Most intimidating accent in the country

D-A-V-E

ok lads heres one for you to banter on about..i think personally the inner city dublin one is very intimidating..but i came accross a couple vids on youtube of some Limerick knacker ones..has to be joint top! just watch!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXxhNAvccVk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ldMY6z7Eno

Holsten

Any nordie accent, they're all very angry.

Leonid

obvious plug is obvious

Your location says you are in Limerick. Were you involved with these videos by chance?

Einstein

nothing quite like threat to break yer legs by someone with a nothern accent ...

D-A-V-E

hah no, first video is located in southill..not a place i would like to visit..the second is done professionally by a group of ppl who know jerry flannery (hence the appearence and related vids!)

Acacia

I'm used to the inner city Dublin accent so it doesn't intimidate me at all. Any Northern accent always sounds angry though- they're kinda like the Russians in that sense. No matter what they say, there always seems to be a bit of threat in it.

Having said that, I also find Nordie accents strangely sexy for some reason.

Dudess

The scumbag Cork one is pretty menacing - moreso females.

galwayrush

Tuam FTW:D

Orla K

I lived in Limerick for a few years, I was working in a shop and got a few threats, one was that they would kill me the others beat me. I remember one I just laughed and said 'Alright then' and laughed as they slowly walked away(I couldn't help laughing)

I don't really find the limerick accent intimidating, but then again I've been told that I've no sense of fear/danger.

The northern accent isn't intimidating either, I've relations from there so it just reminds me of them.

leitrim lad

nothing frighten us weshties , but once you go above cavan it gets head recking alright, sir this and sir that, but again its only a minority of people up there that spoil it for every one ,because the people up in ulster are the warmest hearted in the country

and has anyone noticed how people below cavan,leitrim, monaghan, louth get on fine , no mater what county your from, but when a group of nordies get togethar they make you feel like a 3rd world citizen. because you dont end every sentence with sir, again i have nothing againrt them but it does get annoying

Berty

Your second link is only a pisstake so that accent is exaggerated and/or not real.

The first is stupid. That shop(which is real) is as ignorant as the makers of the video perpetuating the bad opinion of the area.

I lived in one of the estates in Southill for 3 years. Nobody marches around the streets with a gun or balaclava.

The Limerick accent, which I do not have, is not intimidating to me. Its actually an embarassment to me to hear a Limerick accent on the TV or radio because its sounds so stupid.

I hate the inner city Dub accent although I like hearing it(from a distance albeit) because its so..................................common as muck.

The Waterford scumbag accent is bad as well.

Abi

Inner city Dublin, without a doubt. Strange mixture of scarey and cringey.

SoupyNorman

speaks for itself...just about!

tony1kenobi

The Ballycumber accent is frightening......

Pace2008

A harsh Nordy accent; I think that's the general consenus in Dublin.

Diabhal Beag

Limerick FTW or should I say knife the world :pac:

Mars Bar

galwayrush wrote: »

Tuam FTW:D

Ha you're wide sham!

Seriously though, I think generalising the Ronan McDonagh accent to all Tuam people is a tad unfair...

I'm in college in Limerick and I do think the Limerick accent is intimidating, particularly on the women who work in Dunnes. Always feel like I'm doing a dodgy deal with them when I'm buying something as innocent as milk...

galwayrush

mars bar wrote: »

Ha you're wide sham!

Seriously though, I think generalising the Ronan McDonagh accent to all Tuam people is a tad unfair...
..

I wouldn't do that, got friends and a cousin there, hence the:D face.

Diabhal Beag

C'mon folks this will not help Galway tourism at all

Adiboo

Tralee knackers sound very like the Limerick knackers.

The guy in the second video sounds like he is speaking abit of Cant too. Common with Tralee travellers also.

Mars Bar

galwayrush wrote: »

I wouldn't do that, got friends and a cousin there, hence the:D face.

I live in Tuam, on a road full of travellers. Beat that. (said with a knackerish Tuam accent).

*Just to point out, I am NOT a traveller!*

Captain-America

A thick Cork accent in daycent biys. Pure difficult to understand like, but its fair ****ing scary like.

Daycent.

galwayrush

mars bar wrote: »

I live in Tuam, on a road full of travellers. Beat that. (said with a knackerish Tuam accent).

*Just to point out, I am NOT a traveller!*

Some road in Tuam. ?

Mars Bar

galwayrush wrote: »

Some road in Tuam.?

Are you stalking me?

galwayrush

mars bar wrote: »

Are you stalking me?

You kinda gave it away.:D

cork1

any noisy donegal sh**e

leitrim lad

cork1 wrote: »

any noisy donegal sh**e

like turkeys galdering , they can be heard for miles, what a headache

Mars Bar

galwayrush wrote: »

You kinda gave it away.:D

I s'pose I did...Parkmore and Tirboy both being estates. Didn't think of that.

Mind me asking who your cousins are? I might know them...

galwayrush

mars bar wrote: »

I s'pose I did...Parkmore and Tirboy both being estates. Didn't think of that.

Mind me asking who your cousins are? I might know them...

LOL, you're practically in Beverly Hills compared to those estates.:D
PM on way.;)

Mars Bar

galwayrush wrote: »

LOL, you're practically in Beverly Hills compared to those estates.:D
PM on way.;)

I know, some people don't believe that some of the most respectable families in Tuam hailed for the road...

galwayrush

mars bar wrote: »

I know, some people don't believe that some of the most respectable families in Tuam hailed for the road...

That is true, it's one of the least crime ridden areas in Tuam.:cool: The 2 estates you mentioned however are something else.:eek:

Mars Bar

Yeah, we never had any problems but I hate going up by Tirboy and that new estate across from it to get to the Soccer Pitch.

Oh, I tried to reply to your last PM but it just won't send...

b28

why so worried about accents?
can you help what accent you have?
my accent doesn't bother me as i'm understandable and i dont care what stuck up yuppie says about me!

maxxie

The northy and dublin accents are the most intimidating.

Im sorry, ive heard the rest and I laugh at them!

b28

maxxie wrote: »

The northy and dublin accents are the most intimidating.

Im sorry, ive heard the rest and I laugh at them!

An English person would laugh at your accent perhaps

maxxie

b28 wrote: »

An English person would laugh at your accent perhaps

perhaps, but we are talking about this country

b28

I know, we have such a small country where just accent divides us really.
Think about it that way. We are all the same!

Mars Bar

This isn't exactly an accent but more of a miserable attempt at an accent...
Has anyone seen the movie "Snow in August", about a young kid Catholic kid who witnesses a murder of a Jewish guy and it all gets a bit far fetched at the end when he summons the Golem? It was on either RTE 1 or 2 today...Well the mother is an Irish Catholic in it, only it is an American attempt at an Irish accent and it is downright dreadful!

I hate hearing an Irish accent among the Americans, like on a TV show, it just sounds plain weird. But the American accent is bad in itself...

KeyLimePie

pure dublin accents :):)
the first time getting a train to dublin when i was 15 , these two old people were sat oppisite me and i swear to god i thought they were foreign until tehy asked me the time and they just had really thick dublin accents

D-A-V-E

Berty wrote: »

Your second link is only a pisstake so that accent is exaggerated and/or not real.

The first is stupid. That shop(which is real) is as ignorant as the makers of the video perpetuating the bad opinion of the area.

I lived in one of the estates in Southill for 3 years. Nobody marches around the streets with a gun or balaclava.

The Limerick accent, which I do not have, is not intimidating to me. Its actually an embarassment to me to hear a Limerick accent on the TV or radio because its sounds so stupid.

I hate the inner city Dub accent although I like hearing it(from a distance albeit) because its so..................................common as muck.

The Waterford scumbag accent is bad as well.

both of the videos are piss takes! just portrays the strong limerick accent well..didnt say it was real! said it was funny!

Sofiztikated

I find the Dub accent too nasal to be intimidating.
Belfast accents however, do put me on my guard. Always sounds like a kneecapping is in the not too distant future.
To pick an accent that annoys me, i'd have to say Carrickmacross. PUer annoys me, so it does, hai.* God that annoys me.
My attempt at recreating this god awful wail.

Rented Mule

...and here I thought the immigrants took all of our accents.

Snowie

SoupyNorman wrote: »

speaks for itself...just about!

thats funny :pac:


i find majority of irish accents are intimidating irish people use a lot of tone when cursing , so i get more intimidated bye there tone then there voice

falipo

The Northern accent is all right...its the scumbag Drogheda accent that does it for me...a variation on the dublin accent and f***ckin awful...

Wez

falipo wrote: »

The Northern accent is all right...its the scumbag Drogheda accent that does it for me...a variation on the dublin accent and f***ckin awful...

Yeh, know a few lads from out that directions, and I have to say it's pretty bad! I've heard worse tho!

For intimidation though, gotta be Belfast knackers, closely followed by some of the Northsiders. I mean, for a tourist or somebody (e.g. American's who recognise accents) to come over and hear the 'dort' that some of them come out with!

The most intimidating accent/voice I've ever heard has to be my uncle, no matter what he's saying I'm nearly cowering in the corner of the room.. Once my cousin started answering back to him, I feared for his life! He's actually the nicest guy in the world though, taken me 20 years to find out!

I'd love to hear a seriously dirty pikey from like Drogheda or Marino or somewhere similar havin a "verbal confrontation" with some heavily black Brooklyn heads.. Oh the contrast!

D-A-V-E

haha thats hilarious! not really intimidating tho!

more limerick city here very funny too!
this one from 30 seconds onwards..kinda a more older accent, bit less common http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IredxtwG2ZU



very funny one too!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjDJOjVg8Cg