'beat the system' like guntering along doing this an dat claiming welfare a bit of de 'dissabillitie'

AaahhJaysus ' Sollth' of de Eeeeeart dat lad ,doin his best ya know gettin things dun aaahhhhha ahhhh Aaahh aahhhhh Aah.

eviltwin

Settled travellers

Conor Bourke

Victor wrote: »

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.

As a community worker in disadvantaged areas, this is the bleedin' bane of my life. Latest I've seen is house numbers that were previously on wooden plaques having been hacked off (I presumed it might have been something to do with Irish water?) which leads to me being an absolute creep driving up and down streets at 2mph looking for the house I'm supposed to be visiting and getting filthies from the neighbours.

Dyr

Lots of Black people

Don't see them in posh neighborhoods that much

Brendan Bendar

Cornelius Crow wrote: »

As a community worker in disadvantaged areas, this is the bleedin' bane of my life. Latest I've seen is house numbers that were previously on wooden plaques having been hacked off (I presumed it might have been something to do with Irish water?) which leads to me being an absolute creep driving up and down streets at 2mph looking for the house I'm supposed to be visiting and getting filthies from the neighbours.

Proves my point all about this IW thing.

These punters just don't want to be on 'anyones' radar.

dublinman1990

Dr Crayfish wrote: »

Cloth tracksuit bottoms and no tops on, apparently. Funny how Belfast scumbags are the exact same as ours in appearance and behaviour evidently!

http://www.independent.ie/videos/irish-news/video-sunbathers-left-shocked-after-brawl-breaks-out-in-park-35681471.html

I really hope they don't get bigger egos when the full arms of the law get thrown upon them.

We are lucky that they are not getting a slap in the wrist when they live in the North.

Pack of utter vermin. Hopefully; the innocent bystanders will get a full recovery.

Victor

Cornelius Crow wrote: »

I presumed it might have been something to do with Irish water?

I think it predates that, but I certainly got queries of "Do you work for the council?", joking cries of "Anto, Irish Water!" and "Are you a journalist?" when doing surveys for www.openstreetmap.org

Bambi wrote: »

Lots of Black people

Don't see them in posh neighborhoods that much

Actually, 'posh' areas do have a reasonable proportion of immigrants. It is the older council-built areas like Crumlin, Drimnagh, Coolock that don't - the populations there have low mobility.

Dyr

Victor wrote: »

I think it predates that, but I certainly got queries of "Do you work for the council?", joking cries of "Anto, Irish Water!" and "Are you a journalist?" when doing surveys for www.openstreetmap.org

Actually, 'posh' areas do have a reasonable proportion of immigrants. It is the older council-built areas like Crumlin, Drimnagh, Coolock that don't - the populations there have low mobility.

never mentioned immigrants. kinda funny that you questioned one specific generalization in thread full of generalizations, why is that?

mikemac2

The estate is named after a saint or a dead republican

Glenster

Bambi wrote: »

never mentioned immigrants. kinda funny that you questioned one specific generalization in thread full of generalizations, why is that?

let's not get fake outraged now. you mentioned black people.

Richard Hillman

retalivity wrote: »

Tanning/sunbed shops

Also ive heard 'salt of the earth' used so often to describe absolute wasters it is now a derogatory term to me.

"Salt of the earth" is a wonderful expression of filth

r93kaey5p2izun

Bambi wrote: »

Lots of Black people

Don't see them in posh neighborhoods that much

I don't know about posh neighbourhoods but they're thin on the ground in Neilstown anyway. Very very few. Lucan next door has plenty though. There isn't anywhere for new people to move into in Neilstown - no new housing stock and nobody moves on really.

osarusan

Lads with hands down the tracksuit pants.

Glenster

osarusan wrote: »

Lads with hands down the tracksuit pants.

my bedroom as a kid was pretty ****ing rough then.

please helpThank YOU

Scum bags who look like the Banjo guy for Deliverance. drinking tea out side there house 24/7 staring at people whats your problem there sitting room is the front garden.