Do all boardsies have the same accent in your head?

DirkVoodoo

Right, first post in AH..I did a search of this just to make sure I'm not retreading over old ground (or re-threading, har har....ugh!).

Anyway, was at that boards singles mingle in Doyles last week as I usually go there and hey, I'm desperate. Didn't find the boardsies in the end, so regular night in Doyles.

I was chatting with my friends about some boards related stuff when I asked them "Is it just me, or when you are reading threads on boards does everyone have the same accent?"

Man, woman, young, old, normal or borderline internet stalker, every thread I read on this place everyone talks in the same male, southside accent. Even if they type all the colloquialisms they use in conversation.

Is it just me or is some guy in Cork reading this with a cork accent rambling through his mind?

I've met a few now through cycling and everytime I'm not amazed by how people look nothing like I imagined but how they sound!

I'm also pretty sure this counts as AH unless there is a mental illness thread I should be directed to

Acacia

Yeah, except I think of it as a Northside accent.

DirkVoodoo

You sound way too posh to be a northsider, unless you're from malahide or something!

Xavi6

They all sound the same except Dudess. She has a high pitched tone that goes hand in hand with her avatar (cheers monkeyfudge).

eVeNtInE

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Nevyn

No, cos some of them are from Coiiirck, Like!

Acacia

I sound posh?!

Jaysus!:pac:

brianthebard

Xavi6 wrote: »

They all sound the same except Dudess. She has a high pitched tone that goes hand in hand with her avatar (cheers monkeyfudge).

All Dudess' posts have a smoky come hither feel about them....

Fizman

To me, everybody on boards sound like Kelsey Grammar.

SoWatchaWant

DirkVoodoo wrote: »

Right, first post in AH..I did a search of this just to make sure I'm not retreading over old ground (or re-threading, har har....ugh!).

Anyway, was at that boards singles mingle in Doyles last week as I usually go there and hey, I'm desperate. Didn't find the boardsies in the end, so regular night in Doyles.

I was chatting with my friends about some boards related stuff when I asked them "Is it just me, or when you are reading threads on boards does everyone have the same accent?"

Man, woman, young, old, normal or borderline internet stalker, every thread I read on this place everyone talks in the same male, southside accent. Even if they type all the colloquialisms they use in conversation.

Is it just me or is some guy in Cork reading this with a cork accent rambling through his mind?

I've met a few now through cycling and everytime I'm not amazed by how people look nothing like I imagined but how they sound!

I'm also pretty sure this counts as AH unless there is a mental illness thread I should be directed to

Font, you mean?

javaboy

Xavi6 wrote: »

They all sound the same except Dudess. She has a high pitched tone that goes hand in hand with her avatar (cheers monkeyfudge).

I was just going to post that. "I am woman hear me roar"

I never thought about it much but yeah I have accents in my head for a lot of the regulars. For instance I can't read faceman's posts without hearing them in my head in Dirk Benedict's voice.

People who post in rtrd spk all sound like irritating giggly teenagers in my head.

anonymous_joe

I sound like I'm from Sandymount. :P

MementoMori

Luckily I don't hear any boardsies voices in my head when reading their posts.

Acacia

anonymous_joe wrote: »

I sound like I'm from Sandymount. :P

What does a Sandymount accent sound like?

Nevyn

brianthebard wrote: »

All Dudess' posts have a smoky sticky come hither feel about them....

fyp

anonymous_joe

Acacia wrote: »

What does a Sandymount accent sound like?

Quite South Dublin. :pac:

monkeyfudge

Xavi6 wrote: »

They all sound the same except Dudess. She has a high pitched tone that goes hand in hand with her avatar (cheers monkeyfudge).

Plan on doing another podcast soon.

I'll take requests on giving other boardsies a voice.

Acacia

anonymous_joe wrote: »

Quite South Dublin. :pac:

Like, posh as fook, like?

deleriumtremens

I always think the person looks like their avatar and I make up a voice in my head to go with that! I have a distinctive voice in my head for SoWatchaWant and for brianthebard for example. Also, when I think, my thoughts in my head sound like powdered toast man.:pac:

Sharpshooter

Yes , they do.
For example I don't hear a poster from America or anywhere else any different to a poster from Ireland.
Can you really hear in accent's?

MizzLolly

They're just words to me....




Looks on the otherhand, I often imagine!!

anonymous_joe

Acacia wrote: »

Like, posh as fook, like?

It can be. Depends on the context.

Terry

I hear buttercup when I read monkeyfudge's posts.

I hear Hitler when I read Karoma's posts.

anonymous_joe

MizzLolly wrote: »

They're just words to me....

Weirdo! :P

Nah you're right, I can't imagine any accent to them, and had never tried before. Still can't.

MizzLolly

anonymous_joe wrote: »

Weirdo! :P

Nah you're right, I can't imagine any accent to them, and had never tried before. Still can't.

But you know what I sound like! :P

Nah, the only poster that has a voice to me is Tar.Aldarion, I always imagine like, Cinderella or Aurora or something because of his gender issues.

Also, I can imagine Orestes voice as sounding a bit like one of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles!

But that's it really, the rest is just words..

DirkVoodoo

Whenever I used to read those pigman posts (was that his name, chap who referred to himself in the third person) I always heard him as bill hicks though...everyone else sounds like me, but for him it was always hicks' "Goatboy" sketch.

@SharpShooterH: I don't get by what ya mean "Can you really hear in accents?", what else would you hear? I guess I meant the "inner voice" you have when reading.

ChocolateSauce

DirkVoodoo wrote: »

Right, first post in AH..I did a search of this just to make sure I'm not retreading over old ground (or re-threading, har har....ugh!).

Anyway, was at that boards singles mingle in Doyles last week as I usually go there and hey, I'm desperate. Didn't find the boardsies in the end, so regular night in Doyles.

I was chatting with my friends about some boards related stuff when I asked them "Is it just me, or when you are reading threads on boards does everyone have the same accent?"

Man, woman, young, old, normal or borderline internet stalker, every thread I read on this place everyone talks in the same male, southside accent. Even if they type all the colloquialisms they use in conversation.

Is it just me or is some guy in Cork reading this with a cork accent rambling through his mind?

I've met a few now through cycling and everytime I'm not amazed by how people look nothing like I imagined but how they sound!

I'm also pretty sure this counts as AH unless there is a mental illness thread I should be directed to

No, they all sound the same unless someone is shrieking hysterically, in which case they sound like Voldemorte.

admiralofthefleet

i hear my own voice in my head when i read posts

anonymous_joe

MizzLolly wrote: »

But you know what I sound like! :P

Nah, the only poster that has a voice to me is Tar.Aldarion, I always imagine like, Cinderella or Aurora or something because of his gender issues.

Also, I can imagine Orestes voice as sounding a bit like one of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles!

But that's it really, the rest is just words..

True. ^^

And you know what I sound like when I'm horrendously drunk.

admiralofthefleet

Acacia wrote: »

What does a Sandymount accent sound like?

it sounds like a ringsend accent

anonymous_joe

admiralofthefleet wrote: »

it sounds like a ringsend accent

Hehe, depends what side of Sandymount. ^^

DirkVoodoo

right, ive made myself quite conscious of this now so when im reading posts for the next day everyone gets to have a generic country accent...unless there are any requests.

asdasd

All males sound like david beckham.

The ones i know to be female sound like Brenda Power.

My internal voices suck.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

I hear Victor Meldew when I read Degsy's posts, Paul Hogan when I read Xavi and Ross O'Carroll-Kelly loike when I read Javaboy's.

Xavi6

Ikky Poo2 wrote: »

I hear Victor Meldew when I read Degsy's posts, Paul Hogan when I read Xavi and Ross O'Carroll-Kelly loike when I read Javaboy's.

Lol I hope we never speak in person cause my thick Dublin brogue will ruin it all for you.

Sharpshooter

DirkVoodoo wrote: »

@SharpShooterH: I don't get by what ya mean "Can you really hear in accents?", what else would you hear? I guess I meant the "inner voice" you have when reading.

Well when reading , l read words , not accents .
So my " inner voice " as you put it , would come across how I sound , not how a different nationality would sound.:)

Karl Hungus

Not accents, but I do have voices in mind when I read posts by certain posters.

Few examples:

Karoma = Bishop Brennan
Monkeyfudge = The Monarch
Terry = Rab C. Nesbit
DeVore = Russel Crowe in Gladiator
Almighty Cushion = Jack Lemon
Run to da hills = Woody Allen
Dudess = Dr. Girlfriend
Oscar Bravo = Ray Liotta
Beruthiel = Ronny Cox (It's mainly her demeanor)

There's loads more but I can't think of them right now.

I wonder does anyone have a voice in mind for me? I remember talking about some people about who would play who in a boards movie, and it was suggested Brad Dourif to play me, someone commenting about how that's exactly how they imagined me.

MizzLolly

Karl Hungus wrote: »

Not accents, but I do have voices in mind when I read posts by certain posters.

Few examples:

Karoma = Bishop Brennan
Monkeyfudge = The Monarch
Terry = Rab C. Nesbit
DeVore = Russel Crowe in Gladiator
Almighty Cushion = Jack Lemon
Run to da hills = Woody Allen
Dudess = Dr. Girlfriend
Oscar Bravo = Ray Liotta
Beruthiel = Ronny Cox (It's mainly her demeanor)

There's loads more but I can't think of them right now.

I wonder does anyone have a voice in mind for me? I remember talking about some people about who would play who in a boards movie, and it was suggested Brad Dourif to play me, someone commenting about how that's exactly how they imagined me.

Jack Black

Ruu_Old

Wibbs=Mister Rogers. I don't know why but it seems that his soothing voice would put you to sleep. Goodnight now.

javaboy

Ikky Poo2 wrote: »

I hear Victor Meldew when I read Degsy's posts, Paul Hogan when I read Xavi and Ross O'Carroll-Kelly loike when I read Javaboy's.

Xavi and Javaboy are both from the badlands of Dublin 15. I wouldn't have survived school if I talked like Ross O'Carroll-Kelly.

anonymous_joe

javaboy wrote: »

Xavi and Javaboy are both from the badlands of Dublin 15. I wouldn't have survived school if I talked like Ross O'Carroll-Kelly.

You wouldn't have survived mine if you didn't.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

javaboy wrote: »

Xavi and Javaboy are both from the badlands of Dublin 15. I wouldn't have survived school if I talked like Ross O'Carroll-Kelly.

I know... in your case, though, I think it's the coffee-based user id, Grodon Gecko in the avatar *cough* yuppie *cough* and your occasional sarky (but entertaining) rebukes.

In Xavi's case, I think it's because I can also picture him ****ting in a hole in the outback.

deleriumtremens

IkkyPoo sounds like chuckie off rugrats...cant get over the avatars!! without an avatar I just read posts in my mind in my own accent or in david mitchells voice, even though i sound nothing like him!!! (when i wrote this i was thinking in his accent and way of speaking)!!

javaboy

Ikky Poo2 wrote: »

I know... in your case, though, I think it's the coffee-based user id, Grodon Gecko in the avatar *cough* yuppie *cough* and your occasional sarky (but entertaining) rebukes.

I'm gonna have to start scumbagging up my posts a bit so. Maybe ditch the avatar too. The username is not coffee based though but it's probably better if people continue to believe it is.

I'll have to practise the old Blanch accent. You've made me realise I'm forgetting my roots. Here goes:
Bleedin' rapeh wha? Here young'fla d'ya go by the hostible on yer way home? Yeah well ya behher geh dis lukked ah! /slices through air with switchblade Deadly buzz.

DonkeyStyle \o/

Karl Hungus wrote: »

I wonder does anyone have a voice in mind for me?

Mary Harney, always.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

deleriumtremens wrote: »

IkkyPoo sounds like chuckie off rugrats...cant get over the avatars!! without an avatar I just read posts in my mind in my own accent or in david mitchells voice, even though i sound nothing like him!!! (when i wrote this i was thinking in his accent and way of speaking)!!

Why me? Why always me...?

Karl Hungus wrote: »

I wonder does anyone have a voice in mind for me?

Unoriginal, I know, but the cable guy from The Big Lebowski.

Karl Hungus

DonkeyStyle \o/ wrote: »

Mary Harney, always.

You've just stepped over a line. You've opened the door and let pain in. :mad:

deleriumtremens

Karl Hungus wrote: »

I wonder does anyone have a voice in mind for me?

I'm thinking otto off the simpsons! :pac:

Nehaxak

All mods automatically get a Belfast accent attached to them for me for some reason, sorry, but I can't help it, I don't know why this happens

Condescending/self righteous posters get Dublin Southside accents.

Those posters I know who are gay will automatically get camp voices.

I read a lot of comics as a kid and even up to a few years ago enjoyed the likes of The Preacher comic book series so would always associate accents/voices with different people in the comics, suppose the same has carried across to forums here and elsewhere.

Xavi6

javaboy wrote: »

I'm gonna have to start scumbagging up my posts a bit so. Maybe ditch the avatar too. The username is not coffee based though but it's probably better if people continue to believe it is.

I'll have to practise the old Blanch accent. You've made me realise I'm forgetting my roots. Here goes:
Bleedin' rapeh wha? Here young'fla d'ya go by the hostible on yer way home? Yeah well ya behher geh dis lukked ah! /slices through air with switchblade Deadly buzz.

Here young wan, I was in Heaven the other night and it was bleedin whopper so it was. Got a score off this young fella and he was only massif. Stallin it out da Vortex this week?

/pauses for lament

4zn76tysfajdxp

Internally, I hear:

• Dudess and looptheloop as quiet aunties or schoolteachers.
  
• The female pi mods (B + T?) as Cate Blanchett's character in Lord of the Rings.
  
• Pighead, Almighty Cushion and sharpshooterH all have an eccentric quality in their voices when I hear them in my head.
  
• snyper sounds like a drooling lech.
  
• Degsy sounds like a shouting old man.
  
• Mairt sounds like somebody on edge, ready to kick somebody's ass in any second.
  
• Sea Devils sounds American.

Everyone else sounds/reads like a bogger from Galway, like me.