As I'm not British and not subject to the prejudices of being raised to believe any British accent is inferior, nor having a vote in who is Prime Minister, I am very much the wrong person to ask.

This has nothing to do with my own personal opinion that they sound lovely.

I get you re: which accents are maligned in the UK itself. As an outsider I think it's a bit more down to personal preference, especially when I was younger and had never been there before and didn't have the historical knowledge or experiences I have now. For example, I still don't see anything unpleasant about the…

Aww boo. Do you get that feeling like 2 days into a sickness that you should just stop drinking because eventually your body has to run out of fluid to make liquid nastiness with? Like, you'd be a dried up husk, but at least everything wouldn't be fucking running all the time?

Any time you have stuff coming out of more than one orifice at a time, it's a fucking nightmare. I don't care if you're sneezing while peeing, crying while pooping, popping zits on your period (pores count as an orifice for the purposes of grossness), it's just. fucking. unfair.

Does it count as a joke when the punchline is just: reality? Don't care, I love her she is maybe perfect.

I am super into it, unabashedly. Can you IMAGINE what the average syllable-per-sentence count would be in that conversation?

But dancing around all your handbags in a pile is such a good idea, though! Much better than bouncing around with your Coach knockoff repeatedly smacking into your left boob. For that one alone, I'm going to say Essex girls are a lot brighter than they're given credit for (which, to be fair, they'd have to be).

My impression was that she was wooden and rude, but that Noel Fielding's continued exuberance carried the day. YMMV I suppose.

"Oh no, I love Mindy Kaling but hate all the Kardashians!" scream all the people who don't understand that a cornerstone of every Mindy Kaling character is her exuberant, unabashed love for everything pop culture. Like, one of her primary points with these characters is that type of judgment is inherently based in…

R...iiight, but the poll was specifically about variations on accented English, so it wasn't really a place to showcase that knowledge.

Slightly related, but when I was on study abroad in London (my first time out of the US) I worked in an office with a lady from Essex. I didn't know she was from Essex because at the time I was not au fait enough with the regional variations in the English accent. So I, innocently enough, asked her where she was from.

They lumped it in with "British," because no one conducting this survey understood how things work. All I want in life is a dapper, gentle, funny man with a Welsh accent to come sit with me in the constant rain.

I agree. She has an eminently smackable face and she was abrasive to Noel Fielding on Never Mind the Buzzcocks (which is unacceptable - Noel is a bunny rabbit in black leather bat wings). But she should absolutely go after whatever creepy jerk passed her info around with everything she's got.

This whole study makes no sense. Any questions that purport to be about accents but treat every country as possessed of one monolithic accent is idiotic, and England has a particularly dense spread of accent variations. If your question treats the "English accent" as a single thing, you are necessarily taking your…

I once was out at a restaurant with 3 friends, 2 of whom had only come because I promised to pay the tip (we were all in college and poor, it's not that they didn't want to come, but that they were on tight budgets). We had the check split 4 ways, and of COURSE when it came down to it I forgot to tip more than my own…

With Gadaffi hanging out in that Libyan convenience store's freezer for however long it was, one more makes it a trend! Whose corpse would you pay to see, and would it be from a sense of schadenfreude (Manson, presumably) or respect (like say, Lenin)?

I have only ever experienced an inattentive or slightly surly server overseas, and to be honest I kind of like it. It tells me those people aren't in desperate fear of losing their livelihoods over every nitpick I or another asshole might make.

You have just cleared up my ongoing mystery about who Iggy Azalea reminds me of literally all the time.

I would also like to mention that under the stage lights, her wack makeup looks like she's actually in whiteface. Which in its own way would be hilarious/appropriate.