What do PHers sound like?
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Taken from another thread:
When you read a PHer's post style, what voice and mannerisms come to mind? When Ted chips in, I get this image of a traditional headmaster type, making sure it doesn't get out of hand, but that's probably down to what he's got to do, whilst the PH coppers (Mungo, Dibble, Street
) make me think of an off-the-cuff version of The Bill - "D'ya want to know where the scameras are, eh? It'll cost you..."
Forget what they look like - what do they sound like?
and who do you think I come across like...
I said:
I reckon we subconsciously put accents on all the posts even though we're completely wrong. For some reason I end up reading Wildcat's posts in a Frau Farbissina (Austin Powers) voice.
Then again, I have this (probably totally untrue) image of derestrictor sitting in a torch-lit baronial study in an enormous green leather button-backed armchair with a big cigar and a glass of brandy, watching the PH posts roll by on a special sepia monitor, waiting for something to provoke him into a volley of thesaurus-sourced vowellage. And I read his posts in the style of Rowley Birkin ("Of course at the time I was very, very drunk") from the Fast Show
When you read a PHer's post style, what voice and mannerisms come to mind? When Ted chips in, I get this image of a traditional headmaster type, making sure it doesn't get out of hand, but that's probably down to what he's got to do, whilst the PH coppers (Mungo, Dibble, Street
) make me think of an off-the-cuff version of The Bill - "D'ya want to know where the scameras are, eh? It'll cost you..." Forget what they look like - what do they sound like?
and who do you think I come across like...
Slight thread hijack but has anyone else been surprised at what they sound like when they hear a recording of their voice played back? I used to think I was quite well spoken but when I heard a recording I thought sounded like an east end barrow boy 
Back on topic but I always read Der’s posts as Marlon Brando at the end of Apocalypse Now.
Back on topic but I always read Der’s posts as Marlon Brando at the end of Apocalypse Now.
v8thunder said:
Then again, I have this (probably totally untrue) image of derestrictor sitting in a torch-lit baronial study in an enormous green leather button-backed armchair with a big cigar and a glass of brandy, watching the PH posts roll by on a special sepia monitor, waiting for something to provoke him into a volley of thesaurus-sourced vowellage. And I read his posts in the style of Rowley Birkin
Absolutely brilliant: clap: - apart from 1 point, Rowley wouldn't buy German
BrianTheYank said:or hear perhaps - or are you on the acid again?
I see most phers having that annoying british accent i see on tv all the time.
As opposed to annoying septic tones?
I come from near where 'Daphne' purports too - but sound nothing like that (cos she is actually a crap actor from Oxfordshire).
I reckon I have a 'BBC North' accent...make of that what you will.
To Northern'ers I don't have an accent, to Southerner's I sound Northern. Comes from not living in a town nor really going East to Newcastle et al when I was younger really and learning that dropping your accent completely is a very useful talent.
Tis rather fun when bored at work to speak with different accents. For instance with name of Stefan often people ask if "Ikea give you a Sweedish name as it's a Sweedish company" or "are you German"... so cunningly I learnt to speak with a "foreign" accent. Similiary I had one poor co-worker convinced I was from Dorset (even though I was trying Welsh at the time). My best accent, Queens English, so funny to speak to someone in that and then shout for help in my normal, nasly, squeaky tone
Of course then there is the deep movie trailer annoucer voice, the bellow, the throaty laugh, the annoying squeaky "I know a song that will get on your nerves" and Zie German (I learnt German at school and could only really do the accent not remember the words, past my oral on that alone)....
Only accent I can't do (well rather I know I can't do rather than believing I sound completly convincing
) no matter how much I try. Geordie. And I live here!
Tis rather fun when bored at work to speak with different accents. For instance with name of Stefan often people ask if "Ikea give you a Sweedish name as it's a Sweedish company" or "are you German"... so cunningly I learnt to speak with a "foreign" accent. Similiary I had one poor co-worker convinced I was from Dorset (even though I was trying Welsh at the time). My best accent, Queens English, so funny to speak to someone in that and then shout for help in my normal, nasly, squeaky tone
Of course then there is the deep movie trailer annoucer voice, the bellow, the throaty laugh, the annoying squeaky "I know a song that will get on your nerves" and Zie German (I learnt German at school and could only really do the accent not remember the words, past my oral on that alone)....
Only accent I can't do (well rather I know I can't do rather than believing I sound completly convincing
) no matter how much I try. Geordie. And I live here!Gassing Station | The Pie & Piston Archive | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff