Be Excellent To Each Other

Does anybody like this man?

I'm sick of his terrible show ruining 6Music with his mockney accent, shit jokes, London-centric attitude and his general overall cunt-ness.

It seems I'm not the only one:

http://www.georgelambisacunt.blogspot.com/

An entire thread (20 pages, 7828 posts) of people complaining about him on the BBC MESSAGEBOARDS:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/mb6music/F1950 ... =0&show=20

A word magazine article full of hatred for the cunt:

http://www.wordmagazine.co.uk/content/g ... s-it-again

Anyone else?

Oh, and sign the petition:

http://www.getlambout.org.uk/

Never heard of him.

Nope. Radio, you say? Nope. Wireless? Nope. Lamb? Nope. Nope? Nope. Look at that word. What lovely form Nope. Nope. Nopenopenope.

He is a hateful cunt.

Nope rhymes with Dope. Are you on dope Dimrill?

Nope.

Dope? Nope! Soap? On a rope? I hope!

Dude, that's so dope I have no reason to mope. Yope.

I have never heard of this person.

Roast lamb, though, I like that.

Roast Lamb is mint.

Why doesn't the thread on WoS have the subtitle 'Also posted on BeeX'? Eh? Eh?!

Passive marketting, that's why. Schope.

Do you have any samplers of said cunt to suitably inflame my ire?

The same quip was quipped last time I quipped the also posted on WoS quip. You're slow with the quips! Quipper.

doesn't have amusing ryhming games either

You really don't want to listen to the cunt, but there's the interview on the Word magazine website link I posted. (YouTube video). And you could "listen again" to his show on the 6music subsite at bbc.co.uk.

I have never heard of this person*, do not know what he does, what he is like or what he has done to offend anyone.

however, I read that someone is 'upset' by his actions or personality, and I therefore wish to omplain without knowing any more details and despite not hearing any original broadcast by this man.

Please inform the Daily Mail.



*Unless he does some kind of T4 program, but that might be someone else. i don't like him though, and I tougt he might of had a Scottish accent. Oh T4/BBC radio. Probably not then.

OK, that's enough from me. String him up. 'Mockney' accents are reason enough to dislike a person.



Yeah, intelligen' input dahlin'

Nope is obviously the better word. Look at that strong N at the front. A capital N has that glorious diagonal line that you can also use on the Ghostbuster sign. It screams NO! NOOOO!! NO NO NO NO NO! NOPE! Strong, powerful N.

SPELLFAIL


Isotope you have learned from this.

grrr

Good lord, that's one petition I can get behind. Signed with a vengence.

he's a cunt, yes. and that's only from seeing his awful tv advert a few months back. It was the line 'keep it six music, yeah' that did it.

the worst thing I've ever listened to is John Gaunt on Talksport. I was driving to London from Liverpool(ish) and had him on for at least an hour just losing my mind at what a cunt he was. Did however arrive in record time.

Yes, people's accents are enough to dislike them. This is why I hate everyone from the North, entirely justifiably. Those Northerners, with their funny ways of pronouncing things, which are different to how I pronounce them. They sound horrible to my ears. It's like they're all putting on an accent. Faux-northern, or something. Mock-chester.

I have a delightfully neutral accent, which explains why I hate the rest of you, you thick regional twats.

Me too. I just sound upper middle class, which I like to think of as the "default" accent for the English language. Every other accent is just a corruption of mine.

Not the same, though.

'Mockney' acents are not a natural accent. They are put on, hence the 'mock' part of teh word. They are a false affectation used for effect, so it is OK to dislike them, just as it is OK to dislike a 50 year old Tim Westwood for tryinf to sound like a black 20-something. A cockney accent is something different altogether when it is a natural accent.

Me too. I speak with extreme propriety. Rather, and whatnot.

Do we have evidence that the woman in your photo has been heard speaking in some other accent in private? Otherwise you're making a massive and fairly mean assumption on the basis of her accent.

She was on Bizzcocsk and was normal.

Who is she, by the way?

"Ey up, thar Billy. Is that yer bird? Does eet fly?"

I'm Northern.

I was joking, chap. One of my best mates is from Morcambe (sp?)

That book haunts me to this day.

yes, i know someone who works with her, and she's been on TV speaking in her natural accent. She's relatively local to me - lives a bit further out of London from me. It's just not the way she speaks. I don't know - people that puit on fake accents for fashion just irk me. Not just her, there's a band not from liverpool with really bad fake Liverpudlian accents. I think that's where my distaste for mock accents comes from.

Fair enough then - she's a twat. People who affect anything, be it an accent, a like of something they don't really like, or whatever, are twats.

The Beatles?

Arf

I don't actually dislike her. I think she's probably quite sweet, but the mocknet accent is just SO MUCH of her act and whole screen persona that it kind of overrides everything positive about her, to my ears.

I tried to find a copy of her singing Purple Rain on youtube but they've all been muted.

Morecambe.

You're welcome.

I'm not entirely convinced that a fake accent is any different to makeup, to be honest.

Or clothes.

My accent is rubbish. Don't hate me, pleeeease.

Maybe you are right. I don't know. I think that your accent is more an acknowledgement or extension of who your are, whereas clothes/make-up are just decoration. Your accent is part of your locality and background.

I don't know why it bothers me, maybe it is not justifiable, but I think it is because of this: Someone such as the singer there sells her who act on her accent. She is not an actor playing a role and at the end of the day reverts to herself in private and public alike, but instead says to the public 'this is who I am' when it isn't who she is. I always wonder if she was encouraged or forced to take on that accent by the Brit School? If so, i feel sorry for her. I don't think she'd have made it without the mockney acent though - there was a slew of young girls, all the same, nothing marking them out, all she had above teh rest seemed to be this accent, and it's a slither of a thing to hang your image on, especally when it isn't who you actually are and you feel compelled to try and keep the pretence up.

I knew a lad from preston whose parents were Scottish. He spoke in a normal prestonian accent but did a Scottish accent very well. When he went to uni he made a conscious decision to always use the Scottish accent and referred to himself as 'Scottish ______' (I've hid the name because I know that there were quite a few people on here that went to the same uni, possibly at the same time). Anyway, I always wondered why he chose to burden himself with putting on an accent all that time. He said he wanted to be 'different' but it seemed like a long way to go t prove yourself different, and he couldn't have actually been 'different' if he needed to put on an accent to be viewed as such, can he?

But that's sort of my point - a fake accent is decoration in the same way that dressing up or slapping on the lippy are.

Though it's more important for music than make-up is. In theory, at least. Almost more akin to pretending you can play the guitar when actually it's an unheralded session musician playing it for you...

Don't 90% of singers sound different when they're singing? They all sound American.

Hmm, but in music, wouldn't it be more akin to adapting to the style of the day, just like different synth sounds and tempos come in and out of fashion? American accented singing was all the rage for a long time.

No?

Not sure. My analogy was a bit rubbish, tbf, but it's certainly more than make-up and clothes, as it has a direct effect on what you hear.

Ah, what the hell, she's annoying as fuck anyway, and that's enough of a reason to hate her.

(EDIT - Kate Nash that is, not Mimi)

Agreed.

When I was at secondary School, I had about 3/4 accents.

At home I would talk "correctly" as my parents hated me dropping letters or anything like that.

At school (as they were mostly from south London - Clapham, Balham, Peckham, Brixton and such) I spoke with what most people would call a cockney accent, but in reality is a south London accent.

Under 13, before my voice broke, I could dip in and out of a Scottish accent at will so would use that from time to time, after my voice broke I couldn't really do it any more.

And any where else it was a mixture of the three depending on what I was doing, saying, or whom I was talking to.

Now perhaps if you saw me at home, and then saw me at school, you would think I was like Lilly Allen?

Of course these days I'm just number 4 all the time, with a bit of Devonshire thrown in now for good measure.

Malc