ugacrew

I'm still outnumbered! Agggh!

Ash UK/US

Your just like the rest of us... part of the fixtures and fittings

Ash UK/US

I have been told to 'go back you came from' a few times... the one I liked best was by a woman who said that and said the same thing about me to my co-workers... she ended up being caught shoplifting was was barred from every store within our company!

magilla442

I get it almost daily, I used to find it funny when someone who has never left EST and spent their whole life within 2 states telling me things about England that they knew but I didnt, like we eat s#$%, chew s#$%, and talk with s$%^ in our mouths. These are usullay men who are still bitter at being overlooked for an extras role in deliverance.

But as I said, i USED to find it funny, now it just grates, unfortunately my sarcasm goes straight over their heads, but the jubesare beginning t wear thin. What puzzles me is how readily accepted it is by others, even upto and including the CEO of my company, who has occasion chipped in. If I was black or gay I would get treated as everyone else is, because I am from that small state over in europe I'm fair game.

Gingerert

It's starting to bug me that whenever I open my mouth, some prat tries to copy my accent. And think they sound convincing.

I didn't mind it at first, but now it just irritates me.

Anyone else feeling grumpy about that this morning?

Poppy girl

Every morning it piss's me off but I ignore it an put it down to stupidity and being a red neck lol

dbj1000

I tend to look thoroughly (and apparently convincingly) confused, and say "I'm sorry, I didn't quite catch that" - I've only once met someone stupid enough to try for a bad British accent a second time!

Ray

Go along with it ..take the piss out of them ....

I have all my US friends now trying to speak like me ..
poor bastards ..they think I'm cultured ...

Scouse Express

A strange incident occurred a few weeks ago, when I was at the Courtyard By Marriott Hotel, in Page, AZ.

The waiter claimed to go to Meath in Ireland every year to stay with relatives. Knowing some towns in Meath, myself, I asked him to name the place he visited, just in case it was the home of my friends over there......needless to say he couldn't. I told him just to serve the food and quit with the bullshit!

By the way, he too tried to speak in a psuedo-Irish/American Accent. I'm off to Irish Fest, in Milwaukee, WI, in a week or so. There will be 150,000 of the idiots trying to talk in the same manner, there. Great Beer and Great Entertainment there, so it's worth putting up with.

Jim.

Gingerert

I do!! They don't like it one little bit...

(Although some of them think it's "cute". So I'm either "cute" when I speak with my English accent, or "cute" when I speak with an American one! I can't bleedin' win. )

Ray

I said Bollocks to the HOA president every morning for three years
he though it was a quaint english way of saying good morning ...

Gingerert

Ash UK/US

I like to hear americans say the word bollocks... it just never rolls off the tongue right.

hobbes79

An over eager manager of mine once stepped in during a meeting when I was called a limey (in jest). She stopped the meeting and made it clear calling me names related to where I was from was not going to be tolerated.

She looked over at me and said "okay with you?". I used every bit of will power available to not say "yep, I hope you yanks and rednecks have learnt a lesson". She seemed so genuinely sincere I chose not to belittle the situation and just nodded.

Only other time it kinda came up was when someone was trying to get me to give to charity to help the "local youth". I politely declined, at which point my accent was picked up. I then got a mouthful along the lines of "so you're not interested in helping young Americans, but you don't mind living here, etc, etc". Whatever...

ugacrew

I like to hear Brits say 'aluminum'. Something about that word just doesn't sound right.