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Mistaken identity!

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  • #32
    Defiler Of The Coffin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,117 ✭✭✭Defiler Of The Coffin


    I got mistaken for being English once while in Japan.


  • #33
    audi a4 2008
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 306 ✭✭audi a4 2008


    i volunteer in the city and myself(irish),the chef (polish) and another guy (romanian) all working away, myself and the romanian guy were makeing up sandwiches.....

    anyway two more volunteers show up the chef knew them but myself and the other guy we never met them before....anyway we all working away and then i hear ure man say chef were the boys from they look polish:rolleyes:.
    whats the story with them...ha ha jesus i said in my own mind.

    chef broke down laughing....after the laughing stoped sorry he said looks can be deciveing...........


  • #34
    p to the e
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,403 ✭✭✭p to the e


    A while back when I worked in a shop I served a scummy looking bloke who looked me square on and said "what the **** are you looking at?". Not knowing what he was talking about I replied, "what's your problem?"."Oh sorry mate", he said, "I thought you were a foreigner", and walked out.


  • #35
    Crann na Beatha
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,763 ✭✭✭✭Crann na Beatha


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  • #36
    Where To
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,455 ✭✭✭Where To


    OP mistook us for people who give a f***!


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  • #37
    sunflower27
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,822 ✭✭✭sunflower27


    Where To wrote: »
    OP mistook us for people who give a f***!

    I mistook you for nothing. I asked if anyone had been mistaken for another nationality. You were under no obligation to reply and it would have been better if you hadn't :)


  • #38
    Nothingbetter2d
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,037 ✭✭✭Nothingbetter2d


    Michellenman wrote: »
    I get mistaken for Russain a fair bit.

    are you sure your not just in a hurry? ;)


  • #39
    Battered Mars Bar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 672 ✭✭✭Battered Mars Bar


    phasers wrote: »
    it's because you shook your head instead of speaking. You were either Polish or mute, they took a punt.

    Shouldn't have responded at all. I never acknowledge the existence of scumbags, it's the only language they seem to understand.


  • #40
    Where To
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,455 ✭✭✭Where To


    sunflower27 wrote: »
    I mistook you for nothing. I asked if anyone had been mistaken for another nationality. You were under no obligation to reply and it would have been better if you hadn't :)
    :(

    You're a scary person OP.
    Are you German?

    *crawls back into box*


  • #41
    sunflower27
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,822 ✭✭✭sunflower27


    Where To wrote: »
    :(

    You're a scary person OP.
    Are you German?

    *crawls back into box*

    Stay there.


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  • #42
    MikeD22
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 147 ✭✭MikeD22


    Once again I'm reminded of a scene from father ted :D

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nC7s17K2uMY


  • #43
    I Heart Internet
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,678 ✭✭✭I Heart Internet


    A polish guy once stopped me on the street and started talking to me in polish.

    I'm not polish. But apparently I have a "big polish head" up on me.


  • #44
    oddman2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 163 ✭✭oddman2


    I was over in Munich earlier in the year with some friends and we were talking to some German people.

    We'd said we're from Ireland and one of the lads says "Oh you look like you're Airen", and we say "you mean Eireann? As in Irish?" thinking that it was mighty impressive that he knew that.

    He goes "No, no, Airen, blond hair, blue eyes, you know, Hitler liked the Aryans." Didn't know what to say.


  • #45
    tightropetom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 283 ✭✭tightropetom


    I live in Cumbria and people over here don't seem to know the difference between a Northern Irish accent and a 'Southern' Irish (that's another annoyance, don't get me started on that one) one. The usual conversation goes like this -
    Them "Oh, are you Irish?"
    Me "Yes"
    Them "I've been to Belfast once."
    Me (In my head) "Grrrrrrrrrr!"

    The usual thing I say when they ask if I'm from Northern or Southern Ireland is that I'm from the West. Totally confuses them.


  • #46
    The Radiator
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 629 ✭✭✭The Radiator


    Unlucky, OP


  • #47
    hairyprincess
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,300 ✭✭✭hairyprincess


    tightropetom wrote: »
    I live in Cumbria and people over here don't seem to know the difference between a Northern Irish accent and a 'Southern' Irish (that's another annoyance, don't get me started on that one) one. The usual conversation goes like this -
    Them "Oh, are you Irish?"
    Me "Yes"
    Them "I've been to Belfast once."
    Me (In my head) "Grrrrrrrrrr!"

    The usual thing I say when they ask if I'm from Northern or Southern Ireland is that I'm from the West. Totally confuses them.

    I'm from Donegal and when I lived in Dublin, a lot of people would ask if we took the Euro up there *bangs head repeatedly off wall* :mad:


  • #48
    IrishAm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,576 ✭✭✭IrishAm


    You started this thread just to boast that someone thought you were a Polish mot, didn't ya?


  • #49
    Paco Rodriguez
    Closed Accounts Posts: 698 ✭✭✭Paco Rodriguez


    I had an Italian couple speak Italian to me..so I guess I look Italian........or maybe its because I was in Italy at the time.
    Im a scandanavian version of Forest Gump though....


  • #50
    Ellis Dee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,512 ✭✭✭Ellis Dee


    sunflower27 wrote: »
    So today I was hurrying along to meet a friend who was giving me a lift somewhere.Ii was finsihing off a smoke and saw a woman and who I presume were her two teenage kids sitting on a bench.

    The mother screeches out to me 'have you got a spare fag?' to which I shake my head as I hurry past.

    The 'son' then says, 'well, f*ck off back to Poland then' :D

    I am not Polish, never even been there, but am curious as to why someone would say that out of nowehere. :D

    :p:p:p

    Anyone else here been mistaken for another nationality?

    It's happened to me a few times in Ireland. :D

    Once, I was speaking Finnish to my daughter in a pub in Portarlington when a middle-aged women we don't know snarled "Speak English or go back to Poland!" at us. I replied: "Fcuk off! I'll speak whatever language I want, and you speak whatever one you can.":):):)


  • #51
    Borboletinha
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 180 ✭✭Borboletinha


    sunflower27 wrote: »
    So today I was hurrying along to meet a friend who was giving me a lift somewhere.Ii was finsihing off a smoke and saw a woman and who I presume were her two teenage kids sitting on a bench.

    The mother screeches out to me 'have you got a spare fag?' to which I shake my head as I hurry past.

    The 'son' then says, 'well, f*ck off back to Poland then' :D

    I am not Polish, never even been there, but am curious as to why someone would say that out of nowehere. :D

    :p:p:p

    Anyone else here been mistaken for another nationality?


    Funny, I was once called a mexican b*tch because I didnt have a spare cigarette!!:eek: Broke Smokers can be grumpy...:D

    Im brazilian btw but i guess i might also look mexican or italian or some kind of spanish...:p


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  • #52
    FanadMan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,824 ✭✭✭FanadMan


    A lot of people have asked me what part of Scotland I'm from........never been there and my folks are Irish. Must be my Donegal accent lol


  • #53
    FanadMan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,824 ✭✭✭FanadMan


    hairyprincess wrote: »
    I'm from Donegal and when I lived in Dublin, a lot of people would ask if we took the Euro up there *bangs head repeatedly off wall* :mad:


    Had the exact same lots of times lol


  • #54
    jellygems
    Closed Accounts Posts: 99 ✭✭jellygems


    yup all the time french or spanish!! when i was growing up ppl used to scream at me in town go back to ur own country ya ******! (cos i have olive skin)

    even ppl from spain and france speak to me thinking i am from there makes me chuckle now!!!

    no1 ever thinks im irish :eek::eek::eek:


  • #55
    Larianne
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,954 ✭✭✭✭Larianne


    Super-Rush wrote: »
    I was presenting a radio show a cuple of years ago, and some tool text the station asking when did the start employing Neil Delamere :mad:

    :D

    I get asked "Are you Irish?" a lot when out. People think I'm eastern European. I'm pale with red hair. :confused: Maybe its the tallness and, er, approachability? :pac:


  • #56
    u_c_thesecond
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,052 ✭✭✭u_c_thesecond


    sunflower27 wrote: »

    The 'son' then says, 'well, f*ck off back to Poland then' :D

    i would have yelled out "good enough to take a fag off though ya racist prick" jesus some people have no manners or class


  • #57
    Inbox
    Closed Accounts Posts: 810 ✭✭✭Inbox


    You must be slim and beautiful.


  • #58
    Jen Pigs Fly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,770 ✭✭✭Jen Pigs Fly


    I was told I looked Lithuanian ... thought that was random of all the places like.


  • #59
    lividduck
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,250 ✭✭✭lividduck


    rain on wrote: »
    When I was younger I used to get taken for a Spanish exchange student a lot :mad:
    So you have a good ass, pert tits and a sexy accent....oh lucky you!:D:D


  • #60
    Sar_Bear
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,555 ✭✭✭Sar_Bear


    xxxJennyxxx wrote: »
    I was told I looked Lithuanian ... thought that was random of all the places like.

    That is fairly random!


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  • #61
    IrishAm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,576 ✭✭✭IrishAm


    hairyprincess wrote: »
    I'm from Donegal and when I lived in Dublin, a lot of people would ask if we took the Euro up there *bangs head repeatedly off wall* :mad:

    Do you accept euro in Donegal, but?


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