LOL. Well if you get it right, then you win forever our admiration. Watch a lot of TV from the UK. You will get in tune. :)

People in the UK and Ireland love Southern and Appalachian accents. As someone said to me “y’all love the drawl”. Though be prepared for some very bad mimicking and impressions. But someone who talks like Seasick Steve is considered extra special. You are considered strange and unusual. We usually just get prissy…

It is on Sky Atlantic late and has a dedicated following. But he is still mostly unknown in the UK.

People from the Maritimes sound like people from Scotland and Ireland. It used to take me aback when I heard a true accent because similarities.

but loud for the local crowd I guess

Most Irish people do not automatically love America and Americans. Some have a connection and therefore a fondness (not a love) but some have an outright hatred. People in Ireland are mostly very polite to people who are respectful of their own manners and are tolerant of those who are not. The JFK thing was 50 years…

Isn’t it funny how so many people have opinions on our Northern accents. I couldn’t give a shit about how other people speak. Try being a Skem Scouser down south. Fuck me, everyone has thoughts. :) I understand some people are Scouse to the point of incomprehensible and have that ccchhhhh voice in their throat all the…

It’s like a Southern British accent.

Perhaps. Original American accents (like 300 years ago) on the early coastal settlements evolved from regional accents like those from Norfolk and the Fens in the UK. See the study on the dialect of Tangier Island and Outer Banks (in Virginia). But not talking about recently though. Some places in North America do…

American accents vary. Some are flat and very very nasal and annoying like Kardashians. Some are lovely to hear like regional dialects and older voices with no vocal fry. Most of the generic voices we hear on UK TV are more the former, alas. There are some podcasts I simply cannot listen too because people have a…

Funny because I have one of those much criticised ‘ugly’ accents* and people in America could not tell the fucking difference at all. Only in super strong cases. Most of the time we sound generic and most everyone is nice about our voices. Some individuals are gushing to the point it makes you feel uncomfortable.

gargled Manchester utterances

That is what Christoph Waltz said. He is a fucking legend.

And now Heckler Farage has fucked off to do consultancy. IN EUROPE.

Hirst is no historian. At all. I wouldn’t even approach it for ‘accuracy’ - it is pure storytelling with some true bits thrown in the pile. It is pantomine. Pure entertainment. :)

It is funny especially when you come from the UK. The dialogue is hokey as fuck. And those accents everyone does lol. I like it when everyone pretends they can’t understand each other and speak some other language then everyone goes back to speaking English. I do watch it though. The Tudors was a pile of shit, in…

She wished her Jewish inlaws would drown and that the world wouldn’t miss them. Anyone Jewish is mention as a Jew first and foremost. Sir Philip Sassoon was to her an “unbred Whitechapel jew” and nothing more. Sours her work because she mentions it quite often and it is often an irrelevant observation to the subject.

We have had a ton of BBC worthy adaption about this group of people and few of them show the reality. There is a lot of revisionism about attitudes and showing the group members as some how as paragons of freedom. Lots of nice costumes and houses in Devon etc. Some do include being pissed up, crying and hating each…

They were a group of friends in extreme privilege, some of whom were artists who produced work. Others were people who fucked each other and thought about it a lot. As a working class British person from the provinces, I have little or no interest in what they represent. I hated Mrs Dalloway and don’t mind saying so.…

Fair enough point for a 60 plus parent. I have a family member who had a child in his late 50s with a much younger partner. These is a valid concern in those circumstances and we have always discussed it. My mother had me naturally as a weird quirk of nature - like Cherie Blair. So again different situation. As I…