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[cleolinda]

Two follow-ups on the previous entry:


Re: beignets. The problem with dating, rooming with, or being related to someone who writes anything intended to be funny is that you are inevitably going to get the short end of the stick in terms of the way you're portrayed, because... let's face it: it's not funny when things go right. My sister is actually a much better cook than the stories I tell about her would indicate, unfortunately. For example, she has made excellent fajitas (for dinner last night), cherry cheesecake with almond biscotti crust, tons of cakes that disappear in two days, blackberry cobbler with lemon cream, homemade salsa, duck l'orange ("Chef Whoever said my sauce was the best!"), fruit dessert pizza, truckloads of omelettes, napoleons that her boyfriend and I actually fought over, and beignets that did not, in fact, try to conquer the known universe. But things that turn out well aren't funny, so you don't hear much about them.

The thing about cooking and learning to cook--as my aunt, who recently got the same degree at the same college that my sister's getting, will tell you--is that you're bound to mess something up, try something that doesn't work, or have something blow up in your face through no fault of your own. Cooks, unlike writers, don't have the luxury of being able to revise--it either works or it doesn't, and if it doesn't, they have to start all over. There's no backspace on beergnets, let me tell you what. So please, don't get the wrong impression, because I don't want to die.


Re: accents. I was talking about accents with some folks last night and made some joke about not coming over to my LJ and saying, "So, you guys, which accents do you think are really hot?" But in the course of the conversation, two things kept coming up:

1. Of all accents, everyone loves Scottish.

2. Almost no one finds any American accent, with perhaps an exception or two, to be the least bit attractive.

Since there are a lot of y'all and you're from all over, let's actually take a look at this. So... which accents do you think are really hot, guys?

Comments

[timehastoldme.livejournal.com]

australian accents are sizzlin!hot. welsh too.

[lamiael.livejournal.com]

Oooh, ditto on the Welsh.

[theonlykow.livejournal.com]

I don't even consider it an "American" accent. I'm so used to it. I don't think it's unattractive, but it's not like it toots my horn or anything. Pun intended.

As for sexy - on women, British and light Japanese. On men, Austrailian. Oh baby. Here I am. Rock me like a hurricane.

[lamiael.livejournal.com]

Scottish and Irish, obviously (more Irish, though). English, too... ok, the entire UK. A light French is interesting. I love Spanish accents. Something about the rolled r's...

[where-ru-now.livejournal.com]

Irish all the way. Or...I can't even remember. Whatever accent Sean Biggerstaff had as Oliver Wood in HP#1. I think it's Irish, but whatever it was, it was hot. Pretty much any sort of accent like that...Irish or Australian, etc, is attractive.

Although, one Mr Sawyer has showed us that southern accents can be pretty hot, too. :-P

[arayuldaiel.livejournal.com]

Usually, I don't find (American) Southern accents all that hot (which, considering I have one...yeah), but Sawyer? Say 'sassafrass' again, sweetie.

[ccaretta.livejournal.com]

Same here. Normally, a southern accent doesn't do a thing, but sometimes, when it's just right, a slow southern drawl will melt the flesh off my bones. Which is probably why even in his pimp glasses, Sawyer is teh sexor.

[fmith.livejournal.com]

Welsh always (Especially Rhys Ifans). British. Indian. Australian (Matt Doran).

[ringwraithe.livejournal.com]

WHICH Indian accent? There's a very different one for every state. :P

[araelwen.livejournal.com]

My personal favorite is a French accent on German. If you speak a foreign language really well, and listen to other people trying to speak it, it usually sounds really funny (ie: my classmates from WI trying to speak German). French on German, however, is really pretty.

[somewhatmoot.livejournal.com]

I melt for the right southern accent.

I can't describe it, I just know when it happens.

[pjrampolla.livejournal.com]

Me. Too. For me, it's not like, really really strong, but that kind of drawl thing....



mmm

[squee1123.livejournal.com]

New Zealand accents...I've only heard one...very breifly...over internet microphone...

then there's Irish and Boston accents that I love most of all...

like lamiael said...all of the UK...

and Australian and Idian accents...i never used to like Idian accents but then Sayid...and ture his has a bit of the British mixed in...right? Gosh I cant even remember his accent! I need Lost, stat!

[house-monkey.livejournal.com]

I'm always surprised at how many people. particularly Americans, think the NZ accent (ie mine) is nice.
Personally, I could listen to someone with an Irish acent all day..

[ponygirl118.livejournal.com]

Prolly one of the only people in the world who loves an Israeli accent. Also, a cockney or Irish...
::purrs::

F

[rpp.livejournal.com]

Prolly one of the only people in the world who loves an Israeli accent.

Well, you're not alone!

[drakefn.livejournal.com]

Australian is the hottest accent... Newphie is the least attractive.

[hongkongaton.livejournal.com]

Irish, Scottish, and Australian.
Oh and I have a weird thing for German.

[sefia.livejournal.com]

Indian in particular, but really, anything middle eastern. Hands down. Oh hell yes.

[demonqueen666.livejournal.com]

British, Irish, Austrailian and French for guys, in that order. For girls, the same thing, except add Russian in second place.
And, as someone already brought up, I usually don't like American Southern accents either...but somehow, Sawyer/Josh Holloway works it juuuust right.

[ladyelaine.livejournal.com]

I grew up in Baton Rouge, so I find Cajun accents totally thudlicious. I also like Scottish, Irish, and Welsh accents (that seems to be a common theme here), and Russian--though only on men in that case. I can't stand French accents; sounds like a mouthful of molasses. And Spanish accents are lovely, but I don't really care for Hispanic ones.

[exiledprincess.livejournal.com]

hispanic?

[gabsy.livejournal.com]

Well, I can tell you one that is NOT attractive. French-Canadian trying to speak beginner's English!

[ladyvoldything.livejournal.com]

Aw man, my ex is Canadian and his parents have the most hideous accents evAR. Gods, I don't know why they make such a fuss about speaking the language when they sound awful!

[elvinborn.livejournal.com]

Scottish, Irish, <-- I'm all about the brogues
Australian <--- makes me melt

[carlanime.livejournal.com]

Australian, German, and upper-class Bostonion. ::purrrrrrrrrrrr::

[guinevere33.livejournal.com]

Scottish and Irish are equal-opportunity tasty accents. The hotness of straight up British is inversely proportional to how pretentious you actually are. I'd also like to give a shout-out to Italian and Spanish (as in, from Spain) - yum. However, I'm not that big on the French accent, as it mostly sounds like your mouth is full of marbles (although actually *speaking* in French? is dead sexy).

Australian: hot in men, incredibly obnoxious in women. After living in a dorm in Queensland, I decided that most Aussie girls sound like they're whining no matter what they're actually saying. New Zealand, OTOH, is just weird - it's like British English on LSD.

ironic?

[goldie.livejournal.com]

*whines*

Well, I could say that you yourself sound rather obnoxious based on this comment. Or I could even say that all Americans are obnoxious in the main.

But that would be a hugely sweeping generalisation.

*snorts*

[pygmymetal.livejournal.com]

My sweetie is scottish and yes, it is VERY sexy. He will, without warning, trill a rolled r sound down the phone and I swear to god, I shiver and whimper. It's disgusting how predictable I am. :p

Besides, who can resist being called a silly gural...

[museofswearing.livejournal.com]

There's a *reason* I'm studying abroad in Edinburgh next fall...

[right-as-rain.livejournal.com]

Australian and Irish=rrrowwwrrr

Also Scottish, French, anyone from any part of England, and Croatian (OMG Luka from E.R.!!!)

I also LOOOVVVEE southern American and Texan accents (goes with my cowboy fetish). I can even hide my inner Grammar Nazi when it comes to a sexy southern drawl.

The only accents that I can name off the top of my head that I don't find sexy are Indian, any Asian, New Yawk, and Boston.

[majormeg7.livejournal.com]

Crimity...that entry made me hungry; all that food and all I have is dorm fare.
As for accents, I love the Irish one.

[ewacat.livejournal.com]

Scottish, Irish, English (I am English and I like this accent, dammit!), light French, Italian, Australian, and actually it doesn't usually matter. If it's a bad voice, the accent can't improve it. Or. Well. Can't improve it much.

Also, couple of the people who I've turned into Lost addicts say that Sawyer's accent is gorgeous. And I like the Bostonian accent (... can I call it that?). Not because it's hot. I just like it. Like I like Polish accents.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

I think the reason everyone likes Sawyer's accent is that it's Josh Holloway's real accent (maybe played up a bit, but you see what I'm saying)--I remember reading that the character was supposed to be a New Yorker, but they worked his accent into the character after they decided to hire him. There's nothing quite so awful as a bad, fake Southern accent, and I don't think people would go for Sawyer half as much if his accent were bad/fake.

Here's the weird thing: I could tell that he's supposed to be sort of a redneck, but I kind of didn't notice his accent at first--because it's what I'm used to hearing. It's like I don't "hear" good Southern accents because that's the norm to my ears. If it's obtrusive to me, that basically means that it's bad.

[zhai.livejournal.com]

Irish, definitely.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_stormthesea/]

I dunno, southern schoolmarm will get me any time.

And, even though it's not attractive but simply adorable (a-word adjectives!), the other day I heard a wee British boy call after his mother, "Mummy, where ahh we going?" Little British Kids have the best accent.

[kelly-yoyo.livejournal.com]

All accents are sexy but especially: French Canadian, Georgian (US) and Indian.