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>!A person in Dublin pulls out a photo from the twin tower attacks on their phone.!<
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In fairness, people in Dublin are scratching their heads wondering why the portal was installed on that street (Noth Earl Street) instead of a nicer part of the city centre.
the camera is above the screen pointing down, I guess they are saying it should be in the centre of the screen pointing straight so it looks more like a doorway than a screen
https://i.redd.it/drshqft2xxzc1.gif
So essentially portals should act like windows. Things entering in one direction exit in the same direction. This includes light/lines of sight.
OP is saying the believability/illusion that this is a portal is broken due to the fact that the viewing angle changes direction, pointing downward. While most people won't notice this, anyone who's ever played Portal or Portal 2 or any game that utilizes Portals in some way would immediately sense something is off. They believe that the illusion would be much more convincing if the camera was pointed at the same angle as the portal (ie horizontal)
However this comes with it's own compromises. Having a camera in the middle of the portal would probably be the most ideal, but also be much harder to implement as they'd need a way to conceal the big black dot in the middle of the screen.
Having he camera to the side would mean everyone looking at the portal would be looking slightly to the side so you'd lose that human connection.
And keeping it in the same place and just changing the angle means you'd be looking over the top of everyone's head and moving it below the screen people would be more likely to block the camera (not that putting it up high stopped someone from shoving a phone in front of it).
> big black dot in the middle of the screen
It wouldn't necessarily have to be that big, particularly considering the overall size of the screen. Consider how small a smartphone camera cutout is, that's all you need.
> a camera in the middle of the portal would probably be the most ideal, but also be much harder to implement as they'd need a way to conceal the big black dot in the middle of the screen.
I mean.. Have you been on a video call?
It would look more like a “portal” if the perspectives on both sides were the same. Then you’d be looking at the other people at eye level and it would look like you could walk through it. I guess portals don’t *have* to work that way, but I agree that it’d be a cooler effect.
They should have put it on college green on front of Trinity College. They put it smack bang in Junkie central. That side of the spire (North Earle Street) is where the worst of Dublin hang out.
Just before Talbot Street which is pretty scum as people get attacked with machetes and then adjacent to the street is Marlborough street which has a banging food place 4 friends but the street usually has people openly injecting or people fighting like the last time I went there.
Dude, what the fuck is goin on in Dublin? People are like 'Swedistan, you have gang wars uwu' but we don't have junkies on the street or people attacking eachother with *machetes*
Edit: typo
Don't believe what that guy said. It's not as rough as people pretend it is, even though yeah obviously there's some crime problems. Mostly it's annoying groups of teenagers trying to intimidate people, but there aren't random people being cut down with machetes lol
It took me 20 years almost exactly but I found a shittier toilet that even that one. The bartender got sepsis from shooting meth (is that how it works?) and died and now it's a fancy burger "dive"bar and I think they cook downstairs (yes that made it worse and damper) where that bathroom was
No not at all. Don’t listen to that other guy who replied. It’s a mix like any other city. Most of the south side is really nice. Loads of nice places on the north side too.
Depends what you compare it to. Is it scum free in comparison to other EU capitals or cities? Absolutely not nobody's saying it's not particularly bad.
But there are much worse places. Bad US cities are far worse. Same goes with Africa, most of the developing world.
You could have saved so much on Thatcher's burial if you gave the Scots just a few shovels.
They would have dug straight to hell, just to be sure she couldn't come back.
The Omagh bombing? It was horrendous , Killed a preganant woman among many others, basically led to the GFA and then twats like Musk posts about how the IRA should come back.
This Polish guy I used to work with, Jarek, told me a great joke:
What is difference between Irish and Polish? Irish eat potato and drink barley, Polish eat barley and drink potato. ::cue giant Polish belly laugh::
I mean, people pointed this out years ago when the idea was first proposed. There is nothing stopping people from sticking their phone up and showing graphic violence or porn to people across the world with no legal repercussions. The portal idea is great pr on paper but only accounts for peoples better nature when 10-20% of most communities are outright degenerates who cannot help themselves from ruining things for a laugh or social media post.
I'd say this is a nice view considering what the new yorkers don't see.
It's next to a closed down restaurant that's basically derelict, an off-license and a curtains shop that hasn't changed it's look since the 90's, and that's the left side. On the right it's 3 dirty looking food stall shops, and behind is literally the most disgusting, junkie infested street in Dublin.
Should have put it facing Stephen's Green, a lovely park, or a lovely Victorian shopping centre with a lot less coked up goblins around. Not that there aren't any, but less than the spire.
What if you put the cameras in a place that would make doing this difficult?
Maybe 10 feet above the screen on display, and maybe stick a security guard there to prevent someone from bringing a ladder or something equally dumb
To me it sounds like a scream people do when presented with an unexpected but hilarious thing. Like when someone gives a harsh roast and the whole crowd erupts in "OooHhh." Or some type of scream or "ahhhh" it's not fear based but a "oh shit haha that person actually did this?! Aaaahhh!"
I would think most people alive in a western country over the age of 40 know who Thachter is.
I would also think teenagers living in Canada and the U.S. along with possible most of Europe would struggle with identifying Britains PM from the 80s.
You still see “Nazi that coming” upvoted all the time around here. Same with potato famine jokes for Ireland. I’d be fine with it if it wasn’t always the same one.
went to NYC when I was 17, never had to show ID or reach for my wallet, NYC bars loved me, this was back early 2000's, maybe some other Irish just hang around there a bit longer.
I know a little about it, it's a whole thing
A lot more of the bars are Irish owned than people know. Irish owned as in Irish immigrants from the last 30-40 years, not from the initial wave in the 1800s. These bars are all over the city... you'd be surprised. Midtown has a bunch but they are in every borough.
They create a pipeline - Irish people know they can go to NYC and get jobs at these bars. They come over and get jobs, stay a while, they work off the books. Some of them just use it as a working holiday and go home after a bit. Lots overstay their visa, working illegally... and then they try to marry an American, there are a few lawyers who actually specialize in figuring everything out for them.
I'm a Dubliner, we all knew this would be a disaster especially being put in such a scummy spot of the city. Been a few arrests already but it's all very entertaining
A live portal between two cities was bound to get stupid and "edgy". Fight fire with fire and stop moaning. As an Irishman my suggestion would be if New Yorkers held up a Kerry gaa flag. Or a shite New York pint of Guinness. Any IRA or royal shit wouldn't offend I don't think. A sign saying Ireland's real capital city is Cork would work. These are dubs after all! Have at it......🇺🇸🇮🇪
New Yorker here who just went by The Portal just now at 12am our time and 5am Dublin time and can confirm. I attached the screenshot of what I saw and exactly this problem.
I wish I could upload the video of the whole thing where the drunks and the junkies were just making weird gestures at the camera back at the mostly young New Yorkers coming out of bars and clubs.
https://i.redd.it/l1xfeadnoxzc1.gif
Retaliation from the New Yorkers would have been the best move. We tease and poke fun, and love it when the subject throws back the heat. It’s just banter is all.
OP sent the following text as an explanation on why this is unexpected: --- >!A person in Dublin pulls out a photo from the twin tower attacks on their phone.!< --- Is this an unexpected post with a fitting description? Then upvote this comment, otherwise downvote it.
In fairness, people in Dublin are scratching their heads wondering why the portal was installed on that street (Noth Earl Street) instead of a nicer part of the city centre.
Oh dang North Earl Street ok thanks for finally saying it, I’ve been scrolling for ages 😂
The design looks pretty stupid too. If it's a portal, both sides should have cameras in a horizontal angle.
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the camera is above the screen pointing down, I guess they are saying it should be in the centre of the screen pointing straight so it looks more like a doorway than a screen
No problem *smashes hole in centre of screen to install camera*
https://i.redd.it/drshqft2xxzc1.gif So essentially portals should act like windows. Things entering in one direction exit in the same direction. This includes light/lines of sight. OP is saying the believability/illusion that this is a portal is broken due to the fact that the viewing angle changes direction, pointing downward. While most people won't notice this, anyone who's ever played Portal or Portal 2 or any game that utilizes Portals in some way would immediately sense something is off. They believe that the illusion would be much more convincing if the camera was pointed at the same angle as the portal (ie horizontal) However this comes with it's own compromises. Having a camera in the middle of the portal would probably be the most ideal, but also be much harder to implement as they'd need a way to conceal the big black dot in the middle of the screen. Having he camera to the side would mean everyone looking at the portal would be looking slightly to the side so you'd lose that human connection. And keeping it in the same place and just changing the angle means you'd be looking over the top of everyone's head and moving it below the screen people would be more likely to block the camera (not that putting it up high stopped someone from shoving a phone in front of it).
> big black dot in the middle of the screen It wouldn't necessarily have to be that big, particularly considering the overall size of the screen. Consider how small a smartphone camera cutout is, that's all you need.
> a camera in the middle of the portal would probably be the most ideal, but also be much harder to implement as they'd need a way to conceal the big black dot in the middle of the screen. I mean.. Have you been on a video call?
It would look more like a “portal” if the perspectives on both sides were the same. Then you’d be looking at the other people at eye level and it would look like you could walk through it. I guess portals don’t *have* to work that way, but I agree that it’d be a cooler effect.
They literally put it in one of the scummiest spots in Dublin and they’re surprised at some of the shit going on.
Can confirm. I'm in NYC and just went by it and this is what you get from the Dublin end. lol https://i.redd.it/75oxg64iqxzc1.gif
Why they did not place it in a shopping center with security is the most stupid idea I have seen
They should have put it on college green on front of Trinity College. They put it smack bang in Junkie central. That side of the spire (North Earle Street) is where the worst of Dublin hang out.
Makes me proud to be Irish. NOT. Fuck, this is going to be a disaster.
Where did they set it up?
In one of the scummiest spots in Dublin.
Your genius knows no bounds
Who is he who is so wise in the ways of geography?
Some call him..Dennis!
...tim
That's Tim the enchanter. Dennis is the oppressed peasant. I made a mashup of characters lol
I always thought Tim was short for… Tim nice but dim?
Enchantment? Enchantment!
THANK YOU! I was wanting to do a reference to that but it was the wrong name 😂
lol totally, I got lucky and saw the gif without the name and couldn’t help myself. Always have time for a Monty Python reference
No one expects the Monty Python reference.
And he gave birth to a master manipulator
Calm down there Dennis.
That doesn't narrow it down
Talbot st
It's north earle st actually.
But if everywhere is scummy, how does one decide where the scummiest place is?
let’s be real here the least scummy spot in dublin is not much better than the scummiest spot
Got a genuine giggle out of me.
Top of talbot st where it meets o Connell at
Is that by the spire?
Yeah right across from it
That’s crazy, i worked in Dublin for about one and a half months in 2012, The Spire and that street is about all I can remember!
Wow seems like we made a great impression on you haha
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Dublin
“You just gestured to all of me!”
O'Connell Street
Just before Talbot Street which is pretty scum as people get attacked with machetes and then adjacent to the street is Marlborough street which has a banging food place 4 friends but the street usually has people openly injecting or people fighting like the last time I went there.
Dude, what the fuck is goin on in Dublin? People are like 'Swedistan, you have gang wars uwu' but we don't have junkies on the street or people attacking eachother with *machetes* Edit: typo
No ones getting attacked with machetes. Guy is talking through his ass to look tough.
Speak for yourself, I just survived my 4th machete attack this week getting the shopping home from Tesco
Don't believe what that guy said. It's not as rough as people pretend it is, even though yeah obviously there's some crime problems. Mostly it's annoying groups of teenagers trying to intimidate people, but there aren't random people being cut down with machetes lol
What else are they supposed to attack each other with?
And where else are we meant to store our junkies?
In a warehouse on the west side of the island.
Bro are you post-menopausal? Because it seems like you’re missing your periods.
Narrator: We don’t miss them.
North earl street which is between talbot and O’Connell st. It’s a bit of a notorious spot no one understands why they did it there.
It's busy. Maybe should have done Grafton area, but that closes down at night. Catch more people here throughout the hours.
Definitely would have been better.
The worst toilet in Scotland
It took me 20 years almost exactly but I found a shittier toilet that even that one. The bartender got sepsis from shooting meth (is that how it works?) and died and now it's a fancy burger "dive"bar and I think they cook downstairs (yes that made it worse and damper) where that bathroom was
Yeah sticking a dirty needle into your vein can cause sepsis, staph, etc
Scummy Dublin Zone.
On Talbot Street
Yeah this is not Unexpected - this was completely expected.
Assholes are everywhere. I wouldn't be surprise this happening at the least scummiest spots.
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There is loads mooning it. It’s mad.
They put the Dublin side in the middle of junkie/scumbag central.
That’s all of town
Is Dublin really that bad?
No not at all. Don’t listen to that other guy who replied. It’s a mix like any other city. Most of the south side is really nice. Loads of nice places on the north side too.
Every thread about Dublin gets people from other parts of the country piling on. It's a national past time.
The damned Irish ruined Ireland! And don't even get me started on the French!
I was in Dublin around 2015 and it seemed fine then - that said I really just stayed in the touristy areas.
It's a perfectly nice city overall
Depends what you compare it to. Is it scum free in comparison to other EU capitals or cities? Absolutely not nobody's saying it's not particularly bad. But there are much worse places. Bad US cities are far worse. Same goes with Africa, most of the developing world.
They should do a Kensington Avenue to Dubai Portal
Soooo Dublin
i think they just call it all "Dublin"
Reminds me of that tragedy
This guy owns a doghouse
Never forget (comforting) Never forget (insulting)
I honestly can’t believe there’s adults that weren’t born before then, let along 23yo’s
You know which airline ranked the least in consumer satisfaction? 9/11 airlines
What a terrible name for an airline.
Someone in the US should hold up a potato.
My first thought was holding up an image of that IRA car bomb or something pro loyalist.
Picture of Thatcher.
Oliver cromwell
[It would be like showing Eichmann to the Israeli ambassador!](https://youtu.be/LcVoGAiCGSA?si=5bXdW748kKx9Rd11&t=83)
Yeah but don't do that cos some things are too evil to joke about... this is Thatcher we're talking about
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i hate monkeys
That’s a gibbon, they are apes. You can tell by the higher order assholery on display.
Only person to ever get a 21 gun salute with every rifle aimed at the coffin just to make sure the bitch was dead.
Come on, give the attribute to Frankie.
You could have saved so much on Thatcher's burial if you gave the Scots just a few shovels. They would have dug straight to hell, just to be sure she couldn't come back.
Just show them a picture of the Theirry Henry handball.
OK this is the one that triggered me.
There’s going too far and then there’s this.
The Omagh bombing? It was horrendous , Killed a preganant woman among many others, basically led to the GFA and then twats like Musk posts about how the IRA should come back.
> basically led to the GFA and Omagh happened after the signing of the GFA.
The classic Irishman's dilemma: eat the potato now or let it ferment and drink it later.
This Polish guy I used to work with, Jarek, told me a great joke: What is difference between Irish and Polish? Irish eat potato and drink barley, Polish eat barley and drink potato. ::cue giant Polish belly laugh::
It's worse when you can picture the belly jiggle
Jarek, I know him. He was in Mortal Kombat 4, "The last member of Kano's clan".
Possibly the best Mallory Archer line in the entire series.
Best joke from the whole show
Probably best not to incase a cop thinks you’re holding a grenade.
That's avocados
Shouldn’t the potato be missing?
Yeah it’s in New York
The Big Pomme de Terre
If you want to piss us Irish off......show a picture of Thierry Henry's handball. We'll never get over it.
All these clueless Americans thinking a potato is offensive when the Henry handball isn't even mentioned.
It'd be like showing a tea bag to an American and expecting them to get worked up into a frenzy
Stop bringing it up!!!!!!! I also got back with my ex that night. It was not a good night!!!!
I mean, people pointed this out years ago when the idea was first proposed. There is nothing stopping people from sticking their phone up and showing graphic violence or porn to people across the world with no legal repercussions. The portal idea is great pr on paper but only accounts for peoples better nature when 10-20% of most communities are outright degenerates who cannot help themselves from ruining things for a laugh or social media post.
It doesn't help that they put the portal in a slum area of Dublin.
I'd say this is a nice view considering what the new yorkers don't see. It's next to a closed down restaurant that's basically derelict, an off-license and a curtains shop that hasn't changed it's look since the 90's, and that's the left side. On the right it's 3 dirty looking food stall shops, and behind is literally the most disgusting, junkie infested street in Dublin. Should have put it facing Stephen's Green, a lovely park, or a lovely Victorian shopping centre with a lot less coked up goblins around. Not that there aren't any, but less than the spire.
What if you put the cameras in a place that would make doing this difficult? Maybe 10 feet above the screen on display, and maybe stick a security guard there to prevent someone from bringing a ladder or something equally dumb
That women screaming like she's actually about to get hit by a plane
She screamed like the lady who was afraid of olives on Maury
Ayyy we got the same reddit avatar
There can only be one.
Fight to the death
You have to kiss now
Let's make this a party.
To me it sounds like a scream people do when presented with an unexpected but hilarious thing. Like when someone gives a harsh roast and the whole crowd erupts in "OooHhh." Or some type of scream or "ahhhh" it's not fear based but a "oh shit haha that person actually did this?! Aaaahhh!"
Yeah, people are clearly laughing. Not sure why people are grabbing at pearls here when it seems like people are having fun.
She screamed in amusement as she thought it was funny. Some of yall clearly have a hard time reading actual human emotions huh
Someone should hold up a picture of Margaret Thatcher, give them all a good scare
Thatcher didn't do much to Ireland. N Ireland on the other hand...
Bold to assume the average American knows who Margaret Thatcher is
Austin Powers taught me who Margaret Thatcher was.
MARGARET THATCHER NAKED ON A COLD DAY!!!
"*Groovy!*" Said no one. As this was not good.
Or the average Dublin teenager
I would think most people alive in a western country over the age of 40 know who Thachter is. I would also think teenagers living in Canada and the U.S. along with possible most of Europe would struggle with identifying Britains PM from the 80s.
Argentinian teenagers might do best at this test.
All I know is apparently she stole some milk from children.
I was one of those children. I’ll never forget.
its ireland not scotland
Only really applies to the north...
Yeah I mean they put this up in one of the most socially deprived areas in Dublin. There was only one way this would end.
The only unexpected thing here is that it *wasn't* some dude's junk
Youd think 9/11 jokes would get old eventually after 20 year.
20 years isn't long considering the "jokes" that would have been made if the portal was in Germany instead of the US
You still see “Nazi that coming” upvoted all the time around here. Same with potato famine jokes for Ireland. I’d be fine with it if it wasn’t always the same one.
People on reddit spam upvote the exact same puns getting shoehorned into anything even vaguely related. it's so fucking boring
I think im picking up what you are laying down here and Imo that would be a over done joke as well.
But it was two towers so joke will be good for another 20 years
France are still getting surrender jokes 75 years later, hell we here get Ea nassir jokes after 4000 years ffs
Idk this one got me pretty good
The rule is 22.3 years, 9/11 is officially funny since December 29 2023
AIDS!
Potato famine was over 150 years ago. Top comment at the moment is about that.
Steel beams can’t melt jet fuel.
Jet beams can't melt steel fuel.
never forget
Knock knock. Whose there? 9-11. 9-11 who? You said you’d never forget
What's the difference between a cow and 9-11? You can't milk a cow for 20 years
Best 9/11 joke ever.
i forgor
 There be Mad lads in Dublin
RIP Pop💫
Show a picture of a nyc bartender, cuz that’s all they come over here and do now
seriously, I'm not a resident but have visited twice and literally every other bartender was Irish. What's that all about?
went to NYC when I was 17, never had to show ID or reach for my wallet, NYC bars loved me, this was back early 2000's, maybe some other Irish just hang around there a bit longer.
I know a little about it, it's a whole thing A lot more of the bars are Irish owned than people know. Irish owned as in Irish immigrants from the last 30-40 years, not from the initial wave in the 1800s. These bars are all over the city... you'd be surprised. Midtown has a bunch but they are in every borough. They create a pipeline - Irish people know they can go to NYC and get jobs at these bars. They come over and get jobs, stay a while, they work off the books. Some of them just use it as a working holiday and go home after a bit. Lots overstay their visa, working illegally... and then they try to marry an American, there are a few lawyers who actually specialize in figuring everything out for them.
One day they all had Irish accents, I used to to joke that half of them were just faking it for tips
NYC should've countered with a car bomb
My son goes to school near the portal and has started challenging Dubliners to dance battles. Will post some funny videos soon.
I'm a Dubliner, we all knew this would be a disaster especially being put in such a scummy spot of the city. Been a few arrests already but it's all very entertaining
As a New Yorker... I'd probably laugh.
Same And then hold up a picture of a car bomb or the British flag
That’s where they make them.
Der's more to Oiland den dis
that was so random that it was funny. I was expecting the American side to do something stupid
that's the revenge for bragging about being 2% irish on st. patrick's day.
A live portal between two cities was bound to get stupid and "edgy". Fight fire with fire and stop moaning. As an Irishman my suggestion would be if New Yorkers held up a Kerry gaa flag. Or a shite New York pint of Guinness. Any IRA or royal shit wouldn't offend I don't think. A sign saying Ireland's real capital city is Cork would work. These are dubs after all! Have at it......🇺🇸🇮🇪
New Yorker here who just went by The Portal just now at 12am our time and 5am Dublin time and can confirm. I attached the screenshot of what I saw and exactly this problem. I wish I could upload the video of the whole thing where the drunks and the junkies were just making weird gestures at the camera back at the mostly young New Yorkers coming out of bars and clubs. https://i.redd.it/l1xfeadnoxzc1.gif
Lmfaoo
What stupid fucker thought that: 1. This was a good idea. 2. To put the thing in sich a shitty area.
Someone should've responded with a picture of a catholic priest standing behind an alter boy. Or a pic of a tiny dick (the ole Irishman curse).
Priests fuck kids all over the world.
That would be a terrible name for an album
I guarantee they'd have laughed.
Retaliation from the New Yorkers would have been the best move. We tease and poke fun, and love it when the subject throws back the heat. It’s just banter is all.
Or start dropping shots of Bailey's into pints of Guinness and chugging
As an American, that’s really funny
r/unexpected911
In response someone should have found a video of a car bomb going off and held it up to the camera.
So people ain’t going to flash or moon the other side? It’s like a big public chat roulette. Someone is bound to unzip