Wednesday, February 20, 2008

Random Things That Irritate the Hell Out of Me

The one thing I really hate about kids today is how they try to talk with American West Coast accents. And when I say try, I mean fail miserably at to the point of causing their poor parents eternal shame and driving them to point of insanity. The worst thing is, these kids don't even sound remotely anything like an American. I've been alive for some twenty-odd years and have met more than my fair share of Americans from the California area and they don't sound anything close to the aural abuse these kids crap out their mouths whenever they speak.

Sure it can be argued that I haven't been or stayed in America so how would I know right? But then again, neither have 99% of these kids.

Personally, I can pull off a pretty mean Aussie accent. But just because I can, I don't. Why? Because my Aussie accent sounds nothing like a real Aussie accent and causes ears to bleed whenever I pull it off. And so I only pull it off around people I don't like because I'm mean and that's what I do.

So there I was in a bus surrounded by a cacophony of university students all trying to speak in either pseudo gay accents or badly articulated American accents all at the same. The noise must have really pissed off the bus driver because he was driving really fast.

There was this one batch of friends who were blabbering away very loudly. One girl the group exlaimed to her friends, "OMG OMG OMG! XXX is so irritating she keeps repeating herself irritating irritating irritating lor!" (Yes, she said it all in one breath.)

Initially, I thought she was trying to prove a point by repeating herself needlessly in lousy sounding American accent but when she went, "I will try try try lor try try my best try OMG" some 10 minutes later when queried by her friend about an assignment, I decided that there is no hope left in the world.

People are so ironical.

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13 Comments:

Blogger andrewong2024 said...

Hey bro and fellow TAG United player!

Chanced upon your blog... You damn funny leh...

Didn't know you so creative and crazy at the same time =p

Will visit you here more often =)

Wed Feb 20, 05:01:00 PM SGT  
Anonymous Yong Xin said...

Hahaha...well written Merv.
I agree. These group of "ah mei li ka" youth wannabee are simply irritating...

Should post your write up in STOMP.

Thu Feb 21, 11:37:00 AM SGT  
Anonymous kyels said...

Damn! I love this post!

The kids in my varsity will pull of the Brit twang ... Very irritating. And they don't sound like a Brit at all.

Thu Feb 21, 10:33:00 PM SGT  
Anonymous Song said...

behavioral note:
OMG has to appear at least once in every sentence spoken. At least from what I've seen...OMG.

Sun Feb 24, 07:40:00 AM SGT  
Blogger -Princess Shin- said...

Haha.. I think I'm starting to have an American accent too. My friends in America say I have a Malaysian accent and my friends in Malaysia say I have an American accent.

I'm neither here nor there.. Boohooo..

Mon Feb 25, 06:47:00 AM SGT  
Blogger miribi said...

hahaha! i liked it better when u said it in real life. hehe :P

Mon Feb 25, 08:08:00 PM SGT  
Anonymous darsim said...

dude...
haha...
"pseudo gay accents" totally identify with that... kept thinking to myself when ever i hear most asians guys here speak... they sound slightly gay...

Fri Feb 29, 02:52:00 AM SGT  
Anonymous darsim said...

except me of course! lol!

Fri Feb 29, 02:53:00 AM SGT  
Anonymous elvawenn said...

BWAHAHAHAHA! Poor you, darling. If that girl were an American, she would be blonde.

Sat Mar 01, 11:45:00 PM SGT  
Blogger ateegoy said...

OMG like TOTALLY! hahaha :P

Sun Mar 02, 07:53:00 AM SGT  
Blogger Ayesha said...

I really hate the put ons but I hate those who think ppl who live abroad have adopted an accent to show off when they return. I didn't even know I had an accent until I returned to Sri Lanka. So in a way its not always on purpose :)

Tue Mar 04, 06:10:00 AM SGT  
Blogger s!mp|e chery| said...

I can just imagine that chick trying to pull of that American bimbo slang with.

*shrugs*

Fri Mar 07, 03:39:00 AM SGT  
Blogger Las montaƱas said...

oh no! i am guilty, not once but twice with american, then singlish! but wait, is singlish considered an accent?

Fri Mar 07, 02:18:00 PM SGT  

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