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I think it's great the way you guys say 'Car' ;D
You all sound half Irish :)

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Originally Posted by Grinch

I think it's great the way you guys say 'Car' ;D
You all sound half Irish :)

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I sometimes pahk the cah neah hahvahd yahd so I can grab some brews at the bah.;D

That's really how we sound...

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Originally Posted by PRIDE OF BOSTON

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Originally Posted by Andre

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It has been rather tough... Growing up as a upper middle class white kid in New England. ;D

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Cool, you must have an accent like Peter Griffin then?

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Actually Quahog is based off of the town I grew up in ;D It's Warwick RI

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Youre sounding cooler by the moment.

You have Peters voice,

You have Quagmires lifestyle.

And now your town is part of it all as well. :spongebob:

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Originally Posted by PRIDE OF BOSTON

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Originally Posted by Grinch

I think it's great the way you guys say 'Car' ;D
You all sound half Irish :)

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I sometimes pahk the cah neah hahvahd yahd so I can grab some brews at the bah.;D

That's really how we sound...

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and we get wicked hammahd on on Jaegahhh bombs and PBAHHH.

That party was pissah, but, now I'm dying from the hangova. I need drink from the bubblah and an extra lahge and from the Dunk.

Don't like the way we talk - Go fuck ya'self ya queahhs!!

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Originally Posted by RozzySean

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Originally Posted by PRIDE OF BOSTON

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Originally Posted by Grinch

I think it's great the way you guys say 'Car' ;D
You all sound half Irish :)

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I sometimes pahk the cah neah hahvahd yahd so I can grab some brews at the bah.;D

That's really how we sound...

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and we get wicked hammahd on on Jaegahhh bombs and PBAHHH.

That party was pissah, but, now I'm dying from the hangova. I need drink from the bubblah and an extra lahge and from the Dunk.

Don't like the way we talk - Go fuck ya'self ya queahhs!!

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Translation: We tend to get extensivly intoxicated on Jagermeister, Redbull and Pabst Blue Ribbon. That party was expremely agreeable, but now I seem to be suffering from a hangover. I need to have a drink from a water fountain and purchase an extra-large coffee from Dunkin Donuts. If you don't like the way we talk - Go fornicate yourself you homosexuals! ;D

When I was 11 we were vacationing at this place in Indiana. I was in the arcade, watching this one white kid playing 'Commando' (late 80s). The kid lost a man and his buddy said, "That game's a nigger." He turned and saw me standing there and said, "Sorry dude." I walked away. I wasn't about to get into a fight with two teenagers.

The other thing wasn't as overt (not that that was), but I was in a chicken place. Now I'm about 5'11", medium brown, slight build and a bear of a human being walked in just before me, dark-skinned. We look absolutely nothing alike. He ordered and waited. I'm waiting for two minutes before I ask if I can pay for my order when the white teen says something to the effect of, "We thought you were together." Other than us both probably having African heritage there was absolutely nothing indicating we had anything in common. I just passed it off as the stupidity of youth 'cause I wasn't about to pass up the food. It was just too good.

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Originally Posted by PRIDE OF BOSTON

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Originally Posted by RozzySean

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Originally Posted by PRIDE OF BOSTON

I sometimes pahk the cah neah hahvahd yahd so I can grab some brews at the bah.;D

That's really how we sound...

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and we get wicked hammahd on on Jaegahhh bombs and PBAHHH.

That party was pissah, but, now I'm dying from the hangova. I need drink from the bubblah and an extra lahge and from the Dunk.

Don't like the way we talk - Go fuck ya'self ya queahhs!!

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Translation: We tend to get extensivly intoxicated on Jagermeister, Redbull and Pabst Blue Ribbon. That party was expremely agreeable, but now I seem to be suffering from a hangover. I need to have a drink from a water fountain and purchase an extra-large coffee from Dunkin Donuts. If you don't like the way we talk - Go fornicate yourself you homosexuals! ;D

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My wife and I are constantly practicing our Kennedy impersonations. Erah-Ah'll go wait in th' cah.

My dad is Tanzanian and my mum is Welsh ..... I had 5 years as a kid in Tanzania with no problems, then we moved to South Africa. This was in the Apartheid years, so legal segregation was in force - We werent allowed to eat in the same restaurants, drink in the same bars, go to the same shops, use the same water fountains or even park benches. Their crazy system of race classification made us all totally different and mistreated. All legal and encouraged by redneck Dutch inbreds.

Left there and went to America ...... where it was just as bad. 'All men are created equal' my arse! Racism wasnt legal of course, but it wasnt even kept hidden and it was a common undercurrent in everything (even today, you dont see a lot of mixing - you get your white, black, asian grounps in shopping malls, but always separately. Wierd)

Left there and came to the UK ....... more integrated and racism was definitely the exception. Still, copped my unfair share at a pretty tough boarding school until I captained the boxing team in my very first year and fucked up anyone who looked at me funnny. Sad to say that the current recession and job/immigration fears mean that racism is on the rise here now.

So ... yes, I have experienced lots of racism.

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My dad is Tanzanian and my mum is Welsh ..... I had 5 years as a kid in Tanzania with no problems, then we moved to South Africa. This was in the Apartheid years, so legal segregation was in force - We werent allowed to eat in the same restaurants, drink in the same bars, go to the same shops, use the same water fountains or even park benches. Their crazy system of race classification made us all totally different and mistreated. All legal and encouraged by redneck Dutch inbreds.

Left there and went to America ...... where it was just as bad. 'All men are created equal' my arse! Racism wasnt legal of course, but it wasnt even kept hidden and it was a common undercurrent in everything (even today, you dont see a lot of mixing - you get your white, black, asian grounps in shopping malls, but always separately. Wierd)

Left there and came to the UK ....... more integrated and racism was definitely the exception. Still, copped my unfair share at a pretty tough boarding school until I captained the boxing team in my very first year and fucked up anyone who looked at me funnny. Sad to say that the current recession and job/immigration fears mean that racism is on the rise here now.

So ... yes, I have experienced lots of racism.

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Just curious, what did you come up against here in the States? I'm wondering what people said to you after they heard your accent.

I come from a place in England where we have a very thick accent and down in cosmopolitan London and the south in general I sound like a retard. When I first went to university it was stuffed with upper class posh people and British people will tell you that with the whole class thing over here they tend yo use their accent, background etc. as a social weapon, that their accent versus yours gives them a level of superiority over you and so on. Some of them are very nice people but the majority will be cliquy (sp) andpigeonhole you due to your accent.

Anyway I worked out the only way to beat these fuckers was to out-vocabulary them. To be able to express and articulate better than them, even in my crap accent. When you use it on them (not all of them, like I say some posh people are lovely) they look in disbelief like their dog started talking to them, but at the very least you can unsettle them and get on a level pegging or just continue to crush them if you feel like it. :)

By the time I left university I had it off to a fine art. And then my crap accent worked for me! I'd got a job with a bank and the human resources people heard me speak in my hideous foghorn backwards voice, realised they couldn't let this borderline retard near any of their posh customers and sent me off to the trading room with all the other savages, which worked out OK for me in the end.

As far as class goes, I actually got more of a class thing when I went to America, where you have a WASPy Ivy League clubbiness that's just like the British class system but with the added fact that you're a furriner. You can spot them easily, they all have a fucking initial for a name like N. Wilson Neueberger or George W. Bush. Imagine some fucker whose first name is N. :) Anyway that got my chippy northerner gene going and worked out OK for me too.

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Originally Posted by Kirkland Laing

I come from a place in England where we have a very thick accent and down in cosmopolitan London and the south in general I sound like a retard. When I first went to university it was stuffed with upper class posh people and British people will tell you that with the whole class thing over here they tend yo use their accent, background etc. as a social weapon, that their accent versus yours gives them a level of superiority over you and so on. Some of them are very nice people but the majority will be cliquy (sp) andpigeonhole you due to your accent.

Anyway I worked out the only way to beat these fuckers was to out-vocabulary them. To be able to express and articulate better than them, even in my crap accent. When you use it on them (not all of them, like I say some posh people are lovely) they look in disbelief like their dog started talking to them, but at the very least you can unsettle them and get on a level pegging or just continue to crush them if you feel like it. :)

By the time I left university I had it off to a fine art. And then my crap accent worked for me! I'd got a job with a bank and the human resources people heard me speak in my hideous foghorn backwards voice, realised they couldn't let this borderline retard near any of their posh customers and sent me off to the trading room with all the other savages, which worked out OK for me in the end.

As far as class goes, I actually got more of a class thing when I went to America, where you have a WASPy Ivy League clubbiness that's just like the British class system but with the added fact that you're a furriner. You can spot them easily, they all have a fucking initial for a name like N. Wilson Neueberger or George W. Bush. Imagine some fucker whose first name is N. :) Anyway that got my chippy northerner gene going and worked out OK for me too.

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I'm kind of surprised by that because in my experience we tend to be enamored of the British accent. Like you're built-in celebrities as soon as you step off the plane. You all just sound so... official. That's why your actors are always the ones chosen to play the people in period pieces, no matter what country is being depicted.

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Originally Posted by Zilla

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Originally Posted by Kirkland Laing

I come from a place in England where we have a very thick accent and down in cosmopolitan London and the south in general I sound like a retard. When I first went to university it was stuffed with upper class posh people and British people will tell you that with the whole class thing over here they tend yo use their accent, background etc. as a social weapon, that their accent versus yours gives them a level of superiority over you and so on. Some of them are very nice people but the majority will be cliquy (sp) andpigeonhole you due to your accent.

Anyway I worked out the only way to beat these fuckers was to out-vocabulary them. To be able to express and articulate better than them, even in my crap accent. When you use it on them (not all of them, like I say some posh people are lovely) they look in disbelief like their dog started talking to them, but at the very least you can unsettle them and get on a level pegging or just continue to crush them if you feel like it. :)

By the time I left university I had it off to a fine art. And then my crap accent worked for me! I'd got a job with a bank and the human resources people heard me speak in my hideous foghorn backwards voice, realised they couldn't let this borderline retard near any of their posh customers and sent me off to the trading room with all the other savages, which worked out OK for me in the end.

As far as class goes, I actually got more of a class thing when I went to America, where you have a WASPy Ivy League clubbiness that's just like the British class system but with the added fact that you're a furriner. You can spot them easily, they all have a fucking initial for a name like N. Wilson Neueberger or George W. Bush. Imagine some fucker whose first name is N. :) Anyway that got my chippy northerner gene going and worked out OK for me too.

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I'm kind of surprised by that because in my experience we tend to be enamored of the British accent. Like you're built-in celebrities as soon as you step off the plane. You all just sound so... official. That's why your actors are always the ones chosen to play the people in period pieces, no matter what country is being depicted.

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It works well with women but it makes blokes competitive, they've got to try and get one over on you. :)

EDIT: and I don't sound official, I sound like the AC/DC singer after he's just finished a world tour. :)

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Originally Posted by Grinch

I used to hate ticking the ''Other'' box in the ethic background section on application forms. Mixed race wasn't an option till about 2001 :-\

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In the "ethnic origin" box I put "East African Plains Ape." Which is true, they can't argue with that.

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Originally Posted by Kirkland Laing

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Originally Posted by Zilla

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Originally Posted by Kirkland Laing

I come from a place in England where we have a very thick accent and down in cosmopolitan London and the south in general I sound like a retard. When I first went to university it was stuffed with upper class posh people and British people will tell you that with the whole class thing over here they tend yo use their accent, background etc. as a social weapon, that their accent versus yours gives them a level of superiority over you and so on. Some of them are very nice people but the majority will be cliquy (sp) andpigeonhole you due to your accent.

Anyway I worked out the only way to beat these fuckers was to out-vocabulary them. To be able to express and articulate better than them, even in my crap accent. When you use it on them (not all of them, like I say some posh people are lovely) they look in disbelief like their dog started talking to them, but at the very least you can unsettle them and get on a level pegging or just continue to crush them if you feel like it. :)

By the time I left university I had it off to a fine art. And then my crap accent worked for me! I'd got a job with a bank and the human resources people heard me speak in my hideous foghorn backwards voice, realised they couldn't let this borderline retard near any of their posh customers and sent me off to the trading room with all the other savages, which worked out OK for me in the end.

As far as class goes, I actually got more of a class thing when I went to America, where you have a WASPy Ivy League clubbiness that's just like the British class system but with the added fact that you're a furriner. You can spot them easily, they all have a fucking initial for a name like N. Wilson Neueberger or George W. Bush. Imagine some fucker whose first name is N. :) Anyway that got my chippy northerner gene going and worked out OK for me too.

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I'm kind of surprised by that because in my experience we tend to be enamored of the British accent. Like you're built-in celebrities as soon as you step off the plane. You all just sound so... official. That's why your actors are always the ones chosen to play the people in period pieces, no matter what country is being depicted.

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It works well with women but it makes blokes competitive, they've got to try and get one over on you. :)

EDIT: and I don't sound official, I sound like the AC/DC singer after he's just finished a world tour. :)

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I work in a call center and every now and then I get a Brit. Just yesterday I think a Scottish guy called. I wanted to ask the guy for his autograph.

....man you bastards complain alot ;)


People try and stereotype me on account of the way I talk everywhere I go. Right here in my home state people ask me if I'm from up north just because I say "On" instead of "Own" eg I say "turn ON the light" and most people here say "turn OWN the light" and if I go up north people figure I'm from a trailer park or something. It's really not that big of a deal.

And as for me being white, I never really have had much of an issue with it with people of other races or whatever. Everyone that is my friend is at heart a good person no matter what color they are, and they are all welcome in my house and at my dinner table, I really don't mind. But I also don't say "I must go out and get a Native American friend because I've never had a Native American friend"...I don't have a quota or anything.

Oh, but don't call me a Yankee....Yankees are the people on "Jersey Shore"