The snobbery question

Shan75 · 02-12-2007 01:51AM

There are a lot of kids/teenagers who are putting on dodgy accents nowadays.I guess this is some kind of a badge of honour in that on the streets you get more respect if there is a hint of dodginess about you.I really cannot understand this mentality at all.I certainly am glad I am not one of those awful people.

leninbenjamin · 02-12-2007 02:23AM

I hear the Dublin accent and think thank god I'm not one of those people.

phasers · 02-12-2007 09:48AM

I certainly do, and I laugh about it with Tarquin and Charles at the country club while out butlers serve us expensive drinks

ciaran76 · 02-12-2007 10:12AM

phasers wrote: »

I certainly do, and I laugh about it with Tarquin and Charles at the country club while out butlers serve us expensive drinks

Duch Gold isn't expensive !!!!

phasers · 02-12-2007 10:31AM

ciaran76 wrote: »

Duch Gold isn't expensive !!!!

I've been mislead

I will be video phoning the barristers poste haste

a good friend of mine is a judge, you know

Oswald Osbourne · 02-12-2007 10:40AM

phasers wrote: »

a good friend of mine is a judge, you know

Judge Reinhold?

phasers · 02-12-2007 10:46AM

Oswald Osbourne wrote: »

Judge Reinhold?

Judge Dredd actually

Pherekydes · 02-12-2007 11:04AM

SlinkyToo wrote: »

Kernal of sense perhap?

Your slip is showing.

Mossy Monk · 02-12-2007 11:19AM

SlinkyToo wrote: »

If you hear a country or north dub accent do you Thank God you are not one of those awful people?

Reading this makes me wonder how much of an arsehole some people can be.

arybvtcw0eolkf · 02-12-2007 11:23AM

I would so, like, kill myself if I sounded like one of those Finglas or Ballymun breadliners .. OMG :eek: how awful would that be!.

Colonel Sanders · 02-12-2007 12:20PM

KTRIC wrote: »

I work in a big international company in Munich and another Irish guy started recently in another department. I met him the day he started to introduce myself, me being one of the few Irish in that office I thought it would be nice to say hello. The first thing I noticed is that he puts on heirs and graces's and trys to sound posh or even American. He's from south county Dublin , and you'd think by the way he talks hes a yank.
I noticed after a few minutes talking to him he looses his fake accent, but still use's it with the locals.

Why do people seem to think they need to do this ??

I never get this kinda crap either. I used to live with a girl from waterfoed and you always knew if she was on the phone to someone from home (natural waterford accent) or one of her friends living in dublin (put on posh D4 type accent). Another girl came to view the house one night when we were advertising for a new house mate. Said she was from cork. One of the others commented that she didn't have a cork accent, she replied ''No, I've lost that thank god". You'd always get one person in college who went to America on a J1 visa for 3 months and has talked with an american accent subsequently

The way I look at it you are from where you're from and I really don't get this whole ''wannabe'' mentality where people try to be what they're not. Whether its trying to fit in with people or what I dn't know.

Nevyn · 02-12-2007 12:53PM

Mairt wrote: »

I would so, like, kill myself if I sounded like one of those Finglas or Ballymun breadliners .. OMG :eek: how awful would that be!.

Oh yes cos there are no skangers with gods awful accents on the southside :rolleyes:

SlinkyToo · 02-12-2007 12:56PM

I think we all just agree that no matter the accent we are all intolerant and judgmental.

connundrum · 02-12-2007 01:43PM

SlinkyToo wrote: »

I think we all just agree that no matter the accent we are all intolerant and judgmental.

Excellent summary. Regardless of what upbringing each of us has experienced, once we hear certain accents we instantly become intolerant and judgemental.

We can now close this thread as the OP has drawn a final and logical conclusion.

Pherekydes · 02-12-2007 02:43PM

SlinkyToo wrote: »

I think we all just agree that no matter the accent we are all intolerant and judgmental.

Disagree completely. Stupid, sweeping statements. :rolleyes:

Firetrap · 02-12-2007 03:10PM

I don't mind if someone has a north Dublin accent or a Cavan accent or whatever. It's just the accent of where they come from and I'd never judge them on that.

What does get my goat though is people who put on affected accents like American or English or D4. I remember classmates of mine who went to college with country accents and came back at Christmas talking with a snooty accent. Of course, it always slips and they mispronounce something the bogger way. Hee hee.

SlinkyToo · 02-12-2007 07:48PM

seems to be a majority of non D4s with accent envy

biko · 02-12-2007 08:32PM

SlinkyToo wrote: »

If you hear a country or north dub accent do you Thank God you are not one of those awful people?

So the only good accent is a South Dublin one? In... my... hole...

SlinkyToo · 02-12-2007 09:00PM

case in point

Shellie13 · 02-12-2007 09:02PM

im from "the country" and if im told i have a dub accent (which happens ALOT) i blush!
i hate them!!!

love the western accents n Northern (now thats sexy!!!)

juuge · 02-12-2007 09:24PM

KTRIC wrote: »

I work in a big international company in Munich and another Irish guy started recently in another department. I met him the day he started to introduce myself, me being one of the few Irish in that office I thought it would be nice to say hello. The first thing I noticed is that he puts on heirs and graces's and trys to sound posh or even American. He's from south county Dublin , and you'd think by the way he talks hes a yank.
I noticed after a few minutes talking to him he looses his fake accent, but still use's it with the locals.

Why do people seem to think they need to do this ??

Ask Twink !

SpAcEd OuT · 02-12-2007 11:30PM

the thought of being in the same vicinity with someone who has a working class accent disturbs me immensely.

Hence why I do my shopping at Dundrum, socializing at Club92 and everything else at my fock off mansion in D4.

Lands Leaving · 02-12-2007 11:40PM

There's no point judging by an accent, but I can honestly say I've never been able to get on with someone with that stereotypical D4 accent. I'm sure there's nice people with that accent, but I'm yet to meet someone who says roysh whoi isn't a vacuous, self-obsessed moron. Just my experience though...

MagicMarker · 02-12-2007 11:40PM

I only look down my nose at people who are poorer than me.

As for accents, some peoples accents subconciously change depending on their social setting.

Dudess · 02-12-2007 11:58PM

MagicMarker wrote: »

I only look down my nose at people who are poorer than me.

I hear the sound of sh*t being stirred.

And OP, I couldn't give a flying f*ck what a person's accent is.

Driver 8 · 03-12-2007 12:18AM

"Lights from the grand palace, blind me
Haves cannot stand.....have nots"

Snobbery is a disease

03-12-2007 12:47AM

MagicMarker wrote: »

As for accents, some peoples accents subconciously change depending on their social setting.

Adjusting your accent to mirror that of the person your communicating with is an effective people skill. We are all more comfortable with people who are like us.

Latchy · 03-12-2007 12:53AM

ol chinese proverb

'' Winning millions on the lotto dont meen your going mix with royalty ''

but would you want to anyway ?

alleepally · 03-12-2007 01:17AM

We all have an implicit bias whether we realise it or not.

Take the Implicit Association Test for Race as an example.

http://www.understandingprejudice.org/iat/index2.htm

Over a million people have taken the test and EVERYONE has an implicit bias. This applies to race, gender, accent etc etc. So, this debate could go on forever and you can call it snobbery, but psychologists will call it implicit bias.

alleepally · 03-12-2007 01:19AM

Moonbaby wrote: »

Adjusting your accent to mirror that of the person your communicating with is an effective people skill. We are all more comfortable with people who are like us.

Very true, we like people that are like us. Proponents of Neuro Linguistic Programming teach the mirroring concept.

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