last week, i went to pick my son up from infant school which he'd just started at a few weeks ago. most of the parents hadn't met each other before, or were newly aquainted, due to it being a new school for their kids.

anyway, i was chatting to a few of the other parents, including a taiwanese guy who i knew because his son had gone to the same pre-school as mine.
we'd been chatting for 5 or 10 minutes when a guy, who's son was in the same class as the taiwanese guy's, came wandering over and said hello. (i'd met him briefly a few days before and had taken a dislike to him as he seemed to be a bit of a twat and had no sense of humour.)

anyway, he indicated to the woman stood with us and asked if she was taiwanese guy's wife. the taiwanese guy looked a little surprised and said no, that she was a friend and that the guy had met his wife last week.

i couldn't believe it when the guy uttered the immortal lines

"oh, well, you all look the same don't you?"

what a twat
( real i'm not happy 'til you're not happy, Sat 23 Feb 2013, 2:36, 5 replies)

True though.

( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Sat 23 Feb 2013, 9:10, closed)

I'm forever getting Bruce Lee and Benedict Wong mixed up

( Ghoti Fingers, Sat 23 Feb 2013, 11:23, closed)

So...
Not all wives look alike?

I've been fucking gipped.
(Misery McUglywife an attention seeking sociopathic fuckstain., Sat 23 Feb 2013, 11:38, closed)

I find skinheads all look alike.
As do hipsters, bleached-blond[e]s, and so on...
The film The Departed was pretty much incomprehensible to me because I couldn't tell Matt Damon, Leonardo Di Caprio and some other bloke apart. Oddly though, I had no such problem with Infernal Affairs.
So, to my mind, lots of people "look the same" and it is easy to get people confused with each other but their race is irrelevant. The reason I post this is because I do sometimes get people confused who are of another race to myself and I'm dreading the day when it causes a faux-pas.
(Me, I'm not... in any way intoxicated, Sat 23 Feb 2013, 14:43, closed)

I was working in Malaysia late last year...
While queuing in the immigration line, my phone rang - it was the guy I was meeting;
"Hello," he said, "is that you just come through the door?"
"No..." I replied "I'm still in the immmigration line."
"oh well, you all look the same to me..." was his response. I LOLed.
( snee held his breath since, Mon 25 Feb 2013, 9:54, closed)