underdogunderdog underdog Posted July 17, 2015 Share Posted July 17, 2015 You wouldn't have a moustache by any chance? Na, got designer stubble 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PlayTheEasyBaw Posted July 21, 2015 Share Posted July 21, 2015 Ordered a drink in America and the barman asked if I was Russian! His next guess was South African! Was over in Dublin for the Ireland v Scotland game last month. I was wearing a kilt and a t-shirt with 'True Scotsman' across the front. A German woman came up and asked if I was Irish!!! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeeTillEhDeh Posted July 26, 2015 Share Posted July 26, 2015 German or Scandinavian. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stawner upper Posted August 1, 2015 Share Posted August 1, 2015 In Canada irish south African I usually tell them I am Jamaican but the accent goes down well there they love it 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McRuffian Posted August 5, 2015 Share Posted August 5, 2015 ItaIian, by a tartan army throbber in Glasgow city centre after the game in 2007. I didn't mind so much. I'm part Italian anyway and as a people they are, by and large, trendy as f**k, bronze skinned beauties so it was an easy mistake for him to make. Even if he did seem, generally, a tad angry about something -2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
killiepiemuncher Posted August 6, 2015 Share Posted August 6, 2015 Walking along Troon seafront an American tourist thought I was "a long way from home" after spotting my NY cap. Don't know why he was mahogany coloured and I was bluey white scottish tanned. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimbo Jagsfan Posted August 18, 2015 Share Posted August 18, 2015 In Germany, trying to speak German to a German, he suggested to his mate that he thought we were Dutch (in German, of course) because of the terrible grammar and pronunciation. In USA I was asked if I was English, and when I informed her that I was Scottish, she complemented me on being able to speak such good English! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carpetmonster Posted August 18, 2015 Share Posted August 18, 2015 Irish, daily. Brazilian yesterday! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eckieboy Posted August 19, 2015 Share Posted August 19, 2015 In the US folk thought I was Irish or from some part of Scandinavia. A waitress said she loved my European accent & asked which part of Ireland Scotland was in, was it near the South! Also bizarrely a old guy in Texas overheard me talking walked over & asked if I was from North East Scotland. He looked extremely pleased with himself when I replied that I was. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigjerseybuddie Posted November 17, 2015 Share Posted November 17, 2015 Recently while walking through times square I was stopped by a guy trying to punt tickets for the comedy club. I politely replied no thanks. The guys asks where I'm from " guess" I replied ( now in spite of having left Scotland over 30 years ago I still have a pretty strong accent) he then says " I'm really good at this........Australia!" I near pissed myself and fair play to the guy he laughed too so neither of us really needed the tickets for the comedy club after all. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glenconner Posted November 25, 2015 Share Posted November 25, 2015 Reynard thinks I'm British. Defo a strange one. What's that all about. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tam_O_Shanter Posted March 10, 2016 Share Posted March 10, 2016 Mistaken for a German in Glasgow. Was in the pub before the Rangers v Möchengladback friendly, ia friendly rangers chap saw our scarves assumed we were German and bought our group another 4 Erdingers. we all said Danke, so he left none the wiser. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waspy Posted March 10, 2016 Share Posted March 10, 2016 Some lady thought I was Spanish in Madrid last week. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dee Dee Posted March 10, 2016 Share Posted March 10, 2016 Worked with Americans for a few years, and always seemed to run into. "Hey buddy. That's quite some accent you have there. Australian, right?" "You're close. I'm from Scotland" 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AMC13 Posted March 10, 2016 Share Posted March 10, 2016 Never really been mistaken for being from anywhere just really England but that's mostly because other countries don't know any better. Was speaking to a guy from the west of Ireland in Spain and I didn't have a clue what he was saying but I was trying my best to get the basis of it. After he finished speaking I started speaking and about two sentences in he stopped me and said "mate, slow down I can't understand you" I was shocked to find I was the one who was hard to understand. Also spoke to a boy from hive in Edinburgh I asked him if he was from Edinburgh to which he replied with a rather disgusted face. "Naw I'm fae Leith" to which I just laughed never knew folk actually said that. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lionel hutz Posted March 10, 2016 Share Posted March 10, 2016 English, in St Andrews by an American, whilst I was speaking with a fairly broad Dundonian accent.Norwegian, when I was 4 or 5 on a boat from Newcastle to Kristiansand. I had really fare hair and two Norwegians said to my parents: "Wow! For someone so young, your son speaks really good English"Spanish, when cycling (in Angus), and one of the guys I was riding with saw that my skin was really tanned. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Rational Posted March 10, 2016 Share Posted March 10, 2016 English, in St Andrews by an American, whilst I was speaking with a fairly broad Dundonian accent. Yer lucky the locals didn't get the town archers to shoot you on sight! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lionel hutz Posted March 10, 2016 Share Posted March 10, 2016 Yer lucky the locals didn't get the town archers to shoot you on sight! During the Open, so the Tories there were a little bit more accepting to "urban minks" like myself. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.Stuart. Posted March 10, 2016 Share Posted March 10, 2016 Irish, by an Irish woman in a shop in Cyprus while I was wearing a Scotland top; 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aberdeen-Warrior Posted March 10, 2016 Share Posted March 10, 2016 Italian, swiss. Those two mainly 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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