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You know the ones. Someone who the second they open their mouthes, you'd rather hacksaw your own ears off than listen to another syllable they have to utter.
I'm not no about what they have to say. I'm on about the way they say it.
I'll start with Courtney ****ing Barnett. Why 6 Music have seen fit to playlist everything she releases, despite the fact that it all sounds exactly the same, but even more annoying, than the one before. The flat droning, tuneless monotone, combined with the most annoying of all speech traits - the rising inflective so beloved of morons the world over.
Its absolutely impossible to listen to. If you've not heard it, subject yourself to this at your peril....
Your nominations please.....
Ohhh I'll play..
My Mrs when speaking on the mobile with the speaker on...
BeJezus 🙄
One of my colleagues who produces a burst of white noise with every s she tries to speak.
I like Courtney Barnett. 😀
Imagining the OP reading that whinging moany rant in a Manc accent...which particularly suits a whingy moany rant...does it for me, and not in a good way.
a burst of white noise with every s she tries to speak.
Ermmmm!
I call, her off the Weakest Link Anne Robinson?
Imagining the OP reading that whinging moany rant in a Manc accent...which particularly suits a whingy moany rant...does it for me, and not in a good way.
Like an Oasis song?
I really like Courtney Barnett, very good live as well.
Now this croaky voiced Doris makes me want to put acid in my ears...
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Courtney ****ing Barnett
Is she the 'give me all your money I'll make some origami honey' one?
Couldn't agree more.
Janet
Street
Porter
AAAARGH!
does it for me, and not in a good way.
Any more of that and I'll stop the late night phone calls!
I agree with Binners (again)
Whining Courtney (and the Sleaford Mods) can do one .
Ex Australian PM Julia Gillard.
Truly nerve shattering! (although she appears to have taken some elocution lessons in this vid)
Robert Peston, more his speech rhythm. Cheryl Cole, she's beautiful but that Geordie whinge is awful.
Brian Blessed.
Most of the male vocal of this just makes me want to punch someone. The plinky plonky arrangement doesn't help.
any public school accent
I cant believe its not been said yet but Natalie Bennett. Irritating voice and cringe worthy content every time
Terry Christian
David Morrissey
My former boss who sounded who sounded like a Kenneth Williams character
thisany public school accent
Is she Australian? Sounds it in that song. I think that upwards inflection thing at the end of every sentence is an Australian thing, isn't it? Makes every sentence sound like a question.
I can cope with that, but it's the droning monotone, I don't like in that song.
For some weird reason, one of my nephews who is 7 & lives in Bristol randomly does that upward inflection thing & it is very annoying in his case, for some reason.
Liam Gallagher's whiny drone is particularly annoying. His brother I can tolerate, but not him.
Ooooh, Nick Grimshaw's voice & general demeanour/mannerisms. GAH!
Robert Peston, more his speech rhythm
this! Soooo flaming annoying, I have an irrational urge to punch him and shout "just hurry the **** up!"
Me!
on any recording i've ever heard of me. I sound OK to myself when I actually say stuff, but when I hear myself as others must do? Jebus, it's awful 😯
Katie effing Hopkins
We've got one in our office.....
I spend 90% of my day with headphones on
*looks towards the North, expectantly*
Kate Bush. Warbly squarky awfulness
*awaits sight of mushroom cloud over Lancashire*
'More people die on the road than they do in the ocean maybe we should mull over culling cars instead of sharks, or just lock them up in parks?'
Thought they'd be more love for someone who wrote this song on a cycling forum 🙂
Mary Ann Hobbs for me. Just so...rnnngg...ERNEST!!! 👿
Sara Cox.
[quote=swavis opined]Robert Peston, more his speech rhythm
this! Soooo flaming annoying, I have an irrational urge to punch him and shout "just hurry the **** up!"
Erm well Urn I well it erm so it would well erm uMMmmm
How the hell he has a job where he needs his voice most is lost on me.
trailmonkey - Member
any public school accent
Clearly you are not the only one. 😀 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/georgeosborne/9966717/Mockney-George-Osborne-backs-the-Briddish-who-wanna-work.html
Although always imagined Portillo was a great example of this, it turns out he actually went to a grammar school (in Harrow, mind!)
What annoys me more is the rythm and pitch that many of our politicians adopt for speeches and television, which feels very scripted and fake. Seriously, i would rather listen to Russell Brand getting righteous than Cameron, the difference between his normal voice and that "lets get the job done" speech voice he has (most recently heard in the Calais refugees speech) is just ridiculous.
Helen Skelton.
Sure she's a lovely lass, done all sorts of amazing stuff, but just when you think - "She'd be a laugh to go and have a pint with..,.." that voice 😯
Chris Moyles, when he was on Radio 1 in the morning I would sooner reach the radio off button than steer out the way of an oncoming arctic lorry.
Kardashians
Cake Boss
Cake Bosses whole family
Julie Burchill
Was watching a clip on Dismaland and there she was, ghastly
Cilla Black. (May she rest in peace).
Alan Carr. And he's paid to talk. Unbelievable.
As ab ooove.
Robbbbb ert Pesssss ton.
wooobob - Member
Alan Carr. And he's paid to talk. Unbelievable.
We really ought to end the thread right here, right now.
Such a good call that Sir, such a gooooood call.
Diane Abbott, the most patronising voice ( if such a thing exists) I've ever heard, every time she speaks she sounds like she's talking to a 3 year old..
^^^^
Alan Carr +3
He could be the funniest guy on earth but I'll never know.
Almost makes Paul O'Grady listenable. Almost.
Robert Peston speaks like that because he has a stutter, and his speech inflections are the method he uses to overcome it. it's also why Rowen Atkinson over pronounces B and P
Sara Cox - a face for radio & a voice that'll make a deaf person shudder.
James Blunt. Quite like the way he handles his critics but his voice.... ffs!
The woman who does the voice over on Masterchef!! Arghhhhh!
Sean ****ting 'I have to sing at every opportunity' Keaveney.
Jamie Carragher.
Jammers the freelancer who luckily doesn't come in that often anymore 😉
spursn17 - Member
I really like Courtney Barnett, very good live as well.Now this croaky voiced Doris makes me want to put acid in my ears...
ITV weather girl
I don't get that one at all. She sounds lovely
Now, Julia Gillard, I totally agree with. Bloody awful. As soon as she opens her mouth I get riled. Horrible voice and the accent is ridiculous. Repeat after me - A E I O U
Katie Puckrick on radio six - pass the knitting needles....
The weird thing about Robert Peston is that he now sounds like he's sorted his speech out, but Mark Mardell has started copying his pre-trained vocal style 🙁
Liz Kershaw....now that's a voice made for the deaf. Thankfully she also has zero taste in music, (unless you want to hear two hours of mid 90's indie landfill exploring the musical rainbow between The Farm and Northern Uproar) so it's easy to just make sure the radio is off on a Saturday afternoon.
God I Love Katie Puckrick...how could you not like her? Her show is proper amazeballs. She's funny and plays some great music.
I still fancy her from The Word.
spursn17 - Member
I really like Courtney Barnett, very good live as well.Now this croaky voiced Doris makes me want to put acid in my ears...
ITV weather girl
I don't get that one at all. She sounds lovely
It's that elongated croaky 'Heeelllloooo' she does at the start of every broadcast that does me in, and the effected little girly voice she continues with. I've heard her interviewed and she can talk normaly, which sounds OK.
Anne Robinson. And an utterly ridiculous person to boot.
[quote=PrinceJohn ]Sara Cox - a face for radio & a voice that'll make a deaf person shudder.
Oi! Sara is good
liza Tarbuck dear god
God I Love Katie Puckrick...how could you not like her? Her show is proper amazeballs. She's funny and plays some great music.
she may well be and have great musical taste, however never been able to listn long enough to find out - can't bare her over pronunciated sing song voice and bublegum accent
Sarah Millican.... and Jimmy Carrs laugh.