What are your unpopular opinions? (Vol. 2)

[nicanary]

bodhi said:

TwigtheWonderkid said:

I'm a Londoner and have never had an issue understanding Ally McCoist. Yes, he has a strong Glasgow accent, but he's easily comprehendible.

I'm not sure if I'd even say Coisty's accent was particularly strong compared to some you hear round Glasgow. I'm from Dundee and was brought up by parents from Lanarkshire, but even I struggle in Glasgow sometimes, especially if the locals have had a drink.

The hardest accent I find to understand though are some from Norn Iron. We had a guy at work from there with a thick accent and the Norn Iron tendancy to mumble a lot - was never any the wiser as to what he'd said.

Stay for a day in Portavogie. I swear there are people there who've never left the village.

I worked for many years in a Chinese takeaway. The owner was well-educated and spoke good English but I had to interpret whenever someone from the sticks of the Ards Peninsula was in, or a drunken Glaswegian over for the 12th parades. Almost unintelligible.

[Boom78]

‘Local’ Glaswegian and Cumbernauld can be v hard to understand, many years ago I’d be up there weekly with work and in many meetings/conversations I had to ask the locals to repeat (kindly of course!) up to 3 times what they said, on the 3rd if I still don’t get it I’d just nod and say ‘yes’. Sometimes got a strange look as they must have asked an open question to which ‘yes’ was odd

[deeen]

GT03ROB said:

e-honda said:

Nethybridge said:

No, voters can be and are thick, but people who desire to be a cog in the machinery of deciding the country's future should have a minimum level of intelligence.

It is known that 25 current UK MPs have never uttered a word in parliament this year, why are they there ?

To listen maybe?

Whats the point of just listening?

To decide how to vote?

[GT03ROB]

deeen said:

GT03ROB said:

e-honda said:

Nethybridge said:

No, voters can be and are thick, but people who desire to be a cog in the machinery of deciding the country's future should have a minimum level of intelligence.

It is known that 25 current UK MPs have never uttered a word in parliament this year, why are they there ?

To listen maybe?

Whats the point of just listening?

To decide how to vote?

They just follow the rest in their party surely?

[e-honda]

GT03ROB said:

They just follow the rest in their party surely?

If they did they may as well not have the votes.
Some votes are a free votes, and in cases where they are not they can abstain, or even rebel

[Greedydog]

Back to voting, if you don’t understand the potential repercussions of your actions your influence should be minimised - everyone should have a vote but each vote should be weighted by how an individual scores on a factual test across a number of topics.

[The Wookie]

President Merkin said:

By the time I left, I could easily tell a Mackem from a Geordie. Even over 20 short miles, the difference in accents is detectable. Impenetrable sometimes but still.

My favourite would be middle class people from Gosforth. Lovely sing song lilt to it. You'd think Jesmond would be the same but Heaton & Sandyford keeps a lid on them.

It’s funny (and maybe a bit worrying) having lived in the West Midlands for 10 years I can tell a 5-10 mile difference.

There was a bloke who started work at my local pub near Reigate, within 30 seconds I asked him if he was from Tamworth and he was absolutely gobsmacked, he was from Kingsbury about 2 miles away

Anywhere between Birmingham, the Black Country, Derby and Rugby is a bit of a blend IMHO and you can often guess by the mixture

My Mrs is from Aldridge and gets the hump when I mock her with a bit of Yamming but to my ear it’s 80% Black Country 10% Brummie and 10% Tammy

[Blown2CV]

nickfrog said:

hidetheelephants said:

She's a st linguist if goldenballs is incomprehensible.

Charming.

maybe see how you or she gets on understanding someone with a proper shetland accent.

[anonymoususer]

I dfon't think Led Zeppelin were too bad at Live Aid

[anonymoususer]

My unpopular opinion is that this is yet another thread that will lose it's appeal as it becomes taken over with political waffle.

[jeremyc]

anonymoususer said:

My unpopular opinion is that this is yet another thread that will lose it's appeal as it becomes taken over with political waffle.

This. Keep the political discussion for the N,P &E forum please.

[e-honda]

Banned for not being an unpopular opinion then surely

[mickythefish]

Mrs Browns boys is probably the most unfunniest popular TV comedy show ever made that should never have got on TV in the first place.

[slopes]

mickythefish said:

Mrs Browns boys is probably the most unfunniest popular TV comedy show ever made that should never have got on TV in the first place.

That's not unpopular, that's a statement of fact

[e-honda]

Yet somehow it made it to become a movie

[President Merkin]

Popularity does not equate to quality. QV The Daily Mail. MBB is objectively awful.

[CivicDuties]

Blown2CV said:

nickfrog said:

hidetheelephants said:

She's a st linguist if goldenballs is incomprehensible.

Charming.

maybe see how you or she gets on understanding someone with a proper shetland accent.

You might enjoy this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0EwquC6wBU

[Blown2CV]

CivicDuties said:

Blown2CV said:

nickfrog said:

hidetheelephants said:

She's a st linguist if goldenballs is incomprehensible.

Charming.

maybe see how you or she gets on understanding someone with a proper shetland accent.

You might enjoy this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0EwquC6wBU

that's very mild! There is a person who posts on tiktok about her sweet shop and she's become famous due to her strong shetland language/accent. Have a go at this. Even as a scot it's pretty impossible!

https://www.tiktok.com/@islandlarder

[DodgyGeezer]

Blown2CV said:

that's very mild! There is a person who posts on tiktok about her sweet shop and she's become famous due to her strong shetland language/accent. Have a go at this. Even as a scot it's pretty impossible!

https://www.tiktok.com/@islandlarder

all I can hear is blah blah blah stland

[Blown2CV]

DodgyGeezer said:

Blown2CV said:

that's very mild! There is a person who posts on tiktok about her sweet shop and she's become famous due to her strong shetland language/accent. Have a go at this. Even as a scot it's pretty impossible!

https://www.tiktok.com/@islandlarder

all I can hear is blah blah blah stland

very grown up opinion ta