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  • 26-01-2012 4:50pm
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    davet82
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    Have you ever been racially abused when abroad?

    Few years ago I got a taxi in Manchester and when I got out of the taxi, the driver informed me he wouldn't have picked me up if he knew I was Irish! :(

    any experinces?
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    Ghandee
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    I got called 'white monkey' once in Cape Town by a big black woman, wearing a thing like a fruit basket on her head :eek:



    I cried me eyes out!


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    W.Shakes-Beer
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    Wore a green shirt the other day and got called a Leprechaun.

    I burned my shirt.


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    Fart
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    I got called a "West Brit" on After Hours once. :(


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    jonnyfingers
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    Regularly get the piss taken out of me at work because all my cousins (aka travelers) are around the place.


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    Temptamperu
    Registered Users Posts: 5,303 ✭✭✭Temptamperu


    Yeah when I was living in scotland working the phones for Sky I got called Paddy, mick and leprechaun boy.

    I just laughed at them.


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    Son Of A Vidic
    Registered Users Posts: 32,370 ✭✭✭✭Son Of A Vidic


    During my 10 years in London the worst I got was an "Oi mate."


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    Oink
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    Yup. In Dublin, by a gentleman with a thick ulster accent. *cough*

    In fairness I do have that shifty foreign look about me.

    EDIT: George st doesn't really qualify as abroad but anyway.


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    Corvo
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    When I was in Paris a guy charged me €17 for a Guinness. I felt soo...invaded! :(


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    jester77
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    davet82 wrote: »
    Have you ever been racially abused when abroad?

    Someone once thought I was English :eek:


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    swimming in a sea
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    only ever in Dublin, she said she had to charge extra since i was from the country


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    AnonoBoy
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    Worked for an English lad briefly in France and he used to say, "Let's not be Paddies about this - use your brain for fawk's sake!"

    I was insulted but mainly because he was a complete thick and his suggested way of doing things was always f*cking stupid.


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    foxyboxer
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    davet82 wrote: »
    Have you ever been racially abused when abroad?

    Few years ago I got a taxi in Manchester and when I got out of the taxi, the driver informed me he wouldn't have picked me up if he knew I was Irish! :(

    any experinces?

    "...Well I was planning to pay my fare before I knew you were a cnut"


    * I would have paid him in Euro just to piss him off further.


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    paul71
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    I was once called a white Czech F****r by a gypsy in Prague. I had to get my wife to translate the comment for me, simply replied that I was a white Irish F****r.


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    [Deleted User]
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    When I lived in the states a few black guys screamed at me, yo white bitch.. and a few other choice words.

    I did the White Power salute and roared White Power!!!



    ( then I legged it):o


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    ICANN
    Registered Users Posts: 350 ✭✭ICANN


    A kid I teach today told me to 'fcuk off back to my own country' and (adults) always go on to me about travellers and one person I work with ALWAYS brings up the IRA. It's just idiots tbh.


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    Wicklowrider
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    Had an English "lady" rip into me over the phone once. I worked for one of the multi nationals and she was buying about £100K worth of goods. She objected to the delivery charge (fair enough as far as that goes) She then went off into a rant about if the company I worked for chose to locate in " a third world country they had no right to expect the British to pay the extra delivery charges blah blah blah... cheap Paddy labour blah blah ...
    Just thad to bite my tongue - I needed her business a lot more than she needed me tbh.


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    KTRIC
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    jester77 wrote: »
    Someone once thought I was English :eek:

    I used to get that all the time in Munich, really got to me after a while. Especially when they thought it they would be ruder that usual.


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    sensibleken
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    In England twice was called a leprechaun, both times by scousers. Exceeded many many times over by friendliness and welcoming on other occasions though.


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    number10a
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    Fart wrote: »
    I got called a "West Brit" on After Hours once. :(

    But you live in Wales. :confused:


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    LK_Dave
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    Got called a blood-clot once in Harlesden once by a drunk black guy. Being around the world and got called Paddy, Irish or IRA loads of times. Never worried me.


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    John Doe1
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    sensibleken wrote: »
    In England twice was called a leprechaun, both times by scousers. Exceeded many many times over by friendliness and welcoming on other occasions though.

    ah scousers more than likely have at least one irish grandparent too:rolleyes:


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    sensibleken
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    John Doe1 wrote: »
    ah scousers more than likely have at least one irish grandparent too:rolleyes:

    the second one did as was pointed out to him shortly afterwards. he was promptly removed from the wedding :D.


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    lignum
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    I was in Heathrow one day to heading to the US and two cops came up to me and said " alright paddy got any bombs on ya" I said no theyre in my checked bag.


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    mongdesade
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    PSNI officer took offence to a tricolor on my backpack after coming off a ferry at Larne, told me to "F**k off back to my own country"...
    "Gladly" I replied, "soon as you f**k off back to yours !" :D


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    Fart
    Registered Users Posts: 1,825 ✭✭✭Fart


    number10a wrote: »
    But you live in Wales. :confused:

    "Live" for the time being. It doesn't mean I'm from Wales.


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    AnonoBoy
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    LK_Dave wrote: »
    Got called a blood-clot once in Harlesden once by a drunk black guy.

    I've never heard that. What does it mean? Is it racial?


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    ejmaztec
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    Ghandee wrote: »
    I got called 'white monkey' once in Cape Town by a big black woman, wearing a thing like a fruit basket on her head :eek:



    I cried me eyes out!


    Wouldn't she give you a banana?


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    Micky Dolenz
    Registered Users Posts: 44,080 ✭✭✭✭Micky Dolenz


    Been called a free state bastard by a few nordies. Been called Paddy a few times when I lived in the UK, but it was more banter then abuse.


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    Jimoslimos
    Registered Users Posts: 4,930 ✭✭✭Jimoslimos


    AnonoBoy wrote: »
    LK_Dave wrote: »
    Got called a blood-clot once in Harlesden once by a drunk black guy. Being around the world and got called Paddy, Irish or IRA loads of times. Never worried me.
    I've never heard that. What does it mean? Is it racial?
    Maybe it was a slightly cryptic reference to the high incidence of cardiovascular disease suffered by those of Celtic origin, especially in Scotland & Ireland


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    yupyup7up
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    In Gran Canaria I had to go to the shop to get something for my then other half.

    There was a black guy trying to sell me sunglasses and that kinda sh!te and I said that I was grand so he kept at it. Eventually I just walked away from him, and he said "Paddy! Paddy! Come back you f*cking paddy!"

    It took all my self restraint not to say something racist towards him, so instead I stopped and turned around and walked back towards him and asked him aggressively what the f*ck he was calling me and he walked off fairly quick. what a d!ckhead :rolleyes:


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