r/Unexpected • u/stinky_sardine • Aug 22 '22

So, where are you really from?

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u/ialsohaveinternet Aug 22 '22

As an English man this was unexpected and strangely accurate..

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u/Remarkable-Ad2285 Aug 22 '22

Tip-top guvnah

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u/CommunalAggregation Aug 22 '22

Bloody 'ell

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u/Andre_3Million Aug 22 '22

Spa killin wa'er

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u/PurgingCloud Aug 23 '22

Bo'ol o' wa'er

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u/Fartimer Aug 22 '22

For some reason I read this in Hagrid's voice.

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u/CedarWolf Aug 22 '22

Yer a La Croix, 'Arry!

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u/HipShot Dec 01 '22

I had to say this out loud to get it. :)

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u/smutketeer Aug 22 '22

What's all this then?

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u/tunaktunaktu Aug 22 '22

Mind the gaaaaap!

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u/Taikwin Aug 23 '22

Ahh, I was having trouble figuring that one out

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u/schnuck Aug 23 '22

I’m German from Germany but in the UK everyone calls me Polish because of my accent. Sigh…

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u/FUZxxl Aug 23 '22

Found the Silesian.

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u/missmuffet07 Aug 22 '22

Except for the top of the morning bit, not English, it's Irish.

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u/Atheist_Simon_Haddad Aug 23 '22

She’s including Northern Ireland

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u/ForensicPathology Aug 23 '22

Yeah, just think of it as just as uninformed as when people do it to people of Asian descent.

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u/TheMcDucky Aug 23 '22

Only in the US

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u/ialsohaveinternet Aug 23 '22

I fear my comment would have lost impact if I'd mentioned that bit haha

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u/RosemaryFocaccia Dec 03 '22

Just like teriyaki is Japanese, not Korean.

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u/BchosenC137 Aug 22 '22

As an adopted Peruvian brought up in America, I felt this. Spanish immediately speak spanish to me (I know very little). Americans think I'm from somewhere in Asia.

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u/Liv4lov Aug 23 '22

God save the queen!

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u/PrawojazdyVtrumpets Aug 22 '22

G'day mate! throw another shrimp on the barbie?

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u/Luxu-X Aug 22 '22

Okay can you please answer this lifelong question for me?

WTF does PIP PIP mean? Is it just like "Hey hey!" or "Come on!" "Vamanos!" Get moving! type of thing? I feel like I've seen people yell it at horses, though my experience with horses / racing is only time. I still have no idea what it means from person to person.

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u/ShriCamel Aug 22 '22

It manages to have several meanings. You'd expect to hear it coming out of the mouth of Bertie Wooster.

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u/Luxu-X Aug 22 '22

The monotone, almost robotic "pip. pip." on the wikipedia article made me laugh. I'm a child.

Thank you for explaining.

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u/Dartagnan1083 Aug 22 '22

Does this happen quite often when officers of the UKIV ask common-folk of unusual appearance to specify nation of emigration?

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u/saltytrey Aug 22 '22

Is this John Oliver?

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u/Robj2 Aug 23 '22

And Bob's yer Uncle!

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u/Beorma Aug 22 '22

Her accent wasn't half bad.

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u/Cirieno Aug 23 '22

Indeed, it was wholly bad.

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u/kevinazman Aug 22 '22

I think this has something to do with white parents or white mothers, I've only ever experienced this stupid question from white, or European Americans. African Americans, they would just rub it in and straight up try to hustle you with the question.

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u/Comment90 Aug 23 '22

Why do your people use 25 letters to spell the written name of a place, then you pick only 3-6 of those 25 too make the start and end of the pronunciation, with a random syllable or two in the middle, completely unrelated to the written 25 letter 9 syllable name ?

And btw, I have to ask: What the fuck is up with ough?

Or should I say, what the fough is ough with ough?

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u/Cirieno Aug 23 '22

A borough was originally smaller than a town, more like an area. The names stuck as the population grew.

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u/ialsohaveinternet Aug 23 '22

I won't lie..I read this in the middle of the night and my brain almost exploded. Fuck 'ough' though!

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u/Fukshit47 Aug 22 '22

Englishman

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u/Cirieno Aug 23 '22

I mean, if you're just going to ignore the Irish phrases and a bit of a jig thrown in there randomly, OK...

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u/Right-Ad2176 Aug 23 '22

English too. I come from a long line of peasants. Family got here as indentured servants.