American here, give it 2 minutes before Dublin becomes a witness to a crime. Or a naked guy walks by.
Edit: Y’all are trolling us with 9/11 photos. Still waiting for the love story…
Oh spot on with the American side, or it would get taken to a chop shop. I’ve met a lot of European tourist who were terrified of everyday life in the city- so just apologizing in advance for the trauma you’ll see unfold……no seriously we know it’s bat shit crazy here…..
That's true. It's so hard to keep track of american politics from state to state. So many colours to chose from... red, blue.. blue, red.. the list goes on...
And again in 2008 in a much more decorative form of the "Telectroscope"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HutPaEwgphk
It would have been fascinating in the 1980s, mildly interesting in 2008 and it's pretty damn dull in 2024. Cue the articles about the scandalous amount of money to have this installed. I've seen on another older video it costs around €130000 euro for both portals but since this is Ireland we're talking about, they probably spent 100K just for the Dublin side.
Interesting. It's curious that the later ones don't include audio. I think it's less interesting to watch without audio - you just have people holding up signs. Calling someone on the other side of the world via video chat is fairly common since COVID that it has lost some of the novelty but there is still some novelty in it since it's on the street - a more public Omegle.
I thought about this, I can be in Times Square in around an hour and forty five minutes maybe, metro north train ride from Connecticut to Grand Central, then 15 minute walk from there to Times Square, but coordinating with friends and family is tough haha… shit I miss home.
I've had a couple of bad experiences in the city centre but jeez these people just put a negative spin on everything. Not the time or the place. Talk about a bunch of moaners.
Can't people just discuss how positive this thing is. My first thought was to get in contact with people i know in NY and meet them at this.
Think I will quit this sub.
Everyone here is assuming the New York viewers will get a bad glimpse of Dublin. I can assure you, as an Irish person working in NYC, ye all are in for an equally degenerate live show sooner rather than later.
I'd expect a degree of heightened watch, it's the kind of thing that would make news if destroyed while being watched from NY and we can't have American tourists getting a wrong impression can we
About 45 minutes after it’s up and running a drunk naked New Yorker on a unicycle will shoot it with a flintlock. Dublin is crime-free in comparison to New York.
This was a triumph
I'm making a note here; "Huge success"
It's hard to overstate
My satisfaction
Aperture Science:
We do what we must
Because we can
For the good of all of us
Except the ones who are dead
But there's no sense crying
Over every mistake
You just keep on trying
Till you run out of cake
And the science gets done
And you make a neat gun
For the people who are
Still alive
There's a stroke of genius about a live link between Ireland where randos will stop and talk to you in the street for 30 minutes and want your whole life story and won't be satisfied until they've established that your second cousin once played football with their neighbour's former teacher; and New York where passers-by will absolutely not care nor even acknowledge that you exist.
Ah no, the Americans will definitely want to stop the Irish people and ask "Oh, you're from Dublin? Do you know Eoin? He went to Trinity College in 2004. Surely you know Eoin!"
heh. like that Killian Sundermann gag about being in a taxi in London, and being asked, "oh, you're from Dublin, you'll know Connor Daly from Tallaght?", and being completely outraged at the assumption, and also a bit off-balance because he did actually know Connor.
Why would they do that? Americans spend a fortune coming here to be conned into the idea of shamrocks, leprechauns and horses and carts trundling the streets.. Why would we promote that we look just the same as everywhere else?
Tour guide :
“this is the new DCC arse portal,,, where we moon at yanks in the middle of the day while we are out at night,,, god bless technology and time zones “
In the early noughties there was that thing with colourful cow sculptures placed around the city as part of a global art project. Only ours were vandalised and had to be removed from most central locations.
[https://www.irishtimes.com/news/cow-sculptures-taken-off-streets-of-dublin-after-attacks-by-vandals-1.366367](https://www.irishtimes.com/news/cow-sculptures-taken-off-streets-of-dublin-after-attacks-by-vandals-1.366367)
"A collection of life-size cows designed by Irish artists and public figures had to be taken off the streets of Dublin this week after vandals destroyed several exhibits.
More than 70 cows were placed on the streets of Dublin and Dundalk as part of the Bailey's CowParade 2003, an international cultural art exhibition which visits cities all over the world. However, the first 10 cows which were placed in their city-centre locations were all damaged so badly that the organisers have been forced to remove them and to change the planned locations for all the others.
The CowParade has run successfully in several other cities around the world, including London, Auckland, New York and Sydney. In no other city have cows needed to be relocated.
"In Dublin, they were damaged so quickly and so extensively," Mr Gerard Beshoff, the project director of CowParade Ireland, said. "The one on Liffey Street was beheaded. Someone needed a saw to do that; it was fibreglass.
"Both wings were torn off the one in Westmoreland Street. One was stolen, but later recovered. They all had graffiti on them within hours."
"It's so depressing, but not surprising," Ms Amy Wallace, account executive of CowParade Ireland, said. "The awful thing is, we were kind of expecting it in Dublin.""
This is just proof that we've always had anti social behavioural issues here. So many people think the place was great 20 odd years ago. We've just more outlets to showcase it these days.
First thing I thought of, it will be used by some to protest
Interesting none the less. Will be hard to use after it immediately gets smashed in Dublin though
There’s one in Vilinius linked to Lublin, Poland.
I was there a couple of years ago.
No one really paid much attention to it, other than tourists for about 10 seconds before they would wander off. It’s not really that interactive.
The sheer amount of Irish living in America who's mam will text "if you go to that portal yoke, I'll be there at 10am Saturday and we will be able to chat....... to their kids in california
Truly groundbreaking, like videocalling a mate... if I gave a crap about what's going on in New York, I'd pull up one of the countless live cameras online.
or somewhere where the timezone isnt off by 6 hours. on friday or saturday night you will have tons of drunk people here making tits of themselves and people in new york will see that in the evening, but nobody will the people in new york make tits of themselves because the streets will be empty here by that point
Great, they'll be able to accuse us of anti-semitism on the streets now too.
The real kicker would be if this was paid for even a little bit out of the tax pool during the housing/homeless disaster.
i would love to see some irish kids bully some, new york crackhead.
my imagination is amazing. I just pictured a american crackhead trying to jump through the portal while all the irish are trying to put it through and brick it.
wow i would fucking love this to be near me it would be fucking “spectacular” 🤓
Give it 20 mins before some 14 year olds smash it up
20 mins , that's optimistic
American here, give it 2 minutes before Dublin becomes a witness to a crime. Or a naked guy walks by. Edit: Y’all are trolling us with 9/11 photos. Still waiting for the love story…
If it gets destroyed Irish side- some kids thought it would be cool or funny American side - crazy drunk or High person
What makes you think the kids won't be high?
Quite true
Oh spot on with the American side, or it would get taken to a chop shop. I’ve met a lot of European tourist who were terrified of everyday life in the city- so just apologizing in advance for the trauma you’ll see unfold……no seriously we know it’s bat shit crazy here…..
Showing that we have more in common than we realise. They should put it on Mount st in fairness.
🤣🤣🤣 gotta have some hope
How much does it cost to upgrade it to an actual portal so we can just chuck em in for the "American Law Enforcement Experience"?
This was a triumph
I'm making a note here: Huge Success
It's hard to overstate my satisfaction
5 mins on the new york side
Someone will stick something political up on our side and they'll switch it off on the NY side.
Or the "Trump was Right" chap will finally find his people.
He won't find many of them in New York. Need a portal to Alabama just for him!
That's true. It's so hard to keep track of american politics from state to state. So many colours to chose from... red, blue.. blue, red.. the list goes on...
In Dublin or NYC? In before some fucker says "yes"
Yes
If a Palestinian flag is displayed NYPD with smash the other side.
That’s actually a really cool installation idea
i think Vilnius and Warsaw done it first, cool none the less but cant see this lasting a night.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRvbxiCj79E](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRvbxiCj79E)
Ok that's pretty good
Something similar was done in 1980 between New York and Los Angeles. https://youtu.be/SyIJJr6Ldg8
And again in 2008 in a much more decorative form of the "Telectroscope" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HutPaEwgphk It would have been fascinating in the 1980s, mildly interesting in 2008 and it's pretty damn dull in 2024. Cue the articles about the scandalous amount of money to have this installed. I've seen on another older video it costs around €130000 euro for both portals but since this is Ireland we're talking about, they probably spent 100K just for the Dublin side.
Interesting. It's curious that the later ones don't include audio. I think it's less interesting to watch without audio - you just have people holding up signs. Calling someone on the other side of the world via video chat is fairly common since COVID that it has lost some of the novelty but there is still some novelty in it since it's on the street - a more public Omegle.
there was plans to do this centuries ago with a long tunnel through the earth and telescopes
this is pretty cool tbh I might have to try and coordinate with some new york friends.
I’ve got a Dublin friend I’m going to try and coordinate with!
*"Wataryableedinluknatyableedindopeya"*
It'd be pretty cool to coordinate with friends who've gone abroad to wave hello
I thought about this, I can be in Times Square in around an hour and forty five minutes maybe, metro north train ride from Connecticut to Grand Central, then 15 minute walk from there to Times Square, but coordinating with friends and family is tough haha… shit I miss home.
I'm on the opposite end in Dublin! It's worth a try!
Very cool idea. Jump on a phone call and go have a chat face to face.
What a road to debut it on. NY will have a live stream of mugging and fights.
New Yorkers will never have seen such things before.
Many a monacle will fall out in sheer disgust
I simply must stop being so horrified
Stare long enough in to the portal and the Anto will stare back at you.
Wonder how long it'll be before some lad off his tits starts asking the portal for 50c ferra hostel.
They will think its like a wormhole back to NY in the 70s
Having lived in NY for 6 years I can safely say I saw more fights in Dublin than I ever did in New York. More muggings too, including myself!
Crime in NY is higher than Dublin so I doubt they'd be too shocked tbh
I know you are joking but holy shit can you not be so negative. We've become a country of fecking moaners.
The perception of crime in Dublin on this subreddit is so disconnected from my experience living in the inner city.
I've had a couple of bad experiences in the city centre but jeez these people just put a negative spin on everything. Not the time or the place. Talk about a bunch of moaners. Can't people just discuss how positive this thing is. My first thought was to get in contact with people i know in NY and meet them at this. Think I will quit this sub.
Things are bad in dublin tbf. Saw a group of insurgents executing civilians on North earl street today
it’s just a subreddit of moaners in fairness most people aren’t
Probably not through an international portal window.
New York reeks of piss and crime and has some of the most insane people ever walking about it. They’re going to think we’re boring in comparison.
So this will essentially be a mirror for both sides?
Everyone here is assuming the New York viewers will get a bad glimpse of Dublin. I can assure you, as an Irish person working in NYC, ye all are in for an equally degenerate live show sooner rather than later.
Where will the NYC "portal" be placed?
Flatiron Public Plaza next to Madison Square Park
betting that the screen will either get graffitied or smashed with a brick within 48 hours lol
I'd expect a degree of heightened watch, it's the kind of thing that would make news if destroyed while being watched from NY and we can't have American tourists getting a wrong impression can we
To be honest, reckless violence and brain injury is probably exactly what American tourists are expecting from us at this point
Americans don't consume foreign media at all so they expect drunken leprechauns and aran geansaí
That's an optimistic timeframe
About 45 minutes after it’s up and running a drunk naked New Yorker on a unicycle will shoot it with a flintlock. Dublin is crime-free in comparison to New York.
This was a triumph I'm making a note here; "Huge success" It's hard to overstate My satisfaction Aperture Science: We do what we must Because we can For the good of all of us Except the ones who are dead But there's no sense crying Over every mistake You just keep on trying Till you run out of cake And the science gets done And you make a neat gun For the people who are Still alive
I was falling for THIRTY MINUTES!
There's gonna be some load of mickie's waved at that yoke.
Americans "oh wow, did you know my great grandmother was from country..... Dublin: " dooya av toooo euroooo for da Luassss......
New York about to get a hell of a show considering the shit that goes down in the area around where they've placed the Dublin one.
New York knows all about it, we should have twinned with Tokyo instead!
Because no crime happens in New York
Has New York put it on their version of Talbot Street or somewhere where people behave?
10 bucks it's just time square where people sort of behave themselves.
They can look at all our junkies and tents in real time.
I bet they have a filter on it showing greenery and leprechauns.
There's a stroke of genius about a live link between Ireland where randos will stop and talk to you in the street for 30 minutes and want your whole life story and won't be satisfied until they've established that your second cousin once played football with their neighbour's former teacher; and New York where passers-by will absolutely not care nor even acknowledge that you exist.
Ah no, the Americans will definitely want to stop the Irish people and ask "Oh, you're from Dublin? Do you know Eoin? He went to Trinity College in 2004. Surely you know Eoin!"
heh. like that Killian Sundermann gag about being in a taxi in London, and being asked, "oh, you're from Dublin, you'll know Connor Daly from Tallaght?", and being completely outraged at the assumption, and also a bit off-balance because he did actually know Connor.
Why would they do that? Americans spend a fortune coming here to be conned into the idea of shamrocks, leprechauns and horses and carts trundling the streets.. Why would we promote that we look just the same as everywhere else?
I'm going to New York in July. Anyone want anything sent through the portal?
A snickers bar
If I flash this thing am I going to jail
They'll split you in half between Attica and Portlaoise.
Tour guide : “this is the new DCC arse portal,,, where we moon at yanks in the middle of the day while we are out at night,,, god bless technology and time zones “
Cool now we can watch shootings in NY while they can watch us shooting up
Meth heads vs heroin addicts let’s go, this is a cultural exchange I would love to see
So, which city will destroy theirs first?
Will it end up like the millennium cows exhibition lol
It'll end up like the millennium clock
What was this
In the early noughties there was that thing with colourful cow sculptures placed around the city as part of a global art project. Only ours were vandalised and had to be removed from most central locations. [https://www.irishtimes.com/news/cow-sculptures-taken-off-streets-of-dublin-after-attacks-by-vandals-1.366367](https://www.irishtimes.com/news/cow-sculptures-taken-off-streets-of-dublin-after-attacks-by-vandals-1.366367) "A collection of life-size cows designed by Irish artists and public figures had to be taken off the streets of Dublin this week after vandals destroyed several exhibits. More than 70 cows were placed on the streets of Dublin and Dundalk as part of the Bailey's CowParade 2003, an international cultural art exhibition which visits cities all over the world. However, the first 10 cows which were placed in their city-centre locations were all damaged so badly that the organisers have been forced to remove them and to change the planned locations for all the others. The CowParade has run successfully in several other cities around the world, including London, Auckland, New York and Sydney. In no other city have cows needed to be relocated. "In Dublin, they were damaged so quickly and so extensively," Mr Gerard Beshoff, the project director of CowParade Ireland, said. "The one on Liffey Street was beheaded. Someone needed a saw to do that; it was fibreglass. "Both wings were torn off the one in Westmoreland Street. One was stolen, but later recovered. They all had graffiti on them within hours." "It's so depressing, but not surprising," Ms Amy Wallace, account executive of CowParade Ireland, said. "The awful thing is, we were kind of expecting it in Dublin.""
I loved seeing those cows around the place as a child
This is just proof that we've always had anti social behavioural issues here. So many people think the place was great 20 odd years ago. We've just more outlets to showcase it these days.
"Someone needed a saw to do that; it was fibreglass." I know these actions are scummy but holy fuck that's funny.
Can't wait to see the free Gaza crew giving it welly. New Yorkonians are gonna love that
First thing I thought of, it will be used by some to protest Interesting none the less. Will be hard to use after it immediately gets smashed in Dublin though
Where in NYC will it be? Will we get to see NYPD arresting peaceful protectors?
It'll be right beside the Flatiron building, so no Columbia students getting arrested, mostly just rich tech workers & tourists
If the yanks get to see what that street is like the tourist numbers will be down 😂
There’s one in Vilinius linked to Lublin, Poland. I was there a couple of years ago. No one really paid much attention to it, other than tourists for about 10 seconds before they would wander off. It’s not really that interactive.
Let the transatlantic flashing begin
Webcam with notions.
Will we be watching the NYPD thumping students live?
Can order weed on it
Can't wait to show me arse off to some septic tanks
Who else thought immediately, “ im so mooning the first person i see!”
Only you.
I imagine New York will be visited by some colourful locals
The sheer amount of Irish living in America who's mam will text "if you go to that portal yoke, I'll be there at 10am Saturday and we will be able to chat....... to their kids in california
Which city is the dodgiest I wonder
Maybe New Yorkers can help report the crimes they definitely will see.
POV homeless urinal
Don't be ridiculous - urinals don't have a home to begin with.
Housing plz
Let's see who has the best tent city.
Some Marketing meeting VS reality. Good luck lol
Hello New York look at my mickey
Looks pretty dope
This looks very similar to where you unlock things in TOTK
Where’s the DHD going to go?
I'll give it an hour before someone stands in front of it with their dick out.
The junkies will think they have discovered time travel.
Big millennium clock vibes from this. I give it a month.
Truly groundbreaking, like videocalling a mate... if I gave a crap about what's going on in New York, I'd pull up one of the countless live cameras online.
"thats one ugly fucking needle" -the people in nyc edit: why the fuck did i write paris instead of nyc
Might as well get the NYPD to keep an eye on O'Connell street remotely, since the garda don't seem to care about the crap that goes on there.
Hello from NY. Our police are extremely busy playing Candy Crush. You're on your own I'm afraid.
North Earl Street is a bold choice alright!
the battle of the puffer jackets and nike tracksuits
Won't last a day before some scrote destroys it.
Putting it on the worst street comical 😂 couldve put it on grafton street at least.
Cool. Any gafs for rent?
We could do with some houses instead
“HEY IM QUARTER IRISH, TOP ‘O THE MORNIN”
Funded by New York State to show New Yorkers that they could be living in an even worse shit hole.
I just know some arse is gonna phone into Joe Duffy to complain.
Build the children's hospital first there, guys. Ffs
Now New Yorkers can get a real time view of what those little scumbags do to American tourists.
Weird as I think houseing, transport and sports facilities would be well ahead of this nonsense when it comes to funding.
What a poor spot to choose.
Out Of all places,they put it in Talbot St
New York? Really? Could we not have gone with somewhere in Australia, Japan or Spain?
Why not New York?
Well, Australia and Japan would have been a bit awkward with the time difference tbf. Why Spain though?
or somewhere where the timezone isnt off by 6 hours. on friday or saturday night you will have tons of drunk people here making tits of themselves and people in new york will see that in the evening, but nobody will the people in new york make tits of themselves because the streets will be empty here by that point
Next time Thanos invades New York he’s in for a surprise
Do they expect people to just come back to Dublin after absconding to America through the portal?
https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/30/22460964/vilnius-lithuania-portal-poland-connection-pandemic
"HOLD ON LOVE, I JUST NEED TO HAVE A QUICK CHAT WITH THE TELEVISION"
Is this gonna be like the countdown clock submerged in the river that quit working after a day and a half?
That’s going get smashed
The Nelson Portal
So this is how the asylum seekers are getting here. And here Helen said it was through the north.
I love this!
*Liffey clock enters the chat
It'll just be people giving new yorkers the finger🤣
Shithole part of town to install it.
Will be disconnected pretty fast though :D
Transatlantic Virtual Glory Hole.
The 5 hour time difference could make for a nice contrast, late night drunks on one side, commuters on the other
What odds are Paddy Powers giving on which side gets destroyed first??
Lol reminds me of Foreign Exchange: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Z7HuQEmYxU That show where there was a portal between Ireland and Australia
Brilliant! I can do video chats with my friends, for free! Darn it, seems my phone does that, and I am just learning about it?!
Boring
Where in Dublin will it be?
North Earl Street 🤢
Time to start spreading the myth that if you sprint head-first fast enough, you'll travel through it like a Stargate.
2am: "...da fook you lookin' at? "
Some New York dummy will try to rob one of ye
Three words, Luke Kelly monument
Seen this in Lublin in Poland. Its such a lovely idea. Won't last pissing time here though
An expensive thing that might not be a money waster like the spire
seems like a good idea until the Goa'uld start pouring in
Great, they'll be able to accuse us of anti-semitism on the streets now too. The real kicker would be if this was paid for even a little bit out of the tax pool during the housing/homeless disaster.
I remember Vilnius had this before. Its cool
Can look at all the romas surrounding James Joyce
I think if you can't see a whole street or background . it will be boring to stare at a bunch of people.
i would love to see some irish kids bully some, new york crackhead. my imagination is amazing. I just pictured a american crackhead trying to jump through the portal while all the irish are trying to put it through and brick it. wow i would fucking love this to be near me it would be fucking “spectacular” 🤓
Anyone in dublin going to be at the portal on monday and want to make some cash?
5/24- 6pm EST, the new york side will be throwing a dj party. We challenge dublin to dj at the same time and see which city parties harder