As if I wasn’t in love with all things British enough, I got caught up in a little show called Top Gear. There I met a man named Richard Hammond, who is adorable and British and survived a life threatening injury he received during the filming of the show. You can read what he says about it here.
When I was doing my standard daily internet searching for things I enjoy, I was hoping to find a picture of Mr. Hammond in his car, because I saw it on the show last night and it was a fabulous car and he was adorable in it, and I wanted to find the picture and make it the desktop wallpaper on the computer here at “work,” because I want to change the wallpaper and my only other option is sexed up Doogie Howser. I couldn’t find the picture I was looking for, but I did stumble on this:
Hot car, cute British guy, adorable dog.
This really brings me to my new goal in life:
Date a Guy With an Accent!
Of course this goal, like so many of my goals, has a lot of parameters. First of all, an accent alone is not enough. There has to be some attractiveness to the guy, and I’d prefer him to be tall and slim with a slight hipster-ish fashion sense. (If he happened to have dark hair and glasses, all the better, even though that basically describes Ex-Boyfriend-Kurt. Except Ex-Boyfriend-Kurt didn’t have an accent. He could say things in Icelandic, though, which perhaps equals it all out.) Second, Guy With an Accent needs to speak English fluently. I’m most interested in British, Irish, Scottish, or Australian guys, mainly because of the fluency in English and bonus of non-American slang, which I love love love. I’ll take a Guy With an Accent from a non-English speaking country, but he really has to be fluent, because I’m pretty much an impatient bitch, and I can’t endure a relationship with someone who doesn’t always know the word or can’t follow what I’m saying in a quick enough fashion. The plus of a non-English speaking Guy With an Accent is he could teach me his first language, so it would be most helpful if he was from Sweden, Norway, Germany, Russia, or Iceland, as those are my top four languages I want to learn but never will. The final parameter is that I don’t really see myself moving to another country permanently, but I’d love to spend a year or so there, maybe have a house there for vacations and summers and whatnot. Guy With an Accent needs to be willing to live in the U.S. full time.
If you know anyone who fits this description, put him in a box and send him to me immediately. Make sure you get delivery confirmation, though, because it’d be pretty sad if Guy With an Accent got lost in the mail and I was never able to fulfill this goal.
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