Racially abused for being "Colombian"

[Accy cyclist]

A funny thing happened to me yesterday, some might find it upsetting but i took it a s a compliment. I was racially abused by a group of chavs who saw my Colombia Suarrez jersey,my tanned skin accompanied by a long "evil"stare at them,after the abuse.The idiots must have thought easy target"foreigner"here, so the "eff off home you ~@%!" and "who the eff do you think you are you foreign ~@£%!"all came out. I replied with Vete a la mierda te idiotas,(well at least i attempted it)which i'm led to believe means f off you knobheads!
Has anyone else been mistaken for a "foreigner" while out cycling?

 

[mark st1]

Has anyone else been mistaken for a "foreigner" while out cycling?

Only if Brad Pitt is classed as a foreigner

 

[Milzy]

My ancestors came came over from Russia & Germany before Victorian times. I have Irish from my dads side. (I'm pale as a milk bottle).
My point is chavs are so thick that if I got a really good tan from a combination of running, cycling & holidaying, I could be called a foreigner.

 

[n3rdy]

Vete a la mierda = Get to f***!!

 

[Crackle]

No but I overtook Quintana on my local hill this morning...well he was small and had a Movistar top so I'm claiming it.

 

[Kies]

Just say "me Teri maa de bund le see" in a nice thick Punjabi accent. Should see them run away quickly

 

[Dayvo]

No, unfortunately people here think I'm Norwegian, but only until I get the chance to demonstrate my Tourettes in English!

 

[vernon]

I was once called a Tyke.

I'm still recovering from the racial slur.

 

[Rezillo]

While on holiday in Rome a few years back, outside the Colosseum a couple of American tourists next to us were discussing the way to their next destination and where the metro station was. I was approached by Mrs Tourist, clutching a phrase book, who asked me in very slow Italian, even worse than my own (quite an achievement), something completely incomprehensible to me with "subway" thrown in.

I said that I was English, not Italian, so we could talk in English and that if it was the metro she wanted to get to place X, it was over there (pointed). She gave me a peculiar look and repeated her question in cod Italian. I stopped her half-way through this time, trying to explain we had heard her question when she was talking to her partner, we didn't speak Italian very well and that we could talk to her in English. This time she said nothing more and just walked off, with her partner, in the wrong direction!

 

[Boris Bajic]

I was once interpreting at a meeting and a 'local' chap was threatened by my English. He didn't know I was a native speaker, so he saw me as a rival... which I wasn't.

He wandered over to me during a break and said "Your English isn't bad... But you use too much grammar."

We became pals over time, but that is the best 'confused with a foreigner' experience of my life.

 

[ufkacbln]

I once cycled though the Scottish Borders when England were playing Rugby against Scotland!

We got lots of racial abuse!

However we also got a few free pints and they took it gracefully when Scotland lost

 

[Night Train]

A funny thing happened to me yesterday, some might find it upsetting but i took it a s a compliment. I was racially abused by a group of chavs who saw my Colombia Suarrez jersey,my tanned skin accompanied by a long "evil"stare at them,after the abuse.The idiots must have thought easy target"foreigner"here, so the "eff off home you ~@%!" and "who the eff do you think you are you foreign ~@£%!"all came out. I replied with Vete a la mierda te idiotas,(well at least i attempted it)which i'm led to believe means f off you knobheads!
Has anyone else been mistaken for a "foreigner" while out cycling?

I guess some idiots are stupid and some are really stupid.

 

[snorri]

Has anyone else been mistaken for a "foreigner" while out cycling?

Frequently when in foreign parts, probably because English is my first and only language it is assumed I am English.
They are usually pleasantly surprised when I politely inform them of their error and a conversation usually follows which will almost without fail include a reference to the Loch Ness Monster.

 

[Jefferson Meriwether]

I've never been mistaken for a foreigner but I have been mistaken for a Jew.

 

[Andy_R]

No but I overtook Quintana on my local hill this morning...well he was small and had a Movistar top so I'm claiming it.

The fact he was only 4 years old and on a Cnoc 16 had nothing to do with it, did it?