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Just a Quick Question

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  • #32
    geetar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 469 ✭✭geetar


    OP, swap you 12 million freckles for your tan


  • #33
    Handy11
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 317 ✭✭Handy11


    geetar wrote: »
    OP, swap you 12 million freckles for your tan

    Doesn't joined-up freckles = a tan?


  • #34
    wolf moon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 644 ✭✭✭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.


  • #35
    Geekness1234
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,358 ✭✭✭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


  • #36
    Eroticfishcake
    Closed Accounts Posts: 292 ✭✭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:


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  • #37
    Sherfin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 204 ✭✭Sherfin


    Saila wrote: »
    *hands shoe polish/coal*


    Coal from Poland :confused:


  • #38
    Kevin Duffy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,439 ✭✭✭Kevin Duffy


    Sherfin wrote: »
    Coal from Poland :confused:

    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.


  • #39
    Be||e
    Closed Accounts Posts: 116 ✭✭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. :o


  • #40
    woodsy2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 60 ✭✭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 :D


  • #41
    whatdoicare
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,398 ✭✭✭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. :p

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


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  • #42
    Lawrence1895
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,627 ✭✭✭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


  • #43
    tightropetom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 283 ✭✭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)


  • #44
    fontanalis
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,619 ✭✭✭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.


  • #45
    Napper Hawkins
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,903 ✭✭✭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:


  • #46
    CoolHat
    Closed Accounts Posts: 569 ✭✭✭CoolHat


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

    durp the durp!!!


  • #47
    deathrider
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,699 ✭✭✭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.


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