I've never 'got'

Well, it gave us Mexican Wrestling Horror Movies, so there's that.

I watched a bit of Eastenders for a while, maybe around 1990? Didn't seem too bad. Maybe a notch below what Shameless degraded to.

It was vastly superior to Neighbours, at least back then. Speaking of, the missus made me sit down in front of the Neighbours reunion special, and fuck was it awful. The writing, the acting, the whole production, just utter, utter shite. Mind-bogglingly bad.

A significant portion of British youth started ending non-questions on a rising note, back when Neighbours was a thing here. The fact that this intensely irritated everybody over 18, particularly their teachers, was an incentive, of course.

Yeah, people who talk like that sound like they're fucked in the head?

My theory is that it's a byproduct of a culture of anti-intellectualism, which fosters a sense that being informed and having strong opinions is just not cool, while implicitly seeking the approval of others with every utterance somehow is.

It’s now accompanied by a shortened ‘the’ -heard as “thu” which sounds ridiculous and clumsy once you pick up on it. For example “it was thu end” not it was “thee end”.
Also included is adding a ‘pause then emphasise each syllable in the next word’ in every block of speech.

Did Idiocracy predict this kind of thing?

It predicted Crocs…

It’s now accompanied by a shortened ‘the’ -heard as “thu” which sounds ridiculous and clumsy once you pick up on it. For example “it was thu end” not it was “thee end”.

That's been a thing in much of the U.K. way before Neighbours. As long as I can remember. If it wasn't common where you are and it is now, maybe it wasn't the Ozzies spreading it.

They should have written a wrestling storyline into it

I seem to remember neighbours being credited with bringing in 'Uni' and 'this arvo'

Maybe one day the rest of the country will reach the peak of civilisation, the Yorkshire 't

You mean t’

I meant what I meant

Reebok Classics - probably has something to do with me not growing up in the UK and certainly not being a football casual but never really saw the appeal

They are so dull.

I remember seeing them described as the ultimate pub trainer, which made me realise that for some people walking to the bar for a pint and a packet of crisps constitutes exercise and they need a training shoe to help facilitate this difficult activity.

You weren’t talking about Yorkshire then.

In actual Yorkshire speaking you'd say
I'm going't pub
Rather than the exaggerated
I'm going t' pub

You’d say I’m going to t’pub where t’ replaces the.

Drop the and replace it with a glottal stop, basically. Which is the mode I drop back into when back in Yorkshire…

Oh shit really? I must have done the whole growing up in Yorkshire thing wrong.

One of us did XD

Where in Yorkshire did you grow up? Because I’m genuinely interested; nothing to do with language.

It's like there are dialects and regional differences...

You can always tell a Yorkshireman.

You just can't tell him much.

Stereotypes exist for a reason!

In my ~4 years as a FUCKING STUDENT in (South) Yorkshire the word the was rarely spoken. I came to think that the t' replaced to and not the, e.g.

"I am going to the pub" = I'm going t'pub
"Will you catch the bus?" = Will you catch bus?

Not that it really matters, but I think it should be will you catch t’bus.

But we’d never sound the t’. There’s a glottal stop. My mate who wasn’t from Yorkshire used to get told off by his parents for trying to speak like us lot, and it sounded weird because it just sounded like there was a word missing.

York. None of this secretly Lancashire stuff some people think the accent is.