not all gay people like analnsex, just saying :) i hate the idea myself, i guess thats whaii people doubt that im bi /= ohwell :)

when an american says someone has a 'british' accent they are generally ONLY referring to the english accent. if it were scottish, they'd just say scottish, welsh if it was wales, etc. you get the idea. it may be incorrect, but that's just the way it is. honestly, i resent your attitude towards americans. do you honestly expect to be able to pinpoint different dialects of the english accents when the majority of us haven't even been to england in the first place? hell, i've never even MET anyone with an english accent. it's easy for you to detect dfferent dialects because you are exposed to them everyday. besides, i'm sure you generalize the american accent exact same way. we're just as diverse a place as great britain and i've only ever heard the english attempt either a generic "southern" accent (because, surprise, there's a pretty wide variety of those) or a more east coast accent, and i don't really care. why? because in america there are a lot of different dialects to our accent, too, and i don't even know some of them. why would i expect the english to memorize them?

1)True, there's some variation between American accents, but nowhere near as much as in Britain. 2)You say the OP means an English accent... which one? All of the accents I named are English accents. 3)NO English person speaks like the common American imitation (not related to your point, just a general addition) so it's easy to tell whether you're actually from the south-east of England (the normal attempted accent) or an American faking it.

I have heard an English person mock an American accent. It wasn't pretty either. And "English" probably means something sounding somewhat posh, because that seems to be the one Americans favor. Some of us do know about the different accents in different areas, though. And there are much prettier ones than the crap posh impression we do.

True, my accent is northern Welsh, but I'm sure most people outside of the UK would just classify it as "British". BUT I'm not so stupid as to believe that it doesn't go the same way for the States. I realise that the U.S. has different accents for different regions and states and such too - Midwestern, Southern, New York, Boston (I realise the Boston and New York accents probably apply to the surrounding areas too, and that there are probably more specific accents and such, but I'm no expert), etc. But this also applies to almost every country in the world - China (Mandarin, Cantonese, etc. dialects), Canada (French and English, unsure of others), etc. Had this been an FML about someone trying to fake an Italian accent, I'm sure Italians would be saying the same thing.

i have to disagree. put one person from minnesota and one person from georgia together and listen to them speak. there's is quite the difference in accents. hell, i'm from southern indiana, but when i visit my family in eastern kentucky (this is only a 200 hundred mile radius, mind you), i have to ask them to repeat themselves more times than they actually speak. it's a possibility that you think our accents aren't as diverse because you can't tell the subtle distinctions the way we can the same way an american may think english accents sound the same. it's all about perspective. i'm afraid you've missed my point on number two. think of it in musical terms. punk is a genre within the music scene, but there are a ton of other sub-genres (pop-punk, gypsy punk, cowpunk, hardcore punk, etc, etc) within the genre itself. to a fellow punk music lover, you may expect them to know the distinctions between the subgenres, but you someone coming in with a very limited knowledge of punk music, it's okay to let them slide and just call it 'punk music' and skip all of the specific genres. you know what i'm saying? while i'm sure you have a very diverse group of accents over there, they are ONLY the different geological branches to the english accent. so, yes, to outsiders there really is just ONE english accent. it's too hard to make the distinctions without a lot of exposure. basically, i am completely okay with people not from america making a stereotypical american impression, because they haven't really been over here enough to know the difference. it's when i people from michigan think i have a southern accent that makes me want to punch people out. ;D

You're still not reli getting the point there with the punk analogy. It'd be fine, when related to ENGLISH accents. There's lots of them, etc etc. The ENGLISH won't mind the outsider overmuch generalising. But I'm Northern Irish and it pisses me off when people put on "Brit" accents. Two out of the three countries on that island attacked mine. There's still a war going on because of the "British" invasion of Northern Ireland. All that aside, NI people sound nothing like English people. But every American, when I say I'm N. Irish (or just Irish) says something like, oh, yeah, English. Or will fake an English accent, knowing they sound nothing like me. Cos there seems to be some common idea that British and English mean the same thing. They don't. That's the point most of the indignant folk here are trying to make. M'kay?

anyone who thinks that an Irish accent is an English accent is a ******* moron. I don't understand why its so difficult to pay attention if it's that hard for them to figure it out. ugh, I get so frustrated hearing stuff like this because it's only the American Idiots that y'all come across. yes, I said " y'all" I'm an American southerner. I just wish y'all could run into some of the smarter ones. :)