My boss is extremely posh

tesuhoha

Dunroamin wrote: »

Am I the only person who thinks these two statements don't go together?

The pub was his hobby.

Wife

Ok .. ok, the responses have made me giggle somewhat.

To be clear, I have absolutely nothing against anyone in life, regardless of what background they come from, their accent and most importantly...their ability to own a horse or a hamster

This was entirely a light hearted post, my boss does not look down his nose at me nor anyone he meets (and neither do I) - he is actually very charming and polite and to be honest, would take his (Barbour quadruple lined) riding jacket off his back if he thought you needed it. It was more about me and my shortcomings at understanding most things!

It seems some folk on here have thought I was having a go at a "posh" person and I'm entirely not. I didn't really like being called a troll or so many people 'thanking' that comment, but he ho, what can you do!

It's totally lighthearted and a bit of fun. If there is any offence taken, then please don't feel that way.

To some of you, you can laugh with or laugh at, I prefer the former.

A sense of humour is nice, you should pop out and grab one, I think they're bogof at Mr T's just now in time for early Christmas pressie shopping...

PolishBigSpender

coolcait wrote: »

That said, it can be very entertaining when accents collide. Like having an unadulterated west of Scotland accent read out proverbs to a group of overseas students.

In fairness, they did well - until they were faced with: 'Thu errrly burrd catchiss thu wurrum".

I absolutely adore Scottish accent, especially when men speak it (yes, my husband is from Aberdeen).

gregg1

PolishBigSpender wrote: »

Exactly, why is a nice, educated accent so funny?

In exactly the same way that other regional accents can be amusing sometimes.

Wife

We're all funny, amusing, bad, sad, quirky, silly, serious etc etc no matter where you're from. I too love the Scottish accent (I'm not Scottish) and it took me a very long time to understand some of the sayings, they too make me giggle!

Once a delivery driver arrived with a broad highlands west coast accent and asked if I wanted the shopping put on the bunker.... bunker? you mean as WWII hide under the ground from the bombs bunker? er, don't have one in a first floor flat and why would I want my sho...ohhhh sorry you call a kitchen worktop a bunker, then yes please! heh... love it.

who wants to be all the same... ? if we all spoke and looked the same we would get tired of looking at each other. variety is the spice of life and all that...

elsien

Reminds me of the friends I had, one from the north of Scotland, one broad Lancashire. Got on brilliantly on a day to day basis. Get a drink inside the pair of them and the accents broadened according to the number of pints so muggins here would spend the rest of the night acting as unofficial translator.

Gloomendoom

I remember my ex trying to have a row with a road workman who had blocked her car in. She is Glaswegian and the workman was from the Welsh valleys.

Neither one could understand a word each other said.

embob74

My ex boss was quite posh. Boarding school education, plenty of money from daddy and still called mum 'mummy'. The shame was he was a complete oaf, very derogatory to women and other races. IMO he became less posh as I always believed that one who is very posh would not dream of making somebody else feel inferior.
In contrast the landowner would visit my boss and he was as common as muck!! Very broad Yorkshire accent and still dealt with things the old fashioned way! And he was the most gentlemanly man I have ever met - he had a mouth like a sewer but would never swear in front of a woman.
The best thing was....he was a multi-millionaire and I know that really bugged my posh boss who had the show house,wife, kids, RangeRover, lifestlye but no money really!!

gregg1

Wife wrote: »

We're all funny, amusing, bad, sad, quirky, silly, serious etc etc no matter where you're from. I too love the Scottish accent (I'm not Scottish) and it took me a very long time to understand some of the sayings, they too make me giggle!

Once a delivery driver arrived with a broad highlands west coast accent and asked if I wanted the shopping put on the bunker.... bunker? you mean as WWII hide under the ground from the bombs bunker? er, don't have one in a first floor flat and why would I want my sho...ohhhh sorry you call a kitchen worktop a bunker, then yes please! heh... love it.

who wants to be all the same... ? if we all spoke and looked the same we would get tired of looking at each other. variety is the spice of life and all that...

Quite right. And who wants to be "politically correct" ALL the time. If we can't laugh at ourselves and others occasionally, life would be pretty dismal.

Welshwoofs

As an interesting factoid, some 10 years ago I left London and moved North for a few years. Whilst I was waiting to start another full-time job in my industry I did a few weeks as a temp at a call centre outside Chester for a well-known credit card company. I hadn't actually told them I had another job to go to, so it was with some amusement that on my 2nd to last day there I was fired because my "voice was too clipped". I asked the team leader who'd said it to clarify and was told that having listened to my calls they felt that my accent wasn't 'friendly'. I was being perfectly polite, saying everything on the script but my 'BBC accent' wasn't what they were looking for. I should add that in previous jobs I was the one called upon to do the messages for answering service messages because I had a 'posh accent'.

So there you go, it appears that in some walks of business having a 'posh accent' is a drawback.