The Worst Thing About Dublin (2 Viewers)

[Space]

I was referring to the enduring spirit and genius of its people, and the unique character of its physical being which no colonial outpost has yet captured.

Your Dublin is a Colonial outpost.

 

[washingcattle]

Moose I wouldn't go down this path no matter how true it is.


(and it is)

 

[GO]

are you high on AIDS?

Thats my new sig.

 

[Scientician 0.8]

Your Dublin is a Colonial outpost.

Letterkenny is the last bastion of Gaelic Ireland.

 

[ann post]

No one knows how to use an escalator in Dublin.

in the richmond centre in derry, there is an escalator that goes up, but only stairs to go down. i think its cruel.

 

[Scientician 0.8]

 

[nooleen]

in the richmond centre in derry, there is an escalator that goes up, but only stairs to go down. i think its cruel.

that's quite common in shops, they'll help you get in but once you want to leave you're on your own

 

[rettucs]

on Dublin there and what everything is named after and that.

I'm reading a book on the 1916 Rising. I never did history in school so never knew this stuff. But basically most of the people involved in the Rising were morons. Those that weren't got stuff named after them. Like Heuston station.

so there.

 

[Lepra]

Dublin's alright.
Cork's alright.
Letterkenny's alright.

the farther you get from any coastline, the worse it gets.

 

[Lili Marlene]

on Dublin there and what everything is named after and that.

I'm reading a book on the 1916 Rising. I never did history in school so never knew this stuff. But basically most of the people involved in the Rising were morons. Those that weren't got stuff named after them. Like Heuston station.

so there.

I learnt anything I needed to know from

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you can, eh, watch that when you get home as well

 

[therealjohnny]

Letterkenny's alright.

Last time I was in letterkenny a passing motorist leaned out of his car to jeer at me

for wearing sunglasses

 

[Lepra]

quite right

 

[rettucs]

Last time I was in letterkenny a passing motorist leaned out of his car to jeer at me

for wearing sunglasses

the last time I was in letterkenny I was staying in a hotel there beside one of those roundabouts on the Lifford road on the way into the town (before the college).

when I set off to head back to Dublin I decided I needed petrol, so I headed towards the town to get petrol. The garage was about 100 yards from the hotel. But there was a garda checkpoint, breathalising people. They stopped me and breathalised me. Fair enough. This was about 8am on a sunday morning.

On I went, the extra 20 yards to the garage, only to find out it was closed. So I headed back the way I came, towards Lifford/Dublin. But I had to go through the garda checkpoint again. The same checkpoint, the same garda, and the feckers breathalised me again, about 3 minutes after my previous test.

true story (ish - distances may be slightly exaggerated).

 

[therealjohnny]

the last time I was in letterkenny I was staying in a hotel there beside one of those roundabouts on the Lifford road on the way into the town (before the college).

when I set off to head back to Dublin I decided I needed petrol, so I headed towards the town to get petrol. The garage was about 100 yards from the hotel. But there was a garda checkpoint, breathalising people. They stopped me and breathalised me. Fair enough. This was about 8am on a sunday morning.

On I went, the extra 20 yards to the garage, only to find out it was closed. So I headed back the way I came, towards Lifford/Dublin. But I had to go through the garda checkpoint again. The same checkpoint, the same garda, and the feckers breathalised me again, about 3 minutes after my previous test.

true story (ish - distances may be slightly exaggerated).

All "outsiders" look the same

 

[ann post]

Last time I was in letterkenny a passing motorist leaned out of his car to jeer at me

for wearing sunglasses

it was me. what is this sun you speak of??

the last time I was in letterkenny I was staying in a hotel there beside one of those roundabouts on the Lifford road on the way into the town (before the college).

when I set off to head back to Dublin I decided I needed petrol, so I headed towards the town to get petrol. The garage was about 100 yards from the hotel. But there was a garda checkpoint, breathalising people. They stopped me and breathalised me. Fair enough. This was about 8am on a sunday morning.

On I went, the extra 20 yards to the garage, only to find out it was closed. So I headed back the way I came, towards Lifford/Dublin. But I had to go through the garda checkpoint again. The same checkpoint, the same garda, and the feckers breathalised me again, about 3 minutes after my previous test.

true story (ish - distances may be slightly exaggerated).

distances are accurate. it was your own fault for not knowing that you could get petrol without going back into town.

 

[rettucs]

distances are accurate. it was your own fault for not knowing that you could get petrol without going back into town.

I did learn this subsequently. There was another garage out the road alright. I shan't make that mistake again if I'm ever back in Letterkenny, staying in that hotel, leaving on sunday morning at 8am, and in need of petrol

 

[ann post]

in fairness, there isn't room on the internet to document my driving fuck ups in dublin. i'll just summarize the whole sordid affair by referencing that one time at 6am somewhere between swords and town where the cop said 'thats not a 4 x 4 your driving'.

 

[Moods For Mallards]

I learnt anything I needed to know from

YouTube- The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles - Easter Rising

you can, eh, watch that when you get home as well

He headed off to the Somme straight after that.

 

[Theseus Mock]

Not really a Dublin specific thing but I hate it when multi-story department stores have escalators that aren't properly laid out so you have to cross an entire floor each time just to get the next escalator upstairs. M&S on Grafton street does it correct. M&S on Henry/Mary Street does it wrong.

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

Not really a Dublin specific thing but I hate it when multi-story department stores have escalators that aren't properly laid out so you have to cross an entire floor each time just to get the next escalator upstairs. M&S on Grafton street does it correct. M&S on Henry/Mary Street does it wrong.

Aren't they generally laid out so you can easily get up but have to pass by their wares on the way down?

I would have thought that was standard.