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@matty wrote:
C*ap Easy League, tottaly Inbred Country
oh please enlighten me trumpet drawers……how many englishmen play in the top 4 teams in the premiership?
only 3 on the park champions league liverpool v arsenal?
i really dont care if the scottish league is poor….. it our league our team and WE love it
we dont have squillions to spend nor do we generate money week in week out,but we do our best and we still go every week to see our wee teams cause we love them :wink:
btw….for the record…i DONT like football anyway…im a ST.MIRREN fan :lol:
there is just no justice in this JC world :(
stick yir points up yir…………no …hold on :oops: …love you ppl :lol:
p.s. V @ pats ..for the sheer hell of it :P
sok sharon…the midget cannae reach :wink:
Why it’s better to keep schtum if you’re a Brum
By FIONA MacRAE and JENNY HOPE – More by this author »Last updated at 00:01am on 4th April 2008
There’s only one thing worse than an attractive person giving you the silent treatment.
And that’s when they open their mouth and out comes a Birmingham accent – or so researchers claim.
According to them, Brummie talk is less appealing than saying nothing at all.
They say it characterises the speaker as less intelligent and less attractive than others.Researcher Lance Workman, a softly-spoken Welshman, presented the study at the British Psychological Society’s annual conference in Dublin.
He said: “Part of the stereotype about Birmingham is that there is a lot of criminal activity and a number of studies have shown that people associate criminal activity with low intelligence.”
Working with Birmingham-born colleague Hayley-Jane Smith, Dr Workman asked a group of adults to rate pictures of four young women for attractiveness and intelligence.
They were either shown the pictures in silence or while listening to a short passage being read out in one of three accents – Birmingham, Yorkshire or Received Pronunciation.
Despite the young women all looking very similar and the same information being read out each time, some were instantly judged as being more clever than others.
Top came the Yorkshire accent, with an intelligence score of 6.71 out of 10.
Next was RP, at 6.67, followed by silence with 5.99.
Last was the Birmingham accent, with a score of 5.6. A similar association between accent and attractiveness was found.
Dr Workman, of Bath Spa University, said the triumph of the Yorkshire accent showed that the clipped upper-class tones of RP are no longer a byword for intelligence.
“There is a general shift away from RP as the most intelligent-voice. It is a sort of cultural evolution and regional dialects are now seen more positively – but some more than others.”
Dr Workman, added: “Places like Birmingham might eventually catch up. It could be in ten years that the Birmingham one is the one everyone want to do.”
However Adrian Chiles, host of BBC1’s The One Show, has credited his accent with helping his career rather than hindering it. “If you speak with a Birmingham accent, people assume you’re thick,” he said recently.
“It means you only have to string two sentences together and ask one decent question and they look at you like you’re a genius.”
sorry…..updated now :wink:
dont you listen to the eejit pp1 thats why we call her the eejit and THATS why she is below me………oo’er….
pats…i missed all of last week so your lucky..enjoy it while it lasts
(and im going to miss thursday’s )sh1t think im going to miss sundays as well…ya jammy bugger V @ pats
pp1 can i have 20 points since im missing out…pwease..pwease… :D
happy birthday rose xxx
@abitofmary_j wrote:
the first piece of silverwear for 3yrs…!!! brilliant Cup Final, on the edge of the seat, Dundee first goal flookie as…. very scrappy but it counts, they should of had a pentality also, but is was Boyd’s game 2day, fab he was…. must admit when DUtd scored in xtra time thought that was it…. but then again… Boyd again… stormer… then the ohh i canny watch the penality shoot out lol it was Boyds n Allan McGregor day….
you should be a buddie :x
@minim wrote:
I wasn’t aware there were time penalties in replying to posts
it was never a penalty…the ref was a blind b..
oops sorry….wrong thread :oops:
id like to sit on sunny’s face……but then again i wouldnt need to bend my knees..shes like that wee midget you can reast your arm on in the pub…….oh sunny dayssssssssss
:D :D :D :D :D :D
ooooooooooooooooooooo…can i post something pwease pwease pwease
