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Sashadroogie · Posted: Thu Nov 27, 2014 7:10 am Post subject: Ugliest accent in the US

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-30204654

The real issue here is more about why the BBC feels the need to deluge its viewers with endless trivia about the US...

sixthchild · Joined: 18 Apr 2012 Posts: 298 Location: East of Eden

Well you thought it worthy of comment!
Although, I have to say not as ugly as the habit of armed policemen gunning down children who just happen to have a darker skin tone!

Sashadroogie · Posted: Thu Nov 27, 2014 11:04 am Post subject:

Yes, but that's because I have an agenda! Just like the Beeb.

plumpy nut · Joined: 12 Mar 2011 Posts: 1652

It's all a matter of whether not you can understand what is being said. There are some areas in the US where black speakers are undecipherable. Laughing

I knew a professor from London and he would say that in some regions in England there were people he couldn't understand a word that they saying.

water rat · Joined: 30 Aug 2014 Posts: 1098 Location: North Antarctica

johnslat · Posted: Thu Nov 27, 2014 2:32 pm Post subject:

Dear water_rat,

Your stats are a bit off:

"The Pittsburgh Steelers (6–2) have won the most Super Bowls with six championships, while both the Dallas Cowboys (5–3) and San Francisco 49ers (5–1) have five wins each."

But the essential point is right. Very Happy

Regards,
John

sixthchild · Joined: 18 Apr 2012 Posts: 298 Location: East of Eden

A water rat wrote this bilge,
I'm from Pittsburgh. The very throbbing heart of the place. You could spit from the hospital I was born in and hit the turf of Steeler country's home-field stadium. Lest you think I'm offended by your words, no, I think you're hilarious. We know how we talk and we're proud of it. I've read that expat Pittsburghers, of which I am a veritable archetype, are strangely the proudest and most hardcore of all accent nuts. We are what we are, and if you don't like it, well, I'm sure you'll be scalded rather badly in eternal heck.

What is it about you people from that has-been island off the coast of France, the Netherlands, Belgium, etc, that makes you think you're so great? Is it because all your most famous queens were actually cross-dressing dudes?

Has your home team won five super bowls! I don't think so! No other football team, and when I say football. I mean real, actual football, not that mamby pamby game you poms call football in which when a tackle is said to have occurred, and I ask, "Where, where?"

I'm talking five Superbowl rings for which any other football team through true grit has ever achieved three. We have five!

So you don't like the way we talk!? Well, we don't like the way you exist! So please cease and desist before we come looking for you. You have 48 hours. After that, I don't want to hear that there ever was any such place as England anymore.

No that doesn't make you sound like a nutter who has escaped from an ISİS camp!
Outside of the states, who gives a toss about this superbowl guff? Is this how a nations achievements are measured?

johnslat · Posted: Thu Nov 27, 2014 4:14 pm Post subject:

What's even more ridiculous is that individuals who have had no part in accomplishing any of their nation's "achievements" somehow feel that they have the right to "bask in the reflected glory" of this achievements simply by happenstance of their having been born in the same nation.

"Patriotism: Your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it."

GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

Regards,
John

scot47 · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 15343

"I don't care what country they are from. I hate everybody." (scot47 on a bad day)

Mushkilla · Joined: 17 Apr 2014 Posts: 320 Location: United Kingdom

What, you hate everybody including yourself! What a disastrous day for the democracy of the West! Laughing

grahamb · Joined: 30 Apr 2003 Posts: 1945

I always thought the Super Bowl was a toilet for particularly obese Americans.

johnslat · Posted: Thu Nov 27, 2014 7:31 pm Post subject:

Nope - here it is:

http://hotgeekz.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/SuperBowl.jpg

Regards,
John

Dedicated · Joined: 18 May 2007 Posts: 972 Location: UK

If you read the article carefully, it was the result of a survey carried out by Gawker Media, which is a New York based company. The people in the survey were Americans, not Brits.

The BBC were merely reporting the results.

grahamb · Joined: 30 Apr 2003 Posts: 1945

I'm underwhelmed, John. Wink

Back in '95 I spent two weeks in Orlando. The best fun I had was going to see the Orlando Cubs at the Tinker Field. The Stadium was dwarfed by the nearby Citrus Bowl, which reminded me of the space ships in those 1950s sci-fi films. I half-expected to see Klaatu emerging from it.

Sashadroogie · Posted: Fri Nov 28, 2014 7:07 pm Post subject: Re: Ugliest accent in the US

You poor fellow, you. So much raw rat emotion pouring out there. Not much on target, though : )