English accents irritating?

Lumen

Right, so I was half-watching the All Ireland Talent Show, when one of the panelists said something close to "many Irish people find English accents irritating" (the Irish contestant was doing a poem/monologue in an English accent).

As an English person living in Dublin for about 4 years now, I found this genuinely surprising, both the thought (since I've never experience any racism here) and the expression on national TV.

I can't imagine anyone saying on TV "many Irish people find black people a bit scary", or "many English people find slightly overweight ginger women slightly disgusting".

Discuss?

galwayrush

I find a lot of irish accents irritating.

hiscan

I have no problem with them although i would find that tv show you were talking about irritating.

Lumen

I should perhaps clarify that I'm not offended, just surprised :pac:

pablomakaveli

It's not racist though. It's no different to someone saying they don't like Cork,Dublin or Belfast accents.

As for the english accent i do find them kind of annoying. The only one thats really irritating is the liverpool accent though.

galwayrush

Seriously, The only English accent that irritates me is the likes of 'z' list chav celebs. No worse than our skangers though.

Quazzie

Lumen wrote: »

As an English person living in Dublin for about 4 years now, I found this genuinely surprising, both the thought (since I've never experience any racism here) and the expression on national TV.

You sure its Dublin you've been living in?

m83

English accents, the decent ones, are sexy.

Fake accents are annoying.

WoollyRedHat

Some Irish accents are irritating, as are some english accents etc. etc.

Lumen

Quazzie2002 wrote: »

You sure its Dublin you've been living in?

Oh yeah. Sorry, I mean "no racism directed towards me". I had a bizarre conversation with a dub scumbag (who happens to be in my extended family, by marriage) where he slagged off various classes of immigrant.

He might have attempting irony, except he's not that bright.

ntlbell

some English accents grate on me like all wight geezer types

brummy/bolton/new castle/any northy types are grand

bronte

Really like some of the English accents over here. Hot!

DubLass

Maybe the people who get irritated are irritating feckers themselves :rolleyes:

Lumen

Lumen wrote: »

I can't imagine anyone saying on TV "many English people find slightly overweight ginger women slightly disgusting".

Discuss?

How did my eyes skip this bit!
There are many many english televison programmes with themes dedicated to gingerist propaganda.

OctavarIan

Some English accents are annoying, Liverpool and Newcastle spring to mind.

Some English accents are amazing. Jaime Murray

Samurai

Stephen Frys accent is irritating

AlmightyCushion

No. Some of them sound stupid but you can say that about most countries accents.

Biggins

Lumen wrote: »

Right, so I was half-watching the All Ireland Talent Show...

Right so to begin with, your brain had switched off and and wanted to watch something and someone that should both be on a garbage tip!
Well anything that came from either, I wouldn't put much value on or faith in from the start anyway.

Reality garbage at its worst - anything else after tuning in is just piling more schite onto schite already.
I'm outa here.

mike65

Samurai wrote: »

Stephen Frys accent is irritating

:mad: An outrageous slur on a great man. Cad!

Oh yeah which cretin on the panel said what you reckon she said?

SV

English accents are annoying but nowhere near as annoying as Northern Irish accents..eugh.

banshee_bones

yes.very

Lumen

Biggins wrote: »

Right so to begin with, your brain had switched off and and wanted to watch something and someone that should both be on a garbage tip!
Well anything that came from either, I wouldn't put much value on or faith in from the start anyway.

Reality garbage at its worst - nuff' said.

Wife was watching. I was on boards, obviously, engaging in serious debate with the cream of society.

furiously deletes post about American women

Hande hoche!

Stephen Fry's accent is orgasmic.

tony1kenobi

Alec Guinness has a lovely English accent. So do I. The rest are irritating like dreadlocks on white folk.

Darragh29

Only coming from men... English accent on a woman, seeexxxyyyy!

CamperMan

ClioV6 wrote: »

English accents are annoying but nowhere near as annoying as Northern Irish accents..eugh.

what about the Cork accent............. whenever someone from Cork phones me, I think it's a pikey!!

Nothing wrong with the English or Northern Ireland accents.. well most of it...

Toto Wolfcastle

It was Screechy Blaithnead from the Afternoon Show that said it.

Enough said.

eVeNtInE

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R0ot

Donegal accent is superior to all.

tman

Some of them can be annoying, some can be hot (developing a thing for women with Geordie accents at the mo:pac:) and some just plain funny.
Pretty much the same as Ireland - for every normal sounding person, there's someone from D4 or Cork...

Davidius

I can listen to an English accent without my ears bleeding which is a good thing!

The same can't be said for Irish people who use English slang excessively. Everytime I hear an Irish person say "bloke" or "tosser" I...FALCON PAWNCH!

DubLass

Even the English find some other English accents annoying.

Bobalicious93

I find scousers extremely annoying. I'll change the channel the second I hear a thick Liverpool accent on TV.

Really thick Cockney accents drive me up the wall too. The type that pronounce "three" as "free".

Anything else I don't mind at all. In fact I find the Cornwall/Bristol and Birmingham accents lovingly hilarious.

eVeNtInE

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Holsten

London accents are good.

The rest annoy the hell out of me.

biko

21 Accents, mostly bad

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UgpfSp2t6k

Firetrap

I like most English accents. There are few that grate but I'd say the same for some Irish accents and some strains of the American accent. What I don't like though is Irish people putting on fake English accents in order to make themselves sound posh even though they're from Wexford or Roscommon.

Ann22

I don't find any English accents irritating as such though I don't like the really strong Cockney or Liverpool ones. I agree with an earlier poster in saying the Northern Irish is woeful. Orla from one of the big brothers has the worst one in my opinion...just horrible!!! I know a chap from Castleblayney, Co Monaghan, he had a lovely slight northern lilt to his.

steo87

Moonbaby wrote: »

How did my eyes skip this bit!
There are many many english televison programmes with themes dedicated to gingerist propaganda.

+1

OP, you probably should have done some research before posting that bit. Catherine Tate ring a bell?.....

http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=yEYi7XPs3ew

johnp

m83 wrote: »

English accents, the decent ones, are sexy.

Absolutely, I love some of the accents.

dlofnep

I find the self-righteous cockney accent, and the snobby posh london accent intolerable. I also find the Dublin 4 accent, and scanger Dublin accent annoying also.

Diabhal Beag

There is nothing worse then a scouser MAITTE

ejmaztec

I've got a fairly neutral English accent and only posh it up a bit when I'm giving a peasant a good kicking for looking at me in a funny way.

mike65

Eeeeee!

starn

Lumen wrote: »

Right, so I was half-watching the All Ireland Talent Show, when one of the panelists said something close to "many Irish people find English accents irritating" (the Irish contestant was doing a poem/monologue in an English accent).

No just her. Think she was trying to sound like Kate Nash who also puts on a accent

Marcus.Aurelius

Can't stand the english accents. Never pronounce "R"s in the end of their words or use the "a" instead of "aw"!

For example, the words rather, four and Afghanistan. The brits usually say rawthah, foah and Awfghawnistawn.

It's just one of those things that really annoys me, petty I know.

It's fun asking some of my english friends to say the letter R, all I get is "Aw"s.

EDIT: the Norn Iron accents are 5x as annoying. Hoiy Noiy Broiyn Coiw

ejmaztec

starn wrote: »

No just her. Think she was trying to sound like Kate Nash who also puts on a accent

or Cockney Rap = Crap for short.

I bleedin ate listenin to fackin cockneys.

ejmaztec

House wrote: »

Can't stand the english accents. Never pronounce "R"s in the end of their words or use the "a" instead of "aw"!

For example, the words rather, four and Afghanistan. The brits usually say rawthah, foah and Awfghawnistawn.

It's just one of those things that really annoys me, petty I know.

It's fun asking some of my english friends to say the letter R, all I get is "Aw"s.

Are you sure you haven't been listening to Americans trying to speak in an English accent?

patchybaby

don't mind the english accent but prefer the scottish accent

Marcus.Aurelius

ejmaztec wrote: »

Are you sure you haven't been listening to Americans trying to speak in an English accent?

Eh, no, I think most english people would find that remark offensive!

The Americans are better at their "R"s, but alternate 50/50 on the nasaly aaaaaaas and the more british aws.

Ever hear a yank say Afghanistan on Fox news? No two anchors say it the same.

aaafghawnistaaaaan, afghanistawn, awfghawnistaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan

Maybe even worse, actually.

The sad thing is, the Irish and the South Africans are the best at speaking the Queen's English correctly, enunciating all the letters better than the yanks or the brits. IMO, we're definitely more consistent in our pronunciations too