10 Completely Stupid Things That Everyone Does (Even If You Deny It)

By Chris Quicksilver /

6. Hearing An Accent... And Immediately Wondering If It€™s Fake...

Everybody does this, whether you admit it or not. You hear someone with a French, Scottish, Irish, Polish or Indian accent and you wonder for a brief second or two if they€™re just putting it on to get one over on you. The secret€™s out, everybody does this. People with those accents think it too when YOU speak, they reckon that YOU€™RE messing with them, just see if they don€™t. Even more strangely, there are some who actually do go around faking accents for impact: men have been known to use it as some sort of demented seduction technique, believing that sounding like Antonio Banderas is enough of a draw whether you look more like Tony Soprano or not.