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AIBU?

to hate beyond shelves my local accent?

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CauldronsTrulyReign · 20/09/2011 21:29

I had the pleasure of sitting behind 2 locallers at TheJoyThatIsSwimmingLessons today.

I normally let the yamyam flow over me, but oh my very shirt fuse today just could not stand it.

It took about 76megapixels of resolution not to stand up and shout "Use proper words you massacrists".

Does your local accent drive you full of angst?

AIBU to dislike it so terribly much?

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hobnobsaremyfavourite · 20/09/2011 21:32

Are you from the west Midlands by any chance?

SecretNutellaFix · 20/09/2011 21:32

Not actually the accent, just the speed and volume and sheer innaccurate use of the English language. Just dreadful. Makes a lot of local people sound as thick as 2 short planks. Which quite a few of them are.

saythatagain · 20/09/2011 21:33

I live near Hull - I'll leave that with you!!!!!!!

CurrySpice · 20/09/2011 21:33

I love a Black Country accent (I am from there myself)

I now live in Essex

So think yourself lucky

worraliberty · 20/09/2011 21:34

I love my local accent...Cockney/Essex mix as long as the person speaking isn't an utter twat.

bigfatcath · 20/09/2011 21:35

Lots of Scousers where I live. The accent makes my ears bleed!

CauldronsTrulyReign · 20/09/2011 21:38

Yup.

Just outskirty to Black Country.

[grr]

"An er wus gooin dow-wun the tow-wun and er asked for a pow-und."

Oh lawks I need Buppy.

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hobnobsaremyfavourite · 20/09/2011 21:39

Tis grim beyond grim YANBU

smoggii · 20/09/2011 21:39

Isn't Yam Yam specific to Wolverhampton? If so I hated it when I lived there too...but I'm Welsh so there's only so much I can say!

BikeRunSki · 20/09/2011 21:45

The East Yorkshire dialect and accent is not that bad! I worked in Beverly for a while and couldn't understand what was going on half the time.

TakeThisOneHereForAStart · 20/09/2011 21:49

What does "to hate beyond shelves" mean?

CauldronsTrulyReign · 20/09/2011 21:50

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TakeThisOneHereForAStart · 20/09/2011 21:51

Never heard the expression before, but I like it.

HellonHeels · 20/09/2011 21:51

Ooo I love the Black Country accent! I think it has a lovely air of stoicism, with a hint of lugubriousness. I'm an immigrant to the UK though, so regional accents are fascinating to me.

bigfatcath · 20/09/2011 21:52

Scousers say lolly ices and pants instead of trousers. And they are loud

FreudianSlipper · 20/09/2011 21:53

i can not stant the essex accent. i lived in essex for a while, the accent is awful why talk like you are whining and a little thick and ddddrrrrrrraaaaaaaaagggggggggggggg eeeeeeeeevvvvvvvrrrrrrrrrryyyyyyyy wwwwwwwwwwwoooooorrrrrrrrrrrrdddddddddddd oooooooooooouuuuuuuuuuuuuuttttttttt

in my old office there were lots of essex women they sounded like old women the constant whine gave me a headache, the mens accent is a bit different not as droany

usualsuspect · 20/09/2011 21:53

I love regional accents

makes people far more interesting

belledechocchipcookie · 20/09/2011 21:54

I'm from the west midlands, I feel your pain. I'm now in the East Midlands, the accent is very different but still as annoying.

FreudianSlipper · 20/09/2011 21:54

stant ? meant to type stand

AKMD · 20/09/2011 21:56

YANBU. Our town has a terrible local accent that makes everyone sound illiterate. I find myself slipping every noe ad again [adjusts snobby pants] :o

AKMD · 20/09/2011 21:56

However, they probably can type much better than me...

DioneTheDiabolist · 20/09/2011 21:59

The accent here sounds like raptor chicks demanding to be fed. It's all high pitched and harsh.

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maras2 · 20/09/2011 22:01

My accent is pure W. Midlands.When I'm pissed, Mr. Maras says that I sound like the late Queen Mum from Spitting Image.

schroeder · 20/09/2011 22:03

God I hate the Yorkshire accent-it does my head in.

To hear it come out of my children's mouths-horrible.

But I love regional accents in general, I like scouse and lancs and I love my native Norfolk and west country too.

But 'Yorkshire' is beyond the pale.

NotADudeExactly · 20/09/2011 22:06

Lucky to be a Londoner. No, I'm not a Cockney fan in particular - the good part is that the sheer amount of accents around me prevent overexposure to the degree of annoyance.

I like my own English accent. It's a nice and soft sounding mix between English absent father and American dominated private school with a faint trace of Germanic.

On the other hand, I have learned the most ghastly type of German spoken anywhere on the surface of the planet from my otherwise lovely mum.

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