mockney piers

worth a try I guess :-/

I've often seen roving knitters up Borough way in places like the Market Porter and the Royal Oak if that helps. Couldn't tell you anything more about them though.

Black or the new black? black

pop or stop? pop

Rather unimaginatively 'Spain'

Can anyone explain why missus mockney says "tirty tree and a turd"?

It sounds like one of those historical truisms that's bunkum to me. Especially as the S is pronounced s not th, which would be the case in a lisper. I guess it might be a differentiation thing, it may well have been a sign of courtly manners and dripped down from the court in Madrid, a bit like the ott haich in bygone days in London, an attempt to up your status through diction (we're back to Mrs Mangle arent we), so though the story maybe tosh, there may be an ounce of truth in the conthept.

The south adopted those long vowels in a specific bid to stop sounding like norvern mankees innit. Same thing happened in Madrid with all that lisping. In fact my relatives in Almeria don't seem to pronounce any letters at all, making spoken communication something of an issue, well for me at any rate. It happens everywhere. See also Mrs Mangle in Neighbours with her high falutin' tones.

Whoops, yeah yeah, Laurie.

I'm not saying it's a bad accent, it just doesn't actually exist in reality, and it's a bit whiny and annoying. Someone said the same thing of Hugh Grant's in House (minus the whiny bit, though he's actually a bloody whiny character thinking about it). Nobody in the US speaks like that, but people are always surprised to find out he's English because it's plausible enough to come from somewhere else in the US.

There's some voice coach here who does hollywood stars to do English Accents, and she seems to have gone for a slightly clipped nasal English which really winds me up. See Sliding Doors, Bridget Jones films etc. I'm pretty sure there have been good ones though, any nominations? Gillian Anderson is great, but then she spent her teenage years here, so maybe doesn't count.

Ha ha, so true Otta, that makes an otherwise terrible film into a masterpiece, watching him struggle with that accent throughout has a sort of car-crash mesmerism about it. He's actually a geordie too but he's lived in the states for so long that his natural accent is this weird garbled mish-mash that you can't even call mid-atlantic. In fact if anyone says 'mid-atlantic' I always hear Lloyd Grossman in pre 'cooking doesnt get tougher than this' masterchef mode.

And that gargantuan satchel can be something of a burden too.

Hands up, I used to be mockney_piers, but that underscore, so superfluous. Returnee's what btw? And which one, the self outee?

I think there may have been an xkcd effect then.

Eh? Mathematics -> quantity is the pall mall to philosophy, not a loop. Though i have found a loop....

Nope, handyman was 13. Quickly hit the sciences and then you're doomed. The rule is first word not in parantheses or italics.

BAh, trumped

Battle of the Alamo takes 20.

most, 18 must be pretty good. Chewing gum was 16, Blackbird 13. Seems we have a target to beat people.

love = marmite hate = Denmark, boo hiss, how very dare they!!!

Obama in England Beautifully summed up, as ever, by the mash. "[Obama said] "In America we give crowns to beauty queens. Okay, so they are just dim-witted pawns in some decadent, capitalist sideshow, but at least they fucking earned it. "Not like this old white woman, who tries to justify her ill-gotten luxury with words like 'heritage' and 'continuity' as if we are all just dumb-assed field slaves who don't know nothin' anyhow." The President continued: "If you think you can wave this imperialist horseshit under my nose and I won't say anything, you must be out of your tiny, inbred minds. "I am now going to France where they know what to do with people like you.""

Maybe I accidentally ate one, because I could have sworn I saw laddy muck drifting about 30 ft above goose green just now.

...and chewing gum.

"Wikipedia trivia: if you take any article, click on the first link in the article text not in parentheses or italics, and then repeat, you will eventually end up at "Philosophy""* Wow, tried it on Blackbird and it worked. *from xkcd