AA Roadwatch presenters

Firetrap

Does the AA deliberately hire presenters with a high irritant factor to annoy already stressed motorists? There's one girl on Today FM whose delivery is so nasal you can't understand what she says and also makes me want to clear my nose

Nightwish

yes to all of the above. only Arts degree dropouts with the accent need apply

Johnny Storm

y'mean like the Red Cow "roy-ndebout"
WTF kind of accent is that anyway? It sounds like an irish person trying to be "posh" by trying to imitate a scumbag English person who is also trying to put on a posh accent (or something like that)

"scumbag" is not used in a perjorative type of way

grumpytrousers

Johnny Storm wrote:

y'mean like the Red Cow "roy-ndebout"
WTF kind of accent is that anyway? It sounds like an irish person trying to be "posh" by trying to imitate a scumbag English person who is also trying to put on a posh accent (or something like that)

"scumbag" is not used in a perjorative type of way

it's a DORT accent, innit...

Johnny Storm

grumpytrousers wrote:

it's a DORT accent, innit...

No doubt it is. But what can we do to eliminate it?

Mossy Monk

a question that has bothered me for a long time. why do they always take people from that street to do traffic reports

is_that_so

http://www.aaroadwatch.ie/presenters/

shuushh

christ those biatches are annoying

kennier

Ah Jaysus ye've just ruined my infatuation with Alison Byrne. I had a hot little blonde number in my mind. Thanks a lot. Feck sake

ifconfig

This is a pet annoyance of mine too -- ie: this accent that is seeping
into mainstream media. It isn't just the AA presenters -- some of
the younger business presenters are adopting it too. It isn't the "Dort"
accent which I remember when I was at college in the late 80's it
is some kind of transatlantic/sloane ranger London/D4 concoction.
I suppose Miriam O'Callaghan would also be an exponent of this
accent and that Labour TD Joan Burton has been infected with it too.
Tom Dunne might be too (debatable). It is widespread and contagious

selection = s-al-ahction
eleven = e-lah-vahn
roundabout = rewn-da-bite
house = hice
and lots more beside.

The Brits have already a name for this phenomenon see...

http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/estuary/home.htm

Estuary English.

Olivia O'Leary had a 5 minute radio piece about it about a year and a half
ago on 5-7 live. Her daughter and friends were talking about
"Ashtown shopping". She eventually found out it was "out of town shopping".
It reminds me of the time during the 1980s when most radio advertisting
had to have an English accent to have credibility. So Alan Stanford
and the likes did a lot of voiceovers (no offence to him - fine actor)
but to me it showed the low self esteem we had as a people for our
own accents and charm that we felt compelled to import in other
accents as the de-facto accent for credible advertising...

Christ.. this is turning in to a rant. I'll zip up now.

ifconfig

Firetrap

There is nothing worse than someone trying to disguise their accent. Once someone has a clear way of speaking and is easily understood, it shouldn't matter if they have a regional accent, be it Dublin, Cork, Donegal, Midlands or whatever. If people feel compelled to replace their own accent with the abomination that is the Dort accent, what does that say about us? I'm sure English language purists would say people with regional accents mispronounce words but it can't be any worse than the aforementioned hice and rewn-da-bite. And the AA presenter who's doing my nut in at the moment (Sinead Acton) seems to be mispronouncing words as well as she talks through her nose. Listen out for it

RevBlueJeans

Eric Keogh speaks too quickly and slurs his speech. Very annoying.

faceman

And how come they're all ugly too? I thought AA girls are supposed to be bimbos?

Sizzler

Is yer man Eric a steamer??? A tenner says he is !

BigDragon

Forget all the worst/best polls...

If you had to chose one, which one would get it?

BigDragon

BigDragon wrote:

Forget all the worst/best polls...

If you had to chose one, which one would get it?

Nicola Hudson would get my vote, she's a cutie.

HSo

Dervla Byrne's not bad either. Mind you Emma Caulfield has good upper body structure.

leche solara

I think Lisa Armstrong sounds sexy and she has a great laugh. Her picture is somewhat disappointing though.

KeithMur

Whatever about their looks...

When was the last time the gave correct traffic information. Every morning I think they read out yesterdays traffic.

"The N4 Lucan road is backed up to the Newcastle road juntion." Really well then WHY THE F@CK am I stopped before the Leixlip bridge, well WHY??????

Drives me crazy (Pun intended)

mike65

The fact AA feels we might be interested in how these dopes look says it all.

Mike.

deRanged

HSo wrote:

Dervla Byrne's not bad either.

She's a stunner. The pic on the website doesn't do her justice at all.

deRanged

deRanged wrote:

She's a stunner. The pic on the website doesn't do her justice at all.

I guessed it was a bad pic. I'd like to see a better one, lol.

FlutterinBantam

Nicola Hudson has a very neutral accent and very good diction.... she can shed my load anytime....

Eric Keogh does run his words into one another .....

mick70

FlutterinBantam wrote:

Nicola Hudson has a very neutral accent and very good diction.... she can shed my load anytime....

Eric Keogh does run his words into one another .....

Yeah, your one Nicola is pretty hot alright! Derv is a bit of a stunner too. I listen to Eric all the time on 2FM with Ruth and I think he sounds fine…great voice for radio and funny sometimes. Their information is renowned for being crap…why are people still talking about it after 15 years???!!