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  • #92
    [Deleted User]
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    DGRulz wrote: »
    Is it just me or does a military parade when not commemorating an event not feel very ... authoritarian?

    Which is really odd because Trump hasn't done anything else even remotely authoritarian.

    Those treasonous Democrats not standing and clapping during his state of the union however...


  • #93
    Zzippy
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 14,166 Mod ✭✭✭✭Zzippy


    Venjur wrote: »
    Which is really odd because Trump hasn't done anything else even remotely authoritarian.

    Those treasonous Democrats not standing and clapping during his state of the union however...

    Those damn treasonous Democrats!

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  • #94
    connemara man
    Moderators, Sports Moderators, Regional West Moderators Posts: 6,773 Mod ✭✭✭✭connemara man


    Where in Dublin is in town.


  • #95
    Stheno
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 51,687 Mod ✭✭✭✭Stheno


    connemara man wrote: »
    Where in Dublin is in town.

    City centre

    Are you coming up from culchie land?


  • #96
    Zzippy
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 14,166 Mod ✭✭✭✭Zzippy


    Stheno wrote: »
    City centre

    Are you coming up from culchie land?

    He's from Connemara, not Kiltimagh ;)


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  • #97
    connemara man
    Moderators, Sports Moderators, Regional West Moderators Posts: 6,773 Mod ✭✭✭✭connemara man


    Stheno wrote: »
    City centre

    Are you coming up from culchie land?

    I'm here for a few weeks work meeting a mate in town. So is that the college green area?

    I'm so Culchie I have a second language ;)


  • #98
    Stheno
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    connemara man wrote: »
    I'm here for a few weeks work meeting a mate in town. So is that the college green area?

    Yes college green would be part of it

    "town" is generally a reference for the whole are from O'Connell st through to Stephens green.


  • #99
    connemara man
    Moderators, Sports Moderators, Regional West Moderators Posts: 6,773 Mod ✭✭✭✭connemara man


    Stheno wrote: »
    Yes college green would be part of it

    "town" is generally a reference for the whole are from O'Connell st through to Stephens green.

    Thanks. That's a big enough area


  • #100
    Podge_irl
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 25,207 Mod ✭✭✭✭Podge_irl


    connemara man wrote: »
    Thanks. That's a big enough area

    Ah its a 20 min walk from the top of O'Connell St to Stephen's Green. Tis nothing.


  • #101
    [Deleted User]
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    Stheno wrote: »
    Yes college green would be part of it

    "town" is generally a reference for the whole are from O'Connell st through to Stephens green.

    Sorry Stheno, you are actually wrong on this one. 'Town' as far as Dublin is concerned is assigned to the part of the city that is oldest and had an original high population density.

    Connemara man - you want to head to a quaint part of old Dublin towards the east of the city centre, it's called Sherrif Street and it's a beautiful part of town. You can get there on the red line. No need to thank me, have fun!


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  • #102
    irishbucsfan
    Registered Users Posts: 37,978 ✭✭✭✭irishbucsfan


    Don't forget, it's one of the posher parts of Dublin and they get a bit annoyed if you don't pronounce it "Sha-reef" Street.

    Given you're a Westerner it might take you a few tries, so don't be surprised if they don't understand you right away.


  • #103
    Buer
    Registered Users Posts: 24,174 ✭✭✭✭Buer


    irishbucsfan wrote: »
    Don't forget, it's one of the posher parts of Dublin and they get a bit annoyed if you don't pronounce it "Sha-reef" Street.

    It's pronounced Sheddiff, you muck savage.


  • #104
    [Deleted User]
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    Oh and to avoid some confusion - if someone offers you some 'yolks' it means they have free range eggs for sale and it's considered rude to refuse.


  • #105
    Zzippy
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 14,166 Mod ✭✭✭✭Zzippy


    Venjur wrote: »
    Oh and to avoid some confusion - if someone offers you some 'yolks' it means they have free range eggs for sale and it's considered rude to refuse.

    He's from Connemara, not 1920!


  • #106
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    Zzippy wrote: »
    He's from Connemara, not 1920!

    ha! good point, Connemara man, the red line refers to the luas which is a tram or what people in Connemara call an 'electric street railway'. It operates on urban streets on segregated rights of way. You will not be able to drive your cart onto the tram lines as the wheels will get stuck so you'll need to leave your horse and cart with the travellers in Smithfield market.


  • #107
    awec
    Administrators Posts: 53,335 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭awec


    Make sure you hold your arm out so that the Luas stops for you.


  • #108
    Zzippy
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 14,166 Mod ✭✭✭✭Zzippy


    Try to stay north of the river if you can. The southside people talk funny, have big notions, and think they're better than everyone else. It's like Cork, only worse...


  • #109
    prawnsambo
    Registered Users Posts: 12,984 ✭✭✭✭prawnsambo


    Zzippy wrote: »
    Try to stay north of the river if you can. The southside people talk funny, have big notions, and think they're better than everyone else. It's like Cork, only worse...
    Yeah, but there's no rugby worth talking about north of the Liffey. :pac:


  • #110
    mfceiling
    Registered Users Posts: 12,773 ✭✭✭✭mfceiling


    Venjur wrote: »
    Sorry Stheno, you are actually wrong on this one. 'Town' as far as Dublin is concerned is assigned to the part of the city that is oldest and had an original high population density.

    Connemara man - you want to head to a quaint part of old Dublin towards the east of the city centre, it's called Sherrif Street and it's a beautiful part of town. You can get there on the red line. No need to thank me, have fun!

    Call in to Noctors when you're there...lovely people. Make sure to ask for a pimms with ice and tell them you don't like guinness - "it's pure bog water for muck savages".


  • #111
    Stheno
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    mfceiling wrote: »
    Call in to Noctors when you're there...lovely people. Make sure to ask for a pimms with ice and tell them you don't like guinness - "it's pure bog water for muck savages".

    Reminds me last year I had a work meeting in Inchicore.

    Not knowing anywhere else my colleague and I agreed to meet in the black horse beforehand

    He got there first and ordered two lattes at the bar. He swears they nearly fell around the place laughing at him


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  • #112
    mfceiling
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    Stheno wrote: »
    Reminds me last year I had a work meeting in Inchicore.

    Not knowing anywhere else my colleague and I agreed to meet in the black horse beforehand

    He got there first and ordered two lattes at the bar. He swears they nearly fell around the place laughing at him

    I saw 2 old men squaring up to each other outside the Black Horse one night...proper arms bent upwards like something from the 1800's.


  • #113
    Jack Kanoff
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,119 ✭✭✭Jack Kanoff


    mfceiling wrote: »
    I saw 2 old men squaring up to each other outside the Black Horse one night...proper arms bent upwards like something from the 1800's.

    You were looking at their mirrored window again, you'd want to lay off the bucky ffs!
    :)


  • #114
    connemara man
    Moderators, Sports Moderators, Regional West Moderators Posts: 6,773 Mod ✭✭✭✭connemara man


    I have lived up here for a while in the past. But never got where town was. Because I'm used to "town" being a more compact area like Galway.


  • #115
    Stheno
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    connemara man wrote: »
    I have lived up here for a while in the past. But never got where town was. Because I'm used to "town" being a more compact area like Galway.

    Have you decided where you are going or do you need recommendations? Apart from venjur and mfceilings


  • #116
    prawnsambo
    Registered Users Posts: 12,984 ✭✭✭✭prawnsambo


    connemara man wrote: »
    I have lived up here for a while in the past. But never got where town was. Because I'm used to "town" being a more compact area like Galway.
    It's the same place as An Lár. All the buses go there in the end. :D


  • #117
    Stheno
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    prawnsambo wrote: »
    It's the same place as An Lár. All the buses go there in the end. :D

    Not the 17 or 102


  • #118
    prawnsambo
    Registered Users Posts: 12,984 ✭✭✭✭prawnsambo


    Stheno wrote: »
    Not the 17 or 102
    Pedant :pac:


  • #119
    Buer
    Registered Users Posts: 24,174 ✭✭✭✭Buer


    Stheno wrote: »
    Not the 17 or 102

    Stheno....you're a northsider?!


  • #120
    Stheno
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 51,687 Mod ✭✭✭✭Stheno


    Buer wrote: »
    Stheno....you're a northsider?!

    Yes?


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  • #121
    irishbucsfan
    Registered Users Posts: 37,978 ✭✭✭✭irishbucsfan


    This forum is disgraceful


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