How long before we start seeing strong Northern or foreign accented presenters on the news?

Spook187 said:
How is it thick :confused: you really have no idea do you. :rolleyes:
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lol what the hell ? :p Prime example of regional dialect failing right here.

I worked for a company based in Plymouth and traveled down there from London for an Interview.

Im a bit of an Essex/cockney but no way TOWIE or m8,m8 m8 all the time.

I got in a Taxi from the station and i kid you not, we couldn't understand each other. It took about 2 minutes to explain where i wanted to go.... Quite embarrassing really. Its not the accent its just the complete truncation and slang the guy was using. Then i guess i was doing the same back :P
I've not led a sheltered life but i swear it would have been easier in French..


Since when does "where you to?" mean "Hello sir, where would you like to go today?" For example
 
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which when i replied he gave me a funny look and didn't understand, then the games began.
 
Lysander said:
Only because they can't eat them.
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This statement is very true. My wife commented on the fact that there were loads of foxes around compared to where she is from (Halifax) and I simply stated that was due to them eating them all in the grim North.

With regards to the TV question, they have just discovered fire so they're well on the way :)
 
Loads of foxes in Surrey compared to West Yorkshire? :confused:

Can't move for the bleeding things here. I thought your toff lot kept the population down there with their murderous dogs?
 
schumi84 said:
This statement is very true. My wife commented on the fact that there were loads of foxes around compared to where she is from (Halifax) and I simply stated that was due to them eating them all in the grim North.

With regards to the TV question, they have just discovered fire so they're well on the way :)
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But you still went for a good northern lass.
You know it makes sense.;)
 
I love it when our northern cousins get all outraged and defensive. :D They always claim to be so jolly and friendly! That's until one of them fancy southern sorts pokes them with the troll stick. Then it's 'unleash the whippets' time.

For the record, I consider anybody living north of the Watford Gap to be a northerner.
 
Lunatic Dreyfus said:
I love it when our northern cousins get all outraged and defensive. :D They always claim to be so jolly and friendly! That's until one of them fancy southern sorts pokes them with the troll stick. Then it's 'unleash the whippets' time.

For the record, I consider anybody living north of the Watford Gap to be a northerner.
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"fancy southern sorts". The word you are looking for is "faggot" dear boy.;)
 
The BBC standard accent is fake and sounds ridiculous. They will get no love from me until they at least start pronouncing 'year' properly.
 
Freefaller said:
I do find rather drôle that people think that the BBC reporters speak "posh" - it's just a neutral English accent. If it were Received Pronunciation I could understand the implication that it was "posh".

It irks me a little that people think I'm "posh" because I don't drop my Ts and pronounce my Hs - whereas I'm just an average British bloke (though a bit of Jonny Foreigner too to be fair :p).
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It's funny you should mention this! I was at a client a couple of weeks ago and they asked me where I was from as I had a very 'neutral' accent (others say its posh but I found it refreshing that she used that term as that's how I would describe it). Anyway she said I assumed you would say Surrey/Oxford, I was like 'West London born and raised y0!'

Neutral accents are good for news reading as everyone can understand it. A slight accent is fine but a thick scottish/geordie etc accent isn't going to be much use if some people can't understand.
 
Gilly said:
Anyone South of Sheffield is a Southerner.

I sometimes feel for those millions of unwanted people, but as they're Southerners they don't really count.
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Visit friends up north & get called a southerner, down here I'm a northerner...

When I'm back in the midlands.... Well I'm in the midlands.... I just can't win.
 
Working in the oil industry i used to get frequently asked what part of Australia i was from...

Essex... :P
 
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