British people. Can you tell your English, Scots Welsh and Irish by just looking at them?

If they're drunk then they are definitely a Celt.

Why can't the English teach their children how to write?

The Irish are not British

The Irish are from Britannia.

[quote]The Irish are not British

Some are

Yes.

I can tell by their facial features, colouring and bodies.

For example, irish men tend to have short legs and longer torsos and they also tend to be short in height. Best I can describe is, they have miniature swimmers bodies.

The Welsh are hairy midgets.

Lots of Welsh people have curly hair and are stout and generally are given to the "english rose" complexion that most English people don't have. Irish people (who are not British, by the way) probably have the most distinct phenotypes than and again they are "strong bodied" whether thin or nay. They just don't "crack" physically as badly as the English, even as facially , many do ( like the English). Scottish people don't seem to have much district going on that I have noticed. The English are probably the weirdest looking and need the most upholstery than all the others. Crack easily, doughy and class privilege is not a guarantee of improvement as the visibility of many bad bodied middle class people testify. What I will say is that Britain drains the beauty out of immigrant cultures. My friends and I always comment at how the relatives who went elsewhere are happier , less stressed ( even the ones who went to America) and their skin isn't so dull looking. The "be sturdy" narrative for immigrants that doesn't exist in Britain anymore, but still applies elsewhere probably has a lot to do with that as well. Britain and melanin certainly isn't much of a good combination. Not enough sun or guarantee of heat even in Summer and the lack of it affects POC more than Caucasians as Europe and its weather suits Caucasians better as their skin can more effectively glean Vitamin D from it than POC people who originate in far better climates. Stock up on your vitamins if not white and try and go to a hot place at least once a year since Britain has the most schizophrenic weather of any country I have ever known. So if Caramel skinned and darker save coin for a two week sunbathe ( at least ) in hotter, sunnier climates. It's a health thing. Oh and Londoners have the worst skin , even if we have access to "stuff". It's the hard water. My Birmingham, Tiger Bay and Sheffield relatives food tastes better, hot beverages taste better hair is in better condition and skin is better. So "indigenously", I'd say that the Irish due to body strength and distinct phenotypes are the best looking. Beauty is a combination of "face and waist" after all. The English for being either mushy or horsey or "needing a LOT of application" are the worst. And immigration doesn't necessarily render The English any better looking . Their basicness can kill a good gene at ten paces.

Black irish handsome is quite different than British handsome.

Irish Rugby team here. Spot the ones who are not genetically Irish.

I'm English - Irish but people say I look Italian.

The two Welsh guys I know both have caramel skin

r10 insert sassy remark about kissing Blarney stones here!

No, R4, the Irish are from a completely different Island. Britain is comprised of England, Scotland, and Wales.

Scots / Welsh (Celtic) are (traditionally) more closely related to Irish (Celtic) than to English (Anglo-Saxon).

Few things in life more gorgeous than a true Black Irish guy. Dark brown/black hair and green eyes. Nothing like it. (also, contrary to popular opinion, green eyed Irish folk are fairly rare. Good example: Dylan Moran

Post pics of black irish studs. Or whatever specimen you have described please.

[quote] they are all cute, but the black Irish one is the hottest!

Gay model from Cork looks Black Irish to me. Kevin Ryan

Lot of Black Irish in that area.

No you can't. However, you can tell when someone's from northern England.

Irish model Gary Talbot

Sturdy thighs, and Irish and Scottish trait but not so much English

Aldan Turner

Scottish men are hung like horses

Car salesman and former model in Galway. He doesn't look Black Irish though. Just cute Irish :

Nathan Adams

R24 in my experience, Scottish and Irish men really have bigger dicks than most men. Never slept with a Welch but English men have average dicks.

In the US, people can't even tell european and middle eastern people apart.

[quote]In the US, people can't even tell european and middle eastern people apart.

Well, they are the same race, Caucasian.

r28 of course we can; many of us simply don’t care.

/lifting caftan

Aidan Turner: YUM

31 posts and no one has said "Oh dear" to the grammatically challenged OP?

But what about the many Englishmen who of are of 2nd or 3rd generation Irish stock, R8?

I have a Scottish mother and grandmother. My grandfather is English. When you are surrounded by their British friends when you are growing up, it's easy to spot someone with British ethnicity. It's about the shape of facial features (too many to describe but all too familiar). Englishmen have bigger bushes than the rest, but all are hairier than average. (I learned this later...) British and Irish men are shorter than most. They all have quick wits and can crush in a debate. You can also tell among accents who is from where in different parts of the same countries.

An Asian friend once told me Asian people can differentiate the nationality of a Vietnamese person and a Korean person, a person from Nepal and a person from Sri Lanka. They know what sets the ethnic groups apart.

Welsh have true black hair.

r32, I'm afraid the recipient of "Oh, Dear" must be you. The OP meant "your" in the sense of "I've got your Black Irish right HERE." A reading of the OP's full sentence makes it clear that "you're" would be nonsensical.

English have weak chins.

CZJ describes her ethnicity as "black Welsh."

You can spot Irish guys because they will definitely NOT be showing bulge

Oddly, most Celts have blood type B+. The highest concentration of B+ blood type is in Wales, IIRC.

And only 12% of the population has B+ blood type.

When I'm in London, I feel like a lot of the Englishmen I meet are thinner than other Europeans. When I see male/female couples, it seems like the men are usually thinner, or more fine boned, than the women.

I am getting better at telling them apart.

Thank you r36

The guy with r25 's post look like that skinny dude in The Chainsmokers who can't sing.

Is Reynolds an Irish surname?

Because with his brown eyes, Ryan Reynolds looks very "black Irish" to me.

Here's Colin Ferrell for reference:

[quote]An Asian friend once told me Asian people can differentiate the nationality of a Vietnamese person and a Korean person

I'm not Asian, but this distinction is usually obvious.

[quote] Lots of Welsh people have curly hair and are stout and generally are given to the "english rose" complexion that most English people don't have.

Hmmm. My paternal grandfather and great-grandmother hail from Pembrokeshire, and I turned out looking just like this description (dirty-blond curls, rosy cheeks, “sturdy”) despite my having a willowy wan-faced Saxon father/Uncles and a straight-locked warm-yellow-skinned mother of Kentish stock. Welsh genes must be rather hardy, perseverant and strong (though my sister doesn’t look like this).

You’ll find English natives of the West Midlands often resemble this profile as well, thanks to years of mix breeding over the border. That’s why the Shire Hobbits of Jackson’s LOTR look and sound so, especially Samwise Merry & Pippin; Tolkien’s Hobbits were based on West Country/Midland English folk. And yes, I know that the guys who played those Hobbits aren’t genetically Welsh at all, before anyone shouts at me (Pippin/Billy Boyd is a Scot, Merry/Dom Monaghan is a Manc/northerner and Samwise/Sean Astin isn’t even British), but they were styled to represent that stereotypical image and put on accents to match.

R23 - Aidan Turner was quite pretty in And Then There Were None . . .

You can't tell since Britons (and increasingly the Irish) are a mongrel race. You might see someone who fits your idea of a stereotype Scot, Englishman or whatever but you would have to wait for them to start speaking to tell their true nationality. You are frequently surprised that your "black Irish" is actually a Welshman of Polish descent etc.

[quote]Oh and Londoners have the worst skin , even if we have access to "stuff". It's the hard water. My Birmingham, Tiger Bay and Sheffield relatives food tastes better, hot beverages taste better hair is in better condition and skin is better.

Nah. I lived for decades in London and now in Birmingham. London has much softer water than the Midlands. You can eat the water here. It has a satisfying crunch. Not much good for washing machines, though.

[quote] You can't tell since Britons (and increasingly the Irish) are a mongrel race.

Everyone is mongrel. But Brexit should slow the mongrelization down for a blip.

R39 Irish here, massive balls and a decent 8 inches. Most Irish guys are at least 6 or above, and plenty of hung guys. I guess the "hung" gene got lost in the mix when the Irish went stateside.

I think there are more red-headed Scottish people than Irish. All the Irish in my family are black Irish and a few blondes.

The Welsh stay young forever.

Another ethnic-related posting. Having these kinds of discussions only points out differences, which serves no purpose. Remember when we were told that being prejudice was wrong. Well, it still is. To categorize someone before getting to know them only puts up a barrier. OP is just baiting you. Don't fall for it.

I can often tell Irish, more by the colouring than anything else. But it's very common in Britain to have mixed English/Irish and Scottish ancestory (not so much Welsh in my experience). I do myself.

Why is that r55? Don't the Welsh intermarry as much?

In South Lancashire the men often tall and lanky, broad shouldered, masculine with large dicks. Interestingly skull formations called Occipital Buns from S. Lancashire is one of the few places in the world these are common also. Associated with Neanderthal DNA Basque, Lapp, Finns and Bushmen from South Africa and Australian aborigines often have occipital buns also.

I can very often pick Welsh on sight. Wilfred Owen has features of one particular Welsh genotype that you can spot quite often.

Irish women put English women to shame but so does every corner of the world. Irish have those button noses where Brits have Diana Spencer honkers. Irish don't have bulgey eyes. That's a N German and English trait. Both English & Irish commonly have thin lips and underdeveloped chins but Irish pull it off because they don't have big bottom noses so the trait is offset. There's like 4 different types of Irish. Celts being one of them.

What R54 said, is true there basically is no difference either genetically or physically. It is like this for all other European people from different countries and regions of Europe, as they all invaded each other or had migrations through thousands of years. Just look up time lapse videos of maps of the history of Europe on YouTube.

Also the Irish went to Britain, and the English, Scots, and Welsh went to Ireland, and all of these people intermarried. Also Scandinavians and other Germanic peoples invaded and settled in what are now England, Wales, Ireland, and Scotland.

Those from the highlands of Scotland are unmistakable

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Gay actor Luke Evans is Welsh. With his deep set eyes and full lips, he could be related to Wilfred Owen @ R58.

I've never understood the fallacy that Irish men are small dicked (the "Irish Curse"). Two of the biggest schoongs I've ever had were pure Irish. Huge horse cocks.

^schlongs.

[R54] Noting difference and nuance does not equate to prejudice. How would botany have been possible if biologists refused to note the difference between Maple and Oak leaves on some preposterous quasi-moral grounds.? An an Irish/Scottish American I was thoroughly enjoying this thread until you showed up with your obligatory PC hogwash.

I’m English and can always identify fellow Brits on sight alone when I’m in a foreign country but I would be hard-pressed to tell the difference between any of the distinct nationalities.

Lot of people like R14 saying that Ireland is not British and is its own island are wrong, it is one of the British Isles as a geographical area, which is separate to the political entity of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Note that Northern Island is separate as it's not part of Great Britain, which refers to the largest Island of the British Isles and if you was wondering about little Britain, that is what Ireland was at one time called. Clearly you lot were all having a J. Arthur during history and geography...

R68, you might not be aware that "British Isles" is a disputed term and is not used universally. Ireland was never known as "little Britain".

Gregory Peck is an excellent example of black Irish. I went to England in 1984. I thought the people were very good looking. The women had lovely complexions and were tallish and thin. When the English are young, they are beautiful. I think it is different now, the young women are often fat and coarse looking. This just wasn't the case when I visited back in the mid-80's.

Of course I am aware that it is disputed by some r69, climate change is disputed by some, there are people that dispute the planet we are sat on is round and that contrails are just water vapour and believe that the government is deliberately spraying us with chemicals so try and find something that is not disputed. The fact remains that the archipelago has been widely known as the British Isles for centuries and that includes Ireland, disputed by some, probably Fenian or otherwise. As to my Little Britain reference it was a little tongue in cheek, 'Μικρὰ Βρεττανία' explains the reference.

Irish eyebrows can be very distinct. Think of Morrissey or the Gallaghers.

Welsh have an ovine appearance and smell like leeks.

The Welsh aren't fond of bathing frequently. Stingy and mean as hell too.

Irish potato face:

It’s hard to tell them apart until they open their mouths, as they’ve all got the same tragic dress sense and downbeat manner.