Weirdest place you've met a fellow Paddy?

Lord Trollington

i've been all over the world, and i have just about met a paddy everywhere i've gone.
Walkin down the street in tokyo Japan, i see this fella comin at me in shorts, sandles and of course white socks.
I'm wearing my Irish rugby jersey. In the biggest, dirtierst cavan/ north meath accent. "how are you" he says....

in Abbercrombie shop in New York, buying some threads and bump into a girl i use to go to school with years ago!!!

in Santa Monica in LA, in a resteraunt/bar and see a family of sunburnt paddies applying aftersun up at the bar whilst drinking beer.

you cant escape us, we're like a plague.
We have our problems,but i'd never live anywhere ele!

jester77

Met a lad working down in a mine in the Australian outback who an emigrated to Oz about 45 years before that, he had the same surname. It was more the conversation than anything else that was weird, ended up finding out about my whole family history way back to when the English monarchy fecked us out of Scotland a few hundred years ago!

Semele

Horse-riding in the El Dorado canyon in Nevada I met a proper culchie from Armagh. Never seen anyone look so out of place, with his GAA shirt and his sunburn!

I'm living in London at the minute and do a bit of voluntary work in the central police stations. Was in Paddington Green the other week signing in with the Chief Inspector, not only was he Irish but he turned out to live 5 minutes away from my home (in the absolute ar*e-end of nowhere at that) - turned out our families know each other!

Faith

In a tiny bar, in a tiny town in the middle of nowhere in the Basque Region. He was wearing some kind of GAA shirt.

jester77

Must be good sales in GAA shirts I always cringe when I see people wearing them.

Mycroft H

Why on earth is this thread a sticky??

Terry

Faith wrote: »

In a tiny bar, in a tiny town in the middle of nowhere in the Basque Region. He was wearing some kind of GAA shirt.

Sure that's where most Irish people are from anyway.

landyman wrote: »

Why on earth is this thread a sticky??

Because it's not about the recession.
Does it bother you?

minidazzler

jester77 wrote: »

Must be good sales in GAA shirts I always cringe when I see people wearing them.

I know people who have bought them for going away so other Irish people will recognise them!!!!

Unpossible

Mushy wrote: »

Not so much the oddest place, but more the fact that I knew the lad was weird. At Rock Werchter in 07, the Saturday, wearing my leprechaun suit(don't ask, but fairly sure it had something to do with snow patrol, even though I don't like them). Went into one of the bars in the festival site before Chemical Brothers, some lad asked me where I was from, next person asked what part of the county, next person asked did I know someone else. When I turned to him, it turns out he was in my brothers class in school(thats who he asked did I know). Very random and fun!

Actually something similar happened to me in Boston. I was there on my J1 and was working on Cape Cod, on a day trip to Boston at the bus station I went to get an Ice-Cream and it turned out I knew the girl behind the counter. She was also on a J1.

Ninja101

Caracas, Venezuela. He was selling trinkets on the street and had long shaggy gray hair and a beard and glasses. Turned out he was from Limerick and had lived in the Andes for 10 years.

HalloweenJack

Under the big needle in Toronto. Turned out your man was from just up the road.

1huge1

Selm, NRW, Germany, small local pool in a realtively small town, was 11 at the time and the people ahead of me in line from the slide happened to be from Clare.

dan1895

Myself and the missus had been travelling for the last year and i dont think there was anywhere we didnt meet irish people.
the strangest though was in noosa australia waiting for a bus out to steve irwin's zoo when i notice someone waving at me. turned out to be a girl i'd worked with before heading off.

Auldloon

Have travelled a lot and met irish everywhere. Most recent was in Cape town one night at our local restaurant, of 12 people sitting on the terrace only one was not Irish, my girlfriend:) That was from 4 seperate tables, none of whom knew eachother.

The Master

I was sitting in a bar in Crete and was tapped on the shoulder.
Looked around it it was my brother who I hadn't seen in months:eek:

We were both off travelling the world and just happened to be in Greece at the same time.
If my brother hadn't stopped in to use the toilet we wouldn't have seen each other again for another 6 months

FlutterinBantam

I was motoring from Harare to Mutare and on to Leopard Rock Golf Course when I needed a shíte pronto.

Pulled into a hotel in Rusape and dumped a super sour, and reckoned I could do with a cold beer, as the fcukin heap of shíte I was driving was struggling badly on the undulating roads.

Ordered a cold Zambesi and the barman says "Fancy some jiggy jiggy, big boy?"

Might do, says a surprised Flutt "Is she clean and free?"

"Rode her meself boss" says the barman,"neither scab nor aid on her, clean as a whistle"

"Giz a gander at her horse" says I, "and I presume she is smoked and well done"

"No fcukin way boss" says the barman, "chicken breast here, white as a fcukin sheet"

"Jaysuz that's a pity" says I,"anyway whizz her out her and we'll have a look,I'll pay in US"

"Stand by there Cap'n" say he, "I'll get her down, plenty of meat on her now, good ripple on her arse"

The Flutt took a slug of the beer and next thing out comes this white girl lookin' in the pink :eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:

"Cecilia!!! what the fcuk are you doing down here ,I thought you were working for Concern up in Zambia"??

Next door neighbours wifes sister who I had met several times in Ireland:eek:


Made my excuses and left in a cloud of black cheap petrol smoke in an underpowered mazda 323.

jaysus.

mumhaabu

Yesterday outside the Allianz Arena in Munich Germany after watching Bayern Munich defeat Hannover 96 5-1. I was wearing my Kerry GAA rainjacket which looked like Hannover 96 and was getting taunted so I said out load I'm Irish goddammit only to hear me too from behind!

Also on a Bus to the Grand Canyon last year, met a Dublin guy and his girlfriend and they said whats the weather like in Kerry, my accent being the giveaway!

Rory123

I saw an Irish person on Parnell St. yesterday! How mad is that?!
Next I'll be bumping into freckly red-heads out in Rush.

superman24

was in the nou camp wi a mate watchin barcelona, we walked out from inside,behind goals, tryin to figure out where our seats where, an this stadium holds like over 100,000 ppl wit loads of different entrances, an we`re standing there an this guy shouts out my name from behind me!! its only an old football manager haha says hes over scouting for my replacement haha!couldnt believe it!!

Armin_Tamzarian

I was driving through Carlow Town many years ago.
I broke down and needed a push start, 2 drunks staggering home from the pub happily oblidged.
1 year later I bumped into the same two drunks in a bar in Gran Canaria.

I love coincidences like that, the whole 6-degrees of seperation sort of thing.

giggsy664

mumhaabu wrote: »

Yesterday outside the Allianz Arena in Munich Germany after watching Bayern Munich defeat Hannover 96 5-1. I was wearing my Kerry GAA rainjacket which looked like Hannover 96 and was getting taunted so I said out load I'm Irish goddammit only to hear me too from behind!

Also on a Bus to the Grand Canyon last year, met a Dublin guy and his girlfriend and they said whats the weather like in Kerry, my accent being the giveaway!

I was just taking the piss out of ya. You do know I'm not Irish.

RonMexico

Ran into my neighbour walking down a street in San Francisco. What are the odds of that happening?

illiop

Visiting a few friends in a Lueven, Belgium last year and it was paddy's day so we decided to head to the local irish bar. Being Paddy's day it was packed so we decided we'd just go back to their apartment and chill. On the walk back we passed this kinda quaint looking pub and said we'd stop there for a drink. The only other people inside were two boys from Killkenny who also had a originally planned on going to the Irish bar.
Also once ran into a teacher in Boston.

staker

while i was walking through benidorm hoping to find my spiritual fortune, i happened upon these two at it in the dunes! she was irish, had an irish name too, Queen-mise to be exact.
he said he was from the kingdom, and liked to do sudoku,said that's where he got his nickname COLROW:pac::pac::pac:

D-Generate

On a big hike in Yosemite National Park in California we were following a trail and getting near a camp when two hikers were approaching us in the opposite direction. Knowing that they had come from the next camp I asked them how long left to go and then in the thickest Cork accent they replied "another hour". Turns out they only lived about a kilometer away from me. If all us Cork people came home on the same day I would imagine it would be hte biggest city in Ireland. Alas we are doing our heroic vocation of spreading our fine culture to the uncivilized plebs around the world instead.

Diabhal Beag

I met a Paddy on the tube in London. I nodded to signal that I knew by his farmer tan that he was of the Kerry region. We did not communicate as 2 Irish lads in the same place in London at the same time is kind of suspicious.

Blarney92

Met a load of Irish including my leaving cert maths teacher on a beach in Vancouver last summer. It was fairly obvious we were Irish- playing hurling on the beach and shouting in big cork accents.

Poccington

I met one lad from Dublin over in Lourdes during the Summer at the International Military Pilgrimage. Myself and the lads were walking past a couple of lads from the French Foreign Legion, as we walked passed we gave them a nod just to say hello... Then we were greeted with a "What's the story lads?" from one of them. Needless to say it was the last thing we expected to hear from any of them

Fallen Buckshot

Sssshhh yer blowin the covers off it .. we are ta take over the world ya know

X-Calibre

Met a lad who lives a few minutes away from me while I was on a trek in Peru. Then it turned out there were about 7 other Irish people on the trek who were all travelling on their own.

We're everywhere

NADA

mumhaabu wrote: »

Yesterday outside the Allianz Arena in Munich Germany after watching Bayern Munich defeat Hannover 96 5-1. I was wearing my Kerry GAA rainjacket which looked like Hannover 96 and was getting taunted so I said out load I'm Irish goddammit only to hear me too from behind!

Also on a Bus to the Grand Canyon last year, met a Dublin guy and his girlfriend and they said whats the weather like in Kerry, my accent being the giveaway!

I was at the Allianz Arena yesterday aswell!!

Barbieliveshere

In a market in china...lookin at some fake abercrombie jumpers talking to a friend when all i hear is... "jayssuss thats an irish accent if ever i heard one.. what are yee doin over here??".... also walked down an escalator over there to see a chinese woman shouting dia duit at me... seems other students had thought her some irish... well dia duit and póg mo thón

flyton5

I was in Lake Bled in Slovenia a few years ago and myself and my mate went drinking with some locals just outside the town. At about 3am we started a sing song and I was giving another terrible rendition of "Monto" when someone stuck her head out an upstairs window of a house and said "change the fúcking tune".

Turned out she was from Glasnevin and didn't think I was much of a singer.

steo87

JC 2K3 wrote: »

In an Irish bar in the middle of New York, we met a barman wearing the jersey of our local GAA club. Not that random a place to meet another Irish person, but one from the area of and wearing the jersey of a local GAA club was quite remarkable.

I once saw a black man wearing a Laois GAA jersey in......Tijuana, Mexico! Was feckin' hilarious.

javaboy

steo87 wrote: »

I once saw a black man wearing a Laois GAA jersey in......Tijuana, Mexico! Was feckin' hilarious.

Irish black guy in Mexico..... it wasn't Red from the Shawshank Redemption was it?

Sharpshooter

No ,he (Freeman in the film, was of african descent.

See, no pun

Terry

Sharpshooter wrote: »

No ,he (Freeman in the film, was of african descent.

See, no pun

You can say he was black. It doesn't make you racist.

javaboy

Sharpshooter wrote: »

No ,he (Freeman in the film, was of african descent.

In the novella he was Irish and white with red hair. Then they cast Morgan Freeman but they left in the line where he says he's Irish.

Xavi6

Bumped into a lad from school in one of those outlet stores in Florida.

Met another old school friend in the pisser in Rome Airport.

I'd love to have a story about Irish people in Australia but frankly there's nothing random about seeing Paddy's over here. They're everywhere.

javaboy

Sharpshooter wrote: »

Doesn't make him Irish.

Are you calling him a liar? I'm shocked. Red was a man of utmost integrity. Ok he's made a few mistakes what with the murdering and all but if he could go back and talk to that young stupid kid who committed that terrible crime , he would. Talk some sense into him. Tell him the way things are. But he can't. That kid's long gone and an old man is all that's left. He's gotta live with that

So you go on and stamp your form Sharpy and stop wasting my time. Because to tell you the truth, I don't give a ****.

Sharpshooter

Terry wrote: »

You can say he was black. It doesn't make you racist.

The post was in context with the film.
ie.. he wasn't really Irish.

javaboy wrote: »

In the novella he was Irish and white with red hair. Then they cast Morgan Freeman but they left in the line where he says he's Irish.

I know.
Hence the post.

Terry

Morgan Freeman is black. He was black in the film too. He didn't do whiteface.

Sharpshooter

javaboy wrote: »

So you go on and stamp your form Sharpy and stop wasting my time. Because to tell you the truth, I don't give a ****.

Wasn't that actually "Rett" in Gone With The Wind?

javaboy

Sharpshooter wrote: »

Wasn't that actually "Rett" in Gone With The Wind?

Damn isn't covered by the swear filter. I said shit.

Sharpshooter

Terry wrote: »

Morgan Freeman is black. He was black in the film too. He didn't do whiteface.

No, nor was he Irish.

The Shawshank Redemption is one of my Top Ten Films,
(outside of any of John Wayne's.
The Green Mile coming second.
Just to stay on topic, John Wayne made a good few Film's with Maureen O Hara, who is Irish.:)
And yes, I have met her, in Easons where she signed her book for me.

javaboy

Sharpshooter wrote: »

No, nor was he Irish.

Of course he was. His character was Irish in the book and he says he's Irish in the film.

What are you basing your opinion he wasn't Irish on?

Sharpshooter

javaboy wrote: »

Damn isn't covered by the swear filter. I said shit.

Typical, mods can overrule the swear filter.
You must feel flushed with success.

Farls

Hopped on a bus in Yangzhou in southern China last year with my girlfriend and ended up there was a buck from Roscommon on the bus with his girlfriend from Leitrim who was in the same class at secondary school as a good friend of mine! This was after not seeing a non chinese person, never mind a paddy for weeks!!!

Sharpshooter

javaboy wrote: »

Of course he was. His character was Irish in the book and he says he's Irish in the film.

What are you basing your opinion he wasn't Irish on?

In the original story Stephen King wrote Red as an Irishman. Morgan Freeman was cast as Red. Although Morgan Freeman is of African descent, and cannot be of true Irish descent, the line "Maybe it's 'cause I'm Irish" was left in the movie.
So in reality I am right, and in Movie Land you are too.

javaboy

Sharpshooter wrote: »

In the original story Stephen King wrote Red as an Irishman. Morgan Freeman was cast as Red. Although Morgan Freeman is of African descent, and cannot be of true Irish descent, the line "Maybe it's 'cause I'm Irish" was left in the movie.
So in reality I am right, and in Movie Land you are too.

No you're wrong. He was playing an Irish character. His own nationality/skin colour does not enter into it. Next you'll be telling me Bob Dylan was a woman when Cate Blanchett played him.