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[7 - No tomorrow]

Pretty, shitty city

 

[Jill Hives]

It's actually not but it does take a bit of effort to see it through the layer of grime.

 

[Cornu Ammonis]

Grime is good. A city with no grime is a dead place to be (hello Geneva!). Dublin is a far cry from being shitty. I can't imagine living anywhere else in the world apart from maybe Venice. When I run out of things to do, people to talk to and places to go, maybe I'll be sick of Dublin but the pros more than outweigh the cons.

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

Grime is good. A city with no grime is a dead place to be (hello Geneva!). Dublin is a far cry from being shitty. I can't imagine living anywhere else in the world apart from maybe Venice. When I run out of things to do, people to talk to and places to go, maybe I'll be sick of Dublin but the pros more than outweigh the cons.

It's expensive as all heck, rains a hell of a lot and is intermittently extremely violent.
It's great in the sun though.

 

[Cornu Ammonis]

It's expensive as all heck, rains a hell of a lot and is intermittently extremely violent.
It's great in the sun though.

It is expensive but to me, it's worth the money. Rain is fine, I can afford a rain jacket and my skin is mostly waterproof. The rain in Brazil last month was far worse. We don't get mad extremes of weather, even the UK gets a far rougher time than us in recent years.

I've never been a victim of violence in Dublin (been bottled elsewhere) and what I've witnessed in town has been no worse, if not a lot better, than in other cities in the world on short visits (armed standoff in New York between police and man in a Burger King, a man being attached and bundled into the back of a car in Gdansk, fights in the streets of Boston, Berlin, Florence and across the UK, etc.). There's violence wherever people are and Dublin/Ireland isn't that bad if you actually look at the stats (i.e. all of Ireland vs. most American cities). It's just you know the locales better and it's always unusual enough to be worth reporting on the national news. Imagine if BBC news reported every aggravated assault in London alone?

 

[David Kronenbourg]

It's expensive as all heck, rains a hell of a lot and is intermittently extremely violent.
It's great in the sun though.

you could be describing London there. the transformation of London when the sun comes out is amazing.

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

I don't think availability of rain jackets is my point. Not having a summer to look forward to beyond a few days here or there is dispiriting.

I have no idea what stats I should be looking at, but man, you are a violence magnet. Do you work for Vice?
Of all the places I've lived, Dublin is the place where I feel the rule of law is in most loose effect. All perception though, I guess.

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

you could be describing London there. the transformation of London when the sun comes out is amazing.

Yeah, I'm not too gone on London either. Cracking museums though.
And the summer there is generally far better than Dublin's no?

 

[David Kronenbourg]

Yeah, I'm not too gone on London either. Cracking museums though.
And the summer there is generally far better than Dublin's no?

yeah the weather is better overall and you can drink outside anywhere in the summer

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

yeah the weather is better overall and you can drink outside anywhere in the summer

Great museums. Some great pubs (the fucking fruit machines though).
So so so fucking spread out though. It's like LA. An hour to get anywhere.
And also, full of English people, obviously.

 

[David Kronenbourg]

(the fucking fruit machines though).
.

watching too many fackin' sitcoms, mate!

it is too big and spread out but that's why i never leave my borough, unless it's for work. there's no need to.

 

[Cornu Ammonis]

Do you work for Vice?

I'm not cool enough for that.

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

watching too many fackin' sitcoms, mate!

it is too big and spread out but that's why i never leave my borough, unless it's for work. there's no need to.

My memory is of a lot of the pubs having them.

Haven't been there in a decade maybe.

 

[David Kronenbourg]

The worst thing about London is the bar staff. Rubbish.

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

The worst thing about London is the bar staff. Rubbish.

One thing I'll say in favour of tipping, it makes for some attentive and cheery bar staff.

 

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You may have seen this. I had not.

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faaaaaakkkkeeee. total set up.

if that's anything like my samsung tv, there are supposed to be four m5 bolts holding the screen to the stand - why would it fall apart like that on the way down, before it's hit anything?