How diverse are your friends?

The Backwards Man

Just in the pub here thinking to myself, and by the hokey I get on well with a wide range of people from far flung parts. There's the Venezuelan chopper pilot, the Albanian exotic dancer, the Australian voiceover artiste, the Vietnamese barman, the Rwandan sociologist and the Afghan pizza chef for a start. Even people from Leitrim!

Who is your most unusual or unlikely friend?

Panthro

I've mates from every corner of Connaught.
Well travelled bucks too, from Ballina to Ballinasloe and everywhere in between.

Except Balla.


Jesus we fcukin hate that Balla crowd.

OneArt

I've a friend called Mandy who likes to play with her own poo but we all accept her regardless.

Except she's not allowed to come to bridge night because nobody wants to handle pooey playing cards.

Fleawuss

Steer clear of the Rwandan sociologist.

Penny Tration

What are these "friends" you speak of?

Fleawuss

Do imaginary friends count?

The Backwards Man

OneArt wrote: »

I've a friend called Mandy who likes to play with her own poo but we all accept her regardless.

Except she's not allowed to come to bridge night because nobody wants to handle pooey playing cards.

Get someone else to hold her cards, then you could say Mandy came and she played without taking.

OneArt

The Backwards Man wrote: »

So you could say she came and she played without taking (cards)

That's a secret we're all trying to keep from Mandy as well.

None of us really know what bridge is. We just make it up.

riffmongous

I've been lucky to be able to be friends with a lot of sound people from around the world through uni and some of the other work I do;Iranians, Afghans, Indonesians, Japanese, Chinese, Americans, Canadians, Brazilians, Peruvians, Venezuelans, Portuguese, Spanish, Italians, Dutch,South Africans, Rhodesians (their words), Ethiopians, Greeks, Turks, Albanians, Croats, Hungarians, Roma, Slovaks, Belarus, a load of Austrians and Germans, Poles, Russians, one from Chechnya, Welsh, Scots, English and even a few Irish

Time to start a sticker book collection I think

brummytom

Absolutely all of them, from school, uni and socially, are from an Irish background. Fcuk me that's depressing

mad muffin

I have a Nigerian prince who is a very good friend of mine, and a girl on Facebook that is going to tell me how to get rid of bed bugs.

fleet_admiral

My job has Lithuanians, Romanians, Moldovans, Brazilians, South Africans, Irish, Northern Irish, Waterford, Killkenny, Chinese and Indian people working in it.

I call the pub the UN

The Backwards Man

brummytom wrote: »

Absolutely all of them, from school, uni and socially, are from an Irish background. Fcuk me that's depressing

I know Jasper Carrot's email address if you want a Brummy mate?

One eyed Jack

Geez, I keep a fairly eclectic mix of friends now I actually think about it, from all corners of the social sphere, be they homeless, or living in mansions, wearing rags or wearing designer labels, illiterate to articulate, uneducated to professors, low ballers to high rollers...

All sorts of interesting people with all sorts of interests and stories to tell

They're a mixed bag really, love 'em all though

wil

The Backwards Man wrote: »

Just in the pub here thinking to myself, and by the hokey I get on well with a wide range of people from far flung parts. There's the Venezuelan chopper pilot, the Albanian exotic dancer, the Australian voiceover artiste, the Vietnamese barman, the Rwandan sociologist and the Afghan pizza chef for a start. Even people from Leitrim!

Who is your most unusual or unlikely friend?

I've a couple of friends who are from other species.

My uncle is friends with a ghost in his house. Doesn't know her name but she keeps an eye on the place when he's out.

antonymin

I don't have any friends, they all died.

Joeseph Balls

fleet_admiral wrote: »

My job has Lithuanians, Romanians, Moldovans, Brazilians, South Africans, Irish, Northern Irish, Waterford, Killkenny, Chinese and Indian people working in it.

I call the pub the UN

No poles? Your boss is racist.

HugsiePie

My friend group includes a ginger...

Might aswell lock the thread now, dont think anyones gonna beat that

Banjo String

fleet_admiral wrote: »

My job has Lithuanians, Romanians, Moldovans, Brazilians, South Africans, Irish, Northern Irish, Waterford, Killkenny, Chinese and Indian people working in it.

I call the pub the UN

Can you get in without a Thai?

RyanDrive

My friends are all strictly white Irish, which is quite sad really.

meeeeh

Joeseph Balls wrote: »

No poles? Your boss is racist.

I would say more like pragmatist. Poles and Russian Lithuanians don't mix (mostly Russian ones emigrated).

wil

Joeseph Balls wrote: »

No poles? Your boss is racist.

Sign on the door says "Strictly no dancing allowed"

Lucifer MorningStar

You're always stuck in the pub ya big Alco :pac:

The Backwards Man

Banjo String wrote: »

Can you get in without a Thai?

Can you get in a pub in SoDe without a 'haigh'?:pac:

You're my friend too! I like the riff raff:)

Witchie

My family is like the UN without even looking at my friends. My brother's (sadly now ex but still part of the family) girlfriend is Thai, my sister's boyfriend is English. I have a Dutch uncle. I have cousins who are all siblings from a family of 6 married to Dutch, German, Chinese, Canadian and one Irish. Last one isn't married yet but his girlfriend is Welsh.

Another cousin is married to a Turkish guy and yet another is married to a part Ugandan-Asian part Irish bloke.

I have ex boyfriends from Kosovo, Germany, Belgium, Trinidad and Puerto Rico. Friends with people from Barbados, France, Thailand (not including my bros ex), Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Brazil, Argentina, Italy, Spain, Norway and of course England, Scotland, America and Canada.

Hate them all though coz am a racist.

The Backwards Man

Yeah, Monaghan folk are really insular and inward looking.

Witchie

The Backwards Man wrote: »

Yeah, Monaghan folk are really insular and inward looking.

I know. I won't even mention the scandal of having Cavan cousins!

CINCLANTFLT

Some of my friends wipe their arse from the back towards the front... The rest of that are willing to try and accept this... Personally I hate the back to fronts... It makes me puke... But sure they're my friends...

Kaiser Sosay

Veiled - Look at me I know some foreigners thread...:pac:

Stheno

The Backwards Man wrote: »

Just in the pub here thinking to myself, and by the hokey I get on well with a wide range of people from far flung parts. There's the Venezuelan chopper pilot, the Albanian exotic dancer, the Australian voiceover artiste, the Vietnamese barman, the Rwandan sociologist and the Afghan pizza chef for a start. Even people from Leitrim!

Who is your most unusual or unlikely friend?

Have you been drinking again?

I've a friend called Marakesh named after the Marakesh express song

wil

Kaiser Sosay wrote: »

Veiled - Look at me I know some foreigners thread...:pac:

What people wear in this thread is their own concern

The Backwards Man

Stheno wrote: »

Have you been drinking again?

I've a friend called Marakesh named after the Marakesh express song

Does she like riding?:pac:


My wee brother worked in Marrakesh for a while. He hated it. Fair enough it was Ramadan and he didn't know another non-Muslim in the place but he still hated it

Ninap

Witchie wrote: »

My family is like the UN without even looking at my friends. My brother's (sadly now ex but still part of the family) girlfriend is Thai, my sister's boyfriend is English. I have a Dutch uncle. I have cousins who are all siblings from a family of 6 married to Dutch, German, Chinese, Canadian and one Irish. Last one isn't married yet but his girlfriend is Welsh.

Another cousin is married to a Turkish guy and yet another is married to a part Ugandan-Asian part Irish bloke.

I have ex boyfriends from Kosovo, Germany, Belgium, Trinidad and Puerto Rico. Friends with people from Barbados, France, Thailand (not including my bros ex), Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Brazil, Argentina, Italy, Spain, Norway and of course England, Scotland, America and Canada.

Hate them all though coz am a racist.

I'm sure he's popular

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_uncle

Witchie

Ninap wrote: »

I'm sure he's popular

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_uncle

Ha ha...he will love that! He is one of the nicest most fun people ever.

SMJSF

Mine aren't exactly "diverse".
But some are well educated (gone to uni, I haven't gone) and others have never had a job.
Most are older than me.

But I've learned the hard way over the years about mixing the two. No. Never again! Doesn't end well!
Keep people from school/college with the people who they know, and don't mix them with the people I'm friends with outside of education.
I'm naturally two different people in those environments.
I'm more straight backed and quite at college, and more comfortable outside of that environment.

fizzypish

The Backwards Man wrote: »

the Albanian exotic dancer?

Is he any good?

mfceiling

fleet_admiral wrote: »

My job has Lithuanians, Romanians, Moldovans, Brazilians, South Africans, Irish, Northern Irish, Waterford, Killkenny, Chinese and Indian people working in it.

I call the pub the UN

Must be like a benetton ad in your place!!

clever user name

My friends here in Thailand are South African, English, Swiss, Malaysian, Spanish, Colombian and Ghanaian. So yeah, diverse enough.

One of my friends is a chair. One of them a celery stick.

Boring username

This thread is like the boards version of a Benetton ad....

looseliver

I have a friend who used to nail bags of tadpoles to a spinning wheel and whirl them around and where ever they'd stop he'd shout TADPOLES!! TADPOLES IS THE WINNER.

Back then we all thought he was crazy, but we had a lot of growing up to do.

Menas

Reading thru this I realise that most of my friends are not diverse at all. :mad:

sheesh

one of my friends is actually working class *puts in monocle

the evasion_kid

Jesus were do I start,from white collar workers to anarchists to homeless freight train hoppers to African tribesmen....the beauty of travel

Hagar7

Witchie wrote: »

My family is like the UN without even looking at my friends. My brother's (sadly now ex but still part of the family) girlfriend is Thai, my sister's boyfriend is English. I have a Dutch uncle. I have cousins who are all siblings from a family of 6 married to Dutch, German, Chinese, Canadian and one Irish. Last one isn't married yet but his girlfriend is Welsh.

Another cousin is married to a Turkish guy and yet another is married to a part Ugandan-Asian part Irish bloke.

I have ex boyfriends from Kosovo, Germany, Belgium, Trinidad and Puerto Rico. Friends with people from Barbados, France, Thailand (not including my bros ex), Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Brazil, Argentina, Italy, Spain, Norway and of course England, Scotland, America and Canada.

Hate them all though coz am a racist.

Good job you have a broom Witchie.:)

citytillidie

Going to be the talk of the street when my African American friend comes to visit next month