See You Jimmy……
The most senior Labour Party official in Britain was caught up in a bizarre racism row last night after he was accused of insulting people who speak with a Scottish accent.
A formal complaint of racism was made against Labour General Secretary Ray Collins when he asked for a ‘translation’ of comments made by a man from Glasgow.
It would appear that I am also racist, when watching Rab C Nesbitt I need to put on subtitles. The same would apply to some people watching Auf Wiedersehn Pet.
The Racism card is being played too often at the moment. What is racist about this?
Are people so sensitive about their regional accents. When I get through to a call centre in Mumbai and cannot understand the person on the line does that also make me a racist?
What next, state funded elocution lessons?
You couldn’t make it up.
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March 15, 2009 at 17:59 -
Can anybody understand Lorraine Kelly? By the time I have got past the false smile and the horrible grimaces, I can’t understand a bloody word!
When she starts all the horrible screeching and shrieking my cats run upstairs and hide in the wardrobes.
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March 15, 2009 at 18:16 -
She says “Tha’s trroo, vairy trrroo” rather a lot.
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March 15, 2009 at 18:19 -
Poor Ray Collins! This is really rotten and just an excuse and take another swipe at Labour.
I know what he means though! I have been trying to understand Gerry McCann for nearly two years! Whatever it is I think he said ……….. I have obviously misheard ………….. And then when I listen to it again …………… it sounds like he is telling a different story.
It’s not just the Scots though ………… It happens to me with certain Liverpudlians ………….. like Gerry’s wife for instance! I think she has said one thing and then I listen again ………… and yeah! You guessed it …………….. completely different!
I am with you on this General Sting-Ray! Get your secretary to tell her secretary that you need another secretary to sit with the Scots regularly and find out what they are trying to tell the English! They want more tax on chocolate today!
I think we should tax a few Scots for having big gobs and giving their country bad Press!
Let us have a Select Committee For Gobby Scots Without Substance.
I wonder what that would look like on telly!
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March 15, 2009 at 18:25 -
I’ve never heard her quite so mean with the vowels as that Gloria!
I only hear , Thaaaat’s vaiyery vayyery trewwooohh!
Probably the only woman to do with a triphthong with ‘a’. I am training my telly to switch off if ever Boyzone or Take That come on LK Today because my ears ring all day and my teeth feel like I have been eating raw lemons.
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March 15, 2009 at 18:34 -
We must admit one thing about getting through to Mumbai though Saul.
At least they sound like they want to help and they are always polite. Not like the morons I get on the phone when I ring my utility providers in the UK.
The Mumbai guys and gals always wish me a good day and send me away with blessings and invitations to call back with their full name and extension numbers ………….. and ask me to comment on their efficiency.
In the UK you end up feeling like you should send somebody a tip or a cheque if they are even half helpful ……………. And always put the phone down if you want to speak to a manager! Grrrrr!
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March 15, 2009 at 18:38 -
aye dunno warallthefussisabout la, noworramean, ay? cos, looookla, itslikedis, wenigrewup in dekapitolofdenorthandwalesaneyeland yercuddnt understandanyoneanyhowanyway yerjusgorronwithi andedguditwastoo
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March 15, 2009 at 18:50 -
But the Northerners and Welsh do a lot of this without even moving their lips Blink! At least Northerners and the Welsh don’t treat the nation to a gum inspection!
Nor do Northerners and the Welsh invade my bedroom every morning with two rows of little teeth gnashing away as they fight their way through all the lip-gloss.
I saw the film ‘Piranha’ when I was a child ………….. Lorraine Kelly gives me flash-backs like I never had from acid-tabs!
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March 15, 2009 at 19:24 -
“Nor do Northerners and the Welsh invade my bedroom every morning…..”
itcanbearranged, like, yernowarramean….tinkcilla,arecillaand bereconciled….
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March 15, 2009 at 19:34 -
Even worse than most Scottish accents is Tyne & Wear accents – there’s more chance of understanding them if you’re Norwegian.
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March 15, 2009 at 19:40 -
Send me some stunning Welsh Guards and Sean Bean then ……….. if you would please Blink! And a case of Scotch and a vegetarian haggis!
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March 15, 2009 at 19:41 -
Blink! Just Gordie’s head in the case please! Not all the fat that hangs off it!
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March 15, 2009 at 19:41 -
Janes ………….. They are easier to trick into bed when they are like that!
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March 15, 2009 at 19:45 -
I never thought anyone from Tyne & Wear needed to be tricked into bed.
However, Hard Rock Cafe is a good place to take anyone who can’t speak English or who needs subtitles. And the food is good.
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March 15, 2009 at 19:59 -
Janes …………
Oh my God! You have just done the same thing as General Sting-Ray! Crumbs! The Tyne and Wear Council will have to take us to Court for errrrrr …………… something! ………… Why does everybody sue for everything these days? What is wrong with giving somebody a good hiding or burning their house down like in the old days?Why is it always about the money??? Much easier to run somebody over in a car with false plates on or cause a crash in a Parisian tunnel.
Where has this country’s imagination got to?
Bring it back! ………….. Bloody sueing! Tut! The Clan have started this caper! The Clan and ………….. errrrr ………… Catherine Zeta Jones! That’s who!
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March 15, 2009 at 22:08 -
………… And Jeffrey Archer!
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March 15, 2009 at 22:10 -
………… Who went to a prison …………. in the end …………… For saying that he hadn’t done something …………. that he had done.
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March 15, 2009 at 22:11 -
In the old days …………. when the Press got a story …………. ans had the balls to print it ………….life was much less complicated in the UK.
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March 16, 2009 at 18:31 -
I remember at school being taught that no British accents are incomprehensible and it’s only our prejudice against the lower classes and non R.P. speech that means we think we can’t understand it.
So, according to the old leftie ideology (it was a very old, very Glaswegian teacher) it was racism (or regionalism – does anyone use that in the media – again – we got taught it in school). Also some scientific survey backed the findings up.
I myself get hassled all the time because my accent is too English.
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