Today, my mom mentioned how she loves a certain actor's "British" accent. I couldn't help but mention that there's no such thing, and that there are lots of different accents in Britain. She got pissed and lectured me for "lying" to her and trying to make her feel stupid. FML
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Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, for the second time this week, I was asked to stop putting on such an obviously fake "British" accent. I am British and have lived here all my life. FML
Today, a customer asked me if I was English, because I was struggling to understand what he was saying. I said yes. He then called me a liar, and said I must be "one of them Polish immigrants." Oh, and he also had a thick Scottish accent. FML
Today, my teacher, who's Irish, called me insensitive and stupid for imitating her accent. I'm Filipino and my parents immigrated to Ireland where I was born, and then we moved to Canada when I was 14. Her response to my explanation? "Bullshit." FML
Today, my best friend and I went to the movies. There was a hot cashier, so I thought it would be cool to talk in a British accent to try and be sexy. I walked up and started talking when he interrupted me and said in a very heavy British accent, "I know you're faking. You can stop now." FML
Today, I was trying to explain to my mother-in-law how I hated the way my father-in-law talks to me, the tone he uses. She thought I was attacking him and got mad at me. FML
Today, my mom hit me in the face after an argument she didn't win. According to her, Mexican and American are languages, and not dialects or nationalities. She even argued with my teachers, and threatened to remove me "from a school full of uneducated people" after they told her I was correct. FML
Today, I went through a fast-food drive-thru and gave my order in a perfect British accent for fun. When I got to the window, the cashier handed me my food and said, "I love your accent!" Caught off guard, I replied, "Oh, thanks a lot!" in my normal New Jersey accent. The confusion on her face was priceless. FML
Today, my now ex-boyfriend called me out after I spelt "realised" with an S instead of a Z. It wouldn't have been so bad, if we weren't both British, if he hadn't called me an "illiterate idiot", and if he hadn't muttered "family of morons" when my mum backed me up. FML
Today, my wife blames me for our son having a “posh” accent, because she thinks he’ll be bullied at school. I’m a Yorkshireman and use “ey up”, “ow do” , “pillock” and “arse” in everyday conversation, whereas my wife was raised in Oxford, I doubt I’m the one making our son sound posh. FML
Today, my mom confessed that she has to make up compliments to give to prove me wrong when I said she can never say positive things about me. FML
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kitsune309 15
You deserved it. Maybe it's a different accent technically, but in layman's terms, a British accent is perfectly valid, just like an American accent.
strawberrywine22 30
To be fair, we women like to live with the knowledge that if someone is from England, they have a "sexy British accent."
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Comments (71)
CJB3228 17
Welsh accents for the win!
shadokis 15
With all this talk about the different dialects between the English, Irish and Scottish; as well as the differences between the regions, I'm surprised no one's taken into consideration the Gaelic language. Tha gach uile dhuine air a bhreth saor agus co-ionnan ann an urram 's ann an còirichean. Tha iad air am breth le reusan is le cogais agus mar sin bu chòir dhaibh a bhith beò nam measg fhein ann an spiorad bràthaireil. All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.
gracehi 33
Don't forget the Welsh language.
shadokis 15
you're right gracehi. I completely forgot that one. There's probably more that I'm even unaware of.
tj4234 36
There are 5 celtic languages in the british isles. Gàidhlig (scottish), gaelige (irish north and south, which are both different but still the same language), manxx (isle of mann), cornish, and cymru (wales). There is also a 6th celtic language spoken in brittany (france) called breton.
mjbehnen 7
My old boss was from England. She said she had a British accent. "British" covers all accents from the country because most people won't know enough to say "I like her Yorkshire accent". And people from England say "American accents" to cover accents from the USA. You were just being a tool.
caramelie 7
Op you were just being a knowitall when you corrected your mom. Ok so if you wish to be uber picky you were right, but respect beats being right all the time. I'm from Louisiana so in my southern Louisiana accent I'm gonna tell you this, "y'all better be respectin your mama, fore she knocks your block off."
the_real_dvd 21
Sometimes when I travel, I am told I have an American accent. But I don't argue with them, because I'm not a douchebag.
Wiz_Of_Oz 17
It can be irritating for anyone to have their accent generalised with other people, whose voices sound not remotely similar. For instance, I have an Australian accent, but not the stereotypically broad version that you hear in the movies. When I speak to an American (yep, that's me generalising too), they usually ask if I'm from England.
CAJustise 9
Being right at the cost of inter personal relationships, yeah!! Good choice, being right and correcting people is far more important than being a nice person people want to be around!!
prinzess_fml 25
Someone once said: One often has to choose between being right and being happy.
geckohead 12
I can't believe you gave my FML a shove and then accepted this one. Bite me, I boycott this site for TWO weeks.
MC2NextLevel 7
Who gives a shit if there are different accents? No one even notices they just call it a British accent.
stumpyj 10
I don't think you were lying to her but you were obviously trying to make her feel stupid. You probably even started the correction with "Actually...".