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I think I sound a little more northern when I am crabby lol - but I also adapt a lot depending on who I am talking to. People make assumptions about me based on my accent. I once had a blind date with a guy who wouldn't talk to me and eventually it materialised he was terrified he might swear because he had assumed from my accent this would offend me.
Haha! That's hilarious. You do sound rather posh. And could probably make a living reading kids' audio books like your clip.
 

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You do sound rather posh.
Ya think?! @Freya gets more posh than this post (or the one on the front page) sound too. Its actually somethin' else.

And could probably make a living reading kids' audio books like your clip.
Funny, she goes to look at reading books online and they want her to read..um.. well, not childrens books.
 

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I think I sound a little more northern when I am crabby lol - but I also adapt a lot depending on who I am talking to. People make assumptions about me based on my accent. I once had a blind date with a guy who wouldn't talk to me and eventually it materialised he was terrified he might swear because he had assumed from my accent this would offend me.
Honestly, that kinda sounds like me. The only way I know how to not swear is to just not talk. But if someone is the type to genuinely be bothered by a bit of coarse language, then I‘m sure they can find at least half a dozen things to hate about me before I even open my mouth.
 

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Honestly, that kinda sounds like me. The only way I know how to not swear is to just not talk. But if someone is the type to genuinely be bothered by a bit of coarse language, then I‘m sure they can find at least half a dozen things to hate about me before I even open my mouth.
Language is just words I think. There are words I don't like because of the motivation behind the words but in general - eh. Though I appreciate that my voice doesn't sound that way and I used to almost never swear. Monkey-boy has had a very bad influence on that.

I remember once when I was teaching - a class of 15/16 year olds who were considered by the school to be so problematic they had put them ALL in the same class to prevent them from disrupting other classes and called them 'the cess pit' - and I had drawn the 'short straw'. I adored those kids and we had a good relationship, so when I had a lesson observation they tried really hard to behave well and make me look good. So I have a lesson observation going on with someone from the local authority (and I am HATING this obviously because who wants to be watched) and we are reading a poem about vultures that is on the exam syllabus. It's all about vultures picking at a corpse - eating the entrails, plucking the eyes, whatever. So I read it out loud and then ask "so, what have we learned about the vultures". A child whose nickname is genuinely 'Brickhead' raises a hand. And I am thinking holy crap - hand raising? They really ARE on good behavior. So I'm feeling confident when I say "Chris, go ahead..." and he REALLY thinks he's trying to be helpful and good by answering a question... and he says...

"That they're FUCKING dirty c*nts, miss"

And of course I laugh until I cry. Which probably isn't what the observer from the local authority thought I should be doing in that situation.... :/
 

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