whats the big deal about scottish accents!

ShriekingSheet · 18-10-2003 9:49pm #1

What is it with guys sporting scottish accents that seems to bring our Irish girls nearly to the point of orgasm!!??

Im a Dublin guy with a fairly neutral/slightly south dublin accent and am always amazed at how girls react to scottish accents!

The most average lookin guy in the world can score like a lord in any Dublin club given the chance to talk to a certain lady and thus display his bloody scottish accent!!!

I am at a loss!

Someone enlighten me!

tman · 18-10-2003 10:02pm

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Ste- · 18-10-2003 10:50pm

Girls like different accents mainly just because there different.

oeNeo · 19-10-2003 12:00am

Girls with a scottish acent = nyom.

amp · 19-10-2003 12:14am

What oeNeo said. And I have no idea why.

Shinji · 19-10-2003 12:47am

You're honestly trying to claim you don't find Rab C Nesbitt sexy?

Shit, I mean Sean Connery. You know, the other scottish guy.

Sarky · 19-10-2003 11:05am

Well to me, the dublin accent is a form of aural rape. I'd pick a scottish accent every time.

Besides, Scottish are cool. People with a Scottish accent sound like they really know how to swear at someone...

amp · 19-10-2003 11:20am

Originally posted by Shinji
You're honestly trying to claim you don't find Rab C Nesbitt sexy?

Shit, I mean Sean Connery. You know, the other scottish guy.

Ah Sean....

gimme · 19-10-2003 11:23am

burds scottish good
earring bad

mike65 · 19-10-2003 1:18pm

I doubt many girls would be bowled over by the Govan taxi driver special which is utterly impenetrable. Highland accent is proberly the nicest though it may not be sexy (whatever the hell that is).

Mike.

19-10-2003 4:30pm

I've always been a fan of Scottish accents-and Northern accents

mm

Sangre · 19-10-2003 4:50pm

Northern Irish accents are teh win, there are a few in my year now....nyom.

Oswald Osbourne · 19-10-2003 4:57pm

The Geordie accent is teh win!

If you're a bloke with it - then I'm sorry for your troubles - but in women it's damn sexy!

cujimmy · 19-10-2003 6:09pm

on the other hand a lot of scots go weak at the knees at the sound of a well spoken irish man. I was recently on local radio here in scotland and got loads of female callers saying that they just loved my accent (educated south dublin but not dart)

Ste- · 19-10-2003 7:48pm

This threads quite amusing especially to me.

Oj and tman and a few others that where in IRC last night will understand why.

monument · 19-10-2003 8:23pm

Originally posted by Shinji
You're honestly trying to claim you don't find Rab C Nesbitt sexy?

Shit, I mean Sean Connery. You know, the other scottish guy.

IF I was a woman or homosexual I could see my self liking his accent in that way.

(In my view, most cases of people liking/disliking accents would be because of the same reasons people like/dislike people from different counties/areas.

Been Irish, and knowing about the local rumour networks in place throughout Ireland, I could never fault any one for liking people from different places.)

joseph brand · 20-10-2003 12:25am

girl in my job is from Scotland, and when she gives out in her accent I just want to give her a good f**k like a kangaroo in heat!:horned: :horned:

Oriel · 20-10-2003 1:43am

I'll hold my head in shame 'cause I have a Northern accent (not such a bad one thankfully).
But come on...as there really anything worse than a Dublin accent??

Surely not...

Big Chief · 20-10-2003 8:21am

Originally posted by ShriekingSheet

The most average lookin guy in the world can score like a lord in any Dublin club given the chance to talk to a certain lady and thus display his bloody scottish accent!!!

if only this were true

most of the girls/women you speak to cant even understand you, but insist on just how sexy they think the accent is 'even though they cant understand a word'

then again most people i meet tell me i have a very strong glasgow accent. After a while i learn to speak slower and with less slang, but then i visit back home and its all gone again and i have to start again from scratch

Gordon · 20-10-2003 8:45am

Aye.

There was a survey done on accents in Britain, the favourite accent was a female Glaswegian accent, the second a London accent. Works for me too. Although the Glasgow Senga accents are affy horrid, the rest are pleasing.

Incidentally, Scottish people get great press throughout the world. If you go abroad and tell people you're Scottish they will more likely than not - like you and want to speak with you. Tell them you 're British or, heaven forbid, English and they will take a more skeptical look at you.

Brou haha.

seamus · 20-10-2003 8:48am

Originally posted by cujimmy
on the other hand a lot of scots go weak at the knees at the sound of a well spoken irish man. I was recently on local radio here in scotland and got loads of female callers saying that they just loved my accent (educated south dublin but not dart)

Yep. As Ste- said, it's sexy because it's different. Loads of foreign women love the Oirish accent (not the Kerry boglands one, the Dub, Ronan Keating, Colin Farrell one) for whatever reason. We tend to laugh at ourselves when we hear one on TV.

Big Chief · 20-10-2003 9:03am

Originally posted by Gordon
Incidentally, Scottish people get great press throughout the world. If you go abroad and tell people you're Scottish they will more likely than not - like you and want to speak with you. Tell them you 're British or, heaven forbid, English and they will take a more skeptical look at you.

3 spanish girls i met on holiday told me the exact same thing while i was on holiday in spain a few years back. I asked them why they often look down on us, they told me it was because they just presumed we were english. They had started talking to me when they seen me with a scotland top on and were really nice to talk to.

Its these bloody english that give us a bad name

I must admit that i like the country (culchies?) accents over here in ireland, although not all of them. Theres a tipp girl in the work where i think her accent is hot, but living in ireland the accent has almost became second nature. The skanger dub accent almost makes my ears bleed though, same with some parts of the N.Ireland accent. I've found though that the northern accent and scottish accent is awful alike (not sounding wise really) but we use the same kind of slang and can generally understand each other a lot better.

Although saying that i've met quite alot of people here in dublin who thought i was from N.Ireland for some reason although usually once i tell them where i'm from they think 'ahh i can spot it now'.

ToxicPaddy · 20-10-2003 10:06am

The American and Canadian women go weak at the knees at the sound of an irish accent...

Twas a dead cert when trying to score in a pub over there...

cournioni · 20-10-2003 10:12am

Thats the best thing about going to pubs/clubs in the US.

Giblet · 20-10-2003 1:15pm

Kelly Mc Donald *meow*

ToxicPaddy · 20-10-2003 3:55pm

Originally posted by Giblet
Kelly Mc Donald *meow*

huh?????

Big Chief · 20-10-2003 4:11pm

Originally posted by ToxicPaddy
huh?????

if im to be correct Kelly McDonald is the schoolgirl that rents was with from trainspotting (which i more than certainly am !)

yes she is divine and very hot!

tman · 20-10-2003 4:18pm

Originally posted by Big Chief
if im to be correct Kelly McDonald is the schoolgirl that rents was with from trainspotting (which i more than certainly am !)

yes she is divine and very hot!

i would advise against doing a google image search for her.
it turns up lots of bald middle aged men for some reason:eek:

patch · 20-10-2003 4:55pm

She was just in Intermission as the chick Colin Farrel holds to ransom.

Victor · 20-10-2003 5:53pm

Originally posted by Neo-
Girls with a scottish acent = nyom.

/me thinks of Diane in Trainspotting (before the morning after

)

Caesar_Bojangle · 20-10-2003 9:37pm

Northern Irish accents are teh win, there are a few in my year now....nyom.

I've two nordie female friends and anytime I go out with them, some fucckwit down here will usually mouth off something about Ian Paisley or Gerry Adams trying to provoke them.

Tis teh win tho.

cournioni · 20-10-2003 9:42pm

When I was in Florida for my holidays they didn't know what accent I had so they guessed that I was English (as I'm sure alot of you would be). It kinda pissed me off but it just shows how uneducated Americans are as regards to the rest of the world. I have a fairly neutral accent but it isn't completely neutral.

woosaysdan · 21-10-2003 8:40am

"female Glaswegian accent" god thats one sexy accent

ToxicPaddy · 21-10-2003 10:39am

Originally posted by woosaysdan
"female Glaswegian accent" god thats one sexy accent

Met a girl with a very sexy Glaswegian accent one night out.. in TramCo actually.. the fact that she way wearing very tight black leather trousers and was a stunner soon made me forget about the accent

bucks73 · 21-10-2003 11:21am

Women with any scottish accents are really sexy. Gail Porter is another hottie with the accent.

Kalina · 21-10-2003 11:53am

Ewan McGregor is a perfect example of why girls like the scottish accent!! He just sounds gorgeous!

Victor · 21-10-2003 11:59am

I remember having to translate a Glasgow accent / slang into English for German and Spanish friends (both with very good English). But even I was stuck for a moment on "wane" (wee 'un = small one = baby).

Lukin Black · 21-10-2003 12:47pm

Originally posted by Victor
I remember having to translate a Glasgow accent / slang into English for German and Spanish friends (both with very good English). But even I was stuck for a moment on "wane" (wee 'un = small one = baby).

Wane can also mean child; we use it up here in Donegal too. Child/Kid just doesn't sound natural

And of course you can always say 'stop being a big wain'.

Victor · 21-10-2003 12:53pm

Originally posted by Lukin Black
Wane can also mean child; we use it up here in Donegal too.

Oh, fair enough, but try understanding from a half-cut Glaswegian from the local equivalent of Moore Street.

Emboss · 21-10-2003 1:01pm

i have no idea what it is

but i went out with a girl from scotland for about 4 months

and christ all mighty.......

when a woman is screaming JESUS THAT'S ****ING SMALL in a scottish accent.....it really hurts

ToxicPaddy · 21-10-2003 1:46pm

Originally posted by Emboss
....when a woman is screaming JESUS THAT'S ****ING SMALL in a scottish accent.....it really hurts

.. f*ckin classic...

Big Chief · 21-10-2003 2:22pm

yeh it was agreed in the pub that when you threaten people in the glasgow accent it sounds 100x more genuine and threatning

oh and its wain, not wane! (i think, but i didnt know what you meant till i thought of my spelling!)

its a kid, or a baby. can be used on people my age though if coming from some old timers

"ahh leave the wee yin alone hes just a wain"

I remember having to translate a Glasgow accent / slang into English for German and Spanish friends (both with very good English).

its cause we speak at a lightning pace and tend to shorten every word possible. I got told off by my mates for sounding more 'posh' after i moved to ireland, the problem was the first 3-4 months when i moved over here not a sole could understand me until i slowed down and used words "properly"... Got alot better after going to soo many interviews for jobs aswell.

Although i lose that everytime i visit back home though, brings a smile to my face when i can turn up and just speak normal again. Also happens when i meet people from scotland over here in dublin, such a relief that i don't have to put effort into speaking to people!

"aye mate packet 'a' l&b's and a bottle of bru, an gemme a daily record aswell" just for instance..

Alot of people from work can understand me now though after working here for over a year. I still remember when i got the guy next to me to start using "aye" without noticing, a mighty proud day!

(yes im easily amused)

Michael6754 · 21-10-2003 2:28pm

They love my Clare accent here in Glasgow. It always freaks me out a bit... I don't have an accent do I??? I'm not a big fan of the Glasgow accent though, well not the very nasal ones anyway.

Big Chief · 21-10-2003 2:36pm

im actually quite glad most of you said glasgow accent instead of scottish, i dont notice it alot in ireland but in scotland i can often tell what part of the country people are from by the way they speak. Fortunately i hate most of the up north accents from scotland, the fife accent especially almost makes my ears bleed.

I can tell a northern Ireland accent from the republic accent though.

Is this the same for ireland or what? i can luckily sometimes tell if people are from the sticks, but more often than not (republic wise) i cant really tell the difference.

Victor · 21-10-2003 2:52pm

Originally posted by Big Chief
Is this the same for ireland or what? i can luckily sometimes tell if people are from the sticks, but more often than not (republic wise) i cant really tell the difference.

You can sometimes tell by post code

Big Chief · 21-10-2003 2:57pm

Originally posted by Victor
You can sometimes tell by post code

yeh forgot that part, i can usually tell the 'D4 folk'

steviem · 22-10-2003 12:22am

Made my year when my ex-flatmate once went home to Cork to be quizzed by her Maw and Da and brur an sistur to why she was speaking with a scottish accent. They had no idea she stayed with supreme Scottish beings.

JessieG · 22-10-2003 11:00am

scottish accents OH MY GOD!- we dont need to explain why. It's like you boys with your posh upper class lady of the manor british accents. .............and i knw some of ye go weak at the knees over these....LOOKING @ U SEARRARD:ninja: