With regard to the american lads (from the perspective of one).

pagancornflake

I'm originally from Boston, have lived in Ireland for 16 years (moved here whene I was 5, by no choice of my own, my family was Irish the whole way down the line, mother directly from a northern Irish Catholic family, dad is an american, have never met him, have no accent etc.).
Just to take an example, tonight I was in a night club tonight and I had 2 girls call me over to their table and start talking to me. It was going grand for a while until they asked me where I was from. I said "boston originally but I have been--", and I got a hand in my face, as in 'grand, we heard enough, off you go', and they refused to talk to me any more.
Tonight was only about 5 mins (granted, I'm not the flirty kind of guy, but I'm not used to his rejection tbh, especially since I did not start the chatting) before this crap happened. I really have to ask (since I have only recently started introducing myself to women as american-born because I was just recently told that my dad was an american), what they think when a lad introduces himself to you as an american in a kind of clubby of flirty pubby atmosphere?

minidazzler

One bad experience dude, it's unlikely to happen much!

Besides in fairness you are really Irish, just born in America.

It's quite childish to hold something like that against you.

stovelid

You had a lucky escape insofar as the idiocy of the people you were talking to manifested itself pretty quickly. On another night, you may have wasted time, or even bought them drinks, before it became apparent.

I've heard enough. Go away.

Puddleduck

Lucky you that you managed to escape from someone so narrow minded. You had a bad experience, dont judge everyone off of those two women. Youll also get a lot of people on here that will tell you clubs arent great places to meet people for something other than one night stands.
Although at this stage why dont you just call yourself Irish since up until recently youve considered yourself as much? Not a bad thing, Im just curious

pagancornflake

Sorry, I didnt really write properly. I recently fount that out that my dad was an american (native, indian and all, honestly, It would be impossible to tell as I look as Irish as anything, you can see on the "get to know your loungers" thread). So honestly was proud as hell so I started introducing myself as american/irish, last night was just one of many times this has happened to me. I mean every time mention the american aspect, without fail, there is nothing but utter distain for me. Honestly, the times they have stay to argue with me, I have argued them into the ashes, but I am honestly beginning to become ashamed of my heritage from what I have been shown

Xiney

You getting shot down in a club has nothing to do with the ladies lounge.