To find DP's impressions infuriating and offensive

[scarednoob]

OH is a lovely bloke but he has some habits that really irritate me. One of them is an obsession with accents/how people pronounce things. So for example a conversation might go like this:

Me: did you see that on the passenger side of that van?

DP: "parrsenger?" Who says parrsenger?

Me: look, it's going past now

DP: parrsenger, lol

Me: fine, it's gone now

DP: what was it?

Me: I no longer have a single flying fuck to give because we have a variation of this conversation at least once a day...

I have a slight northern accent and (truly crap) Northern is his thing whenever he wants to make out that someone is being a bit dim. I find that offensive. He also does impressions of my northern family, even though he really likes them.

I know he means to be funny, and I know it's just a little thing, but after 5 years of it, I kind of want to staple his tongue to his ears. I have tried many times to explain how I feel, but he just keeps on doing it, and now it's starting to cause arguments.

AIBU and should I try to laugh it off a bit more? Or is it ok to find it infuriating and to kill him and bury him in a shallow grave with northern sayings carved onto his casket?

My DH never misses an opportunity to repeat the word "water" back to me whenever I say it, in an exaggerated Australian accent which sounds nothing like me .

"Warda? You want a glass of warda?"

Grrr. Apart from that he doesn't do it he just can't seem to resist the water thing

Idiot. DH and I are Scottish. If we make fun of each other's way of saying something we know it's lighthearted (it really is). Your example is not.

Euphemia I've lived in SE England for over 30 years. I have come across this 'light hearted' joshing. It always stings because there is no comeback without sounding a bit sensitive/babyish It's bullying.

Try this "fuck off shit for brains wanker" every single time.

But im divorced.

Do Northerners and Southerners pronounce Tosser the same way?

I would just calmly turn to him and tell him he sounds like a total prick with his dreadful, inaccurate accents and that aside from it being the most unfunny "joke" ever, it's boring and makes him seem like an idiot. I usually find staying calm and ice cold is the best way to get people to pack it in. Then ignore any further "jokes" -as in literally turn away and say absolutely nothing at all, no comments, sighing, anger, nothing. Just total silence and ignoring until he shuts up and talks about something else. Make him feel like a childish knob.