• Mr_Blott@lemmy.world
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      Anyone who includes Fife and Dundee as having a stuck up and pretentious accent is either deaf or geographically challenged

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        Yeah, my sister-in-law’s family are from Dundee. I can definitely confirm that.

        They clearly meant to get Edinburgh (although that also implies they’ve never been to Edinburgh) but went too wide.

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          My mum was born in Dundee. When she went to work on the switchboard at the gas company as a teenager, the very first thing they did was send her to an elocution class to get rid of the Dundee accent 😂

          To her dying day, she still answered the phone like Hyacinth Bucket

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    As a Canadian I’m not entirely sure what region it is that “punches horses” but it got a chuckle out of me.

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    As a resident of Southampton, I take issue with Portsmouth being deemed enlightened, while we’re considered savages. That’s entirely the wrong way round.

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    I saw the bakeries one first - fooled me into thinking this was sincere haha

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    I was very confused by the shape of this United Kingdom. For reference, this is what it + the non-UK part of Ireland actually looks like:

    I’m guessing, they left out all the islands, but even then, it still doesn’t look terribly accurate to me, so no idea…

    Edit: Added clarification about Southern Ireland.

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      Careful what you call United Kingdom! They left out Ireland because it’s not part of UK

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        Ah yeah, good point. I was very confused by Southern Ireland missing on their map, too, but my comment made it sound like that’s part of the UK.

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          You also want to be careful using terms like ‘Southern Ireland’. Northern Ireland is a thing, and the Republic of Ireland is a thing…

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            Yes, I decided to call it “Southern Ireland”, because I doubt many people outside of Europe will know which one of the two Irelands is the “Republic of Ireland”.

            I did look up beforehand, if I’m allowed to say “Southern Ireland” without being crucified and Wikipedia said yes maybe: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Ireland

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      They rotated it slightly to get the south coast more horizontal and binned off most islands (the Shetlands and Orkneys I can understand but the Isle of Man wasn’t in the way).so they could pack more into the space.

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    Post-industrial depression landscape in the Cumbrian mountains? Or Yorkshire? The Pennines?

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    Mostly attacking Scotland and anywhere that isn’t london. Shite.

    Accents are a million so not a good way to divide.

    Also whoever did this. Do you think Scot’s sit around eating haggis all day drinking whiskey and playing the bagpipes ?

    A child perhaps or London knob. Racist

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      Do you think Scot’s sit around eating haggis all day drinking whiskey and playing the bagpipes ?

      Of course. All while wearing kilts and tossing tree trunks.

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        I think racist comments aren’t meant to be serious. Doesn’t change the outcome.

        I grasp that but I don’t find it amusing. It’s just crap stereotypes.

        Maybe try a bit harder next time. Something original. Maybe something about Scot’s being tightfisted or shagging sheep. Something brand new