Pet Peeves

[warhead]

Cunts who can't talk clearly on the phone. I have now had a few phone calls in Oz and one of two have been hard to make out but the one I just had a few minutes ago was a new level of incomprehensibility. Your one had one of those nasal air hostess voices where you can only make out around every one in five or six words, the rest becoming a monotonous, mumbling drone of nothing. I had no idea what she was calling about and asked her to repeat herself, which she did, and which left me no clearer as to what she was on about. It might be a job offer so I don't want to make things awkward but after twenty seconds of your one droning and me scratching my head going "OK, yeah, I see..." I somehow decipher my son's name from the stew. Oh, it's about a creche place. I listen a bit more and make out "first week of October". I say no, we need to get him in right away. So she starts to drone on and I'm contorted around the phone trying to make it what she's on about. I eventually just fucking hang up the phone on her, mid-sentence. Surely if you are dealing with the public in your job, having the skills to communicate yourself in a clear way would be fairly high up on the list of requirements! I'm irritated to fuck!

Whow...sounds like Ireland   
Like when someone is swallowing half of the words and using a heavy accent, and after you politely say:"I apologize, didn't get to understand you properly, would you be OK to repeat the last thing you've said"? And then the person looks at you as if you're an idiot, start talking slower with making the heavily accented words even more accented, and words that were only half swallowed three quarters swallowed now.

[Eoin McLove]

The Aussie accent is familiar to the Irish ear at this stage but it's the nasal delivery- again, I can only refer to the air hostess nasal drone for comparison- that is a total mumbling earsore. Maybe she had a mask on as well but whatever it was, I could barely make out a thing she said bar the occasional word here and there. Fuck it, we got another creche sorted with an entirely Indian staff whose heavy Indian accents are easier to make sense of 

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

I find Indians really hard to follow sometimes. The common combination of really strong accent and quite uniquely extensive vocabulary means that normal expectations of what they might be saying, given the context, goes out the window. I think educated Indians must still be working off English books from pre-Independence times, the words they do come out with from time to time, mad. Your brain just doesn't expect such a strong accent to be throwing "ghastly" or "quaint" or "skewed" at you.

[warhead]

The Aussie accent is familiar to the Irish ear at this stage but it's the nasal delivery- again, I can only refer to the air hostess nasal drone for comparison- that is a total mumbling earsore. Maybe she had a mask on as well but whatever it was, I could barely make out a thing she said bar the occasional word here and there. Fuck it, we got another creche sorted with an entirely Indian staff whose heavy Indian accents are easier to make sense of 

Ah, let's not get into all the masks discussion......I hate the bloody things with a passion. My hearing is not the greatest, it's what 1000's of gigs can do to you. Wasn't even aware how much I rely on lip reading when talking to people 
Seems like it is a fashion for young lasses around the world to talk with a nasal fried voice lately, have even watched some videos done on the topic, might be a part of your problem.
When it comes to Indians, have a feeling they are singing, more than talking   

[Eoin McLove]

I find Indians really hard to follow sometimes. The common combination of really strong accent and quite uniquely extensive vocabulary means that normal expectations of what they might be saying, given the context, goes out the window. I think educated Indians must still be working off English books from pre-Independence times, the words they do come out with from time to time, mad. Your brain just doesn't expect such a strong accent to be throwing "ghastly" or "quaint" or "skewed" at you.

Bodes well for the little fella's vocabulary   

[Eoin McLove]

The Aussie accent is familiar to the Irish ear at this stage but it's the nasal delivery- again, I can only refer to the air hostess nasal drone for comparison- that is a total mumbling earsore. Maybe she had a mask on as well but whatever it was, I could barely make out a thing she said bar the occasional word here and there. Fuck it, we got another creche sorted with an entirely Indian staff whose heavy Indian accents are easier to make sense of 

Ah, let's not get into all the masks discussion......I hate the bloody things with a passion. My hearing is not the greatest, it's what 1000's of gigs can do to you. Wasn't even aware how much I rely on lip reading when talking to people 
Seems like it is a fashion for young lasses around the world to talk with a nasal fried voice lately, have even watched some videos done on the topic, might be a part of your problem.
When it comes to Indians, have a feeling they are singing, more than talking   

Yeah, defo a global trend. Cuntish.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

I find Indians really hard to follow sometimes. The common combination of really strong accent and quite uniquely extensive vocabulary means that normal expectations of what they might be saying, given the context, goes out the window. I think educated Indians must still be working off English books from pre-Independence times, the words they do come out with from time to time, mad. Your brain just doesn't expect such a strong accent to be throwing "ghastly" or "quaint" or "skewed" at you.

Bodes well for the little fella's vocabulary   

"Daddy, what is that ghastly music you are subjecting us to? If one could even refer to such a cacophony as "music"!"

[Eoin McLove]

My boy, the cacophony to which you refer goes by the handle of "Mary Had a Little Lamb". Indeed,  tis quite the rambunctious riot.

[leoos]

The Aussie accent is familiar to the Irish ear at this stage but it's the nasal delivery- again, I can only refer to the air hostess nasal drone for comparison- that is a total mumbling earsore. Maybe she had a mask on as well but whatever it was, I could barely make out a thing she said bar the occasional word here and there. Fuck it, we got another creche sorted with an entirely Indian staff whose heavy Indian accents are easier to make sense of 

I started a job in computer admin in Australia when I was there, on the second day the lad in front of me just stops me mid sentence and asked me "Do you come with subtitles?" By the time I got home a year later I had adopted a slowly spoken tone that ensured I could be understood. On my return to Cork someone asked me how much drugs I had gobbled in Australia as I was now speaking so slowly.

[Eoin McLove]

 

Which no doubt was another story entirely!

[Mower Liberation Front]

Dublin Airport: "Oh, you need a PCR test before you can fly, but you can only get the test from two companies based here at overinflated prices , we won't accept HSE or anyone else's tests."

Fuck off.

[open face surgery]

Don't mind that. It's the flight attendants that are the ones that are supposed to check them. I had one with me last week flying to the UK and wasn't asked for it, going or coming back. Also, I have mates that have flown on a Boots PCR. No issue.

[Mower Liberation Front]

I'm flying to the US, and from what I've read the airlines are being stricter when it comes to enforcement than with the UK flights.

[91/30]

The Aussie accent is familiar to the Irish ear at this stage but it's the nasal delivery- again, I can only refer to the air hostess nasal drone for comparison- that is a total mumbling earsore. Maybe she had a mask on as well but whatever it was, I could barely make out a thing she said bar the occasional word here and there. Fuck it, we got another creche sorted with an entirely Indian staff whose heavy Indian accents are easier to make sense of 

I started a job in computer admin in Australia when I was there, on the second day the lad in front of me just stops me mid sentence and asked me "Do you come with subtitles?" By the time I got home a year later I had adopted a slowly spoken tone that ensured I could be understood. On my return to Cork someone asked me how much drugs I had gobbled in Australia as I was now speaking so slowly.

I'm here in Australia a long time now, when I last got home to rural Ireland I was conscious that I sounded like I had an acquired brain injury.
That's from working out in rural parts of western and northern Queensland. Brains fried from the heat humidity and bundy rum 

[Carnage]

Fucking Blade Runner live is postponed yet again, to May. I should have guessed when I couldn't get any reply or information from them 6 days before it was due to take place. Cunts.