to be really irritated by the newsreader on BBC One

[AMAZINWOMAN]

I'm trying to multitask here, by doing a few jobs on the internet and listening to the BBC news at the same time.

I have been able to do them both quite happily, until there was a presenter where I couldn't really understand. I had to stop what I was doing on the internet, so that I could concentrate on what he was saying...

At the end of a busy day, I don't have the energy or pateience to concentrate, so why should I? Surely the BBC can pay someone who doesn't have a strong accent?

YABU.

You want to go back to the days when they all sounded exactly the same and regional accents were never heard?

Was he...

NOrthern?

yanbu
TERRIBLE
of course all news readers should talk like the queen

I have no idea what the accent was, as I could barely understand what he was saying.

In my job too, i hear all kinds of accents.

Is this all you have to rant about?

Would say that I can't be bothered to post on something so banal. But I have posted. The sentiment is still the same though.

Read the Sun to catch up on the news - it doesn't have an accent!