Brain Training racist against Northerners Comments by Ellie Gibson

@groovemeister

"the pond life that I lived around had a very insular view of things around them"

I know exactly what you mean, except that I've been all over the place and met insular, narrow minded fuck heads in every place I've been. You meet them on here sometimes too, though you probably have a harder time spotting them than most. Of course, to anyone with a mind larger than a minstrel it would be quite apparent none of this has anything to do with accents or dialect, which is of course the subject of discussion.

"shed their harsh regional dialect and try to get a more standard English thing going"

That is just plain funny. Do you vote BNP by chance?

You've obviously had a bad experience in the north, maybe working the streets doesn't pay as well up there as you are used to, or perhaps you just got beaten up by locals equally as bigoted as yourself when you tried to buy a bag of chips. Who could say.

Edit: "It's not a northern problem, it's a problem of intelligence"

Ooh, missed that bit. Clearly you presume yourself to be very intelligent....

Racist? I don't think so EG.

Unintentional hilarity FTW

just shout at the DS some more, if your angry enough it'll work... dumb bitch


btw Brain Training doesnt recognise my Irish accent, im suing for racism

BLUE. BLUE. BLUE. BLUE. BLUE.






BLUE.

groovemeister: Regional accents are sign of low intelligence, are they? You can stick that one right up your elitist rectum and spin on it. The institutionalised hierarchy of accents and dialects has nothing to do with intelligence, education and objective superiority, and everything to do with the historical happenstance of London and the South developing as the UK's seat of wealth and power. I can't stand this kind of condescending, small-minded thinking, like these Little Englander types who rail against the Americans for "ruining" "our" language. One of the defining and sustaining traits of language is its ability to change, adapt and diversify over time; yes, I understand the need for a certain degree of standardisation and an intolerance for genuinely incorrect language use, but setting standards should never need to mean patronising judgements and belligerent cultural homogenisation...

I wouldn't travel up north, far to rough for my liking. The men fight, the women fight and they all drink far to much.

But then again we have chavs in London so I guess we're equal.

Surely it's a good thing that the game forces you to speak properly? Queen's English :)

@CountStiltzkin

Even the Queen doesn't speak the Queen's english anymore. There is documentary evidence (probably on youtube) comparing her accent now and from her coronation. She sounds more like me that she sounds like her youthful self these days.

Language, dialects and accents evolve continually, as Muddtallica among others pointed out.

@Xiphos

That might be quite a funny joke if it made any sense at all ;)

@Nick007

Like I said earlier, there are some rough f*ckers in every part of the world. People try and act like its about location (or one of a hundred other factors), but the truth is that people are the same all over the world. The same few types of people, wearing slightly different hats and speaking in slightly different voices.

Well I'm from 'The North' and frankly I couldnt give a toss what you soft Southern ***ts think or say.

HOLLA!!

EDIT: Oh and glol at Restart's Rock, Paper, JESUS comment, I dont know why it was so funny, it just was.

lulz ds is racist becouse it cant understand slang.northern idiots.

I'm Scottish, and it's amazing how it never understands "yellow", "Yellow", "YELLOW"...but it gets "PHUKING YELLOW" everytime !!!

Or they could just not play that test. What is wrong with these people?!?!!

@murphy245

When you learn to string a sentence together, employ capital letters and maybe even read the article you comment on... maybe then you can use the word idiot with some authority. Now put your cap back on and go flip some burgers.

@toy_brain

Thanks for the contribution. You're a real help.

/sarcasm off

As long as you say Blue like Alf Stewart off Home and Away it works alright.

"Why can't you talk properly Mario, you spastic!"

On every other game of halo I get abuse if I don't speak in an american accent - now that's racism.

P.S. Not serious, you just mute them or talk back.

"It was a non story on Watchdog I have no idea why it's on here as well. You have to ask why northerners are playing games shouldn't they be down a coal mine or in a mill/poor house somewhere?"

Jebus ??? Strewth, your name isn't Neal by any chance, is it ??

I work in a school way up north and half of the kids have the vocabulary and pronounciation of a caveman. Bung 'em on Dragon's Naturally speaking and I doubt it'd do any better...