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[nfe]

The worst I've had so far is after I accidentally parked in front of some dudes driveway. Out comes this little man screaming 'is that your $%&#ing car? It's in my $%&#ing drive!'. I promptly dropped my 'talking in England' voice and told him to be more polite. It's amazing the transformation when people realise I'm 6'4 and can have a gruff Scottish accent when needed. He shat a brick.

Scottish accents are as good as a half brick in a sock as a deterrent. Plenty times in England I've avoided boxing purely off the back of being from Fife.

[Philly Q]

The worst I've had so far is after I accidentally parked in front of some dudes driveway. Out comes this little man screaming 'is that your $%&#ing car? It's in my $%&#ing drive!'. I promptly dropped my 'talking in England' voice and told him to be more polite. It's amazing the transformation when people realise I'm 6'4 and can have a gruff Scottish accent when needed. He shat a brick.

you have a "talking in england" voice? o_O

Ah, he's like a big fluffy kitten really.  Just ask Afghan.  :P

[Johnny Mac]

Yeah, sounds like a bit of drug induced paranoia.

This country is full of nutters, i see this kind of thing quite often. Gets on your tits doesn't it!

[dave_mc]

Ah, he's like a big fluffy kitten really.  Just ask Afghan.  :P

haha

northern irish accent is even worse, I think. They're not as scared from the tightness aspect (i don't look tight, at all), but they always wonder if your mate has a stash of semtex. :lol: The irony being that they're a bigger badass than I am, but obviously you don't tell them that. EDIT: needless to say, i don't adjust my accent at all. I've heard northern irish people affecting an english accent and they don't sound english at all. that christine woman from the one show is a case in point.

[gingataff]

I work with a chap from the Wirral and I was telling him about my one and only time visiting Liverpool and that while walking through an underpass I found an abandoned traffic cone, replete with human excrement.

"Really ?" he said with astonishment. "Just one?"

[badgermark]

The worst I've had so far is after I accidentally parked in front of some dudes driveway. Out comes this little man screaming 'is that your $%&#ing car? It's in my $%&#ing drive!'. I promptly dropped my 'talking in England' voice and told him to be more polite. It's amazing the transformation when people realise I'm 6'4 and can have a gruff Scottish accent when needed. He shat a brick.

you have a "talking in england" voice? o_O

Ah, he's like a big fluffy kitten really.  Just ask Afghan.  :P

Yeah being scottish and teaching in England means I have to adjust what I say. I cannae talk like this ken all the time like*. I just moderate what I say really. Oh and speak clearly and not use colloquial terms like pish, baws, dobber, hoose etc.

*I don't speak like that anyway.

[dave_mc]

oh, i get you now. I thought you meant you affected an RP accent or something. :lol: I wouldn't use NI slang in england either, but then again, like you, i rarely use it over here either.

[tomjackson]

The worst I've had so far is after I accidentally parked in front of some dudes driveway. Out comes this little man screaming 'is that your $%&#ing car? It's in my $%&#ing drive!'. I promptly dropped my 'talking in England' voice and told him to be more polite. It's amazing the transformation when people realise I'm 6'4 and can have a gruff Scottish accent when needed. He shat a brick.

Scottish accents are as good as a half brick in a sock as a deterrent. Plenty times in England I've avoided boxing purely off the back of being from Fife.

Yeah a good thick accent will get you out of many things, Scottish goes far, even my Manc accent is better than some, nothing funnier though that a nice posh middle England fella getting irate.  Doesn't matter how hard they are you have just gotta laugh....even before they beat your head in.

Going back to my original post though, if somebody says in a deep scouse accent that they are going to set you on fire you tend to believe they would if they could.... 

A few good stories I've heard from Glasgow though.  This guy was abseiling down a high rise tower block and woke some nutter up, even though it was mid day.  Nutter opened the window shouted something and started to hack the guys rope with a knife.  He just made it to the ground.  When he recovered his rope it was nearly cut through.

Got to admit though, I like a good nutter...(from a distance)

[Philly Q]

A few good stories I've heard from Glasgow though.  This guy was abseiling down a high rise tower block and woke some nutter up, even though it was mid day.  Nutter opened the window shouted something and started to hack the guys rope with a knife.  He just made it to the ground.  When he recovered his rope it was nearly cut through.

Got to admit though, I like a good nutter...(from a distance)

I've got to ask, why in the name of all that's holy was this bloke abseiling down a tower block (unless he was a window cleaner or something)?????  :?

[Ted 'N' Leo]

I cannae talk like this ken all the time like*

Using like at the end of a sentence is one of my all time pet hates. People here in the Scottish Borders seem to do it in excess too, drives me MENTAL!

Looks like you found some nutters Tom, weird isn't it? I once walked a friend home to her flat in Northern Glasgow, and when waiting for a taxi back to where i was staying, three youths came up to me and one asked for cigarettes, when i said i didn't smoke, one of the others promptly slugged me one and ran away. Crazies!

[FernandoDuarte]

I've got to ask, why in the name of all that's holy was this bloke abseiling down a tower block (unless he was a window cleaner or something)?????  :?

The husband of his lover arrived in the middle of the act? :lol: :P

[CaptainDesslock]

what?

People daring to yell at each other? That seems rather tame....live here in the states and there's a half-assed chance you park in someone's driveway and they'll shoot ya.

Pretentious overzealous texas castle laws and such  :roll:

huh....now that I think about it of the two sets of muse stadium tickets I bought I think one was for manchester.....$%&#.

[mikeluke]

Talking about accents...

Any Gavin and Stacey fans out there? (Personal significance as I am Welsh and Mrs L is from Essex)

I loved the bit where Gavin was told to shut up in front of the Welsh Nationalists on the campsite - "If they hear an English accent they'll lynch you...."

It is not really that bad in Wales, honest...

Mind you, I left when I was 18!

[tomjackson]

A few good stories I've heard from Glasgow though.  This guy was abseiling down a high rise tower block and woke some nutter up, even though it was mid day.  Nutter opened the window shouted something and started to hack the guys rope with a knife.  He just made it to the ground.  When he recovered his rope it was nearly cut through.

Got to admit though, I like a good nutter...(from a distance)

I've got to ask, why in the name of all that's holy was this bloke abseiling down a tower block (unless he was a window cleaner or something)?????  :?

Well the guy who told me about it worked for a specialist access company and was giving us training on rooftop access.  We sometimes abseil (when I say we I obviously mean a contractor I appoint rather than me personally) to put antennas for mobile phone operators on the side of high rises.  So this guy may have been doing that or installing a lightening protection down tape or something.  Doubt he went back up to finish the job...

[Philly Q]

Fair enough!  :lol: