brittish accents

[diebitter]

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Not all British accents are the same. The Birmingham accent is by far the most ugly in the world.

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Yes.
And a soft Irish accent is the most beautifully spoken
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Spot on there! However, I think virtually all British regional accents, when soft, are very nice to listen to. Cept West Midlands.


Here's a Brummie joke for UKers:

Noddy Holder is going through an old clothes shop to try and find clothes for Slade's new tour. The shop assistant finds something.

Shop assistant: "Hey, Noddy, how about a kipper tie?"
Noddy: "Ahh, Bustin! Tew sugars, please!"

I doubt this is translatable to the colonies.

[jason_t]

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Only girls though, the dudes just end up sounding like pretentious a-holes.

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Ha. My ex-girlfriend used to say only the dudes have nice accents and the girls end up sounding like pretentious bitches.

[diebitter]

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However as I have said before on here my Durham accent (a slower versiopn of the Newcastle accent) in the states was taken to be mexican.


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I'm from the promised land, South London ("Sarf Lundun"), and was mistaken for an Aussie in Vegas. A good slap sorted it out.

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I'm from the promised land, South London ("Sarf Lundun"), and was mistaken for an Aussie in Vegas. A good slap sorted it out.

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Ah yes, the South London/Sussex/Surrey drawl. Countless people from down south get accused of being Australian. I used to manage a pub in Sussex, and regularly got asked which part of Australia I was from. Once from an Australian!

Of course I've lived here in Sussex my entire life.

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Here's a Brummie joke for UKers:

Noddy Holder is going through an old clothes shop to try and find clothes for Slade's new tour. The shop assistant finds something.

Shop assistant: "Hey, Noddy, how about a kipper tie?"
Noddy: "Ahh, Bustin! Tew sugars, please!"

I doubt this is translatable to the colonies.

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usually I love a guy with an English accent but I have to say spelled out it sounds a little gay.


how about a kipper tie???


what does it even mean?

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how about a kipper tie???


what does it even mean?

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Kipper tie == cup of tea (in Brummie)

Hence 'tew sugars' (two sugars)

I doubt it's funny any more.

[stigmata]

If you don't know how a brummie accent sounds, then the joke doesn't work.

Also note that slade were famous for their dress sense which included kipper ties.

ah, got it.


I'm sure you sound a lot cooler in person though. British accents (I don't care what region you're from) are sexy !

[diebitter]

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ah, got it.


I'm sure you sound a lot cooler in person though. British accents (I don't care what region you're from) are sexy !

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Just to clear this up, I do not sound anything like a Brummie.

And you are obviously a person with excellent taste.

[jkkkk]

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However as I have said before on here my Durham accent (a slower versiopn of the Newcastle accent) in the states was taken to be mexican.


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I'm from the promised land, South London ("Sarf Lundun"), and was mistaken for an Aussie in Vegas. A good slap sorted it out.

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Exact same thing happened to me, I love it when they tell me to 'speak english', I tell him, 'I am English..'

'Oh you sounded like one of them Aussies.'

heh