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Post by Alpha Hooligan on Aug 14, 2011 22:05:19 GMT
As for style, I think we can agree that Blackburn Rovers has a certain cachet . . .  (Yes, "Gooner". The diction south of the Tyne leaves a lot to be desired, y'naah.) Quit handy really, you'd know where to return her if she was passed out drunk in the street...not that I am insinuating that she isn't a very classy lady or anything, I'm sure that she is...  AH |
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Post by everso on Aug 14, 2011 22:33:02 GMT
What about his point about the weird cultural tendency towards a patois that no but yeah is it tho you get me. That's the only accent that irritates the hell out of me (besides Estuary, that is) I really really want to wallop anyone speaking like that. I think it's because it's so false. A bit like a cockney trying to speak 'naicely' or a social worker from a middle class upbringing deliberately using a glottal stop to give him a bit of street cred. Bah!! |
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Post by Weyland on Aug 15, 2011 8:34:55 GMT
As for style, I think we can agree that Blackburn Rovers has a certain cachet . . .) Quit handy really, you'd know where to return her if she was passed out drunk in the street...not that I am insinuating that she isn't a very classy lady or anything, I'm sure that she is... AH  Alph: "Honestly, officer, I only pulled her pants down to find the return address." PC Plod: "Get in the car, sir." |
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Post by aubrey on Aug 20, 2011 8:28:01 GMT
Sad that we still live in a country where opinions and ideas can't be voiced without PC witch hunters wanting to burn a few more non-conformers and people guilty of thought crimes. AH He's not been arrested for it. He's just said what he wanted to say, and the rest of us have said what an arse he is. Isn't that how it's supposed to work? |
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Post by everso on Aug 20, 2011 17:18:05 GMT
Sad that we still live in a country where opinions and ideas can't be voiced without PC witch hunters wanting to burn a few more non-conformers and people guilty of thought crimes. AH He's not been arrested for it. He's just said what he wanted to say, and the rest of us have said what an arse he is. Isn't that how it's supposed to work? Yes, it is. But often people lose their jobs for saying what they think. |
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Post by aubrey on Aug 20, 2011 21:21:20 GMT
People can lose their jobs for saying and doing (and having done) all sorts of things.
Picked up the telephone, told the boss he was a jerk - you'd still lose your job even if you could get a dozen character witnesses to back you up. There are some things that should just be thought: I'm thinking them all the time, and I expect that most people do.
Starkey's not going to lose his, is he? He'll probably get more work now.
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Post by aubrey on Aug 21, 2011 11:28:09 GMT
Buggers like Starkey want it all ways, though - blame the blacks, then still blame them because of their influence on whites. It's a lousy argument, and it's a silly one for a Conservative to use (individual responsibility and that).
The white kids speaking in a kind of Jamaican accent thing - this is something that has always happened. Early punk singers used to sing in a kind of cockney accent, until regionalism took over and people started singing in their own accents (like Fay Fife did). But the Cockney thing was a response to singers using American accents - something that Billy Fisher in Billy Liar comments on - so it was a step forward at the time.
And there doesn't seem to be much of Kendal in Starkey's accent, either. Up until the 60s people from the North hoping to work in London often had to change their accent to get work; Starkey was probably late enough that it didn't matter: but he still seems to have done it.
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Post by aubrey on Aug 21, 2011 11:42:29 GMT
Still:  |
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Post by Weyland on Aug 21, 2011 13:08:55 GMT
I recognise her. President of the Students' Union at Exeter in the 1960s. |
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Post by jean on Aug 21, 2011 16:29:56 GMT
And there doesn't seem to be much of Kendal in Starkey's accent, either. Up until the 60s people from the North hoping to work in London often had to change their accent to get work; Starkey was probably late enough that it didn't matter: but he still seems to have done it. See his own explanation in my #6 on this thread. It's all ridiculous. And now I see people have started claiming that we'd all be saying what Starkey said if we weren't so terrified of the political correctness brigade... |
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Post by jean on Aug 21, 2011 16:30:44 GMT
I recognise her. President of the Students' Union at Exeter in the 1960s. Smaller tits. |
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Post by Weyland on Aug 21, 2011 16:39:00 GMT
I recognise her. President of the Students' Union at Exeter in the 1960s. Smaller tits. Don't blame me. [Anyway, I didn't mean those two that one.] |
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Post by jean on Aug 21, 2011 18:43:32 GMT
Buggers like Starkey want it all ways, though - blame the blacks, then still blame them because of their influence on whites. It's a lousy argument, and it's a silly one for a Conservative to use (individual responsibility and that). Aubs, I need you desperately on MCL.(It's called piling in - but who cares?) |
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Post by aubrey on Aug 21, 2011 20:51:08 GMT
OK, but give me until tomorrow (I've been having a rest).
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