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
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Halloween
A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
Same thing different taste
Today, I spent a full hour working on my British accent. FML
Bruvophobia
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
You can talk, mate
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
Why would you do that?
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, while my hometown mayor becomes a world-famous crackhead and douche-bag, here in the UK it has come to this: when people hear my accent and ask me if I'm American, it's less embarrassing just to say, "Yeah", rather than admit I'm Canadian. FML
Today, at work, I was helping someone who really sounded like she had a Boston accent. So, I asked her where she was from. She has never been out of state. Turns out she has a speech impediment. FML
Dang y'all
Today, I was verbally abused by a tourist because neither I nor anyone else in my country can speak "proper English". We're in England - clue's in the name, dipshit. FML
Today, two American guys attacked me for not speaking their language. I'm from England, and they said I'm speaking my own language wrong. FML
Weird flex, but okay…
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 mom thought it would be a good idea for me to talk with a British accent during my job interview to make me sound smarter. I'm applying for a job at McDonald's. FML
Top comments
Keevarou 17
Tsk tsk, some people, just tell them straight that you are indeed British and such. Not your fault that you talk the way you do, some people like to notice the smallest things. I hope you are not self conscious about the way you talk.. Good thing it was not worse though, they could have commented the way you walk or something Or the way you breathe
BFons 19
What a wanker.
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apollojon 11
The person who told you that probably isn't British because he "would of" known you are british. Takes one to know one.
cupcakechick 17
he lives in England, im pretty sure most of them were
SmosherMe 6
53, The person/people telling him everything may be someone who recently moved to England. Or they may just not know that "northern" british people have different accents than "southern" british people.
Phoebe_Buffay 14
If I read the FML correctly, OP says that they have lived where they currently live all their life. :)
fordneagles 34
*"would have"
CharresBarkrey 16
I'm confused as to why "would of," is in quotes. Aside from it being completely incorrect, and meaning nothing in the English language.
apollojon 11
@79 Here in London, you're more likely to hear someone say "would of" than "would have". Was trying to make a joke, but I guess nobody got it. Also, it's full of different races so sometimes you don't hear a proper British accent.... *sigh*
Tali147 16
People's obsessions with spotting fake accents is annoying. Not everyone talks the same. Even in the same country there are variations of accents.
Freethaawave 19
Except Canadians. Thats more like a lack of an accent.
TheDrifter 24
Oh, Canadians have accents. Go stateside with a Canadian flag on your luggage and it's almost guaranteed someone will all you to say "out and about". Also Quebec, Ontario, Alberta and Saskatchewan have notably different accents.
andrew9623 9
I don't even understand the "out and about" thing. I've heard americans say it and it sounds the same.
TheDrifter 24
To folks with a southern accent, or if the speaker has a Quebecois or territorial accent, it sounds like oot and aboot. I travel too much, even I notice it now. If you want to mess with Yankees, call everyone hoser and use eh where punctuation would go if you were writing.
cupcakechick 17
@18 I live in Canada, and I can hear that Canadians do have an accent, very different from other countries
kenny26f 19
I'm Canadian and enjoy saying 'opt and aboot' a lot! I was even told once that I sounded British. I didn't think my accent sounded like that! Lol
interesting33 37
aboot sounds like it might sound Scottish...
Feared 9
My farts have a Turkish accent.
cupcakechick 17
don't feel bad, I have a irish accent and people think its fake because they've never really heard a real one because im in canada
BellaBelle_fml 23
Completely off topic, but I simply cannot hold this in any longer. You are one of the most beautiful and adorable young ladies I have ever seen! You have the prettiest shade of blonde hair, your smile is so genuine and happy, and you look so lovely with your braces. The fact that you own your own cupcake business just adds to your already cute persona. Plus I admire you for being a hard-working teen and for owning your own business at 16! I truly hope that you don't take any of what I have said as me being a 'creeper' or anything of the sort. And I am not a 'pervy adult' trying to 'lure you in'. I really hope that this brightened your day rather than creep you out. Also, I really hope that this comment does not get thumbed down. I am merely trying to compliment a lovely young lady. And if doing so gets me thumbed down, then so be it. I'll stand by my genuine comment. It saddens my heart that behaving in this sort of friendly manner is so often frowned upon when it should be promoted. I wish you all the luck in your cupcake endeavors and in every other aspect of your life. Cheers!
BellaBelle_fml 23
I just checked out your website, www.cozycomfycupcakes.wix.com/cupcake, and it is absolutely adorable! Very appetizing, very colourful, and very well done! If your cupcakes, and the other tasty treats on your website, taste as delicious as they look, and I'm sure that they are, you will most definitely make it far in the confectionary world.
Quasar55_fml 18
That was quite a mouthful. #17, I do believe this person up here seems to have you in high regards
roachyroo 5
Imagine therestof Canada when they hear my Newfie accient then. An Irish,British, french accent gets looked at as well.
kittycat1597 10
Do not worry OP, I have the same problem. I was born in Cheshire also, and when I lived in America people blamed me for "faking my accent."
apollojon 11
"blamed you for"... or "accused you of"? #grammarnazi
BellaBelle_fml 23
Blamed and accused can often be used interchangeably. In most cases either one can be used correctly. It does look a bit odd in this circumstance, however, it is still correct. Both mean that someone is holding you responsible for something.
brackaman 18
I know how you feel. I'm Trinidadian American and Americans think I have a fake american accent while trinidadians think I have a fake Caribbean accent. Neither of my cultures accepts me.
brackaman 18
I know how you feel. I'm Trinidadian American and Americans think I have a fake american accent while trinidadians think I have a fake Caribbean accent. Neither of my cultures accepts me.
incendiaaa 23
yeah, i feel your pain on that one.
gracehi 33
I think you and my dad would get along. Americans think he sounds British, but British people think he sounds American. Poor guy doesn't fit in anywhere. :'(
madisonnnnn13 11
Try an American accent
SmosherMe 6
Why would someone even want to talk like an american? I live in the U.S. and don't want to because the people are rude, fat, and stupid.
BellaBelle_fml 23
^ So you are rude, fat, and stupid as well then? You do realize that you have lopped yourself right in there with the very people that you seem to so passionately despise by default, right? Makes sense.
KiddNYC1O 22
62- Then get the **** out. I rather be fat, rude and stupid than ignorant as ****.
Shmatterhorn 38
#25, which American accent? Midwest, New England, Southern, Californian, Texan? (Just to name a few.)
CharresBarkrey 16
There's a Californian accent? Huh. I've never noticed. I'm from Arizona, and I've been told we have accents as well, but I can't figure out what we do differently.
THobsession4 18
80- I moved to Oregon from Arizona and I noticed the accent is pretty much the same but I say anything with "ire" in it differently. Such as tire, liar, etc. It's more..cowboyish haha. They also pronounce things a lot clearer here.
brackaman 18
72 The "joy-zee" accent is interesting enough.
SmosherMe 6
65, I am rude, not necessarily fat, not skinny though. And if I were stupid I probably wouldn't have noticed the stupidity of those around me. And I didn't mean to "include myself" with that. I intend to state the fact of basically the majority. Even though, I will admit that I said "all".
SmosherMe 6
^actually, I didn't say "all". I said "the people". I didn't specify which people. So while I admit that it could be taken as the way you thought, I intended it as most.
CharresBarkrey 16
You can be stupid and still think others are stupid. Just saying.
SmosherMe 6
^yes, but it makes them even more stupid than myself, so therefore I am still smarter than the other people.
CookieLovesBoo 16
People just want to be rude , they hear the fake one so often that they can't even tell when there's a real one