Hang on, when did we stop being able to mock gingers?!?!
You can legally discriminate against someone for being ginger, last I knew.
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It's true. I remember at school, some kids got bullied for putting their school bags on both shoulders, as the "cool way" was to put it on one shoulder, and sort of hold it on with your hand. "Oi! Two straps! Kick 'is head in!".
With that in mind:
^ look at this guy with a little picture next to his name. Who does he think he is?
Oi, picture name! What are you doing with that fancy picture in your name? Do you think you're better than us? I will fight you.
The most widely accepted discrimination is actually disability discrimination, its so popular MPs routinely engage in it as does the press and many of the public engage in it so frequently that most disabled people face it every single time they are out in public.
I think it should be okay to mock the accents of anyone whose accent is more Southern than yours.
When it gets down to Cornwall, it wraps back round and they can mock the accents of Shetland and Orkney.
Then it's all fair.
I was going to make a snarky comment about the MP, Ian Lavery, who said this and checked his voting record. He seems to be on the better end of the Labour Party. So wont.
https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/24963/ian_lavery/blyth_and_ashington/votes
People take the piss out of my North Eastern accent all the time.
Wey, down south they do. Be a bit weird if it happened back home
They take the piss out of you for not sounding proper, after dallywagging doun souff.
Doing a PhD at an English university, I think I heard only one postgraduate or faculty member with a strong English regional accent. There were a couple of Scots, and a few people with mild northern English accents, but only one strong one that I remember. I couldn't know whether this was due to discrimination, but I'm sure it contributes to ongoing discrimination, by making it hard to associate someone with a strong regional accent with intellectual authority.
I would also guess that a lot of racism in the UK is modified by accent. A brown guy speaking RP will be perceived far differently than one with a brummie accent - and that's before you get to foreign-looking people with foreign-sounding accents.
The British are just determined to make smaller and smaller tribes to find someone to blame and hate.
Yeah, but that's only because the people that live on the other side of the river, half a mile away from where I live, are inbred, swivel-eyed, six-fingered, web-footed mutants who talk in ridiculous "wrong side of the river" accents.
When they say the word "road", the "o" sound lasts 0.1 seconds longer than when we say it. "Ooh, look at me, I'm from the wrong side of the river and I'm walking down a rooad". Pricks.
"What in the weddled is going on!?" said a befuddled Scotsman.
Mo'ing peepo iz de ony akseppabel discriminayshun now yeah?
Dis iz ateful stuff yeah?
Bo'el o' wo'ah!
It's not my fault that Cornish people talk funny