How diverse are your friends?

The Backwards Man · 05-10-2015 10:55PM #1

Just in the pub here thinking to myself, and by the hokey I get on well with a wide range of people from far flung parts. There's the Venezuelan chopper pilot, the Albanian exotic dancer, the Australian voiceover artiste, the Vietnamese barman, the Rwandan sociologist and the Afghan pizza chef for a start. Even people from Leitrim!

Who is your most unusual or unlikely friend?

Panthro · 05-10-2015 10:59PM

I've mates from every corner of Connaught.
Well travelled bucks too, from Ballina to Ballinasloe and everywhere in between.

Except Balla.

Jesus we fcukin hate that Balla crowd.

OneArt · 05-10-2015 11:04PM

I've a friend called Mandy who likes to play with her own poo but we all accept her regardless.

Except she's not allowed to come to bridge night because nobody wants to handle pooey playing cards.

Fleawuss · 05-10-2015 11:05PM

Steer clear of the Rwandan sociologist.

Penny Tration · 05-10-2015 11:05PM

What are these "friends" you speak of?

Fleawuss · 05-10-2015 11:06PM

Do imaginary friends count?

The Backwards Man · 05-10-2015 11:06PM

OneArt wrote: »

I've a friend called Mandy who likes to play with her own poo but we all accept her regardless.

Except she's not allowed to come to bridge night because nobody wants to handle pooey playing cards.

Get someone else to hold her cards, then you could say Mandy came and she played without taking.

OneArt · 05-10-2015 11:08PM

The Backwards Man wrote: »

So you could say she came and she played without taking (cards)

That's a secret we're all trying to keep from Mandy as well.

None of us really know what bridge is. We just make it up.

05-10-2015 11:09PM

I've been lucky to be able to be friends with a lot of sound people from around the world through uni and some of the other work I do;Iranians, Afghans, Indonesians, Japanese, Chinese, Americans, Canadians, Brazilians, Peruvians, Venezuelans, Portuguese, Spanish, Italians, Dutch,South Africans, Rhodesians (their words), Ethiopians, Greeks, Turks, Albanians, Croats, Hungarians, Roma, Slovaks, Belarus, a load of Austrians and Germans, Poles, Russians, one from Chechnya, Welsh, Scots, English and even a few Irish

Time to start a sticker book collection I think

brummytom · 05-10-2015 11:10PM

Absolutely all of them, from school, uni and socially, are from an Irish background. Fcuk me that's depressing

mad muffin · 05-10-2015 11:10PM

I have a Nigerian prince who is a very good friend of mine, and a girl on Facebook that is going to tell me how to get rid of bed bugs.

fleet_admiral · 05-10-2015 11:11PM

My job has Lithuanians, Romanians, Moldovans, Brazilians, South Africans, Irish, Northern Irish, Waterford, Killkenny, Chinese and Indian people working in it.

I call the pub the UN

The Backwards Man · 05-10-2015 11:13PM

brummytom wrote: »

Absolutely all of them, from school, uni and socially, are from an Irish background. Fcuk me that's depressing

I know Jasper Carrot's email address if you want a Brummy mate?

One eyed Jack · 05-10-2015 11:27PM

Geez, I keep a fairly eclectic mix of friends now I actually think about it, from all corners of the social sphere, be they homeless, or living in mansions, wearing rags or wearing designer labels, illiterate to articulate, uneducated to professors, low ballers to high rollers...

All sorts of interesting people with all sorts of interests and stories to tell

They're a mixed bag really, love 'em all though

wil · 05-10-2015 11:27PM

The Backwards Man wrote: »

Just in the pub here thinking to myself, and by the hokey I get on well with a wide range of people from far flung parts. There's the Venezuelan chopper pilot, the Albanian exotic dancer, the Australian voiceover artiste, the Vietnamese barman, the Rwandan sociologist and the Afghan pizza chef for a start. Even people from Leitrim!

Who is your most unusual or unlikely friend?

I've a couple of friends who are from other species.

My uncle is friends with a ghost in his house. Doesn't know her name but she keeps an eye on the place when he's out.

antonymin · 05-10-2015 11:29PM

I don't have any friends, they all died.

Joeseph Balls · 05-10-2015 11:33PM

fleet_admiral wrote: »

My job has Lithuanians, Romanians, Moldovans, Brazilians, South Africans, Irish, Northern Irish, Waterford, Killkenny, Chinese and Indian people working in it.

I call the pub the UN

No poles? Your boss is racist.

HugsiePie · 05-10-2015 11:54PM

My friend group includes a ginger...

Might aswell lock the thread now, dont think anyones gonna beat that

Banjo String · 06-10-2015 12:03AM

fleet_admiral wrote: »

My job has Lithuanians, Romanians, Moldovans, Brazilians, South Africans, Irish, Northern Irish, Waterford, Killkenny, Chinese and Indian people working in it.

I call the pub the UN

Can you get in without a Thai?

RyanDrive · 06-10-2015 12:07AM

My friends are all strictly white Irish, which is quite sad really.

meeeeh · 06-10-2015 12:09AM

Joeseph Balls wrote: »

No poles? Your boss is racist.

I would say more like pragmatist.

Poles and Russian Lithuanians don't mix (mostly Russian ones emigrated).

wil · 06-10-2015 12:17AM

Joeseph Balls wrote: »

No poles? Your boss is racist.

Sign on the door says "Strictly no dancing allowed"

Lucifer MorningStar · 06-10-2015 12:24AM

You're always stuck in the pub ya big Alco :pac:

The Backwards Man · 06-10-2015 12:24AM

Banjo String wrote: »

Can you get in without a Thai?

Can you get in a pub in SoDe without a 'haigh'?:pac:

You're my friend too! I like the riff raff:)

Witchie · 06-10-2015 12:29AM

My family is like the UN without even looking at my friends. My brother's (sadly now ex but still part of the family) girlfriend is Thai, my sister's boyfriend is English. I have a Dutch uncle. I have cousins who are all siblings from a family of 6 married to Dutch, German, Chinese, Canadian and one Irish. Last one isn't married yet but his girlfriend is Welsh.

Another cousin is married to a Turkish guy and yet another is married to a part Ugandan-Asian part Irish bloke.

I have ex boyfriends from Kosovo, Germany, Belgium, Trinidad and Puerto Rico. Friends with people from Barbados, France, Thailand (not including my bros ex), Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Brazil, Argentina, Italy, Spain, Norway and of course England, Scotland, America and Canada.

Hate them all though coz am a racist.

The Backwards Man · 06-10-2015 12:33AM

Yeah, Monaghan folk are really insular and inward looking.

Witchie · 06-10-2015 12:34AM

The Backwards Man wrote: »

Yeah, Monaghan folk are really insular and inward looking.

I know. I won't even mention the scandal of having Cavan cousins!

CINCLANTFLT · 06-10-2015 12:40AM

Some of my friends wipe their arse from the back towards the front... The rest of that are willing to try and accept this... Personally I hate the back to fronts... It makes me puke... But sure they're my friends...

Kaiser Sosay · 06-10-2015 12:42AM

Veiled - Look at me I know some foreigners thread...:pac:

Stheno · 06-10-2015 12:47AM

The Backwards Man wrote: »

Just in the pub here thinking to myself, and by the hokey I get on well with a wide range of people from far flung parts. There's the Venezuelan chopper pilot, the Albanian exotic dancer, the Australian voiceover artiste, the Vietnamese barman, the Rwandan sociologist and the Afghan pizza chef for a start. Even people from Leitrim!

Who is your most unusual or unlikely friend?

Have you been drinking again?

I've a friend called Marakesh named after the Marakesh express song

wil · 06-10-2015 12:50AM

Kaiser Sosay wrote: »

Veiled - Look at me I know some foreigners thread...:pac:

What people wear in this thread is their own concern

How diverse are your friends?

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