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Thu 06/10/05 at 12:18
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Caught a few ads for car insurance and accident liability helpline guff.

The car insurance ad had a strong geordi voice and the accident liability had a strong scouse one.

Call me 'regionalist' if you like but I don't find either of these two accents particularly trustworthy infact they seem kind of daft. :S

Anyone else?
Sat 08/10/05 at 14:59
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Crashing round the decks on a quad bike.
Sat 08/10/05 at 14:56
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Hedfix wrote:
> One of my favourites is saying the Next Generation opening speech in a
> brummie accent.

That's given me a mental image of Ozzy Ozbourne as captain of the Enterprise.

"Sharooooon! Wurz me Earl Gray tea?"

"If that bloodae Q shows 'is face again, I'll bite 'is f*#$in 'ead off!"
Sat 08/10/05 at 13:55
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Blank wrote:
> Stryke wrote:
> That Tescos advert that has Lamps, Paula Radcliffe and Jason
> Robinson
> on a checkout is narrated by a guy with a stupidly strong Brum
> accent.
>
> You don't know who it is?

[URL]http://www.bbc.co.uk/drama/faces/timothy_spall.shtml[/URL]

I was watching Red Dwarf on UK Gold a few nights ago, an episode called "Back to Reality" that he was in and it suddenly clicked what advert he'd been a voice over on.
Fri 07/10/05 at 02:00
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Stryke wrote:
> That Tescos advert that has Lamps, Paula Radcliffe and Jason Robinson
> on a checkout is narrated by a guy with a stupidly strong Brum
> accent.

You don't know who it is?
Thu 06/10/05 at 19:58
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I hate the McDonalds sandwiches advert, the way he says 'because sandwiches are important' at the end really irritates me.
Thu 06/10/05 at 17:34
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That Tescos advert that has Lamps, Paula Radcliffe and Jason Robinson on a checkout is narrated by a guy with a stupidly strong Brum accent.

Thats the accent that grates with me the most. Don't mind Georgie or Scouse.
Thu 06/10/05 at 17:10
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One of my favourites is saying the Next Generation opening speech in a brummie accent.

It's just hilarious. :D
Thu 06/10/05 at 14:04
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"Lisan al-Gaib"
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You could have a Geordie talking about the latest breakthrough in quantum physics, and they'd still sound thick as pigs****.
Thu 06/10/05 at 13:57
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Strong regional accents always remind me of Eurotrash, and their voiceovers.

Not a good thing.
Thu 06/10/05 at 12:18
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"8==="
Posts: 33,481
Caught a few ads for car insurance and accident liability helpline guff.

The car insurance ad had a strong geordi voice and the accident liability had a strong scouse one.

Call me 'regionalist' if you like but I don't find either of these two accents particularly trustworthy infact they seem kind of daft. :S

Anyone else?

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