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"You're the spit of your...."

  • 24-04-2009 03:57PM
    #1
    faceman
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 16,691 CMod ✭✭✭✭


    We all get this throughout our life. its usually old people (>40) or family who do it, and its something that is one of the most pointless exercises in life.

    I usually get, "oooh you're the spitting image of your Dad".
    To which I usualy reply,
    "Thats cos he's me Da"

    Its gets mental when you visit different sides of the family because I then get told, "oooh you look like your dead Auntie Josephine".

    but now, in the twilight of my life, (Im 31) a strange thing has happened. My younger relations are often told they look like me.

    It has me worried that Im too old to be attention worthy.

    Do you look like any weird relatives or do you get told you do?


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  • #2
    Nevyn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 43,043 ✭✭✭✭Nevyn


    I always get told I am the spit of my Dad, my response has been for the last 15 years,
    I am not bald and I do not have a mustache.


  • #3
    sickpuppy32
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 507 ✭✭✭sickpuppy32


    i'm always getting that too and i'm adopted!


  • #4
    liah
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,750 ✭✭✭liah


    No :( Apparently I don't look like anyone, ever. Not once in my life have I been told I look like someone.

    Not sure if that's a good or bad thing.


  • #5
    Gone Drinking
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,814 ✭✭✭Gone Drinking


    Thaedydal wrote: »
    I am not bald and I do not have a mustache.

    I beg to differ


  • #6
    Mr.Lizard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,476 ✭✭✭Mr.Lizard


    I'm the spit of Pat Mustard.


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  • #7
    Private Dancer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 65 ✭✭Private Dancer


    Apparantly I look like my mother.

    Never got told I look like anyone else though


  • #8
    Turd Ferguson
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,193 ✭✭✭Turd Ferguson


    faceman wrote: »
    We all get this throughout our life. its usually old people (>40) or family who do it, and its something that is one of the most pointless exercises in life.

    I usually get, "oooh you're the spitting image of your Dad".
    To which I usualy reply,
    "Thats cos he's me Da"

    Its gets mental when you visit different sides of the family because I then get told, "oooh you look like your dead Auntie Josephine".

    but now, in the twilight of my life, (Im 31) a strange thing has happened. My younger relations are often told they look like me.

    It has me worried that Im too old to be attention worthy.

    Do you look like any weird relatives or do you get told you do?

    You're the f*cking image of that guy from the A-Team


  • #9
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 11,928 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    My dad was checking on in my sleep when I was sick recently.
    And he was disturbed to find me sleeping the same perculiar way, as the black sheep of the family.
    He was up the rest of the night worrying about it :D


  • #10
    Splinter
    Hosted Moderators Posts: 3,331 ✭✭✭Splinter


    funny enough, yes, by a boardsie or two.... apparently i look like a younger version of wibbs


  • #11
    JerryHandbag
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,543 ✭✭✭JerryHandbag


    A woman once said to that famous comedian, "Billy Connolly you're the spittin image of yourself!" :D


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  • #12
    Adiboo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,629 ✭✭✭Adiboo


    I'm told I look like my uncle, even I see it at times. He's a prick though.


  • #13
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 11,928 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    splinter wrote: »
    funny enough, yes, by a boardsie or two.... apparently i look like a younger version of wibbs

    That reminds me I bumped into one of my very many lookalikeys this week.
    We had a stare off.
    I think I won. :)


  • #14
    Lobelia Overhill
    Closed Accounts Posts: 704 ✭✭✭Lobelia Overhill


    Someone once asked if I was adopted cos I don't look like D'Mother at all.

    Someone else pointed out that I was the spitting image of my maiden [ie never been married] aunt (who is D'Mother's sister)

    I'm calling Shenanigans!!

    I've been asked more than once if I'm so and so's sister (for both of my siblings) as I'm their spitting image. We also have a look-a-like cousin.


  • #15
    Mr.Lizard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,476 ✭✭✭Mr.Lizard


    Adiboo wrote: »
    I'm told I look like my uncle, even I see it at times. He's a prick though.

    So it's uncanny.


  • #16
    Latchy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,190 ✭✭✭✭Latchy


    People sometimes say they recognise our family resemblances because of our eyes .Bit strange when 3 of us have blue ,2 brown and 1 has green eyes :confused:


  • #17
    Fratton Fred
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,566 ✭✭✭✭Fratton Fred


    faceman wrote: »
    but now, in the twilight of my life, (Im 31) a strange thing has happened. My younger relations are often told they look like me.

    Sounds like you've been sleeping with your sisters tbh.


  • #18
    fishtastico
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 321 ✭✭fishtastico


    My da has a beard, so nobody really knows who he looks like. My mam seems to think I look like my grandad though, even though I'd say there's very little resemblance


  • #19
    Cormb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 77 ✭✭Cormb


    i'm told i look like my cousin, my dad and my uncle. Which is unfortunate given they're all ugly so-and-so's (so i'm told).

    Guess its lucky I've a charming personality :D


  • #20
    girlbiker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 137 ✭✭girlbiker


    Yeah I get told I'm the spit of my dad - my reply is what? I'm overweight with facial hair? :rolleyes:













    I am!



    Only kidding!


  • #21
    ejmaztec
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,369 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    Cormb wrote: »
    i'm told i look like my cousin, my dad and my uncle. Which is unfortunate given they're all ugly so-and-so's (so i'm told).

    Guess its lucky I've a charming personality :D

    Which one's Biffo?


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  • #22
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 45,738 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I was told I was hung like my uncle by my auntie.


    We are a close family.


  • #23
    Mr.Lizard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,476 ✭✭✭Mr.Lizard


    ejmaztec wrote: »
    Which one's Biffo?

    all three of them.


  • #24
    Kya1976
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,879 ✭✭✭Kya1976


    Yeah I always get that, people tell me I look like my dad and my aunt.:)


  • #25
    AnonoBoy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    I get told I look like everyone all the time, not just relatives.

    "Wow you look so like my friend Tony, the one-armed badminton player from Tunisia"

    or

    "Hey you look just like that suspected rapist on the news"

    or even once while on a date with a girl:

    "You look just like my father"


  • #26
    Toto Wolfcastle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,005 ✭✭✭✭Toto Wolfcastle


    I'm told I look like my aunt on my dad's side, but looking at pictures of my mother when she's a teenager I'm the image of her. This scares me.


  • #27
    Fizman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,605 ✭✭✭Fizman


    I'm the spit at the end of your cornetto.


  • #28
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 36,496 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    rarnes1 wrote: »
    I was told I was hung like my uncle by my auntie.


    We are a close family.

    Yeah, we remember.


  • #29
    girloperfection
    Closed Accounts Posts: 140 ✭✭girloperfection


    Ive been told i look like my uncle, he has long hair and a beard :(


  • #30
    Maddison
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,594 ✭✭✭Maddison


    I always get told I look like me:D


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  • #31
    Peep O'Day
    Closed Accounts Posts: 142 ✭✭Peep O'Day


    its funny relations on my mothers side always say i look like someone on their side and likewise with the relations on my fathers side!


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