The Good News Thread

[Montegriffo]

I agree, regional accents are an acceptance of your roots and not something to be mocked unless they are mere affectations. TheOneX makes a valid point about its barriers to communication though as evidenced by my failure to understand what the two gentlemen in DB's vid were saying. I suspect their dialect is an affectation though and not one learned from their parents like a real regional accent.

I believe I read last year that the London Cockney Accent is basically extinct................. Sad.

Reports of its death are greatly exaggerated.
Sounds like the kind of nonsense a rag like Gateway Pundit would write to make some anti-immigration point.

[C-Mag]

Here's an article on several. I've never heard of Yola before
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... h-language

[Hastur]

Well that's clear as mud.

The Atlantic is the Ocean between your Island and the East Coast of the USA.
You must've seen it on a globe at some point.

I've even sailed to Portugal on it but it was the Gordon Ramsay question I was hoping for clarity on.

Did you get an explanation for the Gordon Ramsay question? My brain is stuck in Cockney rhyming slang mode trying to figure it out.

[Montegriffo]

The Atlantic is the Ocean between your Island and the East Coast of the USA.
You must've seen it on a globe at some point.

I've even sailed to Portugal on it but it was the Gordon Ramsay question I was hoping for clarity on.

Did you get an explanation for the Gordon Ramsay question? My brain is stuck in Cockney rhyming slang mode trying to figure it out.

Haven't got a Scooby Doo, the Berkshire hunts won't tell me.

[Hastur]

I've even sailed to Portugal on it but it was the Gordon Ramsay question I was hoping for clarity on.

Did you get an explanation for the Gordon Ramsay question? My brain is stuck in Cockney rhyming slang mode trying to figure it out.

Haven't got a Scooby Doo, the Berkshire hunts won't tell me.

Thanks for the catharsis.

[DBTrek]

I've even sailed to Portugal on it but it was the Gordon Ramsay question I was hoping for clarity on.

Did you get an explanation for the Gordon Ramsay question? My brain is stuck in Cockney rhyming slang mode trying to figure it out.

Haven't got a Scooby Doo, the Berkshire hunts won't tell me.

The Gordon Ramsay connection is lifted from a verse about mid-way through:

Shawn Michaels at parties, I'm high kicking (High kicking)
Monkey nuts on big choppers and side bitches (Side bitches)
A Gordon Ramsay entrée with a side dish (Side dishes)
2007 in class with a sidekick (Sidekick)
Subwoofers installed in white Benzes (White Benzes)
Gang members involved with tight fitteds (Tight fitteds)

That's it.
They had to grab one of the lines to title the rap, and for whatever reason, they picked that one.

[Montegriffo]

Did you get an explanation for the Gordon Ramsay question? My brain is stuck in Cockney rhyming slang mode trying to figure it out.

Haven't got a Scooby Doo, the Berkshire hunts won't tell me.

The Gordon Ramsay connection is lifted from a verse about mid-way through:

Shawn Michaels at parties, I'm high kicking (High kicking)
Monkey nuts on big choppers and side bitches (Side bitches)
A Gordon Ramsay entrée with a side dish (Side dishes)
2007 in class with a sidekick (Sidekick)
Subwoofers installed in white Benzes (White Benzes)
Gang members involved with tight fitteds (Tight fitteds)

That's it.
They had to grab one of the lines to title the rap, and for whatever reason, they picked that one.

Thanks.
I'll cross you off the Berk list.

[SuburbanFarmer]

Thank god someone translated, because I certainly wasn’t going to watch any more of that.

[DBTrek]

Thank god someone translated, because I certainly wasn’t going to watch any more of that.

Aren't you special.

[Hastur]

Did you get an explanation for the Gordon Ramsay question? My brain is stuck in Cockney rhyming slang mode trying to figure it out.

Haven't got a Scooby Doo, the Berkshire hunts won't tell me.

The Gordon Ramsay connection is lifted from a verse about mid-way through:

Shawn Michaels at parties, I'm high kicking (High kicking)
Monkey nuts on big choppers and side bitches (Side bitches)
A Gordon Ramsay entrée with a side dish (Side dishes)
2007 in class with a sidekick (Sidekick)
Subwoofers installed in white Benzes (White Benzes)
Gang members involved with tight fitteds (Tight fitteds)

That's it.
They had to grab one of the lines to title the rap, and for whatever reason, they picked that one.

How quaint. Thanks for the explanation.