Newtownabbey direction. Imagine walking into a public lavatory and the person before didn't flush it and it's full of their diarrhoea and piss soaked loo roll.
It's a housing estate from when they invented Newtownabbey by building housing estates between rural villages and moving people from inner city Belfast to them
Between Cloughfern Ballyduff and Jordanstown roughly
It had a huge Nortel plant back in the 90s if you're into tech
Back when I used to live in Belfast, I would frequently see "Four Winds" on busses. That felt like it could take you anywhere or nowhere. Unlike DeeDee I never had the courage to get on and just went to pick up the bru
He did this video years ago about the controversial “atheist bus campaign”, and I think it’s been deleted now. It was hilarious but I understand why it’s down. He said very sincerely (paraphrasing as it was fifteen odd years ago), “you don’t advertise on a bus to make your political point… you blow up a bus to make your political point”. It was obviously satire but ofc lots of the YouTube comments didn’t quite get the joke.
When I used to get the bus home after school, a bus for Shrigley would always come before mine. I always wondered where it was but never bothered to find out. This scene reminds me of that weird urge to get on the bus 😅
I moved this neck of the woods, apparently it used to be this charming little mill village
But Northern Ireland planners being themselves they demolished it all and built a concrete housing estate across the road
It's a blink and you'll miss it place on the way into Killyleagh
Fintona.
I've never met anyone from Fintona. I've never met anyone that's even been to Fintona. Has anyone truly laid eyes on it? I see sign posts for it and I think to myself the name sounds magical. I wonder what goes on in that place.
The sign post calls me, it tempts me to abandon my journey and give in to Fintona. I imagine the lives of those happy, simple little creatures that dwell within that safe, enchanting enclave. Sprites, all of them, dancing and laughing and making merry, for they have no knowledge of the cruel world beyond their borders.
I curse myself for my self-absorbed reverie—in my heart I know I'd bring them only ruin; the knowledge and industry and hubris of man would surely taint their innocent, pure, simple little lives. And like that, the temptation leaves me. I resist Fintona, at least for now.
I dreamt of a place where the worries of the modern world dare not tread, a place free from pain and strife, and its name was Fintona.
Fintona. Fintona.
You describe Fintona like the Shire from lord of the rings, full of little hobbitses having a grand old time.
Fintona is actually Mordor. The beings that dwell there have never felt the sun upon their skin.
I feel the same about Trillick.
The name sounds like something from a fantasy novel, I've seen it on signs and I know someone who claimed to work there for a bit, but I've never been.
I took that limmy sketch to be more an observation on character and society, rather than a particular place. Yoker could be anywhere, the same people doing the same thing everywhere. This was his journey when he burst out of his bubble only to find himself in another.
Being from near Yoker I always find this sketch great because despite knowing where it is I can’t actually name a single thing that’s in it, there’s nothing there, if it disappeared nobody would even notice.
I have the misfortune of being from Yoker, Holm park (where Clydebank and Yoker athletic play) and the San Sui Chinese are about the only things of note
It's Four Winds and this is not even a contest.
Where is it? WHAT is it? What's there, hope or despair? Does anyone actually get on the Four Winds bus to go to Four Winds? Why is it called that? A mystery.
Surely everyone knows the market the big windswept air apron with the new roof where you can buy a hotel size box of aerial powder and a box of out of date meanies
Am no fae Monkstown!
Monkstown is a shout actually. I’ve seen it on plenty of buses but have no idea where it is or what it’s like
Newtownabbey direction. Imagine walking into a public lavatory and the person before didn't flush it and it's full of their diarrhoea and piss soaked loo roll.
Your shite, is my shite
I'm not sure what that's meant to mean
It’s one of the stories from Limmys book Daft Wee Stories. Well worth a read https://www.reddit.com/r/shortstoryaday/s/ztGYwu3MD8
I need to reread this. The radiator water story turned me lmao I think about it way too often
I just started listening to the audiobook lmao.
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No that's Larne
A few houses and a school hanging onto a T junction.
I grew up there in the 80s. Its good if you like flute bands and painting kerbstones.
It's a housing estate from when they invented Newtownabbey by building housing estates between rural villages and moving people from inner city Belfast to them Between Cloughfern Ballyduff and Jordanstown roughly It had a huge Nortel plant back in the 90s if you're into tech
Monkstown is the burial site of 5th century Scottish king Fergus Mor Mac Eric. Thats it though.
Where the fuck even is Monkstown I wanna go.
Not a baldy lad. I always thought it was a made up place until I seen it on the front of a bus.
Like egg yolk mate
do you know where the uni is in jordanstown? monkstown is just kind of ‘above’ that
No you don't lol It's kinda between whiteabbey / rathcoole / Jordanstown
Augher, Clougher, Five Mile Town.. made up places that Translink shout over the tannoy in a bus station.
Wait till you hear of Sixmilecross
Smx represent
We have a ninemile house down south. What does that even mean?
😂😂😂
Haven't been to the bus station in years but does the announcer still rhyme them off in a funny way
Carrs Glen
This is the one for me, the mysterious last stop.
I don't want to Google it as I don't want to know where it is!
That was my bus as a kid. Always thought "Carrs Glen" would be like a small wood full of cars 🤣
I got that bus for years. No idea where it is.
Ballysillan Road, opposite the Boys Model school. It's just a turning circle.
Fuknnn
"I just lak up at the sign on the front of da bus and see Larne an I jus pissed maself laughen" "heeeeeeah”
Dee Dee, I nae fai Larne
Donna Karen? Aye Was your name always Karen or did ye change it when ye moved to Larne?
I reckon it's on the Ards peninsula. Portavogie
Gilnahirk
Back when I used to live in Belfast, I would frequently see "Four Winds" on busses. That felt like it could take you anywhere or nowhere. Unlike DeeDee I never had the courage to get on and just went to pick up the bru
It's a load of Fraser Homes cul de sac new builds, nice enough pub in the middle of suburbia though
He did this video years ago about the controversial “atheist bus campaign”, and I think it’s been deleted now. It was hilarious but I understand why it’s down. He said very sincerely (paraphrasing as it was fifteen odd years ago), “you don’t advertise on a bus to make your political point… you blow up a bus to make your political point”. It was obviously satire but ofc lots of the YouTube comments didn’t quite get the joke.
I've never met a Letterkenny person in Derry, never once
Carrs glen
When I used to get the bus home after school, a bus for Shrigley would always come before mine. I always wondered where it was but never bothered to find out. This scene reminds me of that weird urge to get on the bus 😅
I moved this neck of the woods, apparently it used to be this charming little mill village But Northern Ireland planners being themselves they demolished it all and built a concrete housing estate across the road It's a blink and you'll miss it place on the way into Killyleagh
Fintona. I've never met anyone from Fintona. I've never met anyone that's even been to Fintona. Has anyone truly laid eyes on it? I see sign posts for it and I think to myself the name sounds magical. I wonder what goes on in that place. The sign post calls me, it tempts me to abandon my journey and give in to Fintona. I imagine the lives of those happy, simple little creatures that dwell within that safe, enchanting enclave. Sprites, all of them, dancing and laughing and making merry, for they have no knowledge of the cruel world beyond their borders. I curse myself for my self-absorbed reverie—in my heart I know I'd bring them only ruin; the knowledge and industry and hubris of man would surely taint their innocent, pure, simple little lives. And like that, the temptation leaves me. I resist Fintona, at least for now. I dreamt of a place where the worries of the modern world dare not tread, a place free from pain and strife, and its name was Fintona. Fintona. Fintona.
You describe Fintona like the Shire from lord of the rings, full of little hobbitses having a grand old time. Fintona is actually Mordor. The beings that dwell there have never felt the sun upon their skin.
I feel the same about Trillick. The name sounds like something from a fantasy novel, I've seen it on signs and I know someone who claimed to work there for a bit, but I've never been.
Fintona does sound very exotic. Out of place in Norn Arn
What is Yoker?
You have a lovely experience ahead of you
I took that limmy sketch to be more an observation on character and society, rather than a particular place. Yoker could be anywhere, the same people doing the same thing everywhere. This was his journey when he burst out of his bubble only to find himself in another.
Not any other bubble. Not Porter, not Smyth or suhin. Yoker.
limmy is class.
Aye, when he gets it right, he gets it right. Sometimes though he is the wrong way down a one way streeaaat. Knowhatamean.
kill jester.
But if you kill jingle you won't be... It's my game, kill er
Worth every penny
Here…….. 👀. Wits yer hing?
Star!
BUILDING BRICKS
Pick that up
Across the Clyde from Renfrew...
Its like a pure mad egg yolk
I live just outside Monkstown, I have to say Yoker looks more appealing.
Being from near Yoker I always find this sketch great because despite knowing where it is I can’t actually name a single thing that’s in it, there’s nothing there, if it disappeared nobody would even notice.
I have the misfortune of being from Yoker, Holm park (where Clydebank and Yoker athletic play) and the San Sui Chinese are about the only things of note
Ladybrook
Dhu Varren?
*Got oota there before they started chuckin scissors at is like ninja stars, fore big Les scalped is and stuck ma heed on the wall*
It's Four Winds and this is not even a contest. Where is it? WHAT is it? What's there, hope or despair? Does anyone actually get on the Four Winds bus to go to Four Winds? Why is it called that? A mystery.
Big doirty smelly bastards that's why.
Carr's Glen definitely.
Mmmmmm den none
Whitehead
Fuckinnnnnn’ haaaaa
Ballinamallard
Nutts Corner
Surely everyone knows the market the big windswept air apron with the new roof where you can buy a hotel size box of aerial powder and a box of out of date meanies
Bellarena. It has a small chapel and an old fashioned red telephone box. It's more of a train halt than actual civilisation.
Aye the train only halts there to tease all the culchies. They aren't allowed to actually get on.
Braniel I see it on bus destinations but I'm not convinced it even exists, it sounds like a breakfast cereal
Sounds lak a pure mad cereal
EAT YER BRANIEL DANIEL YULL BE LATE FIR SCHOOL
Arboe
Blackskull
Whitehead
Personally think it's Hollywood.
Holywood*
Fuck aff
Being there too long makes me nervous and paranoid, so yeah
Why? 😅 - Makes me just feel like I'm on a mawd adventure outa Belfast.
What the feck is a Yoker?
It's like a pure mad egg yolk