This really would've been better without "Mind blown". Especially since that's not a sentence. You can just give us the facts, you know. You don't have to add some ridiculous conclusion.
British... Jamaican..... I'm definitely not following...
EDIT: Ah, wait, I get it. I've been saying beer can with my average American accent and wondering why it didn't sound right, but now that I've tried with what my mind would consider a British accent, I get it.
I agree. I think it should have went more like this:
The other day I learned that if you say 'beer can' with an English accent, you're saying 'bacon' with a Jamaican accent. My mind is still in one piece. MLIA
You know, something along those lines..
Lmao, it's not too bad. I mean, it'd be worse if they had said, "Mind. Blown."
Right? :) Not all *that* cliche.
Not a bad MLIA overall, I find it pretty amusing.
I'm not sure why you lot are so obsessed with dissing posts with cliches at the end. If you have problems with things like that, why do you go through every single post and comment about how bad you think it is? That's a bit like a tiny step up from spamming: it shows you have no life and it makes people hate you. And if that's the image you want to put across to people, you're doing real great, but you can stop now. We get the message.
ha i love you. You are totally right, it doesnt matter if theres a cliche. It was the best story ive ever read. haha i made me laugh and everyone else i told thought it was amazing :)
Why? Why must there be imposters?! *cries with TheAmazingKid in the imposterless corner*
EDIT: Sorry, I was reading a comment by Iamhuman right before and while I was typing my reply to THIS comment I was thinking about that comment and got confused.
Sorry, Iamhuman, it was a dumb typo on my part!
EDIT: I just looked up names similar to mine (like Neonorangedinosaur) to see if I have an imposter. None as of yet!
wait why am i an imposter?
EDIT: wait... nevermind i get it.. sorry i didnt mean to copy the other person's screen name thingie... i just had no idea what to put for mine. sorry):
CHUCK NORRIS KNOWS EVEYTHING! WHY ARE YOU ASKING QUESTIONS YOU KNOW THE ANSWER TO? is Mr. Norris sick? wait, did anyone ever notice that filches cat is named MRS. Norris? hmmm
actually the irish tend to pronounce their rrrrr's properly kind of like a light fluffy pirate. so it doesnt work. more like a liverpool accent would work i think. or like the "daddy, daddy i want a pony" accent.
hahaahahah i hadn't read the jamacain part of this and when i said it, and then i read jamacain, and i cracked up cause it did sound jamacain. i can't get myself to do it naturally again though. lol.
Wow, it's pretty cool indeed. Especially the text the Jamaican man is reading:
"Please call Stella. Ask her to bring these things with her from the store: Six spoons of fresh snow peas, five thick slabs of blue cheese, and maybe a snack for her brother Bob. We also need a small plastic snake and a big toy frog for the kids. She can scoop these things into three red bags, and we will go meet her Wednesday at the train station."
(This is what Grave was trying to tell me when I was squeeing at her accent. Except that's not true, because she /does/ have an accent and it's /adorable/. :P *shot*)
Everyone has an accent, but people don't usually think of their accent as being an "accent," since that's what they're used to.
Sometimes I feel ashamed of my generic American accent.
I think that everybody thinks they don't have an accent. I, for example, am the only person in the entire world who doesn't have an accent. This is fact.
I would have posted a huge explanation about how no one thinks they have an accent, and that Yorkshire English, though great, has changed much more drastically from the 1700's than a generic American accent, but then I decided not to.
Most would consider me to have an Indian accent.
I just had a laughing fit for five minutes straight after I tried this myself. Now I can't wait to tell it to my Jamaican friends!! Thanks, you just made my night!
Wow, I spent five minutes doing this over and over again and just laughing. My mom thinks something is wrong with me. She just doesn't understand the magic.
oh come on, i've known this since secondary school (i'm 24 now). It's quite amusing how Americans think that all British people talk in the same accent too... there's west country, geordie, welsh, jock (that i can't understand half the time), central london, south london, brummie, lancastrian just to mention a few off the top of me head, we all sound very different lol.
anywho, the pronunciation is something like 'bee-uh' for beer
thanks for the entertaining read :-)
Yeah I know what you mean. There's so many stereotypes out there aren't there? I like the West Coun'ry one best. *fails to do west country accent cos hasn't lived in England for a while and has lost the knack :( *
Oh my goodness, these people are way too critical about the average life. It seems like they don't have anything better to do except criticize. It was a very nice story even with the "mind blown" portion. It made me smile (:
Well I added it because it really did entertain me for a long time and it just cracks me up every time I think about it. One of the few "a-ha!" moments in my average life I suppose. (x
Yeah I know what you mean about the serial dissers. Did you know that there's a few people who just go onto every single post and write something sad about it? It's like "Get a life!".
I was just about to post the same thing. I'm glad I have my dorm door closed, otherwise the rest of my floor would think I'm even crazier than they already do.
They do not sound the same. Besides, British and Jamaican accents sound *completely* different. Aside from intonation, British would sound like Beyah Cayhn, and Jamaican like bay-cuhn. At least to me.
It doesn't just work with an American accent trying to be British, i'm English and it works no accent needed, but i'm not snotty British eurgh *retches* to think that most people around the world think we speak posh. And that "A reporter" does sound like "Harry Potter"!
I just spent 5 minutes muttering how ridiculous this was, since it wasn't working.
Then I noticed the OP said "beer can" not just "beer"
I feel dumb :D
But that's ok since I'll be going around school today telling everyone about this marvelous revelation.
guys, i'm british so i ought to know.. this only works if you say it in a stereotypical ie. posh british accent. if i say it normally it sounds like what it is. some one with a british accent saying beer can.
actually, i'm also british [just north of london], and i have a friend with a jamaican accent, and we found that it actually does aswell... i guess it depends on what type of british accent, coz it doesnt work with, eg, a cockney [as in traditionally east-end-london] accent, or birmingham accent. but my accent isnt stereotypical. i have a friend who does. we always laugh at him.
i love you. im sitting in german class with my friend and as we read this we burst out laughing. i thought i was going to be in trouble for not being on task but the funny-ness of this has saved me.
me being the person that i am, said beer can in an english accent then fell on the floor from laughing so hard that it ACTUALLY DID sound like bacon in a jamaican accent.
i believe this is ridiculously pointless yet majorly entertaining.
One of my best guy friends went around telling this story all freaking day. ugh it got annoying. but i love him. and we went to talk to our teacher and i'm now an accomplice on world war 3 :) bahha.
I'm not a fan of the last sentence because IF IT BLEW YOUR MIND IT'S NOT GODDAMNED AVERAGE. Man I remember when this site was actually average, and it meant something because of it. Now MLIA stands for "My Life Is Amusing" and the original purpose of the website has been more or less completely defeated.
I did enjoy this, though. Now I can't stop thinking of Hermes Conrad.
So I read this while passively talking to my girlfriend on webcam who has a british accent and I told her to say beer can with her accent and then bacon with a Jamaican one. It was hilarious.
I'm laughing so hard now.
I'm an American living in Jamaica.
The irony is just priceless.
I'm going to go to school monday and get all my friends to say "beer can."
This is gunna be great.
Stop criticizing the poster for adding mindblown, t was an average thing so say. And along with all the other readers, i have now spent about 5 minutes saying beer can and bacon.
I was trying to do this with two of my friends. My friend and I were wondering why it didn't sound as good when we said it then when my other friend said it. She then admitted that she was actually saying bacon with a Jamacain accent.
love it!!! all i can think about now is the second pirate's movie and the jamaican dude who tells will that there is a ship with black sails beached on an island.
Have you people ever heard a British accent? This makes no sense. How does it at all resemble a Jamaican accent? I say Beer can and being British i say it in a British accent and it sounds nothing like that. This is very silly.
being from *england* which is what the post actually said (just in case you're welsh) you would know that the accents vary. cockney and liverpool accents are my favourite :D
finally, someone who knows that it's an english accent, not a british accent.
christ, this is my 3rd post defending the english accent. i need a life.
screw having a life, i'll just spend my itme on MLIA.
crappy ending, but good story. though it depends what part of england you're from. who would've thought so many accents could exist inside of such a small country?
i was saying it over and over then my mom walked in and came over to the computer and did the same as me. she now walks around the house saying it over and over while i laugh on the inside. i dont think she gets it.
ya i found that with a picture on stumbleupon.com. when i found it laughed really loud at work. at was kinda embarrasing. lol. if you wanna see the pic go to www.myspace.com/sevelle1 and add me. its in my funny pictures album. just let me know your from mlia please. thanks !
hahaha i don't care what other people say. I find this HILARIOUS!! I've been saying it in what i think is an "English accent" for the past 20 minutes :)
mind blown, too.
you, my friend, just provided me with my awkward silence breaker for the rest of my life.
im 15. so im thinking everyone will get tired of it besides me. but oh well.
i love it.
Either my english accent is awful, or you've never heard a proper Jamaican accent.
My next door neighbors are Jamaican, and no matter how many times I say this, it never comes close to their accent.
HAHAHAHAHAHA I don't care if you didn't start this with "today" or end it with MLIA or even that you said Mind Blown. idk why people care. i am still laughing about this. I literally cannot stop saying it over and over. my mind IS in face BLOOOWWWNNN.
The other day, my sister quoted this story exactly to me, and passed it off as her own. Grrrrr. By the way, for reference, it's not really an English accent, it's more of a German one.
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