San Diego, CA
A lovely place - wish I was there right now, but I'm not.

I was in a bar with a strict ID policy, which isn't unusual in the US so I'd shown my UK passport and settled down with a beer. Very shortly - and abruptly - I was joined by a small angry red faced fury with a wife who has faded in my memory beyond description, because all she contributed was "Thas' right".

An Ulsterman. A vehement, fuming, frothing at the mouth Ulsterman who made it VERY CLEAR TO ME in a short space of time that THE STATE OF ULSTER RIGHT NOW (I grew up in the '70's before Paisley was voiced over, so I understood him) WAS A FUCKIN' DISGRACE and he'd moved to San Diego where he could live a decent life away from THEM FUCKIN' HEATHENS.

San Diego is about the most Catholic city you'll get in the US - it's a liberal and open place. I took, in a couple of hours, more concentrated vitriol than I'll ever get again, I hope. He might be still there for all I know, not seeing or understanding the difference between what he'd left and what he was in.

He bought me a lot of drinks though, so he wasn't all bad.
( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Sat 26 Apr 2014, 18:49, 17 replies)

I also grew up in the seventies
and I'm not sure I remember Ian Paisley ever being voiced over
( Ghoti Fingers, Sat 26 Apr 2014, 18:52, closed)

THAT WOULD BE BECAUSE BRIAN BLESSED REFUSED THE JOB!
Reality check: it was only the Fenians that got the voice-over treatment on the news. And that didn't even START until the 1980's. Prior to that you heard them in their own ridiculous accents.
( stuj (^(^;;^)^) GO TEAM SPIDERS!(^(^;;^)^), Sat 26 Apr 2014, 19:00, closed)

ian paisley wasn't 'voiced over'
you dumb prick
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Sat 26 Apr 2014, 19:07, closed)

Clearly I was wrong
And it's of great solace to know that the dulcet tones of the Reverend Ian Paisley were unfettered in their uplifting homilies of enlightenment throughout those turbulent years.
( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Sat 26 Apr 2014, 21:59, closed)

you can say what you like about Paisley's rancid rhetoric
but he was never knowingly out-shouted
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Mon 28 Apr 2014, 9:00, closed)

It was Gerry Adams
Who was voiced over, wasn't it?
(The Empress it seems you CAN polish a turd!, Sat 26 Apr 2014, 19:20, closed)

Yes
By an actor who sounded exactly like him.

Although I like the idea of Ian Paisley being voice by Brian Blessed. There's an Internet mash-up in there somewhere. Somebody with more talent than me should do it.
(Nitrous Nitrous, Sat 26 Apr 2014, 20:17, closed)

Crying Game actor Stephen Rea
did the voice of Gerry Adams.
(posthumous mince is tiptoeing through the tulips, Sun 27 Apr 2014, 1:02, closed)

Yep. Martin McGuinness as well I believe.

( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Sat 26 Apr 2014, 20:51, closed)

Wasn't it Paddy and Murphy?

( The Awful Puppy Bakery is still bored, Sat 26 Apr 2014, 21:57, closed)

Pfft. Sounds perfectly reasonable to me

(drunksteve is not drunk, Mon 28 Apr 2014, 6:28, closed)

and yet you stayed and listened to it

( rachelswipe with a fork, Mon 28 Apr 2014, 10:04, closed)

i'm guessing he's one of these wilting blossoms who'd rather sit in misery than make a fuss

( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Mon 28 Apr 2014, 10:35, closed)

it sounds like he was happy to sit and listen to it provided that his blossom got watered by free drinks

( rachelswipe with a fork, Mon 28 Apr 2014, 13:09, closed)

yeah
either way.
(drunksteve is not drunk, Mon 28 Apr 2014, 23:10, closed)