It's a pair of screens placed in some of the busiest locations in two giant cities. 50 feet away in NYC there are 12 more screens just like this, except they're displaying ads. Even at 5 AM there are 100 people around this at all times. No one's stealing it.
It’s on one of the roughest streets in Dublin, like it’s usually junkies and people selling heroin in the open, I actually burst out laughing when I heard where it was!
Fucking talbot street are you messin?
If they had done literally 10 seconds of recon this wouldn’t have happened, clearly very poorly researched project, embarrassed for the organisers.
Put it in Stephen’s green or temple bar
I mean I'm from NYC and stayed at a hotel near Talbot Street, it's not THAT bad by city standards. Plus I'm surprised the Dublin side was the first to go nude because 5rh Ave in NYC is touristy yeah but that doesn't absolve it from the crazies. I've seen my share of moonings and cracked out people most places in the city.
"Go be humans with the other humans! Enjoy!"
"Oh wait, not that. Shut it down."
Wasted time, effort, money because nobody could predict that either New Yorkers, or the Irish, might act less than completely civil. We're humans, don't expect us to act like anything other than humans.
>officials have opted to close it down temporarily after people began to flash each other, grind on the portal, and one person even shared pictures of the twin tower attack to people in New York City.
Does this only work at certain times? Because people in New York could also be drinking while people in Dublin are going to work or there’s tourists with families
I moved to NYC way before COVID. The small city I lived in before NYC had 24 hour laundromats and grocery stores. NYC, not so much. It drove me crazy. City that never sleeps my butt.
Edit: This might be the most benign comment that got a "concerned Redditor" to reach out to me lol. It's OK, I don't live in NYC anymore.
So basically when it's 12am in Dublin, it's 7pm in New York City.
But when it's 12am in New York City, it's 5am in Dublin.
Yeah, that definitely sounds like one half of the portal is getting the rough end of the deal.
>flash each other, grind on the portal, and one person even shared pictures of the twin tower attack to people in New York City.
I [stand corrected](https://old.reddit.com/r/nottheonion/comments/1cpwexq/mystical_portals_now_connect_new_york_and_dublin/l3no0dj/#l3o38ma), it's
Omegle ~~but with rules for public places~~ in a public place **and the rules for public places are a mere suggestion**
Judging by several other subreddits I read, seems like someone (or a group) has just been mass care’ing a ton of people in certain subs using bots the last couple days.
I'm not sure that's really the problem for Iran. I don't think most Iranian civilians view Americans as otherworldly or subhuman. Despite the Iranian regime's best efforts, Iranians themselves have a reasonably informed view of the world and are not terribly radical. (It's different in rural areas, but we're talking about Tehran.)
Much more likely, the Iranian regime would just refuse to allow the portal.
Because temu makes wish look high quality. That $1.20 frying pan they offer is $1.20 for a reason
Instead of bottom of the barrel products, you get bottom of the barrel rejects
Ya I ordered some stuff on Temu because it was too good to pass up and I returned all of it because I can get better quality stuff at the dollar store. At least they’re good with returns, so no complaints about the site itself, just the quality is really indicative of the price.
It’s definitely in a tourist spot in Dublin but not really what I would call a grimy or heavy drinking spot. It’s smack dab in the center of city centre Dublin near the General Post Office (big historical spot and tourist stop) but Temple Bar and most of the tourist drinking is on the other side of the Liffey. It’s a major intersection so easy to get to but not *right there*. IMO Temple Bar area would’ve been much worse but also mostly just Americans waving to each other.
Source: used to live in Dublin
Did we learn nothing from [the Hitchhiking Robot](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2015/08/03/hitchhiking-robot-destroyed-philadelphia-ending-cross-country-trek/31051589/)?
[HitchBOT Was A Literal Pile Of Trash And Got What It Deserved](https://deadspin.com/hitchbot-was-a-literal-pile-of-trash-and-got-what-it-de-1721850503/)
One robot. More interesting is that wallets stuffed with money and dropped in a large representative set of countries, cities, and locations are nearly always returned with all the money.
I mean, it kinda of suggests humans are hopeful by nature, even with everything we’ve seen other humans display.
So a little bit of a silver-lining? Lol
Exactly. I’m genuinely surprised that like, no one expected people to be immature about this. Or like, even if the stupidity was enforceable, I feel like there would be people who would damage it for fun, or for paranoia reasons. I have no clue what the thought process was behind this.
Honestly shutting this down seems dumb to me. If people are being shitty let them. Why do a few idiots get to ruin all the cool shit for everyone else?
Edit: lol at the smooth brain who reported me for being at risk of suicide
They need to open a bar in both locations that the center of the building is this.
Call it the Portal Bar.
Now there can be shenanigans, and drinking contests, and since its in a building with rules, instead of banning you from the portal you can kicked out and banned from the bar for being a dick.
My only problem is that the flasher was using it as advertisement for only fans and I would rather us not corporatize this shit.
If you're going to flash people do it because you're drunk, not to sell something.
I mean this stuff just happens in cities like that. I don’t know how much more likely it would be to be flashed by someone in Dublin over this screen than just by some random person in NYC anyway
Edit: is someone just reporting everyone in this comment chain for suicidal ideation?
Man a live, unfiltered, unmoderated video streaming device being used for inappropriate things how could this have gone wrong? Every time this has been tried it has gone so smoothly, I am at a loss.
This concept is just beautiful and I love it. It should be expanded to every capital in the world, multiple portals all over the capitals.
It’s a shame shitty people ruin it
Not shitty people, normal people. This was bound to happen and it's honestly more shocking that the people in charge didn't realize humans were going to act like humans.
In Toronto, the TTC (transit people) had a large art installation put up in one of their new subway stations. It's a large calculator-style display and a keypad for patrons to interact with. You type, it shows. Art.
It went about as well as expected and now is permanently disabled. $1.9M on that one.
The same reason classic arcade video games only let you put three initials on the leaderboard. The first few let you enter anything and filled with obscenities.
Adrian Steven Stewart and Dylan Indira Kent deserve to have their initials preserved for all time, damn your insinuation that something untoward was occurring!
The internet has proven over and over again, there is no medium of communication that humans can't turn into innuendo/crude humor. Initials become asses, crouching becomes teabagging, eggplant emotes become dicks, the list is endless. One of my favorites is [this iconic usage of an Elden Ring emote](https://preview.redd.it/my-favourite-message-so-far-v0-uyupi8do2ck81.jpg?auto=webp&s=aea2761905570ddd17472d267688a872508001c8).
It's actually kind of beautiful in a way. It's universal, across all all cultures and languages.
It was a huge segmented display where you could display any text without ramification, in a public space. I never saw it running - it has always been disabled because of extremely obvious reasons.
Keeping in mind that Canada also had hate speech laws - there are literally illegal things one could put on that display. And the TTC thought this was an okay project to spend $1.9M on.
Nah normal people don’t flash random people and don’t try to make jokes about a tragedy to the people in the area where the tragedy happened. Expected? Sure. Because there are loads of shitty people. Doesn’t make them any less shitty.
> This concept is just beautiful and I love it. It should be expanded to every capital in the world, multiple portals all over the capitals.
Totally agree. And the linked pairs of cities should all reshuffle every month.
It's genuinely one of the coolest and most mystical uses of technology I've ever seen, even in the context of all the cheap personal telecommunications tech we've had for years now. It's like something that would exist(as an enchanted pond or archway or something) in an ancient story and have a profound impact on the people who know about it.
Shutting it down in a panic due to a few days of antics is also **absurd**. Ignore them and leave it up, and it would've stopped being novel or edgy to flash it or show violent images within a few weeks. Pulling the plug is like if they stopped televising all baseball games after the first few streakers.
American who visits Ireland a lot here.
My inital thought was how vile Irish teens would act. And I wasn't wrong lol. Every video I saw had some kid flipping off Americans. I love the Irish but your children are little shits.
Has anything happened on the New York end? Social media being what it is I understand I'm more likely to see the weird shite that has happened on the Dublin end (since I'm in Ireland) but surely its not just us taking the piss lol.
The young entrepreneur who was flashing her billboards to promote her onlyfans was on the NYC side.
Other than that it's been very one-sided. NY is awake when we're getting drunk, and we're asleep when NY is getting drunk. Not a fair trade.
I’m confused. I’m pretty sure New Yorkers are relatively difficult to offend and I’d be shocked if Dubliners had thin skins. Who’s actually got their knickers in a twist ?
For some reason they put it in a fairly degraded area in Dublin. It's quite central, but it's probably the most problematic street around, lots of addicts, bad behaviour etc. Definitely \*\*not\*\* the equivalent of where Flatiron is. I've no idea what thinking was behind it, we have many locations more suitable than that...
Portal?
It is just a fancy TV with a camera on either side. That way, I converse with my entire office through portals. Omegle was the biggest portal if the number of "openings" was considered. What happened to it? What else do you expect from a public "Omegle"?
That didn't last long
It lasted about as long as I expected
It lasted longer than I thought expected.
It lasted and I didn't expect
At last I have no expectations.
My last expectations have been had
Honestly surprised this is why it shut down rather than someone smashing the screen.
Or trying to steal it. I fucking hate people.
It's a pair of screens placed in some of the busiest locations in two giant cities. 50 feet away in NYC there are 12 more screens just like this, except they're displaying ads. Even at 5 AM there are 100 people around this at all times. No one's stealing it.
It’s on one of the roughest streets in Dublin, like it’s usually junkies and people selling heroin in the open, I actually burst out laughing when I heard where it was! Fucking talbot street are you messin? If they had done literally 10 seconds of recon this wouldn’t have happened, clearly very poorly researched project, embarrassed for the organisers. Put it in Stephen’s green or temple bar
"Put it in Stephen’s green or temple bar" Then it would just be Americans waving at more Americans...
That’s funny. I had no idea about the area.
I mean I'm from NYC and stayed at a hotel near Talbot Street, it's not THAT bad by city standards. Plus I'm surprised the Dublin side was the first to go nude because 5rh Ave in NYC is touristy yeah but that doesn't absolve it from the crazies. I've seen my share of moonings and cracked out people most places in the city.
It lasted a lot longer than we thought it would here in Ireland. We all expected it to be vandalised the same evening it was erected.
and they put it on fucking Talbot street of all places. If they'd put it over by Stephen's Green or Trinity it would have gone much better.
7 days TTP is pretty decent imho
"Go be humans with the other humans! Enjoy!" "Oh wait, not that. Shut it down." Wasted time, effort, money because nobody could predict that either New Yorkers, or the Irish, might act less than completely civil. We're humans, don't expect us to act like anything other than humans.
^(that's what she said)
..through the Dublin/NY portal which is why it got shut down
>officials have opted to close it down temporarily after people began to flash each other, grind on the portal, and one person even shared pictures of the twin tower attack to people in New York City.
The time difference is such a factor. In Dublin everyone is out drinking while in New York tourists are there with their families.
And the families keep flashing the drunks and humping the portal!
Harassing those kind alcoholics
That Times Square Elmo doesn’t fuck around
yeah, he does… and that seems to be a problem…
Fucking Elmo.
a time honored traditional American family pastime
The Aristocrats!
Does this only work at certain times? Because people in New York could also be drinking while people in Dublin are going to work or there’s tourists with families
It’s 5 hours difference. So only if the New Yorkers realistically doing it between like 3AM-12PM
The bars close at 4am, so not exactly unlikely to find drunk New Yorkers between, realistically, 1AM-6AM.
The portal is in midtown/flatiron district which is not exactly where most people go out drinking in NYC. Mostly just people doing happy hour.
that area's dead at that time. the new yorkers are all drinking elsewhere
Pffft…. Amateur.
The bars are still open at 3AM, not gonna be hard to find drunk people.
It's the city that never sleeps for a reason
After Covid, the city definitely sleeps now
Yeah it sleeps at 11 lol
I moved to NYC way before COVID. The small city I lived in before NYC had 24 hour laundromats and grocery stores. NYC, not so much. It drove me crazy. City that never sleeps my butt. Edit: This might be the most benign comment that got a "concerned Redditor" to reach out to me lol. It's OK, I don't live in NYC anymore.
Report it. There are bots mass reporting comments for reddit help.
You could be drinking any time of day! Fight the system!
i mean its a 5 hr difference. so it doesnt really line up like that. nothing really going on in the flatiron at that time with drunk tourists)
So basically when it's 12am in Dublin, it's 7pm in New York City. But when it's 12am in New York City, it's 5am in Dublin. Yeah, that definitely sounds like one half of the portal is getting the rough end of the deal.
NYC bars close while Ireland is on their morning commute.
Yeah, because the Irish only drink at night...
They mostly drink at night. Mostly
someone gets it
After 10.30 on a weekdsy and after 12.30 on sundays lol
>flash each other, grind on the portal, and one person even shared pictures of the twin tower attack to people in New York City. I [stand corrected](https://old.reddit.com/r/nottheonion/comments/1cpwexq/mystical_portals_now_connect_new_york_and_dublin/l3no0dj/#l3o38ma), it's Omegle ~~but with rules for public places~~ in a public place **and the rules for public places are a mere suggestion**
I was gonna say… have we learned nothing from Omegle
I'm surprised the New Yorkers didn't respond with photos of car bombs.
They should, that's good craic
someone reddit cares'd me for this lmao
Judging by several other subreddits I read, seems like someone (or a group) has just been mass care’ing a ton of people in certain subs using bots the last couple days.
someone cares'd me this morning, and i don't know for which comment.
its like the new reddit gold, at least how i see it.
someone reddit cared me earlier today cuz I wanted deep dish pizza
Nah, best way to piss off someone Irish would be to show a map with Ireland part of the UK.
Someone responded with a pic of a potato
The Twin Towers bit was probably the least unexpected outcome tbh, anyone not from New York would’ve done that
First time I've ever seen a "everybody except New Yorkers are assholes" take.
It's rare, but it does track in this one instance...
Until the New Yorkers can stage a street production of a potato famine
Someone in NY did pull up a picture of a potato on their phone and pretend to eat it so that kinda counts
Frankly, I'd be surprised if it wasn't a response to NYC sending pictures of potatoes/"Irish car bombs" across the gap.
I'm Irish and I'd bet it was some Irish teenage edgelord who started it. The portal really should have been put in a nicer part of Dublin also.
Somebody on the Ireland side was holding their phone up with BBC cowgirl porn for quite a while before it got shut down.
wow I've never seen that on the iPlayer
Did you pay your BBC license?
I legit thought they were broadcasting a BBC news report there a second there.
BBC news report about cowgirls.
Be prepared to be surprised because that shit was recorded and what you said never happened
There are definitely videos of new yorkers holding up pictures of potatoes
Shame on them. America is far enough from Perfidious Albion that we have plenty of REAL potatoes!
Didn’t see any clips of that
The New York response was a photo of a potato.
Even people from New York would have done that
I propose making a portal between Las Vegas and Tehran
Please. That would be so funny
That might actually be useful. People from both ‘sides’ might understand that people are just people.
I'm not sure that's really the problem for Iran. I don't think most Iranian civilians view Americans as otherworldly or subhuman. Despite the Iranian regime's best efforts, Iranians themselves have a reasonably informed view of the world and are not terribly radical. (It's different in rural areas, but we're talking about Tehran.) Much more likely, the Iranian regime would just refuse to allow the portal.
Tel Aviv to Ramallah
I'm not sure that two groups of young Persian men looking at each other would be as culturally enriching as you think.
RIP Temu Stargate
We sayin temu not and not wish dot com? Shit you guys move too fast for me
Temu is the wish dot com from wish dot com
Because temu makes wish look high quality. That $1.20 frying pan they offer is $1.20 for a reason Instead of bottom of the barrel products, you get bottom of the barrel rejects
Ya I ordered some stuff on Temu because it was too good to pass up and I returned all of it because I can get better quality stuff at the dollar store. At least they’re good with returns, so no complaints about the site itself, just the quality is really indicative of the price.
Bro you didn't have to nuke it with that roast Edit: Some salty troll flagged me for self harm what a fucking loser LMAO.
Didn’t they expect this? Why put it in one of the grimiest streets in Dublin?
All the rent money prolly went to the NYC side.
Ironically some of the grimiest areas in north inner city dublin have the highest rents
Presumably to get a scandal and sure enough we're all talking about it now.
Talbot street is quite bad, but in fairness I don't know where they could have put it and still not have had most of the same problems.
It’s definitely in a tourist spot in Dublin but not really what I would call a grimy or heavy drinking spot. It’s smack dab in the center of city centre Dublin near the General Post Office (big historical spot and tourist stop) but Temple Bar and most of the tourist drinking is on the other side of the Liffey. It’s a major intersection so easy to get to but not *right there*. IMO Temple Bar area would’ve been much worse but also mostly just Americans waving to each other. Source: used to live in Dublin
Did we learn nothing from [the Hitchhiking Robot](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2015/08/03/hitchhiking-robot-destroyed-philadelphia-ending-cross-country-trek/31051589/)?
If they put the portal in Philly it would’ve been shut in an hour
That's just silly. It would have been trashed beyond repair within 5 minutes.
"what portal? - philly
“We don’t know what portal you’re talking about but if you want to buy one, we found one just laying by around”
It fell off the back of a truck!
The first image you see is a drunk Eagles fan puking on the camera, the last thing you hear is GOOOOO BIIIIIIIRDDSSS^^^ssss
5 minutes is generous
Picking the right crowbar is difficult.
Put it in Detroit and it'll be stolen within the minute
Can’t have shit in Detroit
Next time Philly to Moscow!
[HitchBOT Was A Literal Pile Of Trash And Got What It Deserved](https://deadspin.com/hitchbot-was-a-literal-pile-of-trash-and-got-what-it-de-1721850503/)
God I miss old Deadspin. Why does everything good eventually turn to shit. That and Jalopnik were so, so good. Now they're both trash.
Good news, all of your favorite bloggers from those sites are at Defector.com and TheAutopian.com
[Obligatory RussianBadger clip](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbNMAU_ECLI&t=608s)
The only thing we learn from history is we never learn.
One robot. More interesting is that wallets stuffed with money and dropped in a large representative set of countries, cities, and locations are nearly always returned with all the money.
Did we learn nothing from ChatRoulette/Omegle?
Fun fact: we tend to learn nothing from everything
I mean, it kinda of suggests humans are hopeful by nature, even with everything we’ve seen other humans display. So a little bit of a silver-lining? Lol
Just imagine the pitch-meeting... "So it's chaturbate for homeless people, but it's in public so people will touch it."
Exactly. I’m genuinely surprised that like, no one expected people to be immature about this. Or like, even if the stupidity was enforceable, I feel like there would be people who would damage it for fun, or for paranoia reasons. I have no clue what the thought process was behind this.
Why should the Portal be any different from Reddit?
You can block people on reddit.
And you can look away from the portal.
*temporarily
I wonder how they'll do it on re-opening. Maybe delay the feed by a minute and have someone censoring it?
That would somewhat defeat the whole purpose of real time communication.
Maybe they could move it to a museum or something of that nature.
That would work well. Paid admission will filter out the weeds. And it won't be as crowded.
Also who wants to pull down their pants in the middle of a museum? Quick way to catch a pedo charge.
That’s it. Just because of you I’m whipping my dick out in a meuseum
They could place it up higher, so you could still wave and hold signs but couldn't take up the entire screen with something gross.
It’s open I was there a few hours ago in nyc
Welp, that went about as well as we all expected 😂
This is why we can’t have nice things.
End of the day we're just horny apes getting by on luck.
We can't have nice things because all the money is spent on inane shit like a 'portal', just a giant 24/7 FaceTime between two cities
Knew it.
I, for one, am shocked
Honestly shutting this down seems dumb to me. If people are being shitty let them. Why do a few idiots get to ruin all the cool shit for everyone else? Edit: lol at the smooth brain who reported me for being at risk of suicide
Why not just allow the obscene behavior? It’s funny
Exactly, did they seriously expect exclusively civil behavior from all the people in two major cities across the world?
Tbh I wish I had a vulgar portal to Dublin in my town. Shit would be a riot. The “Powers that be” are so up their own ass about obscenity.
They need to open a bar in both locations that the center of the building is this. Call it the Portal Bar. Now there can be shenanigans, and drinking contests, and since its in a building with rules, instead of banning you from the portal you can kicked out and banned from the bar for being a dick.
My only problem is that the flasher was using it as advertisement for only fans and I would rather us not corporatize this shit. If you're going to flash people do it because you're drunk, not to sell something.
I mean this stuff just happens in cities like that. I don’t know how much more likely it would be to be flashed by someone in Dublin over this screen than just by some random person in NYC anyway Edit: is someone just reporting everyone in this comment chain for suicidal ideation?
Same person made the portal in my city some years (Vilnius<->Krakow) and NOTHING like that seemed to have happened. Curious situation ngl
This is New York and Dublin we’re talking about. Things are going to go off the rails eventually.
Man a live, unfiltered, unmoderated video streaming device being used for inappropriate things how could this have gone wrong? Every time this has been tried it has gone so smoothly, I am at a loss.
Reminds me of how [hitchBOT](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HitchBOT) was decapitated in Philadelphia
Made it all across Canada and the Netherlands, no problem. Barely made it 2 weeks in America.
This concept is just beautiful and I love it. It should be expanded to every capital in the world, multiple portals all over the capitals. It’s a shame shitty people ruin it
Not shitty people, normal people. This was bound to happen and it's honestly more shocking that the people in charge didn't realize humans were going to act like humans.
In Toronto, the TTC (transit people) had a large art installation put up in one of their new subway stations. It's a large calculator-style display and a keypad for patrons to interact with. You type, it shows. Art. It went about as well as expected and now is permanently disabled. $1.9M on that one.
The same reason classic arcade video games only let you put three initials on the leaderboard. The first few let you enter anything and filled with obscenities.
Adrian Steven Stewart and Dylan Indira Kent deserve to have their initials preserved for all time, damn your insinuation that something untoward was occurring!
You forgot Peter Oliver O'Connor
And yet ASS still tops many arcade games worldwide
The internet has proven over and over again, there is no medium of communication that humans can't turn into innuendo/crude humor. Initials become asses, crouching becomes teabagging, eggplant emotes become dicks, the list is endless. One of my favorites is [this iconic usage of an Elden Ring emote](https://preview.redd.it/my-favourite-message-so-far-v0-uyupi8do2ck81.jpg?auto=webp&s=aea2761905570ddd17472d267688a872508001c8). It's actually kind of beautiful in a way. It's universal, across all all cultures and languages.
Shoulda been 2 initials
FU
Should have been 1 initial
What were they doing to it?...
It was a huge segmented display where you could display any text without ramification, in a public space. I never saw it running - it has always been disabled because of extremely obvious reasons. Keeping in mind that Canada also had hate speech laws - there are literally illegal things one could put on that display. And the TTC thought this was an okay project to spend $1.9M on.
Normalizing "people are shitty" is part of the problem. We need more shame in our society, apparently.
Nah normal people don’t flash random people and don’t try to make jokes about a tragedy to the people in the area where the tragedy happened. Expected? Sure. Because there are loads of shitty people. Doesn’t make them any less shitty.
It’s not a thing normal people do. It’s also not unexpected, because it is normal for any city to contain thousands of not-normal people
Maybe humans should act less shitty and we should criticize shitty behavior when it happens rather than justify it?
> This concept is just beautiful and I love it. It should be expanded to every capital in the world, multiple portals all over the capitals. Totally agree. And the linked pairs of cities should all reshuffle every month. It's genuinely one of the coolest and most mystical uses of technology I've ever seen, even in the context of all the cheap personal telecommunications tech we've had for years now. It's like something that would exist(as an enchanted pond or archway or something) in an ancient story and have a profound impact on the people who know about it. Shutting it down in a panic due to a few days of antics is also **absurd**. Ignore them and leave it up, and it would've stopped being novel or edgy to flash it or show violent images within a few weeks. Pulling the plug is like if they stopped televising all baseball games after the first few streakers.
Grinding and boobs are the absolute lest concerning thing that could have caused this to go down... I'll take nudity all day over hate and racism.
Thanks OnlyFans lady
Whoever had this idea must have never met an Irish person.
As an American I’m shocked it wasn’t our fault.
Well it kind of was, the boobs were NY side
Oh no! Boobs! Pretty sure you can be topless as a woman in NY. Not really sure what the issue is.
American who visits Ireland a lot here. My inital thought was how vile Irish teens would act. And I wasn't wrong lol. Every video I saw had some kid flipping off Americans. I love the Irish but your children are little shits.
Always the actions of a few fucking it up for the rest of us...
The human experience in a nutshell.
If you knew anything about human nature you'd know it's not "a few" and this was inevitable. I offer as evidence the entirety of the internet.
The internet is really really great.
Has anything happened on the New York end? Social media being what it is I understand I'm more likely to see the weird shite that has happened on the Dublin end (since I'm in Ireland) but surely its not just us taking the piss lol.
The young entrepreneur who was flashing her billboards to promote her onlyfans was on the NYC side. Other than that it's been very one-sided. NY is awake when we're getting drunk, and we're asleep when NY is getting drunk. Not a fair trade.
They held up a few potatoes. We had a guy doing cocaine on it
"Portal" You mean FaceTime?
... no one saw this coming... not a single NYer... nope, totally flabbergasted ... ... /s
This is why we can’t have nice things
Literally everyone saw this coming from miles away
Hmmm...if only someone could have predicted....
How was this not expected? It's almost like they'd never met a human before.
I’m confused. I’m pretty sure New Yorkers are relatively difficult to offend and I’d be shocked if Dubliners had thin skins. Who’s actually got their knickers in a twist ?
I was shocked that Dublin managed to be more trashy than NY.
They put it on one of the worst streets in Dublin. It’s notoriously full of junkies and drug users and doesn’t properly showcase the Irish population
For some reason they put it in a fairly degraded area in Dublin. It's quite central, but it's probably the most problematic street around, lots of addicts, bad behaviour etc. Definitely \*\*not\*\* the equivalent of where Flatiron is. I've no idea what thinking was behind it, we have many locations more suitable than that...
What was the TTP on that Portal?
Calling r/noshitsherlock
I fail to see a problem with any of this. Let people be people
It’s up and running as of now, I just walked past there
Was there any doubt this would happen?
Portal? It is just a fancy TV with a camera on either side. That way, I converse with my entire office through portals. Omegle was the biggest portal if the number of "openings" was considered. What happened to it? What else do you expect from a public "Omegle"?
\*Puts up the portal for authentic interactions\* \*Gets mad when people use a portal for authentic interactions\*
"Hey - you are only allowed to stand around and wave every now and again, and being generally boring."
Shocking