Do all boardsies have the same accent in your head?

DirkVoodoo · 03-12-2008 01:31AM #1

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 · 03-12-2008 01:33AM

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

DirkVoodoo · 03-12-2008 01:34AM

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

Xavi6 · 03-12-2008 01:34AM

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

eVeNtInE · 03-12-2008 01:35AM

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Nevyn · 03-12-2008 01:35AM

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

Acacia · 03-12-2008 01:36AM

I sound posh?!

Jaysus!:pac:

brianthebard · 03-12-2008 01:36AM

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 · 03-12-2008 01:40AM

To me, everybody on boards sound like Kelsey Grammar.

SoWatchaWant · 03-12-2008 01:40AM

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 · 03-12-2008 01:45AM

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 · 03-12-2008 01:45AM

I sound like I'm from Sandymount. :P

MementoMori · 03-12-2008 01:49AM

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

Acacia · 03-12-2008 01:49AM

anonymous_joe wrote: »

I sound like I'm from Sandymount. :P

What does a Sandymount accent sound like?

Nevyn · 03-12-2008 01:52AM

brianthebard wrote: »

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

fyp

anonymous_joe · 03-12-2008 01:53AM

Acacia wrote: »

What does a Sandymount accent sound like?

Quite South Dublin. :pac:

monkeyfudge · 03-12-2008 01:53AM

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 · 03-12-2008 01:55AM

anonymous_joe wrote: »

Quite South Dublin. :pac:

Like, posh as fook, like?

deleriumtremens · 03-12-2008 01:55AM

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 · 03-12-2008 01:56AM

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 · 03-12-2008 01:57AM

They're just words to me....

Looks on the otherhand, I often imagine!!

anonymous_joe · 03-12-2008 01:57AM

Acacia wrote: »

Like, posh as fook, like?

It can be. Depends on the context.

Terry · 03-12-2008 01:58AM

I hear buttercup when I read monkeyfudge's posts.

I hear Hitler when I read Karoma's posts.

anonymous_joe · 03-12-2008 01:58AM

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 · 03-12-2008 02:07AM

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 · 03-12-2008 02:09AM

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 · 03-12-2008 02:09AM

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 · 03-12-2008 02:10AM

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

anonymous_joe · 03-12-2008 02:11AM

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 · 03-12-2008 02:12AM

Acacia wrote: »

What does a Sandymount accent sound like?

it sounds like a ringsend accent

anonymous_joe · 03-12-2008 02:14AM

admiralofthefleet wrote: »

it sounds like a ringsend accent

Hehe, depends what side of Sandymount. ^^

Do all boardsies have the same accent in your head?

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