Which accent grates the most?

Gavin Gilbert

And does having to listern to both shouting across an office with a peppering of f-words constitute a valid excuse for GBH?

Crapaud

You'll have to explain what 'strine' and 'bok' are, 'cos I've no idea what you're on about!

I have an irrational hatred of cockney if that helps. I don't hate, or even dislike, cockneys, but the accent drives me up the wall - I can't watch Eastenders, but that may be because it's kak.

For that matter, I'm none to fond of nasal Glaswegian ned speak.

a_n_t

scouse. end of. keep your phlegm to yourself.

Gavin Gilbert

a_n_t wrote:

scouse. end of. keep your phlegm to yourself.

That's an excellent point, but very few Scousers make it down to London. Maybe they don't have the wit and ambition to leave Liverpool, maybe they just enjoy wallowing in their own squallor. Who really cares?

nickwill

Neither of the above really get to me. Estuary and Essex English do grate though!

bornagainbiker

Bloody.... Scouse!

Unfortunately the scousers and mancs came down to Torbay in the early 90's when alot of the local hotels were struggling. To make ends meet they advertised up north as dole hostels. Walking around Torquay now and you hear that grating phlemy accent drives me up the wall. A few years back I had a couple of motorbikes nicked and the police admitted that the crime rate had soared due to the influx of dolies from up north.

meagain

bornagainbiker wrote:

Bloody.... Scouse!

Unfortunately the scousers and mancs came down to Torbay in the early 90's when alot of the local hotels were struggling. To make ends meet they advertised up north as dole hostels. Walking around Torquay now and you hear that grating phlemy accent drives me up the wall. A few years back I had a couple of motorbikes nicked and the police admitted that the crime rate had soared due to the influx of dolies from up north.

If the southern third of the laughingly named UNITED Kingdom hadn't shafted the other two thirds we'd have been happy to stay there.

fast as fupp

whiney souths and manchestoh

and whats this inner london 'yout' accent where they all tork like blacks innit?

kill them all :twisted:

fast as fupp

Gavin Gilbert wrote:

a_n_t wrote:

scouse. end of. keep your phlegm to yourself.

That's an excellent point, but very few Scousers make it down to London. Maybe they don't have the wit and ambition to leave Liverpool, maybe they just enjoy wallowing in their own squallor. Who really cares?

yes gavin london's a crime and poverty free paradise with streets paved with gold isnt it?

biondino

Australian and South African to those who haven't figured it out yet!

(the answer is south african. I try not to be bigoted, really I do, but that sound.... I've never been friends with a south african so that's probably why. Aussies are fine as long as you can accept the fact that they're funnier, fitter, better looking and more confident than you could ever be)

sicrow

*****cks to that it Cockneys every time

peanut

lissen maight cockneys ur olrite ennay john ? nowotimien

for me its either the hard Belfast /northern Ireland accent or the Scots whose accent defies all comprehension :roll:

Beeblebrox

As I'm from the West Midlands, it has to be ... Brummy.

nwallace

Gavin Gilbert wrote:

a_n_t wrote:

scouse. end of. keep your phlegm to yourself.

That's an excellent point, but very few Scousers make it down to London. Maybe they don't have the wit and ambition to leave Liverpool, maybe they just enjoy wallowing in their own squallor. Who really cares?

Or they have the sense not to go there? <snip>

st68

oh thats super oh yar for sure poncey talk everytime :x

don key

meagain wrote:

bornagainbiker wrote:

Bloody.... Scouse!

Unfortunately the scousers and mancs came down to Torbay in the early 90's when alot of the local hotels were struggling. To make ends meet they advertised up north as dole hostels. Walking around Torquay now and you hear that grating phlemy accent drives me up the wall. A few years back I had a couple of motorbikes nicked and the police admitted that the crime rate had soared due to the influx of dolies from up north.

If the southern third of the laughingly named UNITED Kingdom hadn't shafted the other two thirds we'd have been happy to stay there.

The southern tu8rd seems to float Spainward on flushing rather than up north where those delightful minors live, Maurice I think they're also known as.

don key

st68 wrote:

oh thats super oh yar for sure poncey talk everytime :x

You obviously or even obliviously havent met the Harrovian and Estonedian types I have aquainted myself with over the years, they, when bright, are the funniest people I have ever met but dont let them hang together as they tend to fall into a "superior is mois"
mode when twinned with one of the flock. London is both titterating and irritating at the same time as , well you know, they know everything, everything they know and nothing else.

The StressedAliens are by far the nicer as their abuse of the indigenous tribes didnt get them having to defends themselves constantly against good decent everyday people who would like everyone to be treated nice like, I do know a few very nice Safricans but not as nice as that lovely Rabbi McEman as The Swizz now refer to him.

iainf72

biondino wrote:

(the answer is south african. I try not to be bigoted, really I do, but that sound.... I've never been friends with a south african so that's probably why. Aussies are fine as long as you can accept the fact that they're funnier, fitter, better looking and more confident than you could ever be)

So I take it when you say South African you mean white english speaking South Africans and are not including Zulu / Xhosa or any of the other 7 offical languages? English and Afrikaans speaking south africans have quite different accents when speaking english.

st68

don key wrote:

st68 wrote:

oh thats super oh yar for sure poncey talk everytime :x

You obviously or even obliviously havent met the Harrovian and Estonedian types I have aquainted myself with over the years, they, when bright, are the funniest people I have ever met but dont let them hang together as they tend to fall into a "superior is mois"
mode when twinned with one of the flock. London is both titterating and irritating at the same time as , well you know, they know everything, everything they know and nothing else.

The StressedAliens are by far the nicer as their abuse of the indigenous tribes didnt get them having to defends themselves constantly against good decent everyday people who would like everyone to be treated nice like, I do know a few very nice Safricans but not as nice as that lovely Rabbi McEman as The Swizz now refer to him.

i meet this type most days as i work on an airfield quite often and 75% of them are full of poo with no common sense and an over inflated view of themselves particularly helicopter pilots dont ask me why they just are :?

richk

Beeblebrox wrote:

As I'm from the West Midlands, it has to be ... Brummy.

Ah - but do you really mean brum or yam yam?

st68

oh i nearly forgot kimmi raikkonen horrible voice & does he ever f****in smile the miserable ba**ard with a job like that and all that cash :?

Gavin Gilbert

RichK wrote:

Beeblebrox wrote:

As I'm from the West Midlands, it has to be ... Brummy.

Ah - but do you really mean brum or yam yam?

So what is the difference between Brum and yam yam? To my educated ear I can't hear the difference (and I can spot Croydon from Proper South London).

As this is my topic and I'm adjudicating I'm disallowing Brum as being an irritating accent. It has far too much comic potential to be annoying (much like Kiwi in fact )

Richard_D

So with respect to Strine do you mean East Coast, West Coast , Outback or northern Territories they are all different.
With respect to Bok are you talking English, Afrikaan, Cape Town, Joburg, etc
With respect to Scouse are you talking Bootle, Kirby, Toxteth, Birkenhead, Etc.

With most accents it is not the accent that grates but strength of it

Salsiccia

A friend of mine said in her Scouse (with a hint of Hamburg) accent "I'll never let my son grow up with a Cardiff accent... it's so common"

I laughed, and she didn't understand why

beatsystem

scouse

Denny69

fast as fupp wrote:

whiney souths and manchestoh

and whats this inner london 'yout' accent where they all tork like blacks innit?

kill them all :twisted:

We should also aks them a question....... :P

OffTheBackAdam

Paddy!
To be exact, Pikie Paddy, try decyphering what they're on about, and that's not even adding booze to the speaker either!

Gavin Gilbert

OffTheBackAdam wrote:

Paddy!
To be exact, Pikie Paddy, try decyphering what they're on about, and that's not even adding booze to the speaker either!

Ah ha! We manage a full 2 pages of being offensive and regionalist, and it takes the Forum Tory to post the first racist remark.

I should have put a fiver on it

mercurykev

English accent (quicky retreats over the border)

flattythehurdler

I love all accents except
1 Cockney.
2 Scouse.
3 Ian Paisley.

iainment

I enjoy saying to strine speakers "what part of NZ are you from?" They do get aerated. Also works asking merkans what part of Canada they hail from.