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Chris O'Dowd's correction of interviewer who called him "British"

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,058 ✭✭✭Colonel Panic


    English people, like Americans have zero exposure to Irish media in the same way as we do their TV and news. I have a couple of mates from England who I keep in touch with online and they know NOTHING about this country.

    Who cares?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,639 ✭✭✭Teyla Emmagan


    Youre his nurse?
    Rectal or oral?

    It's all ear thermometers these days, baby.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,172 ✭✭✭Ghost Buster


    It's all ear thermometers these days, baby.
    Oh . It was aural so...nice:D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,639 ✭✭✭Teyla Emmagan


    Oh . It was aural so...nice:D

    Took me ages to get two fingers in there.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,172 ✭✭✭Ghost Buster


    Took me ages to get two fingers in there.
    Yore durty!!!!!!


































    pm me...please........


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,610 ✭✭✭ArtSmart


    'West Brit' is just a stupid slur used by bigoted twats. All it expresses is disgust at other people for not sharing their prejudices. It's like a white racist calling white people names for having black friends, or for listening to a genre of music that's not country and western.
    wait...there's country and western???


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,610 ✭✭✭ArtSmart


    you cant beat Spike Milligans ' correction'
    'I'm F***ing Irish!"
    When a fan asked him for the autograph of the funniest Englishman ever.

    (unsourced)
    wasn't Spike Indian?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,846 ✭✭✭Fromthetrees


    dirtyden wrote: »
    Obama claimed himself to be Irish. There is a difference.
    I know but there was that cringe worthy song as well by those Irish lads, I know it's only a bit of craic but we are very guilty of claiming people as ours.
    The journalist was probably just ignorant, whereas we claim people consciously all the time, when Tubridy was interviewing Noel Gallagher a few months back, one of the first questions asked was how Irish do you feel, we do it to the point of being psychotic. Bill O'Reilly, when he was on TLL was the same, so many. I know there's a bit of Irish blood in these people but most won't even pass as plastic paddies so I just feel a bit 'totes whatevs like' about it.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,172 ✭✭✭Ghost Buster


    ArtSmart wrote: »
    wasn't Spike Indian?
    Theyre called 'Native American' now dahling


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,051 ✭✭✭Hilly Bill


    You're missing the point entirely. This isn't about 'claiming' someone based on their ancestry. It's about an Irish person being called British, to his face, and choosing to correct the person doing so.

    She made a mistake, its no big deal.


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,172 ✭✭✭Ghost Buster


    Hilly Bill wrote: »
    She made a mistake, its no big deal.
    I dont think any one is making a big deal about it. The thread started with commentry on how well Chris oDowd dealt with it by NOT MAKING A BIG DEAL ABOUT IT


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,051 ✭✭✭Hilly Bill


    7 pages of it. He corrected her, so what? Why bother starting a thread about it?


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,172 ✭✭✭Ghost Buster


    Hilly Bill wrote: »
    7 pages of it. He corrected her, so what? Why bother starting a thread about it?
    Ummmmmmmmmmmmm. But you have posted in it at least twice whcih is kind of the point of starting a thread....ummmmm... people click into it and post stuff...ummmm
    What?:confused::P


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,920 ✭✭✭Einhard


    Ireland is very similar to New Zealand in the way that we both care very much about what our larger neighbors think about us whereas the neighbors don't give two f**ks!

    I imagine if America, France, or even Ireland started claiming English notables as their own on a regular basis, the English media would soon give a fook.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,758 ✭✭✭✭TeddyTedson


    crazygeryy wrote: »
    i have never heard anyone and i mean anyone claim that wayne rooney is irish.and thank christ for it to.

    and now you have :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,735 ✭✭✭Duckworth_Luas


    Ireland is very similar to New Zealand in the way that we both care very much about what our larger neighbors think about us whereas the neighbors don't give two f**ks!
    Must be a similar relationship to that between the UK and the USA then!


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


    The journalist was probably just ignorant, whereas we claim people consciously all the time, when Tubridy was interviewing Noel Gallagher a few months back, one of the first questions asked was how Irish do you feel, we do it to the point of being psychotic.

    Noel Gallagher is very proud of his Irish roots. He played in Croker before at underage level and will probably tune in to support Mayo in the upcoming All Ireland final.

    "There is no English blood in me, but I don't need to be wearing the green, white and gold on St Patrick's Day to prove it to anyone," he says.

    "I spent summers in Ireland all through the '70s and most of the '80s, bringing in the hay with my uncles in Charlestown in Mayo. I loved it and every time I go back it just feels natural to be there."


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,051 ✭✭✭Hilly Bill


    Ummmmmmmmmmmmm. But you have posted in it at least twice whcih is kind of the point of starting a thread....ummmmm... people click into it and post stuff...ummmm
    What?:confused::P

    Still doesnt change the fact that its a pointless thread.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,281 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    Must be a similar relationship to that between the UK and the USA then!

    I think they just look on each other with a mutual superior contempt.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,806 ✭✭✭✭KeithM89_old


    Hilly Bill wrote: »
    She made a mistake, its no big deal.
    Hilly Bill wrote: »
    7 pages of it. He corrected her, so what? Why bother starting a thread about it?
    Hilly Bill wrote: »
    Still doesnt change the fact that its a pointless thread.

    Dont like it, dont read it but stop thread-spoiling.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,735 ✭✭✭Duckworth_Luas


    ejmaztec wrote: »
    I think they just look on each other with a mutual superior contempt.
    Not when the British blather on about a "special relationship" while the US is laughing at them!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,051 ✭✭✭Hilly Bill


    KeithM89 wrote: »
    Dont like it, dont read it but stop thread-spoiling.

    Its not a thread that you can spoil now is it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,369 ✭✭✭mosstin


    Sligo people, always claiming Roscommon celebrities as their own! Wait until a dead, drugged up hooker is found in his swimming pool, he'll be back to being a Rossie then!

    Does that read as hilarious to everyone else as it does to me?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,806 ✭✭✭✭KeithM89_old


    Hilly Bill wrote: »
    Its not a thread that you can spoil now is it.

    Mod:
    Dont post here again.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,051 ✭✭✭Hilly Bill


    Ok.


  • Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    mosstin wrote: »
    Does that read as hilarious to everyone else as it does to me?

    Yes!!! OMG Yeah!!!








    I think he did that on purpose though...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,806 ✭✭✭✭KeithM89_old


    Hilly Bill wrote: »
    Ok.

    Bye now.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,499 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    I don't think they intentionally try to claim anyone. It's a sad state of affairs really but many Britons assume that Ireland is still part of the empire. I've met countless people over their who think exactly that, educated people but still ignorant in this regard for some reason.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 64 ✭✭Hide the Rum


    I can't find it now but Cillian Murphy was being interviewed with Tom Hardy for Inception and the guy goes "So with you both being British actors...." and Cillian said "No, I'm Irish." and the guy goes "Yeah but like.... British??", Cillian had to correct him again. Funny stuff. I think the interviewer was American.


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,172 ✭✭✭Ghost Buster


    I can't find it now but Cillian Murphy was being interviewed with Tom Hardy for Inception and the guy goes "So with you both being British actors...." and Cillian said "No, I'm Irish." and the guy goes "Yeah but like.... British??", Cillian had to correct him again. Funny stuff. I think the interviewer was American.
    This


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