...... in which to be told, "Well I'm sorry Mr Smug, you only have 2 weeks to live." We're off to the Brecon Beacons which is supposed to be lovely, for a few days, but dreading the Welsh accent ..... it really goes through me. It made me wonder how bad it would be to be told of your impending demise by a Welsh doctor, a Brummie or a Scouser I think I'd have to ask for a second opinion from someone who's accent doesn't make me cringe.
Probably a scouser, cos it's a double whammy. You'd get the news, then immediately think, ****, where's me wallet and car keys gone. Then again if it was a glaswegian, it wouldn't matter, cos you wouldn't have a clue, what they were saying.
I think it's because it's neither one thing or the other ........ like someone put all the accents in a blender and ended up with a soggy mess.
Cockney and Manc are worse than them all. Lived in Wales for the last 4 years and quite like soft welsh.
Brecon Beacons is decent mate, I go to a lot of motorsport events down there, they're mad for all that sort of stuff. The accent didn't really grate on me at all down there, friendly bunch of people who we spoke to in the Llandovery area, but I've heard some of the surrounding towns are full of muppets. As for being told I'm dying, I cannot stand the Hull accent... "Am Afruuurd yurve urnly gurt farv minurts tu live murt" pass me the ****ing saw.
We used to go out in Liverpool a lot back in my single days, for that reason. They'd all be bang up for it, can't beat a good piece of scouse slag action and you never feel bad kicking them out the hotel, it just feels like an insurance policy against having all your stuff nicked.
Norfolk for me. Nowt really wrang wi it just I haven't a ****ing clue what they are saying. Glaswegian I'm fine with, spent a lot of time up there & when I go I pick it up & still come out with some of their phrases/slang. Accents can be funny, I have two cousins both born & raised in Co. Durham. They both moved to north London years ago when they got married, they speak a mixture of Durham & Cockney now. My mate Jerry is a Sunderland lass but spent 20 odd years away, she hasn't got a mackem accent anymore. One of my cousins married a lass from Fife, they moved to Nottinghamshire & she's lost her Scottish accent. Jerry's husband hails from Merseyside but not a hint of scouse in his voice. Yet it can work the other way. I worked with a bloke who came from Birmingham. He's lived up here for donkeys years & still speaks broad Brummie. An owld feller gets in our local, Welsh bloke & he's the same. I've worked with lads from all over so don't generally have a problem with accents but those North Norfolk people might as well be talking Dutch.
I have a mate from the toon who I met in the forces who I couldn't understand a word he ****ing said for the first year or so of knowing him. Went to a few toon matches with him, popped round his old dear's house on the way for something to eat and to me I might as well have been in a room full of exotic birds chirping at each other.
