What the hell...?

What the hell do BBC2 think they're doing, subtitling Sweet Sixteen? It's on right now, and was a critically acclaimed film when it was released, but because of the broad Scottish accents, the network have determined that viewers down south won't be able to understand them. I think that's highly offensive to those of us up here, and underestimating the intelligence of viewers down south.

Do you see ITV subtitling Taggart? I find many English accents tricky to understand at times but I don't see BBC Scotland adding subtitles to network programmes.

An absolute joke BBC2.

Oooh is this the film where the boy fingers that girl?

Bloody well hope not. The subtitles will block out what's going on!

Don't spit yur ginger oot son - the subtitles look as old as the film to me, so I wouldn't go blaming BBC Two for adding them. You know that Points of View would have been jammed with calls from Mr Jones of Guildford complaining that his enjoyment was ruined by incomprehensible Scots had they opted to show the non-subtitled version.

I can see where you're coming from. I blocked the subtitles from view a couple of times and could understand the dialouge perfectly.

Well, an un-subtitled version of the film is around, and I saw it last year on South African television! Now, I reckon people in the UK are more used to hearing a Glasweigian/Renfrewshire accent than South Africans!

They should have done a Rab C Nesbitt and subtitled it phonetically.

Portgordon is in the county of Moray. For those who don't need subtitles.

Cullen skink is (A) A reptile
(B) A soup
(C) An insult

A common greeting is - Fit like m'loon

Far d'ya stay? - A question for a stranger.

The scaffies collect my rubbish.

To blether is to have an informal chat.

Ah dinnae ken fit he's cried means that you do not know somone's name.

Most important of all, never mind a film, my cleaner Sheila needs subtitles!!!

The word "stay", as used in Scotland always confuses me.

My usual reply, until I put my brain in gear, is "Oh no, I'm not on holiday".

I used to work in a BT call centre, and I really would dread seeing "Belfast, Glasgow, Liverpool, Edinburgh" popping up when the next call came through, because I knew I was going to be forever asking them to repeat and spell things for me!

The worst accent has to be Glasgow, though. It's just awful and incomprehensible to anyone who lives south of Hadrians wall.

Yup, one of the people I work with is from Glasgow, and no one EVER understands what he says. The annoying thing is, although everyone asks him to repeat stuff all the time, he seems oblivious to the fact that none of us can understand him.

If I were watching a film with someone with his accent in, i'd definitely need subtitiles.

Why is that? Why, as someone from Northern Ireland do I not have any problem understanding any UK regional accent, yet for people from the south of England it's always a problem?