by iohannes on Thu Jun 03, 2004 6:31 am
I find the way that "neds" talk is not the thing that makes them neds. Yes they have a broad and "uneducated" accent, but what's wrong with that? The only truly "educated" sounding accent is Received Pronunciation and nobody speaks that anymore, with maybe the exception of Brian Perkins and Charlotte Green on Radio 4.
What irritates most people about Neds and the point the webmaster of GlasgowSurvival.co.uk was trying to get across was the sheer antisocial and idiotic behaviour of these people. While there is an element of snobbery about all this, accent is not the facet worth mocking. Not all Neds come from Glasgaw, or indeed Scotland, any large city has more than its fair share of bored, drunk, anti-social, lazy young and not so young. Unfortunately because of certain government policies towards employment in Scotland, Scottish cities have become more identified with that sort of behaviour than English towns.
Bloody Tories. This has been a Party Political Broadcast on behalf of "I don't care if Michael Howard has new glasses or his cabinet seem nice, they're still the useless shower of bastards who helped fuck up this country for 17 years" Party.
[hr]That is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
That is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.