“My coworker pretended to be British for 3 years, then forgot which accent they were using”

by holytriplem

27 comments

  2. HR did a good job on background checking him when they hired him then.

  5. I mean, to be fair, saying “fancy a cuppa” and “bloody hell” is about 85% of what being a Brit is, the other 15% is moaning about the weather, no matter what it’s doing. So he got that but right. ( On the other hand, I’m sure his accent wasn’t even that convincing, yanks are just easily fooled in that way).

  6. That’s such a weird thing to do, but I believe it. I’ve met some deeply strange people in my time.

    I used to work with a guy who’d tell the most outrageous, obvious lies. Absurd things you could check in seconds, like being in Eastenders. He was a compulsive liar who just couldn’t stop talking absolute shite. It was funny at first, then just became deeply weird.

  9. If i was from America I, too, would try to pretend not to be

  12. I once had a palaeontology lecturer in college who did exactly this. Then this one time his sister and ex-girlfriend randomly rocked up at a lecture and his accent disappeared. Lots of questions. I think his sister was Scots

  13. Crikey! What a chancer. Sooner or later blokes like that always get rumbled. It’s too easy to U!S!A! U!S!A! GIMME BACON NOW OR I’LL TURN YOUR COUNTRY INTO A GLASS PARKIN LOT let it slip, innit?

  14. I can hear the crap fake British accent that Americans think is the bees knees from here!

  15. Immediately thought of the friends episode where Ross gets his new teaching job an instantly starts speaking with an old English accent 😂😂😂

  16. Was it like Dead Man on Campus? The depressed brit is a showtune loving cheerleader.

  17. There was a guy on here a month or so ago saying he started using a British accent at work as a joke, but everyone took him seriously and he had to just keep it up. They were about to assign him to do a deal with Brits. My advice was not to mess around because an American faking a British accent is painfully obvious.

    I can’t find the post any more, so they probably deleted it, which also might indicate that the screenshot above is legit.

  18. Wanna bet he sounded like Bart Simpson, but no-one could tell?

  21. Used to work with a guy who put on an American accent. Turns out his parents were from the States and moved to the UK before he was born. One day his older brother came in the shop. Full blown English accent. Everyone was shocked. Wtf how…wait…what ? Turns out when he was younger he found out his parents were American and just started doing it lol.

    Nice guys but freaking weird thing to do.

  22. Proper London accent that sounds like a textbook BBC newsreader?

  23. If the guy is working in US for 3 years, his native accent will slip

  25. I’m British born, but have an Australian accent. My sister is Australian born, but has a Black Country accent.

  27. That’s crazy. Why would anyone wanna be like us on purpose?

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