Anyone ever nasty to you for being Irish

Glitter_star94

Love how openly offensive Irish people often are to the English about being English and then there is a thread like this.
My parents are Irish and I was born in Ireland but moved to England when I was 3. Often when we go to Ireland in the summer, I get quite a few 'jokey' comments about being English as its the worst thing ever! I know Ireland and England have had many many problems in the past, but do people not like Germans because of nazi's and hitler?? No.

SavageHenry

When I was twelve I got spat on by a soldier in an open top land rover as it passed my house. He then shouted your mother is a whore! Shocked me at the time but looking back now it was a kind of surreal thing to happen, that was Belfast though.

old hippy

My SA friends (one black, one mixed race) tonight said we're "too friendly"

Dammit, that's them off my xmas list

shayno90

In a pub in London a few years ago, an English guy asked if he could take one of the stools, I said it was stuck to the floor (it was fixed to the floor) and of course he thought I was being smart with him and combined with the accent said "you Irish are smart fockers". I laughed it off as he was too stupid to check that the stool was actually fixed to the floor

Our history of drinking preceeds as abroad, every nationality I have met mentions it, one from Austria actually thought the entire nation at lunch time goes to the pub and drinks all day, probably some truth in it but I corrected her in any case

Faith+1

Enkidu wrote: »

As I learned in Canada, a lot of people don't even know what Ireland is, let alone have prejudices towards it.

They're called f*cking idiots! Now if they didn't know where Russia was I'd understand, all tucked away up there.