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Anyone ever nasty to you for being Irish

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  • #32
    Dudess
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    Yep, once - from an English guy when I was in Majorca. A bunch of English people defended me. :)
    Guy just seemed like an unpleasant dick no matter whom he dealt with tbh.

    OP, the guy's first comment seemed like a joke IMO. Second one which you weren't supposed to hear was idiotic, but I personally wouldn't get bothered by it. There's much worse racism.


  • #33
    BraziliaNZ
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,671 ✭✭✭BraziliaNZ


    Happy Monday wrote: »
    Was at a Chelsea boozer 15 years ago.
    We were told to f**k off back to Kilburn.
    Kilburn is where a lot of Irish people live in London.
    Not nice given the bloke saying it looked like something from a Ray Winstone film.

    Well at least they weren't suggesting you leave the country altogether, just a different part of town, very thoughtful of them for thugs :D


  • #34
    Paz-CCFC
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 1,529 ✭✭✭Paz-CCFC


    When I was travelling before, I took a ferry across the water. We got into Liverpool, and the minute I left the boat, a few scumbag locals copped that I was Irish. I tried to ignore it, but these lads just wouldn't let up. I just lost the rag and ran at them. Probably wasn't the best idea, seeing as I was on my own and there were a group of them. Thankfully, a few lads from Galway saw what was going on and hopped onto them, and I got out with only a few bruises.


  • #35
    Carter P Fly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 618 ✭✭✭Carter P Fly


    mikemac1 wrote: »
    Do you not get it, lads? The Irish are the blacks of Europe. And Dubliners are the blacks of Ireland. And the Northside Dubliners are the blacks of Dublin. So say it once, say it loud: I'm black and I'm proud.

    I shoudl mention I was in philadelphia when this was said!


  • #36
    Dudess
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    dodderangler wrote: »
    we slate the English all the time
    Speak for yourself dude.

    Friendly banter is very different to hostility too.


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  • #37
    DrumSteve
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    kfallon wrote: »
    Pot & Kettle? :confused:

    Was called a 'fenian bastard' when I was about 10, was wearing my Celtic jersey when on holiday at the time! Two Rangers fans said it to me, they were both about 17 or 18.....nice! :rolleyes:

    Also a bunch of us were called 'Paddy ****' by a guy no taller than 4 foot at a race meeting in England before. He said it as he walked past and said it in such a low tone he didn't think we'd hear but I did. Found it hilarious!

    Probably one of the jockeys.


  • #38
    Eve_Dublin
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    BraziliaNZ wrote: »
    They seem to like us here in London. The only hassle I've got is from culchies hating on me for being from Dublin, but I never took that seriously!

    True. I've had more anti-Dublin nonsense than I had anti-Irish nonsense in the 3 years I lived over there.

    I've experienced it twice from 2 English guys here in Spain. Two sadder fookers you couldn't meet. It annoyed me at the time but I'm actually more annoyed with myself for taking anything those two gob****es said to heart.


  • #39
    Jester252
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    I was in Spain on a school trip and we were out at a amusement park we were the only ones at the place and the staff was very disproving of us until they found out that we're Irish.


  • #40
    philstar
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    onlyrocknroll wrote: »
    Yep, drunken violence is definitely the best response in the face of negative Irish stereotypes.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6i8IER7nTfc


  • #41
    BunShopVoyeur
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    Fr_Dougal wrote: »
    leggit wrote: »
    I'd be more in the "couldn't give a f*ck" camp when it comes to this kind of thing, just a drunk moron being a drunk moron.

    Not racism either btw

    It surely was. Calling an Irish person a "mick" is very racist...unless your name is Michael.

    It's xenophobia.


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  • #42
    westendgirlie
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    keithclancy wrote: »
    So,

    "Hey look, you shouldn't say that sort of thing to people, its a bit racist"

    Guy was all very apologetic, said sorry and then I walked off, I walked around the corner and then heard him saying "These f*cking Irish micks should piss off back to where they came from"

    I just thought 'for f&ck sake' and went to bed.

    Over here in Holland i've only ever experienced racism because people here can't really tell the difference between England and Ireland, hence you get the whole 'English wánker' thing shouted at you sometimes.

    Anyone else ever had a similar experience ?

    Well you have answered your own question. You have had a similar experience albeit you were mistaken for another nationality. Did you also tell the people calling you an English wanker that they were being racist?


  • #43
    Keitho_san
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 101 ✭✭Keitho_san


    mikemac1 wrote: »
    Is your username not more Japanese then Chinese?
    Yes it is indeed. lol


  • #44
    FatherLen
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    no never really got any trouble to be honest but if i am playing my playstation i love to confuse other irish people by being racist towards the irish. nothing confuses the paddys like being called a mick in an irish accent.


  • #45
    Bluefoam
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    keithclancy wrote: »
    So,

    Was at a wedding on the weekend in England, was never at a wedding in England before, live over in Holland so driving there wasn't to bad.

    Was a good craic, mostly the same as an Irish wedding.

    Late into the night we were in the bar and I was chatting to a guy, all very normal conversation. He seemed well educated, was a history teacher in a school apparently.

    After a while myself and the missus said we were going to bed and headed off, while we were walking away the guy said 'Goodnight ya dumb paddy'

    I sort of shrugged it off and went upstairs, after a while it was bugging the hell out of me so I went back downstairs.

    Walked back over and told the guy in a very friendly way

    "Hey look, you shouldn't say that sort of thing to people, its a bit racist"

    Guy was all very apologetic, said sorry and then I walked off, I walked around the corner and then heard him saying "These f*cking Irish micks should piss off back to where they came from"

    I just thought 'for f&ck sake' and went to bed.

    Over here in Holland i've only ever experienced racism because people here can't really tell the difference between England and Ireland, hence you get the whole 'English wánker' thing shouted at you sometimes.

    Anyone else ever had a similar experience ?

    I've never heard an Irish person use the term 'Was a good craic', only non Irish... Is the OP actually Irish?

    The correct term would be 'was good craic', 'the craic was good' etc...


  • #46
    COYW
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    mikemac1 wrote: »
    It's us who should feel sorry for the Brits

    No red lemonade:(

    And Tayto!!
    theteal wrote: »
    I've been here about a year now and must admit I've experienced no form of anti-irish attitude from any english people i've come across - quite the opposite in fact. I did have a bit of an anti-dublin altercation with one fine representative of our own nation a couple of months ago though.

    Moral of story; you can find arseholes anywhere!

    Totally, agree. I visit the UK and London in particular regularly and have never had a bad experience there. I was embarrassed to be Irish once, on a train to Brighton when a bunch of Irish teens where running up and down the carriage, screaming about their Irish-ness.


  • #47
    smash
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    SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »
    Had a run in with a couple of Rangers fans in Majorca years ago
    Dudess wrote: »
    Yep, once - from an English guy when I was in Majorca.

    Hmmmm, I had a few run ins with English guys in Mallorca too.


  • #48
    Eve_Dublin
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    Have to say though, I've generally had really positive reponses in all the countries I've visited and lived in for being Irish, so I can't complain at all. It's kind of a blessing to be Irish really, even if it's probably unjustified a lot of the time.


  • #49
    Wibbs
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    Enkidu wrote: »
    How is it not racism? Seems pretty like uninformed bigotry to me.
    Oh sure bigotry for sure E, but not really racism as we're the same "race". If the same muppet had muttered "nígger" to a black fellow Englishman it would be racist.

    Many worry about Artificial Intelligence. I worry far more about Organic Idiocy.



  • #50
    keithclancy
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    Bluefoam wrote: »
    I've never heard an Irish person use the term 'Was a good craic', only non Irish... Is the OP actually Irish?

    The correct term would be 'was good craic', 'the craic was good' etc...

    Nah man, non Irish people say it something like "the crayke was amazing" or "The Irish love the crayke"

    The lads hanging around Amsterdam central station have it down to a T though, their mad for the craic.

    Sort of like when a German lad walked up to me in cork looking for Meechel Gúinneays


  • #51
    BO-JANGLES
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    BraziliaNZ wrote: »
    They seem to like us here in London. The only hassle I've got is from culchies hating on me for being from Dublin, but I never took that seriously!

    I'm a Dub and I've lived in many places world wide. Returned home and settled down in the country. Never felt like an outsider so much in my life. Still ablow in after seven years......


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  • #52
    Dudess
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    smash wrote: »
    Hmmmm, I had a few run ins with English guys in Mallorca too.
    Let's set up a Facebook page! :pac:


  • #53
    Gone Drinking
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    Something like this would annoy the **** out of me aswell, but life's too short. Don't lose any sleep dude!


  • #54
    Morlar
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    I think most Irish people who have lived and worked in britain have come across that at some point (maybe not so much london). What the op mentions is mild in my estimation. I think the Irish who went there in the 40's - 70's had it particularly bad compared to nowadays.


  • #55
    kfallon
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    Wibbs wrote: »
    Oh sure bigotry for sure E, but not really racism as we're the same "race". If the same muppet had muttered "nígger" to a black fellow Englishman it would be racist.

    But are we not all the 'Human Race' so racism doesn't exist at all? :confused:


  • #56
    philstar
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    dodderangler wrote: »
    Don't start this **** sayin its racism who cares we slate the English all the time

    irish are no angels either....had english relatives who were driven off the road back in the H-block days, they paid the price for having a GB sticker on their car


  • #57
    mikemac1
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    BO-JANGLES wrote: »
    I'm a Dub and I've lived in many places world wide. Returned home and settled down in the country. Never felt like an outsider so much in my life. Still ablow in after seven years......

    Only seven years?

    The mammy moved to the village decades ago after getting married and the locals still refer to the county she is from

    You're a blowin unless you're in a parish three generations and you own land it seems


  • #58
    Enkidu
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    Wibbs wrote: »
    Oh sure bigotry for sure E, but not really racism as we're the same "race". If the same muppet had muttered "nígger" to a black fellow Englishman it would be racist.
    Oh yeah, duh! Bit of a thick moment there for a second!:o

    Funnily enough the only experience I've ever had of this kind of stuff was in Mexico when people used to threateningly laugh and push me while saying "gringo". Best way out I've found is to have pleasant smile on all the time and pretend you have no clue what is going on.


  • #59
    Dudess
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    Oh this "The Irish are no angels" talk on the basis of a minority of psychos had to start of course...


  • #60
    SunnyDub1
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    Was in the states last year for a short while, and was on one of them tour thingys.

    These 4 Americans where in front of us stopping and looking at every possible things (extremely annoying) then one stops to take stuff out of her back, so me and Friend walked passed and skipped them then we hear

    " ahh look at them skipping us, typical Irish tourists I bet"


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  • #61
    mikemac1
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    How did they know you were Irish?

    Pale skin with the farmers suntan? :pac:


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