*Why* do I have a weakness for accents? What's that about? I should be over that, I really should. Yet, there's an accented guy on the call right now, and whoa.
Not all accents, because that would make me easy, and never that. But still--too many.
Honestly, you meet the most appalling sort of people....
Giles ,'Chosen'
Natter 66: Get Your Kicks.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, pandas, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
§ ita § - Jul 12, 2010 12:54:39 pm PDT #11902 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Connie Neil - Jul 12, 2010 12:56:55 pm PDT #11903 of 30001
brillig
I once hung up on an irritated Scottish man on a work call because I could not handle an intense, passionate-even-if-he-was-pissed voice like that.
§ ita § - Jul 12, 2010 1:01:58 pm PDT #11904 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
It doesn't hurt that this guy is talking big brains techy stuff.
Vortex - Jul 12, 2010 1:13:30 pm PDT #11905 of 30001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
*Why* do I have a weakness for accents? What's that about? I should be over that, I really should. Yet, there's an accented guy on the call right now, and whoa.
I have a friend who is British, but grew up in the States and worked hard to get rid of his accent because he kept getting teased. Now, he sounds like a normal 'murikin. I was vastly amused when he told me about explaining this to a very drunk female friend, who looked at him and said "Dude, do you know how much pussy you could be getting with an accent?"
megan walker - Jul 12, 2010 1:13:51 pm PDT #11906 of 30001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
::bâts ëyëlàshes ät îtà
Jesse - Jul 12, 2010 1:28:46 pm PDT #11907 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
The Irish pub I went to for lunch is staffed with Actual Irish People -- at least, my waitress was Irish, and I heard a guy with an Irish accent -- because you know that keeps people coming back!
Amy - Jul 12, 2010 1:32:08 pm PDT #11908 of 30001
Because books.
I watched twenty minutes of some really boring documentary about otters last night because the guy narrating was Scottish.
§ ita § - Jul 12, 2010 1:36:31 pm PDT #11909 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
::swoons at megan::
I'm suckered by accents that are different from what I grew up with, but...also a sucker for most London or Jamaican accents. So it's not even strictly a factor of other.
And I feel I should be doing my part by having a default accent other than generic American with suspicious undertones, but unless I'm over-excited (and I try to never be that) I have nothing to offer.
billytea - Jul 12, 2010 1:42:14 pm PDT #11910 of 30001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Which is appropriate, as Yoda a Godless heathen is.
I knew a guy in the FAC who believed that the entire Star Wars story was a corruption of the Bible, turned around to make Satan the good guy. Darth Vader's secret identity? Jesus Christ. I kid you not.
Jesse - Jul 12, 2010 1:42:30 pm PDT #11911 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Wait. Are you sure you're not a Russian spy, ita??