theonetruechris Posted June 11, 2010 Share Posted June 11, 2010 Its alright just do like the aussies smile nod and carry on. 9 times out of ten they haven't understood you but hey why let that get in the way of a conversation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pablo Posted June 11, 2010 Share Posted June 11, 2010 Its alright just do like the aussies smile nod and carry on. 9 times out of ten they haven't understood you but hey why let that get in the way of a conversation. Thats not you being cynical re the aussies is it?:biggrin: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BritChickx Posted June 11, 2010 Share Posted June 11, 2010 I do that also Chris - not just to people whose accent I don't understand but in general :laugh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theonetruechris Posted June 11, 2010 Share Posted June 11, 2010 Nah, they won't pick you up if they don't understand british slang just try it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theonetruechris Posted June 11, 2010 Share Posted June 11, 2010 wow britchickx your're going to settle in perfectly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BritChickx Posted June 11, 2010 Share Posted June 11, 2010 I don't do it on purpose lol, just sometimes I don't catch what they say so I smile and nod or laugh and say yeah. They're usually the bunch that don't stop talking Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
calNgary Posted June 11, 2010 Share Posted June 11, 2010 OK guys This thread has been tidied up and some posts removed ,, please refrain from attacking each other and bear in mind we are all different and all have different views, as a member YOU NEED to respect this. Now lets play nicely , Thankyou Cal x Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sykestykes Posted June 11, 2010 Share Posted June 11, 2010 And the aussies thought we were scottish!!!:goofy: Lots of Aussies have mistaken our accent for Scottish or Irish, me in particular :huh: Sue x Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pablo Posted June 12, 2010 Share Posted June 12, 2010 Lots of Aussies have mistaken our accent for Scottish or Irish, me in particular :huh: Sue x Alrite sue!mad mate isnt it! what do they make of ilkley moor baht'at mucker!:biglaugh: Coz yorkshire people,dee do dat dont de do:wubclub: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scousers Posted June 12, 2010 Share Posted June 12, 2010 I was asked by a guy from Hull the other day if i was Scottish?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sykestykes Posted June 12, 2010 Share Posted June 12, 2010 Alrite sue!mad mate isnt it! what do they make of ilkley moor baht'at mucker!:biglaugh:Coz yorkshire people,dee do dat dont de do:wubclub: Ah, God love ya Pablo you do cheer me up :laugh::notworthy: Sue x Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Que Sera Sera Posted June 12, 2010 Share Posted June 12, 2010 Lots of Aussies have mistaken our accent for Scottish or Irish, me in particular :huh: Sue x Sue thats funny my Robyn, in Brisbane, says that everyone she meets thinks she from Ireland :biglaugh: Now your accent and hers could definatley not be any more different!:biglaugh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PontePom Posted June 12, 2010 Share Posted June 12, 2010 Dont yer think yer taking things a bit serious mucker?most people are just arsing round,nothing serious like,imo anyway This forum is great but I hate to see bullying. Not aiming at anyone but just pointing out what I was doing. It's all been sorted now and the mods have dealt with it so lets move on Howard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Andy Posted June 12, 2010 Share Posted June 12, 2010 This forum is great but I hate to see bullying. Not aiming at anyone but just pointing out what I was doing. It's all been sorted now and the mods have dealt with it so lets move on Howard Quite right, if everyone was just to accept that northerners are a couple of rungs below us southerners on the intellegence ladder and also with regards to skills everyone would get on just a tad better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BritChickx Posted June 12, 2010 Share Posted June 12, 2010 Don't you start Andrew!! Where are you from anyway? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Andy Posted June 12, 2010 Share Posted June 12, 2010 Don't you start Andrew!! Where are you from anyway? Bucks:yes:, i see you are from Hampshire where we spend a good deal of time, we love the new forest and the Christchurch area, which i think is actually in Dorset. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BritChickx Posted June 12, 2010 Share Posted June 12, 2010 I love the New Forest, don't go there much anymore though, used to go there all the time for family days out. I think I have been to Christchurch before aswell.....it rings a bell! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theonetruechris Posted June 12, 2010 Share Posted June 12, 2010 Bucks:yes:, i see you are from Hampshire where we spend a good deal of time, we love the new forest and the Christchurch area, which i think is actually in Dorset. So slough then or is it milton keynes :wideeyed: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Andy Posted June 12, 2010 Share Posted June 12, 2010 So slough then or is it milton keynes :wideeyed: I live in a small hamlet near Bledlow Ridge, whats makes you think it may be Slough or Milton Keynes? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ratchet Posted June 12, 2010 Share Posted June 12, 2010 I live in a small hamlet near Bledlow Ridge, whats makes you think it may be Slough or Milton Keynes? Aylesbury then..... I used to run the crisis team for bucks, know the area well Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Andy Posted June 12, 2010 Share Posted June 12, 2010 Aylesbury then..... I used to run the crisis team for bucks, know the area well Alright Ratchet, i am actually closer to High Wycombe than Aylesbury but i know Aylesbury very well, i am originally from Princes Risborough and lived near Wendover up until we sold last year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ratchet Posted June 12, 2010 Share Posted June 12, 2010 Alright Ratchet, i am actually closer to High Wycombe than Aylesbury but i know Aylesbury very well, i am originally from Princes Risborough and lived near Wendover up until we sold last year. My base was in Wycombe on london rd, opposite the park......all back in 2004/5. Great little place is Bucks........ Just to add my 2 pennys worth on the original post. Im a southerner (hampshire hog by birth) brought up all over the country and settled in Lincs for 20yrs up until we moved over here............ Im not sure its the people and culture of the south that make aussies stand back......I sometimes think its some of the accents of the south that often come across as arrogant/garish/loud.... I even cringe at work sometimes when i hear a broad west london accent booming out in a conversation so loud the whole ward hears it. i see aussies physically pull away.............give them a irish, scottish, northern accent any day. they havent got a clue what we're saying, but they stay engaged in conversation with us.:cute: I would however be interested to see if there are really more 'imports' from the north than the south........ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest37336 Posted June 12, 2010 Share Posted June 12, 2010 Used to have a mate in Cairns who originally came from London. He mistakingly thought that in order to fit in better he would adopt an Aussie accent, or at least try. He had only been there a matter of weeks and he honestly thought that this would help.:goofy: Used to have me in stitches when he used to try it. Within a few short seconds/minutes you would see the Aussies look at him rather puzzled and more often than not he would be rumbled and fits of laughter would follow from all those involved.:biglaugh: In truth he did fit in fairly well as he was known as the 'wannabe Aussie' and even though he was ribbed beyond belief the Aussies in general thought it an endearing side to his character. Spoke to him not many weeks ago, and he now has a relatively mild (real) Aussie accent and has got on really well. But at the time I and the rest of us would be in stitches as he tried with all his might to 'fit' in. Cheers Tony:wink: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Aldo Posted June 12, 2010 Share Posted June 12, 2010 Used to have a mate in Cairns who originally came from London. He mistakingly thought that in order to fit in better he would adopt an Aussie accent, or at least try. He had only been there a matter of weeks and he honestly thought that this would help.:goofy: Used to have me in stitches when he used to try it. Within a few short seconds/minutes you would see the Aussies look at him rather puzzled and more often than not he would be rumbled and fits of laughter would follow from all those involved.:biglaugh: In truth he did fit in fairly well as he was known as the 'wannabe Aussie' and even though he was ribbed beyond belief the Aussies in general thought it an endearing side to his character. Spoke to him not many weeks ago, and he now has a relatively mild (real) Aussie accent and has got on really well. But at the time I and the rest of us would be in stitches as he tried with all his might to 'fit' in. Cheers Tony:wink: That reminds me of a time i was in Thailand and my made said to us when we was sat in a restaurant waiting to be served, "you must speak like they do or they wont understand you" so when the waitress came over and said (in English) if he would like anything else, he replied "yes, wed n wutter pwease" :laugh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pablo Posted June 12, 2010 Share Posted June 12, 2010 Quite right, if everyone was just to accept that northerners are a couple of rungs below us southerners on the intellegence ladder and also with regards to skills everyone would get on just a tad better. I'd have that andy,if intelligence was spelt proper like:biggrin::biglaugh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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