Earwigged gems #1

By Primal Sneeze | Oct 19, 2007

The offices of a property management company

Client: We’ve moved to a new house and we’re having no joy trying to sell the old one. We’re thinking of renting it out. How do we go about getting tenants?

Agent: My first word of advice is, any darker than two weeks in Lanzarote and don’t touch them.

Client: Huh?

Agent: Certain African nationalities are notorious rent defaulters. Never take them as tenants.

Client: Is it okay to take them as husbands? I did.

Agent: Fuck!

A pub on a Wednesday afternoon

Tom: Ah, there ya are Dick. Be a good man and put that docket on for me before you sit down. Me auld leg is at me today.

Harry: Jayzez, Tom, you were running in and out to the bookies like a young fella ’til now.

Tom: Well, see, that was me other leg.

11 Comments so far
  1. An Cainteoir Dóchais October 19, 2007 3:35 pm

    The lesson is, if you’re going to make racist remarks, make sure you know who you’re talking to!

  2. Medbh October 19, 2007 8:36 pm

    They always assume that they can say that to you if you have white skin.

  3. flirty October 19, 2007 9:39 pm

    Noooooooooooooooooooooo - hilarious but bad

  4. aonghus October 19, 2007 9:50 pm

    Is minic a bhris béal duine an margadh?

    It’s good to see that the client had a sense of humour. Probably much more effective than getting annoyed with the … agent.

  5. Primal Sneeze October 20, 2007 6:20 am

    I was only there dropping off an envelope (white, not brown, not even Lanzarote brown) but I wish I could have stayed to hear the end, folks. For all I know, she may have only been pulling his chain. If she was, it worked, man oh man, was he flushed!

  6. Old Knudsen October 21, 2007 8:57 am

    I lived in a street called Candahar up in Belfast, I got a salesman to come round to give me a double glazing quote, he said he looked at the street name and thought we’d be pakkies.

    Yep he got the job HA!

  7. Around My Kitchen Table October 21, 2007 11:43 am

    Hee,hee. Very funny. I’m tempted to use that top one when I’m confronted with some gratuitous racism from someone who doesn’t know I’m living with someone two shades whiter than a vanilla ice!

  8. problemchildbride October 22, 2007 7:30 am

    Nah, the man had it all wrong - it’s the freckled who are notorious for skipping out on their rent. Them and The Godless, and those sneaky buggers the albino librarians.

  9. Primal Sneeze October 22, 2007 9:24 am

    Young Knudsen - Ooops! You went into to moderation there for a bit. I had to turn only previous commenters on a while back.

    Anyway, yeah, I like that one.

    Kit - Use it! I’m hoping for an opportunity myself.

    Sam - Albino librarians are notorious for it. I never seen yer man in The Da Vinci Code pay a penny.

  10. Caro October 22, 2007 9:34 am

    Hee hee. Good woman.

  11. gaye October 22, 2007 11:23 am

    I thought the first one was a very good joke, so you actually witnessed this dialogue!!!!! Well why am I surprised though, racism is everywhere really.
    I have heard quite a few people complain about the changing face of Ireland since I first visited last year and then again this year. Face change is not such a bad thing, I don’t think. And I still think Irish people are one of the friendliest lot I have ever met during my travels to many different countries.

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