Just a Quick Question

Geekness1234

I'm tanned and fully Irish,but I am constantly being asked where I come from and always having it proven to me that Irish people are not tanned and thus I'm not Irish.
Is anyone else in the same boat as me?

TheZohanS

Geekness1234 wrote: »

I'm tanned and fully Irish,but I am constantly being asked where I come from and always having it proven to me that Irish people are not tanned and thus I'm not Irish.
Is anyone else in the same boat as me?

Try being black and being Irish.

Where are you from? Ireland.
No where are you really from? Ireland.


It gets annoying after a while.

AG2R

Nah, I'm a pasty ginger so I'm the definition of Irish according to the Yanks, Can't go out to town without being asked to get in a photo

Geekness1234

TheZohan wrote: »

Try being black and being Irish.

Where are you from? Ireland.
No where are you really from? Ireland.


It gets annoying after a while.

I know how you feel.

Saila

theres a joke about orange tan there somewhere

OneArt

I have blue skin and it's hard to convince people I'm from Earth when I'm travelling. They just assume all blue peopel are from Alpha Centauri B >:(. It's rough all right.

af_thefragile

OneArt wrote: »

I have blue skin and it's hard to convince people I'm from Earth when I'm travelling. They just assume all blue peopel are from Alpha Centauri B >:(. It's rough all right.

You're not from Pandora??

gargleblaster

TheZohan wrote: »

Try being black and being Irish.

Where are you from? Ireland.
No where are you really from? Ireland.


It gets annoying after a while.

I would carry around Thin Lizzy records to beat people with.

Wetai

OneArt wrote: »

I have blue skin and it's hard to convince people I'm from Earth when I'm travelling. They just assume all blue peopel are from Alpha Centauri B >:(. It's rough all right.

Smurf that.

whiskeyman

Geekness1234 wrote: »

I'm tanned and fully Irish....
Is anyone else in the same boat as me?

More tanned Irish people on a cruise perhaps...

TheZohanS

gargleblaster wrote: »

I would carry around Thin Lizzy records to beat people with.

Racist.

cofy

When I was younger I used to be very sallow skinned, I often had people ask me "Excuse me do you speak english?" people often assumed I was Italian!!

westendgirlie

I'm a tan. And I tan well

Geekness1234

westendgirlie wrote: »

I'm a tan. And I tan well

This is permanent tan all year long.

hondasam

Geekness1234 wrote: »

I'm tanned and fully Irish,but I am constantly being asked where I come from and always having it proven to me that Irish people are not tanned and thus I'm not Irish.
Is anyone else in the same boat as me?

what boat that be, where are your parents from?

CoolHat

See, Ireland is going through what England did (especially London) in the 50's/60s. Different ethnicities merging.

Give it a generation (actually, more like a decade) and it will be nothing to see a chinese or black dude with the strongest dublin accent you've ever heard. I know some already do. But few and far between at this point. So op, give it a few years and no one will be thinking twice. We are just going through that change now.

Kevin Duffy

TheZohan wrote: »

Try being black and being Irish.

Where are you from? Ireland.
No where are you really from? Ireland.


It gets annoying after a while.

Ok, I'll give it a go.

Saila

Kevin Duffy wrote: »

Ok, I'll give it a go.

*hands shoe polish/coal*

DEFTLEFTHAND

Geekness1234 wrote: »

This is permanent tan all year long.

I'm the same have a natural tan all year round and have no foreign connections, unless my mother isn't telling me something:D

CoolHat

Saila wrote: »

*hands shoe polish/coal*

think i'd get banned for posting a minstrels image? :pac:

Thrill

CoolHat wrote: »

think i'd get banned for posting a minstrels image? :pac:

http://www.treatsfromhome.com.au/images/minstrels.jpg

x_Ellie_x

I have a friend like that. She had a Spanish ancestor 4 or 5 generations ago and she inherited the skintone & dark hair. People assume she's a foreigner all the time.

westendgirlie

Geekness1234 wrote: »

This is permanent tan all year long.

Yep, my English accent is permanent all year long. I also have year round sallow skin

Rabies

Geekness1234 wrote: »

I'm tanned and fully Irish,but I am constantly being asked where I come from and always having it proven to me that Irish people are not tanned and thus I'm not Irish.
Is anyone else in the same boat as me?

Yup... Get mistaken for Spanish, Italian or occasionally Argentinian.
100% Irish born and raised.
Couple oft cousins are the same.
The darker streak raises it's head here and there.
Light tan all winter, darker in summer.
Rarely ever burn and tan easy, to the jealously of many.

robbie_998

im fully irish a long way back but people keep asking me am i polish

MungBean

Geekness1234 wrote: »

I'm tanned and fully Irish,but I am constantly being asked where I come from and always having it proven to me that Irish people are not tanned and thus I'm not Irish.
Is anyone else in the same boat as me?

In a boat are ya ? Lookin for advice on how to fit in when your different are ya ?

I'm not buying it, wherever you boat lands you better set to sea again cos we dont need more of your kinda over here. We have enough refugees of our own to take care of !!

wonton

gargleblaster wrote: »

I would carry around Thin Lizzy records to beat people with.

phil was actually born in England, although i'm sure he'd have never accepted being called anything other than Irish.


actually as far as I remember only the drummer was actually Irish from thin Lizzy.

MungBean

wonton wrote: »

phil was actually born in England, although i'm sure he'd have never accepted being called anything other than Irish.


actually as far as I remember only the drummer was actually Irish from thin Lizzy.

What about Gary Moore and Eric Bell ?

Edit : You mean Northern Irish ≠ Irish ?

Geekness1234

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

I'm the same have a natural tan all year round and have no foreign connections, unless my mother isn't telling me something:D

Same here!:D

orangebud

Tan from Connemara

Handy11

Just carry around a Londis bag full of dirty spuds in one hand and a pint in the other. Tie your throusers up with baler twine and have a sheep on a leash. Answer "Piddayyyhas" to any question. Might help affirm your identity. Works for me

geetar

OP, swap you 12 million freckles for your tan

Handy11

geetar wrote: »

OP, swap you 12 million freckles for your tan

Doesn't joined-up freckles = a tan?

wolf moon

TheZohan wrote: »

It gets annoying after a while.

It just IS bloody annoying. Got even asked by the Aitricty guy a while ago - one of those who walk around trying to drag EBS customers to Airtricity - "Hi, very strange name... I don't wanna be nosey, but where are you from?"

"- I don't wanna be rude, but it's none of your business!"

Morons.

Geekness1234

geetar wrote: »

OP, swap you 12 million freckles for your tan

If you give me a euro for every freckle I'll think about.:D

Eroticfishcake

cofy wrote: »

When I was younger I used to be very sallow skinned, I often had people ask me "Excuse me do you speak english?" people often assumed I was Italian!!

Your skin changed colour?? Can you moonwalk :eek:

Sherfin

Saila wrote: »

*hands shoe polish/coal*

Coal from Poland

Kevin Duffy

Sherfin wrote: »

Coal from Poland

For that to work, besides ignoring the grammatical error, I would need to be a shoe. C'mon, get up to speed or bail out now.

Be||e

I am as pale as they come.

Even on the other side of the world, strangers come up to me and ask me if I'm Irish.

woodsy2

My town has a summer school for spanish kids, so naturally during the summer there'd be hordes of them wandering about the place.

For some reason myself and my twin were always being mistaken for being spanish (We're not even that tanned, the mistake was probably because we dressed rather crusty at the time)

There was one occasion while walking past a group of them that an irish group leader (or whatever) grabbed my brother, thinking he was sneaking off. He was not impressed

whatdoicare

80% Irish (as in family history that can be pretty much traced back to Brian Boru times on my dads side and bar a few French on my mams side in more recent years she's pretty much Irish till about the 1850's) and I easily fit the description of pretty much anyone from any hot country- same goes for my dad and my grandad - both of whom are much darker skinned than I am.

I get told on an almost weekly basis to feck off back to my own country or else some foreigner is yapping at me in whatever language assuming I'm one of them.

Ah well - I have a year round tan and look half my age...it's totally worth the abuse!

Lawrence1895

AG2R wrote: »

Nah, I'm a pasty ginger so I'm the definition of Irish according to the Yanks, Can't go out to town without being asked to get in a photo

I'm ginger, too. But not only the Yanks think, that all the Irish are ginger, it seems to be a worldwide stereotype. Ginger+freckles=Irish

tightropetom

wonton wrote: »

phil was actually born in England, although i'm sure he'd have never accepted being called anything other than Irish.


actually as far as I remember only the drummer was actually Irish from thin Lizzy.

Eric Bell - Belfast
Gary Moore - Belfast
Vivian Campbell - Belfast
Eric Wrixon - Belfast
Ricky Warwick - Newtownards

Fair enough, but a few Northern Irish in there too - could claim Republic of Irish roots if they really wanted to!

I think Downey is the only one from the Republic (but am open to correction)

fontanalis

Geekness1234 wrote: »

I'm tanned and fully Irish,but I am constantly being asked where I come from and always having it proven to me that Irish people are not tanned and thus I'm not Irish.
Is anyone else in the same boat as me?

Was your postman tanned?
Sometimes the auld genetics throws up something different.

Napper Hawkins

French and Spanish ancestry on my Mothers side so have the dark hair and skin. Rarely if ever get sunburnt which is a nice plus seeing as my Da goes bright red at the first hint of sunshine.

Being told to **** off home to Spain by some junky scrote recently wasn't nice though.:mad:

CoolHat

By 2132 we will all be one colour .... beige. And we will all have no hair too.

durp the durp!!!

deathrider

I used to hang out with a guy who had fairly tanned skin. He used to have a blast winding ladies up in the pubs and convincing them he was Spanish.