# I pit Martin Hyde (a different Martin Hyde) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 21, 2022, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-martin-hyde-a-different-martin-hyde/970024 "2022-08-21T06:23:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2022, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-martin-hyde-a-different-martin-hyde/970024/21 "2022-08-21T22:42:49Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > Didn’t one of the two traitor loons, Boebert or Greene, introduce legislation attempting to prohibit naturalized citizens being eligible to serve in Congress? I wonder how Mr. Hyde feels about that. One must assume that this legislation will contain a ‘paper bag’ test. ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2022, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-martin-hyde-a-different-martin-hyde/970024/22 "2022-08-22T03:04:43Z")
I did hesitate to call his accent “upper-class.” I think perhaps it’s actually a middle-class English accent. It’s not “posh” but it fits perfectly with his manner, which is “snobbish” in a way posh people often aren’t. Self-important. Anyway, definitely not Floridian. ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2022, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-martin-hyde-a-different-martin-hyde/970024/23 "2022-08-22T03:46:00Z")
Surely he should have sent the officers home in a bodybag? ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2022, 7:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-martin-hyde-a-different-martin-hyde/970024/24 "2022-08-22T07:42:47Z")
> [@foolsguinea](#): > > But the Brits need to be educated on the matter that this is not the Commonwealth & they are not the ruling class here. His problem is nothing to do with his accent or birthplace. He’s an entitled power-hungry ass. That’s his problem. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2022, 11:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-martin-hyde-a-different-martin-hyde/970024/25 "2022-08-22T11:22:29Z")
Or to put it another way… If he behaved that way in England, it would be at least as much of a problem (I actually suspect that talking that way to a UK police officer might have escalated immediately and got him frogmarched off in handcuffs, car towed and impounded etc. ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2022, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-martin-hyde-a-different-martin-hyde/970024/26 "2022-08-22T12:01:58Z")
It sounds like RP to me. (Received Pronunciation, which was a thing for along time. Basically teaching the kids to speak the same way, like a BBC broadcaster. If I remember correctly.) ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2022, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-martin-hyde-a-different-martin-hyde/970024/27 "2022-08-22T12:49:41Z")
That’s what it sounds like to me. It’s just the standard English of southern England. Someone speaking it would probably not be from northern England, Scotland, Wales, or Northern Ireland. Or they might be an announcer on British television or radio. That doesn’t make them upper class anymore than hearing someone on American television or radio speaking in a way that makes it difficult for you to tell where in the U.S. they were born causes you to think that they’re from an upper-class family: > **[Received Pronunciation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Received_Pronunciation)** > > Received Pronunciation (RP) is the accent traditionally regarded as the standard and most prestigious form of spoken British English. For over a century, there has been argument over such questions as the definition of RP, whether it is geographically neutral, how many speakers there are, whether sub-varieties exist, how appropriate a choice it is as a standard and how the accent has changed over time. The name itself is controversial. RP is an accent, so the study of RP is concerned onl RP ha... ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2022, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-martin-hyde-a-different-martin-hyde/970024/28 "2022-08-22T20:32:49Z")
I’d say he sounds a bit more Essex/London than RP, especially when he was trying to be threatening ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2022, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-martin-hyde-a-different-martin-hyde/970024/29 "2022-08-22T21:02:33Z")
In a just world, anyone who says “Do you know who I am?” during a legit traffic stop would be subject to double fines. ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2022, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-martin-hyde-a-different-martin-hyde/970024/30 "2022-08-22T21:10:04Z")
I am no expert on accents, nor am I native British. To me he sounds like most of the British actors I’ve heard who all use about the same pronunciation. I knew that teaching RP in schools was a thing a few decades back and figured he was one of the ones who was taught it. I was wrong, but very logical about it! 🤪 ---
**Author:** ![scabpicker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scabpicker/32/8268_2.png) [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2022, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-martin-hyde-a-different-martin-hyde/970024/31 "2022-08-23T00:24:56Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > In a just world, anyone who says “Do you know who I am?” during a legit traffic stop would be subject to double fines. I’m flabbergasted that I’ve never seen a video where someone replies “No, but if you’ll actually hand over your ID, I might.” That’s mostly because I never seem to know who they are, though. ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2022, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-martin-hyde-a-different-martin-hyde/970024/32 "2022-08-23T02:45:18Z")
“No, but if you hum a few bars I’ll give it a whirl.” “Dispatch, we need an ambulance out here. Subject has amnesia and doesn’t know their identity.” ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2022, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-martin-hyde-a-different-martin-hyde/970024/33 "2022-08-23T03:15:29Z")
> [@Wendell\_Wagner](#): > > And another one to look at: > > [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Goj-1stJpoA](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Goj-1stJpoA) At least with that one she lost her job. She was an appointed commissioner with the NYNJ Port Authority. She had to resign when that came out. Whenever I hear “Do you know who I am?” It makes me think of the Eddie Izzard bit. I have to restrain myself from saying “This is not a game of who the fuck are you.” [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/Sv5iEK-IEzw/hqdefault.jpg "Suzy Eddie Izzard- Death Star Canteen") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sv5iEK-IEzw) ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2022, 8:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-martin-hyde-a-different-martin-hyde/970024/34 "2022-08-23T08:22:58Z")
Accents are weird things. The closer you are to them, the more easily you will perceive subtle differences in them. I’m in the South of England; there are local accents here (as everywhere of course), but RP is close by, so at this zoom level, it’s easier to perceive anomalies and differences. ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2022, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-martin-hyde-a-different-martin-hyde/970024/35 "2022-08-23T22:02:41Z")
During the final days at Denver’s old Stapleton airport, a crowded United flight was canceled. The single agent was rebooking a long line of very inconvenienced and frustrated travelers. Suddenly an angry passenger pushed his way to the desk in front of all the others. He slapped his ticket down on the counter and said, “I HAVE to be on this flight and it has to be FIRST CLASS.” The agent replied, “I’m sorry sir. I’ll be happy to try to help you, but I’ve got to help these folks first, and I’m sure we’ll be able to work something out.” The passenger was unimpressed. He asked loudly, so that all the passengers behind him could hear, “Do you have any idea who I am?” Without hesitating, the gate agent smiled warmly and grabbed her public address microphone. “May I have your attention please?” she began, her voice bellowing throughout the entire terminal. “We seem to have a passenger here at the gate WHO DOES NOT KNOW WHO HE IS. If anyone can help him find his identity, please come forward to the gate.” With the folks behind him in line now laughing hysterically, the man glared at the United agent, gritted his teeth, and spat out the words, "Fuck you.” Without flinching in the least, the agent smiled politely and said, “I’m terribly sorry, sir, but I’m afraid that you’ll have to stand in line for that, too.” ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2022, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-martin-hyde-a-different-martin-hyde/970024/36 "2022-08-23T22:08:31Z")
> [@scabpicker](#): > > > [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > > > In a just world, anyone who says “Do you know who I am?” during a legit traffic stop would be subject to double fines. > > I’m flabbergasted that I’ve never seen a video where someone replies “No, but if you’ll actually hand over your ID, I might.” Or sings a few bars of an appropriate song. _Well, who are you? (Who are you? Who, who, who, who?)_ _Oh, who are you? (Who are you? Who, who, who, who?)_ _Come on tell me who are you? (Who are you? Who, who, who, who?)_ _Oh, who the fuck are you? (Who are you? Who, who, who, who?)_ ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2022, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-martin-hyde-a-different-martin-hyde/970024/37 "2022-08-23T22:09:31Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > > [@scabpicker](#): > > > > I’m flabbergasted that I’ve never seen a video where someone replies “No, but if you’ll actually hand over your ID, I might.” > > Or sings a few bars of “Who Are You” by The Who. Or says: “Yes, I know you. You’re the guy who is about to get a ticket.” ---
**Author:** ![Moriarty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moriarty/32/49_2.png) [@Moriarty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moriarty)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2022, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-martin-hyde-a-different-martin-hyde/970024/38 "2022-08-24T01:32:21Z")
“Do you know who I am?” “You’re the loser.” > **[Vern Buchanan defeats Martin Hyde in District 16 congressional primary race](https://www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/politics/elections/2022/08/23/florida-election-results-2022-vern-buchanan-lead-over-martin-hyde-district-16-primary/7864203001/)** > > Incumbent District 16 Rep. Vern Buchanan easily won over Republican challenger Martin Hyde in the primary election. ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2022, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-martin-hyde-a-different-martin-hyde/970024/39 "2022-08-24T03:38:46Z")
Heh, this guy does the “Do you know who I am?” thing and he hadn’t even won the primary yet? What a fucking tool. _Anyone_ with enough money can put their name in the hat. You ain’t shit, Martin. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2022, 9:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-martin-hyde-a-different-martin-hyde/970024/40 "2022-08-24T09:49:40Z")
This guy keeps looking better and better. > **[Ex-girlfriend of congressional candidate Martin Hyde reports concerns he may...](https://floridapolitics.com/archives/546484-martin-hydes-ex-girlfriend-reports-concerns-he-may-be-suicidal/)** > > Martin dismissed accusations as lies and fantasy. > **[GOP Candidate Says FBI Agents Would Be Put In 'Body Bag' If His Home Were...](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/martin-hyde-florida-candidate-fbi-body-bags_n_63016490e4b0e323a25621e4)** > > Despite the controversy blowing up over the video Saturday, Sarasota businessman Martin Hyde defended his remarks. He admitted to trolling in that second one, even bragged about it in his self-important way. > “Did you even consider I might be using hyperbole and rhetoric because I know how susceptible you are to it?” Hyde asked the newspaper. “No point in spending money on mailers when you’ll print my name for free.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-martin-hyde-a-different-martin-hyde/970024.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-martin-hyde-a-different-martin-hyde/970024.md?page=3)