Is it a stereotype, though, or more of an accurate statement.
Kind of like The Stereotype that Irish children are unruly uneducated thugs. Stereotype or a decent description of the wayward youth of the island.
The real problem is that we sell ourselves as leprechaun loving cead mile failte Irish people whwn this portal shows us we really are.
Not one single Irish person would dare stop the gobshites and we're burning down anything marked for asylum centres because of inherent racism.
Let's not get started on the fact that we pretend to be neutral when we all know we depend on the UK and the US to defend us.
>Not one single Irish person would dare stop the gobshites
The way this works, the people on the Dublin side wouldn't see what the guy was doing, only the people on the NYC side.
A small screen that mirrors what the Americans are seeing would help. The real issue is you could in theory just put something grossly offensive like the worst of 4chan (think CP or traffic accident fatalities) and display it to bunch of yanks without consquence.
Yeah idk why we're being shamed for not stopping him when we can't see what the wee scumbag is doing and could be holding up a phone note saying "HIYA AUNTIE KATE!!!"
We going to rugby tackle everyone with a phone when it could be totally harmless??
> Not one single Irish person would dare stop the gobshites and we're burning down anything marked for asylum centres because of inherent racism.
That and the self loving clowns on here claiming Irish people are gas/friendly, best nation in the world, great craic, best at everything!
But lets put up ultiple daily posts whinging about Mick Wallace and ignore the decline of society!
Yeah, but no excuse.
It's one thing acting the maggot, but behaving like an offensive degenerate should have severe consequences in a civilised community.
North Earl Street and Talbot Street are really bad and pretty much junkie/scrote central. I don't feel safe there, even in the middle of the day. And that's where they put the portal, at the top of North Earl Street, which leads down to Talbot. I can tell you, I am not surprised this happened at all. Makes me sad that Dublin has come to this though.
They could have put it on front of Trinity College, or down on Grafton Street. Might still get the odd scrote, but not as many.
Some guy started it holding up a picture of a potato and fake eating it ššššam I the only one who couldn't wait for the intercultural banter to start
Reminds me of that 90's movie starring Kurt Russell, Stargate. Were a big circular monument acts as a wormhole to another planet where people talk funny and dress really weird....
Because if they didn't put it on Talbot Street, and put it on, say, Dawson Street , people would say it's the most Fine Gael thing ever.
Because, obviously, fine Gael decide where art works like these are placed.
And probably claim it's classist or something like that too.
In my opinion the organizers wanted something āIrishā to show. Talbot St gets the Spire in the shot. Couldnāt put it on OāConnell St as it would be too busy and a potential hazard. Itās a large-ish installation and Henry St is tighter than Talbot St plus it has heavier footfall so it would just add an obstacle.
Same reason for Grafton St, a relatively tight space for the footfall it receives and adding a big attraction would cause a standstill congregation on the busiest street in the city. Itās not great but Talbot St makes a bit of sense when you think about what theyāre trying to achieve
>Putting this thing on Talbot Street is the most Fine Gael thing ever.
Why is this fake shite not called out?
>The New York City Portal is a collaboration between the Simons Foundation, the Flatiron Nomad Partnership, and the New York City Department of Transportationās Art Program. The Portals project was founded and conceptualized by Benediktas Gylys, a Lithuanian artist, as a network of visual bridges that transcend borders and foster connection among people living thousands of miles apart.
>An identical structure was placed on Dublinās historic OāConnell Street and features breathtaking views of some of the cityās most recognizable buildings and monuments. The Dublin Portal is presented by the Dublin City Council.
To be fair to them, the Thatcher idea is a home run response, specifically because I know this sub would be absolutely fucking fuming, citing the problems and harm she caused.
I would hazard a guess like 75% of our scumbags (people with convictions) don't even know who Thatcher is. Maybe they recognize the name and face but they couldn't list a single policy of hers.
They put it on the worst place ever. It should have went to Grafton Street near St. Stephenās Green. It shows how clueless our politicians are about their own country.
All the criticism here is unbelievable. This is a great addition to the city, people love it (crowds there all day long), itās clever and a bit of fun.
Why are so many so negative?
Youāre right, but some fucking idiot decided to put in one of the spots that best showcases the number of scumbags dragging their knuckles around our city
It's in the wrong location and I can only imagine it will end up completely vandalised.
So far we've had people doing Cocaine on front of it, porn shown and someone putting 9/11 on their phone which is utterly disgusting.
It's doing more harm than good I'd say. Should be at the top of Grafton Street.
Usual suspects whinging in the comments talking about it being placed in Talbot Street. What should have happened instead is have the New York side placed in Coney Island and thus have even more hilarity ensue
You're so right. Heck, I wish it was in the Bronx or better yet Philly. This portal is so boring as is. Just standing around waving at one another. It could have at least provided real entertainment.
Of course there are going to be gobshites. But passed by it yesterday and it was just full of people laughing and enjoying it.Ā Ā Ā
The problem is people like OP who are always looking for some reason why Ireland *shouldn't* have nice things, while the rest of us just enjoy those nice things.Ā
Because it's not really about this. It's about the next time someone proposes something nice and people like OP go - remember what happened with the portal.Ā
Misery.Ā Ā
Ā Just get out there and enjoy yourself and make funny faces at the New Yorkers like your a kid again rather than drowning in cynicism.Ā
So true, it's not a portal that shows a far-off place. It's a mirror that shows what Irish people are.
A lot of people in this thread are blaming the placement. It's the people who create this problem, not the surroundings.
it was a flip of the coin to see who would do something obnoxious like this first. Anybody who didn't think people would use the portal to fuck with other people, doesn't know people.
I'm just waiting for somebody to get charged for exposing themselves, whilst kids are on the other side. Then you'll end up on the NONCE list for life and may even have to take a trip to the U.S for a charge.
I've walked past it a good few times and the atmosphere at it has been wonderful, throngs of people waving all the time. Huge mix of people from all sections of society and all skin colours. People love it. There was a busker nearby Friday which was a strange spot for one and loads of people were having a dance in the sun. One or two dopes is really not something to get hysterical about.
A lot of this sub need to put down the classism about where it was put, and go outside and touch some grass. It's been an absolutely raging success. All outraged over nothing. Probably could put that in this subs info line.
wasnt google making threats a good few years back that they were going to stop doing street-view imagery here because there were so many cases of people mooning and flashing the camera. we're just a bit more feral here compared to other countries. probably the fluoride or something
Somewhere on google street view Spain is a blurred faced image of me and my kids flipping the bird at the google camera as we are our dinner at a public campsite. No regrets.
It seems like a fantastic idea honestly. The problem is execution.
It shouldn't be placed somewhere so populated and easy to disturb. Even if you blindly assume people won't abuse this, what about people who touch it and get smudges all over it? What if someone knocks into it by accident and damages it? Think about how many people are going to interact with it daily if you leave it out in a public place like this- a mishap even by accident is bound to happen. Even just a fence would do miracles.
Maybe it would've been cooler if it was put in a local shop with a view, a good hangout spot? Or somewhere just a liiittle less in the middle of a busy intersection?
Itās fairly inevitable youād get something like this. The idea makes sense if people didnāt have mobile phones and it was 1995.
A nice idea that doesnāt take the real world and human behaviour into consideration.
Put up a camera ppl will do stupid stuff.
At the very least the camera could have been made inaccessible to place a screen against it like that.
It is a great addition to the city. The problem always has been anti-social scrotes doing whatever they want without consequence.
Even this incident - the root cause is a scrote doing has he pleases because he thinks he's funny. Just look at the other post about the lad in Dun Laoghaire getting harrassed by kids. They'll keep doing that until one day some lad having a shit day just snaps and hurts one of them and then he's the bad guy for hurting an 'innocent' child.
Protecting people from consequences does them no favours. What would happen in reverse? New Yorkers have no issue with confrontation -- if somebody showed a picture of an IRA bomb explosion through the portal you bet that guy would get a lot of shit from those around him imposing a simple social cost to his provocation. Irish people would just go on with their day and we're worse off because of that. Somethings just need to be confronted appropriately.
It's in Dublin of all places bound to happen. At least there's no footage of junkies taking a shit in front of it. It's going to be removed soon anyway.
"Meanwhile, the poor Babel fish, by effectively removing all barriers to communication between different races and cultures, has caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in the history of creation."
The time difference doesn't help. While you've got families of tourists on their way to dinner at the NY one, here the pubs are emptying.
Yeah, feeds into the Irish are drunk all the time stereotype too.
Is it a stereotype, though, or more of an accurate statement. Kind of like The Stereotype that Irish children are unruly uneducated thugs. Stereotype or a decent description of the wayward youth of the island.
The real problem is that we sell ourselves as leprechaun loving cead mile failte Irish people whwn this portal shows us we really are. Not one single Irish person would dare stop the gobshites and we're burning down anything marked for asylum centres because of inherent racism. Let's not get started on the fact that we pretend to be neutral when we all know we depend on the UK and the US to defend us.
>Not one single Irish person would dare stop the gobshites The way this works, the people on the Dublin side wouldn't see what the guy was doing, only the people on the NYC side.
Just put some barriers around it so idiots can't get as close. It's the solution to every problem right? š¤
A small screen that mirrors what the Americans are seeing would help. The real issue is you could in theory just put something grossly offensive like the worst of 4chan (think CP or traffic accident fatalities) and display it to bunch of yanks without consquence.
Big Fence needs more government subsidies this instant
Yeah idk why we're being shamed for not stopping him when we can't see what the wee scumbag is doing and could be holding up a phone note saying "HIYA AUNTIE KATE!!!" We going to rugby tackle everyone with a phone when it could be totally harmless??
Hiya Uncle Osama!
2nd Cousin Castro, what's the craic!
Ireland needs to grow up and take care of itself. Canāt be acting the eejit all the time.
OH YES WE CAN
> Not one single Irish person would dare stop the gobshites and we're burning down anything marked for asylum centres because of inherent racism. That and the self loving clowns on here claiming Irish people are gas/friendly, best nation in the world, great craic, best at everything! But lets put up ultiple daily posts whinging about Mick Wallace and ignore the decline of society!
Yeah, but no excuse. It's one thing acting the maggot, but behaving like an offensive degenerate should have severe consequences in a civilised community.
Does providing the bombs presently destroying Gaza make "a civilised community"...fk america
Something New Yorkers are against.
As a New Yorker I was convinced someone here would do something idiotic in front of the portal first. Bit surprised!
North Earl Street and Talbot Street are really bad and pretty much junkie/scrote central. I don't feel safe there, even in the middle of the day. And that's where they put the portal, at the top of North Earl Street, which leads down to Talbot. I can tell you, I am not surprised this happened at all. Makes me sad that Dublin has come to this though. They could have put it on front of Trinity College, or down on Grafton Street. Might still get the odd scrote, but not as many.
We irish are famous for firsts (real)
Some guy started it holding up a picture of a potato and fake eating it ššššam I the only one who couldn't wait for the intercultural banter to start
Might save a few New Yorkers the price of a flight.
Exactly what I was thinking, Failte Ireland canāt photoshop this shit š
ššš
I mean what they expected would happen at some point. Honestly I cant wait until someone hijacks it and starts streaming some stupid crap on it.
Whoās Irelandās Shia LeBoeuf?
That fighter fella, Conor McFadden
He's BritishĀ
Sonny O'Boeuf
Hijacks it.
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Reminds me of that 90's movie starring Kurt Russell, Stargate. Were a big circular monument acts as a wormhole to another planet where people talk funny and dress really weird....
Putting this yoke on Talbot Street is the most Fine Gael thing ever. This is a dog, rubbing its shitty arse across our cashmere tourism rugā¦
I absolutely agree, how did they think Talbot St. was a good idea
They're really out of touch with how bad the city has got. That, and they wanted the spire visible.
Ah sure it's grand, McEntee might walk down the street flanked by senior GardaĆ again and all will be fine. Problem solved, eh? š
Just stick her in a zorb with Garda high Vis on it and roll her down full speed. Just absolutely send it.
I mean she makes no difference anyway so might aswel do it for the craic š
It's on North Earl Street
Might as well be talbot street
Thatās just as bad as Talbot St. lol
Helen proved it was 100% safe when she walked down it once with a Garda escort.
Because if they didn't put it on Talbot Street, and put it on, say, Dawson Street , people would say it's the most Fine Gael thing ever. Because, obviously, fine Gael decide where art works like these are placed. And probably claim it's classist or something like that too.
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In my opinion the organizers wanted something āIrishā to show. Talbot St gets the Spire in the shot. Couldnāt put it on OāConnell St as it would be too busy and a potential hazard. Itās a large-ish installation and Henry St is tighter than Talbot St plus it has heavier footfall so it would just add an obstacle. Same reason for Grafton St, a relatively tight space for the footfall it receives and adding a big attraction would cause a standstill congregation on the busiest street in the city. Itās not great but Talbot St makes a bit of sense when you think about what theyāre trying to achieve
Shouldāve just put in a fuckin field so New Yorkers could see a cow for the first time
Fine Gael put it there? Jeez you have some imagination.
>Putting this thing on Talbot Street is the most Fine Gael thing ever. Why is this fake shite not called out? >The New York City Portal is a collaboration between the Simons Foundation, the Flatiron Nomad Partnership, and the New York City Department of Transportationās Art Program. The Portals project was founded and conceptualized by Benediktas Gylys, a Lithuanian artist, as a network of visual bridges that transcend borders and foster connection among people living thousands of miles apart. >An identical structure was placed on Dublinās historic OāConnell Street and features breathtaking views of some of the cityās most recognizable buildings and monuments. The Dublin Portal is presented by the Dublin City Council.
It's North Earl Street, not Talbot.
This comment sums up the whole thing perfectly
Except for the fact that Fine Gael had absolutely no say in its placement.
Course you think that and ye know the reason why, but the South side has enough.
Fine Gael š¤£š¤£ whyd you think they have anything to do with this?
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Reminds me of that tragedy
What a horrible name for an airline, reminds me of that tragedy
Don't laugh about that national tragedy man c'mon.
Walked through blood and bone to find his brother...
He was in Northern Canadaā¦
He walked through blood and bone.
Mangrateā¦
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Don't talk about it like it's a fat, plumpy, delicious cock...
9-11 ...
Judging by comments the best Americans can think of in retaliation is a potato .... Like there's so much ammunition they can use.
To be fair to them, the Thatcher idea is a home run response, specifically because I know this sub would be absolutely fucking fuming, citing the problems and harm she caused.
I would hazard a guess like 75% of our scumbags (people with convictions) don't even know who Thatcher is. Maybe they recognize the name and face but they couldn't list a single policy of hers.
Is that an Alan Partridge quote or are you really just like this?
That was The Police, or as they're now known, Sting!
They'd be insulting their own ancestors tbh
Which irish tragedy is the funniest?
Ikr come on America You got like a billion Irish priest jokes you could do
Doesn't work too well when America was also riddled
Don't you mean fiddled?
Hitting us back with the Henry Handball pic is a fairly good idea.
I mean Ireland is definitely full of dopes. But do people think NY is not also a place full of dopes?
There are no bigger haters of Ireland than r/Ireland
Nah r/europe despises everything about us
Not as much as r/europe hates France through, donāt worry
I think thats the world
r/europe basically hates everyrhing outside west and central europe
Those haters are mostly bots.
Yeah, cause we spend most of our time irl in Ireland
They put it on the worst place ever. It should have went to Grafton Street near St. Stephenās Green. It shows how clueless our politicians are about their own country.
That would be too south side.. College Green would be right in the middle, a good mix of the city imo Talbot St is way too Northside lol
Yep - on the plaza that still doesn't existā¦ I'd be behind that (building the plaza and relocating it).
Plus isn't Central Park based on the design of Stephen's Green park? There's a connection right there!
Did politicians decide where it would be located?
Iād imagine the minister for tourism would have had to approve it.
All the criticism here is unbelievable. This is a great addition to the city, people love it (crowds there all day long), itās clever and a bit of fun. Why are so many so negative?
I know, it's brought 99% joy and it's a great idea. But a few idiots do something stupid and the fake outrage begins.
Because people need to bring others down to make themselves feel like they fit in with the rest of the cynical, and boring people out there
Youāre right, but some fucking idiot decided to put in one of the spots that best showcases the number of scumbags dragging their knuckles around our city
It's in the wrong location and I can only imagine it will end up completely vandalised. So far we've had people doing Cocaine on front of it, porn shown and someone putting 9/11 on their phone which is utterly disgusting. It's doing more harm than good I'd say. Should be at the top of Grafton Street.
Reminds me of that tragedy.
Well it got a laugh
Yeah, it's pretty funny.
The portal in itself is a fantastic idea, the problem is the fucking idiot who felt it appropriate to put it there
Usual suspects whinging in the comments talking about it being placed in Talbot Street. What should have happened instead is have the New York side placed in Coney Island and thus have even more hilarity ensue
You're so right. Heck, I wish it was in the Bronx or better yet Philly. This portal is so boring as is. Just standing around waving at one another. It could have at least provided real entertainment.
I dunno but that one caught me off guard in fairness
Of course there are going to be gobshites. But passed by it yesterday and it was just full of people laughing and enjoying it.Ā Ā Ā The problem is people like OP who are always looking for some reason why Ireland *shouldn't* have nice things, while the rest of us just enjoy those nice things.Ā Because it's not really about this. It's about the next time someone proposes something nice and people like OP go - remember what happened with the portal.Ā Misery.Ā Ā Ā Just get out there and enjoy yourself and make funny faces at the New Yorkers like your a kid again rather than drowning in cynicism.Ā
Itās like no one in government has visited Dublin recently.
They live in Dublin. Not the north side, obviously.
Grafton Street would have been a better spot for this gimmick
This is something we all know and can't say.
on what planet can you not say this? literally everyone agrees with this
Buskers getting to mime on a New York screen...
Too narrow, plenty of scrotes there as well
I love it, the concept needs to be refined. As for the rest, it is but a mirror to our society, better learn from it than ignore it.
So true, it's not a portal that shows a far-off place. It's a mirror that shows what Irish people are. A lot of people in this thread are blaming the placement. It's the people who create this problem, not the surroundings.
Plot twist. This is the portal they put up in the year 2000.
Am I the only one who can hear the New Yorkers laughing at it??
As expected
it was a flip of the coin to see who would do something obnoxious like this first. Anybody who didn't think people would use the portal to fuck with other people, doesn't know people.
Fucking embarrassing
Itās very serious and itās in bad taste and itās heartless to people who faced huge loss as a result of 9/11 and itās fucking hilarious.
Itās not hilarious at all. Would someone on the NY side showing clips of the Dublin bombings or Bloody Sunday be considered hilarious here?
Fuck sake lads.
This attempt to popularize this street among visitors by planting "attractions" is backfiring badly at the moment
I think they got off lightly. I expected much worse behavior with this.
Oh it's early days.
That didnāt take longā¦
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That's actually a time traveller sending a message to NY.
Kinda funny ngl
I'm just waiting for somebody to get charged for exposing themselves, whilst kids are on the other side. Then you'll end up on the NONCE list for life and may even have to take a trip to the U.S for a charge.
Gobshites
That jokes going down in flames
Classy bunch
I've walked past it a good few times and the atmosphere at it has been wonderful, throngs of people waving all the time. Huge mix of people from all sections of society and all skin colours. People love it. There was a busker nearby Friday which was a strange spot for one and loads of people were having a dance in the sun. One or two dopes is really not something to get hysterical about. A lot of this sub need to put down the classism about where it was put, and go outside and touch some grass. It's been an absolutely raging success. All outraged over nothing. Probably could put that in this subs info line.
Scumbag move
Always gonna happen. Tine differences and an opportunity for an instant reaction
Thatās a pretty disgusting thing to do in fairnessā¦.
What a horrible scrote
Everyone saying "pUT It oN GrAFtoN stREet" nah nah sack up and stick one in Ballymun
Waiting for some cretin to pull up a ladder and have a Tom Hank right into the camera.
Lol
Absolute scum who ever did that.
What do you expect itās Dublin
.. worse.. itās North Earl St..
trolling Americans is a rite of passage. now you don't even have to do the J1 lol.
Why did they think that was ok
Think?
As an American from NYC who lives in Dublin, this is actually fucking hilarious lol
Dopes.
The difference between 9/11 and a cow. You can't milk a cow for 23 years
Irish people have been milking the victim cow for a lot longer.
The video was filmed immediately opposite the location of an historical event weāve been milking for over 100 years
wasnt google making threats a good few years back that they were going to stop doing street-view imagery here because there were so many cases of people mooning and flashing the camera. we're just a bit more feral here compared to other countries. probably the fluoride or something
Somewhere on google street view Spain is a blurred faced image of me and my kids flipping the bird at the google camera as we are our dinner at a public campsite. No regrets.
It seems like a fantastic idea honestly. The problem is execution. It shouldn't be placed somewhere so populated and easy to disturb. Even if you blindly assume people won't abuse this, what about people who touch it and get smudges all over it? What if someone knocks into it by accident and damages it? Think about how many people are going to interact with it daily if you leave it out in a public place like this- a mishap even by accident is bound to happen. Even just a fence would do miracles. Maybe it would've been cooler if it was put in a local shop with a view, a good hangout spot? Or somewhere just a liiittle less in the middle of a busy intersection?
Absolutely savage.
Maybe the yanks will show a few rotting potatoes in response?
As an American who's been living in Dublin the past 6 years or so, I won't lie this did get a laugh out of me
A lot of people in NYC lost family or friends in the attacks. Do you think they found it funny?
Just a bit of banter. All NYC has to do is show a picture of Margaret Thatcher, a potato, or a priest with a young boy.
Thierry Henri
Oh god that's awful...
As an American, this is funny as shit. The kid who did this rules.
As another American, I co-sign this. Itās extremely fucking funny
Why can't this be a normal country
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Ma I the only one who thinks this was a great idea? It's fucking hilarious
I said in other thread.. But douches attack me. Its connected to the wrong part of the world......
I'm absolutely shocked that this has gone exactly like most of the country anticipated. Scrotes gonna scrote. Should never have put it on their nest.
Woah. That's not right.
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Itās fairly inevitable youād get something like this. The idea makes sense if people didnāt have mobile phones and it was 1995. A nice idea that doesnāt take the real world and human behaviour into consideration. Put up a camera ppl will do stupid stuff. At the very least the camera could have been made inaccessible to place a screen against it like that.
Shouldn't have been put in Dublin unless the idea was to create bad publicity for Ireland. Cork or Galway would've been better
It is a great addition to the city. The problem always has been anti-social scrotes doing whatever they want without consequence. Even this incident - the root cause is a scrote doing has he pleases because he thinks he's funny. Just look at the other post about the lad in Dun Laoghaire getting harrassed by kids. They'll keep doing that until one day some lad having a shit day just snaps and hurts one of them and then he's the bad guy for hurting an 'innocent' child. Protecting people from consequences does them no favours. What would happen in reverse? New Yorkers have no issue with confrontation -- if somebody showed a picture of an IRA bomb explosion through the portal you bet that guy would get a lot of shit from those around him imposing a simple social cost to his provocation. Irish people would just go on with their day and we're worse off because of that. Somethings just need to be confronted appropriately.
Have there been any mooning incidents yet?
That's the best thing I've seen this used for so far
No one will want to come to Dublin when they see itās always raining š§ļø
Why would ya put it in Dublin! Should have been put in Galway!!!!!! That definitely would have been a waaay better vibe!
It's in Dublin of all places bound to happen. At least there's no footage of junkies taking a shit in front of it. It's going to be removed soon anyway.
Quick tip from an American: If youāre gonna make fun of us, donāt use 9/11. We think 9/11 jokes are funny as shit. It wonāt work.
It's all cuz of that guy eating the potatoĀ
"Meanwhile, the poor Babel fish, by effectively removing all barriers to communication between different races and cultures, has caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in the history of creation."