Leave or Remain?

BobClay

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I kind of like accents … having heard many, some of them are very acceptable to the ear. That's a question of tone and speaking (much hated by the early days of the BBC who would not employ any broadcaster who could not speak unless they had a ton of sterling silver shoved into their gobs.)

I can't deny though I do object to that accent that pronounces 'bath' as 'barth,' 'France' as 'Frarnce' and 'bucket' as 'boocay' ( yes that last one is a bit of a joke, but phonetics here people.) So I'm as biased as the rest, although all I actually want to do is take people who speak that way and lower then slowly into a giant vat of boiling brontosaurus shit. That's a sort of 'right wing' way of looking at things I'll admit, well … sometimes you need the tool that fits.
Think 'Sturgeon's Law.'

:P
 
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Gramaisc

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I kind of like accents … having heard many, some of them are very acceptable to the ear. That's a question of tone and speaking (much hated by the early days of the BBC who would not employ any broadcaster who could not speak unless they had a ton of sterling silver shoved into their gobs.)
Mikey Joe didn't even get an interview for the Newsnight job...

 

littleme

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I kind of like accents … having heard many, some of them are very acceptable to the ear. That's a question of tone and speaking (much hated by the early days of the BBC who would not employ any broadcaster who could not speak unless they had a ton of sterling silver shoved into their gobs.)

I can't deny though I do object to that accent that pronounces 'bath' and 'barth,' 'France' as 'Frarnce' and 'bucket' as 'boocay' ( yes that last one is a bit of a joke, but phonetics here people.) So I'm as biased as the rest, although all I actually want to do is take people who speak that way and lower then slowly into a giant vat of boiling brontosaurus shit. That's a sort of 'right wing' way of looking at things I'll admit, well … sometimes you need the tool that fits.
Think 'Sturgeon's Law.'

:P

I also love accents (I'm not from here) although Yorkshire/Lancashire I struggle with (ie paddy mcguinness) give me an accent anyday...
 

Gramaisc

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I also love accents (I'm not from here) although Yorkshire/Lancashire I struggle with (ie paddy mcguinness) give me an accent anyday...
I know someone from near Blackburn - he had a Czech girlfriend - one day, I realised that I was asking her what he had just said...
 

Noah

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Back in early 1980s she who is now Mrs Noah was boating through the Black Country & stopped to do some shopping. Couldn't understand a word the shopkeeper was saying and it soon became clear that he couldn't understand her East Anglian accent either. Ended up with an Indian stallholder from the market translating between two English people.

I enjoy the variety ofv accents but I am irritated by the genetic northern hearing defect that can't distinguish between a long "a" sound and an "ar" sound.
 

BobClay

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I think for a small county (compared to some) Staffs has an interesting variety. For example, you go 15 miles or so north to the potteries and they're all speaking Serbo-Croat. :eek: You go 15 miles or so south and you're in 'Yo-am' country where they're all speaking Inuit. :gonk:

We hafta be glad weera people wot can gob out more properer. :buddy:
 

littleme

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I think for a small county (compared to some) Staffs has an interesting variety. For example, you go 15 miles or so north to the potteries and they're all speaking Serbo-Croat. :eek: You go 15 miles or so south and you're in 'Yo-am' country where they're all speaking Inuit. :gonk:

We hafta be glad weera people wot can gob out more properer. :buddy:
Gotta love the yo-ams
 

tek-monkey

wanna see my snake?
Interesting take on brexit for the Latvian missus, basically boiled down to why the hell would I be bothered when it's you thats fecked. It's not like she's never upped and moved to a new country before, the only difference is her choice is potentially reduced by one rather than to one.

On the plus side I could always go for Latvian citizenship!
 

Gramaisc

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Interesting take on brexit for the Latvian missus, basically boiled down to why the hell would I be bothered when it's you thats fecked. It's not like she's never upped and moved to a new country before, the only difference is her choice is potentially reduced by one rather than to one.

On the plus side I could always go for Latvian citizenship!
Start learning useful phrases.

1, Šī kundze par visu samaksās.
 

Thehooperman

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Interesting take on brexit for the Latvian missus, basically boiled down to why the hell would I be bothered when it's you thats fecked. It's not like she's never upped and moved to a new country before, the only difference is her choice is potentially reduced by one rather than to one.

On the plus side I could always go for Latvian citizenship!

I hear cabbage farms are fairly inexpensive over there.
 

BobClay

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The Night of the Long Knives. The Mekon keeping a low Rasputin like profile behind all of this.

"And then the ferryman said,
There is trouble ahead,
So you must pay me now, "


At least we didn't have the chatter of machine guns in the night … but … don't hold your breath.
 

tek-monkey

wanna see my snake?
Gone rather quiet in here since covid distracted us, but nice to see we've rolled over another trade deal with a country that has more to gain from it than we do.
 

Withnail

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It went quiet when the de Pfeffel fan club got an 80+ seat majority in the House.

Our contribution being to return perhaps the worst MP in the history of the Stafford franchise in the process. A seat that was sat on by Bill 'Eurotrash' Cash lest we forget. Quite a high bar to hurdle.

The O got there though.

Poke me in 5 years from now - i will quietly seethe in the meantime. What do you propose we do about it now?
 
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