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Originally Posted by Busyman

.Lennox Lewis' voice does not equal the Jim Carrey's.

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Your right,i've never heard lennox say all righty then. :rolleyes:

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Originally Posted by Busyman

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Originally Posted by manker

You said that you thought all English people sounded like Lennox Lewis.

Since Lennox Lewis sounds nothing like how an English person speaks, you must either have not heard anyone else speak that was English or heard loads of English people speak yet decided that Lennox Lewis was the only one that sounded English.

Either scenario is odd, but I went with the former. So said that you must have lived in a cave not to have heard any other English person speak.

So ... that's my comment explained, hows about you tidy up what you actually meant.

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Seems like you are doing the tidying up.

You said....

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Originally Posted by manker

You must have lived in a cave if the only 'English' person you ever heard speak until Snatch aired was Lennox Lewis

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I never said that so must have been in another dimension and Bizarro Busyman must have been talking.

Lennox sounds nothing like any Canadian I've heard. The Canadians I've heard sound like the guys from the movie Strange Brew, French, or northern American.

Lennox Lewis' voice does not equal the Jim Carrey's.

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Yeah, I said I explained :blink:

So what if Lennox doesn't souind Canadian. He definitely doesn't sound English - which is what you thought English people sounded like. You realised that they didn't when you saw Snatch.

So ... prior to being enlightened as to how English people speak, was Canadian raised Lennox Lewis your only point of reference.

Or were you talking pish.

in my opinion each country has it's ups and downs and the US seems to have it's up now and it will have it untill another country will succesfully compete with it on all "subjects"... I mean maybe the EU will make smth good and nice and maybe it will become the best country ...
also I want to say that america has it's pros and cons... I agree .. the best life style the quality of life all are pros but we have 2 watch the cons to.. wars.. enemies .. terrorists ... junk stuff.... mass pollution (noone seems to care to much about that.. and through this I mean that the US doesn't have laws like the EU to reduce car pollution and that sux :( )
I admit that one of my dream is to go there.. nice country nice ppl ... and the today's super power... the question what makes USA what it is is a complex question with a simple answer.. some would say the way of thinking.. some the history but me personally I think all the stuff make US what it is with the good and the bad cause there is no such thing as perfection so like every wood has it's dried trees the USA and all the rest of us have bad points...

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Originally Posted by Busyman

Seems like you are doing the tidying up.

You said....

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Originally Posted by manker

You must have lived in a cave if the only 'English' person you ever heard speak until Snatch aired was Lennox Lewis

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I never said that so must have been in another dimension and Bizarro Busyman must have been talking.

Lennox sounds nothing like any Canadian I've heard. The Canadians I've heard sound like the guys from the movie Strange Brew, French, or northern American.

Lennox Lewis' voice does not equal the Jim Carrey's.

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Yeah, I said I explained :blink:

So what if Lennox doesn't souind Canadian. He definitely doesn't sound English - which is what you thought English people sounded like. You realised that they didn't when you saw Snatch.

So ... prior to being enlightened as to how English people speak, was Canadian raised Lennox Lewis your only point of reference.

Or were you talking pish.

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Are you stupid or playing stupid? RIF.

I never said that. Quote where I said Lennox was the first English person I heard speak......and he does sound English.

Probably the first English person I heard speak was Benny Hill or should I say Bennay Hell.

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Originally Posted by Busyman

The only stereotype I had was that everything by Brits was so gentlemanly and prim and propa and that I thought that the accent sounded very faggety/girly (Lennox Lewis)

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So you thought the British accent was like Lennox Lewis' accent.

If not, then it appears you were talking pish.

Maybe you just felt like typing Lennox Lewis in brackets for no reason whatsoever. I really don't know but whatever, I asked you to explain what you actually meant by that, as it's unclear.

I even went to the legnth of explaining my comment such that even newcomers to the language could understand it.

Look stop with the lennox argument, everyone that really knows the British accents knows that they all sound like dick van dyke. ;)


BTW can anyone explain which accent Sheena Easton has these days :huh:

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The only stereotype I had was that everything by Brits was so gentlemanly and prim and propa and that I thought that the accent sounded very faggety/girly (Lennox Lewis)

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So you thought the British accent was like Lennox Lewis' accent.

If not, then it appears you were talking pish.

Maybe you just felt like typing Lennox Lewis in brackets for no reason whatsoever. I really don't know but whatever, I asked you to explain what you actually meant by that, as it's unclear.

I even went to the legnth of explaining my comment such that even newcomers to the language could understand it.

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Where is the notion that he's the first Brit I heard? :blink: There's maw...

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with high pitched bouncy tone.
No down and dirtyness. Of course when I see movies like Snatch, which is very gritty and dirty, and watch Hatton fight (so much energy I think he's on steroids), I am reminded that you have real men and faggots just like everybody else. :)

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Lennox Lewis sounds like he's from Britain. John Cleese has that uppity voice as well.

Where's Lennox from btw?

Lennox is from the same place as Snatch was filmed.

I explained where I got the notion that Lennox was the first person you'd heard.

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You're not reading what I write properly. There's a surprise.

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Lennox is from the same place as Snatch was filmed.

I explained where I got the notion that Lennox was the first person you'd heard.

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You're not reading what I write properly. There's a surprise.

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The fact that you got that notion means you are not reading propa lee.

I thought Lennox sounded British when I heard him talk. Amazing he's was actually born over there and not Canada. I musta got the British sounding thing from thin air.

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Originally Posted by Busyman

I musta got the British sounding thing from thin air.

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No shit :lol:

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I musta got the British sounding thing from thin air.

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No shit :lol:

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....and he just so happened to be from London. :lol: :lol:

Thin air over there indeed.

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No shit :lol:

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....and he just so happened to be from London. :lol: :lol:

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Yeah ... exactly :blink:

From the east end of London, so any accent would have sounded nothing whatsoever like John Cleese or any other 'Prim and propa/faggety girly' English bloke.

Totally different, in fact.

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Originally Posted by Busy

The only stereotype I had was that everything by Brits was so gentlemanly and prim and propa and that I thought that the accent sounded very faggety/girly (Lennox Lewis)

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Posted that so you don't ask me to show where you said it, again.

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....and he just so happened to be from London. :lol: :lol:

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Yeah ... exactly :blink:

From the east end of London, so any accent would have sounded nothing whatsoever like John Cleese or any other 'Prim and propa/faggety girly' English bloke.

Totally different, in fact.

To you they are totally different. To us they are British sounding. Amazing what I heard accent-wise turns out to be the case.

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Originally Posted by Busy

The only stereotype I had was that everything by Brits was so gentlemanly and prim and propa and that I thought that the accent sounded very faggety/girly (Lennox Lewis)

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Posted that so you don't ask me to show where you said it, again.

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Said what....that he's the first Brit I ever heard? :O :ermm:

I sure don't see that anywhere?

Round and round.

Bye, Busy.

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Originally Posted by HeavyMetalParkingLot

Thank you for lumping 300 million people all into one single basket.

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1. Why do you think your country is so good?

2. Why do English folks fly flags at football matches?

3. You never climbed a tree as a child?

Edit: Here is a line from the UK National Audit Office Press Notice. "Most adults in England are now overweight, and one in five is obese".

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1) I never said England is good.
2) Last time i went to a match we didn't. When England play as an internation side in different countries people bring English flags with the name of there home town written on them to show the team has support from that part of the country.
3) Yes, but never half way through a hurricane and i wasn't about 30 trying to put a flag up there.

Peerzy i would love to fight you in real life.

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Round and round.

Bye, Busy.

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He is a special type of idiot...

Anyone got a audio clip of Lennox Lewis? I haven't heard his voice in a while but I do remember he didn't have a British accent.

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1. Why do you think your country is so good?

2. Why do English folks fly flags at football matches?

3. You never climbed a tree as a child?

Edit: Here is a line from the UK National Audit Office Press Notice. "Most adults in England are now overweight, and one in five is obese".

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1) I never said England is good.
2) Last time i went to a match we didn't. When England play as an internation side in different countries people bring English flags with the name of there home town written on them to show the team has support from that part of the country.
3) Yes, but never half way through a hurricane and i wasn't about 30 trying to put a flag up there.

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Thank you for replying Peerzy.

1. I was simply turning the question around. I never meant to imply you did say such.

2. But the point is, they still fly them. Like you said yourself, it is support.

3. I actually didn't realize you meant that they were climbing the trees during the storm. Please chalk that one up to my misunderstanding. And indeed, it was an incredibly stupid thing to do.

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Round and round.

Bye, Busy.

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He is a special type of idiot...

Anyone got a audio clip of Lennox Lewis? I haven't heard his voice in a while but I do remember he didn't have a British accent.

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To be honest, I couldn't give a rat's ass what he sounded like, he could sound like Shirley Temple for all I care. The end result, is the morning after a match, someone is waking up to a world of pain.

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Originally Posted by Peerzy

1) I never said England is good.
2) Last time i went to a match we didn't. When England play as an internation side in different countries people bring English flags with the name of there home town written on them to show the team has support from that part of the country.
3) Yes, but never half way through a hurricane and i wasn't about 30 trying to put a flag up there.

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Thank you for replying Peerzy.

1. I was simply turning the question around. I never meant to imply you did say such.

2. But the point is, they still fly them. Like you said yourself, it is support.

3. I actually didn't realize you meant that they were climbing the trees during the storm. Please chalk that one up to my misunderstanding. And indeed, it was an incredibly stupid thing to do.

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1) K'
2) Well, really we hang them from the stands :pinch: and that is pretty much the only time we hang/fly them.
3) Yes there was flowing water below her and she was having trouble even holding onto the flag as she climbed the tree.

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Thank you for replying Peerzy.

1. I was simply turning the question around. I never meant to imply you did say such.

2. But the point is, they still fly them. Like you said yourself, it is support.

3. I actually didn't realize you meant that they were climbing the trees during the storm. Please chalk that one up to my misunderstanding. And indeed, it was an incredibly stupid thing to do.

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1) K'
2) Well, really we hang them from the stands :pinch: and that is pretty much the only time we hang/fly them.
3) Yes there was flowing water below her and she was having trouble even holding onto the flag as she climbed the tree.

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3) She was a dumbass playing up to the cameras. Patriotism is great but get a fucking grip. :dry:

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Round and round.

Bye, Busy.

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He is a special type of idiot...

Anyone got a audio clip of Lennox Lewis? I haven't heard his voice in a while but I do remember he didn't have a British accent.

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It's not as pure yaws but it's definitely there.

He lived in London a decent amount of time so it's understandable that he'll have a British accent ffs. I really don't know why the fact of me puting his name in parenthesis brought into question his obvious accent.

It's his accent, not a representation of his character or anything. :ermm:

what do you define as a "british" accent exactly? I'm pretty sure for example Manker and myself sound very different yet both have a british accent.

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what do you define as a "british" accent exactly? I'm pretty sure for example Manker and myself sound very different yet both have a british accent.

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Apparently lennox lewis.

A British accent is any accent from Britland, or Austrailia

well i can honestly say that from the two occasions on which I've ever met american people, one group thought I was from "Edin-bu-row" and the other complimented me on my good english (thinking I was Dutch!)

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well i can honestly say that from the two occasions on which I've ever met american people, one group thought I was from "Edin-bu-row" and the other complimented me on my good english (thinking I was Dutch!)

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:lol: :lol: :lol:

I have a thick lancashire accent. I was once working offshore on a pipelaying barge in thailand and i'd been on there 3 months with the same people. The barge foreman was american, and in the last week he asked me which part of ireland i came from. :blink:

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Originally Posted by Proper Bo

what do you define as a "british" accent exactly? I'm pretty sure for example Manker and myself sound very different yet both have a british accent.

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I can't explain it I guess. I know it when I hear it though. Words are pronounced differently and have different inflection.

There was a fella I worked with in Virginia that was from the Caribbean islands. He had an island accent but it sounded British. When I asked him he told me the British originally settled the island he was from.

It's weird that manker can't recognize Lennox as having a Brit accent yet over here it's CaptainObvious.

Incidently he told the story where he impregnated 2 woman on different occasions on the same day. He has two kids conceived on the same day from different mothers. :lol: :lol:

to be fair, it's also every canadian I've ever met (1), she thought I was from Ireland.
Maybe being mistaken for scottish is slightly acceptable though, there are a few similarities between 'em and geordie

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well i can honestly say that from the two occasions on which I've ever met american people, one group thought I was from "Edin-bu-row" and the other complimented me on my good english (thinking I was Dutch!)

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:lol: :lol: :lol:

I have a thick lancashire accent. I was once working offshore on a pipelaying barge in thailand and i'd been on there 3 months with the same people. The barge foreman was american, and in the last week he asked me which part of ireland i came from. :blink:

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Over here I probably first heard Irish accents due to commercials from http://www.tvacres.com/images/lucky1.gif

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what do you define as a "british" accent exactly? I'm pretty sure for example Manker and myself sound very different yet both have a british accent.

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I can't explain it I guess. I know it when I hear it though. Words are pronounced differently and have different inflection.

There was a fella I worked with in Virginia that was from the Caribbean islands. He had an island accent but it sounded British. When I asked him he told me the British originally settled the island he was from.

It's weird that manker can't recognize Lennox as having a Brit accent yet over here it's CaptainObvious.

Incidently he told the story where he impregnated 2 woman on different occasions on the same day. He has two kids conceived on the same day from different mothers. :lol: :lol:

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If anyone can find an audio clip of someone with a geordie accent and another with a welsh (dunno what part tis manker) accent just to show what I mean.

None of this arse off big brother fake geordie accent shite though, or the mackem accents in byker grove, byker my arse, pennywell (monkey smell) more like!:angry:

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to be fair, it's also every canadian I've ever met (1), she thought I was from Ireland.
Maybe being mistaken for scottish is slightly acceptable though, there are a few similarities between 'em and geordie

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Canadians are harder for me to put my finger on. Alot of comedians are Canadian and I mistook them for American. Lennox sounds nothing like any Canadian I've ever heard.

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I can't explain it I guess. I know it when I hear it though. Words are pronounced differently and have different inflection.

There was a fella I worked with in Virginia that was from the Caribbean islands. He had an island accent but it sounded British. When I asked him he told me the British originally settled the island he was from.

It's weird that manker can't recognize Lennox as having a Brit accent yet over here it's CaptainObvious.

Incidently he told the story where he impregnated 2 woman on different occasions on the same day. He has two kids conceived on the same day from different mothers. :lol: :lol:

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If anyone can find an audio clip of someone with a geordie accent and another with a welsh (dunno what part tis manker) accent just to show what I mean.

None of this arse off big brother fake geordie accent shite though, or the mackem accents in byker grove, byker my arse, pennywell (monkey smell) more like!:angry:

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You mean antny's not a geordie.

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Canadians are harder for me to put my finger on.

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Yes, the one I met was:naughty:

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You mean antny's not a geordie.

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That cawk's from Consett:frusty:

I meant the narrator fella anyway, but nevermind:rolleyes:

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Canadians are harder for me to put my finger on.

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Yes, the one I met was:naughty:

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The only European I've ever "dated" was a beautiful woman from Switzerland. Her last name was Bruhwiler. I met her while doing work at the Washington Monument and she asked me to take her picture (with her other female friend). From there I got her number and then we met up later the next day and a had beautiful night on the Baltimore Harbor (she'd never been there).
The rest I won't go into.

I regretted not keeping in touch with her. She was beautiful, voluptuous, fit, and funny. We kept in touch for awhile by email and she invited me to Switzerland but I never took her up on it.

I think she said she worked for Pfizer and was just traveling around the world. I remember not hearing much of an accent until she said "vich one" instead of "which one". Her father was German.

Oh yes, her, I know her, what with us both being from Europe.

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Oh yes, her, I know her, what with us both being from Europe.

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:lol: :lol:

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If anyone can find an audio clip of someone with a geordie accent and another with a welsh (dunno what part tis manker) accent just to show what I mean.

None of this arse off big brother fake geordie accent shite though, or the mackem accents in byker grove, byker my arse, pennywell (monkey smell) more like!:angry:

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You mean antny's not a geordie.

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Check here for different accents around the British Isles.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/voices/recordings/index.shtml

I can't believe I read the whole thread , but often wondered why it ends up in the lounge . But Lennox Lewis to a Canadian sounds like someone with a phoney Brit accent or someone trying to gain fans from his new country .



How do we explain Mike Tyson ( Helium breath ) I hit him in his equilibriums he went down ! :cry:


Edit : Had to think about that . :)