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Galway city set to outgrow Cork by 2025

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 31 loqi


    is there a translator who can speak homosexualese ? you morons , why dont you digest the point , for the friggin 4th time , both places have crap houses. one place has a city to service the crap houses , the other just has crap houses , upon crap houses , punctuated with xtravisions.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 31 loqi


    oh ya , and i meant to ask...jimmy/jammy whatever your name was...what festivals are you talking about?....a couple of border line down syndromes reading john steinback in bananaphoblact is hardly a literary festival.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 31 loqi


    oh! oh! and! tho , in all honesty im not sure what ticket prices are like here , but during the galway arts festival (which has lost all its charm and taste - thanks guinness [now owned by some italian business people , but it was never irish anyways so...]), its extortionate. its certainly not a festival for the poor , and even people under your average salary will find it quite a sting to the pocket , like 40 euros on average , to see one show. what are you supposed to do if you are poor , on the dole , or a student ?.....what a mockery , tho if you say its the same in cork , then it would be a mockery here too. i usually volunteer , thats my cheap ticket in.


  • Moderators, Arts Moderators, Regional Abroad Moderators Posts: 11,138 Mod ✭✭✭✭Fysh


    loqi wrote:
    well like i said before , you have the city of cork to service those crap housing areas. my point is that there is no city in galway , just a tiny tiny town , with a cancer growing on it.

    Not true. Galway and Cork in terms of size are actually not that different. Although Cork has more urban sprawl without actually reaping any benefit from this.
    loqi wrote:
    and as for the haphazard roadworks in cork , its not a patch on what eyresquare looks like now. and considering the minute size of galways CBD , it caused mayhem.

    I've lived in cork 3 years now, and in the time I've lived here there has always been some form of roadworks in the city centre. Believe me, the current state of Eyre square doesn't compare. If you want to try that analogy you'll have to hope that Cork's roadworks finish soon and then wait for the Eyre square reformation to drag its heels for 2 and a half years.
    loqi wrote:
    as for the sparseness of open green space within the city , well....wrong again assmunch , galway once again takes the anti-biscuit for that one. you ungrateful prick , theres nothing like fitzgerald park in galway town. hehe , and as for peacepark and the thugs , well shame on you for believing galway is safe , just because you havent been mugged there yet , for all the time you've spent in it.

    I've had people try to mug me in summer in the middle of the day with security guards present in the peace park. Not happened yet in Galway, nor even come close. I think the nearest I've had to someone attacking me in Galway was a nasty comment about my hat walking home from a late show at the cinema once. Hardly the stuff of which urban legends are born.

    As for Fitzgeral park - it's further from the city centre than the green space by the river is in Galway. Plus the fact that there's often scumbags hanging around near the back drinking on the weekend. And before you say the Lee fields, there's the walk towards Salt Hill in Galway on the beach, at a comparable distance but offering better views.
    loqi wrote:
    all my points still stand , you were getting close tho, fysh. well done.

    Your points still stand if you're starting from the point that Galway is inherently inferior to Cork, maybe. And you were getting close to a full post without needlessly insulting someone - well done.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 31 loqi


    well people reap what they sow , its true. anyways , it seems like a stalemate to me then , its just hear-say this and that. i think you could not be any more incorrect on just one issue tho


    'Not true. Galway and Cork in terms of size are actually not that different. Although Cork has more urban sprawl without actually reaping any benefit from this.'

    well , i'm interested in what and how you might think housing sprawl can be of benefit , anywhere...Perhaps in a consumer sense, it obviously means more punters...anyways its not a major point of concern. urban sprawl is something that has to be dealt with as opposed to be of benefit, in my opinion , and cork has more to offer in those terms than galway. Its funny because i can envision the entire layout of galway as I think about this , and...well , you are wrong.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 31 loqi


    in addition , it would be preferable if you looked at this topic in terms of living there permanently , or being a galwegian. not a tourist , or a happy weekender , those people always see the roses , and rarely entertain the realistic fact that its also supposed to be a permanent living environ.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 31 loqi


    the nice walk on the prom pales in insignificance to the lack of any culture. REAL culture , not 'here for the weekend' culture. theres no culture promotion , just a stale reselling of the same **** , to gormless punters....no disrespect to them , or even the transaction of positive vibes , but thats not what I thought this topic was about.


    perhaps I'll find the negative things you want to put across to me about Cork , but the points I make about Galway are not only relevant in a Cork/Galway comparison debate. I've seen much worse and much better having lived in barcelona , perhaps a mugging attempt is a raw nerve for you , but I expected it to happen to me already here in Cork , but it hasnt yet. At any rate I'm prepared for it and know what I'll do. I wont think any less of Cork for that reason , as its not an epidemic unique to Cork , by any stretch of the imagination.

    from what i can gather of your value system , im not surprised people try to mug you. look at you , whimpering about it now - as if its viable news. neither cork , or galway has seen a trend of daily day-light stabbings on the street , but any large city in this world of consumerism faces that. neither cork or galway are large, in my opinion, but cork is bigger than galway - in terms of a CBD which is the main factor of concern , in my opinion - then the sprawl. Cork also promotes much more current cultural events. it seems like its an integral function of cork , thats how smoothly it seems to operate. Galway as a whole has nothing like that , like i said. nothing but the superficial things to entertain you for a few days , as a difference to your usual environment. this is obviously not good enough for anyone with their head in the clouds , entrtaining such thoughts of the arts. indeed , those people are being slowly told to leave and make way , because the new populace of moronic middle classes either dont like it , because a busker on the street cant be allowed to make a living like that , he needs to do what the rest of the morons have signed themselves up for. get a job in a franchise , get a house , pay the bills , buy the pizzas , go to the cinema , go bowling....oh....and...what else? its a **** environ at the moment , and its just promoting segregation and profiteering. maybe thats ok with dahamsta , i certainly think it is , and you too. its not ok with me tho , and with all of corks flaws , theres still a fertile ground to maintain at least the cultivation and promotion of the arts. and the colleges here are ten times better than anything on offer in galway , hopefully that will change. but , doubtful , we'll get some IT related ****holes im sure.


  • Moderators, Arts Moderators, Regional Abroad Moderators Posts: 11,138 Mod ✭✭✭✭Fysh


    loqi wrote:
    the nice walk on the prom pales in insignificance to the lack of any culture. REAL culture , not 'here for the weekend' culture. theres no culture promotion , just a stale reselling of the same **** , to gormless punters....no disrespect to them , or even the transaction of positive vibes , but thats not what I thought this topic was about.

    Because of course, Cork has arseloads of culture. :rolleyes:

    Don't get me wrong, there's things happening here that I like and appreciate, but don't you think it telling that, even though we're in the middle of the Capital of Culture year, the most interesting thing to happen after the opening event is the Where's Me Culture party - organised by people who thought the official organisers weren't doing anything to cater to the average Cork person? Isn't it a statement that there won't be anything big until the Patrick's Day parade, which grinds the city to a halt every year anyway? It seems to be a regional hobby to bang on about how much cultcher we've got lately, but there's just not that much more going on here than in Galway in terms of things to do and see. As other threads on this board testify, there's not that much you can do in Cork city if you don't want to drink, and even then the places you can go are of the "as well as drinking you can do <insert activity here>" type.

    I just don't get how you can be so adamant that Galway has no culture and Cork has loads. From what I've seen, there's not that much difference between the two places.
    loqi wrote:
    perhaps I'll find the negative things you want to put across to me about Cork , but the points I make about Galway are not only relevant in a Cork/Galway comparison debate. I've seen much worse and much better having lived in barcelona

    As have I having lived in Oxford, London, and various parts of Malaga. Galway just isn't as bad as you're trying to make out. If you want examples of places that match your description of Galway, go check out Fuengirola or Mijas in the south of spain - those are places obsessed with tourists and devoid of any cultural merit. Galway (and Cork, for that matter) would have to try very hard to compete with them in terms of brainlessness.
    loqi wrote:
    from what i can gather of your value system , im not surprised people try to mug you. look at you , whimpering about it now - as if its viable news. neither cork , or galway has seen a trend of daily day-light stabbings on the street , but any large city in this world of consumerism faces that. neither cork or galway are large, in my opinion, but cork is bigger than galway - in terms of a CBD which is the main factor of concern , in my opinion - then the sprawl.

    Yes, well done. I find it objectionable for some scumbag to try and mug me, therefore I deserve to be mugged, or at least ask for it. Do you also go round telling rape victims they asked for it by wearing short skirts?

    I've lived in various cities, bigger and smaller than Cork. This is the only place anyone's ever tried to mug me. I haven't turned into an agoraphobic recluse because of it, contrary to your suggestion (though no doubt the fact that I remember something as unremarkable as someone trying to mug me makes me a homo in your book :rolleyes:) - I just don't see the point in glossing over an unpleasant experience I've had here just because some other retard is trying to convince me that this is the best place in the world.
    loqi wrote:
    Cork also promotes much more current cultural events. it seems like its an integral function of cork , thats how smoothly it seems to operate. Galway as a whole has nothing like that , like i said. nothing but the superficial things to entertain you for a few days , as a difference to your usual environment. this is obviously not good enough for anyone with their head in the clouds , entrtaining such thoughts of the arts. indeed , those people are being slowly told to leave and make way

    Bollocks. I don't know whether the hype about the capital of culture is fooling you here or what, but in the time I've lived here I've been constantly disappointed that a city with 2 big colleges has so little going on, culturally speaking. Not that Galway is necessarily any better - I haven't lived there so I can't say for definite. But your comments about Cork are on a par with the Cork2005 website in terms of curious misrepresentation of the truth.
    loqi wrote:
    because the new populace of moronic middle classes either dont like it , because a busker on the street cant be allowed to make a living like that , he needs to do what the rest of the morons have signed themselves up for. get a job in a franchise , get a house , pay the bills , buy the pizzas , go to the cinema , go bowling....oh....and...what else? its a **** environ at the moment , and its just promoting segregation and profiteering. maybe thats ok with dahamsta , i certainly think it is , and you too. its not ok with me tho , and with all of corks flaws , theres still a fertile ground to maintain at least the cultivation and promotion of the arts. and the colleges here are ten times better than anything on offer in galway , hopefully that will change. but , doubtful , we'll get some IT related ****holes im sure.

    So you think the development around Cork is great because the houses "look nice", but you hate the people who are moving to Galway? Newsflash - who do you think Cork is trying to attract with all the new housing developments? People with no money? Cork is looking to attract middleclass people who can be relied on to pay the mortgage on time and keep up appearances.

    Your assesment of the colleges, from personal experience there, sounds frankly uninformed. They're far from awful, but the only interest that seems to be popular amongst students here is getting trashed. Not unique to Cork, but certainly not exactly a shining contribution to culture in the city. Although I must admit that UCC getting the Glucksman gallery sorted is a positive thing, I still wonder how much use is made of it by the people who walk past it every day when they head to lectures.

    To give another example about the difference between cork and galway in terms of maintaining a diversity of culture and activities. As can be seen from my sig, I do capoeira, a Brazilian martial art. We have had a group running in cork for about a year or so, but we have often found it hard to get people to come to the classes despite everyone involved putting in a lot of time to promote it around the place. In galway, there are two groups teaching capoeira. Which typefies a large part of my experience of Cork sadly - A lot of talk about how diverse the city is, but at the end of the day not much support for cultural diversity and variety, because ultimately a lot of the people living here just aren't interested.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 31 loqi


    culture is in the eye of the beholder , i cant convince you to see what you can not see. i think its interesting that you noted the 'wheres me culture' event. thats the kind of thing lacking in galway. nothing like that in galway , when our arts festival alienates its audience. so good on them , the wheres me culture crowd that is. were you in salou , spain? you might as well be in birmingham. but lets not involve these , semi-unique places , to get no where. they are not a glimpse of corks future , or galways (neither have the sun nor the beaches nor the cheap booze - isnt that why muc punters end up in those unique places?). i think the line up for the year of culture is bull**** , personally. so i agree with you , last time i looked at the line up , i dont think anything interested me until october. anyways , in a way i completely agree with you - i love galway more now , that its a drive away. and that my daily environ is cork. i dont hate the people moving there , i hate the middle class everywhere , i hate the wanton damage they cause in every capitalist city around the globe. i hate the assholes they keep in power , and i hate the status quo they maintain and that we live in , ultimately for their conveniance; there just happens to be a higher percentage of them in galway and the small town which once embraced the arts , is now just becoming a shallow service station. heh , as for the caiporea groups in galway , you said there was two , well , at least one of them is terrible - perhaps by 2025 the members will have picked it up a little. i think you need to be devoted for capoeira , and the people i saw were not that. i could smell the hobbiests amongst them. yayaya , im no capoeira expert so ill shut my beak. but i know when someone is for real , or just filling time. plus , on the continent of europe i seen quite a few capoeira groups , and they were good. they were truely involved in the art. anyways , enough group assassination. but you drew the point , and i have an opinion on it. i think you are fool-hardy to complain about boozing and its inextricable link to any event in ireland. however , in the pubs of cork , there is much -more- original and diverse music going on. in galway your choice is seriously limited. and repeats every week. the best craic to be had in galway is at house parties , something that doesnt , off the mark , seem as popular here - at least to the same extent as galway. in galway you have the roisin dobh , the sole representative of live music in galway. nearly every pub in cork , is the roisin dubh in terms of ideals. give me some slack on that comment please, before you tell me about some ****hole pub you know of. off the top of my head , horace andy played here , so did the skatalites the following nite , damo suzuki is coming in a week or so , burning spear will be playing in kinsale , theres going to be a jerk festival around the same time. a jerk festival is a jamaican , well....party. lots of traditional food and music and dancing. none of those things are happening because of cork's title this year , these are just the things that go on here. if you love music , then why would it bother you that the gig is in a pub? its not like the booze in the air is muffling the sound or anything. and i know what its like to be at these gigs without buying pints , as they are too fecking expensive. and its not worth the cost , to become momentarily stupid and semi-paralysed. man , there is so much more going on here....you obviously just dont have an interest in it , and well , no amount of diatribe is going to convince you so i will desist. the rape victim analogy was contrived , but then , i believe that every 'regular' on a message board has to be contrived by definition. so heres what it calls for :rolleyes: . my point was that you were being a big girl about it , recalling it as you did. its a sad fact of life in the city , you should know that by now. its not a strong point in any debate , unless its spectacularly frequent , or violent etc. anyways , the scumbags in galway arent as empoverished as they are bitter. so a mugging is something you will be lucky to receive , should you be unfortunate enough to meet some. maybe you can show them one of your dances. now , the ucc is not a college , to begin with. so i wasnt considering it. im talking about crawford , staofan naoifa , st johns. they trounce on their galway counter-parts in terms of being up-to-date, course depth and facility and lecturers, ive been in all of them. i dont know how ucc and nuig fare against one another tho , and i certainly dont care. both are cultural black holes , in my opinion , you were right to note that. tho it was no surprise... i generally dont expect culture from a university. and another thing to note , i dont care what the students do with their free time , that doesnt mean there is any less culture available to them , in the colleges i mentioned. we are of course speaking of people who are SEEKING culture , perhaps you would like it fed to you , through a straw. its getting more and more obvious to me that that is the case with you. and on the god damn mother****ing housing issue , for the 6th , or maybe 7th time - both places suffer from it yes i know i said so , but , like i said , cork has a mother****ing city to deal with it , where galway does not. you thick gob****e ...i wouldnt mind if you were a different person rehashing the same point , but its the second time its been explained to you , and you say the same thing again. jesus... if you want to debunk my point , do so. my point was never that cork has no middle classes , or housing sprawl. now assuming you may tell me that cork cant cope with the sprawl , i will tell you galway can cope even less so. and i wont be wrong. at least , as i said , cork city has something positive going on , amongst the madness. please dont repeat anything thats been said. because that means i'll have to repeat myself. mongjaw. :mad: you spent too much time under your mammies wing , and up your own hole to know anything from experience.


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    dahamsta , you removed your signature? has someone else done the legwork for you then? one of your net sisters go through the obvious avenues for you? and if you are serious about your career in IT , i would disassociate from joe hurley , a ****ing amateur at best.


  • Moderators, Arts Moderators, Regional Abroad Moderators Posts: 11,138 Mod ✭✭✭✭Fysh


    Since it ended up too long, I give you...PART I:
    loqi wrote:
    culture is in the eye of the beholder , i cant convince you to see what you can not see. i think its interesting that you noted the 'wheres me culture' event. thats the kind of thing lacking in galway. nothing like that in galway , when our arts festival alienates its audience. so good on them , the wheres me culture crowd that is.

    So it's in the eye of the beholder, but Galway doesn't have any. I'm apparently being a fool for not seeing how great Cork's culture is, but on the basis of your opinion there's no way Galway can have anything like it. No scope or possibility that maybe you just don't know about it, it's just not there? Wow, that's great. Actually discussing this with you is really worthwhile. It's so nice to talk to someone who's willing to concede that their points make no sense.

    Oh, wait a sec...
    loqi wrote:
    i dont hate the people moving there , i hate the middle class everywhere , i hate the wanton damage they cause in every capitalist city around the globe. i hate the assholes they keep in power , and i hate the status quo they maintain and that we live in , ultimately for their conveniance; there just happens to be a higher percentage of them in galway and the small town which once embraced the arts , is now just becoming a shallow service station.

    Okaaaay....not really sure where that came from, but, you know, whatever. Hey, if you want to join the Cork Armchair Revolutionaries group or whatever, don't let us stop you.
    loqi wrote:
    heh , as for the caiporea groups in galway , you said there was two , well , at least one of them is terrible - perhaps by 2025 the members will have picked it up a little. i think you need to be devoted for capoeira , and the people i saw were not that. i could smell the hobbiests amongst them. yayaya , im no capoeira expert so ill shut my beak. but i know when someone is for real , or just filling time. plus , on the continent of europe i seen quite a few capoeira groups , and they were good. they were truely involved in the art. anyways , enough group assassination. but you drew the point , and i have an opinion on it.

    WTF? So you're not a capoeira expert and yet you consider yourself to know enough about it to criticise people taking classes in it? Yeah, that works. Any group anywhere that's open to beginners will have some people like you described and guess what - it happens in any martial art, not just capoeira. The groups you've seen on the continent usually pick their best members to put on public displays to raise awareness and cash - I know that in France and Spain at least they go around the promenades where tourists eat at night and basically do a capoeira equivalent of busking. I just find it hilarious that someone who admits to not being a capoerista has the gall to make sweeping statements about whole capoeira groups.
    loqi wrote:
    i think you are fool-hardy to complain about boozing and its inextricable link to any event in ireland. however , in the pubs of cork , there is much -more- original and diverse music going on. in galway your choice is seriously limited. and repeats every week. the best craic to be had in galway is at house parties , something that doesnt , off the mark , seem as popular here - at least to the same extent as galway. in galway you have the roisin dobh , the sole representative of live music in galway. nearly every pub in cork , is the roisin dubh in terms of ideals. give me some slack on that comment please, before you tell me about some ****hole pub you know of. off the top of my head , horace andy played here , so did the skatalites the following nite , damo suzuki is coming in a week or so , burning spear will be playing in kinsale

    NO WAY! We had, like. bands and stuff??? OMG how cool are we, like!? "Every pub in cork is the roisin dubh in terms of ideals?" HAH! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! I could answer your points in more concrete terms, but ...HAHAHAHAAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

    *wipes tear from eye*

    There's about 6 pubs in the city that regularly put on bands and are worth going near. And it's not that common that the bands coming will be worth watching. Beyond that....feh. I've been resigned to having to travel for concerts that I'm interested in long before I moved here, and it doesn't really bother me. I'd be more keen on the local live scene if the bands playing in it interested me, but none of them do.

    As for gigs in pubs, it bothers me because every time I've been to a gig in the pub there's been other obnoxious twats getting pissed who fall over the place or spill their drinks on you or keep shoving past you to get to/from the bar so they can carry on getting tanked. If I'm there to see the band, I don't particularly want to have to put up with that kind of crap. I know it happens in "proper" venues too, but how much worse is it when the stage is about 3 metres from the bar?
    loqi wrote:
    my point was that you were being a big girl about it , recalling it as you did. its a sad fact of life in the city , you should know that by now. its not a strong point in any debate , unless its spectacularly frequent , or violent etc. anyways , the scumbags in galway arent as empoverished as they are bitter.

    I couldn't give a rat's ass that you think you should expect to be mugged for the "privilege" of living in a big city (HAH!) like Cork. It's not something I'm prepared to tolerate and as such it's a negative part of my experience in Cork. The fact that you think it's "manly" to not notice such things really doesn't concern me.
    loqi wrote:
    so a mugging is something you will be lucky to receive , should you be unfortunate enough to meet some. maybe you can show them one of your dances. now , the ucc is not a college , to begin with.

    Which is why, presumably, the name is "University COLLEGE Cork"? Godo, glad we could clear that up.
    loqi wrote:
    both are cultural black holes , in my opinion , you were right to note that. tho it was no surprise... i generally dont expect culture from a university. and another thing to note , i dont care what the students do with their free time , that doesnt mean there is any less culture available to them , in the colleges i mentioned.

    Well, that's a load of crap. Having been to university in the UK there's generally a lot more going on - Film Societies that do more than just rent the latest blockbuster DVD so that you can see it on the cheap, Music Societies that invite composers along, Theatre groups that foster and encourage local talent, to name but a few. The only thing I saw in UCC that was worthwhile on such a scale was WarpCon, but since I'm not a LARPer/Roleplayer/Wargamer it doesn't really have much for me. What I'm surprised at is that none of the other societies seem to try for something on the same scale. (Oh, and before you say "well, galway doesn't even have a WarpCon", they've got Itzacon coming up next weekend which is looking to be essentially the same thing).

    The reason I mentioned the students is because if none of them are interested in cultural pastimes, then obviously there's not going to be that much going on. When I was in college in the UK, term-time was far busier than the holidays because such a large fraction of the cultural events were either organised by or targeted at students. In Cork it's completely different. (Note that at this point, I'm not stating Galway is any better, although from what I know of their film society they do show on the whole better films).
    loqi wrote:
    we are of course speaking of people who are SEEKING culture , perhaps you would like it fed to you , through a straw. its getting more and more obvious to me that that is the case with you.

    Ah yes, because you clearly know me so well. You presumptious fool. I quite happily seek out culture on my own, it's just that what I'm looking for isn't on offer in Cork. It's getting more and more obvious to me (and hell, let's be honest here, it was obvious from the start) that you're a bit of a - no in fact a total moron : you have to insult anyone disagreeing with you, you fail utterly to accept or even acknowledge any argument made that disagrees with your point of view, and to cap it all off you go to an internet message board to try (and fail, I might add) to take the piss out of people....on internet message boards. Well done there, chief. Here, have a medal :

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  • Moderators, Arts Moderators, Regional Abroad Moderators Posts: 11,138 Mod ✭✭✭✭Fysh


    and now, after that brief commercial interlude, PART II:
    loqi wrote:
    and on the god damn mother****ing housing issue , for the 6th , or maybe 7th time - both places suffer from it yes i know i said so , but , like i said , cork has a mother****ing city to deal with it/quote]

    Congratulations. Only, as I've pointed out most of Cork "City" is actually not city, just urban sprawl that doesn't contribute anything except crappy-looking buildings. The housing looks every bit as crap as you were claiming it does in Galway. The fact that a lot of it is centralised doesn't make a difference. Go and look at Togher and the area that leads back to the city. Is it any better that it's a bunch of for the most part crappy looking housing, just because it's in the vicinity of the city? I don't think so.
    loqi wrote:
    you thick gob****e ...i wouldnt mind if you were a different person rehashing the same point , but its the second time its been explained to you , and you say the same thing again. jesus... if you want to debunk my point , do so. my point was never that cork has no middle classes , or housing sprawl. now assuming you may tell me that cork cant cope with the sprawl , i will tell you galway can cope even less so. and i wont be wrong. at least , as i said , cork city has something positive going on , amongst the madness. please dont repeat anything thats been said. because that means i'll have to repeat myself. mongjaw. :mad: you spent too much time under your mammies wing , and up your own hole to know anything from experience.

    Wow. So, I'm a gobsh*te for repeatedly making a point that you've failed to address. And that feeble unqualified attempt at a pre-emptive response has certainly put me in my place - no longer shall I try to argue the case, no sir! I will even desist in pointing out that there's loads of land developers trying to attract the middle class and their stable financial situations down to Cork - such is the conviction instilled in me by your unoriginal insults. Oh, and how could I forget the claim that I must be a mammy's boy for disagreeing with you? And a mammy's boy up my own hole, no less. Because nobody in their right mind could disagree with you, could they? You of the elevated cultural awareness, you who think that "mongjaw" is a valid insult to hurl around in a multicultural and diverse city, you who thinks that everyone should expect and accept that living in a city equates to getting mugged by a scumbag once in a while?

    Jesus.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 31 loqi


    but you are a mong...your web comic proves it. this debate is just fantasy , no matter what is said you will just try to parry it. heh , and this is the only tread i plan on having any involvement in , i like to finish what i start - hence my continued involvement.
    you mock me for having ideals. tsk tsk. you only compound your snotty character with such glib dismissals of what is a righteous cause.
    so if i had not noted i wasnt an expert it would be a less ridiculous criticism? no. im just being honest with you , i know my opinion is a valid one from sharing it with people i know are more then qualified to criticise , and experienced in a handful of martial arts , the peeps i saw in galway , have a long long long way to go. you dont need to rehash anything i've said , which is what that entire retort was. i have to say , i loved the FAQ on your webpage....haha - are there people out there who actually ask you those questions frequently ? it stinks of your own involvement. like the contrived prick you are....the only moment your most recent remarks had an air of truth to them was when you spoke of occurences in UCC , the rest just seems struggled , and made up.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,730 ✭✭✭✭simu


    loqi wrote:
    but you are a mong...your web comic proves it. this debate is just fantasy , no matter what is said you will just try to parry it. heh , and this is the only tread i plan on having any involvement in , i like to finish what i start - hence my continued involvement.
    you mock me for having ideals. tsk tsk. you only compound your snotty character with such glib dismissals of what is a righteous cause.
    so if i had not noted i wasnt an expert it would be a less ridiculous criticism? no. im just being honest with you , i know my opinion is a valid one from sharing it with people i know are more then qualified to criticise , and experienced in a handful of martial arts , the peeps i saw in galway , have a long long long way to go. you dont need to rehash anything i've said , which is what that entire retort was. i have to say , i loved the FAQ on your webpage....haha - are there people out there who actually ask you those questions frequently ? it stinks of your own involvement. like the contrived prick you are....the only moment your most recent remarks had an air of truth to them was when you spoke of occurences in UCC , the rest just seems struggled , and made up.

    Is punctuation a tool of capitalist oppression? Tell me! Liberate the masses!


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,659 ✭✭✭✭dahamsta




  • Moderators, Arts Moderators, Regional Abroad Moderators Posts: 11,138 Mod ✭✭✭✭Fysh


    loqi wrote:
    but you are a mong...your web comic proves it. this debate is just fantasy , no matter what is said you will just try to parry it. heh , and this is the only tread i plan on having any involvement in , i like to finish what i start - hence my continued involvement.
    you mock me for having ideals. tsk tsk. you only compound your snotty character with such glib dismissals of what is a righteous cause.
    so if i had not noted i wasnt an expert it would be a less ridiculous criticism? no. im just being honest with you , i know my opinion is a valid one from sharing it with people i know are more then qualified to criticise , and experienced in a handful of martial arts , the peeps i saw in galway , have a long long long way to go. you dont need to rehash anything i've said , which is what that entire retort was. i have to say , i loved the FAQ on your webpage....haha - are there people out there who actually ask you those questions frequently ? it stinks of your own involvement. like the contrived prick you are....the only moment your most recent remarks had an air of truth to them was when you spoke of occurences in UCC , the rest just seems struggled , and made up.


    There's a marked tendency in your posts for you to criticize people without any real basis or justification in doing so, without making any sort of worthwhile contribution or useful suggestions. One can't help but suspect that had you tried to encourage more man-on-the-street involvement in cultural events up in Galway, in the same way as the WMC are doing down here, you might be less frustrated. But it's quite apparent from your posts you're more interested in complaining and attempting to belittle people, places, activities and events than actually getting involved in something that meets your alleged standards.

    re : capoeira - if you'd criticised people and not admitted upfront that you knew nothing about it, I'd have asked what you knew about it and what your relevant experience was, and then arrived back at the same conclusion I've already reached (ie you're an idiot who doesn't know what he's talking about).

    re : my webcomic. Wow, look, I'm crying. You're the first person who ever said anything horrible about it, and furthermore your own attempts at an equivalent project clearly put mine to shame. Oh, wait.

    You may find your pathetic attempts at a flamewar amusing; the rest of us grew out of that when we hit puberty. Why don't you go get acquainted with the folks in the prison forum - at this rate you'll be headed there pretty soon.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 31 loqi


    lol :d


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 281 ✭✭Jammyd


    loqi Your a joke, seem so i origianlly posted this post id love to clear ever 1 of loqi's messages your a toss pot (putting it mildly) please don't post threads after smoking the 5 Joints you bought from your middle class buddies on patrick street


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 31 loqi


    ha , i thought i was the one who resorted to petty insults and averted the points raised. what festivals were you referring to , the monthly ones in galway?
    oh...and lol


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 13,018 ✭✭✭✭jank


    God close this thread pleaseeeeeeeeeee


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,659 ✭✭✭✭dahamsta


    Can't, the moderator resigned, the selfish bastard.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,180 ✭✭✭1huge1


    KittyKat wrote:
    Theres no way on earth that another city in Ireland is going to replace Cork as the second largest city in Ireland. ;) Get the shovels lads and make way for more buildings!! :)
    I know both Cork and Limerick very well and true cork is bigger but not by a whole load, But both cities need their boundries much farther out like Galway, Both cities are much bigger than galway its just they only counted within the boundry (which they should) so its really cork and limerick county council's fault for this news.

    No offence to you Galway people but Galway has no chance or catching up to Limerick or Cork
    Next they will be telling us that Galway will be bigger than Dublin in 25-30yrs lol


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 281 ✭✭Jammyd


    Just to let ya know galway city is bigger than Limerick regardless of boundry extension or not Limericks Population figures are over exagerated and always inlclude shannon and sometimes nenagh


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14,483 ✭✭✭✭daveirl


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 31 loqi


    thank allah and the seven seas of judah that sense reigned supreme on the final posts. may a thousand virgins of istahnbul be bestowed upon the righteous and wise and myself , the royal subject of hUMdallah. hmm , looks like corks got some st patricks day festival going on , nothing of international worth per se , but kicks ten shades of cultural ****e out of any toss thats being spewed to the hounds of gaillimh. the lowly quadripeds , who feed from the trough of conceptual toss and finances of make believe , walls of drab and skies of interminable grey.


    oh , and for the third time , jammyd you repugnant sliver of horse sh1t - tell me this - what are the monthly festivals you claim are occuring in galway? you lying pig. answer me , or be damned.


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