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“Gregg’s?? Is that someone’s house you’re going to for lunch? It’s a shop you say? I’ve never heard of it.”

A person with more money than sense.

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“I would never buy from Lidl. Growing up my mum always bought brand name things, you can totally taste the difference.”

An idiot who believes no one is struggling for money and is quite content to stick her nose in the air in response to those truly struggling.

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“Do you go to the airport?” I asked the bus driver. He didn’t answer and pointed at the scanning machine. “I know I have to scan my ticket; I’m just asking if you go to the airport sorry.” To which the man replied “you need to scan your ticket.” Sigh. One of around 300 hundred times I’ve encountered rudeness and flat out bad manners during my 4 days in Dublin. Can not wait to leave (incidentally, my 5th time here, something definitely changed this time).

The rudest bus driver ever

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My Honest Review Of - Dublin This has been my 5th visit to Dublin and I thought it would be interesting to write a review of the city and experience of it in 2018: HOW’S TRAVEL: You NEED to buy a Leap ticket upon arrival, they are invaluable. Bought mine for 72 hours and it meant I got unlimited travel on the Tram, buses and trains. Dublin is a big place so this came in very handy. The tram system is amazing and a real boost to the city. HOW EXPENSIVE IS IT? Very, very, VERY expensive. It’s like bang out of order expensive for everything. I’m from Glasgow so I’ll do a like for like comparison of the most expensive example I’ve found of both these things in both cities. Each of the below is per person: Item Dublin Glasgow Guinness €8.20 £4.00 Heineken €8.00 £4.80 Burrito €9.00 £5.00 Water €3.20 £1.00 Glass Wine €8.20 £4.00 Burger €15.00 £10.00 Chips €4.00 £2.50 Avg Breakfast €15.00 £7.00 Avg Lunch €22.00 £8.00 Avg Dinner €25.00 £9.00 To put the above in perspective, going by the prices above, that same pint of Guinness would cost £7.20 in Glasgow. Even the Hilton hotel wouldn’t have the balls to charge that, so it is an outrageous hike in price when you take a step back and think about it. HOW IS TEMPLE BAR: Overrated. Once you’ve heard one Irish song about an Irish guy going to America and really missing the love of his life, you’ve heard them all. Sadly, THAT song, is on repeat in every bar in Temple Bar. There is no way you’d walk into Ashton lane or bath street in Glasgow and have every bar playing nothing but bagpipe music and traditional Scottish Songs, so why is it the case here? Tourism obviously, but it really is grating after a couple of hours. I’d drown my sorrows and drink to block it out, but at €8.20 a drink, that’s an expensive night. I went further afield and found much nicer bars, including Cassidy’s which plays rock music. The moment you step out of that tourist trap, the price of beer fell from €8.20 to €5.10, so food for thought. WHAT IS CASSIDY’S LIKE: Good actually. Pretty friendly, nice beers and decent tunes. One quibble, big sign outside said “pitcher of beer €10”. I went inside and asked for that and was told they didn’t do it lol. No explanation, just “we don’t do that.” MY HOTEL REVIEW: I stayed in Charleville Lodge and I loved it. The place is hilarious. Their “rules of conduct” are awesome, including flat out telling you not to make any complaints. They recorded a short film which plays on your tv in the room which sees two junkies lured into the hotel, killed and cooked by the chef for dinner. Genuinely hilarious. Also, sign outside on arrival said there was an orgy for over 70s and a sex dungeon inside. Made me laugh and would definitely come again. One slight issue is my room was on ground floor, and right next to a car park and a big skip, so people were constantly passing by. It was a little reminiscent of Summer Rental, but not the end of the world. STUFF TO DO IN DUBLIN: Glasgow has no end of things to do, and Dublin is the same. But how do they compare on cost? Activity Dublin Trinity College €10.00 City Hall Upstairs €10.00 IMMA Collection €8.00 Dublin Castle €10.00 Activity Glasgow Art Galleries Free GOMA Free Burrell Collection Free Huntarian Free Riverside Museum Free You get the idea. The things in Glasgow are world renowned and as good or better than the stuff in Dublin, but every single one is FREE. Very poor show Dublin. THE CRAIC About an hour ago, I went to my local Tesco in Phibsborough. The guy there: Took my shopping and said nothing. Didn’t tell me the cost, I had to read it Didn’t offer me a bag Didn’t respond when I said thanks Didn’t respond when I said have a nice day After I left, I had to walk round the three guys singing and drinking booze outside the door and past the guy holding a carrier bag full of booze menacingly waking up and down. I actually like Phibsborough, it’s honest; and no one is saying it’s anything it’s not, but wow, there sure as heck isn’t any fun. In the middle of temple bar, I asked one waiter for a vodka with soda water and a segment of lime. He said he would have to check with the manager as he didn’t know if they carried that “cocktail” 😂😦😐. The tram journey from Dublin’s city centre back to Phibsborough also shows how much of the city lives in tough tough conditions. I genuinely saw only one example of friendliness my entire time here. A lady on the tram asking if I was lost (as the tram was passing through a really rough area) and who spoke at length about how she loved glasgow and thought Edinburgh was pretentious and stuck up its own arse. I agreed. I liked her. She was possibly crazy, but I liked her. CAN YOU GET A BURGER AND A PINT MEAL DEAL? Nope. Glasgow has many of these for around £6-7. HOW MUCH IS A CARRIER BAG: 70 cents lol! Unbelievable. FINAL THOUGHTS My 5th time here, but first since 2002, this place has changed. Way too touristy. Way too expensive. It is pretty in places, and most of the folk are very friendly, but if I’m being honest it reminds me of Edinburgh, and that ain’t a good thing. CITY RATING 5/10

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“In the end I’ve decided to sell my piano. It’s just taking up too much space in my second lounge, and besides I’ve got the baby grand in the drawing room, so ruby can practice on that before recitals.”

A buffoon.

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“Do you have any Innis & Gunn? In fact, never mind, it’s from Edinburgh, you’ve probably never heard of it.”

A guy wearing a top hat in Tesco, Argyll Street, Glasgow. on his way out the store, he was sample trying impulse body sprays for women.

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“I love the way working class people try to out do each other above how rough their neighbourhood is. It’s so funny.”

A complete tool. A complete tool whose mum and Dad raised him in a literal mansion in Newton Mearns. A complete tool whose mum and Dad gave him all the money he needed to study and go to Uni. A tool.

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“I’m busy, go ask one of the other partners. They can sign the forms too. My mum and Dad didn’t pay my way through university to sign forms for the likes of you.”

A partner at a firm who said the above with a roll of his eyes. Normally stares at boobs rather than makes eye contact, so that was something I suppose

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“That’s me got my new 6 bedroom place sorted in Milngavie. Private duck pond, and although I live alone, I’ll set up 2 of the rooms for my cats and the other 3 can be guest bedrooms for my dinner parties.”

A business lady who is blissfully unaware of the homeless crisis engulfing our nation. At least her wee cats have their own space, so that’s nice!!!!!!

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“I don’t get paid enough to do Danny Bing’s job for him. You’ll have to figure out a contingency on your own, I’m running late for my Ski Jump Lessons.”

A straight up arsehole who thinks anyone not on her pay grade works for her and isn’t worth being nice too.

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“My Saturday morning lie-ins are a thing of the past. Tarquin has his harp lessons at 10:00am and Beatrice has her pottery workshop at 11:00 am.”

A restaurant owner talking about her 6 and 8 Year olds.

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“You guys are the mechanics... I’m the driver. If you don’t know how to do it, I’m not helping you.”

A complete fucking dickhead architect, who went through university on Daddy’s money and thinks he can speak to people like they are shit under his shoe. What a complete and utter shit of a human being.

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“... No, I wasn’t in the garden, I got my tan sitting on my boat all afternoon. I just needed to power down after my impulse trip to Paris for some shopping. Honestly darling, the flights were only £400. Bargain.”

A dickhead vet.

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“What a great day at Grandad’s house in the Mains Estate. Millie was cross stitching and Jack was playing croquet next to the private duck pond. Just a lovely day with the family.”

A stuck up person who genuinely thinks that is normal life.

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“My little girl and her new metronome, it only cost £300 from the antique fair. She loves it, and her fiddle playing is coming a long a treat.”

A manager who knows that the important things in life aren’t to do with family, helping people and charity work, but rather wealth, stock piling money and antique metronomes.

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“What? You can’t taste the hops? I can, I guess that’s the difference between me and a lay person.”

A “Craft beer drinker”, in the bar Koelschip Yard who thought he was the business. He wasn’t.

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16 year old Work Experience kid from a Private School - “I’ve always had a passion for corporate law, ever since my first legal Class at my High School. My dad wants me to go into Political Law, but I see myself more on the corporate side.” And the reply from the Lawyer - “With your background, private education and with who your father is, you would be a shoe in for our trainee programme.”

Lawyer at a big firm talking to a 16 year old work experience kid. Basically letting the kid know that if you have the right amount of money to spend on your education and the right parents that life will be handed to you on a plate.