Americans - Geico Commercials?

May 2021 4 67 Report

Americans - Geico Commercials?

There's a Geico commercial where someone says that the gecko has a British accent, and then a woman pipes up saying she thought he was Australian.

Is it really that difficult to pick out a British as compared to an Australian accent? Is it just that I've been watching too much BBC America?

And yes, I know the history - the British delighted in sending their fugitives to Australia in, I believe, the 1800's? And the accent developed from there. But is it really that difficult to figure out which accent is which?

Update:

Grappler, your response doesn't count. You live in Australia.

;)

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Anonymous

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Most Americans have never met a foreigner, so British and Australian accents sound the same to us.

I HAVE met people from both countries, and they still sound the same to me.

Did you notice that Sean Connery, a guy with a Scottish accent, got picked to be the Russian sub commander in "Hunt for Red October"? WTF? A Scottish accent sounds just like a Russian accent to the average American? Or was it just that Mr. Connery was so well know? Hum....

allen e

I think the point was less about whether the little lizard talks with an Australian or British accent. It has more to do with the fact that first a lizard talks at all, that nobody knows where geckos are indigenous, and that the people who are coworkers of this same reptile are actually jealous because they are poorer workers than he is.

Why get too worked up over a commercial anyway? It doesn't really matter, you're going to get the same insurance quote whether you know his accent or not.

♫Grappler's Crossing ♂ ♪

Stone the crows, mate - not fer us dinkie di Aussies, it ain't! Them bloody poofta Poms all talk like they've gotta plum in their gob, and think their s#it don't stink, too. Come out 'ere, an' all they do all day is whine about the hot weather - if it's 75 degrees they're all dyin' o' heat stroke! Silly buggars. They reckon ye can allus tell when a planeload o' Pommies 'as landed - they switch orf the engines an' ye can still 'ear the whinin'!

Well - you Seppoes (Septic Tanks = Yanks = Americans) can't tell the bloody difference between a Pommie an' an Aussie, 'cause yer ears is all stuffed up with 'Ollywood Aussies - well, before Mel - 'oo kinda talks Yank now, anyway - an' all that lot - yez use'ta use Pommies ter make out an Australian accent - and boy - did it piss us orf out 'ere!

CRIKEY!