^Oh pish posh, details are for losers with too much time... just general bitching, that's what heroes do!

Pish posh. We all know it's *parody.

Pish posh, who's wired? Nobody, that's who!

Love it... also, those saying it's not 5 seconds. I too used to pish posh these for that reason, but it's kinda part of the gag, there's heaps of these 5 second vids they've done, and they vary wildly in length

And does anyone who watches Letterman know who Posh and Becks are?

^oh, those golden days where microphones were golden..it's also elitist and kitsch/posh..Damien Hirst should make a mic full of diamonds and present it to Britney..

at the end does he say 'gordy' as posh english slang for chubby?
"now take your 'gordy', but gratifyingly mute girlfriend and get out"

Thanks, Farhad.

In reply to this comment by Farhad2000:
*promote

yeah i agree with you, especially as european languages come from indian.

lithuanians and londoners use the double negative, but the BBC doesn't.

but...

i do think it is "uneducated" to speak only in your "mother" accent.

learn a different accent and use that for business. Why should business adapt to 10923782937 accents? that makes no sense. educate yourself, learn how to talk in the business arena. NOBODY is born talking business english, even "whites" have to learn it.

I sleep with a trilingual linguistics graduate, and i speak lithuanian (the most archaic indoeuropean language still alive) so you know, i get your point. but i think "tolerance" goes too far into the realm of "impractical" and "lazy".

I used to teach swimming, and i would use a posh correct english accent in the health club and a broad south london accent in the public pools in the rough neighbourhoods. Why not?


In reply to this comment by SDGundamX:
I'm not against having a standardized vocabulary, spelling, or grammar. What was specifically the topic of the video that comment was a reply to was the uproar over a black teacher teaching kids that they were "uneducated" if they said "axe" instead of "ask." And it simply isn't true. It has nothing to do with education and everything to do with English having multiple dialects. And historically, the dialect spoken by white Americans has always been considered okay, regardless of how far from the supposed standard it is (which is why I brought up the Boston pronunciation of "car" as "ca-" and the non-existent Southern contraction "y'all") while the dialects of minorities such as Black Americans and Latin Americans has traditionally been frowned upon.

Thinking there is a standard English pronunciation is delusional. There are accepted standards (plural) of English, most of which are based on white, affluent speech. Now that English is an international language, however, that will surely change. Take India, for instance. They say things like:

"Open the air conditioner."

Instead of:

"Turn on the air conditioner."

Is it wrong? Not if everyone in India talks that way. As more countries embrace English and make their own personalized changes to the language you'll see less arguing about what is "educated" and "uneducated" English and more open acceptance of the fact that people who live in different places speak English differently--and get along just fine without needing "standard" English.

In reply to this comment by MINK:
i see nothing wrong with there being a "business english" standard, or "bbc english". Of course it's not ebonics or half spanish.

I learned Lithuanian to help me get work in Lithuania. I don't swear in front of new clients. I don't walk around talkin fakkin sarf landan aksent and insistin dat peeples rispek my rights, innit.

almost all jobs involve speaking to people, and therefore the way you speak is part of your job performance. What's wrong with that?

In the UK there was a trend for putting call centres in scotland because the scottish accent was judged to be the most trustworthy. What should I do, cry "discrimination!" and insist on more call centres in liverpool (an accent nobody can understand or trust)?

bear in mind i am not at all anti immigration, i just think that it's normal to have a separate language and etiquette for business, and there's no way that's going to be based on a fringe accent, it's gonna get melted down to "average".

People never used to say "gonna" on TV. Now they do. Things change. It's ok. There's many other ways to oppress minorities if that's what you want to do. Eradicating accent prejudice is never ever going to work.

oh, and this reminds me of the rather shallow sex and the city sceen where the slightly ditsy posh one (brunett) is having some panic about the idea of annal sex, being unsure how she feels, and gets the other 3 to join her in a cab where tehy discuss it (with more than 4 differnt views between the 4 of them) and the liberated blond saying that with the right person, its great, and it's jsut a hole, and she replying "i'm more than a hole!"... well of COURSE she is, just like im more than my damn penis. showing mutual respect is important, and yet as humans we are all capbale of direspect, and women are jsut as capable of being direspectfull of men and their bodys, as her reaction is a responce to presumed disrespect against hers. what anoys me, is that her reation seems to be presuptious of implied disrespect simply at the idea. and yet, as i understnad it, the guy had just raised the issiue as a possibility and left the idea with her to think about. thats NOT disrespectfull. her saying "no" is one thing. Her complaining the question is its self disrespectfull is not a good sign...

anyway, tis a tv show i clearly dont watch

Waverly didn't do Spiders on Drugs! Pish posh!

had a good book of these, called "Separated at Birth"

the victoria beckham and fred thompson ones are but a few other highlights...

http://www.videosift.com/video/Ali-G-Posh-Beckham-interview

The thing about posh people is there is no distinction in their voices, basically from the age of 12 they all sound middle aged. The only thing that gives it away is her saying "Gordon Bennet". Who the fuck says that anymore...

Hehe i love middle aged posh english ladies.

Not like that.