The Worst Thing About Dublin (4 Viewers)

[Theseus Mock]

- Those homeless people who scrawl out a HUGE poem of crap on the street. Usually seen by the Molly Malone. Play with your chalk elsewhere.

(Sorry homeless people).

 

[chutneyfarmer]

the knackers. has anyone else mentioned the knackers? this city is bursting with them!

 

[Jelly_Block]

The Alco's that hang around the Luas on abbey street, drinking boxing and fucking shit.

 

[Theseus Mock]

Aye, that end of Abbey Street by the Luas stop beside the Euro World is an alcho haven. and funnily enough there's real travellers usually begging right across the street by the church. I always feel the knackers do a dis-service to themselves in their begging style, it's more of a wail 'pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeassse, chaaaaaaaaaaaange', a small little placard would be fine (including their myspace/twitter if they have one setup.)

 

[ratmonkey]

the knackers. has anyone else mentioned the knackers? this city is bursting with them!

Are they disposing of dead horses?

 

[Jelly_Block]

D4 idiots on the night buses.

 

[chutneyfarmer]

Are they disposing of dead horses?

I'm sure they would when they're not sitting down the back of the bus listening to hard house mp3s on their poxy mobile phones

 

[тхеодоре кацзынски]

D4 idiots on the night buses.

if your on the aircoach route get that instead.not much more expensive than fight link,you get a decent seat and its normally quiet at that hour of the morning

 

[MDR]

I worst thing I can think of which is unique to Dublin is the location of the gents toilets on the third floor in Arnotts.

If we're allowed to give out about bad things that exist elsewhere also, then I want to complain about alpine speed bumps that scrape the exhaust from a chap's Saab 900 turbo.

 

[David Kronenbourg]

- Those homeless people who scrawl out a HUGE poem of crap on the street. Usually seen by the Molly Malone. Play with your chalk elsewhere.

(Sorry homeless people).

yeah, yeah, it's always the same poem and it's terrible

 

[Moods For Mallards]

Speaking of poems, but not speaking of Dublin, but definitely speaking of things I can't stand: when will advertisers, broadcasters and sporting bodies stop using Rudyard Kipling's If to emphasise the heroic quality of their products at every possible opportunity?

 

[Moods For Mallards]

Speaking of poems, but not speaking of Dublin, but definitely speaking of things I can't stand: when will advertisers, broadcasters and sporting bodies stop using Rudyard Kipling's If to emphasise the heroic quality of their products at every possible opportunity?

GAA and rugby are the worst offenders on this front, as usual when it comes to macho ostentation.

 

[washingcattle]

Speaking of poems, but not speaking of Dublin, but definitely speaking of things I can't stand: when will advertisers, broadcasters and sporting bodies stop using Rudyard Kipling's If to emphasise the heroic quality of their products at every possible opportunity?

The poetic equivilant of a Sigur Ros tune is there any sporting event that can't be advertised by some whining icelandic gibberish?

 

[Lepra]

GAA and rugby are the worst offenders on this front, as usual when it comes to macho ostentation.

they should use' Ulster 1912'. the facebook petition starts here

 

[classic seanc]

Yeah, wanting tall buildings is very third world.
Snap out of it, disgruntled Dubs.

Meh, I don't know.

What I was alluding to was urban sprawl, rubbish public transport and hideous congestion/commute times. You need tall buildings, with lots of people in them, relatively close together in order to justify the sort of decent public transport infrastructure that we all feel we deserve. Usually.
As it stands we have hundreds of 7 or 8 storey buildings between the O2, Kilmainham and the canals, when really I think we'd be better off with a few dozen 20 or 30 storey ones over a smaller area. I think Dublin would work better that way.
I might be wrong though. I'm not even from Dublin.

 

[nlgbbbblth]

D4 idiots on the night buses.

why are they idiots?

because they're from D4?
because they're on the bus?
because they're middle class?
because they like rugby?

why restrict it to one post code...

 

[Moods For Mallards]

Meh, I don't know.

What I was alluding to was urban sprawl, rubbish public transport and hideous congestion/commute times. You need tall buildings, with lots of people in them, relatively close together in order to justify the sort of decent public transport infrastructure that we all feel we deserve. Usually.
As it stands we have hundreds of 7 or 8 storey buildings between the O2, Kilmainham and the canals, when really I think we'd be better off with a few dozen 20 or 30 storey ones over a smaller area. I think Dublin would work better that way.
I might be wrong though. I'm not even from Dublin.

Yeah, I know, you're right in terms of urban sprawl. Thing is, you can increase the density by having many, many 3 or 4 storey buildings in the inner suburbs rather than having a few showy high-rises, which are very hard to get right and do change the character of a city (possibly for the better, it would obviously entail doing it well). We've done neither here, which is the worst of all worlds.

 

[Moods For Mallards]

why are they idiots?

because they're from D4?
because they're on the bus?
because they're middle class?
because they like rugby?

why restrict it to one post code...

To your average northsider or uncurious countryman, all upper-middle class people come from D4 and all southsiders are at the very least middle class.

 

[Scientician 0.8]

Yeah, I know, you're right in terms of urban sprawl. Thing is, you can increase the density by having many, many 3 or 4 storey buildings in the inner suburbs rather than having a few showy high-rises, which are very hard to get right and do change the character of a city (possibly for the better, it would obviously entail doing it well). We've done neither here, which is the worst of all worlds.

Frank McDonald has been talking for years about high density/low rise working for Dublin. Anyone interested in this topic would do well to read the relevant sections in The Construction Of Dublin and Chaos At The Crossroads.

 

[Hector Grey]

jeez, i'm glad that i apparently live in a different city to some of you tools.