Channel4/Bigbrother northern announcer

[Swainy]

So he's dead? He must have recorded a lot of new stuff before he died.

[Popo]

This fella:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Allen

Lies, it says he is dead:

He died on the 28 July 2006. [1] He left a widow, the actress Sarah Lawson and two sons.

...yet I clearly have heard new idents over the past few months with him and XFM Scotland use him on occasion too.

[Dapple]

Lies, it says he is dead:

...yet I clearly have heard new idents over the past few months with him and XFM Scotland use him on occasion too.

I thought that too, but...

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,60-2302641.html

[Popo]

Well the VAs can't be done by him, or they're referring to a different series of idents.

The ones on E4 these days are still going. The same guy did some idents for XFM Scotland when they were doing promotions for the Borat movie.

[Strawp]

I hate that voiceover knob as well. It's not his accent, it's his intonation of words. He's like the Geordie version of the incredibly irritating American voiceover guys they use for movie trailers. Same voice, different accent.

[Lovelyman]

He has a fairly weak accent.

And as Strawp says, it's his intonation of words that's annoying. He's trying to be northern with a southern twang and it sounds shit.

[mwaawm]

your right its defintely not the northerness of his accent just the fact that he sounds like an idiot.

Rab c nesbit, byker grove and plenty of others with regional accents sound very pleasing to the ear. Which again begs the question why did channel 4 pick this twat?

[ZOK]

I find Jayne Middlemiss pleasing to the ear, and the eye. Is she one of ours, or one of theirs?

[linkster]

Funnily enough my mate Mike who reports sport on Granada TV puts on a southern accent which is miles from his slightly camp Lancashire norm. Apparently the guy who reads the scores on BBC1 does exactly the same.

I wonder if Moira Stewart actually talks like a Yardie?

[Nate Dogg III]

whippets, pie and crime.

And gravy and cobbles and poverty.

[SeanR]

Funnily enough my mate Mike who reports sport on Granada TV puts on a southern accent which is miles from his slightly camp Lancashire norm. Apparently the guy who reads the scores on BBC1 does exactly the same.

I wonder if Moira Stewart actually talks like a Yardie?

being from Birmingham IIRC, probably not...

[Old Dear's Menu]

Embarrassingly shit thread alert!

My girlfriend has a northern friend. Her accent is funny! I always think of whippets, pie and crime.

My neighbor knew someone from London. He talks in rhymes and shit. It's well crazy! He also drinks shandy (NO WAY!1) and eats nothing but jellied eels and rocket salads.

The mind boggles!!22err223

WE ARE SOOOOO DIFFERENT!

IT'S LIKE WE LIVE ON ANOTHER PLANET OR SOMEFINK!

I CAN'T UNDERSTAND IT!!DW2131

[ZOK]

Again in Southern, please.

[chris on the moon]

chillax please. you southerners are all cunts.

[ZOK]

[El Pibe]

Embarrassingly shit thread alert!

My neighbor knew someone from London. He talks in rhymes and shit. It's well crazy! He also drinks shandy (NO WAY!1) and eats nothing but jellied eels and rocket salads.

The mind boggles!!22err223

WE ARE SOOOOO DIFFERENT!

IT'S LIKE WE LIVE ON ANOTHER PLANET OR SOMEFINK!

I CAN'T UNDERSTAND IT!!DW2131

Are you American?

[Wickedkitten]

My girlfriend has a northern friend. Her accent is funny! I always think of whippets, pie and crime.

Shouldn't you be off making some clotted cream or something?

And no thats not a double entendre

[angel]

marcus bentley sounds bot all like anyone from newcastle iv ever met

no one up here pronounces 'day three' as daaayyyyyyyyy threeeeee