Weirdest place you've met a fellow Paddy?

Sharpshooter · 09-03-2009 1:26am

Terry wrote: »

You can say he was black. It doesn't make you racist.

The post was in context with the film.
ie.. he wasn't really Irish.

javaboy wrote: »

In the novella he was Irish and white with red hair. Then they cast Morgan Freeman but they left in the line where he says he's Irish.

I know.
Hence the post.

Terry · 09-03-2009 1:28am

Morgan Freeman is black. He was black in the film too. He didn't do whiteface.

Sharpshooter · 09-03-2009 1:30am

javaboy wrote: »

So you go on and stamp your form Sharpy and stop wasting my time. Because to tell you the truth, I don't give a ****.

Wasn't that actually "Rett" in Gone With The Wind?

javaboy · 09-03-2009 1:32am

Sharpshooter wrote: »

Wasn't that actually "Rett" in Gone With The Wind?

Damn isn't covered by the swear filter. I said shit.

Sharpshooter · 09-03-2009 1:35am

Terry wrote: »

Morgan Freeman is black. He was black in the film too. He didn't do whiteface.

No, nor was he Irish.

The Shawshank Redemption is one of my Top Ten Films,
(outside of any of John Wayne's.
The Green Mile coming second.
Just to stay on topic, John Wayne made a good few Film's with Maureen O Hara, who is Irish.:)
And yes, I have met her, in Easons where she signed her book for me.

javaboy · 09-03-2009 1:39am

Sharpshooter wrote: »

No, nor was he Irish.

Of course he was. His character was Irish in the book and he says he's Irish in the film.

What are you basing your opinion he wasn't Irish on?

Sharpshooter · 09-03-2009 1:40am

javaboy wrote: »

Damn isn't covered by the swear filter. I said shit.

Typical, mods can overrule the swear filter.
You must feel flushed with success.

Farls · 09-03-2009 1:41am

Hopped on a bus in Yangzhou in southern China last year with my girlfriend and ended up there was a buck from Roscommon on the bus with his girlfriend from Leitrim who was in the same class at secondary school as a good friend of mine! This was after not seeing a non chinese person, never mind a paddy for weeks!!!

Sharpshooter · 09-03-2009 1:48am

javaboy wrote: »

Of course he was. His character was Irish in the book and he says he's Irish in the film.

What are you basing your opinion he wasn't Irish on?

In the original story Stephen King wrote Red as an Irishman. Morgan Freeman was cast as Red. Although Morgan Freeman is of African descent, and cannot be of true Irish descent, the line "Maybe it's 'cause I'm Irish" was left in the movie.
So in reality I am right, and in Movie Land you are too.

javaboy · 09-03-2009 1:51am

Sharpshooter wrote: »

In the original story Stephen King wrote Red as an Irishman. Morgan Freeman was cast as Red. Although Morgan Freeman is of African descent, and cannot be of true Irish descent, the line "Maybe it's 'cause I'm Irish" was left in the movie.
So in reality I am right, and in Movie Land you are too.

No you're wrong. He was playing an Irish character. His own nationality/skin colour does not enter into it. Next you'll be telling me Bob Dylan was a woman when Cate Blanchett played him.

FearDark · 09-03-2009 2:00am

Why was this made a sticky? Crap tbh.

giggsy664 · 09-03-2009 2:03am

FearDark wrote: »

Why was this made a sticky? Crap tbh.

Stop talking about your face.

I'm sorry. I couldn't pass that opportunity up.

Sharpshooter · 09-03-2009 2:04am

javaboy wrote: »

No you're wrong. He was playing an Irish character. His own nationality/skin colour does not enter into it. Next you'll be telling me Bob Dylan was a woman when Cate Blanchett played him.

Wayne was an Irish Born American in The Quiet Man.
It Didn't make him Irish.
( Tell me you can see where I am coming from.)
Separate Film from reality.

/That's all I was doing.

FearDark · 09-03-2009 2:13am

I said: Why was this made a sticky? Crap tbh.
And then you said...

giggsy664 wrote: »

Stop talking about your face.
I'm sorry. I couldn't pass that opportunity up.

Then I said: Wat?

anonymous_joe · 09-03-2009 2:59am

Bumped into a lad from college in the Maracana in Rio. Leading to lots of Brazilians wondering what the fúck we were shouting about.

FlutterinBantam · 09-03-2009 1:23pm

SeaFields wrote: »

Fraser Island off western Australia. Now ya know that the world of Irish folk are off to Oz and most of em prob have been on that island but it being 1am, p!ssing out of the heavens and us in an Aborigine camp with several other camps set up around a rainforest setting amble opportunity for a 'singalong' presented itself, I stood up and struggled through "The boys of Kilmicheal" (Cork rebel at heart!). And as the dingo running around our campsite pricked his ears, I could hear in the distance the other camps joining in.

Sheer bliss....

Ahem last time I was there, it was off the coast of Queensland??

Has it moved??

RichTea · 09-03-2009 2:49pm

minidazzler wrote: »

I know people who have bought them for going away so other Irish people will recognise them!!!!

Good lord that is almost the most pathetic thing I've heard all day. I really don't understand why people go to some far flung places just to find other Irish people. You might as well stay at home.

Kork Boy · 09-03-2009 2:51pm

RichTea wrote: »

Good lord that is almost the most pathetic thing I've heard all day. I really don't understand why people go to some far flung places just to find other Irish people. You might as well stay at home.

Exactly, its almost like Irish people going abroad just to spend their time in an Irish bar, makes no sense...

minidazzler · 09-03-2009 2:52pm

RichTea wrote: »

Good lord that is almost the most pathetic thing I've heard all day. I really don't understand why people go to some far flung places just to find other Irish people. You might as well stay at home.

But if you stay at home, you have no stories to tell when you get home about how you met an Irish Guy in a Bar in Botaswana. or whereever!!!

kmick · 09-03-2009 2:59pm

At the cape of good hope sitting down on the rocks with my missus. Its the end of their winter so no one is around. Its also pretty breezy and cold. Next thing I hear - Would you take a picture dere please? Two redheads a man and a woman from Cavan.

lucylu · 09-03-2009 3:03pm

We met 2 Limerick guys climbing the Great Torture Wall of China at Badaling

Met a couple who know my OH father on a Walking tour in the Swiss Alps

The barman in the Hard Cafe on Grand Cayman is Irish

df1985 · 09-03-2009 3:49pm

from 4:35 in this snoop dogg video see can ya spot the guy in the offaly jersey playin with the band-weirdest place ive seen a paddy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLsx1kDKEzQ

darkdubh · 09-03-2009 4:03pm

Always running into Irish people abroad.Was in a cafe in Amsterdam(no,not that type).And the fella running it was from Dublin.Like wise,went into a bar in Lisbon last year and it was being run by a Leitrim man.