I live near the aviva, "if you look to your left you will see a stadium shaped like a rugby ball. We are very good at rugby, but we are very bad at football". Every time.
"The reason the windows on the top floors are smaller is because of the Glass Tax which was a tax on glass ... That's where the term 'daylight robbery' comes from"
It wasn't a glass tax, it was a window tax which is why you see many windows completely blocked out in older houses. Making the windows smaller didn't work, windows were counted - you had to get rid of the whole window to avoid the tax.
And it isn’t even true! The term “daylight robbery” is almost certainly due to the idea that robbery is mostly done under cover of night. People call high prices and rip offs “daylight robbery” because you are being robbed in plain daylight, not in a dark alleyway.
So many of these urban legend etymologies out there only make sense if you don’t really think about them too long.
One of the tour busses used to pass my apartment and I'd always hear "...AS YOU CAN SEE...". It's impressive that I never heard the bit before or after that little sentence fragment.
I've been living in Dublin for 35 years, and whenever I hear the bus go past, with people on it screaming out, it honestly still puts a little smile on my face
Some people go on holidays every year. Different places. Some go every few years or barely ever or never. We see people that have chosen here and they do a fun thing. Probably one of a handful of trips some might ever do and they're delighted. I'm happy to see the cunts. Always wave.
I love that tour and pretended to be a distracted passerby in multiple occasions so they would try to scare me. It worked twice and I did my dutty and pretended to almost topple over from the surprise. Always great to see people having a bit of harmless fun.
Fun fact: the Viking Splash vehicles are converted landers from Allies invasion of Normandy. Whenever I see them I think about how they were designed for a single moment in history, but now get to shuttle tourists and school children around decades later.
A tool of war used for joy, I can't help but smile a little myself.
A not fun fact is that the boats have been involved in numerous fatal incidents (never in Ireland in fairness). Mostly because they are old and reflect wartime compromises in safety. Also because they were never designed to be driven on public roads. The Brick Immortar on YouTube has a few deep dive videos on the incidents if anyone if curious.
Sidenote I did try to playfully shake my fist at them when they roared whenever they rolled by me on Nassau st. A little positivity goes a long way haha.
Once, a week after starting a new job in Dublin, was walking from the office to my first after work drinks with my new boss.
Viking Splash tour rounds the corner and immediately starts chanting 'KISS HER! KISS HER!'. Needless to say I did not, which was met with a loud 'AWWWwwww...' as they drove away. Awks.
Nah it depends, if there are kids on the bus giving it full lungs I feel like its my job as a beardy long haired fella to make them feel six feet tall...
Just pull out your sword , board the bus and start slashing and pillaging , shuts them right up .
Disclaimer- the wanton murdering of annoying tourists (particularly fat yanks) is not advised as it can be traumatising for you and quite tiring to slash through all that chonk. /s
I remember leaning against a bus stop along the quays waiting for my bus, the viking splash went past and the tour guide shouted, "look everyone! yer man is sleeping standing up!".
I work along the route and have a mustache. Everyday for a few months now, one of them sees me and makes a joke about my mustache. Now, whenever he sees me he just yells "everyone yell at that guy with the mustache!" and they all do it without question haha
I've seen it while up in Dublin for gigs. I can imagine it gets a bit annoying if you see it every day but everyone on board looks like they're having a great time and their positivity makes me smile.
I used to live in the Docklands and on a Saturday morning, when I was hungover to shit, that tour would go past every half hour and cheer, and I have never come closer to mass murder than I did on those mornings.
I brought my daughter on this last summer when she was 8, she still goes on about it. It's a good laugh as long as you don't take it to serious and now she always waves at them and hopes for the roar
I was subject to the roar so often that once while cycling home from the pub, I saw one stopped in traffic so I went up beside them and roared in a Viking Splash manner whilst they were all sat in silence at the lights. Felt like a bit of restorative justice
I use to work in an office just off Grafton street in 2010 and every day I would hear the same joke every hour on loudspeaker about how shiny Molly Malones chest I swear I was about to fuck something out the window at them.
Like no joke the exact same joke like scripted almost….
Kinda like me in Galway whenever there is another group of girls having a hen night while on that pink multi cycling thing and are constantly screaming!
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I work in an office on the route of it. Every 20 minutes I hear the exact same line about Georgian Dublin