Women & accents

[Paul the 6th]

Why is it that some accents make women seem more attractive where, other accents make you tell them you're gay or you've just got out of prison?

Stopping at shrigley hall near macclesfield, there's a bird from warrington working on the bar. It's not like the "do you want a flake in that bodingtons?" type accent, more like softly spoken diana vickers...

And girls from Dublin sound nice when they're often quite frightening. Sothern girls (aka posh) always do the trick as well.

Contrast that lot with a "Barnsley lass" or a gyal from east London, maybe even a lady from deepest, darkest Dudley in the midlands..

So is it just me? (prolly)

[MR UKI (1)]

Why is it that some accents make women seem more attractive where, other accents make you tell them you're gay or you've just got out of prison?

Stopping at shrigley hall near macclesfield, there's a bird from warrington working on the bar. It's not like the "do you want a flake in that bodingtons?" type accent, more like softly spoken diana vickers...

And girls from Dublin sound nice when they're often quite frightening. Sothern girls (aka posh) always do the trick as well.

Contrast that lot with a "Barnsley lass" or a gyal from east London, maybe even a lady from deepest, darkest Dudley in the midlands..

So is it just me? (prolly)

A softly spoken Diana Vickers type accent, she definitely ain't from Macclesfield :D

[Girth]

Nah, not just you!

Irish birds do give me the horn.

Scouser on the other hand...............erm..........nah thanks i'm gay!

[MR UKI (1)]

[quote=MR UKI (1);1956564] Oooh, Shrigley Hall just down road.

[Venom]

I quite like the Irish accent as well, the South Wales valleys and French

[Specialone]

Geordie birds, they sound nice......:D

[Von Teese]

I've got a mixed type of accent myself, never had any comments about it though.

I was born and grew up in South Africa but had an English Mummy and never quite had a South African accent but couldn't pass for being English either.

If I could choose an accent it would definately be French, I think that is such a sexy language.

[dizzyblonde]

You saying I sound like a ruff burd then Paul :smt062

[Venom]

You saying I sound like a ruff burd then Paul :smt062

I've heard you and I have to say I agree with that! :p

;)

[dizzyblonde]

oh well cheers :-(

I'll give you my best telephone voice next time. Right after I've spent a day with my mother....whos from Surrey BTW. It seems I talk like her after a while.

[Richie]

I quite like the Irish accent as well, the South Wales valleys

+1 for me.


welsh girls like playing Angry Pirates... :pirat:

[Thingus]

Beautiful Liverpudlians... oh dear.

[Venom]

oh well cheers :-(


I was joking! :kiss:


I'll give you my best telephone voice next time. Right after I've spent a day with my mother....whos from Surrey BTW. It seems I talk like her after a while.

I don't pick up accents that easily. Don't know what accent I have now. I used to have a soft Welsh accent but not anymore

[gruntygiggles]

Hmmmm, not sure where I fit in on this one. I'm from South Wales but was brought up not to have the accent, moved to Gloucester at 16, then London at 20, back to Wales for a year and lived in or around Bristol ever since. Now....to talk to me in a relaxed environment, I have a little bit of a mix really. I suppose I speak the queens english with a big twist of welsh/west country. Now.....phone voice or when I'm working.......I revert to the Queens English proper and no one can really tell where I'm from. I also tend to find that people are intimidated by me in work, so I tend to try not to talk like that in my home life....unless something really annoys me!

As for men......I think think the northern accents are the best for making joke telling sound the best...there's just something about it that works. The punblic school accent is a bit of a turn off for me and certain Scottish accents are wonderful.

[Paws]

Ive got a typical broad Northampton accent, can do posh phone voice though when required (eg at work), anmd i kinda have a thing for guys with an essex accent/twang lol

[Wideboy]

yokel seems to do it a bit for me

[dizzyblonde]

Venom I know you were joking ;-)


For some reason people think my German gran is from Wales when she talks. Shes never lived in Wales!

I tell you what accents I can't stand. People who live away from home in StudentLand, come home with a fake la de da accent. They sound flippin rediculous, and its funny how they all get the same one, no matter where in the country University may be.

[dawn07]

Glaswegian?! Ok......rough?:smt083

[gruntygiggles]

Venom I know you were joking ;-)


For some reason people think my German gran is from Wales when she talks. Shes never lived in Wales!

I tell you what accents I can't stand. People who live away from home in StudentLand, come home with a fake la de da accent. They sound flippin rediculous, and its funny how they all get the same one, no matter where in the country University may be.

Yep....same as the public schoolboy accent....only the students can't even say it's real so it's even worse. What cracks me up is when family members start speaking like that when someone they consider to be posh is around and you stand there thinking, "WTF..........where did you come from" and having a little giggle at their expense!

[ThEGr33k]

Whats wrong with Barnsley lasses!?

Why I aut to! :p

[Venom]

Whats wrong with Barnsley lasses!?

Why I aut to! :p

The Barnsley accent is terrible, male or female! :p

[GeneticBubble]

one doth hardly believe that us southerners are posh :king:

*rings bell* jeeves click submit reply will you.

[ScottishRawker]

Lara Croft style voice/ Liz Hurly would definitely get it!

ohh and Irish females can sound really tasty!

i used to get told i had a "voice worthy of a private phone sex line"

:D

[Graciepants]

but you always take the pee out of my accent if i'm on the phone/at squires ???
hmpf

[seedy100]

Scots accent does it for me - Kirsty Young reading the news!

[rick0361]

Scots accent does it for me - Kirsty Young reading the news!

+1 and especially the hebridean accents when speaking Gaelic - makes welsh sound like - well gobbledygook

[Shellywoozle]

I quiet like a man with a Southern accent :)

I have no accent I think, from Midlands but do not sound like a Dudley / west country chick, that accent is annoying.

Now South African accents. . . . . . mmmmmmmmmmm

[Graciepants]

I quiet like a man with a Southern accent :)

come to think of it, i've only ever dated southerners even though i've been in sheffield 3 years, i thought i'd never be able to like the northern accent, and now look who i've been lumbered with! :smt103

[SuzukiNess]

Now South African accents. . . . . . mmmmmmmmmmm


:smt103

omg shell... are you sure?? safrican accent is attrocious... :rolleyes: but probably not as bad as the australian :D imho

[Paul the 6th]

I thought we weren't telling ppl yet miss Paul the 6th? You're too posh :razz: I'd even go as far as saying you spoil it... On the other hand you do an excellent toad in the hole... Cookingsnot bad either :)

Mmmm posh birds..

[Lozzo]

come to think of it, i've only ever dated southerners even though i've been in sheffield 3 years, i thought i'd never be able to like the northern accent, and now look who i've been lumbered with! :smt103

Who?

I think we should be told!

[Paul the 6th]

Do ladies with scouse accent remind anyone rise if page 3 models?

"hiya my names keeley, I'm 19 and im from everton"

[Lozzo]

For me it's burds with Derbyshire/Notts, Northern Irish, southern Scottish and Maltese accents... oh, and proper posh burds... not all in the same person cos that would be weird.

Like Dizzy my accent changes when I spend more than 1/2 an hour with my parents, who are Maltese but only speak English in front of their kids. My kids used to rip the mickey out of "Daddy speaking funny foreign when he's at Nana's house".

[urbane1]

Italian (even if you don't know what they are saying!)

[Wideboy]

as long as they cant speak English...... cant say no then

[Shellywoozle]

as long as they cant speak English...... cant say no then

ROFL anything with a pulse hey ;)

[BanditPat]

Northern accents are quitebnice but I love american accents a Michigan accent or a north carolina accent canne say no....not that fussed on British accents though

[Wideboy]

ROFL anything with a pulse hey ;)

ahh we've met then :cool:

as long as you shout surprise first its all fine

[dizzyblonde]

come to think of it, i've only ever dated southerners even though i've been in sheffield 3 years, i thought i'd never be able to like the northern accent, and now look who i've been lumbered with! :smt103

A right Yorkshire puddin' :smt055

[urbane1]

Newfies sound nice. It's a cross between Canadian, Cornish and Irish

[El Saxo]

I quite like ladies with Yorkshire or Stoke accents for some reason, and Scottish accents always make me melt too. Absolute favourite though is an Aussie accent, as soon as I hear one it's :love:

[Lozzo]

Newfies sound nice. It's a cross between Canadian, Cornish and Irish

Canucks sound ok, but most Merkins make me want to gag them. There was an exception once, a US Airforcewoman I dated when I was 22 who got killed when she went head on into a car on an RD250 I lent her. She was from Atlanta, Georgia and sounded lovely, but maybe that's just me being sentimental.

[dizzyblonde]

I quite like ladies with Yorkshire or Stoke accents for some reason,


yay someone who doesn't think we sound ruuuufff:D

[dawn07]

Scots accent does it for me - Kirsty Young reading the news!
Oh hello! Well, on tonights news.......:kiss:

[Lozzo]

Oh hello! Well, on tonights news.......:kiss:

All depends on what part of the frozen wastelands of Jockland you're from

[dawn07]

All depends on what part of the frozen wastelands of Jockland you're from
Same part as Kirsty!:smt104

[Venom]

Same part as Kirsty!:smt104

So you sound like Kirsty? :smt112

[MCN_LiamM]

Nowt wrong wi Barnsley accent

[gruntygiggles]

Canucks sound ok, but most Merkins make me want to gag them. There was an exception once, a US Airforcewoman I dated when I was 22 who got killed when she went head on into a car on an RD250 I lent her. She was from Atlanta, Georgia and sounded lovely, but maybe that's just me being sentimental.

Oh......she was a southern belle....the Georgia accent is really special.......all gus love a southern girl (US anyway)!

[dawn07]

So you sound like Kirsty? :smt112
Haha! Calm down Venom!:smt118

[urbane1]

Canucks sound ok, but most Merkins make me want to gag them. There was an exception once, a US Airforcewoman I dated when I was 22 who got killed when she went head on into a car on an RD250 I lent her. She was from Atlanta, Georgia and sounded lovely, but maybe that's just me being sentimental.

Don't lump us with those south of the border! It's like saying England is part of France (or Quebec is part of Canada)

[Sally]

Irish of any kind.
A weegie accent.
Welsh.
Quite liked some of the Yorkshire accents I heard this weekend.

About it :)
Saying that, a accent will not make a difference anyhow! ;)

[Venom]

Saying that, a accent will not make a difference anyhow! ;)

True, but I find it really difficult to understand someone when they talk in a really really strong accent.

[Sally]

Even better, less conversation the better.
As long as they understand surprise, it's all good :D

I had trouble speaking to southerners in general.
I also had trouble speaking myself this weekend. :|

[dizzyblonde]

I also had trouble speaking myself this weekend. :|

can't imagine why:rolleyes::p

[Graciepants]

I thought we weren't telling ppl yet miss Paul the 6th? You're too posh :razz: I'd even go as far as saying you spoil it...
you wish paul, you wish! how on EARTH do i spoil it? i'm not even real private-school posh, im just fairly well spoken
Who?

I think we should be told!

meh - just a yorkshire boy - ironic since i've spent my life avoiding it lol!


I had trouble speaking to southerners in general. :|
whats wrong with us??


im with venom though - really strong accents are hard to decipher!!

[Nicky S]

geordie birds, they sound nice......:d

+ 1 :p

[wizurd]

used to know a girl from bacup just north of manchester - real nice accent. Like Welsh girls (obviously) and got to agree on US girls, North Carolina is a good one :-)

[Lozzo]

you wish paul, you wish! how on EARTH do i spoil it? i'm not even real private-school posh, im just fairly well spoken



Two of my daughters (20 and 17) attend(ed) private school, and they both sound proper chav most of the time. They can turn the charm on and speak to me very nicely when they need big things paying for though. My son attends private school too, and he sounds very well spoken for a 16 year old round here.

My eldest daughter was brought up in Leicester, then lived in Warwick, then London now back in Warwick with her Norf Lahndan bloke; her accent is royally fecked

[Lozzo]

Oh......she was a southern belle....the Georgia accent is really special.......all gus love a southern girl (US anyway)!

She was, and she used to say that "y'all" thing too :D

I miss her

[dizzyblonde]

well my other half was a public school boy. . . only a yorkshire pud accent for him too. Occasionally when hes explaining stuff to people the posh twang comes out, but very rare

[Jayneflakes]

I suffered for years with a serious speech impediment that was eventually cured with speech therapy. Even now when I think back to how I sounded it makes me cringe. So thanks Mum forgiving me your Essex Twang! :smt067

Growing up in Germany at an Army school means I do not have much of an accent, or so I thought. Until my friend Emma came to stay and she ridiculed me for sounding like a country bumpkin. She has a soft Edinburgh accent and that is one that I always liked. :flower:

As for Carol, she grew up in Birmingham and moved to the South West as a Teenager. Her accent should be vile, but she actually has such a sexy voice, even her swearing (which she only does rarely unlike me because I am a common hussey) is endearing and the way she says S**t makes my heart melt. :smt060

[Lozzo]

Growing up in Germany at an Army school means I do not have much of an accent, or so I thought. Until my friend Emma came to stay and she ridiculed me for sounding like a country bumpkin.

I'm surprised you didn't acquire the army-brat accent we all had as kids. It's the same wherever the British are stationed all over the world... all the forces kids have the same god-awful accent

even her swearing (which she only does rarely unlike me because I am a common hussey) is endearing and the way she says S**t makes my he:smt060art melt.

Potty-mouthed lezzer ;)

[Tara]

i've got a slight lancashire but i find the longer i spend down south the way i pronounce things changes depending on who i am talking to i.e. Barth instead of bath.

i think the irish and french accents are sexy

[BernardBikerchick]

Why is it that some accents make women seem more attractive where, other accents make you tell them you're gay or you've just got out of prison?

Stopping at shrigley hall near macclesfield, there's a bird from warrington working on the bar. It's not like the "do you want a flake in that bodingtons?" type accent, more like softly spoken diana vickers...

And girls from Dublin sound nice when they're often quite frightening. Sothern girls (aka posh) always do the trick as well.

Contrast that lot with a "Barnsley lass" or a gyal from east London, maybe even a lady from deepest, darkest Dudley in the midlands..

So is it just me? (prolly)


i deffo sound like the boddingtons girl - only wish i looked like hjer too !!!!!:D:D:D:D:D

i'm the same accents get my juices well and truly flowing !!! i love em


for me someone like daniel craig the way he talks - has to be deep voice and preferably southern but not geeeza southern and not posh either kind of in between !!!!

[Viney]

I like birds form Cheshire :)

Oh, and liverpool...its still my fav accent

[Bluewolf]

.

[Stingo]

+ 1 :p

+2.

Although I am permanently attached to a wonderful Westcountry girl...as she went to grammar school most of her accent seems to have been 'removed' or 'lost' but she has the occasional lapse of Plymouthian which makes I larf! (a-reet be? Where you be to moy bird?:D) (Ok, maybe not that strong but you get the idea...)

[Tara]

i deffo sound like the boddingtons girl - only wish i looked like hjer too !!!!!:D:D:D:D:D

i'm the same accents get my juices well and truly flowing !!! i love em


for me someone like daniel craig the way he talks - has to be deep voice and preferably southern but not geeeza southern and not posh either kind of in between !!!!
oh god yeah gotta agree with the Daniel Craig thing

[RichT]

When I worked in the US (was there for a couple of years) the NZ/UK mix seemed to do the trick. ;)

[Holdup]

I kinda like liverpewlll, newcastle and irish accents, some time tho some accents can make ppl sound a bit thick, or it might just be the person :wink:

[Jayneflakes]

I'm surprised you didn't acquire the army-brat accent we all had as kids.

I was lucky, Dad was in the Tank Regiment and stationed in Germany near a load of Scots, so picked up a gentle Scots croon for a while. From there it was back to Blighty and deepest darkest Dorset, which gave me a bit of a Hardy-esque tone. :D

However when Dad left the Army, he moved us all down to Plymouth, where I had a very hard time understanding the locals. To this day I struggle with Janner. How do they get three "E's" in to "alright"? :smt101


Potty-mouthed lezzer ;)

frankly Sir, I take great offence at this remark. How very dare you refer to me as Potty Mouthed? :smt005

Right I am off to snog some women... well a woman anyway! :smt112

[startrek.steve]

You saying I sound like a ruff burd then Paul :smt062

Yep! Like!

Steve

[startrek.steve]

I was lucky, Dad was in the Tank Regiment and stationed in Germany near a load of Scots, so picked up a gentle Scots croon for a while. From there it was back to Blighty and deepest darkest Dorset, which gave me a bit of a Hardy-esque tone. :D

However when Dad left the Army, he moved us all down to Plymouth, where I had a very hard time understanding the locals. To this day I struggle with Janner. How do they get three "E's" in to "alright"? :smt101




frankly Sir, I take great offence at this remark. How very dare you refer to me as Potty Mouthed? :smt005



Right I am off to snog some women... well a woman anyway! :smt112

Where you been Janey? you havent been on for ages!
Steve

[startrek.steve]

you wish paul, you wish! how on EARTH do i spoil it? i'm not even real private-school posh, im just fairly well spoken



how about a vote on Gracies accent guys?

does it do it for you? (in a dirty Joanna Lumley kinda way?)

Steve

[Jayneflakes]

Where you been Janey? you havent been on for ages!
Steve

I had to drop out of things for a little while because I had a few difficult issues to deal with, which combined with an unsympathetic hospital who want to proscribe pain killers and not actually fix the pain, turned me into a moody belligerent rat bag. :smt009

I popped back in a little while ago and found to my amazement that I had actually been missed. Funny, but places like this really do mean something and it is possible that folks you chat to by internet, but may not even recognise in the street, can really touch your heart. :smt041

I guess that this means that I love you guys and girls of Org Land. Anyway, I have just changed the whole tone of this thread now, sorry folks, you can beat me later! :smt062

[Paws]

I love guys with Candian accents, mmmmmm

Worked with a guy from Canada,and not only did he have the hot accent but was v cute aswell- he had noooo trouble persuading the ladies to buy leathers when they would come in for kit

[plowsie]

I love Aussie birds accents.

[timwilky]

i've got a slight lancashire but i find the longer i spend down south the way i pronounce things changes depending on who i am talking to i.e. Barth instead of bath.



WTF, and I thought you normally called it a baff. You will be eating scooones next.

[Tara]

WTF, and I thought you normally called it a baff. You will be eating scooones next.

shoot me if i start with that nonesense

[timwilky]

Personally I like my burds to have a posh accent to disguise their filthy intent. Just my luck to have one with a Salford accent and no intent.


However, it is the sound of the West Yorkshire lass that gets me trembling. I just know that she will cost me a fortune, leave me a penniless wreck and regretting everything.

[Miss Alpinestarhero]

Hmmm

Although Im half greek, I dont have an accent because Ive lived in the UK all my life.

No particular accent does it for me :cool: I just like really clear voices :D

[Mr Speirs]

Although I am actually Scottish I have the famous RAF nothing accent where you don't sound like you come from anywhere.
Although because of this I subconciously imitate accents when I am with people with accents. I've worked with a guy from Yorkshire for the last 2 weeks and met his son towards the end of the two weeks. He asked me where I used to live in yorkshire, convinced that although I didn't have a full blown accent there were hints in it that he thought I used to live there when I was younger.

[Owenski]

Scouse, Southern, Irish, French and Spanish do it for me. Dont like the ruff woteva open jawed northen accents the local filth posses.
You aint alone pt6 ;) the accents a deal breaker for me too.

[kitkat]

Mr Spiers - my eldest daughter is like you. we lived in gosport til she was 6 and she had a strong pompey accent (vile) then moved to west coast of scotland, with a month she had come 1st in a Burns Speaking Competition. then went to visit her cousin and came back week later with a belfast accent. now been living in aldershot for a year and she has a strange accent. Im scottish but dont think I sound scottish until I hear myself on answerphone or video - sounds horrific

[Lozzo]

Im scottish but dont think I sound scottish until I hear myself on answerphone or video - sounds horrific


You're lucky, people keep asking me if I'm a cockerney geezah - I have to explain that I'm actually a posh Bedfordian.

[Venom]

Im scottish but dont think I sound scottish until I hear myself on answerphone or video - sounds horrific

I sound horrific when I hear myself on video, but that's cos I don't like the sound of my voice rather than my accent.

[sarah]

Mr Spiers - my eldest daughter is like you. we lived in gosport til she was 6 and she had a strong pompey accent (vile) then moved to west coast of scotland, with a month she had come 1st in a Burns Speaking Competition. then went to visit her cousin and came back week later with a belfast accent. now been living in aldershot for a year and she has a strange accent. Im scottish but dont think I sound scottish until I hear myself on answerphone or video - sounds horrific

You've both got lovely scottish accents.

[Bluewolf]

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[keith_d]

I think most of the scottish accents are quite appealing, with the possible exception of broad Glaswegian.

I think I speak fairly neutral south east english, which is great for being understood but about as attractive as Milton Keynes.

[zsv650]

not like over here u have to use the one word=whole sentence leicester accent.

[Bluewolf]

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[plowsie]

You're lucky, people keep asking me if I'm a cockerney geezah - I have to explain that I'm actually a posh Bedfordian.
:lol: