Have you ever been treated differently because of your 'race'?

I had to start with the medium paced runners once.

Yes,had racist comments directed at me by an Asian fellow when I worked in London as a youngster.

The usual thick Paddy sh1te which was seemingly acceptable at the time over there.

I just said don't even go there little brown man.

Only once in London by a Pakistani bloke I worked with. Id known him years and he's a lovely fella. Slagged off the 'Paddy' builders outside our building.
I called him a Paki so and so and told him to report me to the boss.

He apologised !!!

I once had a drunk girl call me a "chink bastard" because I didn't have a lighter...

I'm not even Chinese


Another time I'd a group of girls think I was Italian because "look at the fookin' body on him, fookin' tellin' ya he's Italian or something!" :rolleyes:


The funniest one though was when I was at a barbecue party after being invited by one of my mates who is black herself, and all the guests bar myself were black, about 100 of 'em, so feeling a little out of place I figured I'd mix and mingle anyway. I went over to the barbecue area where one lad was turning the lamb chunks with his fingers, and I suggested he use a tongs so he wouldn't burn his fingers...

"Tongs are for white people", came the reply :pac:

I was accused of being racist by a man from the west Indies in a betting shop I worked in in London. I caught him out trying to cheat money (via slow count and forged slips) and told him his custom wasn't welcome in my shop any more. At which point I was accused of being racist and it was said of me that "white boy thinks he knows everything" etc.

Never really treated differently but have been called a few names, for eg in New York when I was there on the J1, it was mostly a bit of banter though like being called a drunken mick bastard or a mick 'Cat-lick' paedo etc.

In Holyhead Wales I was leaving a bar and a Welsh fella snarled at me and said the ferry is that way paddy.:D

Go home dirty Irish boys shouted by a woman from the balcony of her apartment in Dusseldorf.

I got a nice bit of abuse in Milan also on a trip but it was hard to make out the slurs.

Was at a concert in London a couple of years ago and some English (I'm guessing) lads started calling me Paddy and trying to get out a few remarks along those lines when I was in the bar area getting a bottle of beer. I think it was my first (probably only) direct experience of English being racist to Irish.

I kinda laughed a lot because it felt like they were being the cliche sterotypes of racists that you see on TV. They also seemed to be struggling with coming up with specifically Irish jokes and handling why I might have been laughing.

They stopped after a bit but I moved along back to the stage area swift enough just in case anything more came out of it.

I'm regularly accused of not being a real Irishman due to my incredibly low alcohol tolerance and my general tendency to fall peacefully but ridiculously asleep after more than about four beers during a session.

I've had so many willies drawn on my face at this point that I'm starting to worry they'll kill the hair follicles one of these days and I'll end up with willy-shaped bald patches in my beard.

faceman wrote: »

When I lived in Kenya as a teenager I got off the bus from school to walk up the road home. A local mini bus called a Matatu, was passing me full to the brim with local people. A couple of lads start shouting at the window at me, in English, "Hello George Bush, hey George Bush!" There was also a couple of Swahili words in for white people thrown in too for good measure.

I didn't know whether to laugh or file a complaint with the Irish embassy!

Hahahaha oh my god that made me laugh!! 'Hello George Bush!!!! Hey George Bush!!!!'

what the hell like!!:eek: