Will.i.am. mixed up his geography on stage in Galway yesterday.

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  1. I moved to London after college to start a new job. The English guy I lived with couldn’t understand why I didn’t have a social security number. I told him I just had an Irish one.
    He said “aren’t they the same country”. Ffs.

  2. Plot twist, Will.I.Am actually also goes by Billy.I.Am, the reincarnation of a certain Orange-loving king.

  3. he apologized, also how did he cross a border without realising it surely he had to produce a passport at some stage. my question is did he actually go through customs

  4. Is half this subs posts really just people seething at people ignorant about Ireland confusing it for the UK or some twat in the UK saying something mean about Ireland? please ignore this type of stuff. It really just makes everyone here look insecure all the time!

  5. Plenty of multinational people I work with didn’t know anything about Northern Ireland v Ireland or Ireland not being in the UK when they initially came here.

    I’ve seen it enough times to know it can be an honest mistake.

    The guy publicly apologised and accepted he messed up, fair play I say.

  6. I was there. It was cringey as hell. He did it twice or three times. Stuff like

    ‘ Irish girls are the best looking girls in the UK’

    and

    ‘Galway audiences are the best in the UK’.

    Everybody looking at each other going WTF? Crowd booing like crazy. Strange he didn’t pick up on his faux pas by the audience reaction the first time and kept repeating it.

    Wasn’t a big deal though. Crowd forgave him pretty quickly. Great atmosphere. They had everyone going mental within a few seconds of coming onstage and kept the energy up all the way through. Shame they didn’t do an encore.

  7. Will.i.am felt inspired by the fight for Irish independence. He needs to do a remix of come out you black and tans

  8. An unfortunate mistake, but I can’t hate will.I.am. I’ve tried. I just love how useless he is and can be. Its entertaining because he’s so hyped about everything he does and science in general.

  9. The rapper bbno$ in April said “oh it must be a UK thing” to the Irish crowed in the academy. I forget what he was talking about

  10. Accepted his mistake, not a big deal.

    Just saw the comments under a British news article about this and so many brits insisting we are in the UK. Then one yank trying to correct them saying they were irish and “we irish have been independent from Britain thanks to what sinn Fein did 50 years ago.”

    Not sure if I was more annoyed by the Brits or the plastic.

  11. I work in one of the big tech companies and I have to explain EVERY. SINGLE. WEEK. that Ireland is not in the UK to international colleagues.

    The UK is not taught a history which inlcudes us so I get why they are so ignorant.

    But it doesn’t explain the rest of the world.

    Anyone any ideas?

    If Ireland has been independent longer than the majority of the world’s population i.e. there are few living people who recall Ireland being in the UK, then how or why does the world have collective amnesia?

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