[somegirl2009]

Well its known for English to take the piss out of Irish and call us paddy etc but he shouldn't have said you should **** back to where u came from!

but on the other side how many English come over here to this country are treated very nastily by people just because they are english................

[Nulty]

Originally Posted by keithclancy

So,

Was at a wedding on the weekend in England, was never at a wedding in England before, live over in Holland so driving there wasn't to bad.

Was a good craic, mostly the same as an Irish wedding.

Late into the night we were in the bar and I was chatting to a guy, all very normal conversation. He seemed well educated, was a history teacher in a school apparently.

After a while myself and the missus said we were going to bed and headed off, while we were walking away the guy said 'Goodnight ya dumb paddy'

I sort of shrugged it off and went upstairs, after a while it was bugging the hell out of me so I went back downstairs.

Walked back over and told the guy in a very friendly way

"Hey look, you shouldn't say that sort of thing to people, its a bit racist"

Guy was all very apologetic, said sorry and then I walked off, I walked around the corner and then heard him saying "These f*cking Irish micks should piss off back to where they came from"

I just thought 'for f&ck sake' and went to bed.

Over here in Holland i've only ever experienced racism because people here can't really tell the difference between England and Ireland, hence you get the whole 'English wánker' thing shouted at you sometimes.

Anyone else ever had a similar experience ?

Has anyone mentioned the irony in this statement yet?

[zcorpian88]

Started a job in Dunnes Stores 4 years ago, ended up on hygiene for a few weeks, 3 foreign lads walk into the shop (guessing Polish), saw me just sweeping up some washing powder that got spilled on the floor. They were talking quietly but I heard every word one of them pointed at me thinking I wasn't looking at them and one says to the other two in broken English and I quote "Can't believe that Irish spud got a job here and I cannot" the other two laughed and picked up some washing tablets and went off. Stood there thinking "Did I hear that right?"

Glad I don't work in there anymore!

[Glitter_star94]

Love how openly offensive Irish people often are to the English about being English and then there is a thread like this.
My parents are Irish and I was born in Ireland but moved to England when I was 3. Often when we go to Ireland in the summer, I get quite a few 'jokey' comments about being English as its the worst thing ever! I know Ireland and England have had many many problems in the past, but do people not like Germans because of nazi's and hitler?? No.

[SavageHenry]

When I was twelve I got spat on by a soldier in an open top land rover as it passed my house. He then shouted your mother is a whore! Shocked me at the time but looking back now it was a kind of surreal thing to happen, that was Belfast though.

[old hippy]

My SA friends (one black, one mixed race) tonight said we're "too friendly"

Dammit, that's them off my xmas list

[shayno90]

In a pub in London a few years ago, an English guy asked if he could take one of the stools, I said it was stuck to the floor (it was fixed to the floor) and of course he thought I was being smart with him and combined with the accent said "you Irish are smart fockers". I laughed it off as he was too stupid to check that the stool was actually fixed to the floor

Our history of drinking preceeds as abroad, every nationality I have met mentions it, one from Austria actually thought the entire nation at lunch time goes to the pub and drinks all day, probably some truth in it but I corrected her in any case

[Faith+1]

Originally Posted by Enkidu

As I learned in Canada, a lot of people don't even know what Ireland is, let alone have prejudices towards it.

They're called f*cking idiots! Now if they didn't know where Russia was I'd understand, all tucked away up there.