A bit council (Vol 6)

[spitfire-ian]

Tom8 said:

The MD of a company I used to work for was like this. Really nice guy, very well spoken etc. When someone asked him about football he suddenly wne into this weird sort of cockney accent, dropping ts and hs etc. I asked him why he suddenly spoke like that but he didn't really realise he was doing it. Very strange.

[Richard-390a0]

CoolHands said:

It s AI

Well kindly remind Al to park his car more considerately in future!

[Red9zero]

Richard-390a0 said:

CoolHands said:

It s AI

Well kindly remind Al to park his car more considerately in future!

You can call him.

[Tom8]

spitfire-ian said:

Tom8 said:

The MD of a company I used to work for was like this. Really nice guy, very well spoken etc. When someone asked him about football he suddenly wne into this weird sort of cockney accent, dropping ts and hs etc. I asked him why he suddenly spoke like that but he didn't really realise he was doing it. Very strange.

Hahaha! That's it!! So peculiar. I wonder if he put on really tight jeans, some white plimsoles and a shirt too small for him when he went to a game?

[Dog Biscuit]

Tom8 said:

spitfire-ian said:

Tom8 said:

The MD of a company I used to work for was like this. Really nice guy, very well spoken etc. When someone asked him about football he suddenly wne into this weird sort of cockney accent, dropping ts and hs etc. I asked him why he suddenly spoke like that but he didn't really realise he was doing it. Very strange.

Hahaha! That's it!! So peculiar. I wonder if he put on really tight jeans, some white plimsoles and a shirt too small for him when he went to a game?

Don't forget the roll of belly flab hanging over his jeans...seems it is de rigueur if you are a true fan.

[Sheets Tabuer]

Greenmantle said:

Who buys a plot next to a pylon?

Indeed you're only one lightning strike away from a Frankenstein/Return of the living dead situation.

[HTP99]

Tom8 said:

spitfire-ian said:

Tom8 said:

The MD of a company I used to work for was like this. Really nice guy, very well spoken etc. When someone asked him about football he suddenly wne into this weird sort of cockney accent, dropping ts and hs etc. I asked him why he suddenly spoke like that but he didn't really realise he was doing it. Very strange.

Hahaha! That's it!! So peculiar. I wonder if he put on really tight jeans, some white plimsoles and a shirt too small for him when he went to a game?

That IT sketch is just so spot on. I remember a friend of the wife's had her 50th in town, I went along reluctantly as I knew what the husband's were like; beer, football, beer, birds and more football, just not me at all!

[Spare tyre]

This Facebook page is pure council

https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1JL1hUx4FH/?mibex...

[TGCOTF-dewey]

Spare tyre said:

This Facebook page is pure council

https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1JL1hUx4FH/?mibex...

Bet you can't claim to have invented a totally new camera angle though.

[Blue_star]

This whole fb group is fantastic.

[eldar]

Blue_star said:

This whole fb group is fantastic.

Impressed with the outstanding quality of the production. Really delivers.

[Jules Sunley]

Red9zero said:

You can call him.

Underappreciated comment

[Blue_star]

Jules Sunley said:

Red9zero said:

You can call him.

Underappreciated comment

I wish we had a like button

[Stick Legs]

Blue_star said:

This whole fb group is fantastic.

It's earned a follow from me!

[Dan Singh]

Spare tyre said:

This Facebook page is pure council

https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1JL1hUx4FH/?mibex...

Bentley badge on the Chrysler grille! Why didn't they just go out and nick a real one for the day?

[WhiskyDisco]

Dan Singh said:

Spare tyre said:

This Facebook page is pure council

https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1JL1hUx4FH/?mibex...

Bentley badge on the Chrysler grille! Why didn't they just go out and nick a real one for the day?

Considering the customers are Irish, they have great suntans!

[the-norseman]

Spare tyre said:

This Facebook page is pure council

https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1JL1hUx4FH/?mibex...

Very dissapointed in that video,nobody is flashing a Stone Island badge.

[donkmeister]

DodgyGeezer said:

Tom8 said:

The MD of a company I used to work for was like this. Really nice guy, very well spoken etc. When someone asked him about football he suddenly wne into this weird sort of cockney accent, dropping ts and hs etc. I asked him why he suddenly spoke like that but he didn't really realise he was doing it. Very strange.

it could well be that his 'footy' mates all talk like that, and so he adjusts his speech patterns to reflect this?

A phenomenon known as "code-switching". My brother does the same; put him with his family and friends and he has the standard West London / Home Counties upper middle-class accent. Put him in a room with a complete stranger who says "geyser" as a synonym for "man" just once, and he starts speaking like Dick Van Dyke's character in Mary Poppins until it's time to go home (or "fackorf back to 'is gaff"). One of these days he's going to get stuck that way and start Lambeth Walking everywhere.

[Stick Legs]

donkmeister said:

DodgyGeezer said:

Tom8 said:

The MD of a company I used to work for was like this. Really nice guy, very well spoken etc. When someone asked him about football he suddenly wne into this weird sort of cockney accent, dropping ts and hs etc. I asked him why he suddenly spoke like that but he didn't really realise he was doing it. Very strange.

it could well be that his 'footy' mates all talk like that, and so he adjusts his speech patterns to reflect this?

A phenomenon known as "code-switching". My brother does the same; put him with his family and friends and he has the standard West London / Home Counties upper middle-class accent. Put him in a room with a complete stranger who says "geyser" as a synonym for "man" just once, and he starts speaking like Dick Van Dyke's character in Mary Poppins until it's time to go home (or "fackorf back to 'is gaff"). One of these days he's going to get stuck that way and start Lambeth Walking everywhere.

If the wind changes you'll stay like that!

My Sister-in-law has a social version of this:

Put her in a room with wealthy people and her father is a millionaire and she's from a old West Country farming family, grew up around horses etc etc.

Put her in a room with earthier types and they grew up with hand-me-down clothes and her father worked so many hours her mum may as well have been a single parent, never had a holiday and grew up having to pick peas to make ends meet.

Now as it happens both of these positions are true, and my Father-in-law is a self made millionaire, and grew up a tenant farmer, and worked his socks off, and owned some race horses back in the late 70's / early 80's. It's the wilful spin that makes it funny to watch, especially when she has mis judged her audience and switches lanes mid conversation.

My wife says that meeting new people with her sister is like watching the film Rango.

[Ganglandboss]

Stick Legs said:

donkmeister said:

DodgyGeezer said:

Tom8 said:

The MD of a company I used to work for was like this. Really nice guy, very well spoken etc. When someone asked him about football he suddenly wne into this weird sort of cockney accent, dropping ts and hs etc. I asked him why he suddenly spoke like that but he didn't really realise he was doing it. Very strange.

it could well be that his 'footy' mates all talk like that, and so he adjusts his speech patterns to reflect this?

A phenomenon known as "code-switching". My brother does the same; put him with his family and friends and he has the standard West London / Home Counties upper middle-class accent. Put him in a room with a complete stranger who says "geyser" as a synonym for "man" just once, and he starts speaking like Dick Van Dyke's character in Mary Poppins until it's time to go home (or "fackorf back to 'is gaff"). One of these days he's going to get stuck that way and start Lambeth Walking everywhere.

If the wind changes you'll stay like that!

My Sister-in-law has a social version of this:

Put her in a room with wealthy people and her father is a millionaire and she's from a old West Country farming family, grew up around horses etc etc.

Put her in a room with earthier types and they grew up with hand-me-down clothes and her father worked so many hours her mum may as well have been a single parent, never had a holiday and grew up having to pick peas to make ends meet.

Now as it happens both of these positions are true, and my Father-in-law is a self made millionaire, and grew up a tenant farmer, and worked his socks off, and owned some race horses back in the late 70's / early 80's. It's the wilful spin that makes it funny to watch, especially when she has mis judged her audience and switches lanes mid conversation.

My wife says that meeting new people with her sister is like watching the film Rango.

I used to work for an M&E consultancy, and our secretary was a lot like this. Her upbringing is proper Jeremy Kyle*. She grew up on a council estate in Stockport, but got into horses from an early age. She has mixed with the Cheshire set all her life, and she can handle any social situation with utmost confidence.

* Her phone rang in the office once, and the ringtone was the banjo music from Deliverance. I gave her a curious look. "It was my stepdad..." I looked at her none the wiser. "My Stepdad's my dad's brother, so I have duelling banjos as his ringtone!".