Surnames - Irish or not!

I know someone whose vasectomy was done by a Dr. Balls.

On a holiday flight to Austria many years ago, the steward made the usual announcements. He introduced himself as Mr Snow, and our pilot, Captain Frost.

I thought things like the Pontins directive died out many years ago. In the 60s I worked for a company who also owned a car dealership. The MD considered the family to be above everyone else but they weren't very nice people. He didnt want to sell cars on finance to coloured people so used to throw out applications by whether he thought the name was of foreign origin. But most of them had Scottish names which he let through with no problems. They were mostly guys working on the building of the M4 motorway so were earning good money and used to come by every week and pay their instalments. He didn't seem bothered by the many Irish names though. Needless to say I wasn't happy with the situation and soon left.

Carney is one of the names on the list so presumably the former Governor of the Bank of England would not have been allowed to take his family on holiday to Pontins.

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