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How diverse are your friends?

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  • 05-10-2015 10:55pm
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    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭


    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?


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    Panthro
    Registered Users Posts: 14,684 ✭✭✭✭Panthro


    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.


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    OneArt
    Registered Users Posts: 1,910 ✭✭✭OneArt


    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.


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    Fleawuss
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,681 ✭✭✭Fleawuss


    Steer clear of the Rwandan sociologist.


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    Penny Tration
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,687 ✭✭✭✭Penny Tration


    What are these "friends" you speak of?


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    Fleawuss
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,681 ✭✭✭Fleawuss


    Do imaginary friends count?


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    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    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. :)


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    OneArt
    Registered Users Posts: 1,910 ✭✭✭OneArt


    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.


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    riffmongous
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,625 Mod ✭✭✭✭riffmongous


    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


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    brummytom
    Registered Users Posts: 10,572 ✭✭✭✭brummytom


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


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    mad muffin
    Registered Users Posts: 8,034 ✭✭✭mad muffin


    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.


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    fleet_admiral
    Registered Users Posts: 3,747 ✭✭✭fleet_admiral


    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


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    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    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? :D


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    One eyed Jack
    Registered Users Posts: 23,656 ✭✭✭✭One eyed Jack


    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 :D


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    wil
    Registered Users Posts: 4,188 ✭✭✭wil


    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.


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    antonymin
    Registered Users Posts: 346 ✭✭antonymin


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


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    Joeseph Balls
    Registered Users Posts: 3,710 ✭✭✭Joeseph Balls


    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.


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    HugsiePie
    Registered Users Posts: 11,156 ✭✭✭✭HugsiePie


    My friend group includes a ginger...

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


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    Banjo String
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,380 ✭✭✭✭Banjo String


    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?


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    RyanDrive
    Registered Users Posts: 63 ✭✭RyanDrive


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


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    meeeeh
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    Joeseph Balls wrote: »
    No poles? Your boss is racist.

    I would say more like pragmatist. :D Poles and Russian Lithuanians don't mix (mostly Russian ones emigrated).


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    wil
    Registered Users Posts: 4,188 ✭✭✭wil


    Joeseph Balls wrote: »
    No poles? Your boss is racist.

    Sign on the door says "Strictly no dancing allowed"


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    Lucifer MorningStar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,218 ✭✭✭Lucifer MorningStar


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


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    The Backwards Man
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    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:)


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    Witchie
    Registered Users Posts: 5,597 ✭✭✭Witchie


    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.


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    The Backwards Man
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    Yeah, Monaghan folk are really insular and inward looking.


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    Witchie
    Registered Users Posts: 5,597 ✭✭✭Witchie


    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!


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    CINCLANTFLT
    Closed Accounts Posts: 781 ✭✭✭CINCLANTFLT


    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...


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    Kaiser Sosay
    Registered Users Posts: 72 ✭✭Kaiser Sosay


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


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    Stheno
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 51,687 Mod ✭✭✭✭Stheno


    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


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    wil
    Registered Users Posts: 4,188 ✭✭✭wil


    Kaiser Sosay wrote: »
    Veiled - Look at me I know some foreigners thread...:pac:
    What people wear in this thread is their own concern


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