(September 18, 2012 at 10:17 am)Stimbo Wrote:(September 18, 2012 at 10:06 am)Red Celt Wrote: It's fairly safe to say that Birmingham has the worst accent in the UK. I forget who I'm paraphrasing here, but a comedian mentioned that they don't sound stupid; they sound like a victim.
That sounds familiar; now I'm going to be stuck with that until I remember the name.
I think that it might have been Russell Howard on Mock The Week, during a conversation about the accents of pilots.