Cheryl Cole

Bones McCoy · **Joined:** Mon Aug 16, 2010 9:08 am **Posts:** 7319

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/ar ... inger.html

Oh Nooo, angel of the north and panel show sweetheart Cheryl Cole will not be miming her latest single to an American audience.

Obama should dooo something.....

bluebellnutter · **Posted:** Thu May 26, 2011 9:21 am

Will we see the same apoplexy we saw with the banning of Marmite?

Bones McCoy · **Joined:** Mon Aug 16, 2010 9:08 am **Posts:** 7319

bluebellnutter wrote:

Will we see the same apoplexy we saw with the banning of Marmite?

Not yet, she has a few failings in the eyes of the mailocracy (northern, common, sounds like a coalminer), they'd settle for no less than Joanna Lumley, or perhaps Pippa Middleton.
The mail hasn't wheeled out any of its outrage inducing trigger words either; "banned", "snubbed".

I'm sure that once the dust settles we'll be told that PC or elf n safety were to blame.

satnav · **Posted:** Thu May 26, 2011 10:33 am

I think David Hasselhoff should get the boot from Britain's Got Talent in retaliation.

Bones McCoy · **Joined:** Mon Aug 16, 2010 9:08 am **Posts:** 7319

satnav wrote:

I think David Hasselhoff should get the boot from Britain's Got Talent in retaliation.

A mail commentator has already suggested that (as though its some kind of diplomatic misunderstanding), I believe the term "American hyprocrisy" featured in that posting.

They just can't shake their victim status can they?

AOB · **Posted:** Thu May 26, 2011 12:10 pm

I never buy this "can't understand accents" thing when it comes to a British person from the provinces trying to make it big in the US. I'm sure it's mostly the media who play on that angle. If someone's speaking in English I can understand them no matter what country they're from and no matter how thick or drawled their native accent makes their English. The reason I know what they're saying is because they're speaking English! If I struggle to understand them it's down to they way they speak as an individual. So why would Americans not understand an English regional accent? Their media is just as bad. Whenever an English character appears on a US show they've usually got a cut-glass accent. Yeah- cos we're all like that and we all know the Queen and go round for tea and scones at Buckingham Palace every afternoon having been chauffeur driven from our stately homes. Wait- I've just described the Tory cabinet there haven't I?

Bones McCoy · **Joined:** Mon Aug 16, 2010 9:08 am **Posts:** 7319

AOB wrote:

I never buy this "can't understand accents" thing when it comes to a British person from the provinces trying to make it big in the US. I'm sure it's mostly the media who play on that angle. If someone's speaking in English I can understand them no matter what country they're from and no matter how thick or drawled their native accent makes their English. The reason I know what they're saying is because they're speaking English! If I struggle to understand them it's down to they way they speak as an individual. So why would Americans not understand an English regional accent? Their media is just as bad. Whenever an English character appears on a US show they've usually got a cut-glass accent. Yeah- cos we're all like that and we all know the Queen and go round for tea and scones at Buckingham Palace every afternoon having been chauffeur driven from our stately homes. Wait- I've just described the Tory cabinet there haven't I?

Except Frasier's housekeeper.

You'd have thought Cheryl could have mimed and had an american actor voice her jurying.

AOB · **Posted:** Thu May 26, 2011 12:28 pm

Bones McCoy wrote:

Except Frasier's housekeeper.

Ironically, Jane Leeves who played Daphne with the Manchester accent is actually from the Home Counties (and London born).

ezinra · **Posted:** Thu May 26, 2011 12:33 pm

I saw a production of Trainspotting at a theatre in Minneapolis a few years ago, performed by American actors doing Scottish accents. It was weird, and the accents were patchy, but the audience seemed to understand.
Meanwhile, I watched The Sopranos and The Wire with subtitles.

Bones McCoy · **Joined:** Mon Aug 16, 2010 9:08 am **Posts:** 7319

ezinra wrote:

I saw a production of Trainspotting at a theatre in Minneapolis a few years ago, performed by American actors doing Scottish accents. It was weird, and the accents were patchy, but the audience seemed to understand.
Meanwhile, I watched The Sopranos and The Wire with subtitles.

Apparently Gregory's Girl was sent to the USA with subtitles.

These days the avoid the issue by re-making anything without Hugh Grant in.

Tubby Isaacs · **Posted:** Thu May 26, 2011 1:58 pm

She was homesick.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sh ... R=X+Factor

bluebellnutter · **Posted:** Thu May 26, 2011 2:52 pm

Bones McCoy wrote:

ezinra wrote:

I saw a production of Trainspotting at a theatre in Minneapolis a few years ago, performed by American actors doing Scottish accents. It was weird, and the accents were patchy, but the audience seemed to understand.
Meanwhile, I watched The Sopranos and The Wire with subtitles.

Apparently Gregory's Girl was sent to the USA with subtitles.

These days the avoid the issue by re-making anything without Hugh Grant in.

"Gosh...crikey...crickey...excellent...gosh...well...um...crickey...gosh..."

Abernathy · **Posted:** Thu May 26, 2011 3:49 pm

AOB wrote:

I never buy this "can't understand accents" thing when it comes to a British person from the provinces trying to make it big in the US. I'm sure it's mostly the media who play on that angle. If someone's speaking in English I can understand them no matter what country they're from and no matter how thick or drawled their native accent makes their English.

You've clearly never spoken to anybody from Aberdeen.

davidjay · **Joined:** Tue Feb 17, 2009 8:24 pm **Posts:** 3813

Have a Geordie accent reading BBC news and see the reaction.

oboogie · **Posted:** Thu May 26, 2011 11:42 pm

Abernathy wrote:

AOB wrote:

I never buy this "can't understand accents" thing when it comes to a British person from the provinces trying to make it big in the US. I'm sure it's mostly the media who play on that angle. If someone's speaking in English I can understand them no matter what country they're from and no matter how thick or drawled their native accent makes their English.

You've clearly never spoken to anybody from Aberdeen.

I lived in Aberdeen for a couple of years and I can honestly say the accent was never a problem and, once I'd picked up a bit of the Doric, I had no difficulty understanding them.

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