Have you ever been subjected to Racial/ Cultural Abuse/ Discrimination?

[Zilla]

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.

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.

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.

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.

[Kirkland Laing]

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.

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.

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.

To somebody tuned into American accents you might think a Scottish one sounds great till you get to meet them and you realise they're a bunch of oat-eating savages. Sorry Scottish people, but you are.

I like the New York accent on women, who all seemed to be really self-conscious about it until I told them I really liked it.

[El Kabong]

To somebody tuned into American accents you might think a Scottish one sounds great till you get to meet them and you realise they're a bunch of oat-eating savages. Sorry Scottish people, but you are.

I like the New York accent on women, who all seemed to be really self-conscious about it until I told them I really liked it.

.....may God help you....yankee women (especially New York and New Jersey) and their horrid grating nagging voices. It's like nails on a fucking chalkboard.

[Zilla]

To somebody tuned into American accents you might think a Scottish one sounds great till you get to meet them and you realise they're a bunch of oat-eating savages. Sorry Scottish people, but you are.

I like the New York accent on women, who all seemed to be really self-conscious about it until I told them I really liked it.

.....may God help you....yankee women (especially New York and New Jersey) and their horrid grating nagging voices. It's like nails on a fucking chalkboard.

I thought Fran Dresher's accent was pretty hot when I was a teenager.

When I was a waiter at Pizza Hut I had a Scottish family at one of my tables. They wanted some of the most disgusting crap I ever heard of on a pizza, but that's another story. But the father, a late fiftyish guy, called me over by saying 'boy'. I let it go because I figured he probably had no conception of it being a deragatory term used for black men and it wasn't like I could have done anything, anyway. But even still, without knowing that, it's a pretty crappy thing to call a grown man 'boy'.

[PRIDE OF BOSTON]

To somebody tuned into American accents you might think a Scottish one sounds great till you get to meet them and you realise they're a bunch of oat-eating savages. Sorry Scottish people, but you are.

I like the New York accent on women, who all seemed to be really self-conscious about it until I told them I really liked it.

.....may God help you....yankee women (especially New York and New Jersey) and their horrid grating nagging voices. It's like nails on a fucking chalkboard.

I thought Fran Dresher's accent was pretty hot when I was a teenager.

When I was a waiter at Pizza Hut I had a Scottish family at one of my tables. They wanted some of the most disgusting crap I ever heard of on a pizza, but that's another story. But the father, a late fiftyish guy, called me over by saying 'boy'. I let it go because I figured he probably had no conception of it being a deragatory term used for black men and it wasn't like I could have done anything, anyway. But even still, without knowing that, it's a pretty crappy thing to call a grown man 'boy'.

I hear you... Regardless that's still unacceptable. I'm white but would still take a deal of offense even without the racial conotation. Fact is, we live in a civilized society where that's frowned apon... If I was called, "boy" that would definitly not have my jumping back to their table anytime soon. When addressing a person you don't know... Service being rendered or not... people should still be addressed with a certain level of respect. "Excuse me" or "When you get a second..." would sirfice. Regardless of where you're from, you're still part of the "western world" and should act accordingly. Anything otherwise shows a gross amount of ignorance. You don't need to be "cultured" to be polite. Period.

[El Kabong]

Yeah "boy" no matter who it's used on is meant to show the social ladder and "boy" is at the very bottom with "son" and "hey you".....hell sometimes people can use the word "sir" to piss you off. I was always taught to use it in a respectful manner but I guess policemen, restaurant managers, department store clerks, etc like using it to try and make themselves feel big and also to draw attention to themselves.

[Andre]

Funny how different countries say stuff that isnt except able in other ones but are in their own. We can say "Go and get fukked!" which is the same as "no way and people out here dont even blink at it!'

'Get fukked' is said in between the things that other people are telling you and its the same as going Ahh harr or Mmmm yeah.

"Ive just won tattslotto"..."Get fukked!"

See it also means - 'I haven't'....you lucky cunt.


So if you come here and someone says get fukked; smile its a funny couple of words.


Oh and fukk off, means, I dont belive you.


Piss off means piss off.

But .. Boy is never good, 'Hey you' isnt ever good. Son on the other hand can be slightly more endearing if said the right way,Its a term of endearment out here more than not, specially 'old son', son of bitch, well son, is sometimes short for well sunshine,It denotes Im older Ive been here longer; in other words listen up heres a favor im about to impart.

There are some males that Scottish man would have said 'boy' to who would instantly make him their boy.

(Its was coming for him, only a matter of time).