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[Squiggle]

lololol this fucking thread has turned into the journal comments section.


Fucking joggers! and cyclists! and old people! and young people! and people with kids! and people without kids!

None of them are as considerate of others as ME. Clearly.

Ha! That wasn't really my point. I was just thinking the other day that whatever support I might have had for the idea of high density housing with only communal outdoor spaces is gone. It just doesn't work. It's not good for the soul. Decentralisation and other means of enabling people to work closer to home, rather than finding a way to cram more people into overcrowded urban spaces is going to have to be the way forward.

 

[Lili Marlene]

Ha! That wasn't really my point. I was just thinking the other day that whatever support I might have had for the idea of high density housing with only communal outdoor spaces is gone. It just doesn't work. It's not good for the soul. Decentralisation and other means of enabling people to work closer to home, rather than finding a way to cram more people into overcrowded urban spaces is going to have to be the way forward.

Ah I know, it's a really good point. It's an incredibly common way of living around the world, or more specifically Europe, though, do we just do it wrong here?

 

[rettucs]

Pricks who jog/cycle/etc are still pricks

 

[YoungHearts]

lololol this fucking thread has turned into the journal comments section.


Fucking joggers! and cyclists! and old people! and young people! and people with kids! and people without kids!

None of them are as considerate of others as ME. Clearly.

This made me laugh. I checked back in to this thread, and didn't know what was going on.

 

[seanc]

You're right Lili. I also see the Journal analogy.

Nonetheless, joggers are just pricks.

 

[Lili Marlene]

You're right Lili. I also see the Journal analogy.

Nonetheless, joggers are just pricks.

IT'S THE DRIVERS WHO ARE THE REAL PROBLEM. They don't even pay road tax.

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

Mahoosive dump of properties happening

This is all the alerts I got in the last month, the month before would have been similar



This is just today



AirBnbers getting the F out

 

[magicbastarder]

You're right Lili. I also see the Journal analogy.

Nonetheless, joggers are just pricks.

the vast majority of joggers are absolutely fine, in my experience.

 

[hugh]

Totally sympathise Squiggle. We only have a small garden but it’s a godsend right now.

 

[ann post]

You're right Lili. I also see the Journal analogy.

Nonetheless, joggers are just pricks.

Especially, and very personally, the joggers on thumped in the other thread from today.

 

[egg_]

I was just thinking the other day that whatever support I might have had for the idea of high density housing with only communal outdoor spaces is gone.

Is this specifically because of the pandemic? I've very glad I'm a culshie atm, but after 15 years living in the country I still miss the city, and I wouldn't necessarily be advising people to move to the countryside just in case there's a pandemic

 

[seanc]

Alright, sorry. Genuinely. I spoke harshly. I hoped for comedic effect, but that hasn't worked.

Sorry for lowering the general tone, and sorry to jogging people who post here.

 

[dudley]

If I might gently misquote Joan of Arse

"Most people are scum of the earth.....especially joggers"

 

[dudley]

And no-one on thumped jogs, we *run*

 

[Lili Marlene]

Alright, sorry. Genuinely. I spoke harshly. I hoped for comedic effect, but that hasn't worked.

Sorry for lowering the general tone, and sorry to jogging people who post here.

Don't mind Ann Post, he's just trying to cause a fight. The other thread is about running anyway.

 

[ann post]

Is this specifically because of the pandemic? I've very glad I'm a culshie atm, but after 15 years living in the country I still miss the city, and I wouldn't necessarily be advising people to move to the countryside just in case there's a pandemic

My opinion (that nobody asked for) is that if you are going high density it has to be from day one, rather than tacking on a bit of parkland to box-tick the planning stuff. The public transport should be in before a sod is turned. Amenities for days etc etc. Current irish plan is build wherever and people can drive to nice places and anyone without a car can get fucked. Clearly working out great now as joggers have no option but to jog on the backs of infants.

 

[Jerry Twig]

lololol this fucking thread has turned into the journal comments section.


Fucking joggers! and cyclists! and old people! and young people! and people with kids! and people without kids!

None of them are as considerate of others as ME. Clearly.

Did you not read the memo that Thumped is for pricks?

God, I can't stand people who don't read the memo.

 

[Squiggle]

Is this specifically because of the pandemic? I've very glad I'm a culshie atm, but after 15 years living in the country I still miss the city, and I wouldn't necessarily be advising people to move to the countryside just in case there's a pandemic

The pandemic has highlighted it. In optimal conditions I don't mind living in the city, in an apartment, even a small one, as long as I can get out of it regularly and for reasonable periods of time. But I now know for certain that I would never advocate for families being forced to live in high-density housing. They should have safe, secure and private outdoor space, always.

 

[Squiggle]

People with gardens be like...

 

[Cormcolash]

I was just thinking the other day that whatever support I might have had for the idea of high density housing with only communal outdoor spaces is gone. It just doesn't work. It's not good for the soul.

Na, see just like everything, Ireland is fucking shit at trying to do this, that's all, and it's exacerbated by the current situation. Ireland's idea of a communal outdoor space is a fuckin concrete courtyard in the middle of the complex with one tree growing in the middle of that, as with most things Ireland, it's a fucking joke.

In contrast, Vienna has loads of amazing apartment complexes and also they try and make sure there's reasonably big parks right beside them too, rather than like 1.5 km away.

Edit: That said, I'd be pretty sure it's almost universally easier to live high density without kids, or at the very least without young kids.

The City That's Built An Affordable Housing Paradise

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