Sucking Plums!

[BrendanS]

and now go wash your mouth out with caustic or similar. good grief!

 

[Ships_Cat]

Luckily Brian knows that I love the place so he won't be offended (I hope! /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif)

John

 

[BrendanS]

There's a wonderful TV ad in UK at the moment. NZ tourist board - yacht in a pool against waterfall background, miles of sunny beaches etc.

Now why on earth, given that environment, and knowing that Gandalf and the hobbits live there, would you think Oz is a good place?

 

[mirabriani]

I always thought I did not have any particular accent.
One day some years ago I picked up a young lady,(hitch hiker
that is) Her first words were "No need to ask where you are from"
I'm not sure if she meant Cockney or South London.

Just off to Wee Bonnie for a few days
I will miss you all

Regards Briani

 

[Joe_Cole]

I really couldn't be bothered what accent people speak with, so long as they can be understood, and they are not "putting on" an accent

However I can't help but think that people who criticise those who speak "posh" are just as bad as "posh" people criticising those who use an accent. It is simply political correctness/inverted snobbery.

FWIW I have lived in Brum, Yorkshire, the Black Country, Hertfordshire, the East End, Surrey and Somerset. What would qualify as my local accent?

 

[Talbot]

I dont have an accent, but most of the people I talk to appear to have one! /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

[Danny_Labrador]

All this reminds me of

Humphrey Littleton told this on the radio recently…. A blunt Yorkshireman came up to him in a club after a jazz secession and said…… “I’m a Yorkshire man and I always speak my mind”. Humphrey replied “so do I, now piss off”

 

[Joe_Cole]

Or the Yorkshireman saying "I say what I like, and I like what I say"

 

[T_S]

Myself I speak as I see, today I have now an Essex accent which admittingly does get branded as 'common' And never get invited into yottie tea clubs, I wonder why?

But then again if I was, I would probably end up choking on a scone or something! /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

[Becky]

Isn't this a typically British thing? My family come from Cornwall, I was born and lived in the Midlands for a while, I studied for 5 years in Newcastle on Tyne, I lived in London for a while, and am now back in the South. So, most embarrassingly if I spend time in the company of someone with a dialect or accent, I end up copying it. Gets some strange looks at times. But I am sure I am not the only one to end up copying accents. Come on, who else does this?

 

[T_S]

Well definitely myself Becky......In Gosport I used pronounce 'down' as 'dane'!

When living in Godalming Surrey I would inform others that 'I am arriving' but now I am in Essex...... I'm cuming! /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

[Joe_Cole]

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Myself I speak as I see, today I have now an Essex accent which admittingly does get branded as 'common' And never get invited into yottie tea clubs, I wonder why?


[/ QUOTE ]

I really don't know.
FAIK it may be that they think you have a chip on your shoulder because of your accent! /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

In my club there are people from all walks of life and many different accents. I have never seen anyone included or excluded because of how he spoke. There is more interest in what he has to say than how he says it.
As I have cruised around I have visited many clubs and have never found any barriers. Mostly I have found that, as an outsider, I have been warmly welcomed. Most clubs seem to go out of their way to welcome visitors.

 

[T_S]

Agreed Joe......I also found nearly all the clubs I have visited very friendly, especially Ramsgate (one of my favourites), But then I have been asked to remove my denim cap by one stuck up cow in a club I sometimes visit, which I assured her I normally remove it anyway....but was so thirsty I forgot!. Anyway as I was explaining this to her I had the impression this lady thought of me as some commoner or herbert!

 

[Joe_Cole]

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one stuck up cow in a club ...................I had the impression this lady thought of me as some commoner or herbert!

[/ QUOTE ]

It looks as if you are judging others by their accents and then complaining when you think they are doing the same.
Relax a bit more /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

[T_S]

Joe....IMHO I am one of the most happiest and chilled people around, I don't take offence very easily, I am always there to offer help to anyone who needs it. I have been known also to create a few laughs as well.

I simply love life with its ups and downs, the variety of each day different from the day before intreges me so much I look forward to waking every morning!

What has amazed me so much through my life is how people can interpret strangers so differently, I enjoy meeting and talking to new people, the subjects range from wide variety of intelect or just plain bloody stupidity, but never the less every coversation provides a certain value!

I think you will now understand that my thread here, after all is for a bit of harmless fun and not for the vein. /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

Regards......Dave

 

[DanTribe]

Starch & iron your ensign? Surely that's your valet's job!
Dan

 

[T_S]

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Starch & iron your ensign? Surely that's your valet's job!
Dan

[/ QUOTE ]

Naw sacked her Dan.....kept breaking the flag pole everytime she climbed up there to iron it! /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

Thats the trouble with us Essex types, have to send up the ole lady in the bosuns chair cos we are to heavy wearin our gold chains and watches......and anyways us Essex geazers risk spillin our beer too or possibly missin doin a deal wiv a motor to some passing punter on the pontoon! /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

P.S Done the French booze run lately, My mates just had is motor cofisgated by the Custom geazers!

 

[pessimist]

Oh dear, Dears. One couldn't possibly become involved with this thread.

 

[T_S]

I think really it all boils down to ones humour! /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

 

[pessimist]

One's humour is one's own affair old chap.